Food Writing category: 1790 books
Milk
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
Milk—“It does a body good.” It’s difficult to deny the truth of the American Dairy Council’s former advertising campaign. From birth milk is the sustaining and essential food of all mammals. It is the first food we ever taste. And yet, despite that natural relationship to milk, the majority...
by A. Kramden
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
There are 109 authentic Greek recipes (with pictures) that are easy to navigate to via the books' active table of contents. This eBook goes beyond just cooking and baking. It also provides interesting history regarding the Greek diet as well as the history, and, in many cases, the medicinal purpose...
by Pellegrino Artusi
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Pellegrino Artusi is the original icon of Italian cookery, whose legendary 1891 book Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well defined its national cuisine and is still a bestseller today. He was also a passionate gastronome, renowned host and brilliant raconteur, who filled his books with...
by U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Information-packed book shows how to buy the best economically, describes most common foods, gives you tips on what to buy, and shows what to look for in the foods you do buy. Over 100 illustrations.
Delicious Rose-Flavored Desserts
A Modern and Fragrant Take on Classic Recipes
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Imagine a table laden with sweet dishes-cakes, puddings, creams, custards, jellies, candied fruits, marzipan, ice creams-molded into exotic forms, all flavored with roses and served as the final course of an elegant meal! In the Georgian era (17141830) rose-flavored treats were a mainstay in the...
Pennsylvania Scrapple
A Delectable History
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
An essential food in Mid-Atlantic kitchens for hundreds of years, scrapple is the often-overlooked king of breakfast meats. Developed by German settlers of Pennsylvania, the slow food byproduct was created to avoid waste in the day's butchering. Pork trimmings were stewed until tender, ground like...
Vintage Vegetarian Cuisine
Early Advocates of a Vegetable Diet and Some of Their Recipes, 1699-1935
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
For centuries, advocates of a vegetarian diet have been promoting the virtues of their dietary practices – and publishing recipes to show adherents and skeptics alike how to prepare appealing, healthy meals without meat. Vintage Vegetarian Cuisine traces that campaign through 15 landmark vegetarian...
Bound to the Fire
How Virginia's Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
In grocery store aisles and kitchens across the country, smiling images of "Aunt Jemima" and other historical and fictional black cooks can be found on various food products and in advertising. Although these images are sanitized and romanticized in American popular culture, they represent...
Kitchen Things
An Album of Vintage Utensils and Farm-Kitchen Recipes
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Many home cooks—and professionals, as well—swear by the tried-and-true implements they’ve used for years: the Foley Food Mill that works like a charm every time; the manually operated juicer that’s a tradition of family breakfasts; the cast iron skillet that’s been handed down through the...
Slices of Life
A Food Writer Cooks through Many a Conundrum
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
For nearly a decade, Leah Eskin has been serving up chronicles of everyday life, along with mouthwatering recipes, to the readers of her Home on the Range” column in the Chicago Tribune. Now she has whipped up Slice of Life, a collection of her columns covering everything from her early married...
by Hannah Grant
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
The long awaited ultimate performance cookbook, a modern classic, a must-have for all cycling aficionados serious about nutritional intake. Translated from the original in Danish, Hannah Grant s unmissable cookbook takes you through a 3 week, with 350-pages of easy-to-prepare recipes containing allergy...
The Potato
How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 1999
The Potato tells the story of how a humble vegetable, once regarded as trash food, had as revolutionary an impact on Western history as the railroad or the automobile. Using Ireland, England, France, and the United States as examples, Larry Zuckerman shows how daily life from the 1770s until World...
Truffle
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
What is a truffle? Is it the über-shroom, the highest order of fungal foods? Does it arrive, as some cultures feel, in the moment of a thunderclap? One thing is for sure: despite its unappetizing appearance, the truffle is without a doubt one of the most prized ingredients in the world’s pantry....
Cooking and Eating in Renaissance Italy
From Kitchen to Table
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Renaissance Italy’s art, literature, and culture continue to fascinate. The domestic life has been examined more in recent years, and this book reveals the preparation, eating, and the sociability of dining in Renaissance Italy. It takes readers behind the scenes to the Renaissance kitchen and dining...