Food Writing category: 1790 books
Baking Powder Wars
The Cutthroat Food Fight that Revolutionized Cooking
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
First patented in 1856, baking powder sparked a classic American struggle for business supremacy. For nearly a century, brands battled to win loyal consumers for the new leavening miracle, transforming American commerce and advertising even as they touched off a chemical revolution in the world's...
A Century of Restaurants
Stories and Recipes from 100 of America's Most Historic and Successful Restaurants
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Come along on a pilgrimage to some of the oldest and most historic restaurants in America in A Century of Restaurants. Each is special not only because of its longevity but also for its historic significance, interesting stories, and, of course, its wonderful food. The oldest Japanese restaurant in...
by Donella East
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2012
First, catch your frog...
May we propose some oyster and champagne soup from Brittany, accompanied by Normandy lettuce bread and followed by Loire Valley frog’s legs and roasted swan as Richard the Lionheart liked them served up? Then you could round your modest meal off with a soufflé...
by Charles Lamb
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
A rapturous appreciation of pork crackling, a touching description of hungry London chimney sweeps, a discussion of the strange pleasure of eating pineapple and a meditation on the delights of Christmas feasting are just some of the subjects of these personal, playful writings from early nineteenth-century...
High on the Hog
A Culinary Journey from Africa to America
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Winner of the IACP Award for Culinary History
Acclaimed cookbook author Jessica B. Harris weaves an utterly engaging history of African American cuisine, taking the reader on a harrowing journey from Africa across the Atlantic to America, and tracking the trials that the people and the food have undergone...
Feed the Resistance
Recipes + Ideas for Getting Involved
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
From favorite cookbook author Julia Turshen comes this practical and inspiring handbook for political activism—with recipes. As the millions who marched in January 2017 demonstrated, activism is the new normal. When people search for ways to resist injustice and express support for civil rights,...
Eating Heaven
Spirituality at the Table
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Sitting down at a table to eat is an activity so grounded in the ordinary, so basic to the daily routines of life, we rarely ponder it beyond the simple inquiry, ‘What’s for dinner?’ However, scratch a little deeper and you discover in eating one of the most meaning-laden activities of our lives,...
Acorns & Cattails
A Modern Foraging Cookbook of Forest, Farm & Field
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
The culinary do-it-yourself era is in full swing! Many chefs and cooks are seeking a deeper connection with their food through foraging, farming, and hunting, leading many to cast aside the casserole for modern spins on familiar foods.
In Acorns & Cattails, nationally acclaimed chef Rob Connoley...
Deer Hunting in Paris
A Memoir of God, Guns, and Game Meat
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
What happens when a Korean-American preacher’s kid refuses to get married, travels the world, and quits being vegetarian? She meets her polar opposite on an online dating site while sitting at a café in Paris, France and ends up in Paris, Maine, learning how to hunt. A memoir and a cookbook with recipes...
Honey
From Flower to Table
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Just like the highly successful Lavender Garden, Honey: From Flower to Table dips into the myth, magic, science, and literature behind this sacred and sensuous food. Author Stephanie Rosenbaum traces the amazing process that turns flower nectar into honey, and takes the reader on a fascinating tour...
by Sheila Maher
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
In Six at the Table, regular contributor to RTÉ Sunday Miscellany Sheila Maher tells the story of her childhood through meals shared around the kitchen table – and occasionally from the boot of the car on long family trips – and celebrates the central role that the food lovingly prepared by...
by Massimo Montanari
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
"Do not let the peasant know how good cheese is with pears" goes the old saying. Intrigued by these words and their portent, Massimo Montanari unravels their origin and utility. Perusing archival cookbooks, agricultural and dietary treatises, literary works, and anthologies of beloved sayings,...
Bitters
A Spirited History of a Classic Cure-All, with Cocktails, Recipes, and Formulas
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Gone are the days when a lonely bottle of Angostura bitters held court behind the bar. A cocktail renaissance has swept across the country, inspiring in bartenders and their thirsty patrons a new fascination with the ingredients, techniques, and traditions that make the American cocktail so special....
You Aren't What You Eat
Fed Up with Gastroculture
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
We have become obsessed by food: where it comes from, where to buy it, how to cook it and—most absurdly of all—how to eat it. Our televisions and newspapers are filled with celebrity chefs, latter-day priests whose authority and ambition range from the small scale (what we should have for supper)...