Food Writing category: 1790 books
The Pub
A Cultural Institution – from Country Inns to Craft Beer Bars and Corner Locals
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Pete Brown has visited hundreds of pubs across the UK and is uniquely placed to write about pubs that ooze atmosphere, whatever the reason, be it food, people, architecture, location or decor. The best pubs are those that always have a steady trade at any time on any day of the week, and where chat...
by Kurt Timmermeister
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
"Charming . . . . [Kurt Timmermeister] narrates his personal journey with an open, straightforward spirit." —Wall Street Journal
When he purchased four acres of land on Vashon Island, Kurt Timmermeister was only looking for an affordable home near the restaurants he ran in Seattle....
Be a Wild and Unconventional Chef
An awesome guide to making cheap and delicious meals from weird and wild ingredients anyone can collect, fish or hunt
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2018
Calling all adventurous souls! This is a guide to making delicious gourmet-level meals from free ingredients anyone can forage, hunt or fish in their own backyard. Within these pages, you will find histories of now-unconventional food sources, as well as my personal journey and experiences acquiring...
Sex, Death & Oysters
A Half-Shell Lover's World Tour
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
A surprise-filled shellfish survey dishes up “ample oyster facts, figures and literary lore” (Publishers Weekly).
When award-winning Texas food writer Robb Walsh discovers that the local Galveston Bay oysters are being passed off as Blue Points and Chincoteagues in other parts of the country,...
Oyster
A Gastronomic History (with Recipes)
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
“Rich in history, lore, recipes, fascinating images—in short, a delicious book from start to finish” (Sandy Ingber, Grand Central Oyster Bar).
Tracing the oyster’s role in cooking, art, literature, and politics from the dawn of time to present day, this unique book reveals how oysters...
Last-Minute Kitchen Secrets
128 Ingenious Tips to Survive Lumpy Gravy, Wilted Lettuce, Crumbling Cake, and Other Cooking Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Your guests are arriving in a half hour, and your dinner has taken a turn for the worse. The lettuce has wilted, the gravy's lumpy, and the pie crust has burned! Time for takeout? Not if you have Joey Green's Last-Minute Kitchen Secrets. This book contains more than a hundred helpful hacks to avoid...
Beer:Tap into the Art and Science of Brewing
Tap into the Art and Science of Brewing
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
Written by one of the world's leading authorities and hailed by American Brewer as "brilliant" and "by a wide margin the best reference now available," Beer offers an amusing and informative account of the art and science of brewing, examining the history of brewing and how the...
by Patrick E. McGovern
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
One of Smithsonian Magazine’s Ten Best Books of the Year about Food
A Forbes Best Booze Book of the Year
Interweaving archaeology and science, Patrick E. McGovern tells the enthralling story of the world’s oldest alcoholic beverages and the cultures that created them. Humans invented heady...
by Eddy Keymolen
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Whenever I travel abroad, I realize that, being a Belgian, I live in a blessed beer country.
I am not one of those people who look for food or drinks they know. I’ll eat anywhere, whatever they’re having. Generally I try to taste local specialties and as a rule I appreciate them (cutting...
by Catharine Esther Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Published in 1873 in New York, The New Housekeeper’s Manual was written by Catharine Esther Beecher and her sister Harriet Beecher Stowe, two of the most influential women writers and activists of their time. Both women exerted profound influence on American letters and on the shape of American domestic...
by Felice Prudente Sta. Maria
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
What did Jose Rizal eat? What food did he write about? Did he hunger for bagoong or mango jam while overseas? This book shares stories collected from Rizal’s autobiography, works penned by him, biographies written about him by admirers, interviews of people who knew him, and accounts written about...
by M. F. K. Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
A collection of essays on food, love, and guilty pleasures from the pioneering culinary writer whose delightful prose offers “one feast after another” (Frank McCourt).
Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher is hailed as one of America’s preeminent writers about gastronomy, but her work reaches far...
Grandi Vini
An Opinionated Tour of Italy's 89 Finest Wines
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
Travel through the Italian countryside with Joseph Bastianich in search of the country’s eighty-nine finest wines.**
Joseph Bastianich is steeped in Italian wines like no one else. Not only is he the co-owner, with Mario Batali, of some of America’s premier Italian restaurants, but he also...
Hearthside Cooking
Early American Southern Cuisine Updated for Today's Hearth and Cookstove
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
For cooks who want to experience a link to culinary history, Hearthside Cooking is a treasure trove of early American delights. First published in 1986, it has become a standard guide for museum interpreters and guides, culinary historians, historical re-enactors, campers, scouts, and home cooks interested...