Food Writing category: 1790 books
by Toma Velev
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Everything is connected to everything else. There is no such thing as coincidence. The feeling of realizing the connections between everything is cool, sobering, awakening. But it is not enough. It is one thing to know something as theory and it is another thing to do it yourself. You cannot be sure...
The Sex Life of Food
When Body and Soul Meet to Eat
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
"The sex life of food" doesn't mean that the strawberries have fallen in love with the oatmeal. It's a look at food—and sex—and how they go together in our daily lives much more often than we realize. There are so many ways that hunger and desire act on each other, and so many things...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Leisure and food seem to be a natural fit, but the recent, unprecedented focus on all aspects of food has not been reflected in the field of leisure studies. This book is the first to combine these vital aspects of human interest by exploring the interface between leisure and food in a number of areas....
Sacred Chef
secrets and recipes
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2014
Sacred Chef secrets and recipes.. my collection of recipes and writings, gathered over a lifetime of cooking and teaching. What is the whole Sacred Chef thing? Well, what is more sacred than feeding the hungry and satisfying our body’s need for nourishment? Cooking, for me, is very much about loving,...
In Memory of Bread
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
The funny, poignant memoir of one man’s struggle to come to terms with his celiac diagnosis, forcing him to reexamine his relationship with food.
When Paul Graham was suddenly diagnosed with celiac disease at the age of thirty-six, he was forced to say goodbye to traditional pasta, pizza,...
The Edible South
The Power of Food and the Making of an American Region
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
In The Edible South, Marcie Cohen Ferris presents food as a new way to chronicle the American South's larger history. Ferris tells a richly illustrated story of southern food and the struggles of whites, blacks, Native Americans, and other people of the region to control the nourishment of their bodies...
The Third Plate
Field Notes on the Future of Food
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
“Not since Michael Pollan has such a powerful storyteller emerged to reform American food.” —The Washington Post
Today’s optimistic farm-to-table food culture has a dark secret: the local food movement has failed to change how we eat. It has also offered a false promise for the future...
Food and the City
New York's Professional Chefs, Restaurateurs, Line Cooks, Street Vendors, and Purveyors Talk About What They Do and Why They Do It
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
A behind-the-scenes tour of New York City’s dynamic food culture, as told through the voices of the chefs, line cooks, restaurateurs, waiters, and street vendors who have made this industry their lives.
“A must-read — both for those who live and dine in NYC and those who dream of doing...
Food and Philosophy
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
These essays on food and philosophy were written over several decades. Not only philosophers and historians but individuals who have an ongoing interest in food should relish them. The essays cover wide-ranging topics that include genetically modified organisms, chocolate and its world, food as art,...
Pet Food Politics
The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
Marion Nestle, acclaimed author of Food Politics, now tells the gripping story of how, in early 2007, a few telephone calls about sick cats set off the largest recall of consumer products in U.S. history and an international crisis over the safety of imported goods ranging from food to toothpaste,...
Change Comes to Dinner
How Vertical Farmers, Urban Growers, and Other Innovators Are Revolutionizing How America Eats
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
A fascinating exploration of America's food innovators, that gives us hopeful alternatives to the industrial food system described in works like Michael Pollan's bestselling Omnivore's Dilemma
Change Comes to Dinner takes readers into the farms, markets, organizations, businesses and institutions...
Great Food Jobs 2
Ideas and Inspiration for Your Job Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Great Food Jobs 2: Ideas and Inspirations for Your Job Hunt, ?winner of the the 2013 Gourmand Special Award of the Jury, is an almanac of eminently useful career guidance mixed with tasty bites of utterly useless gastronomical nonsense, including weird sushi combinations and odd names of bakeries...
Nazi Hunger Politics
A History of Food in the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
During World War II, millions of Soviet soldiers in German captivity died of hunger and starvation. Their fate was not the unexpected consequence of a war that took longer than anticipated. It was the calculated strategy of a small group of economic planners around Herbert Backe, the second Reich...
The Atlas of Food
With a New Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
What we eat, where we eat, and how we eat: these questions are explored in this remarkable book, now with a new introduction contextualizing the atlas for 2013 and beyond.
By providing an up-to-date and visually appealing understanding of important issues around global food and agriculture,...