Food Drink category: 33116 books
Rice, Noodle, Fish
Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Finalist for the 2016 IACP Awards: Literary Food Writing
An innovative new take on the travel guide, Rice, Noodle, Fish decodes Japan's extraordinary food culture through a mix of in-depth narrative and insider advice, along with 195 color photographs. In this 5000-mile journey through the...
Locavore
From Farmers' Fields to Rooftop Gardens-How Canadians are Changing the Way We Eat
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Strawberries in January, fresh tomatoes year-round and New Zealand lamb at all times -- these well-travelled foods have a carbon footprint the size of an SUV. But there is a burgeoning local food movement taking place in Canadian cities, farms and shops that is changing both the way we eat and the...
Near a Thousand Tables
A History of Food
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2002
In Near a Thousand Tables, acclaimed food historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto tells the fascinating story of food as cultural as well as culinary history -- a window on the history of mankind.
In this "appetizingly provocative" (Los Angeles Times) book, he guides readers through the eight great revolutions...
by Stephen Williams
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Cook delicious vegetarian food in just a couple of minutes!Being vegetarian does not necessarily mean you have to give up delicious food!Are you out of ideas when it comes to vegetarian kitchen?Then we’ve got the right book for you. From all across the world, we’ve put together some of...
Local Food
How to make it happen in your community
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Local Food is an inspirational and practical guide for creating local food initiatives - showing how we can restore and establish community networks to generate healthy, locally produced food. Many people already buy their vegetables as locally as possible, eat organic and seasonal food when they...
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...
Food Heroes
16 Culinary Artisans Preserving Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
In Food Heroes, Georgia Pellegrini introduces readers to the lively stories of artisanal food devotees such as New York mushroom forager Marion Burroughs, French fig collector Francis Honore, fish missionary Jon Rowley in Washington State, and Ugo Buzzio in New York City, one of the last makers of...
Think Yourself Clean From the Inside Out
The D.N.A. System to Reprogram Your Brain for Optimal Living
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
Tosca Reno, New York Times Best Selling Author, Founder of the Eat Clean® Revolution and Gemini Award Winner joins forces with Nathalie Plamondon-Thomas, Founder of the THINK Yourself® ACADEMY and Creator of the D.N.A. System, providing you with a Proven System to Reprogram Your Brain for Optimal...
by Joanna Blythman
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
From the author of What to Eat and Shopped, a revelatory investigation into what really goes into the food we eat. Even with 25 years experience as a journalist and investigator of the food chain, Joanna Blythman still felt she had unanswered questions about the food we consume every day. How ‘natural’...
Culinary Intelligence
The Art of Eating Healthy (and Really Well)
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
For many of us the idea of healthy eating equals bland food, calorie counting, and general joylessness. Or we see the task of great cooking for ourselves as a complicated and expensive luxury beyond our means or ability. Now Peter Kaminsky—who has written cookbooks with four-star chefs (for example,...
Candy
A Century of Panic and Pleasure
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
For most Americans, candy is an uneasy pleasure, eaten with side helpings of guilt and worry. Yet candy accounts for only 6 percent of the added sugar in the American diet. And at least it's honest about what it is—a processed food, eaten for pleasure, with no particular nutritional benefit. So...
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,...
by William Sitwell
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
A riveting narrative history of food as seen through 100 recipes, from ancient Egyptian bread to modernist cuisine.
We all love to eat, and most people have a favorite ingredient or dish. But how many of us know where our much-loved recipes come from, who invented them, and how they were originally...
Medieval Tastes
Food, Cooking, and the Table
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
In his new history of food, acclaimed historian Massimo Montanari traces the development of medieval tastes—both culinary and cultural—from raw materials to market and captures their reflections in today's food trends. Tying the ingredients of our diet evolution to the growth of human civilization,...