Food Writing category: 1790 books
A Taste of Broadway
Food in Musical Theater
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Beyond being just fuel for the body, food carries symbolic importance used to define individuals, situations, and places, making it an ideal communication tool. In musical theater, food can be used as a shortcut to tell the audience more about a setting, character, or situation. Because everyone relates...
Hungry for Peace
How You Can Help End Poverty and War with Food Not Bombs
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The de facto how-to manual of the international Food Not Bombs movement, which provides free food to the homeless and hungry and has branches in countries on every continent except Antarctica, this book describes at length how to set up and operate a Food Not Bombs chapter. The guide considers every...
Pie & Whiskey
Writers under the Influence of Butter & Booze
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Pie & Whiskey is the tent revival of literary events where writers such as Anthony Doerr, Steve Almond, and Elissa Washuta present original works based on prompts that include the words pie and whiskey. This anthology collects the best of that writing along with new pieces to bring this spirited...
Seasoned Socialism
Gender and Food in Late Soviet Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
Seasoned Socialism considers the relationship between gender and food in late Soviet daily life. Political and economic conditions heavily influenced Soviet life and foodways during this period and an exploration of Soviet women’s central role in the daily sustenance for their families as well as...
Let's Eat
Jewish Food and Faith
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
The food that Jewish people eat is part of our connection to our faith, culture, and history. Not only is Jewish food comforting and delicious, it’s also a link to every facet of Judaism. By learning about and cooking traditional Jewish dishes, we can understand fundamentals such as kashrut, community,...
Chef Marlene is Cooking with Flava: A Caribbean/Creole Concept
26 delicious Caribben/Creole recipes by Chef Marlene Myrie
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Chef Marlene Myrie is a caterer, personal chef, food writer, and cookbook author living and working in Los Angeles, California. According to Chef Marlene, “The story of the food I prepare is the story of my journey through life. I was born and raised in Limon, Costa Rica to second-generation...
The Food of Japan
96 Authentic Recipes from the Land of the Rising Sun
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2005
In Japan, where there are more festivals than there are days of the year, it's no surprise that food is a daily celebration unto itself!
The Food of Japan is a diverse compilation of 96 recipes collected and beautifully photographed in several regions throughout the country. The many different...
by Jeff Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Soul food is just as wide-ranging and satisfying as soul music and now Tavis Smiley’s America I AM four-year traveling museum exhibit and New York Times bestseller Chef Jeff Henderson have joined forces to create the America I AM Pass It Down Cookbook to honor and preserve African Americans collective...
Fermenting Food Step by Step
Over 80 step-by-step recipes for successfully fermenting kombucha, kimchi, yogurt, vinegar, and kefir
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Fermenting Food Step by Step shows you how to master the fermenting process with more than 80 step-by-step recipes - plus you'll learn about the history and processes of fermentation throughout.
For thousands of years, cultures around the world have practiced fermenting as a way to preserve...
by Charles Houston Goudiss, Alberta Moorhouse Goudiss
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
This early work by Charles Houston Goudiss and Alberta Moorhouse Goudiss was originally published in 1918 and we are now republishing it as part of our WWI Centenary Series. 'Foods That Will Win the War and How to Cook Them' is an excellent work on a variety of meals and food stuffs that help to reduce...
by Toni Leland
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2013
This 30-page series of articles by freelance writer and published author Toni Leland takes a look back at the food that shaped a nation and the traditions that endure to this day.
Comfort food is many things to many people, always different, but always the same. Interesting facts about food...
Food Fights & Culture Wars
A Secret History of Taste
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
In this eclectic book of food history, Tom Nealon takes on such overlooked themes as carp and the Crusades, brown sauce and Byron, and chillies and cannibalism, and suggests that hunger and taste are the twin forces that secretly defined the course of civilization. Through war and plague, revolution...
by Lorenzo Verbali, Davide Balesi
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Food Art è cultura del cibo. Food Art è espressione e creatività nell’elaborare gli ingredienti. Food art è un viaggio verso la nuova cucina che rispetta le tradizioni. Food Art è ……….. scoprilo tu !
Ti piacerebbe stupire i tuoi ospiti con una cena...
The Cooking Gene
A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
2018 James Beard Foundation Book of the Year | 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner inWriting | Nominee for the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction | #75 on The Root100 2018
A renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on our most divisive cultural issue, race,...