Food Writing category: 1790 books
Martha's American Food
A Celebration of Our Nation's Most Treasured Dishes, from Coast to Coast : A Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Martha Stewart, who has so significantly influenced the American table, collects her favorite national dishes--as well as the stories and traditions behind them--in this love letter to American food featuring 200 recipes.
These are recipes that will delight you with nostalgia, inspire you,...
Eat
The Little Book of Fast Food: A Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Britain's foremost food writer returns with a deliciously simple collection of over 600 ideas for satisfying meals that are quick and easy to get to the table.
In this little book of fast food, Nigel Slater presents a wholly enjoyable ode to those times when you just want to eat. Pairing more...
The Food Explorer
The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
The true adventures of David Fairchild, a late-nineteenth-century food explorer who traveled the globe and introduced diverse crops like avocados, mangoes, seedless grapes—and thousands more—to the American plate.
In the nineteenth century, American meals were about subsistence, not enjoyment....
Small Batch
Pickles, Cheese, Chocolate, Spirits, and the Return of Artisanal Foods
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Artisanal foods are making a comeback as more and more people seek to stock their pantries, and their bellies, with handcrafted or locally grown and made foods. Specialty markets and sections at grocery stores are catering to this new desire for the special, the unique, the carefully made foods. Small...
American Foodie
Taste, Art, and the Cultural Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
As nutrition, food is essential, but in today’s world of excess, a good portion of the world has taken food beyond its functional definition to fine art status. From celebrity chefs to amateur food bloggers, individuals take ownership of the food they eat as a creative expression of personality,...
Sicilian Food
Recipes from Italy's Abundant Isle
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2009
The definitive guide to Sicilian cooking filled with authentic, hard-to-find recipes from this sun-drenched island.
Gleaned from the author’s friends, family, and acquaintances on the island of Sicily, Sicilian Food is a delicious journey through the food, traditions, and recipes of this...
Food
A Culinary History
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 1999
When did we first serve meals at regular hours? Why did we begin using individual plates and utensils to eat? When did "cuisine" become a concept and how did we come to judge food by its method of preparation, manner of consumption, and gastronomic merit?
Food: A Culinary History...
Global Jewish Foodways
A History
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
The history of the Jewish people has been a history of migration. Although Jews invariably brought with them their traditional ideas about food during these migrations, just as invariably they engaged with the foods they encountered in their new environments. Their culinary habits changed as a result...
The Vegetarian's Guide to Eating Meat
A Young Woman's Search for Ethical Food
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2017
Growing up in a household of food-loving Italian-Americans, Marissa Landrigan was always a black sheep-she barely knew how to boil water for pasta. But at college, she thought she’d found her purpose. Buoyed by animal rights activism and a feminist urge to avoid the kitchen, she transformed into...
South Wind Through the Kitchen
The Best of Elizabeth David
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
A posthumous collection of recipes and articles—recommended by her friends and fans—from “the best food writer of her time” (Jane Grigson, The Times Literary Supplement).
Before Elizabeth David died in 1992, she and her editor, Jill Norman, had begun work on a volume of “The Best of,”...
by Brinder Narula, Vijendra Singh
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Learn to cook delicious and visually stunning dishes with this easy-to-follow Indian cookbook.
The astonishing variety of India is reflected in its cuisine, which is regarded by those who have enjoyed genuine Indian food as being among the worlds' greatest. Like the overall fabric of the land...
Appetites and Aspirations in Vietnam
Food and Drink in the Long Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
In Vietnam during the long nineteenth century from the Tây Son rebellion to the 1920s, individuals negotiated changing interpretations of their culinary choices by their families, neighbors, and governments. What people ate reflected not just who they were, but also who they wanted to be. Appetites...
Breadlines Knee-Deep in Wheat
Food Assistance in the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2014
At no time during the Great Depression was the contradiction between agriculture surplus and widespread hunger more wrenchingly graphic than in the government's attempt to raise pork prices through the mass slaughter of miliions of "unripe" little pigs. This contradiction was widely perceived...
by Sharon Chisvin
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
The Girl Who Cannot Eat Peanut Butter
The Girl Who Cannot Eat Peanut Butter is a rhyming children’s picture book about coping with food allergies. The book approaches the subject of food allergies in a clear, concise, entertaining and engaging way. The book is perfect...