Food Writing category: 1790 books
Arabella Boxer's Book of English Food
A Rediscovery of British Food From Before the War
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
A Book of English Food is an elegant compendium of brilliant recipes adapted from the cookery books of the 1920s and 1930s by Arabella Boxer, with beautiful new illustrations by Cressida Bell.
Arabella Boxer's Book of English Food describes the delicious dishes - and the social conditions in...
Far Flung and Well Fed
The Food Writing of R.W. Apple, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Celebrated journalist R. W. ("Johnny") Apple was a veteran political reporter, a New York Times bureau chief and an incisive and prolific writer. But the role he was most passionate about was food anthropologist. Known both for his restless wideopen mind and an appetite to match, Apple was...
Cornbread Nation 7
The Best of Southern Food Writing
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
How does Southern food look from the outside? The form is caught in constantly dueling stereotypes: It’s so often imagined as either the touchingly down-home feast or the heartstopping health scourge of a nation. But as any Southern transplant will tell you once they’ve spent time in the region,...
Talking with My Mouth Full
Crab Cakes, Bundt Cakes, and Other Kitchen Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
What does America really eat? Which recipes do real home cooks turn to again and again? More often than not, they are dishes handed down from great aunts and painstakingly copied out of smudged recipe boxes rather than the creations of celebrity chefs. Bonny Wolf, food commentator for NPR's "Weekend...
A Delicious Way to Earn a Living
A Collection of His Best and Tastiest Food Writing
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
“A great journalist, passionate about food” (Gordon Ramsay).
Michael Bateman was the father of modern food journalism. He began writing about food in England during the 1960s, when the average British culinary experience was limited to fish and chips. At the time, it was a subject national...
Buttermilk Graffiti
A Chef's Journey to Discover America's New Melting-Pot Cuisine
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Winner, 2019 James Beard Award for Best Book of the Year in Writing
Finalist, 2019 IACP Award, Literary Food Writing
Named a Best Food Book of the Year by the Boston Globe, Smithsonian, BookRiot, and more
**Semifinalist, Goodreads Choice Awards
“Thoughtful, well researched,...
Secret Ingredients
The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2008
Since its earliest days, The New Yorker has been a tastemaker–literally. As the home of A. J. Liebling, Joseph Wechsberg, and M.F.K. Fisher, who practically invented American food writing, the magazine established a tradition that is carried forward today by irrepressible literary gastronomes, including...
Choice Cuts
A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
“Every once in awhile a writer of particular skills takes a fresh, seemingly improbable idea and turns out a book of pure delight.” That’s how David McCullough described Mark Kurlansky’s Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World, a work that revealed how a meal can be as important...
by Adam Sawyer
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Thanks to a combination of prehistoric events and prime location, Oregon’s Willamette Valley is arguably one of the best growing regions in North America. Roughly two decades ago, when the “Farm to Table” movement was establishing its roots, culinary talent from around the globe began flocking...
Women on Food
Charlotte Druckman and 115 Writers, Chefs, Critics, Television Stars, and Eaters
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2019
Women on Food unites the radical, diverging female voices of the food industry in this urgent, moving, and often humorous collection of essays, interviews, questionnaires, illustrations, quotes, and ephemera.
Edited by Charlotte Druckman and featuring esteemed food journalists and thinkers, including...
Recipes for Respect
African American Meals and Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Food studies, once trendy, has settled into the public arena. In the academy, scholarship on food and literary culture constitutes a growing river within literary and cultural studies, but writing on African American food and dining remains a tributary. Recipes for Respect bridges this gap, illuminating...
The Reporter's Kitchen
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Jane Kramer started cooking when she started writing. Her first dish, a tinned-tuna curry, was assembled on a tiny stove in her graduate student apartment while she pondered her first writing assignment. From there, whether her travels took her to a tent settlement in the Sahara for an afternoon interview...
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
From reviews of the newest, hippest restaurants in cities across Texas to stories about the comfort foods we all love, Texans have long relied on Texas Monthly to dish up some of the best writing about food in the Lone Star state. This anthology brings together twenty-eight classic articles about...