Food Writing category: 1790 books
Tasting Grace
Discovering the Power of Food to Connect Us to God, One Another, and Ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2019
The winner of The Next Food Network Star season five and New York Times best-selling author of Ten Dollar Dinners shares how God used food to invite her into His love.
It wasn't until Melissa d'Arabian evaluated her relationship with food in light of her relationship with God that she began...
Ethnic American Food Today
A Cultural Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Ethnic American Food Today introduces readers to the myriad ethnic food cultures in the U.S. today. Entries are organized alphabetically by nation and present the background and history of each food culture along with explorations of the place of that food in mainstream American society today. Many...
The Politics of the Pantry
Stories, Food, and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
"What's for dinner?" has always been a complicated question. The locavore movement has politicized food and challenged us to rethink the answer in new and radical ways. These days, questions about where our food comes from have moved beyond 100-mile-dieters into the mainstream. Celebrity chefs Jamie...
Food Cults
How Fads, Dogma, and Doctrine Influence Diet
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
What do we mean when we call any group a cult? Definingthat term is a slippery proposition – the word cult is provocative and arguably pejorative. Does it necessarily refer to a religious group? A group with a charismatic leader? Or something darker and more sinister?
Because beliefs and...
Inventing Baby Food
Taste, Health, and the Industrialization of the American Diet
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Food consumption is a significant and complex social activity—and what a society chooses to feed its children reveals much about its tastes and ideas regarding health. In this groundbreaking historical work, Amy Bentley explores how the invention of commercial baby food shaped American notions of...
Pure Food
A Chef's Handbook for Eating Clean, with Healthy, Delicious Recipes
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
2017 Gourmand Award Winner of “US National Cookbook of the Year”
You are what you eat. And what you’re eating isn’t good.
With the proliferation of artificial additives, hormones, antibiotics, and the thousand other man-made substances and chemical cocktails lurking in our grocery...
Food on Foot
A History of Eating on Trails and in the Wild
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
What did great adventurers eat during their expeditions to the far corners of the world? How did they view the role of food in their survival and wellbeing? What about hikers and backpackers today who set out to enjoy nature, pushing their own boundaries of comfort for adventure. How does food impact...
something to food about
Exploring Creativity with Innovative Chefs
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
In somethingtofoodabout, drummer, producer, musical director, culinary entrepreneur, and New York Times bestselling author, Questlove, applies his boundless curiosity to the world of food.
In conversations with ten innovative chefs in America, Questlove explores what makes their creativity...
by Gil Marks
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
A comprehensive, A-to-Z guide to Jewish foods, recipes, and culinary traditions—from an author who is both a rabbi and a James Beard Award winner.
Food is more than just sustenance. It’s a reflection of a community’s history, culture, and values. From India to Israel to the United States...
Steal the Menu
A Memoir of Forty Years in Food
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Four decades of memories from a gastronome who witnessed the food revolution from the (well-provisioned) trenches—a delicious tour through contemporary food history.
When Raymond Sokolov became food editor of The New York Times in 1971, he began a long, memorable career as restaurant critic,...
Locavore U.S.A.
How a local-food economy is changing one community, a chapter from the book Change Comes to Dinner
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
In 1950, at least 70 percent of Montana's food was grown in Montana. Many states used to have robust local-food economies, but that has changed drastically around the country in recent decades. National-scale food businesses beat out community-oriented small and medium-sized operations, laying waste...
The Food of a Younger Land
The Middle West Eats Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebras ka, Kansas, Missouri, South Dakota, North Dakota
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
A remarkable portrait of American food before World War II, presented by the New York Times-bestselling author of Cod and Salt.
Award-winning New York Times-bestselling author Mark Kurlansky takes us back to the food and eating habits of a younger America: Before the national highway system...
Real Food/Fake Food
Why You Don't Know What You're Eating and What You Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2016
“Olmsted makes you insanely hungry and steaming mad--a must-read for anyone who cares deeply about the safety of our food and the welfare of our planet.” —Steven Raichlen, author of the Barbecue! Bible series
“The world is full of delicious, lovingly crafted foods that embody the terrain,...
by Stephanie L. Tyson
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
In the introduction to Soul Food Odyssey, Chef Stephanie Tyson describes her early feelings when people assumed her Sweet Potatoes restaurant was a “soul food” establishment. “Soul food was like the boxer George Foreman,” she says. “He would stand there and go toe-to-toe. It wasn’t pretty,...