Food category: 35705 books
The Carnivore's Manifesto
Eating Well, Eating Responsibly, and Eating Meat
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
One of The Atlantic's Best Food Books of 2014
Fifty ways to be an enlightened carnivore, while taking better care of our planet and ourselves, from the founder of Slow Food USA.
We have evolved as meat eaters, proclaims Patrick Martins, and it's futile to deny it. But, given the destructive...
The Kitchen as Laboratory
Reflections on the Science of Food and Cooking
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Eating is a multisensory experience, yet chefs and scientists have only recently begun to deconstruct food's components, setting the stage for science-based cooking. In this global collaboration of essays, chefs and scientists advance culinary knowledge by testing hypotheses rooted in the physical...
Curry
A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2006
Curry serves up a delectable history of Indian cuisine, ranging from the imperial kitchen of the Mughal invader Babur to the smoky cookhouse of the British Raj. In this fascinating volume, the first authoritative history of Indian food, Lizzie Collingham reveals that almost every well-known Indian...
Food Matters
Alonso Quijano's Diet and the Discourse of Food in Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
In the second sentence of Don Quixote, Cervantes describes the diet of the protagonist, Alonso Quijano: “A stew made of more beef than mutton, cold salad on most nights, abstinence eggs on Saturdays, lentils on Fridays, and an additional squab on Sundays.”
Through an inventive and original...
Wine Food
New Adventures in Drinking and Cooking
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
The wine lover's and food lover's playbook, with 75 wine styles and 250 producers to try with 75 recipes that go with them perfectly.
"Wine food" is the new way to talk about wine pairing, coined by the evolving breed of wine drinker and cook who wants to discover a wider range of wines and...
by Miloslav Rechcigl
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
In the last decade an increased concern has been voiced against various environmental hazards, particularly chemicals that may cause harm to humans or animals. Numerous studies which have dealt with this subject invariably have focused on chemical contaminants of some component of a food chain. In...
by Carolyn R. Krouse
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
A Guide for Food Buying in Japan takes the mystery out of shopping for Japanese food as well as household necessities while staying in Japan.
Part 1: Before You Shop outlines what the shopper will encounter when shopping in Japan including the different kinds of local markets, and the methods...
by Daniele Pisanello, Giorgia Caruso
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018
This Brief describes in three concise chapters one of the newest ‘hot topics’ under EU Food Law and Policy: the new Regulation (EU) No 2015/2283 from the European Parliament and by the Council, November 25, 2015, on novel foods, applicable from January 2018.
In this work, the Authors...
by Rotimi E. Aluko
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
"Functional food or medicinal food is any fresh or processed food claimed to have a health-promoting and/or disease-preventing property beyond the basic nutritional function of supplying nutrients, although there is no consensus on an exact definition of the term.
This is an emerging field...
The Mad Feast: An Ecstatic Tour through America's Food
An Ecstatic Tour through America’s Food
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
A richly illustrated culinary tour of the United States through fifty signature dishes, and a radical exploration of our gastronomic heritage.
Following his critically acclaimed Preparing the Ghost, renowned essayist Matthew Gavin Frank takes on America’s food. In a surprising style reminiscent...
Foods
Detailed guide book about different types of foods in routine life
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Table of contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 1
Many types of foods are made and used in routine life. Many books are giving recipes about different types of food items. These foods can be cooked and used at any time. Many people are trying...
Ingredients in Meat Products
Properties, Functionality and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2009
There is little doubt that today’s food industry is faced with a rapidly changing market landscape. The obvious need to continue to provide consumers with nutritious, delectable, safe, and affordable food products which are also profitable for food manufacturers, as well as the ongoing challenge...
by Jamie Connor
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Do You Want To Learn How To Save Time And Money In The Kitchen And Lose Weight At The Same Time?
In the past, convenience food typically meant food that was high in fat and sugar and low in nutrition. Fast food is designed to taste good – fat and sugar make food taste good, so it makes sense...
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...