Food Writing category: 1790 books
The Grand Central Oyster Bar & Restaurant Cookbook
Recipes & Tales from a Classic American Restaurant
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
“A big, handsome book full of wonderful photographs, nostalgic tales and enticing recipes—some dating back to the restaurant’s opening 100 years ago.” —The Miami Herald
Situated in midtown Manhattan’s beautiful, bustling train station, Grand Central Oyster Bar & Restaurant stands...
Wine in Words
Some Notes for Better Drinking
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Delectably brief essays that tell you only what you need to know to enjoy wine. There are wine encyclopedias, bibles, and guides—this is not one of those books. It doesn’t contain everything, just the really important stuff: the truly key wines, grapes, regions; tips about wine buying, aging,...
False Tongues and Sunday Bread
A Guatemalan and Mayan Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
The Maya—the Indians who inhabited part of Mexico and Central America in pre-Hispanic times—left the modern world a legacy of remarkable cooking that is still practiced in cliffside huts and middle-class haciendas. Copeland Marks has traveled widely throughout Guatemala and other countries that...
by Brooks Headley
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
“The most entertaining cookbook in memory. . . . A game changer.”—Anthony Bourdain
While other chefs paid dues on restaurant lines and at cooking schools, Brooks Headley was in the back of a tour van as a drummer in much-loved punk bands that never made a dime. Now executive pastry chef...
by Jenny Ross
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Raw Basics provides easy beginning steps to add more fresh, vibrant living foods to your diet. This book answers the question "How do I get embark on a raw-foods diet?" by offering relevant real-time solutions to integrate more living foods into your eating plan, as well as simple guidelines that...
The Best of The Farmer's Wife Cookbook: Over 400 blue-ribbon recipes!
Over 400 blue-ribbon recipes!
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
Long before the Internet and high-speed travel connected us all, The Farmer's Wife magazine gave hard-working rural women a place to find-and share-advice about everything from raising chickens to running a farm kitchen. One of the magazine's most popular offerings was advice on cooking and baking,...
Six Thousand Years of Bread
Its Holy and Unholy History
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Yeast, water, flour, and heat. How could this simple mixture have been the cause of war and plague, celebration and victory supernatural vision and more?
In this remarkable and all-encompassing volume, H. E. Jacob takes us through six thousand dynamic years of bread’s role in politics, religion,...
by Dave Broom
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
'You could not write a more sophisticated book or pack more detail onto each page...it is rocket science impressive'
Huffington Post
In recent years, gin has shed its old-fashioned image and been reborn as a hot and hip spirit. The number of brands grows every day and bartenders - and consumers...
Jerry Thomas' Bartenders Guide
How to Mix All Kinds of Plain and Fancy Drinks
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
Care for a Morning Glory Cocktail, a Blue Blazer, or a Philadelphia Julep? Recipes for these and hundreds of other tasty libations appear in this landmark volume. Originally published in 1862, Jerry Thomas' Bartenders Guide is widely considered by drink historians as the first serious American book...
The Little Green Book of Absinthe
An Essential Companion with Lore, Trivia, and Classic and Contemporary Cocktails
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
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A celebration of "the green goddess"-this is the first book to share absinthe recipes since it was recently legalized in the U.S.
This enticing little volume presents a collection of more than 100 absinthe cocktail recipes that...
by Maria Parloa
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
3 works of Maria Parloa American author of books on cooking and housekeeping (1843-1909)
This ebook presents a collection of 3 works of Maria Parloa. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected.
Table of Contents: - Canned Fruit, Preserves, and Jellies...
by Apicius
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2006
Sally Grainger has gathered, in one convenient volume, her modern interpretations of 64 of the recipes in the original text. This is not 'recipes inspired by the old Romans' but rather a serious effort to convert the extremely gnomic instructions in the Latin into something that can be reproduced...
Housekeeping in the Blue Grass
A New and Practical Cook Book
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
The category of “charity cookbook” is a favorite in American culinary history. Funds raised by sales of these cookbooks, with recipes donated by women’s groups and church societies, were used to aid a wide variety of local causes and charities. Housekeeping in the Blue Grass belongs in this category—an...
Tea at Downton: Afternoon Tea Recipes From The Unofficial Guide to Downton Abbey
Downton Abbey Tea Books
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
Come rain or shine in Edwardian England, everything stopped for tea. Downton Abbey was no different.
But what would our beloved Crawley household have eaten at their sacred 4 o’clock institution?
In Tea at Downton - Afternoon Tea Recipes From The Unofficial Guide to Downton Abbey we...