Food Writing category: 1790 books
by Edward Randolph Emerson
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
This vintage book contains a complete guide to the history of alcohol in the Far East, with information on popularity, costs, influence, laws, production techniques, and many other related aspects. Detailed yet accessible, “The History of Alcohol in the Far East” will appeal to those with an interest...
Going with the Grain
A Wandering Bread Lover Takes a Bite Out of Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
"My lifelong love affair with bread has less to do with crust, crumb, and the vagaries of sourdough cultures and more to do with bread as a reflection of people's varied beliefs, daily lives, and blood memories....Bread tells the most essential human stories."
So begins Susan Seligson's personal...
The Search for Good Wine
From the Founding Fathers to the Modern Table
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
The Search for Good Wine is a highly entertaining and informative book on all aspects of wine and its consumption by nationally-syndicated wine columnist John Hailman, author of the critically-acclaimed Thomas Jefferson on Wine (2006). Hailman explores the wine-drinking experiences and tastes of famous...
by Cynthia Buffill
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2013
This is a cookbook of family recipes handed down from generation to generation. From grandma's Irish soda bread to mom's carrot cookies. these recipes are sure to bring your family together. so sit down and enjoy dinner again.
From Tea Cakes to Tamales
Third-Generation Texas Recipes
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Join journalist-turned-culinary historian Nola McKey on a Texas journey as she explores the state’s foodways through heirloom recipes. In this collection of more than one hundred third-generation (and older) recipes, Texans share not only the delicious dishes they inherited from their ancestors...
by Henry S. Salt
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
It is the special purpose of this book to set forth in a clear and rational manner the logic of vegetarianism. To the ethical, the scientific, and the economic aspects of the system much attention has already been given by well-accredited writers, but there has not as yet been any organised effort...
The Art of Dining, and the Art of Attaining High Health
With a Few Hints on Suppers
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Published in 1837 in Philadelphia, The Art of Dining; And the Art of Attaining High Health was originally published as a series of weekly articles titled The Original by social-activist author Thomas Walker. The collection is divided into three parts pertaining to the art of dining, achieving good health,...
Over P. J. Clarke's Bar
Tales from New York City's Famous Saloon
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
The true story of the historic Irish bar where generations of celebrities and everyday citizens have raised a glass.
It’s been a beloved watering hole for Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, Jacqueline Kennedy, Rocky Marciano, and Buddy Holly (not to mention fictional characters like Don Draper)....
by Edward Randolph Emerson
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
This volume contains a comprehensive guide to historical winemaking in Africa, Persia, India, China, Russia, and Turkey. A fantastically detailed and thoroughly interesting treatise, “The History of Wine in Africa and Asia” is highly recommended for those with a keen interest in wine, and is not...
by Mrs. T.J. Crowen
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Published in New York in 1856, Every Lady’s Cook Book was revolutionary in its time for being written “for all classes of people” as well as for “those who desire rich, well-seasoned dishes, and for those who prefer more plain diet.” The preface of this best-selling cook states that over 200,000...
by E.J. Verstille
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
We do not have specific information about how Mrs. E.J. Verstille of Georgia acquired her cookery skills, but it is likely that one of her reasons for compiling her cookbook was to preserve the traditions of southern cookery during the chaotic post-Civil War reconstruction era. Her recipes have a distinct...
Market-Fresh Mixology
Cocktails for Every Season
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
The craft cocktail movement's recent meteoric rise has fittingly coincided with an increased emphasis on locally sourced foods, so it is only natural that an interest in fresh, seasonal ingredients has become a part of every mixologist’s and home bartender's repertoire. Market-Fresh Mixology has...
Good Bread Is Back
A Contemporary History of French Bread, the Way It Is Made, and the People Who Make It
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2006
In Good Bread Is Back, historian and leading French bread expert Steven Laurence Kaplan takes readers into aromatic Parisian bakeries as he explains how good bread began to reappear in France in the 1990s, following almost a century of decline in quality. Kaplan describes how, while bread comprised...
Mrs. Hale's New Cook Book
A Practical System for Private Families in Town and Country
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Mrs. Hale’s New Cook Book was written by one of the most well-known and prolific authors of the day. Sarah Josepha Hale sought to combine two of the most important trends in mid-19th century American culture: healthy living through a simple, hearty diet and frugality.