Food Drink category: 33116 books
Born Round
A Story of Family, Food and a Ferocious Appetite
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
The New York Times restaurant critic's heartbreaking and hilarious account of how he learned to love food just enough
Frank Bruni was born round. Round as in stout, chubby, and always hungry. His relationship with eating was difficult and his struggle with it began early. When named the restaurant...
Fork It Over
The Intrepid Adventures of a Professional Eater
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
A hilarious series of culinary adventures from GQ's award-winning food critic, ranging from flunking out of the Paul Bocuse school in Lyon to dining and whining with Sharon Stone.
Alan Richman has dined in more unlikely locations and devoured more tasting menus than any other restaurant critic...
by Holly Hughes
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Anthony Bourdain, John T. Edge, Jonathan Gold, Francis Lam, Ruth Reichl, Calvin Trillin, Alice Waters. These are just some of the celebrated writers and foodies whose work has appeared in Best Food Writing over the past fifteen years. Whether written by an established journalist or an up-and-coming...
Boost Your Etiquette IQ
Or the dummy at the dinner party...how to make sure its not you!
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2013
Boost Your Etiquette IQ depicts the ground rules to remain or even become the perfect host, the perfect hostess and the perfect guest. «Can we, without notifying the host, be accompanied by a new flame met on Internet? «; «How can one make all the guests finally...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Like your favorite local grocery store, with its sushi bar, fresh baked goods, and maybe a very obliging butcher, Best Food Writing offers a bounty of everything in one place. For seventeen years, Holly Hughes has delved into piles of magazines and newspapers, scanned endless websites and blogs, and...
Bob Garner's Book of Barbeque
North Carolina's Favorite Food
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
In 1994, Bob Garner began doing short features about barbecue for UNC-TV’s statewide public-television magazine program, North Carolina Now. In 1996, he published North Carolina Barbecue: Flavored by Time, taking readers on a delectable journey across the state in search of the best examples of...
The People's Place
Soul Food Restaurants and Reminiscences from the Civil Rights Era to Today
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Celebrated former Chicago Sun-Times columnist Dave Hoekstra unearths stories as he travels, tastes, and talks his way through 20 of America’s soul food restaurants
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. loved the fried catfish and lemon icebox pie at Memphis’s Four Way restaurant. In New Orleans, beloved...
by Marlena de Blasi
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
'If you loved Under the Tuscan Sun, you’ll love this' Red Magazine
Every week on a Thursday evening, a group of four rural Italian women gather in an old stone house in the hills above Italy’s Orvieto. There – along with their friend, Marlena – they cook together, sit down to a beautiful...
My Usual Table
A Life in Restaurants
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
My Usual Table is a love letter to the great restaurants that have changed the way we eat—from Trader Vic’s to Chez Panisse and Spago to elBulli—and a vivid memoir of a life lived in food, from a founding editor of Saveur and James Beard Award-winning writer Colman Andrews.
For reviewer,...
The Curious World of Wine
Facts, Legends, and Lore About the Drink We Love So Much
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
The Curious World of Wine is a fascinating miscellany about the colorful characters, celebrated places, and quirky events surrounding wine-making. Recounting wine tales that are by turns amusing, surprising, and occasionally a bit naughty, wine expert Richard Vine reveals little-known facts such as:
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Low Carb High Fat Cooking for Healthy Aging
70 Easy and Delicious Recipes to Promote Vitality and Longevity
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Oftentimes, the so-called diseases of affluence, like diabetes or high blood pressure, are due to improper diet as you age. By eating food with fewer carbohydrates and more fat, you can maintain a normal weight and become free of the symptoms of, for example, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome...
Master Plants Cookbook
The 33 Most Healing Superfoods for Optimum Health
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Food isn't just food, it can be medicine!
A plant-based, whole-food diet can help prevent chronic diseases, while also promoting a healthy weight. This isn't just a modern concept that's supported by today's science, but a knowledge that's deeply entrenched in our collective food history. Master Plants...
Clean Slate
A Cookbook and Guide: Reset Your Health, Detox Your Body, and Feel Your Best
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
More than just a cookbook, New York Times bestselling Clean Slate is the complete go-to guide for boosting your energy and feeling your best.
It’s time to hit the reset button. This book emphasizes eating clean, whole, unprocessed foods as part of a primarily plant-based diet, with delicious...
Eating Eternity
Food, Art and Literature in France
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
"Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour," wrote Talleyrand. That Napoleon's most gifted advisor should speak so highly of eating says much about the importance of food in French culture. From the crumbs of a madeleine dipped in tisane that inspired Marcel...