Food Writing category: 1790 books
In Late Winter We Ate Pears
A Year of Hunger and Love
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
More than a cookbook, In Late Winter We Ate Pears is a love affair with a culture and a way of life. In vignettes taken from their year in Italy, husband and wife Caleb Barber and Deirdre Heekin offer glimpses of a young, vibrant Italy: of rolling out pizza dough in an ancient hilltown at midnight...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
Without a uniform dietary code, Christians around the world used food in strikingly different ways, developing widely divergent practices that spread, nurtured, and strengthened their religious beliefs and communities. Featuring never-before published essays, this anthology follows the intersection...
The Flavor of Wisconsin
An Informal History of Food and Eating in the Badger State
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
The Wisconsin Historical Society published Harva Hachten's The Flavor of Wisconsin in 1981. It immediately became an invaluable resource on Wisconsin foods and foodways. This updated and expanded edition explores the multitude of changes in the food culture since the 1980s. It will find new audiences...
Delizia!
The Epic History of the Italians and Their Food
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
Buon appetito! Everyone loves Italian food. But how did the Italians come to eat so well?
The answer lies amid the vibrant beauty of Italy's historic cities. For a thousand years, they have been magnets for everything that makes for great eating: ingredients, talent, money, and power. Italian...
The Real Food Solution
Achieve your weight and wellness goals, increase your energy and give your family delicious real food!
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Food coach and nutrition educator Wendy McCallum has worked with many families to find successful strategies for clean eating, featuring affordable real food that everyone enjoys. This approach leads to gradual weight loss -- that stays off -- and increased energy, all while eating healthier, tastier...
French Gastronomy
The History and Geography of a Passion
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2002
This we can be sure of: when a restaurant in the western world is famous for its cooking, it is the tricolor flag that hangs above the stove, opined one French magazine, and this is by no means an isolated example of such crowing. Indeed, both linguistically and conceptually, the restaurant itself...
by Sandra M. Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
From the recipe novel to the celebrity chef, renowned scholar Sandra M. Gilbert explores the poetics and politics of food.
In this stunning and important work, the prominent critic, poet, and memoirist Sandra M. Gilbert explores our relationship with food and eating through discussions of literature,...
Pawpaw
In Search of America’s Forgotten Fruit
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
The largest edible fruit native to the United States tastes like a cross between a banana and a mango. It grows wild in twenty-six states, gracing Eastern forests each fall with sweet-smelling, tropical-flavored abundance. Historically, it fed and sustained Native Americans and European explorers,...
Let the Meatballs Rest
And Other Stories About Food and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Known for his entertaining investigations into culinary practice, Massimo Montanari turns his hungry eye to the phenomenon of food culture, food lore, cooking methods, and eating habits throughout history. An irresistible buffet of one hundred concise and engaging essays, this collection provides...
Kansas City
A Food Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
While some cities owe their existence to lumber or oil, turpentine or steel, Kansas City owes its existence to food. From its earliest days, Kansas City was in the business of provisioning pioneers and traders headed west, and later with provisioning the nation with meat and wheat. Throughout its...
Chicago
A Food Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Chicago began as a frontier town on the edge of white settlement and as the product of removal of culturally rich and diverse indigenous populations. The town grew into a place of speculation with the planned building of the Illinois and Michigan canal, a boomtown, and finally a mature city of immigrants...
by Massimo Montanari
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2006
Elegantly written by a distinguished culinary historian, Food Is Culture explores the innovative premise that everything having to do with food—its capture, cultivation, preparation, and consumption—represents a cultural act. Even the "choices" made by primitive hunters and gatherers...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
The way in which religious people eat reflects not only their understanding of food and religious practice but also their conception of society and their place within it. This anthology considers theological foodways, identity foodways, negotiated foodways, and activist foodways in the United States,...
by Jenny Mallin
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
Jenny Mallin’s earliest memories are of her mother in the kitchen, tapping a wooden spoon against the side of the metal dekshi and then tasting her curry sauce, checking the seasoning. From that moment, Jenny was hooked…
With her passions for cooking, India, research and writing, the outcome...