Food Writing category: 1790 books
by Nicole Frail, Matthew Magda
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
From Thomas Keller to Julia Child-hundreds of quotes that are sure to please anyone who loves to cook, bake, drink, and eat.
As American chef and food writer James Beard once said, "Food is our common ground, a universal experience." Everyone has a favorite food or meal, a method of cooking...
Food at Sea
Shipboard Cuisine from Ancient to Modern Times
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Food at Sea: Shipboard Cuisine from Ancient to Modern Times traces the preservation, preparation, and consumption of food at sea, over a period of several thousand years, and in a variety of cultures. The book traces the development of cooking aboard in ancient and medieval times, through the development...
Sex and Bacon
Why I Love Things That Are Very, Very Bad for Me
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008
It’s said that how we eat is reflective of our appetite in bed. Food and sex: two universal experiences that can easily become addictive and all consuming. You don’t need to look far-The Food Network, billboards, TV spots to name just a few-to witness firsthand the explosive combination of food...
by Allen J. Frantzen
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Food in the Middle Ages usually evokes images of feasting, speeches, and special occasions, even though most evidence of food culture consists of fragments of ordinary things such as knives, cooking pots, and grinding stones, which are rarely mentioned by contemporary writers. This book puts daily...
Slow Food
Le ragioni del gusto
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Nessun altro che non fosse Petrini poteva raccontare con altrettanta precisione di dati e documenti avvio e ascesa del fenomeno dello Slow Food, ormai internazionalmente consolidato. Questo libro in realtà è un manuale di sopravvivenza umana.Folco Portinari, Tuttolibri«Contro la follia universale...
by Volker Bach
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
In international culinary history, Germany is still largely a blank space, its unparalleled wealth of source material and large body of published research available only to readers of German. This books aims to give everybody else an overview of German foodways at a crucial juncture in its history....
RECIPES OF ITALY
The land of love, art and good food
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 8, 2015
"Recipes of Italy: the Land of Love, Art and Flavors" aims to be a small tribute to Italian cuisine by EWWA authors. With Expo 2015 in view, the members of our association share their special recipes, offering readers those dishes which are particularly dear to them. These recipes range...
Beyond Bratwurst
A History of Food in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Thanks to Oktoberfest and the popularity of beer gardens, our thoughts on German food are usually relegated to beer, sausage, pretzels, and limburger cheese. But the inhabitants of modern-day Germany do not live exclusively on bratwurst. Defying popular perception of the meat and potatoes diet, Ursula...
Food Shaman
The Art of Quantum Food
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Food—We all need it and we all want it. We want it delicious, and ideally not toxic.
But how the heck do we make sense of the choices paraded before us, when the so-called experts can’t agree and the guidelines change from day to day? Recommendations based on simple, sterile laboratory...
Blue Plate Special
An Autobiography of My Appetites
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
From acclaimed novelist Kate Christensen, Blue Plate Special is a mouthwatering literary memoir about an unusual upbringing and the long, winding path to happiness.
“To taste fully is to live fully.” For Kate Christensen, food and eating have always been powerful connectors to self and...
Gastropolis
Food and New York City
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Whether you're digging into a slice of cherry cheesecake, burning your tongue on a piece of fiery Jamaican jerk chicken, or slurping the broth from a juicy soup dumpling, eating in New York City is a culinary adventure unlike any other in the world.
An irresistible sampling of the city's rich...
The Secret Financial Life of Food
From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
One morning while reading Barron's, Kara Newman took note of a casual bit of advice offered by famed commodities trader Jim Rogers. "Buy breakfast," he told investors, referring to the increasing value of pork belly and frozen orange juice futures. The statement inspired Newman to take a...
Consider the Fork
A History of How We Cook and Eat
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Award-winning food writer Bee Wilson's secret history of kitchens, showing how new technologies - from the fork to the microwave and beyond - have fundamentally shaped how and what we eat.
Since prehistory, humans have braved sharp knives, fire, and grindstones to transform raw ingredients...
Fast Food Maniac
From Arby's to White Castle, One Man's Supersized Obsession with America's Favorite Food
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
The beloved personality from The Howard Stern Show celebrates American fast food, exploring the history and secret menu items of both national and regional chains, ranking everything from burgers and fries to ice and mascots, and offering his own expert tips on where to go and what to order.
Jon...