Food Writing category: 1790 books
Ireland’s Green Larder
The Definitive History of Irish Food and Drink
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
This is the first-ever definitive history of Irish food and drink, rich in cultural detail, from ancient folklore to the contemporary food scene.
A former Food and Drink Editor at Country Living, Margaret is very well connected in the Irish food scene.
She will be available for events...
Save Room for Pie
Food Songs and Chewy Ruminations
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Our best-laid plans will yield to fate.
And we will say, “We lived. We ate.”
Roy Blount Jr. is one of America’s most cherished comic writers. He’s been compared to Mark Twain and James Thurber, and his books have been called everything from “a work of art” (Robert W. Creamer, The...
New Orleans
A Food Biography
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Beignets, Po’ Boys, gumbo, jambalaya, Antoine’s. New Orleans’ celebrated status derives in large measure from its incredibly rich food culture, based mainly on Creole and Cajun traditions. At last, this world-class destination has its own food biography. Elizabeth M. Williams, a New Orleans...
Eat Up
Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
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Think about that first tickle of hunger in your stomach. A moment ago, you could have been thinking about anything, but now it's thickly buttered marmite toast, a frosty scoop of ice cream straight from the tub, some creamy, cheesy scrambled eggs or a fuzzy,...
Near a Thousand Tables
A History of Food
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2002
In Near a Thousand Tables, acclaimed food historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto tells the fascinating story of food as cultural as well as culinary history -- a window on the history of mankind.
In this "appetizingly provocative" (Los Angeles Times) book, he guides readers through the eight great revolutions...
Food Heroes
16 Culinary Artisans Preserving Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
In Food Heroes, Georgia Pellegrini introduces readers to the lively stories of artisanal food devotees such as New York mushroom forager Marion Burroughs, French fig collector Francis Honore, fish missionary Jon Rowley in Washington State, and Ugo Buzzio in New York City, one of the last makers of...
Candy
A Century of Panic and Pleasure
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
For most Americans, candy is an uneasy pleasure, eaten with side helpings of guilt and worry. Yet candy accounts for only 6 percent of the added sugar in the American diet. And at least it's honest about what it is—a processed food, eaten for pleasure, with no particular nutritional benefit. So...
Medieval Tastes
Food, Cooking, and the Table
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
In his new history of food, acclaimed historian Massimo Montanari traces the development of medieval tastes—both culinary and cultural—from raw materials to market and captures their reflections in today's food trends. Tying the ingredients of our diet evolution to the growth of human civilization,...
by Renee Casteel Cook, Tiffany Harelik
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
Every food truck in Columbus has a story. Jim Pashovich, godfather of the local scene, honors his Macedonian heritage with his fleet of Pitabilities trucks. After working as a New York City line cook, Catie Randazzo returned to Columbus to open Challah! and wow the hometown crowd with her reimagined...
Life From Scratch
A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Witty, warm, and poignant, food blogger Sasha Martin's memoir about cooking her way to happiness and self-acceptance is a culinary journey like no other.
Over the course of 195 weeks, food writer and blogger Sasha Martin set out to cook—and eat—a meal from every country in the world. As cooking...
Food and Social Media
You Are What You Tweet
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2012
Social media platforms have quickly become integral to most people’s lives, both privately and professionally. This is the first book to illuminate the trend of relying on social media in the food world. Engaging in social media is fun, but it is also rapidly becoming the platform for self-promotion...
How America Eats
A Social History of U.S. Food and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
In How America Eats, Food historian Jennifer Wallach examines how Americans have produced food, cooked, and filled their stomachs from the colonial era to the present. Due to the complex history of conquest, enslavement, and immigration, the United States has never developed a singular cohesive culinary...
Discriminating Taste
How Class Anxiety Created the American Food Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
For the past four decades, increasing numbers of Americans have started paying greater attention to the food they eat, buying organic vegetables, drinking fine wines, and seeking out exotic cuisines. Yet they are often equally passionate about the items they refuse to eat: processed foods, generic...
Alimentary Performances
Mimesis, Theatricality, and Cuisine
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
A pea soda. An apple balloon. A cotton candy picnic. A magical mole. These are just a handful of examples of mimetic cuisine, a diverse set of culinary practices in which chefs and artists treat food as a means of representation. As theatricalised fine dining and the use of food in theatrical situations...