Food Writing category: 1790 books
Julia Child
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2007
Author of the forthcoming What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories (Summer 2017)
With a swooping voice, an irrepressible sense of humor, and a passion for good food, Julia Child ushered in the nation’s culinary renaissance. In Julia Child, award-winning food...
The Founding Foodies
How Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin Revolutionized American Cuisine
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Who Were the Original Foodies?
Beyond their legacy as revolutionaries and politicians, the Founding Fathers of America were first and foremost a group of farmers. Passionate about the land and the bounty it produced, their love of food and the art of eating created what would ultimately become...
by Elizabeth David
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1999
Elizabeth David's Italian Food was one of the first books to demonstrate the enormous range of Italy's regional cooking. For the foods of Italy, explained David, expanded far beyond minestrone and ravioli, to the complex traditions of Tuscany, Sicily, Lombardy, Umbria, and many other regions. David...
A Square Meal
A Culinary History of the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner
From the author of the acclaimed 97 Orchard and her husband, a culinary historian, an in-depth exploration of the greatest food crisis the nation has ever faced—the Great Depression—and how it transformed America’s culinary culture.
The...
The Least Likely to Succeed
Jack Clifford And The Food Network
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Have you watched The Food Network? If so, you'll love this book which details how one of the most successful TV channels ever came to fruition thanks to the creativity, perseverance and genius of Jack Clifford. Follow Clifford from humble beginnings in Michigan on a nation-wide odyssey. Cook with...
Blessing the Hands That Feed Us
Lessons from a 10-Mile Diet
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
An exploration of our relationship with food and eating locally—from the bestselling author of Your Money or Your Life
Taking the local food movement to heart, Vicki Robin pledged for one month to eat only food sourced within a ten-mile radius of her home on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound,...
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...
How the Hot Dog Found Its Bun
Accidental Discoveries and Unexpected Inspirations That Shape What We Eat and Drink
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Sometimes it’s neither art nor science that serves as the origins of the everyday kitchen and food items that we take for granted today. Sometimes, as Josh Chetwynd shows us in How the Hot Dog Found Its Bun, some of our greatest culinary achievements were simply by-products of “damned good luck.”...
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...
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,...
Red Velvet Underground
A Rock Memoir, with Recipes
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Part memoir, part cookbook, and all rock and roll, Red Velvet Underground tells the story of how musician Freda Love Smith's indie-rock past grew into her family- and food-centric present.
Smith, born in Nashville and raised in Indiana, is best known as the drummer and co-founder of bands such...
by Jay Rayner
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Britain's culinary Moses brings us the new foodie rules to live by, celebrating what and how we eat
The Ten Commandments may have had a lot going for them, but they don't offer those of us located in the 21st Century much in the way of guidance when it comes to our relationship with our food....
Twain's Feast
Searching for America's Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel Clemens
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
One young food writer's search for America's lost wild foods, from New Orleans croakers to Illinois Prairie hen, with Mark Twain as his guide.
In the winter of 1879, Mark Twain paused during a tour of Europe to compose a fantasy menu of the American dishes he missed the most. He was desperately...
Eating for Beginners
An Education in the Pleasures of Food from Chefs, Farmers, and One Picky Kid
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
A memoir of a year spent working at a Brooklyn restaurant—and on a series of farms—to get the lowdown on organic, local, ethical cooking. Includes recipes!
Food was always important to Melanie Rehak. She studied the experts on healthy nutrition, from Michael Pollan to Eric Schlosser to...