Food Writing category: 1790 books
Cooked
A Natural History of Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
**Michael Pollan, the bestselling author of The Omnivore's Dilemma, Food Rules, and How to Change Your Mind, explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen in Cooked.
Cooked is now a Netflix docuseries based on the book that focuses on the four kinds of "transformations"...
The Tuscan Sun Cookbook
Recipes from Our Italian Kitchen
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
“Tuscan food tastes like itself. Ingredients are left to shine. . . . So, if on your visit, I hand you an apron, your work will be easy. We’ll start with primo ingredients, a little flurry of activity, perhaps a glass of Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, and soon we’ll be carrying platters out the...
by Amanda Hesser
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
A New York Times bestseller and Winner of the James Beard Award: All the best recipes from 150 years of distinguished food journalism—a volume to take its place in America's kitchens alongside Mastering the Art of French Cooking and How to Cook Everything.
Amanda Hesser, co-founder and CEO...
Southern Belly
A Food Lover's Companion
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2007
John T. Edge, "the Faulkner of Southern food" (the Miami Herald), reveals a South hidden in plain sight, where restaurants boast family pedigrees and serve supremely local specialties found nowhere else. From backdoor home kitchens to cinder-block cafés, he introduces you to cooks who have...
Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
2012 IACP Award Winner in the Food Matters categorySupermarket produce sections bulging with a year-round supply of perfectly round, bright red-orange tomatoes have become all but a national birthright. But in Tomatoland, which is based on his James Beard Award-winning article, "The Price of...
The Tex-Mex Cookbook
A History in Recipes and Photos
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
Join Texas food writer Robb Walsh on a grand tour complete with larger-than-life characters, colorful yarns, rare archival photographs, and a savory assortment of more than 100 recipes for crispy, crunchy Tex-Mex foods.
From the Mexican pioneers of the sixteenth century, who first brought horses...
Taste of Persia
A Cook's Travels Through Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, and Kurdistan
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
**Winner, James Beard Award for Best Book of the Year, International (2017)
Winner, IACP Award for Best Cookbook of the Year in Culinary Travel (2017)
Named a Best Cookbook of the Year by The Boston Globe, Food & Wine, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review,...
Victuals
An Appalachian Journey, with Recipes
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Winner of the James Beard Foundation Book of the Year Award and Best Book, American Cooking, Victuals is an exploration of the foodways, people, and places of Appalachia.
Written by Ronni Lundy, regarded as the most engaging authority on the region, Victuals guides us through the surprisingly...
The United States of Arugula
The Sun Dried, Cold Pressed, Dark Roasted, Extra Virgin Story of the American Food Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
The wickedly entertaining, hunger-inducing, behind-the-scenes story of the revolution in American food that has made exotic ingredients, celebrity chefs, rarefied cooking tools, and destination restaurants familiar aspects of our everyday lives.
Amazingly enough, just twenty years ago eating...
Milk!
A 10,000-Year Food Fracas
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cultural, economic, and culinary story of milk and all things dairy--with recipes throughout.
According to the Greek creation myth, we are so much spilt milk; a splatter of the goddess Hera's breast...
Cuban Flavor
Exploring the Island's Unique Places, People, and Cuisine
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
A lush journey through Cuba, its paladars, and its flavorful cuisine
For Cubans, food is a complex story—a tapestry of love and loss woven so deeply into their culture that it goes well beyond that of history or sustenance. Gershman, who’s love affair with Cuba began long before her first visit,...
Super Sushi Ramen Express
One Family's Journey Through the Belly of Japan
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
From the author of The Almost Nearly Perfect People comes Super Sushi Ramen Express, a fascinating and funny culinary journey through Japan
Japan is arguably the preeminent food nation on earth; it’s a mecca for the world’s greatest chefs and has more Michelin stars than any other country....
by Todd Kliman
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
Restaurant critics are supposed to maintain their distance about chefs and restaurateurs. Or so Todd Kliman had always maintained. But when Peter Chang, an emigre genius capable of turning ordinary food into small miracles, crossed his radar, he couldnt help himself. He becomes obsessed with Chang's...
Life, on the Line
A Chef's Story of Chasing Greatness, Facing Death, and Redefining the Way We Eat
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
"One of America's great chefs" (Vogue) shares how his drive to cook immaculate food won him international renown-and fueled his miraculous triumph over tongue cancer.
In 2007, chef Grant Achatz seemingly had it made. He had been named one of the best new chefs in America by Food &...