Food Writing category: 1790 books
From Absinthe to Zest: An Alphabet for Food Lovers
An Alphabet for Food Lovers
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
As well as being the author of The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas was also an enthusiastic gourmand and expert cook. His Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine, published in 1873, is an encyclopaedic collection of ingredients, recipes and anecdotes, from Absinthe to Zest via cake, frogs' legs, oysters,...
How the Other Half Ate
A History of Working-Class Meals at the Turn of the Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, working-class Americans had eating habits that were distinctly shaped by jobs, families, neighborhoods, and the tools, utilities, and size of their kitchens—along with their cultural heritage. How the Other Half Ate is a deep exploration by historian...
by Alison Sim
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2005
Popular representations of the Tudors at table have caricatured them as loud, gross, and lacking any manners. This is actually far from the case, as food and dining were used as social display by the upwardly mobile. For those with money, meals became extravagantly sophisticated, with a staggering...
Honey
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Whether drizzled into our tea or spread atop our terms of endearment, there’s one thing that is always true about honey: it is sweet. As Lucy M. Long shows in this book, while honey is definitely the natural sweetener par excellence, it has a long history in our world as much more, serving in different...
The Taste of Empire
How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
A history of the British Empire told through twenty meals eaten around the world
In The Taste of Empire, acclaimed historian Lizzie Collingham tells the story of how the British Empire's quest for food shaped the modern world. Told through twenty meals over the course of 450 years, from the...
Turning the Tables
An Insider's Guide to Eating Out
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Award-winning food critic Steven A. Shaw (a.k.a. "The Fat Guy") can get a last-minute dinner reservation at the most popular hot spot in town. He knows how that flawless piece of fish reached your plate. He can read between the lines of a restaurant review, and he knows the secrets of why...
The New Bread Basket
How the New Crop of Grain Growers, Plant Breeders, Millers, Maltsters, Bakers, Brewers, and Local Food Activists Are Redefining Our Daily Loaf
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
For more than 10,000 years, grains have been the staples of Western civilization. The stored energy of grain allowed our ancestors to shift from nomadic hunting and gathering and build settled communities—even great cities. Though most bread now comes from factory bakeries, the symbolism of wheat...
If the Buddha Came to Dinner
How to Nourish Your Body to Awaken Your Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
If the Buddha came to dinner at your home, what would you serve? Fast food? A frozen meal quickly reheated in the microwave? Chances are you'd feed your honored guest a delicious meal prepared with love and care. But the next time you have dinner, what will you eat?
With so much processed food...
by Rachel Herz, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
“In this factual feast, neuroscientist Rachel Herz probes humanity’s fiendishly complex relationship with food.” —Nature
How is personality correlated with preference for sweet or bitter foods? What genres of music best enhance the taste of red wine? With clear and compelling explanations...
American Tuna
The Rise and Fall of an Improbable Food
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
In a lively account of the American tuna industry over the past century, celebrated food writer and scholar Andrew F. Smith relates how tuna went from being sold primarily as a fertilizer to becoming the most commonly consumed fish in the country. In American Tuna, the so-called "chicken of the...
by Paul Freedman
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Featuring a new chapter on ten restaurants changing America today, a “fascinating . . . sweep through centuries of food culture” (Washington Post).
Combining an historian’s rigor with a food enthusiast’s palate, Paul Freedman’s seminal and highly entertaining Ten Restaurants That...
Neven Maguire's Complete Family Cookbook
300 Life-saving Recipes for Super-busy Parents
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Thank Heaven For Neven! This Definitive Family Cookbook Will Be A Lifesaver In Every Family's Kitchen
At the very centre of family life is the food and fun we share together daily. Our families are the most important people in our lives, so when it comes to mealtimes we want to give them the...
A Taste of Paris
A History of the Parisian Love Affair with Food
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
In his trademark witty and informative style, David Downie embarks on a quest to discover “What is it about the history of Paris that has made it a food lover’s paradise?” Long before Marie Antoinette said, “Let them eat cake!” (actually, it was brioche), the Romans of Paris devoured foie...
by C. M. Woolgar
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
In this revelatory work of social history, C. M. Woolgar shows that food in late-medieval England was far more complex, varied, and more culturally significant than we imagine today. Drawing on a vast range of sources, he charts how emerging technologies as well as an influx of new flavors and trends...