Food Writing category: 1790 books
Tom Fitzmorris's Hungry Town
A Culinary History of New Orleans, the City Where Food Is Almost Everything
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
A cuisine lover’s history of New Orleans—from the Creole craze to rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina—from one of the city’s best-known food critics.
Tom Fitzmorris covers the New Orleans food scene like powdered sugar covers a beignet. For more than forty years he’s written a weekly...
Beard on Food
The Best Recipes and Kitchen Wisdom from the Dean of American Cooking
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
In Beard on Food, one of America's great culinary thinkers and teachers collects his best essays, ranging from the perfect hamburger to the pleasures of oxtails, from salad dressing to Sauce Diable. The result is not just a compendium of fabulous recipes and delicious bites of writing. It's a philosophy...
The Larder
Food Studies Methods from the American South
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
The sixteen essays in The Larder argue that the study of food does not simply help us understand more about what we eat and the foodways we embrace. The methods and strategies herein help scholars use food and foodways as lenses to examine human experience. The resulting conversations provoke a deeper...
Remembrance of Things Paris
Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
A glorious, edible tour of Paris through six decades of writing from Gourmet magazine, edited and introduced by Ruth Reichl
For sixty years the best food writers have been sending dispatches from Paris to Gourmet. Collected here for the first time, their essays create a unique and timeless...
Eat My Words
Reading Women's Lives Through the Cookbooks They Wrote
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Some people think that a cookbook is just a collection of recipes for dishes that feed the body. In Eat My Words: Reading Women's Lives through the Cookbooks They Wrote, Janet Theophano shows that cookbooks provide food for the mind and the soul as well. Looking beyond the ingredients and instructions,...
by Hanna Raskin
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2013
Yelp Help, written by professional food critic Hanna Raskin (Seattle Weekly, Dallas Observer), is the first how-to book for online restaurant reviewers. Whether they’re motivated to climb the Yelp ranks or assist their fellow eaters by writing clearer, fairer reviews, citizen critics will find the...
by Mark McWilliams
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2012
Food and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century America revolves around the 1840 presidential election when, according to campaign slogans, candidates were what they ate. Skillfully deploying the rhetoric of republican simplicity—the belief that plain dress, food, and manners were signs of virtue in the...
Deep Run Roots
Stories and Recipes from My Corner of the South
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF AN ASTONISHING FOUR IACP AWARDS, INCLUDING COOKBOOK OF THE YEAR AND THE JULIA CHILD FIRST BOOK AWARD
Vivian Howard, star of PBS's A CHEF'S LIFE, celebrates the flavors of North Carolina's coastal plain in more than 200 recipes and stories.
This...
by Richard Olney
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2003
First published in the 1970s to critical acclaim Richard Olney's "Simple French Food" follows in the tradition of the writing of Elizabeth David and Jane Grigson, and Grub Street are re-issuing this classic work in the same format and size as "Elizabeth David Classics" and "Charcuterie...
by Simon Hopkinson
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
"Good cooking depends on two things: common sense and good taste."
In England, no food writer's star shines brighter than Simon Hopkinson's. His breakthrough Roast Chicken and Other Stories was voted the most useful cookbook ever by a panel of chefs, food writers, and consumers. At...
Sous Chef
24 Hours on the Line
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME
The back must slave to feed the belly. . . . In this urgent and unique book, chef Michael Gibney uses twenty-four hours to animate the intricate camaraderie and culinary choreography in an upscale New York restaurant kitchen. Here...
Eat More Better
How to Make Every Bite More Delicious
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
What if you could make everything you eat more delicious?
As creator of the WNYC podcast The Sporkful and host of the Cooking Channel web series You're Eating It Wrong, Dan Pashman is obsessed with doing just that. Eat More Better weaves science and humor into a definitive, illustrated guidebook...
Seven Spoons
My Favorite Recipes for Any and Every Day: A Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
The much-anticipated debut from the author behind the popular food blog Seven Spoons, featuring distinctive, crowd-pleasing recipes; engaging, writerly essays; and the same stunning photography that has earned her website a devoted following.
Tara O'Brady was one of the earliest food bloggers...
by Matt Kirouac
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Chicago has come a long way since its stereotypical days as a meat-and-potatoes town. Over the past several decades, as the city rose to global metropolis status, so too did its multifaceted food scene. Nowadays, Chicago’s restaurants, bakeries and neighborhood eateries are as highly regarded as...