Food Writing category: 1790 books
Love and Kisses and a Halo of Truffles
Letters to Helen Evans Brown
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
An intimate look into the kitchens and lives of two celebrated American food legends and friends
Renowned culinary master James Beard and his dear friend, chef Helen Evans Brown, shared both a love of food and a keen insight into the changing palate of American diners. In this twelve-year,...
First Bite
How We Learn to Eat
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
"Carefully crafted, astutely served, delicious, and nourishing: First Bite is a real treat." --Wall Street Journal
In First Bite, award-winning food writer Bee Wilson draws on the latest research from food psychologists and neuroscientists to reveal that our food habits are shaped...
Edible French
Tasty Expressions and Cultural Bites
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
The idiosyncrasies of language can tell us a lot about a culture. In this delightful book, Clotilde Dusoulier, creator of the award-winning food blog Chocolate & Zucchini, delves into the history and meaning of fifty of the French language’s most popular food-related expressions.
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by Peter Jaggs, Wanalee Ar-Ngi
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Throw a best-selling author of a dozen books about Thailand together with a naturally gifted cook from Chiang Rai, who has been preparing food for her family since she was seven years old; then season with a liberal dash of humor to ginger-up the generally rather dry narrative typical of the more...
Popes, Peasants, and Shepherds
Recipes and Lore from Rome and Lazio
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
The food of Rome and its region, Lazio, is redolent of herbs, olive oil, ricotta, lamb, and pork. It is the food of ordinary, frugal people, yet it is a very modern cuisine in that it gives pride of place to the essential flavors of its ingredients. In this only English-language book to encompass...
Eating as I Go
Scenes from America and Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2006
What do we learn from eating? About ourselves? Others? In this unique memoir of a life shaped by the pleasures of the table, Doris Friedensohn uses eating as an occasion for inquiry. Munching on quesadillas and kimchi in her suburban New Jersey neighborhood, she reflects on her exploration of food...
Chefs of the Mountains
Restaurants & Recipes from the Western North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Western North Carolina is an established tourist destination with ski slopes, hiking trails, scenic drives along the Blue Ridge Parkway, national and state parks, and numerous other recreational offerings. The region is also a popular real-estate mecca for retirees and vacation home buyers. These...
Stirring the Pot with Benjamin Franklin
A Founding Father's Culinary Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
In this remarkable work, Rae Katherine Eighmey presents Franklin's delight and experimentation with food throughout his life. At age sixteen, he began dabbling in vegetarianism. In his early twenties, citing the health benefits of water over alcohol, he convinced his printing-press colleagues to abandon...
by Laura Schenone
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2008
A Newsday Best Cookbook of 2007: can a recipe change your life? A quest for an authentic dish reveals a mythic love story and age-old culinary secrets.
James Beard Award-winning author Laura Schenone undertakes a quest to retrieve her great grandmother's ravioli recipe, reuniting with relatives...
Hay Fever
How Chasing a Dream on a Vermont Farm Changed My Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
The compelling, funny story of a high-powered professional’s life-changing journey from Manhattan big cheese to Vermont goat cheesemaker
In the tradition of food memoirs like Under the Tuscan Sun and A Year in Provence, Hay Fever tells the story of New York City literary agent Angela Miller...
Life Is Meals
A Food Lover's Book of Days
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
From the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author James Salter and his wife, Kay—amateur chefs and perfect hosts—here is a charming, beautifully illustrated tour de table: a food lover's companion that, with an entry for each day of the year, takes us from a Twelfth Night cake in January to a champagne...
Peace Meals
Candy-Wrapped Kalashnikovs and Other War Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Travel books bring us to places. War books bring us to tragedy. This book brings us to one woman’s travels in war zones: the locals she met, the compassion they scraped from catastrophe, and the food they ate.
Peace Meals is a true story about conflict and food. It illustrates the most important...
The Snacking Dead
A Parody in a Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
For fans of AMC's The Walking Dead, Max Brooks, and all things zombies, the clever creators of Fifty Shades of Chicken hack a new parody cookbook filled with snacks for every occasion, tips for cooking under duress, and a love story that will send ripples down your spine--all accompanied by food photography...
by Massimo Montanari
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Massimo Montanari draws readers into the far-flung story of how local and global influences came to flavor Italian identity. The fusion of ancient Roman cuisine—which consisted of bread, wine, and olives—with the barbarian diet—rooted in bread, milk, and meat—first formed the basics of modern...