Food Writing category: 1790 books
Think! Eat! Act!
A Sea Shepherd Chef's Vegan Recipes
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Think! Eat! Act! is a cookbook featuring the vegan food prepared on the Sea Shepherd ships' anti-whaling campaigns. Inspired by the Sea Shepherd's goal of protecting the animals that are victims of human cruelty, author and onboard chef Raffaella Tolicetti uses delicious vegan food to show readers...
by Graham Lusk
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
This early work by Graham Lusk was originally published in 1918 and we are now republishing it as part of our WWI Centenary Series. 'Food in War Time' is a work by a professor of physiology at Cornell University Medical College. It includes chapters on 'A Balanced Diet', 'Calories in Common Life',...
Taste Memento
Short Stories of Food & Travel
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Taste Memento is a project inspired by personal travel, food discovery, and the stories that link me to the recipes in this book. This book is especially for the cook that meanders the kitchen day and night, for the households that see no other hearth but the ceremonial location of food assembly,...
Leopardi a tavola. 49 cibi della lista autografa di Giacomo Leopardi
49 cibi della lista autografa di Giacomo Leopardi
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Il lato "gastronomico" di Giacomo Leopardi
Domenico Pasquariello ”Dègo”, da tempo in Francia come in Italia, ideatore di eventi sul cibo-cultura e il Maestro-cuoco napoletano, Antonio Tubelli, ragionano insieme sui 49 cibi della lista autografa di Giacomo Leopardi a Napoli (1833 - 1837)....
The Juice
Vinous Veritas
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
This new collection by the acclaimed novelist—and, according to Salon, “the best wine writer in America”—is generous and far-reaching, deeply knowledgeable and often hilarious.
For more than a decade, Jay McInerney’s vinous essays, now featured in The Wall Street...
Tasting Pleasure
Confessions of a Wine Lover
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
Even the French admit that Jancis Robinson is the "undisputed mistress of the kingdom of wine" (Le Figaro). Internationally renowned for her work in both television and print, she is the editor of the bestselling Oxford Companion to Wine and has won more than two dozen major awards around...
History in a Glass
Sixty Years of Wine Writing from Gourmet
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
When Gourmet magazine debuted in the 1940s, America’s wineries were still reeling from the lingering effects of Prohibition and the loss of wines from war-torn Europe. But for every closed door, there was an open bottle: The bleak postwar years were actually a prelude to today’s unprecedented...
Drinking Distilled
A User's Manual
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
An opinionated, illustrated guide for cocktail beginners, covering the basics of spirits plus making and drinking cocktails, written by celebrated craft cocktail bartender Jeffrey Morgenthaler.
This easy-reading, colorful introduction for cocktail beginners, with approximately 100 succinct...
The British Housewife
Cooking and Society in 18th-century Britain
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2004
This is the first full-scale study of the world of eighteenth-century British cookery books, their authors, their readers and their recipes. For many decades, we have treated them as collectables - often fetching thousands at auction and in rare-book catalogues - or as quaint survivors, while ignoring...
Sweet Invention
A History of Dessert
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
A social, cultural, and—above all—culinary history of dessert, Sweet Invention explores the world’s great dessert traditions, from ancient India to 21st-century Indiana. Each chapter begins with author Michael Krondl tasting and analyzing an icon of dessert, such as baklava from the Middle East...
Butter Cream: A Year in a Montreal Pastry School
A Year in a Montreal Pastry School
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2008
What happens when a 56-year-old fiction writer decides to ditch it all and attend professional pastry chef school for a year? In writing that brings to mind the work of journalist/chef Michael Ruhlman, Butter Cream: A Year in a Montreal Pastry School tells the story of eleven months of whipping, spreading...
The Housekeeper's Manual
Or, Complete Housewife
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
An important and fascinating document of American social history, The Housekeeper’s Manual, or Complete Housewife is believed to be an adapted version of the British best seller The Cook’s Oracle; and Housekeeper’s Manual by Dr. William Kitchiner. Intended as “a Guide for Families,” the cookbook...
by Lady Harriet Elizabeth St. Clair
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
From her writing and recipe style, Lady Harriet was clearly a sophisticated woman of means who deplored the “unpalatable horrible attempts at entrees, dignified with some high-sounding French name, made by the general run of English cooks.” Her recipes for soups, sauces, fish, meat, poultry, vegetables...
by Hannah Glasse, Agnes Jekyll
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Writing for domestic servants in a conversational, accessible way, eighteenth-century housewife Hannah Glasse disapproved of French terminology and fussiness, instead favouring simple dishes that are still cooked today - a preference that has earned her the reputation of 'the first Domestic Goddess'.
With...