Food Writing category: 1790 books
Fannie's Last Supper
Re-creating One Amazing Meal from Fannie Farmer's 1896 Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
In the mid-1990s, Chris Kimball moved into an 1859 Victorian townhouse on the South End of Boston and, as he became accustomed to the quirks and peculiarities of the house and neighborhood, he began to wonder what it was like to live and cook in that era. In particular, he became fascinated with Fannie...
The Food, Folklore, and Art of Lowcountry Cooking
A Celebration of the Foods, History, and Romance Handed Down from England, Africa, the Caribbean, France, Germany, and Scotland
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
The perfect gift for Southerners, history lovers, and foodies alike.
Discover the secrets of one of the most mysterious, romantic regions in the South: the Lowcountry. James Beard Cookbook of the Year Award-winning author Joe Dabney produces another gem with this comprehensive celebration of...
Eat This!
1,001 Things to Eat Before You Diet
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Ian Jackman believes that life is too short to deny yourself our nation's true culinary treasures. Guided by food experts throughout the land, he travels from east to west—from small town to big city—uncovering local treats, guilty pleasures, and some oddities that no true food lover should miss....
The Book Club Cookbook, Revised Edition
Recipes and Food for Thought from Your Book Club's FavoriteBooks and Authors
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
“Part cookbook, part celebration of the written word, [The Book Club Cookbook] illustrates how books and ideas can bring people together.”
—Publishers Weekly
"We are what we eat, they say. We can eat what we read, too. The Book Club Cookbook by Judy Gelman and Vicki Levy...
by Daniel Galmiche
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Daniel Galmiche’s first book, French Brasserie Cookbook, was hailed as a masterpiece of French home cooking. His eminently do-able versions of traditional recipes have won him thousands of fans throughout the world. Now he turns his experienced eye to something different: his own irresistible take...
Three Squares
The Invention of the American Meal
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
We are what we eat, as the saying goes-but we are also how we eat, and when, and where. Our eating habits reveal as much about our national identity as the food on our plates, as food historian Abigail Carroll vividly demonstrates in Three Squares. Reaching back to colonial America, when settlers...
by Alysa Levene
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Cake can evoke thoughts of home, comfort someone at a time of grief or celebrate a birth or new love. It is a maker of memories, a marker of identities, and delicious!
It was the year 878 A.D., and a man claims sanctuary in a small village home in Wessex. To the surprise of the villager,...
Agrarian Dreams
The Paradox of Organic Farming in California
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
In this groundbreaking study of organic farming, Julie Guthman challenges accepted wisdom about organic food and agriculture in the Golden State. Many continue to believe that small-scale organic farming is the answer to our environmental and health problems, but Guthman refutes popular portrayals...
by Stella Parks
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
**Winner of the 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award (Baking and Desserts)
A New York Times bestseller and named a Best Baking Book of the Year by the Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, Bon Appétit, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Mother Jones, the Boston Globe, USA...
The Gullet
Dispatches on Philippine Food
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the last ten years, the Philippines has undergone nothing short of a culinary revolution.
At first as an expatriate living in London, then eventually fully immersed in the scene as a writer and critic, Philippine Daily Inquirer’s resident food reviewer chronicles the remarkable transformation of gastronomic backwater into a giddy, opulent, and at times overwhelming foodie scene.
Since Eve Ate Apples Much Depends on Dinner
The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Mea
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
A “funny and fascinating” cultural history about one of our favorite pastimes: eating (The Village Voice).
This is a delightful and intelligent look at the food we eat, with a cornucopia of incredible details about the ways we do it.
Presented like a meal, each chapter of Since Eve...
Lesser Beasts
A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Unlike other barnyard animals, which pull plows, give eggs or milk, or grow wool, a pig produces only one thing: meat. Incredibly efficient at converting almost any organic matter into nourishing, delectable protein, swine are nothing short of a gastronomic godsend-yet their flesh is banned in many...
Butter
A Rich History
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
“Edifying from every point of view--historical, cultural, and culinary.” —David Tanis, author of A Platter of Figs and Other Recipes
It’s a culinary catalyst, an agent of change, a gastronomic rock star. Ubiquitous in the world’s most fabulous cuisines, butter is boss. Here, it finally...
The World on a Plate
40 Cuisines, 100 Recipes, and the Stories Behind Them
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Eat your way around the world without leaving your home in this mouthwatering cultural history of 100 classic dishes.
**Best Culinary Travel Book (U.K.), Gourmand World Cookbook Awards
Finalist for the Fortnum & Mason Food Book Award**
“When we eat, we travel.” So begins...