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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
This month’s Digital Edition serves up eight irresistible courses from LARB’s Food and Drink section. Including a taste of the dizzying heights of gourmandise in John McIntyre’s essay Finer Dining Through Chemistry,” and samples of extreme foodie-ism in Douglas Bauer’s review of Anything...
Dearie
The Remarkable Life of Julia Child
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
It’s rare for someone to emerge in America who can change our attitudes, our beliefs, and our very culture. It’s even rarer when that someone is a middle-aged, six-foot three-inch woman whose first exposure to an unsuspecting public is cooking an omelet on a hot plate on a local TV station. And...
Save Me the Plums
My Gourmet Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Trailblazing food writer and beloved restaurant critic Ruth Reichl took the job (and the risk) of a lifetime when she entered the high-stakes world of magazine publishing. Now, for the first time, she chronicles her groundbreaking tenure as editor in chief of Gourmet.
“A...
Molly on the Range
Recipes and Stories from An Unlikely Life on a Farm
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Star of Food Network's Girl Meets Farm, and winner of the Judges' Choice IACP Cookbook Award, Molly Yeh explores home and family and celebrates her Jewish and Chinese heritage and her current Midwestern farm life in this cookbook featuring more than 120 recipes.
In 2013, food blogger and...
Late Dinner
Discovering the Food of Spain
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2007
Vivid and richly textured, A Late Dinner is a delightful journey through Spain and Spanish cuisine. Paul Richardson is the perfect guide. In lush prose he brings to life the fascinating people who grow and cook and eat the hugely varied and still little-known food of Spain.
Richardson's vibrant...
Stuffed
Adventures of a Restaurant Family
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Patricia Volk’s delicious memoir lets us into her big, crazy, loving, cheerful, infuriating and wonderful family, where you’re never just hungry–your starving to death, and you’re never just full–you’re stuffed. Volk’s family fed New York City for one hundred years, from 1888 when her...
A Really Big Lunch
The Roving Gourmand on Food and Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
An essay collection from “the Henry Miller of food writing” and New York Times–bestselling author of The Raw and the Cooked (The Wall Street Journal).
Jim Harrison was beloved for his untamed prose and larger-than-life appetite. Collecting many of his most entertaining and inspired food...
The Mighty Gastropolis: Portland
A Journey Through the Center of America's New Food Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Portland, Oregon, is a city that’s screaming "Hey, world, check me out!" and Karen Brooks is its food-writing doyenne and ambassador. The Mighty Gastropolis is her insider's look at this exciting food scene. The book is part guidebook and part handbook, painting colorful pictures of the...
by Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
RUTH REICHL
"Mary Frances [Fisher] has the extraordinary ability to make the ordinary seem rich and wonderful. Her dignity comes from her absolute insistence on appreciating life as it comes to her."
JULIA CHILD
"How wonderful to have here in my hands the essence of M.F.K. Fisher,...
Here Let Us Feast
A Book of Banquets
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
"M.F.K Fisher’s latest excursion into the art or science of gastronomy is more an anthology of the finest writing on the subject than strictly a text of her own composition . . . A royal feast, indeed!" —The New York Times
Betty Fussell—winner of the James Beard Foundation’s...
by Elizabeth David
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2009
A classic collection of articles, book reviews, and travel essays from “the best food writer of her time” (Jane Grigson, The Times Literary Supplement).
An Omelette and a Glass of Wine offers sixty-two articles originally written by Elizabeth David between 1955 and 1984 for numerous publications...
by Jonah Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
What hidden evasions and exclusions lie behind the subtle perfection of the BLT? What is the etymology of the croissant? Why did we drink all that Bud Lite Lime? What did you do to my face? This collection of writing by Jonah Campbell—metalhead, misanthrope, unrepentant good eater—explores the...
by Max Watman
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Max Watman’s compulsively readable memoir of his dogged quest to craft meals from scratch.
After an epiphany caused by a harrowing bite into a pink-slime burger, Max Watman resolves to hunt, fish, bake, butcher, preserve, and pickle. He buys a thousand-pound-steer—whom he names Bubbles—raises...
The Queen of Fats
Why Omega-3s Were Removed from the Western Diet and What We Can Do to Replace Them
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2006
A nutritional whodunit that takes readers from Greenland to Africa to Israel, The Queen of Fats gives a fascinating account of how we have become deficient in a nutrient that is essential for good health: the fatty acids known as omega-3s. Writing with intelligence and passion, Susan Allport tells...