Food Writing category: 1790 books
Mangia come parli
Com'è cambiato il vocabolario del cibo
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 10, 2015
Negli ultimi cinquant’anni il mondo è stato attraversato da profondi mutamenti. Soprattutto nelle società occidentali, si sono affermati nuovi modi di produrre, di pensare, di vivere. Sono cambiati anche i costumi alimentari e, assieme al nostro rapporto con il cibo, è cambiato il linguaggio...
Garlic and Sapphires
The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2006
GARLIC AND SAPPHIRES is Ruth Reichl's riotous account of the many disguises she employs to dine anonymously. There is her stint as Molly Hollis, a frumpy blond with manicured nails and an off-beige Armani suit that Ruth takes on when reviewing Le Cirque. The result: her famous double review of the...
by Scott R. Sanders
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
Frank P. Thomas Jr., Donald J. Thomas, and Robert E. Wildman, owners of the General Equipment Company, entered into the fast-food business by opening a 15� hamburger restaurant called Burger Chef in Indianapolis in 1958. General Equipment was a manufacturer of restaurant machinery and built the equipment...
The Big Oyster
History on the Half Shell
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
Before New York City was the Big Apple, it could have been called the Big Oyster. Now award-winning author Mark Kurlansky tells the remarkable story of New York by following the trajectory of one of its most fascinating inhabitants–the oyster, whose influence on the great metropolis remains unparalleled.
For...
The Call of the Farm
An Unexpected Year of Getting Dirty, Home Cooking, and Finding Myself
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Rochelle Bilow, a classically trained cook and aspiring food writer, was nursing a broken heart and frustrated with her yet-to-take-off career when she set out to write a short profile of a small, sustainable CSA farm in central New York. At most, she expected to come away with a cute city-girl-in-the-country...
American Cake
From Colonial Gingerbread to Classic Layer. The Stories and Recipes Behind More Than 125 of Our Best-Loved Cakes.
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Taste your way through America with more than 125 recipes for our favorite historical cakes and frostings.
Cakes in America aren't just about sugar, flour, and frosting. They have a deep, rich history that developed as our country grew. Cakes, more so than other desserts, are synonymous with...
Heat
An Amateur Cook in a Professional Kitchen
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
A highly acclaimed writer and editor, Bill Buford left his job at The New Yorker for a most unlikely destination: the kitchen at Babbo, the revolutionary Italian restaurant created and ruled by superstar chef Mario Batali.
Finally realizing a long-held desire to learn first-hand the experience...
by Julia Child, Alex Prud'homme
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
The bestselling story of Julia’s years in France—and the basis for Julie & Julia, starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams—in her own words.
Although she would later singlehandedly create a new approach to American cuisine with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television...
Taste
The Story of Britain through Its Cooking
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2008
Written with a storyteller's flair and packed with astonishing facts, Taste is a sumptuous social history of Britain told through the development of its cooking. It encompasses royal feasts and street food, the skinning of eels and the making of strawberry jelly, mixing tales of culinary stars with...
My Paris Kitchen
Recipes and Stories: A Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
A collection of stories and 100 sweet and savory French-inspired recipes from popular food blogger David Lebovitz, reflecting the way Parisians eat today and featuring lush photography taken around Paris and in David's Parisian kitchen.
In 2004, David Lebovitz packed up his most treasured cookbooks,...
How I Learned To Cook
Culinary Educations from the World's Greatest Chefs
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
Before he was a top chef, Tom Colicchio learned to love cooking when he was still slinging burgers at a poolside snack bar. Barbara Lynch tells the story of lying her way into her first chef's job and then needing to cook her way out of trouble in the galley kitchen of a ship at sea. Stories of mentorship...
Provence, 1970
M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Provence, 1970 is about a singular historic moment. In the winter of that year, more or less coincidentally, the iconic culinary figures James Beard, M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, Richard Olney, Simone Beck, and Judith Jones found themselves together in the South of France. They cooked and ate, talked...
by Cal Peternell
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Winner of the 2015 International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) Cookbook Award
Forewords by Alice Waters and Michael Pollan
In this dazzling, full color cookbook and kitchen manual filled with lush photographs and beautiful drawings, the chef of Alice Waters’ Chez Panisse...
Educating Peter
How I Taught a Famous Movie Critic the Difference Between Cabernet and Merlot or How Anybody Can Become an (Almost) Instant Wine Expert
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2007
Lettie Teague knows wine. She has been the wine editor at Food & Wine magazine for almost a decade. The only question she is asked more than "Can you recommend a great wine for under $10?" -- great cheap white: Argiolas Costamolino Vermentino from Sardinia; great cheap red: Alamos Malbec from Argentina...