Food Writing category: 1790 books
The Making of a Chef
Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute of America
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
"Well reported and heartfelt, Ruhlman communicates the passion that draws the acolyte to this precise and frantic profession."—The New York Times Book Review
Just over a decade ago, journalist Michael Ruhlman donned a chef's jacket and houndstooth-check pants to join the students...
by Jeffrey Steingarten
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Funny, outrageous, passionate, and unrelenting, Vogue's food writer, Jeffrey Steingarten, will stop at nothing, as he makes clear in these forty delectable pieces.
Whether he is in search of a foolproof formula for sourdough bread (made from wild yeast, of course) or the most sublime French...
Hungry for More
A Harem of Recipes
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
Are you longing to know how to make the delicious food you read about?
Look no further! Grab your whisk, put on your apron, and tell your harem to get chopping. From spicy to sweet, you'll find a recipe for every occasion in this droolworthy cookbook brought to you by 21 bestselling reverse...
The Butcher's Guide to Well-Raised Meat
How to Buy, Cut, and Cook Great Beef, Lamb, Pork, Poultry, and More
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
The definitive guide to buying, cutting, and cooking local and sustainable meats, from the owners of Applestone Meat Company and the founders of Fleisher’s Grass-Fed and Organic Meats
The butcher has reemerged in American culture as an essential guide in avoiding the evils of industrial meat—which...
Biscuits
Sweet and Savory Southern Recipes for the All-American Kitchen
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
From the kitchens of our grandmothers to present-day biscuit-only shops, this sweet and savory food has come a long way in American culture.
More than four hundred years ago, explorers of the New World carried a biscuit known as hardtack on their voyages. Hardtack was made from flour, water,...
by Cal Peternell
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Celebrate the joys of a great day in the kitchen and a meal shared with family and friends with this follow-up to the bestselling, IACP Award-winning Twelve Recipes, featuring next level, home-cook-friendly recipes for occasions large and small.
Twelve Recipes provided the basic techniques...
An Everlasting Meal
Cooking with Economy and Grace
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Reviving the inspiring message of M. F. K. Fisher’s How to Cook a Wolf*— written in 1942 during wartime shortages—*An Everlasting Meal shows that cooking is the path to better eating.
Through the insightful essays in An Everlasting Meal, Tamar Adler issues a rallying cry to home cooks.
In...
Apron Anxiety
My Messy Affairs In and Out of the Kitchen
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
“Hot sex, looking good, scoring journalistic triumphs . . . nothing made Alyssa love herself enough until she learned to cook. There's a racy plot and a surprising moral in this intimate and delicious book.”
--Gael Greene, creator of Insatiable-Critic.com and author of *Insatiable: Tales from...
Alice, Let's Eat
Further Adventures of a Happy Eater
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Calvin Trillin's Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin.
“Trillin is our funniest food writer. He writes with charm, freedom, and a rare respect for language.”
–New York magazine
In this delightful and delicious book, Calvin Trillin, guided...
by Jill Conner Browne
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2004
They’re wild, beloved, and all-around fabulous, but with the Sweet Potato Queens, there’re just never enough good times—or enough good eats. Well, now all fabulous women everywhere can have their own mountains of royal fun and food, because bestselling author and Boss Queen Jill Conner Browne...
It Must've Been Something I Ate
The Return of the Man Who Ate Everything
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
In this outrageous and delectable new volume, the Man Who Ate Everything proves that he will do anything to eat everything. That includes going fishing for his own supply of bluefin tuna belly; nearly incinerating his oven in pursuit of the perfect pizza crust, and spending four days boning and stuffing...
Female Nomad and Friends
Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking Bread Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
In 1987, Rita, newly divorced, set out to live her dream. She sold all her possessions and became a nomad. She wrote a book about her ongoing journey and, in 2001, insisted on putting her personal e-mail address in the last chapter—against all advice. It turned out to be a fortuitous decision. She...
Let Me Eat Cake
A Celebration of Flour, Sugar, Butter, Eggs, Vanilla, Baking Powder, and a Pinch of Salt
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Few creations are more associated with joy or more symbolic of the sweet life than cake. After all, it is so much more than dessert.
As a book about cake would demand, this one is a multilayered, amply frosted, delicious concoction with a slice (or more) for everyone. Let Me Eat Cake is not...
As Always, Julia
The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
With her outsize personality, Julia Child is known around the world by her first name alone. But despite that familiarity, how much do we really know of the inner Julia?
Now more than 200 letters exchanged between Julia and Avis DeVoto, her friend and unofficial literary agent memorably introduced...