Food Writing category: 1790 books
Chocolate
A Bittersweet Saga of Dark and Light
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2006
A delectable journey into the world of chocolate--from manufacturing to marketing, French boutiques to American multinationals--by the award-winning author of Olives.
Science, over recent years, has confirmed what chocolate lovers have always known: the stuff is actually good for you. It's...
by Robert Sietsema
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Join New York City’s most intrepid eater—Robert Sietsema, pioneer of outer-boroughs dining—in an urban adventure like none other. Through essays on the city’s defining dishes, some familiar, others obscure, Robert paints a portrait of New York’s food landscape past and present, and shares...
Lobster
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Other than that it tastes delicious with butter, what do you know about the knobbily-armoured, scarlet creature staring back at you from your fancy dinner plate? Food writer Elisabeth Townsend here charts the global rise of the lobster as delicacy.
Part of the Edible Series, Lobster: A Global...
How We Eat with Our Eyes and Think with Our Stomach
The Hidden Influences That Shape Your Eating Habits
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
“Cut through the juice cleanses and paleo diets to bring back some common sense.”—The New York Times Book Review
Outsmart Your Impulses and Eat Better
A Belgian chocolate cake topped with a velvety homemade mousse catches your eye on the menu. The next thing you know, you’ve...
Generation Chef
Risking It All for a New American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Inside what life is really like for the new generation of professional cooks—a captivating tale of the make-or-break first year at a young chef’s new restaurant.
For many young people, being a chef is as compelling a dream as being a rock star or professional athlete. Skill and creativity...
Cheesemonger
A Life on the Wedge
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
Witty and irreverent, informative and provocative, Cheesemonger: A Life on the Wedge is the highly readable story of Gordon Edgar's unlikely career as a cheesemonger at San Francisco's worker-owned Rainbow Grocery Cooperative. A former punk-rock political activist, Edgar bluffed his way into his cheese...
Tea
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
From chai to oolong to sencha, tea is one of the world’s most popular beverages. Perhaps that is because it is a unique and adaptable drink, consumed in many different varieties by cultures across the globe and in many different settings, from the intricate traditions of Japanese teahouses to the...
Tasting Beer, 2nd Edition
An Insider's Guide to the World's Greatest Drink
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
This completely updated second edition of the best-selling beer resource features the most current information on beer styles, flavor profiles, sensory evaluation guidelines, craft beer trends, food and beer pairings, and draft beer systems. You’ll learn to identify the scents, colors, flavors,...
Whiskey
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
A Manhattan or a Sazerac; neat, on the rocks, or with a splash of soda—no matter how it’s served up, whiskey is synonymous with the poet’s inspiration and the devil’s spirit. Be it bourbon, rye, corn, Irish, or Scotch, whiskey has an infamous and celebrated history from a sometimes lethal,...
Extreme Cuisine
The Weird and Wonderful Foods That People Eat
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
"I could not have written A Cook's Tour without this book. There is so much I would have missed. So dig in. Enjoy… Eat. Eat adventurously. Miss nothing. It's all here in these pages." —From the Foreword by Anthony Bourdain
Sit down for a meal with the locals on six continents—what...
American Terroir
Savoring the Flavors of Our Woods, Waters, and Fields
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Why does honey from the tupelo-lined banks of the Apalachicola River have a kick of cinnamon unlike any other? Why is salmon from Alaska's Yukon River the richest in the world? Why does one underground cave in Greensboro, Vermont, produce many of the country's most intense cheeses?
The answer...
Kitchen Creativity
Unlocking Culinary Genius-with Wisdom, Inspiration, and Ideas from the World's Most Creative Chefs
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
"An incredible reference for home cooks, young chefs, and seasoned pros alike. Kitchen Creativity should be in everyone's library." - Eric Ripert, chef and co-owner of Le Bernardin and New York Times bestselling author of 32 Yolks
Unlock your creative potential with the world's most...
Caffeinated
How Our Daily Habit Helps, Hurts, and Hooks Us
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
“You’ll never think the same way about your morning cup of coffee.”—Mark McClusky, editor in chief of Wired.com and author of Faster, Higher, Stronger
Journalist Murray Carpenter has been under the influence of a drug for nearly three decades. And he’s in good company, because chances...
Potato
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
From obscure Pre-Columbian beginnings in the Andes Mountains to global popularity today, the story of the potato is one of rags to riches. In Potato, esteemed culinary historian Andrew F. Smith reveals the captivating story of a once lowly vegetable that has changed—and continues to change—the...