Food Writing category: 1790 books
Tea at the Blue Lantern Inn
A Social History of the Tea Room Craze in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
The Gypsy Tea Kettle. Polly's Cheerio Tea Room. The Mad Hatter. The Blue Lantern Inn. These are just a few of the many tea rooms - most owned and operated by women -- that popped up across America at the turn of the last century, and exploded into a full-blown craze by the 1920s. Colorful, cozy, festive,...
Recipes from an Edwardian Country House
A Stately English Home Shares Its Classic Tastes
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
A nostalgic culinary pilgrimage, rediscovering the sort of classic, robust, wholesome food that would have emerged from the kitchen of an Edwardian country house like Downton Abbey.
In this sumptuous cookbook, Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall takes us on a nostalgic culinary pilgrimage, rediscovering...
by Duncan Hines
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Kentucky native and national tastemaker Duncan Hines (1880--1959) published his first cookbook, Adventures in Good Cooking, in 1939 at the age of fifty-nine. This best-selling collection featured recipes from select restaurants across the country as well as crowd-pleasing family favorites, and it...
Rick's Cafe
Bringing the Film Legend to Life in Casablanca
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
For more than 60 years, tourists visiting Casablanca tried to visit Rick’s Café Americain only to discover that Warner Brothers had built the entire set on a studio back lot. It was a Hollywood fantasy—until Kathy Kriger came along, that is, and decided after 9/11 to bring the imaginary gin joint...
by Jonah Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
In this series of thoughtful essays and stink-eyed observations, Jonah Campbell explores food and drink in the modern world, from pig heads and whisky to fine wine and French gastronomy, Nigella Lawson to David Cronenberg, with a trail of potato chips and stale chocolate bars along the way. In the...
101 Simple Meals Ready in Minutes
Delicious, Quick and Easy
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Updated! Now with photos and a new layout!!
Create delicious professional gourmet meals in a flash…
- Cut your cooking time in half and create great meals like you see on T.V.! - Create delicious meals in 30 minutes or less - 101 dinner (also lunch and breakfast!) meals for you to...
Offal
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
“Offal” has the same pronunciation as “awful”—an appropriate homophone, given that offal comprises the whole spectrum of an animal’s glands, essential organs, skin, muscle, guts, and every unmentionable in between. Yet as Nina Edwards shows in this intriguing history, offal has been consumed...
Pork
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
“Pork. The Other White Meat.” The well known National Pork Board slogan doesn’t begin to describe the many types of meat that fall under the umbrella of “pork.” The most versatile of meats, pork ranges from the rich, delicate succulence of a roast loin to the dry, salty assertiveness of...
Late Night Shenanigans
A Book of culinary dishes and drinks to blow your mind - And perhaps those of your friends
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Mac and Cheese, Donuts, Bacon, wine and cheese. Does this get your attention really quickly? This book has been put together with so much fun, and adventure in culinary and beverage exploration for you to enjoy. Regions of beautiful history will not be quoted, nor vinyards or artisan foods exquisite....
Delta Hot Tamales
History, Stories & Recipes
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Several theories surround the traditional Delta tamale. Some trace it back to Mexican and Italian immigrants, while others say the Delta version of the hand-held meal is a spin on the old African American food called "cush." One thing not disputed is the popularity. From hot tamale legends Joe Pope,...
by Jacqueline Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2014
The following homemade recipes are a collection of my favorites regularly made by Mom while growing up during the 1960s and 1970s in Colorado and Idaho, in a household where we sat at the table as a family for almost every meal--at least until we were teenagers and Mom went to work. There's a...
Eat Drink Delta
A Hungry Traveler's Journey through the Soul of the South
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2013
The Mississippi Delta is a complicated and fascinating place. Part travel guide, part cookbook, and part photo essay, Eat Drink Delta by veteran food journalist Susan Puckett (with photographs by Delta resident Langdon Clay) reveals a region shaped by slavery, civil rights, amazing wealth, abject...
A Scent of Champagne
8,000 Champagnes Tasted and Rated
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Champagne may be the most misunderstood category of wine in the world, as many labels of sparkling wines bear the name in error. True champagne comes only from the French province of Champagne and contains three specific grape varieties. But figuring out more about the wine can be confusing: what...
Last Call
Bartenders on Their Final Drink and the Wisdom and Rituals of Closing Time
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2019
From the James Beard Award-winning author of Bitters and Amaro comes this poignant, funny, and often elegiac exploration of the question, What is the last thing you'd want to drink before you die?, with bartender profiles, portraits, and cocktail recipes.
Everyone knows the parlor game question...