Food Writing category: 1790 books
Catharine Parr Traill’s The Female Emigrant’s Guide
Cooking with a Canadian Classic
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
What did you eat for dinner today? Did you make your own cheese? Butcher your own pig? Collect your own eggs? Drink your own home-brewed beer? Shanty bread leavened with hops-yeast, venison and wild rice stew, gingerbread cake with maple sauce, and dandelion coffee – this was an ordinary backwoods...
The Road to Vindaloo
Curry Cooks & Curry Books
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2009
A book tracing the development of Anglo-Indian cookery, in other words the curry, in English and Scottish cookery books from its earliest appearance in the 18th century through to modern works by Camilla Punjabi and Marguerite Patten. It wanders the lanes and byways of the British occupation of India,...
by Amelia Simmons
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Published in Hartford in 1796, this volume in the American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection is a facsimile edition of one of the most important documents in American culinary history. This is the first cookbook written by an American author specifically published for American kitchens.Named by the Library...
Sophie Kooks Month by Month: April
Quick and Easy Feelgood Seasonal Food for April from Kooky Dough's Sophie Morris
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
‘When I think of April, I think of Easter. I am a chocoholic so it’s one of my favourite times of year – the only time when I feel truly justified eating copious amounts of chocolate bars and baked treats. MaltEaster Rocky Road is a staple in my fridge around Eastertime, though I’ll admit...
Sophie Kooks Month by Month: June
Quick and Easy Feelgood Seasonal Food for June from Kooky Dough's Sophie Morris
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
June screams strawberries and cream – synonymous with Wimbledon, of course. During the school holidays, I played tennis every day with my mum; and we still joke about how many years it took her to part with that old-fashioned, wooden racket of hers! These days I’m still glued to the tennis at...
Sophie Kooks Month by Month: August
Quick and Easy Feelgood Seasonal Food for August from Kooky Dough's Sophie Morris
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
‘There’s not much time left to get the barbecue out, so if it hasn’t made an appearance by August, I make sure to bring it out then, even if it’s not that warm. And let’s face it, we can’t be too picky in Ireland when it comes to weather! Barbecues are a great excuse to get some friends...
Domesticity
A Gastronomic Interpretation of Love
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Bob Shacochis, author of the critically acclaimed novel The Woman Who Lost Her Soul, and National Book Award winning-author of such books as Swimming in the Volcano, Easy in the Islands, and The Next New World, hones his nonfiction skills in this tour de force romp through the worlds of eating and eroticism....
No Man Is An Island
A Memoir of Family and Haïtian Cuisine
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Jean-Marie Monfort Hébert Georges Fils TiGeorges” Laguerre died at birth. But anyone who knows the gregarious, polylingual chef and restaurant owner realizes that it takes more than something like dying to keep this charismatic man down. Laguerre was revived, and in the decades since, has lived...
by Agus Ekanurdi, Frida Antony
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Cook Your Way to Love & Harmony is an honest, heartwarming account of Agus Ekanurdi and Frida Antony's experiences and struggles early in their relationship, and how they grew in friendship and love through the power of home cooking.
Inspired by his father, So Kong Hoo, Agus began cooking...
Directions for Cookery
Being a System of the Art, in Its Various Branches
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Written by Eliza Leslie, or Miss Leslie as she was commonly called, Directions for Cookery was undoubtedly the most popular cookbook in the 19th century. Published in 1837 in Philadelphia, this clear, concise, and elegant cookbook emphasized the nuances of good cooking, the importance of specific measurements—not...
The Secret Flag
Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
In this cookbook, the author combines her experiences of learning about many things GEORGIA GROWN - slavery, slaves gifts and endurance, Negro education, freedom and food preferences. There are many recipes that are generational and made popular throughout the world. Overall, the cookbook is historical and a collection of Peach Countys favorite recipes.
by John Thorne, Matt Lewis Thorne
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 1994
In essays ranging from his earliest cooking lessons in a cold-water walk-up apartment on New York's Lower East Side to opinions both admiring and acerbic on the food writers of the past ten years, John Thorne argues that to eat exactly what you want, you have to make it yourself. Thorne tells us how...
Vegetables
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
From Michael Pollan to locavores, Whole Foods to farmers' markets, today cooks and foodies alike are paying more attention than ever before to the history of the food they bring into their kitchens—and especially to vegetables. Whether it’s an heirloom tomato, curled cabbage, or succulent squash,...
Bread
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
It is difficult to think of a food more basic, more essential, and more universal than bread. Common to the diets of both the rich and the poor, bread is one of our oldest foods. Loaves and rolls have been found in ancient Egyptian tombs, and wheat has been found in pits where human settlements flourished...