Food Writing category: 1790 books
My Drunk Kitchen
A Guide to Eating, Drinking, and Going with Your Gut
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
One day, sad cubicle dweller and otherwise bored New York transplant Hannah Hart decided, as a joke, to make a fake cooking show for her friend back in California. She turned on the camera, pulled out some bread and cheese, and then, as one does, started drinking....
by Chelsea Monroe-Cassel, Sariann Lehrer
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Ever wonder what it’s like to attend a feast at Winterfell? Wish you could split a lemon cake with Sansa Stark, scarf down a pork pie with the Night’s Watch, or indulge in honeyfingers with Daenerys Targaryen? George R. R. Martin’s bestselling saga A Song of Ice and Fire and the runaway hit...
Making Modern Meals
How Americans Cook Today
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Home cooking is crucial to our lives, but today we no longer identify it as an obligatory everyday chore. By looking closely at the stories and practices of contemporary American home cooks—witnessing them in the kitchen and at the table—Amy B. Trubek reveals our episodic but also engaged relationship...
The Kitchen Counter Cooking School
How a Few Simple Lessons Transformed Nine Culinary Novices into Fearless Home Cooks
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
The author of the New York Times bestseller The Sharper Your Knife, The Less You Cry tells the inspiring story of how she helped nine others find their inner cook.
After graduating from Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, writer Kathleen Flinn returned with no idea what to do next, until one day at a...
Dori Sanders' Country Cooking
Recipes and Stories from the Family Farm Stand
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2003
Here is a book as delightful to read as it is to cook from. Dori Sanders' recipes include not only new interpretations of old-time favorites such as Spoon Bread, Chicken and Dumplings, Corn Bread, and Buttermilk Biscuits, but also her "Cooking for Northerners"--original dishes such as Winter...
by W. Carew Hazlitt
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2017
This multi-book file includes: Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine by W. Carew Hazlitt, 1902; The Forme of Cury, a Roll of Ancient English Cookery, complied about 1390 by the master-cooks of Richard II; Chocolate of an Indian Drinke by Captain James Wadsworth, 1652; The Compleat Cook, 1658; The...
The Wild Vine
A Forgotten Grape and the Untold Story of American Wine
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
A rich romp through untold American history featuring fabulous characters, The Wild Vine is the tale of a little-known American grape that rocked the fine-wine world of the nineteenth century and is poised to do so again today.
Author Todd Kliman sets out on an epic quest to unravel the mystery...
Cork Dork
A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' PICK
“Thrilling . . . [told] with gonzo élan . . . When the sommelier and blogger Madeline Puckette writes that this book is the Kitchen Confidential of the wine world, she’s not wrong, though Bill Buford’s Heat is probably...
A Cook's Tour
In Search of the Perfect Meal
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2010
From the host of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown and bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential, this wonderful book sees Bourdain travelling the world discovering exotic foods.
Dodging minefields in Cambodia, diving into the icy waters outside a Russian bath, Chef Bourdain travels the world...
On Spice
Advice, Wisdom, and History with a Grain of Saltiness
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
A revealing look at the history and production of spices, with modern, no-nonsense advice on using them at home.
Every home cook has thoughts on the right and wrong ways to use spices. These beliefs are passed down in family recipes and pronounced by television chefs, but where do such ideas...
Beaten, Seared, and Sauced
On Becoming a Chef at the Culinary Institute of America
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Millions of people fantasize about leaving their old lives behind, enrolling in cooking school, and training to become a chef. But for those who make the decision, the difference between the dream and reality can be gigantic—especially at the top cooking school in the country. For the first time...
McIlhenny's Gold
How a Louisiana Family Built the Tabasco Empire
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
In this fascinating history, Jeffrey Rothfeder tells how, from a simple idea—the outgrowth of a handful of peppers planted on an isolated island on the Gulf of Mexico—a secretive family business emerged that would produce one of the best-known products in the world.
A delectable and satisfying...
And a Bottle of Rum, Revised and Updated
A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Now revised, updated, and with new recipes, And a Bottle of Rum tells the raucously entertaining story of this most American of liquors
From the grog sailors drank on the high seas in the 1700s to the mojitos of Havana bar hoppers, spirits and cocktail columnist Wayne Curtis offers a history...
by John McPhee
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
A classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a short magazine article about oranges and orange juice, but the author kept encountering so much irresistible information that he eventually found that he had in fact written a book. It contains sketches of orange growers, orange botanists, orange...