Food Writing category: 1790 books
Cocktails
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Gimlet, negroni, manhattan, Long Island ice tea, flirtini, hurricane, screwdriver—cocktails have come a long way from their first incarnation in the seventeenth century, when rum punch was everyone’s go-to drink. Originally made of five ingredients, including a spirit, sugar, and spices, “cocktail”...
by Barbara Holland
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
With characteristic elegance and delicious wit, Barbara Holland, ("a national treasure,"-Philadelphia Inquirer) celebrates the age-old act of drinking in this gimlet-eyed survey of man's relationship with booze, since the joyful discovery, ten thousand years ago, of fermented fruits and grains. In...
Is This Bottle Corked?
The Secret Life of Wine
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
We’ve all come across those suave, confident, and all-so-knowing books that tell us precisely what to drink with which dish, how to swirl, sniff, slosh, and pronounce on our wine, and, above all, how to impress our friends and business associates with our expertise.
Well, this is not one...
by Steven Rinella
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
In the range wars of the twenty-first century, Steven Rinella, host of The Travel Channels The Wild Within, writes, the cattle rustler runs Ponzi schemes and the lawman drives an SUV. Heres what happens when Rinella joins the new posse.
Le Cuisinier parisien
ou L'art de la cuisine française au dix-neuvième siècle
Language: French
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Extrait : "Depuis que j'ai publié mon Pâtissier royal parisien, dont deux parties ont été séparées pour former ce nouveau traité, j'ai de beaucoup augmenté et embelli cette intéressante partie du froid, par de nouvelles entrées dont l'élégance atteste le goût du jour."À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS...
Made With Love
The Meals On Wheels Family Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Recipes and personal stories from dozens of celebrities including Martha Stewart, Suzanne Somers, Al Roker, and more!
Celebrating the importance of family, Made With Love: The Meals On Wheels Family Cookbook includes recipes from the tables of well-known actors, chefs, writers, and other celebrities—along...
by Janet A. Zimmerman
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
One woman's obsession with the love child of the grilled cheese sandwich and the hamburger, with a nod to first jobs, bad dates, Thousand Island dressing, and salesmen.
The Culinarians
Lives and Careers from the First Age of American Fine Dining
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
He presided over Virginia’s great political barbeques for the last half of the nineteenth century, taught the young Prince of Wales to crave mint juleps in 1859, catered to Virginia’s mountain spas, and fed two generations of Richmond epicures with terrapin and turkey.
This fascinating culinarian...
Southern Spirits
Four Hundred Years of Drinking in the American South, with Recipes
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
A captivating narrative history that traces liquor, beer, and wine drinking in the American South, including 40 cocktail recipes.
Ask almost anyone to name a uniquely Southern drink, and bourbon and mint juleps--perhaps moonshine--are about the only beverages that come up. But what about rye...
by Barry Estabrook
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
**A Splendid Table Staff Book Pick of the Year
"Estabrook, a reporter of iron constitution and persistence, has dug deep into the truth about the American pork industry without losing his sense of humor and humanity." —Christopher Kimball, Wall Street Journal**
In Pig Tales,...
Roast Beef on Frogs' Legs
An Englishman's Encounters with the French
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
A word or two with the world’s greatest mime, Marcel Marceau? A chat with Brigitte Bardot? Insights from France’s top business leaders – or from British ex-patriots beating the French at their own wine-making or gastronomic games? In a series of highly-entertaining and stylish photo-essays,...
Chocolate
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Chocolate layer cake. Fudge brownies. Chocolate chip cookies. Boxes of chocolate truffles. Cups of cocoa. Hot fudge sundaes. Chocolate is synonymous with our cultural sweet tooth, our restaurant dessert menus, and our idea of indulgence. Chocolate is adored around the world and has been since the...
Lunch
A History
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Can you be a good mother without packing a cute bento box for your child? Should lunch always be followed by a nap? Is lunch a place to demonstrate democracy or hierarchy? These questions and more are considered in Lunch: a History. This six-continent survey of the history, customs, and representations...
by Bruce Kraig, Patty Carroll
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Whether you call them franks, wieners, or red hots, hot dogs are as American as apple pie, but how did these little links become icons of American culture? Man Bites Dog explores the transformation of hot dogs from unassuming street fare to paradigms of regional expression, social mobility, and democracy....