Food Writing category: 1790 books

Imagine a book that transports kids thousands of miles away with the fresh, healthy dishes of different lands. This book leads little people to explore countries and cuisines to try themselves. Simple recipes, using fresh, healthy and easy-to-source ingredients, with suggested substitutions, will open up different tastes, aromas and cuisines.

I get asked a lot about creatinine; what is it, what causes high creatinine levels, and how to lower it naturally? It’s understandable, creatinine levels are looked upon as the best determining factor of the health of your kidneys, and is routinely tested for and discussed by your doctor. But...

Olio di palma: l’ingrediente della discordia Tra chi decide di boicottarne in toto la produzione e chi mantiene una posizione più moderata, abbiamo deciso di parlarne mettendo a confronto le opinioni di quanti lo utilizzano nell’industria. Per fare il punto sulle tante criticità che accompagnano...

Ingredienti: 6 ardiciocche (carciofi) di Albenga 1 giovane donna che ha paura delle spine 1 scrittrice stravagante 1 cellulare 2 genitori saggi e un po’ pazzi 1 uomo buono, che non ha paura delle spine Preparazione: I carciofi sono buoni, ma il loro cuore è protetto da spine. Anche Michela...

Calling all cheese lovers.  Here's a book for you.  Did you know that cheese making predates recorded history?  The Egyptians and the Romans made cheese, but the Eurpeans are credited with creating the the majority of the modern cheeses that we eat today.  Take this tour of "all...

What in the world could be so extraordinary about pepper that men willingly died for it? If you enlarge your historical horizon a bit, and look back just a few centuries, there is nothing at all bizarre about the obstinacy of those pepper seekers. They were dealing with one of the great motive forces...

Roquefort is a unique product. Anyone can make a cheese with holes in it and call it Swiss. Anyone can mix mold with curdling milk and produce a cheese that he or she can call "blue." But Roquefort is not to be confused with ordinary blue cheese. For one, it is made with ewe's milk, not cow's, and hence...

In 1615 the poet and writer Gervase Markham published an extraordinary handbook for housewives, containing advice on everything from planting herbs to brewing beer, feeding animals to distilling perfume, with recipes for a variety of dishes such as trifle, pancakes and salads (not to mention some...

If you’re seeking something to serve with the main course of your meal, you’ve come to the right place. This volume of “Grandmother’s Cookbook” features fifty different antique recipes for salads and side dishes. All are vintage Victorian, yet easy to make and appetizing. Some, in fact, are so simple and good, you may decide you don’t need a main course at all.

From Papantla in Mexico—“the city that perfumed the world”—to the Indian Ocean islands, Vanilla traces the story of the vanilla plant and its secretive trade. From the golden cups of Aztec emperors to the ice cream dishes of US presidents, vanilla has mystified and tantalized man for...

A Brief Culinary Art History of the Western Chef Avante-Guarde Through the Late 20th Century examines Western cuisine as an art form. The book takes the vantage point of the Chef vanguard from second century AD Rome through the Italian and French Renaissances, modernism, and the emergence of global...

In his time, Leonardo Da Vinci was more famous for producing lavish banquets and spectacular theatrical productions than he was for his art. Ironically, he was a vegetarian who did not partake of the feasts. Da Vinci’s Kitchen is a fascinating account of Italian cuisine from Da Vinci’s Renaissance...

The Wednesday Chef cooks her heart out, finds her way home, and shares her recipes with us It takes courage to turn your life upside down, especially when everyone is telling you how lucky you are. But sometimes what seems right can feel deeply wrong. My Berlin Kitchen tells the story of how...

Tom Stone went to Greece one summer to write a novel -- and stayed twenty-two years. On Patmos, the tiny island where St. John received the apocalyptic visions recorded in the Book of Revelations, he fell in love with Danielle, a beautiful French painter. His novel completed and sold, he decided to...