Food Writing category: 1790 books
Joy Fit Club
Cookbook, Diet Plan & Inspiration
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
A new book from Joy Bauer based on her wildly popular "Joy Fit Club" segments on the "Today" show
Joy Bauer, the long-time on-air diet and nutrition expert for the "Today" show, regularly tells the personal stories of people who have lost 100 pounds or more using...
The Inn at Little Washington Cookbook
A Consuming Passion
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011
This cookbook is the distillation of a life's work by a self-taught American chef who learned to cook by reading cookbooks and went on to become one of the world's most renowned chefs. O'Connell began his career with a catering business in an old farmhouse, cooking on a wood stove with an electric...
Oh Come All Ye Tasteful
The Foodie's Guide to a Millionaire's Christmas Feast
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Who's for truffled turkey, brussels sprout petit fours, and reindeer nibbles? Dine like a millionaire with this over-the-top and hilariously funny but informative guide to the festive season.
What's that you say? A turkey is a turkey. Of course it is, but that dry over-cooked bird will soar...
Pudding
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Pudding usually brings to mind flavors like chocolate, vanilla, and tapioca, but prepackaged pudding cups don’t even scratch the surface of global pudding varieties—the term can denote dishes containing candied fruits and nuts or even frugal blends of little more than flour and suet. Pudding:...
by Kenelm Digby
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
Digby was a natural writer, as entertaining as instructive. Many of the recipes are for drinks, particularly of meads or metheglins, but the culinary material provides a remarkable conspectus of accepted practice among court circles in Restoration England, with extra details supplied from Digby's...
by Andrew Dalby
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
You’ve heard it from doctors, nutritionists, and your mom: breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It’s also one of the most diverse, varying greatly from family to family and region to region, even while individuals tend to eat the same thing every day. While Americans traditionally...
The History of Tea and TeaTimes
As Seen in Books
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2009
An engaging historical survey of tea in literature from ancient China to today.
The History of Tea focuses on tea and tea time in books, plays, and poems. Whether used for flirtation or a reason to bring key characters together, this delightful book explores our relationship with tea through...
The Reducetarian Solution
How the Surprisingly Simple Act of Reducing the Amount of Meat in Your Diet Can Transform Your Health and the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
Brian Kateman coined the term "Reducetarian"—a person who is deliberately reducing his or her consumption of meat—and a global movement was born. In this book, Kateman, the founder of the Reducetarian Foundation, presents more than 70 original essays from influential thinkers on how the simple...
The Sommelier's Atlas of Taste
A Field Guide to the Great Wines of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
**Winner of the prestigious André Simon Drink Book Award
The first definitive reference book to describe, region-by-region, how the great wines of Europe should taste. This will be the go-to guide for aspiring sommeliers, wine aficionados who want to improve their blind tasting skills, and...
by John O'Connell
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
**At once familiar and exotic, spices are rare things, comforting us in favorite dishes while evoking far-flung countries, Arabian souks, colonial conquests and vast fortunes. John O'Connell introduces us to spices and their unique properties, both medical and magical, alongside the fascinating...
Real Pigs
Shifting Values in the Field of Local Pork
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
In addition to being one of the United States' largest pork producers, North Carolina is home to a developing niche market of pasture-raised pork. In Real Pigs Brad Weiss traces the desire for "authentic" local foods in the Piedmont region of central North Carolina as he follows farmers, butchers,...
Joe
The Coffee Book
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
This fresh new release is a beautiful, hip guide to the world of coffee brought to you by New York City’s popular connoisseur coffee chain, Joe. Written from the point of view of owners (and siblings) Jonathan and Gabrielle Rubinstein, the reader is welcomed into the tight-knit international specialty...
by Philip Chia
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
The Singapore Heritage Cookbook series documents and preserves the cultural and culinary heritage of the different ethnic groups in Singapore through recipes passed down from generation to generation.Each book is made up of two parts: An introduction that provides an overview of the history and culture...
by Colonel Arthur Robert Kenney-Herbert 'Wyvern'
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Colonel Wyvern, stationed with the army in Madras during the height of British imperial rule, opened a cookery school upon his return to England and was a passionate enthusiast for both European and Indian cuisine. In these vivid, common-sense and entertaining writings, he gives advice on re-creating...