Essays & Narratives

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912356607Author Claire ChambersFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Beacon Books and Media LtdPublisher Beacon Books and Media LtdWeight(grams)...

Eating Words gathers food writing of literary distinction and historical sweep into one splendid volume. Beginning with the taboos of the Old Testament and the tastes of ancient Rome, and including travel essays, polemics, memoirs and poems, the book is...

Eating Words gathers food writing of literary distinction and historical sweep into one splendid volume. Beginning with the taboos of the Old Testament and the tastes of ancient Rome, and including travel essays, polemics, memoirs and poems, the book is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307347336Author Alisa SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Potter StylePublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 212gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm...

A Pulitzer prize-finalist peels back the curtain on an unexplored part of Julia Child's life-the formidable team of six she collaborated with to shape her legendary career.Julia Child's monumental Mastering the Art of French Cooking and iconic television...

A collection of the year's top food writing, selected by guest editor Sohla El-Waylly and series editor Silvia Killingsworth. Culinary creator, writer and community advocate, Sohla El-Waylly selects the best twenty articles published in 2021 that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506482231Author Meghan Murphy-GillFormat HardbackPage Count 239Imprint Broadleaf BooksPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

Living Within the Wild features over 100 original recipes, accompanied by personal stories and stunning photographs, to illustrate the lives of one Alaska family that has learned to live well amidst the intense but scenic backcountry of Alaska.James...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063046429Author Laurie ColwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 205mm *...

Ask any self-respecting Louisianan who makes the best gumbo and the answer is universal: "Momma." The product of a melting pot of culinary influences, gumbo, in fact, reflects the diversity of the people who cooked it up: French aristocrats, West...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903155189Author Agnes JekyllFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Persephone Books LtdPublisher Persephone Books LtdDimensions(mm) 194mm * 140mm * 22mm

In Intimate Eating Anita Mannur examines how notions of the culinary can create new forms of kinship, intimacy, and social and political belonging. Drawing on critical ethnic studies and queer studies, Mannur traces the ways in which people of color,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393357745Author Fuchsia DunlopFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams)...

Home Works - A Cooking Book: Recipes for Organising with Art and Domestic Work, expands on cooking with art and food as a process for coming together and building collectivity. The book highlights the art and politics of eating together through a number...

Properly labeled and exquisitely made Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) is one of life's greatest delights. With its great taste and health benefits, high quality olive oil empowers habitual consumers to have a higher-standard of culinary experience. Their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250241399Author Matt LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Holt McDougalPublisher Holt McDougalWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 147mm * 20mm

From the author of Away with Words, a deeply hilarious and unexpectedly insightful deep-dive into a cultural and culinary phenomenon: cheese."Who knew it was possible to enjoy reading about cheese as much as eating it? Remarkably entertaining, deeply...

Food and attitudes toward it were transformed in Renaissance Europe. The period between 1300 and 1600 saw the discovery of the New World and the cultivation of new foodstuffs, as well as the efflorescence of culinary literature in European courts and...

Conversations Behind the Kitchen Door is Emmanuel Laroche's collection of dialogues with award-winning chefs from various backgrounds and cultures, sharing their personal experiences of where and why food culture is where it is today.Revisiting his...

It seems that everyone today is fascinated by food. Literature and popular culture prove it. We face an ever-expanding pantry of culinary poems, memoirs, histories and travelogues, not to mention polemics debating the politics of the table, analysing the...

Though the Roaring Twenties call to mind images of flappers dancing the Charleston and gangsters dispensing moonshine in back rooms, Sylvia Lovegren here playfully reminds us what these characters ate for dinner: Banana and Popcorn Salad. Like fashions...

Nothing is more ordinary than the kitchen, and yet it is the perfect place to explore who we are and what we are capable of. In Finding Yourself in the Kitchen, Dana Velden asks readers to seek deeper meaning in this space: What are we hungry for and how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316069885Author Jonathan Safran FoerFormat PaperbackPage Count 341Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 320gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812981629Author Ruth ReichlFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606999769Author Alexander TherouxFormat HardbackPage Count 784Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 TASTE CANADA AWARD FOR CULINARY NARRATIVESFeatured on "The Sunday Magazine" on CBC RadioNearly every culture has a variation on the dumpling: histories, treatises, family legends, and recipes about the world's favorite lump of...

From favorite cookbook author Julia Turshen comes this practical and inspiring handbook for political activism-with recipes. As the millions who marched in January 2017 demonstrated, activism is the new normal. When people search for ways to resist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316429788Author Michael MinaFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint VoraciousPublisher VoraciousWeight(grams) 1202gDimensions(mm) 274mm * 193mm * 30mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865473362Author M. F. K. FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint North Point PressPublisher North Point Press

Culinary historian Anne Willan "has melded her passions for culinary history, writing, and teaching into her fascinating new book" (Chicago Tribune) that traces the origins of American cooking through profiles of twelve influential women-from Hannah...

Cuisine and Culture presents a multicultural and multiethnic approach that draws connections between major historical events and how and why these events affected and defined the culinary traditions of different societies. Witty and engaging, Civitello...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909248557Author Mark McWilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Prospect BooksPublisher Prospect Books

"I love Matt and Shane and the rest of the gang at Pig Beach. It's not Father's Day for me and my family if I'm not chowing down on some Pig Beach BBQ. Now, with this book, every day can be a Pig Beach Father's Day. You're welcome, America."-Al Roker,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of James Beard Foundation Book Awards (Hall of Fame) 2012.Book InformationISBN 9780307474414Author Laurie ColwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House...

Like your favourite local grocery store, with its sushi bar, fresh baked goods, and maybe a very obliging butcher, Best Food Writing offers a bounty of everything in one place. For seventeen years, Holly Hughes has delved into piles of magazines and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943741090Author Peter BellchambersFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Korongo BooksPublisher Korongo BooksWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312359577Author Julia ReedFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

Reel Food is the first book devoted to food as a vibrant and evocative element of film, featuring original essays by major food studies scholars, among them Carole Counihan and Michael Ashkenazi. This collection reads various films through their uses of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062242419Author Editors of Garden and GunFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593761653Author M. F. K. FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Shoemaker & Hoard, Div of Avalon Publishing Group IncPublisher...