Essays & Narratives

Women's relationships with food are passionate and obsessive, embracing and comforting, complex and frustrating. This savoury sampling of stories - by some of the best writers in and out of the food and travel fields - journeys to the heart of these...

"My sister is pregnant with a Lemon this week, Week 14, and this is amusing. My mother's uterine tumor, the size of a cabbage, is Week 30, and this is terrifying."When her mother is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, Karen Babine-a cook, collector of...

A beautifully written tribute to the people who teach us to cook and guide our hands in the kitchen, by a founding editor of Saveur. "[The book features] many of the culinary names [Kalins] worked with . . . like Colman Andrews, Marcella Hazan,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506484112Author Derrick WestonFormat HardbackPage Count 219Imprint Broadleaf BooksPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807013045Author Debra SparkFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Most people don't expect wood to flavor their food beyond the barbecue, if at all, and gastronomists rarely discuss the significance that wood has on ultimate taste. But trees and wood have a far greater influence over our plate and palate than you...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781468314854Author Derek DellingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 281Imprint Harry N. AbramsPublisher Harry N. AbramsWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596913608Author Anthony BourdainFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Bloomsbury USAPublisher Bloomsbury USAWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780864929617Author Jan WongFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Goose Lane EditionsPublisher Goose Lane EditionsWeight(grams) 567g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804186544Author Mark BittmanFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Clarkson PotterPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm) 242mm *...

Recipe for Disaster is a collection of stories and recipes-from a veritable who's who from the worlds of food, music, art, literature, activism, fashion, and pop culture-about finding comfort in food, surviving the unthinkable, and living to tell about...

The chefs: 12 of the 37 were nominated for 2016 James Beard Awards while a majority of the others are icons like Chris Kimball, Jody Adams, Anne Willan, Virginia Willis, and Norman Van Aiken. Features never-before shared backstories that reveal a...

The French invented the restaurant in the late eighteenth century. Not long after, they invented gastronomy, the modern art of eating well: English society discovered the French chef and the English-speaking world has never been the same. This delicious...

It was when traveling on assignment in India that journalist Stephen Henderson first learned of soup kitchens operated by Sikh houses of worship (or gurudwaras). After volunteering for a week at the Gurudwara Bangla Sahib in Delhi-which feeds 20,000 men,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807010860Author Debra SparkFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

From fish and fiddleheads to salmonberries and Spam, Alaskan cuisine spans the two extremes of locally abundant wild foods and shelf-stable ingredients produced thousands of miles away. As immigration shapes Anchorage into one of the most ethnically...

Chances are you weren't invited to the wedding of Grace Kelley and Prince Ranier, or to Truman Capote's famous "Black and White" ball at the Plaza Hotel. But now you can experience those and other legendary celebrations in your own home, as...

It was when traveling on assignment in India that journalist Stephen Henderson first learned of soup kitchens operated by Sikh houses of worship (or gurudwaras). After volunteering for a week at the Gurudwara Bangla Sahib in Delhi - which feeds 20,000...

In an age of highly processed foods and more and more people with food allergies and intolerances, interest in local and organic foods and healthy eating is skyrocketing. This is where "Living Off the Land - Ireland's Kitchen" comes in. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903018439Author Richard HoskingFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Prospect BooksPublisher Prospect Books

Winner of the 2020 Gourmand Awards, Translation Section, USA Even the most brilliant minds have to eat. And for some scholars, food preparation is more than just a chore; it's a passion. In this unique culinary memoir and cookbook, renowned cultural...

Have you ever wondered why onions make us cry? Do you believe bananas contain more calories as they ripen and get sweeter? This sequel to the best-selling What Einstein Told His Cook continues Robert L. Wolke's investigations into the science behind our...

A direct sequel to bestselling AN OMLETTE AND A GLASS OF WINE, this anthology contains a selection of Elizabeth David's journalistic and occasional writing as well as material from her files, letters and notes, none of which has appeared in any of her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063370661Author Padma LakshmiImprint HarperAudioPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770417601Author andrea bennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

The restaurant industry is one of the few places in America where workers from lower-class backgrounds can rise to positions of power and prestige. Yet with over 4 million cooks and food preparation workers employed in America’s restaurants, not everyone...

The restaurant industry is one of the few places in America where workers from lower-class backgrounds can rise to positions of power and prestige. Yet with over 4 million cooks and food preparation workers employed in America’s restaurants, not everyone...

An introduction to oysters and their place in our culture and food system—including a quick global history, an account of the current state of oyster farming, and a glimpse of the promising environmental solutions oyster farming offers in this age of...

A collection of the year’s top food and travel writing, selected by the trailblazing New York Times bestselling author and Emmy-nominated host of Taste the Nation and Top Chef Padma Lakshmi.Author and host Padma Lakshmi selects the best twenty articles...

“A thorough, lively work of on-the-ground reportage. ... Friedman shares a remarkable story." —Wall Street JournalAcclaimed “chef writer” Andrew Friedman introduces readers to all the people and processes that come together in a single restaurant dish,...

The cookbook genre is highly conventional with an orientation toward celebration and success. From glossy photographs to heartwarming stories and adjective-rich ingredient lists, their tradition primes readers for pleasure. Yet the overarching narrative...

The cookbook genre is highly conventional with an orientation toward celebration and success. From glossy photographs to heartwarming stories and adjective-rich ingredient lists, their tradition primes readers for pleasure. Yet the overarching narrative...