Essays & Narratives

“[A] smart yet tender tale. . . . Sometimes heartbreaking, often hilarious . . . one of the finest food memoirs of recent years.” - The New York Times Book ReviewFor a woman raised by a weight-obsessed mother and a father who rebelled by sneaking his...

Sirio Maccioni is a living legend, a restaurateur extraordinaire who has wined and dined high society in New York for nearly half a century. Along the way, he helped launch the careers of many illustrious chefs - David Bouley, Daniel Boulud, and Jacques...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805090239Author Jay RaynerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

In the blink of an eye, Bob Spitz turned fifty, finished an eight-year book project and a fourteen-year marriage, had his heart stolen and broken on the rebound, and sought salvation the only way he knew how. He fled to Europe, where he hopscotched among...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374531430Author John ThorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint North Point PressPublisher North Point PressWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

"As reassuring as a big bowl of buttery mashed potatoes...a delicious read." --Library Journal What and how do American families really eat? Bonny Wolf writes about the great regional and family food traditions in this country--birthday cake...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061241239Author Dorothy HamiltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595159505Author Martha MelahnFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm

Memorable moments with food-collected by "one of the best of the young food writers" (Jeffrey Steingarten, Vogue food critic). New York Times Magazine food editor Amanda Hesser has showcased the food-inspired recollections of some of America's leading...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312531034Author Tom Parker BowlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156006231Author Mark WinegardnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 214mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060984427Author Lee Michael WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060885908Author Ian JackmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 233mm *...

Perennially viewed as both a utopian land of abundant resources and a fallen nation of consummate consumers, North America has provided a fertile setting for the development of distinctive foodways reflecting the diverse visions of life in the United...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985493967Author David Norton StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Fry Pots PublishingPublisher Fry Pots PublishingWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm)...

The hungrily awaited sixth volume in the Cornbread Nation series tells the story of the American South-circa now-through the prism of its food and the people who grow, make, serve, and eat it. The modern South serves up a groaning board of international...

This new collection in the Southern Foodways Alliance's popular series serves up a fifty-three-course celebration of southern foods, southern cooking, and the people and traditions behind them. Editors Dale Volberg Reed and John Shelton Reed have combed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743267083Author Mrs Liz SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615925660Author Daphne SimpkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Quotidian BooksPublisher Quotidian BooksWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615627038Author David Norton StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Fry Pots PublishingPublisher Fry Pots PublishingWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578504995Author Publishing For CommunityFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Publishing for CommunityPublisher Publishing for CommunityWeight(grams) 133g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547520353Author Melanie RehakFormat PaperbackPage Count 275Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374536886Author Jr Roy BlountFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375759963Author Calvin TrillinFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478015208Author Anita MannurFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Duke University PressPublisher Duke University PressWeight(grams) 152g

In Profiles from the Kitchen, Charles A. Baker-Clark offers a collection of portraits of well-known culinary figures who have worked in different ways to shape our relationship with food. Despite their diverse personalities, backgrounds, and interests,...

Culinary Tourism is the first book to consider food as both a destination and a means for tourism. The book's contributors examine the many intersections of food, culture and tourism in public and commercial contexts, in private and domestic settings,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903018477Author Richard HoskingFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint Prospect BooksPublisher Prospect Books

Each year, the United States legally resettles tens of thousands of refugees who have fled their homelands. Refugees, unlike economic migrants, are forced to leave their countries of origin or are driven out by violence or persecution. As these...

New York is hailed as one of the world's "food capitals" but the history of food-making in the city has been mostly lost. Since the establishment of the first Dutch brewery, the commerce and culture of food enriched New York and promoted its influence on...

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...

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

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

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...

In every cook's kitchen, there is a treasured tool: a workhorse utensil, go-to gadget, or a family heirloom with its own background story and the lofty standing of being a cook's most-prized possession. These beloved items say as much...

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...

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...