Essays & Narratives

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307390370Author Jean Anthelme Brillat-SavarinFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

"If you're looking for a dose of wonder in your reading life, I recommend this beautiful book about the magic of fig trees."-Book Riot Over millions of years, fig trees have shaped our world, influenced our evolution, nourished our bodies and fed our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615196630Author Storm GarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint The Experiment LLCPublisher The Experiment LLCWeight(grams) 800gDimensions(mm) 241mm...

Guild of Food Writer's Awards, Highly Commended in 'First Book' category (2022)Tools For Food explores the history of 250 of our most-loved and intriguing kitchen items and how they've changed the way we live. From 12th century Mongolian fire pots, to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451495693Author Ryan JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Clarkson PotterPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale

With recipe-driven blogs, cookbooks, and endless foodie websites on the rise, food writing is ever in demand--and it with the ongoing rise of social media platforms, it is ever evolving. That said, good writing is always good writing. In this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062973269Author Mina StoneFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Harper WavePublisher Harper WaveWeight(grams) 646g

A brilliantly twisty psychological thriller for fans of I LET YOU GO and BEHIND CLOSED DOORS How far would you go to create the perfect life? Gracie Dwyer has it all: the handsome husband, the adorable child, the beautiful home and...

Knowledge Is Power Part cookbook. Part manifesto. Created with big Bronx energy, Black Power Kitchen combines 75 mostly plant-based, layered-with-flavor recipes with immersive storytelling, diverse voices, and striking images and photographs that...

'There is more history in a bowl of pasta than in the Colosseum', writes Andreas Viestad in Dinner in Rome. From the table of a classic Roman restaurant, Viestad takes us on a fascinating culinary exploration of The Eternal City, and global civilization...

Winner, 2019 IACP Award for Best Book of the Year in Food MattersNamed one of the Best Food Books of the Year by The New Yorker, Smithsonian, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, and moreMAD Dispatches: Furthering Our Ideas About Food Good food is the common...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607747796Author Gary ReganFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 448gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Winner, James Beard Award for Best Book of the Year, International (2017) Winner, IACP Award for Best Cookbook of the Year in Culinary Travel (2017) Named a Best Cookbook of the Year by The Boston Globe, Food & Wine, The Los Angeles Times, The New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Midwest Bookseller's Choice Awards 2017.Book InformationISBN 9780307954916Author Amy ThielenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Clarkson PotterPublisher...

"One of the most enduring myths on the Nigerian Femme Fatale - mammy-water, 'winch' or husband-snatcher - has to do with the cooking of fish stew ...A woman can do what she likes with a man when she knows how to satisfy his appetite for food...

Los Angeles Times Best Cookbooks 2020 Saveur Magazine "Favorite Cookbook to Gift" Esquire Magazine Best Cookbooks of 2020 "The book weaves in reflections on art, religion, culture, music, and more, so even if you're not an epicure, there's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804186414Author Tyler KordFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

"Wolke, longtime professor of chemistry and author of the Washington Post column Food 101, turns his hand to a Cecil Adams style compendium of questions and answers on food chemistry. Is there really a difference between supermarket and sea salt? How is...

Naomi Duguid, who's taken food lovers to many corners of the globe, now invites readers and cooks on a very different journey--a deep dive into the miracle of salt and its essential role in preserving, fermenting, and transforming food. Learn age-old...

Discover how eating well affects mental and physical health: vegan, veggie or carnivore, this book is for you! Based on ground-breaking new research, Happy Food For Life extends the conversation around gut health and its effect on our mental and...

'Inspires you to spoil yourself.' - Claudia Roden "Cooking for yourself is, I know now, nothing more or less than an exercise in loving yourself." Solo Food is the first cookbook that celebrates cooking for yourself. Many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592406975Author Grant AchatzFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Gotham BooksWeight(grams) 697gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 28mm

Ketchup began as a fermented fish sauce from China's Fujian province: ke for fermented fish, tchup for sauce. The British were the first to add tomatoes to their anchovy "catsup" in 1817. A century later, Heinz changed the spelling again-and added sugar...

Did you know that the Cornish pasty was invented to protect tin miners from arsenic poisoning, or that the word 'salary' comes from Roman soldiers being paid their wages in salt? Why do we eat goose (or turkey) at Christmas? Is the Scotch egg actually...

There are wine encyclopedias, bibles, and guides this is not one of those books. It doesn t contain everything, just the really important stuff: the truly key wines, grapes, regions; tips about wine buying, aging, and storage; and useful explanations...

"The best wine book I read this year was not about wine. It was about cider"--Eric Asimov, New York Times, on Uncultivated Today, food is being reconsidered. It's a front-and-center topic in everything from politics to art, from science to economics...

The place was Patmos, the tiny Greek island where St.John received the apocalyptic vision recorded in the Book of Revelations and Tom Stone wrote his first novel. The woman was a French painter, his wife, Danielle. The dream was to return there for one...

In Cookish, Christopher Kimball and his team of cooks and editors harness the most powerful cooking principles from around the world to create 200 of the simplest, most delicious recipes ever created. These recipes, most with six or fewer ingredients...

Supper for one? Whether you're a career girl, bedsitter or bachelor, this vintage 1950s cookery gem introduced by Bee Wilson is 'wonderful ... funny and full of charm' (India Knight) with 'lots of ideas worth nicking' (Rachel Cooke).The Career Woman (who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640090835Author M. F. K. FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 153mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984859761Author Illyanna MaisonetFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525657743Author Michelle ZaunerFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 425gDimensions(mm) 218mm *...

'Brilliant and original ... From slow feasts to fast food, Linford shows that, no matter what we are cooking, time is of the essence' - Bee Wilson, Sunday TimesThe Missing Ingredient is about what makes good food, and the first book to consider the ...

This project is a carefully crafted collection of lunch memories, universal in its appeal and nostalgia. Some of the stand-out stories are about the kids who desperately wanted the cafeteria offerings instead of their own home-packed sacks, and celebrity...

Hot dogs. Poor people created them. Rich people found a way to charge fifteen dollars for them. They're high culture, they're low culture, they're sports food, they're hangover food, and they're deeply American, despite having no basis whatsoever in...

'One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.' - Virginia Woolf.The definition of 'healthy eating' has been chewed up, spat out and re-digested enough times to make Joe Public give up and seek out their nearest branch of...

Great Wines and Great Writers are a Wonderful Blend"Guides to the wide world of wine are many but this is the first book on the market to pair books with wine by an author who is a preeminent expert on both." -Thriftbooks.com#1 Best Seller in Wine &...

"Olmsted makes you insanely hungry and steaming mad--a must-read for anyone who cares deeply about the safety of our food and the welfare of our planet." -Steven Raichlen, author of the Barbecue! Bible series"The world is full of delicious, lovingly...

"I could not have written A Cook's Tour without this book. There is so much I would have missed. So dig in. Enjoy...Eat. Eat adventurously. Miss nothing. It's all here in these pages." -From the Foreword by Anthony BourdainSit down for a meal with the...

A delicious anthology of classic food writing to satisfy every palate, this gorgeous book will delight food lovers everywhere.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning pocket size classics. These beautiful books make perfect gifts...