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North American Guild of Beer Writer Award Recipient Goose Island opened as a family-owned Chicago brewpub in the late 1980s, and it soon became one of the most inventive breweries in the world. In the golden age of light, bland and cheap beers, John...

"Anyone with even the vaguest interest in food (or other people's houses generally) should order Carrie Solomon and Adrian Moore's newly released Chefs' Fridges."-British Vogue"If you've ever wondered what your favorite chef eats at home, now's your...

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)...

The Wisdom of the Chinese Kitchen, with its 150 recipes culled from a lifetime of family meals and culinary instruction, is much more than a cookbook.The Wisdom of the Chinese Kitchen is a daughter's tribute-a collection of personal memories of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547336893Author Matthew Amster-BurtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Cengage Learning, IncWeight(grams)...

A compelling first-hand look at one of today's most fascinating food trends - the practice of cooking with and eating insects The concept of eating insects has taken off in recent years in the West, with media coverage ranging from sensationalist...

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...

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 *...

A provocative collection of food's most distinctive female voices and subjects Women on Food unites the radical, diverging female voices of the food industry in this urgent collection of essays, interviews, questionnaires, illustrations, quotes,...

While other chefs paid dues on restaurant lines and at cooking schools, Brooks Headley was in the back of a tour van as a drummer in much-loved punk bands that never made a penny. Headley creates unorthodox recipes that echo his unconventional...

Ayesha Curry knows what it's like to have so much on your plate you can barely think about dinner. But she also knows that finding balance between work and family life starts with gathering around the table to enjoy a home-cooked meal.The Full Plate...

An exploration into the psychology of eating in today's unprecedented first world pantry of abundance, access and excess, Why You Eat What You Eat examines the sensory, psychological, neuroscientific and physiological factors that influence our eating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767908528Author Victoria Abbott RiccardiFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday DelPublisher Broadway Books...

Join the conversation . . .With more than one hundred women restaurateurs, activists, food writers, professional chefs, and home cooks-all of whom are changing the world of food. Featuring essays, profiles, recipes, and more, Why We Cook is curated and...

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 9780063079540Author Nigella LawsonFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 1134gDimensions(mm) 257mm *...

The Land Where Lemons Grow is the sweeping story of Italy's cultural history told through the history of its citrus crops. From the early migration of citrus from the foothills of the Himalayas to Italy's shores to the persistent role of unique crops...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439181881Author Tamar AdlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812976410Author David RemnickFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 629gDimensions(mm) 231mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865473928Author M. F. K. FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint North Point PressPublisher North Point Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374524173Author Calvin TrillinFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

Immigrants have left their mark on the great melting pot of American cuisine, and they have continued working hard to keep America's kitchens running, even during times of crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic. For some immigrant cooks, the pandemic brought...

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...

Becoming a Chef, Revised is the updated and expanded edition of the 1996 James Beard Foundation Award for Best Writing on Food, and reflects all the most recent advances made in the culinary industry. It features the career advice of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952832505Author Jamie MandelFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint Jamie MandelPublisher Jamie MandelWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm * 8mm

From National Book Award–nominee Iliana Regan, a new memoir of her life and heritage as a forager, spanning her ancestry in Eastern Europe, her childhood in rural Indiana, and her new life set in the remote forests of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375759925Author Gourmet Magazine EditorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

This sequel to the best-selling What Einstein Told His Cook continues Bob Wolke's investigations into the science behind our foods-from the farm or factory to the market, and through the kitchen to the table. In response to ongoing questions from the...

Touching on topics like fear, worry, dissatisfaction, anxiety, and body image, Alyssa Bethke walks you through issues that rob you of your joy and helps you recognize them for what they are: distractions.With all of its expectations and contradictions,...

From the sacred fudge served to India's gods to the ephemeral baklava of Istanbul's harems, the towering sugar creations of Renaissance Italy, and the exotically scented macarons of twenty-first century Paris, the world's confectionary arts have not only...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156030977Author Stefan GatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Harvest PublicationsPublisher Harvest PublicationsWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm)...

How we eat, farm and shop for food is not only a matter of taste. Our choices regarding what we eat involve every essential aspect of our human nature: the animal, the sensuous, the social, the cultural, the creative, the emotional and the intellectual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788875703929Author Marti GuixeFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint CorrainiPublisher Corraini

A life-changing journey intertwining high romance, gastronomy, and an unsurpassable joie de vivre for readers of Julie and Julia and My Paris Kitchen. Susan's life would never be the same after she meets Peter Buckley. A man who was larger than life,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611454659Author Trevor WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 386g

Bob Shacochis, author of the critically acclaimed novel The Woman Who Lost Her Soul, and National Book Award winning-author of such books as Swimming in the Volcano, Easy in the Islands, and The Next New World, hones his nonfiction skills in this tour de...

Certified Master Chef Roland G. Henin has been our nation's top culinary mentor for the past fifty years, training such prestigious chefs as Chef Thomas Keller of French Laundry and Per Se and Certified Master Chef Ron DeSantis. For the first time, his...

Food -- its smells, textures, colors, flavors, and rituals -- is tied intrinsically to place. This heartwarming, surprising, and sumptuous collection of stories reveals our obsession with how food nourishes and sustains us, teaches us about other...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802126467Author Jim HarrisonFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

"The book is a romp from cover to cover-and, just like a great meal, left me ready for more." -Karen Shimizu, Executive Editor, Food & WineWhen Leslie Karst learned that her offer to cook dinner for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her...