Essays & Narratives

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596912878Author Melanie DuneaFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PlcPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 1638g

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 9780767908528Author Victoria Abbott RiccardiFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday DelPublisher Broadway Books...

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...

Winner, 2019 James Beard Award for Best Book of the Year in WritingFinalist, 2019 IACP Award, Literary Food WritingNamed a Best Food Book of the Year by the Boston Globe, Smithsonian, BookRiot, and more Semifinalist, Goodreads Choice Awards "Thoughtful,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781699209301Author Vanessa KittleFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

"These are stories about culture," writes J. Kenji Lopez-Alt in his introduction. "About how food shapes people, neighbourhoods, and history." This year's Best American Food Writing captures the food industry at a critical moment in history - from the...

*WINNER OF THE JEWISH BOOK COUNCIL'S NATAN NOTABLE BOOK AWARD*Experience the Talmud in a fresh way with recipes and stories that nourish the body and spirit.Feeding the Women of the Talmud, Feeding Ourselves produces true food for thought by retelling...

American food is the story of mash-ups. Immigrants arrive, cultures collide, and out of the push-pull come exciting new dishes and flavours. But for Edward Lee, who, like Anthony Bourdain or Gabrielle Hamilton, is as much a writer as he is a chef, that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525533542Author Ed LevineFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

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...

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...

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...

"Feasting Wild is indeed a feast-a memorable, genre-defying work that blends anthropology and adventure, love and loss." -Elizabeth Kolbert, New York Times-bestselling author of The Sixth Extinction A writer and anthropologist searches for...

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 9781903018538Author WyvernFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Prospect BooksPublisher Prospect Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781475145519Author Jennifer G SchnellmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Enjoy a fun and delicious journey through the Caribbean in this vibrant collection of gourmet and home-style recipes. Hugh Sinclair and Cynthia Verna, known as "Chef Irie" and "Chef Thia" on their television show Taste the Islands,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681341972Author Sun Yung ShinFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Minnesota Historical Society PressPublisher Minnesota Historical Society...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576877883Author Natalie Eve GarrettFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780912777580Author Joey GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review PressWeight(grams) 431g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984861696Author Nigel SlaterFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/RodaleWeight(grams) 1474g

Follow a food trail and you'll find yourself crisscrossing oceans. Join Nina Mukerjee Furstenau in Green Chili and Other Impostors as she picks through lost tastes with recipes as codes to everything from political resistance to comfort food and much...

Recipes from a very small kitchen by a man with a very large talent.Nobody better embodies the present-day mantra "Eat real food in season" than David Tanis, one of the most original voices in American cooking. For more than a quarter-century, Tanis has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883283438Author Richard OlneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 415Imprint Brick Tower PressPublisher Brick Tower PressWeight(grams) 688g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781328662255Author Silvia KillingsworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

A two-volume culinary memoir features some of the author's favorite recipes.About the AuthorNicolas Freeling became famous for his crime novels, especially his Van der Valk series. His novels have both popular and critical appeal and received awards...

Far more than simply a discussion of food, chefs and recipes, in Ten Restaurants That Changed America Paul Freedman creates a social history, examining how restaurants came to reflect class, gender, assimilation, mass consumption and culture in America...

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...

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 9781984856203Author Mashama BaileyFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Lorena Jones BooksPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale

For Bryan Koh, Milkier Pigs & Violet Gold, marked his first foray into the world of cookbook publishing. It was the first Filipino cookbook written by a foreigner, inspired by the food he had enjoyed during his childhood and that which he encountered on...

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 9780802144935Author Margaret VisserFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156033268Author Alice FeiringFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Culinary historian Anne Willan traces the origins of American cooking through profiles of twelve essential women cookbook writers-from Hannah Woolley in the mid-1600s to Fannie Farmer, Julia Child, and Alice Waters-highlighting their key historical...

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...