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How the Other Half Ate: A History of Working-Class Meals at the Turn of the Century by Katherine Leonard Turner 9780520277588
RRP: $32.25$25.27In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, working-class Americans had eating habits that were distinctly shaped by jobs, families, neighborhoods, and the tools, utilities, and size of their kitchens--along with their cultural heritage. How... -
Breadlines Knee-Deep in Wheat: Food Assistance in the Great Depression by Janet Poppendieck 9780520277540
RRP: $38.70$30.04At no time during the Great Depression was the contradiction between agriculture surplus and widespread hunger more wrenchingly graphic than in the government's attempt to raise pork prices through the mass slaughter of miliions of "unripe" little pigs... -
The Chile Pepper in China: A Cultural Biography by Brian R. Dott 9780231195331
RRP: $25.80$20.50Chinese cuisine without chile peppers seems unimaginable. Entranced by the fiery taste, diners worldwide have fallen for Chinese cooking. In China, chiles are everywhere, from dried peppers hanging from eaves to Mao's boast that revolution would be... -
Cheese, Pears, and History in a Proverb by Massimo Montanari 9780231152518
RRP: $25.80$20.50"Do not let the peasant know how good cheese is with pears" goes the old saying. Intrigued by these words and their portent, Massimo Montanari unravels their origin and utility. Perusing archival cookbooks, agricultural and dietary treatises, literary... -
Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America by Frederick Douglass Opie 9780231146388
RRP: $45.15$35.78Frederick Douglass Opie deconstructs and compares the foodways of people of African descent throughout the Americas, interprets the health legacies of black culinary traditions, and explains the concept of soul itself, revealing soul food to be an... -
Eating History: Thirty Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine by Andrew F. Smith 9780231140935
RRP: $21.92$17.38Food expert and celebrated food historian Andrew F. Smith recounts--in delicious detail--the creation of contemporary American cuisine. The diet of the modern American wasn't always as corporate, conglomerated, and corn-rich as it is today, and the style... -
Food, Medicine, and the Quest for Good Health: Nutrition, Medicine, and Culture by Nancy Chen 9780231134842
RRP: $38.70$30.04What we eat, how we eat, where we eat, and when we eat are deeply embedded cultural practices. Eating is also related to how we medicate. The multimillion-dollar diet industry offers advice on how to eat for a better body and longer life, and avoiding... -
Food Fights & Culture Wars: A Secret History of Taste by Tom Nealon 9781468316797
RRP: $25.74$17.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781468316797Author Tom NealonFormat PaperbackPage Count 223Imprint Harry N. AbramsPublisher Harry N. AbramsWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 165mm *... -
The Social History of Bourbon by Gerald Carson 9780813126562
RRP: $23.22$22.81The distinctive beverage of the Western world, bourbon is Kentucky's illustrious gift to the world of spirits. Although the story of American whiskey is recorded in countless lively pages of our nation's history, the place of bourbon in the American... -
San Francisco: A Food Biography by Erica J. Peters 9780759121515
RRP: $61.92$54.24San Francisco is a relatively young city with a well-deserved reputation as a food destination, situated near lush farmland and a busy port. San Francisco's famous restaurant scene has been the subject of books, but the full complexity of the city's... -
Inventing Baby Food: Taste, Health, and the Industrialization of the American Diet by Amy Bentley 9780520277373
RRP: $64.50$50.46Food consumption is a significant and complex social activity - and what a society chooses to feed its children reveals much about its tastes and ideas regarding health. In this groundbreaking historical work, Amy Bentley explores how the invention of... -
Food and Faith in Christian Culture by Ken Albala 9780231149969
RRP: $118.68$92.63Without a uniform dietary code, Christians around the world used food in strikingly different ways, developing widely divergent practices that spread, nurtured, and strengthened their religious beliefs and communities. Featuring never-before published... -
Medieval Tastes: Food, Cooking, and the Table by Massimo Montanari 9780231167864
RRP: $45.15$35.78In his new history of food, acclaimed historian Massimo Montanari traces the development of medieval tastes-both culinary and cultural-from raw materials to market and captures their reflections in today's food trends. Tying the ingredients of our diet... -
Eating History: Thirty Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine by Andrew F. Smith 9780231140928
RRP: $32.25$25.79Food expert and celebrated food historian Andrew F. Smith recounts--in delicious detail--the creation of contemporary American cuisine. The diet of the modern American wasn't always as corporate, conglomerated, and corn-rich as it is today, and the style... -
A History of Cooks and Cooking by Michael Symons 9781903018071
RRP: $25.80$21.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903018071Author Michael SymonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Prospect BooksPublisher Prospect Books -
Celebration: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2011 by Mark McWilliams 9781903018897
RRP: $38.70$31.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903018897Author Mark McWilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Prospect BooksPublisher Prospect Books -
Who's on the Menu Booth Robert 9781909657656
RRP: $12.89$9.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909657656Author Booth RobertFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Bene Factum Publishing LtdPublisher Bene Factum Publishing Ltd -
The Twelve Cakes of Christmas: An evolutionary history, with recipes by Helen Leach 9781877578199
RRP: $23.16$19.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781877578199Author Helen LeachFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Otago University PressPublisher Otago University PressWeight(grams) 620g -
A Taste of Broadway: Food in Musical Theater by Jennifer Packard 9781442267312
RRP: $50.31$46.53Beyond being just fuel for the body, food carries symbolic importance used to define individuals, situations, and places, making it an ideal communication tool. In musical theater, food can be used as a shortcut to tell the audience more about a setting,... -
Urban Foodways and Communication: Ethnographic Studies in Intangible Cultural Food Heritages Around the World by Casey Man Kong Lum 9781442266421
RRP: $123.84$108.33Embedded in the quest for ways to preserve and promote heritage of any kind and, in particular, food heritage, is an appreciation or a sense of an impending loss of a particular way of life - knowledge, skills set, traditions -- deemed vital to the... -
As Long As We Both Shall Eat: A History of Wedding Food and Feasts by Claire Stewart 9781442257139
RRP: $47.73$44.21As Long as we Both Shall Eat is a culinary history of wedding feasts. Examining the various food customs associated with weddings in America and around the world, Claire Stewart not only provides a rich account of the foods most loved and frequently... -
K'Oben: 3,000 Years of the Maya Hearth by Amber M. O'Connor 9781442255258
RRP: $108.36$99.60K'Oben traces the Maya kitchen and its associated hardware, ingredients, and cooking styles from the earliest times for which we have archaeological evidence through today's culinary tourism in the area. It focuses not only on what was eaten and how it... -
American Home Cooking: A Popular History by Tim Miller 9781442253452
RRP: $50.31$46.53American Home Cooking provides an answer to the question of why, in the face of all the modern technology we have for saving time, Americans still spend time in their kitchens cooking. Americans eat four to five meals per week in a restaurant and buy... -
Kitchens, Cooking, and Eating in Medieval Italy by Katherine A. McIver 9781442248946
RRP: $96.75$89.11The modern twenty-first century kitchen has an array of time saving equipment for preparing a meal: a state of the art stove and refrigerator, a microwave oven, a food processor, a blender and a variety of topnotch pots, pans and utensils. We take so... -
The Carrot Purple and Other Curious Stories of the Food We Eat by Joel S. Denker 9781442248854
$62.96How many otherwise well-educated readers know that the familiar orange carrot was once a novelty? It is a little more than 400 years old. Domesticated in Afghanistan in 900 AD, the purple carrot, in fact, was the dominant variety until Dutch gardeners... -
The Food Section: Newspaper Women and the Culinary Community by Kimberly Wilmot Voss 9781442227200
RRP: $61.92$54.24Food blogs are everywhere today but for generations, information and opinions about food were found in the food sections of newspapers in communities large and small. Until the early 1970s, these sections were housed in the women's pages of... -
Cured, Fermented and Smoked Foods: Proceedings from the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2010 by Helen Sabieri 9781903018859
RRP: $38.70$31.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903018859Author Helen SabieriFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Prospect BooksPublisher Prospect Books -
A Gathering of Medieval English Recipes by Cb Hieatt 9782503528984
RRP: $96.75$90.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503528984Author Cb HieattFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 318g -
Generation Chef: Risking It All for a New American Dream by Karen Stabiner 9780735217676
RRP: $18.05$14.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735217676Author Karen StabinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press -
Theology on the Menu: Asceticism, Meat and Christian Diet by David Grumett 9780415496827
RRP: $174.15$151.29Food - what we eat, how much we eat, how it is produced and prepared, and its cultural and ecological significance- is an increasingly significant topic not only for scholars but for all of us. Theology on the Menu is the first systematic and historical... -
Urban appetites: Food and Culture in Nineteenth-century New York by Cindy R. Lobel 9780226128757
RRP: $103.20$98.83Glossy magazines write about them, celebrities give their names to them, and you'd better believe there's an app (or ten) committed to finding you the right one. They are New York City restaurants and food shops. And their journey to international... -
Food Heritage and Nationalism in Europe by Ilaria Porciani 9781032086101
RRP: $51.59$45.23Food Heritage and Nationalism in Europe contends that food is a fundamental element of heritage, and a particularly important one in times of crisis. Arguing that food, taste, cuisine and gastronomy are crucial markers of identity that are inherently... -
Sir John's Table: The Culinary Life and Times of Canada's First Prime Minister by Lindy Mechefske 9780864928818
RRP: $20.63$13.52Winner, Taste Canada Gold Medal for Culinary NarrativeCommemorating the two-hundredth anniversary of Sir John A. Macdonald's birth, Sir John's Table is a refreshing look at Canada's first prime minister.Sir John's Table traverses the colourful life of... -
Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew Michael W. Twitty 9780062891716
RRP: $21.92$14.80"Twitty makes the case that Blackness and Judaism coexist in beautiful harmony, and this is manifested in the foods and traditions from both cultures that Black Jews incorporate into their daily lives...Twitty wishes to start a conversation where people... -
Appetites and Aspirations in Vietnam: Food and Drink in the Long Nineteenth Century by Erica J. Peters 9780759120754
RRP: $126.42$103.29In Vietnam during the long nineteenth century from the Tây Son rebellion to the 1920s, individuals negotiated changing interpretations of their culinary choices by their families, neighbors, and governments. What people ate reflected not just who they... -
Chocolatology: Chocolates Fantastical Lore, Bittersweet History, & Delicious (Vegan) Recipes by Darin Wick 9781621062899
RRP: $20.63$14.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621062899Author Darin WickFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Microcosm PublishingPublisher Microcosm Publishing -
The Whole Body of Cookery Dissected by William Rabisha 9781903018118
RRP: $38.70$31.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903018118Author William RabishaFormat PaperbackPage Count 325Imprint Prospect BooksPublisher Prospect Books -
Creole Italian: Sicilian Immigrants and the Shaping of New Orleans Food Culture by Justin A. Nystrom 9780820353555
$35.99In Creole Italian, Justin A. Nystrom explores the influence Sicilian immigrants have had on New Orleans foodways. His culinary journey follows these immigrants from their first impressions on Louisiana food culture in the mid-1830s and along their path... -
The Sorcerer's Apprentices: A Season in the Kitchen at Ferran Adria's Elbulli by Lisa Abend 9781451626629
RRP: $25.79$18.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for IACP Crystal Whisk Award (Literary Food Writing) 2012.Book InformationISBN 9781451626629Author Lisa AbendFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Simon &... -
Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets by John Evelyn 9781903018293
RRP: $19.35$16.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903018293Author John EvelynFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Prospect BooksPublisher Prospect Books