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Food 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...

What 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...

Apologies 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 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 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...

Food 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...

Without 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...

In 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...

Food 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

Beyond 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,...

Embedded 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 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 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 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...

The 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...

How 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...

Food 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

Food - 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...

Glossy 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 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...

Winner, 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933909752Author Kent WhitakerFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint History Publishing Company llcPublisher History Publishing Company llcWeight(grams) 622g

"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...

In 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743227407Author Felipe Fernandez-ArmestoFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781452897424Author Beverly B WeingrodFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies 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

In 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...

Apologies 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 &...

Apologies 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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781718017146Author Trinity Osea HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948837187Author MassialotFormat PaperbackPage Count 506Imprint TownsendsPublisher TownsendsWeight(grams) 671gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 26mm