History

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525561552Author Alice WatersFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608194506Author Jessica B HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PlcPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903018705Author Sir Kenelm DigbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Prospect BooksPublisher Prospect Books

Written for food aficionados everywhere, this book provides an entertaining look at the history and development of the key foods we eat every day. Mike Gibney, Professor Emeritus of Food and Health at University College Dublin, traces the story of food...

'Highly persuasive ... a well-organised and solid dossier that alerts us to legalised chemical trickery' Joanna Blythman, The Spectator'A bombshell book' Daily Mail'Eye-opening and important . . . a book full of righteous anger' Bee Wilson, from her...

Best-selling author Jeff Alworth takes serious beer aficionados on a behind-the-scenes tour of 26 major European and North American breweries that create some of the world's most classic beers. Learn how the Irish make stout, the secrets of traditional...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679457497Author Frank PellegrinoFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 930gDimensions(mm)...

Take a breath...Read slowly. How often in the course and crush of our daily lives do we afford ourselves moments to truly relish-to truly be present in-the act of preparing and eating food? For most of us, our enjoyment of food has fallen victim to the...

The once-obscure cuisine of Vietnam is a favourite of many people from East to West. After millennia of adaptation and innovation with a pervasive Chinese influence, today's Vietnamese food is, surprisingly, a mixture of Vietnamese and French dishes,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525611370Author Aaron HarowitzFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Appetite by Random HousePublisher Random House USA Inc

More than just the beloved base ingredient of so many of our favorite dishes, the tomato has generated both profound riches and controversy in its farming, processing, exchange, and consumption. It is a crop infused with national pride and passion for...

Italy, the country with a hundred cities and a thousand bell towers, is also the country with a hundred cuisines and a thousand recipes. Its great variety of culinary practices reflects a history long dominated by regionalism and political division, and...

A nutritional whodunit that takes readers from Greenland to Africa to Israel, "The Queen of Fats" gives a fascinating account of how we have become deficient in a nutrient that is essential for good health: the fatty acids known as omega-3s. Writing with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984857088Author Torie BorrelliFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA Inc

Here are the feasts that really are fit for a king - or queen. This delightful book explores the history of royal dining from the bustling kitchens of the Middle Ages to the informal dinner parties of today. Susanne Groom, a former curator at Historic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903018804Author Tom JaineFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Prospect BooksPublisher Prospect Books

The agave plant was never destined to become tasteless, cheap tequila. Follow Gary Nabhan and David Suro Pinera on the trail with archaeologists and botanists to caves where 9,000-year-old remains of agaves have been found, and then fast track to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783950480016Author Thomas StieglerFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Der LeiermannPublisher Der LeiermannWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101990599Author Daniel StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Whether you're digging into a slice of cherry cheesecake, burning your tongue on a piece of fiery Jamaican jerk chicken, or slurping the broth from a juicy soup dumpling, eating in New York City is a culinary adventure unlike any other in the world. An...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607746355Author Jonathan HennesseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 556gDimensions(mm)...

In the closing years of the fourteenth century, an anonymous French writer compiled a book addressed to a fifteen-year-old bride, narrated in the voice of her husband, a wealthy, aging Parisian. The book was designed to teach this young wife the moral...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998093796Author Maria GraceFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint White Soup PressPublisher White Soup PressWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

"[A] tour de force of global history...Bosma has turned the humble sugar crystal into a mighty prism for understanding aspects of global history and the world in which we live."-Los Angeles Review of BooksThe definitive 2,500-year history of sugar and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467152778Author Jim CasadaFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 221mm * 157mm * 28mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399581236Author David BurkhartFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale

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"Healy revelled in wine, wine in its proper place with good company and good food. Read this book and revel with him." -Sommelier India Stay Me With Flagons was Healy's love letter to wine, and to the wines he enjoyed with friends during his long study...

In this debut memoir, a James Beard Award-winning writer, whose childhood idea of fine dining was Howard Johnson's, tells how he became one of Paris's most influential food critics Until Alec Lobrano landed a job in the glamorous Paris office of...

M.K. Samuelson, realising that there was no collection of Sussex recipes, set about making her own. This was first published in 1937 but World War II prevented a reprint. Southover reprinted it in 2005 in response to the renewed interest in regional food...

"Edifying from every point of view--historical, cultural, and culinary." -David Tanis, author of A Platter of Figs and Other RecipesIt's a culinary catalyst, an agent of change, a gastronomic rock star. Ubiquitous in the world's most fabulous cuisines,...

Gravenstein, Coe's Golden Drop, Cox's Orange Pippin: the names sound like something from Tolkien or the ingredients of a magic potion. But as befits their magical appellations, apples have transfixed and beguiled humans for thousands of years. Erika...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312333294Author Beatrice HoheneggerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903018880Author Hannah GlasseFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Prospect BooksPublisher Prospect Books

Spaghetti, gnocchi, tagliatellea, ravioli, vincisgrassi, strascinati - pasta in its myriad forms has been a staple of the Mediterranean diet longer than bread. This beautiful volume is the first book to provide a complete history of pasta in Italy,...

Among the cuisines of Europe, Britain's has traditionally been regarded as the black sheep kippers, jellied eels and blood pudding rarely elicit the same fond feelings as chocolate mousse or pasta primavera. Yet despite these unfortunate stereotypes,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783038691280Author Andie PilotFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint BergliPublisher Bergli

In this wide-ranging and entertaining study Harvey Levenstein tells of the remarkable transformation in how Americans ate that took place from 1880 to 1930.About the AuthorHarvey Levenstein is Professor Emeritus of History at McMaster University in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940352480Author Cook's CountryFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint America's Test KitchenPublisher America's Test KitchenWeight(grams)...

World-renowned artist Tasha Tudor charmed and fascinated fans with her sweet illustrations and simple lifestyle. This cookbook echoes the cultural and family narrative so accurately and beautifully reflected in Tasha Tudor's art and life.The receipts...