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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...

In this rich and engaging history, Tami Parr shows how regional cheesemaking found its way back to the farm. It's a lively story that begins with the first fur traders in the Pacific Northwest and ends with modern-day small farmers in Oregon, Washington,...

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...

Pasta, pizza, parmesan cheese - we have Italy to thank for some of our favourite foods. Home to a dazzling array of wines, cheeses, breads, vegetables and salamis, Italy has become a mecca for foodies. Outside Italy, cities around the world are home to...

Contemporary concerns about food such as those stemming from mad cow disease, salmonella, and other potential food-related dangers are hardly new-humans have long been wary of what they eat. Beyond the fundamental fear of hunger, societies have sought to...

"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)...

Bring the mysterious and magical world of Emily Dickinson into your home by making the comforting foods that Emily loved to cook. Whether you are a fan of the hit television series Dickinson or have long been inspired by Emily Dickinson's poems, this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553371307Author Terence McKennaFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781962098007Author Lelani LewisFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint TRA PublishingPublisher TRA Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of James Beard Cookbook Award - Writings on Food.Book InformationISBN 9780143038580Author Michael PollanFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Penguin USAPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312608279Author Clara CannucciariFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint St. Martin's PressPublisher St. Martin's PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm)...

Though the word vegetarianism was not coined until the mid-nineteenth century, the vegetarian diet has been around as long as man has. Vegetarians have included in their number: heretics, humanists, Hindus, Christian fundamentalists, radicals, agnostics,...

Sugar is one of the most beloved substances consumed by humans, and also one of the most reviled. It has come to dominate our diets - whether in candy, desserts, soft drinks or even bread and pasta sauces - for better and for worse. This fascinating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903018644Author Giacomo CastelvetroFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Prospect BooksPublisher Prospect Books

In this intriguing blend of the commonplace and the ancient, Jean Bottero presents the first extensive look at the delectable secrets of Mesopotamia. Bottero's broad perspective takes us inside the religious rites, everyday rituals, attitudes and taboos,...

Award-winning journalist Simran Sethi explores the history and cultural importance of our most beloved tastes, paying homage to the ingredients that give us daily pleasure, while providing a thoughtful wake-up call to the homogenization that is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903018385Author Susan M. Rossi-WilcoxFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Prospect BooksPublisher Prospect Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840210002Author Ravi ManiamFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Digitally Smart MediaPublisher Digitally Smart Media

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903018620Author John WilkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Prospect BooksPublisher Prospect Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909248304Author Constance B. HieattFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Prospect BooksPublisher Prospect Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607747543Author Robert SimonsonFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Ten Speed PressWeight(grams) 624gDimensions(mm) 237mm *...

Big Night (1996), Ratatouille (2007), and Julie and Julia (2009) are more than films about food-they serve a political purpose. In the kitchen, around the table, and in the dining room, these films use cooking and eating to explore such themes as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816524648Author Meredith L. DreissFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams) 951g

Georgia's Historical Recipes is an exploration of our state's oldest recipes from the antebellum period through World War II, as painstakingly researched by Georgia archivist Valerie J. Frey. This volume begins with a discussion of old recipes as primary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643365510Author Mary RandolphFormat HardbackPage Count 424Imprint University of South Carolina PressPublisher University of South Carolina Press