Publication date: 2005-08-16
Dewey code: 641
List Price: $25.39
Price: $22.07
Review Last Chance to Eat: The Fate of Taste in a Fast Food World / Mainstream Publishing:No eggs, no beef, and only an occasional fish. Those were the hungry years after the Second World War in the English countryside, when the sighting of a rogue hen or even a thin pig was a cause for celebration. But that didn’t matter, because the warm stove was still the hub of the house, and a family meal, however scant, was a shared experience. Food still promised pleasure, unstained by guilt or fear. To eat was enough. But how quickly that would change as Gina Mallet journeyed through the darkening foodscape of our times. It was in the 1990s, when the author was reviewing restaurants, that she came to confront the paradox of contemporary food. There was more and more food, more publicity about food, more cookbooks and cooking shows than ever, but there was less variety and less taste, and some common foods were actually threatened with extinction. Why?In this provocative and evocative book, Gina Mallet weaves together her own experiences in England and America and her memories of great taste with a grim look at the enemies of good food: the U. N. [+]’s template for universal taste; trade wars; healthism; extreme environmentalists; food scientists; food scares; organic dogma; zero tolerance for flavour-bearing bacteria. Mallet quotes Elizabeth David when she advises “Shop well” – but do it fast.
Publication date: 2008-05-01
Dewey code: 635
List Price: $34.95
Price: $21.76
Review Using the Plot: Tales of an Allotment Chef / HarperCollins UK:Tired of poor-quality supermarket food and disillusioned with the dubious ethics of large corporations, Paul Merrett decided to live off the fruit and vegetables he and his family could grow from their allotment for one year. This engaging account follows Paul, his wife and their two reluctant children as they learn to garden, build relationships with fellow allotmenteers, and slowly watch their crops start to flourish. As the asparagus poke through the soil and the battle against the lettuce-munching slugs is won, Paul turns his humble vegetables into more than 80 delicious recipes, including such simple dishes as Tomato Tart with Roasted Peppers and Meringue Cake with Summer Berries, as well as more involved meals such as Pork Belly Curry with Grilled Red Onion Relish and Scallops with Carrot Juice and Cardamom Broth. Sprinkled with humor and lush photographs, this is the story of a famous foodie making it on the farm.
Publication date: 2006-08-30
Dewey code: 641
List Price: $25.00
Price: $20.63
Review Take 40 Fresh Crayfish / Penguin Global:
Publication date: 2000-12-27
Dewey code: 641.5973
List Price: $35.00
Price: $21.00
Review Favorite Dishes: A Columbian Autograph Souvenir Cookery Book (The Food Series) / University of Illinois Press:"Favorite Dishes" is a celebrity cookbook of autographed recipes, accented by portraits of the distinguished contributors, that was compiled on the occasion of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. It is a handsome sourcebook on nineteenth-century cookery as well as a testament to the desire of well-educated, well-placed women to use their position for social good. It is also a prime example of the genre of charitable cookbooks that began after the Civil War and extends to today's Junior League community cookbooks. The world's fair in Chicago was the first event of its kind that offered women a conspicuous and responsible role. A Woman's Building was designed by a woman architect, decorated with the statues and paintings of prominent women artists, and overseen by a Board of Lady Managers, comprised of 115 wives and daughters of prominent political and business leaders from every state and territory. Carrie Shuman approached the president of this unprecedented body, Bertha Honor Palmer, with the idea of producing a charitable cookbook, endorsed and autographed by the Lady Managers, of their prize recipes. The books would be offered to women of limited means-women who dreamed " longingly and hopelessly of the Exposition" - who could sell them to raise money to cover the expense of a visit to the fair. This reissue of "Favorite Dishes" is set off by a pair of new introductions. Reid Badger discusses the phenomenon of world's fairs and the particular success and significance of the 1893 Exposition in Chicago. Bruce Kraig examines the culinary significance of the book and sets it in the context of the era's food standardization, changing cooking technology, recipe book conventions, and social practices.
Publication date: 2006-01-11
List Price: $22.00
Price: $22.00
Review When Ragtime Was Young and Grandma Did the Cooking / Trafford Publishing:This was the era of Joplin and Ragtime! The sheet music was sold in several stores about town. Sedalia, not the average 1890's America town, was thriving and industrious. Railroad centers brought foods from far-away locations when available. Homes had carpeting, innovative kitchen appliances and state-of-the-art cooking equipment. Life was prosperous and full filling. Imagine, just a mere 30 years after the Civil War, Sedalia had already established an all black college. A bustling community, women walked to the stores on weekday mornings to buy foods for the day. The ladies were attired in two-piece dresses with their small, steel handbags clipped to the waistband. They never carried cash, as everyone had accounts at local stores. The horse drawn wagons bustled about delivering milk, cheese and red meat products from the area farms. [+]The railroads brought hard to find items, such as fish and shellfish from as far away as Boston. When Ragtime was Young is an excellent presentation of a wide variety of recipes, charming graphics from the era and personal anecdotes about life a turn of the century, American town. Missouri and its people proved to be a driving influence toward the growth of America. A charming read, with marvelous recipes and era graphics.
Publication date: 2002-05
List Price: $12.95
Price: $20.91
Review Ice Cream / Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio):In this delicious story of ice cream, we are taken on an exotic journey for the old world to the new, from ice harvesting in ancient China to birthday celebrations in the age of Louis XIV to ice cream cones painted by Andy Warhol in the twentieth century. It’s a story filled with history, adventure, myth, and intriguing facts about ice cream. Did you know that Scots believed ice cream parlors were dens of iniquity? Or that there are more than seven hundred flavors and that the flavor you prefer expresses your personality? In all its many forms, ice cream has become one of the oldest, most popular, and most democratic of pleasures, "The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream," wrote the poet Wallace Stevens. A wonderful surprising, entertaining, and intelligent book, Ice Cream is about the dessert itself and how we have come to regard it. As Marilyn Powell reveals, ice cream is the dessert of memory, a perfect food for the imagination. Containing illustrations, anecdotes, and famous recipes, Ice Cream will delight ice cream lovers around the world.
Publication date: 2007-10-02
Dewey code: 641.5
List Price: $35.00
Price: $21.00
Review The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution / Clarkson Potter:Perhaps more responsible than anyone for the revolution in the way we eat, cook, and think about food, Alice Waters has “single-handedly chang[ed] the American palate” according to the New York Times. Her simple but inventive dishes focus on a passion for flavor and a reverence for locally produced, seasonal foods. With an essential repertoire of timeless, approachable recipes chosen to enhance and showcase great ingredients, The Art of Simple Food is an indispensable resource for home cooks. Here you will find Alice’s philosophy on everything from stocking your kitchen, to mastering fundamentals and preparing delicious, seasonal inspired meals all year long. Always true to her philosophy that a perfect meal is one that’s balanced in texture, color, and flavor, Waters helps us embrace the seasons’ bounty and make the best choices when selecting ingredients. Fill your market basket with pristine produce, healthful grains, and responsibly raised meat, poultry, and seafood, then embark on a voyage of culinary rediscovery that reminds us that the most gratifying dish is often the least complex. Do we really need more recipes for beef stew, polenta, and ratatouille? If they're the work of famed restaurateur and "food activist" Alice Waters, undoubtedly. In The Art of Simple Food, Waters offers 200-plus recipes for these and other simple but savory dishes, like Spicy Cauliflower Soup, Fava Bean Purée, and Braised Chicken Legs, as well as dessert formulas for the likes of Nectarine and Blueberry Crisp and Tangerine Ice. In addition, readers learn (or become reacquainted with) the Waters mantra: eat locally and sustainably; eat seasonally; shop at farmers markets. These are the rules by which she approaches food and cooking, and hopes we will too. [+]Organized largely by techniques, the book is a kind of primer, designed to free readers from recipe reliance. Some readers may look askance at advice that they search out sources for locally produced food, for example, given the everyday exigencies of shopping and getting meals on the table. Yet it is precisely the need to "remake" our relationship to food that, Waters contends, determines the ultimate success of all our cooking and dining, not to mention our health and that of the planet. This relatively small book has a large message, and good everyday recipes to back it up. -Arthur Boehm.
Publication date: 1994
Review 125 promotions for your restaurant and bar: The complete reference every restaurant and bar manager should own / PanPress:
Authors
- Andrew Dornenburg
- Karen Page
Publication date: 2008-09-16
Dewey code: 641.5
List Price: $35.00
Price: $20.85
Review The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America's Most Imaginative Chefs / Little, Brown and Company:Great cooking goes beyond following a recipe-it's knowing how to season ingredients to coax the greatest possible flavor from them. Drawing on dozens of leading chefs' combined experience in top restaurants across the country, Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg present the definitive guide to creating "deliciousness" in any dish. Thousands of ingredient entries, organized alphabetically and cross-referenced, provide a treasure trove of spectacular flavor combinations. Readers will learn to work more intuitively and effectively with ingredients; experiment with temperature and texture; excite the nose and palate with herbs, spices, and other seasonings; and balance the sensual, emotional, and spiritual elements of an extraordinary meal. Seasoned with tips, anecdotes, and signature dishes from America's most imaginative chefs, THE FLAVOR BIBLEis an essential reference for every kitchen.
Creator: Eileen White
Publication date: 2007-05-28
Dewey code: 641.5942
List Price: $30.00
Price: $20.89
Review The English Kitchen: Historical Essays (Food and Society) (Food and Society) / Prospect Books (UK):English Cookery is always in search of its identity. This book offers some clues in respect of particular dishes or types of food. Not that these are the only markers of Englishness, but taken altogether they do point to some of our most enduring culinary characteristics, perhaps none more so than the pudding. Laura Mason does a good job of account for the rise of the boiled pudding wrapped in its floured cloth that so typifies the glory-days of Victorian cookery. The blancmange, too, now something that strikes horror in the breast of the upstanding Englishman, might wave a flag for the wonders of the pink and jellified mould that so handsomely adorned the tables of our Edwardian grandparents. Olios and fricassees are indeed of foreign origin - not British at all - but Gilly Lehmann shows how their adoption and adaptation in seventeenth and early eighteenth century kitchens lays bare the true nature of English cookery (not actually very good). Soups, broths and pottages are shared by all nations of the world but each has taken its own particular line with this form and Eileen White describes the development of this essential preliminary to dinner more clearly that hitherto.
Publication date: 1949
Review An alphabet for gourmets; / Viking Press:In Alphabet for Gourmets, M. F. K. Fisher arranges a selection of her essays in a whimsical way that reveals the breadth and depth of her passion. From A for (dining) alone to Z for Zakuski, "a Russian hors d'oeuvre," Fisher alights on both longtime obsessions and idiosyncratic digressions. As usual, she liberates her readers from caution and slavish adherence to culinary tradition- and salts her writings with a healthy dose of humor.
Publication date: 2006-09-30
Dewey code: 641
Price: $21.22
Review People's Chef: Alexis Soyer, A Life In Seven Courses / Halsted Pr:During the first half of the nineteenth century, Alexis Soyer, a Frenchman from Meaux, was the most famous cook in London. A combination of chance, talent and social conscience took him into many of the great events of his time. Born in 1810, he cooked his was through the Paris July Days in 1830; he oversaw the building of London's most modern kitchen at the Reform Club, where he ran the kitchen from 1837-1850; he designed a model soup-kitchen which he took to Ireland, at the Lord Lieutenant's request, during the 1847 famine; he opened London's first Parisian-type restaurant in conjunction with the Great Exhibition in 1851; and in 1855, he went to the Crimea to take over the running of the kitchens in Florence Nightingale's hospital at Scutari. When he died in 1858, Soyer was helping Miss Nightingale reform British army catering.
Creator: Martha L. Finch
Publication date: 2008-05-01
Dewey code: 641
List Price: $24.95
Price: $20.94
Review Eating in Eden: Food and American Utopias (At Table) / University of Nebraska Press:Perennially viewed as both a utopian land of abundant resources and a fallen nation of consummate consumers, North America has provided a fertile setting for the development of distinctive foodways reflecting the diverse visions of life in the United States. Immigrants, from colonial English Puritans and Spanish Catholics to mid-twentieth-century European Jews and contemporary Indian Hindus, have generated innovative foodways in creating “new world” religious and ethnic identities. The Shakers, the Oneida Perfectionists, and the Amana Colony, as well as 1970s counter-cultural groups, developed food practices that distinguished communal members from outsiders, but they also marketed their food to nonmembers through festivals, restaurants, and cookbooks. Other groups—from elite male dining clubs in Revolutionary America and female college students in the late 1800s, to members of food co-ops; vegetarian Jews and Buddhists; and “foodies” who watched TV cooking shows—have used food strategically to promote their ideals of gender, social class, nonviolence, environmentalism, or taste in the hope of transforming national or global society. This theoretically informed, interdisciplinary collection of thirteen essays broadens familiar definitions of utopianism and community to explore the ways Americans have produced, consumed, avoided, and marketed food and food-related products and meanings to further their visionary ideals.
Publication date: 2001-08
List Price: $11.95
Price: $20.57
Review Roaring 20's Cookbook / Quixote Press:
Creator: Anuj Parti
Publication date: 2007-10-15
Dewey code: 641
List Price: $34.95
Price: $22.97
Review Incredible INdia, Cuisines (Incredible India) / Wisdom Tree:'Cuisines' of India is an introduction, an invitation, to the resplendent realm of foods and flavours of this sub-continent. It strives to unveil and showcase the classic as well as creative innovations from different 'food zones' illustrative of the synthesising genius of the Indian people. The concept of 'rasa' (literally meaning essence) is common to the domains of arts and gastronomy. This delicious exploration of incredible India is inspired by the realisation that the culinary heritage of this vast and varied land is as priceless as its literature, music, dance and majestic monuments.
Edition: 1a ed
Publication date: 2002-01
Dewey code: 370
List Price: $20.95
Price: $20.95
Review La Cocina Cristiana De Occidente (Los 5 sentidos) / Tusquets:
Edition: Unabridged
Publication date: 2006-04-11
Dewey code: 394.12
List Price: $39.95
Price: $20.24
Review The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals / Penguin Audio:The bestselling author of The Botany of Desire explores the ecology of eating to unveil why we consume what we consume in the twenty-first century. Unabridged CDs -11 CDs, 13 hours.
Publication date: 2006-11-01
Dewey code: 641
List Price: $22.95
Price: $21.01
Review Tea Leaves / Aegypan:Francis H. Leggett & Co. were Importing and Manufacturing Grocers, and their name can still be found somewhere in the food distribution business. Once, though, they were suppliers of tea, and very proud of that. Their object in publishing this and other books was to bring themselves and their goods into closer relation with consumers at a distance from New York; and incidentally, to provide readers with interesting information respecting the food which they eat and drink. This volume contains a wealth of information on tea - its origins, cultivation, properties, and nature. Bon appétit. !.
Publication date: 1999-06
Dewey code: 641
List Price: $24.95
Price: $20.75
Review The Melting Pot: Balkan Food and Cookery / Prospect Books (UK):The hardback edition of this book won the Premio Langhe Ceretto for the best European recipe book in 1997. It is a vessel into which the author, herself Bulgarian, has poured a Lifetime of study, experience and brilliant cookery. More appetizing than a history book, and often more instructive. There are recipes, descriptions, pictures, and lists of names of dishes in all the main languages. At the core is Bulgaria, but the other countries of the peninsula are never ignored.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2000-03-01
Dewey code: 641.5973
List Price: $60.95
Price: $60.92
Review CENTENNIAL BUCKEYE COOK BOOK / Ohio State University Press:By any standard the Centennial Buckeye Cook Book was the most important cookbook to have originated in Ohio in the nineteenth century. It included more than three hundred pages of good recipes for jellies and jams, soups and sauces, fruits and vegetables, meats, poultry and fish, and confectionery, cakes and pastry, and many more. It was, however, much more than just a cookbook. Some editions featured information about medicine and the chemistry of food, how to do the laundry, how to make icehouses, hints for the sick and, most unusual, hints for the well. The book was a reflection of home life in Ohio and America before the twentieth century totally swept aside rural American life styles. Andrew F. Smith. The first edition of the Centennial Buckeye Cook Book was published in 1876. Between 1876 and 1905, a total of thirty-two editions of the cookbook were published, and more than one million copies sold. The book began as a project of the Marysville, Ohio, First Congregational Church when the women of the church decided to publish a cookbook in order to raise money to build a parsonage. [+]Their effort launched a cookbook that rapidly became one of the most popular publications of nineteenth-century America. This is the first reprint of the original 1876 edition.
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