Publication date: 1975-06
Price: $7.95
Review Portrait of a Chef (Midway Reprint Series) / Univ of Chicago:
Publication date: 2000-03
Dewey code: 641
List Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00
Review Offbeat Food: Adventures In An Omnivorous World / Diane Pub Co:Fourth in our internationally acclaimed Offbeat series, Offbeat Food: Adventures in an Omnivorous World explores the unusual, unexpected, and extraordinary aspects of food and food culture. This unique book will provide hours of robust entertainment for even the finickiest gourmet. Everything from food Americana-style to the mysterious durian fruit to the appearance of food in the arts and popular culture to the oddities and delights of the international palette is covered in this "foodie" smorgasbord. Alan Ridenour's postmodern foodlore primer is guaranteed to start-and end-countless dinner table conversations and arguments.
Creator: Joseph Dommers Vehling
Publication date: 1977-06
Dewey code: 641
List Price: $31.25
Price: $31.25
Review Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome / Peter Smith Publisher:Oldest known cookbook in existence offers readers a clear picture of what foods Romans ate, how they prepared them. Actual recipes — from fig fed pork and salt fish balls in wine sauce to pumpkin Alexander style, nut custard turnovers and rose pie. 49 illustrations.
Publication date: 2006-06
Dewey code: 641
List Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00
Review Ruby Slippers Cookbook: Life, Culture, Family and Food After Katrina / Amy Cyrex Sins:After hurricane Katrina, many thought the ability to enjoy fine New Orleans style cooking might be gone forever. Fortunately, the culinary experience tourists and locals alike expect from New Orleans and South Louisiana has been captured in an elegant new cookbook. Titled Ruby Slippers Cookbook: Life, Culture, Family and Food After Katrina, the 232-page coffee table style volume is now available for sale online, enabling food lovers the opportunity to enjoy fabulous New Orleans and Louisiana style cuisine at home while also helping a good cause. New Orleans resident and emerging author, Amy Cyrex Sins, is supporting the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana through her full size, four-color, hardbound cookbook. Amy’s has included her personal journey after the floodwaters ravaged her home, as well as, stories from people she has met along the way. Included throughout the book are interesting facts about life in New Orleans. While pairing both traditional and inventive menus with heartwarming stories from rescue workers, residents and friends of the region, Amy creates a book truly capturing life in New Orleans and South Louisiana both before and after Katrina. Ruby Slippers not only offers over 140 family recipes from throughout Louisiana, but also several recipes from 14 of New Orleans’ finest restaurants. The menus are sure to keep readers busy entertaining family and friends with traditional New Orleans dishes and a few new family favorites. Amy’s book is filled with lavish photography, sure to evoke strong emotions, depicting both devastated and untouched areas of the city. [+]Readers will find the book heartbreaking, heartwarming, uplifting all at the same time. The resilience and strength of the people living in the New Orleans area is evident in the pages of Ruby Slippers. Amy’s book is a small step in the right direction to preserve something all hold dear: life, family, and food that are uniquely New Orleans.
Publication date: 1999-11-01
Dewey code: 641.81509
List Price: $60.00
Price: $19.98
Review History of Bread / Harry N Abrams:
Publication date: 2009-03-03
Dewey code: 909
List Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00
Review Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination / Yale University Press:The demand for spices in medieval Europe was extravagant and was reflected in the pursuit of fashion, the formation of taste, and the growth of luxury trade. It inspired geographical and commercial exploration ,as traders pursued such common spices as pepper and cinnamon and rarer aromatic products, including ambergris and musk. Ultimately, the spice quest led to imperial missions that were to change world history. This engaging book explores the demand for spices: why were they so popular, and why so expensive? Paul Freedman surveys the history, geography, economics, and culinary tastes of the Middle Ages to uncover the surprisingly varied ways that spices were put to use-in elaborate medieval cuisine, in the treatment of disease, for the promotion of well-being, and to perfume important ceremonies of the Church. Spices became symbols of beauty, affluence, taste, and grace, Freedman shows, and their expense and fragrance drove the engines of commerce and conquest at the dawn of the modern era.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2003-08-19
Dewey code: 641.5
List Price: $40.00
Price: $21.81
Review Cooking by Hand / Clarkson Potter:One of the most respected chefs in the country, Paul Bertolli earns glowing praise for the food at California’s renowned Oliveto restaurant. Now he shares his most personal thoughts about cooking in his long-awaited book, Cooking by Hand. In this groundbreaking collection of essays and recipes, Bertolli evocatively explores the philosophy behind the food that Molly O’Neill of the New York Times described as “deceptively simple, [with] favors clean, deep, and layered more profusely than a mille-feuille. ”From “Twelve Ways of Looking at Tomatoes” to Italian salumi in “The Whole Hog,” Bertolli explores his favorite foods with the vividness of a natural writer and the instincts of a superlative chef. Scattered throughout are more than 140 recipes remarkable for their clarity, simplicity, and seductive appeal, from Salad of Bitter Greens, Walnuts, Tesa, and Parmigiano and Chilled Shellfish with Salsa Verde to Short Ribs Agrodolce and Tagliolini Pasta with Crab. Unforgettable desserts, such as Semifreddo of Peaches and Mascarpone and Hazelnut Meringata with Chocolate and Espresso Sauce, round out a collection that’s destined to become required reading for any food lover. Rich with the remarkable food memories that inspire him, from the taste of ripe Santa Rosa plums and the aroma of dried porcini mushrooms in his mother’s ragu to eating grilled bistecca alla Fiorentina on a foggy late autumn day in Chianti, Cooking by Hand will ignite a passion within you to become more creatively involved in the food you cook.
Authors
- Robert J. Heiss
- Mary Lou Heiss
Dewey code: 641.3372
List Price: $32.50
Price: $19.97
Review The Story of Tea: A Cultural History and Drinking Guide / Ten Speed Press:Whether it's a delicate green tea from China or a bracing Assam black, a seemingly mild-mannered cup of tea represents a turbulent history of intrigue and conquest, tradition and revolution, East and West. In this sweeping tour through the history, culture, and lore of this 2,000-year-old beverage, veteran tea professionals Mary Lou Heiss and Robert J. Heiss provide an indepth resource for tea lovers, covering all aspects of production and consumption - from the terroir in which a tea bush is cultivated to the time-honored rituals of brewing and drinking. At once passionate and carefully researched, this weighty tome will infuse readers with a deep appreciation for the illustrious, invigorating, and elusive leaf.
Publication date: 1975-06
Price: $7.95
Review Portrait of a Chef (Midway Reprint Series) / Univ of Chicago:
Publication date: 2005-06-01
Dewey code: 641
List Price: $24.95
Price: $20.00
Review Dish: Memories, Recipes and Delicious Bites / Whitecap Books:She interviewed and became pals with former Mafia cook Joe "Dogs" Iannuzzi while he was in the witness protection plan. She shared an intimate meal with screen legend Sophia Loren at a small restaurant in Toronto's Little Italy. She visited the late Julia Child at her Victorian home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where the queen of cuisine cooked up a breakfast featuring her famous scrambled eggs. And now, in Dish, intrepid Canadian food writer Marion Kane has compiled favourite columns about these and other culinary adventures and paired them with her best recipes. Read about Marion's search for Derbyshire's original Bakewell Tart, then follow her perfect version of this controversial sweet. Or dip into her story about Keith Richards and his penchant for Shepherd's Pie, a dish for which she shares a brilliant recipe.
Edition: 2 Sub
Publication date: 1995-12-01
Dewey code: 394.1094
List Price: $24.00
Price: $21.60
Review All Manners of Food: Eating and Taste in England and France from the Middle Ages to the Present / University of Illinois Press:Including pictures, anecdotes and recipes from an enormous range of sources, this volume presents an innovative history of cooking and eating in England and France, aiming to demonstrate that the cuisines of these two countries have been closely entwined for over a millennium. The book won the 1986 International Grand Prix for Gastronomic Literature.
Publication date: 2001-08
Dewey code: 641
List Price: $19.95
Price: $19.95
Review The Improved Housewife: Or Book of Receipts With Engravings for Marketing and Carving / Creative Cookbooks:Originally published in 1845, the no-nonsense tone of Webster's book undoubtedly accounted for its popularity: this comes through in her marketing advice ("Ducks: select such as have supple feet, and are hard and thick on the breast and belly"), and especially in the very last entry of her chapter on "Miscellaneous Receipts": "Punctuality: Fifteen minutes before the time. ".
Publication date: 1980
Review Short order: Portland's 100 best good-for-cheap restaurants / Snowball's Chance Press:
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1965
Review Wine and the good life,: By Angelo M. Pellegrini / Knopf:
Authors
- Mary-Lane Kamberg
- Rolland Love
Dewey code: 641
List Price: $19.95
Price: $19.95
Review Homegrown in the Ozarks: Mountain Meals and Memories / Goldminds Publishing:
Publication date: 1984
Review Charleston choices: Restaurants and recipes / Frank P. Jarrell Co:
Publication date: 1923
Review Twelve o'clock lunch: The astonishing truth regarding the filthy and unsanitary conditions existing in the hotels, restaurants and lunch rooms : this is ... Trusts in their efforts to make more profits / The Author:
Authors
- Naomi Duguid
- Jeffrey Alford
Dewey code: 641.595
List Price: $45.00
Price: $26.90
Review Mangoes & Curry Leaves: Culinary Travels Through the Great Subcontinent / Artisan:For this companion volume to the award-winning Hot Sour Salty Sweet, Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid travel west from Southeast Asia to that vast landmass the colonial British called the Indian Subcontinent. It includes not just India, but extends north to Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal and as far south as Sri Lanka, the island nation so devastated by the recent tsunami. For people who love food and cooking, this vast region is a source of infinite variety and eye-opening flavors. Home cooks discover the Tibetan-influenced food of Nepal, the Southeast Asian tastes of Sri Lanka, the central Asian grilled meats and clay-oven breads of the northwest frontier, the vegetarian cooking of the Hindus of southern India and of the Jain people of Gujarat. It was just twenty years ago that cooks began to understand the relationships between the multifaceted cuisines of the Mediterranean; now we can begin to do the same with the foods of the Subcontinent.
Publication date: 1998-05
Dewey code: 394.10972
Price: $37.50
Review Que Vivan Los Tamales: Food and the Making of Mexican Identity (Dialogos (Univ of New Mexico Pr)) / University of New Mexico Press:Connections between what people eat and who they are-between cuisine and identity-reach deep into Mexican history, beginning with pre-Columbian inhabitants offering sacrifices of human flesh to maize gods in hope of securing plentiful crops. This cultural history of food in Mexico traces the influence of gender, race, and class on food preferences from Aztec times to the present and relates cuisine to the formation of national identity. The metate and mano, used by women for grinding corn and chiles since pre-Columbian times, remained essential to preparing such Mexican foods as tamales, tortillas, and mole poblano well into the twentieth century. Part of the ongoing effort by intellectuals and political leaders to Europeanize Mexico was an attempt to replace corn with wheat. But native foods and flavors persisted and became an essential part of indigenista ideology and what it meant to be authentically Mexican after 1940, when a growing urban middle class appropriated the popular native foods of the lower class and proclaimed them as national cuisine.
Publication date: 2009-04-01
List Price: $19.95
Price: $19.95
Review The Man Who Ate Toronto / Madison Press Books:As a young man in England, James Chatto had worked as a waiter, dishwasher, and occasional cook. As a boy, he had learned about restaurants from his godfather, the actor Robert Morley, who was also a food critic for Punch and Playboy. When he came to Canada in the early 1980s he decided to parlay his appetite and experience into a career and began writing about restaurants for Toronto Life Magazine. Since then he has spent most of his nights, and not a few of his days, in Toronto’s culinary demi-monde, chronicling an extraordinary transformation. Over a period of twenty years, Torontonians, newly affluent and increasingly well traveled, discovered the world of food and wine. Eating out became a form of recreation. Hundreds of new restaurants opened their doors, and some of the people who created them became celebrities. In certain circles it began to matter whether you had been to Franco’s new place, had tasted Sasur’s latest invention, or could spell radicchio. This is a book about how the restaurant business became show business, and about the tycoons, artists, dilettantes, journeymen cooks, gifted gastronomical junkies, and ambitious entrepreneurs who made it happen. It is about fortunes made and lost, reputations built and squandered, written by a man who observed these events from the best seat in the house. [+]James Chatto brings to his a cosmopolitan objectivity and an Englishman’s irreverence. The result is a perceptive, sometimes funny, often poignant memoir in which the reader joins the writer as he makes his rounds, eating, hanging out with chefs and maître d’s, and eavesdropping on the late-night gossip of waiters. The Man Who Ate Toronto - like a fine wine or an unforgettable meal is meant to be savoured and shared. From the Hardcover edition.
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Portrait of a Chef (Midway Reprint Series), Offbeat Food: Adventures In An Omnivorous World, Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome, Ruby Slippers Cookbook: Life, Culture, Family and Food After Katrina, History of Bread, Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination, Cooking by Hand, The Story of Tea: A Cultural History and Drinking Guide, Portrait of a Chef (Midway Reprint Series), Dish: Memories, Recipes and Delicious Bites, All Manners of Food: Eating and Taste in England and France from the Middle Ages to the Present, The Improved Housewife: Or Book of Receipts With Engravings for Marketing and Carving, Short order: Portland's 100 best good-for-cheap restaurants, Wine and the good life,: By Angelo M. Pellegrini, Homegrown in the Ozarks: Mountain Meals and Memories, Charleston choices: Restaurants and recipes, Twelve o'clock lunch: The astonishing truth regarding the filthy and unsanitary conditions existing in the hotels, restaurants and lunch rooms : this is ... 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