Authors
- Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat
Publication date: 2008-11-10
Dewey code: 641
List Price: $34.95
Price: $19.59
Review A History of Food / Wiley-Blackwell:The story of cuisine and the social history of eating is a fascinating one, and Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat covers all its aspects in this classic history. New expanded edition of a classic book, originally published to great critical acclaim from RaymondBlanc, The New York Times, The Sunday Telegraph, The Independent and more Tells the story of man’s relationship with food from earliest times to the present day Includes a new foreword by acclaimed food writer Betty Fussell, a preface by the author, updated bibliography, and a new chapter bringing the story up to date New edition in jacketed hardback, with c. 70 illustrations and a new glossy color plate section "Indispensable, and an endlessly fascinating book. The view is staggering. Not a book to digest at one or several sittings. Savor it instead, one small slice at a time, accompanied by a very fine wine. " New York Times"This book is not only impressive for the knowledge it provides, it is unique in its integration of historical anecdotes and factual data. It is a marvellous reference to a great many topics. " Raymond Blanc"Quirky, encyclopaedic, and hugely entertaining. A delight. [+]" Sunday Telegraph"It's the best book when you are looking for very clear but interesting stories. Everything is cross-referenced to an extraordinary degree, which is great because the information given is so complex and interweaving. " The Independent"A History of Food is a monumental work, a prodigious feat of careful scholarship, patient research and attention to detail. Full of astonishing but insufficiently known facts. " Times Higher Education Supplement.
Authors
- Mike Blakely
- Steven Anderson Law
- Terry Alexander
- John Duncklee
- Rolland Love
- Larry J. Martin
- John D. Nesbitt
- W. C. Jameson
- Jory Sherman
Dewey code: 641
List Price: $19.95
Price: $19.95
Review Deer Camp Tales & Recipes / Goldminds Publishing LLC:Every deer season has a story, and these award-winning authors have one of their own. Authors from all over America share their affinity for nature, their mother land, and the thrill of the hunt. The stories will take you to Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and to the Ozarks and plains of Missouri. Included with each essay are mouth watering recipes of some of the grub they devour in camp, or back at home. Recipes include: Stuffed Venison Backstrap, Tenderloin Stew, Snappy Venison Burgers, Bayou Scrambled Eggs, Hillbilly Jim's Hot and Sour Soup, and Aunt Erna's Raisin Filled Cookies.
Publication date: 2007-03-29
Dewey code: 394.1
List Price: $50.00
Price: $20.25
Review Feast: Why Humans Share Food / Oxford University Press, USA:For the majority of creatures on this earth, the elements of our first meals together-a flashing fire, bared teeth, a quantity of food placed in the center of a group of hungry animals-spell trouble in a myriad of ways. For us, the idea of a group of people coming together for a meal seems like the most natural thing in the world. The family dinner, a client luncheon, a holiday spread-a huge part of our social lives is spent eating in company. How did eating together become such a common occurrence for man? In Feast, archaeologist Martin Jones presents both historic and modern scientific evidence to illuminate how humans first came to share food and the ways in which the human meal has developed since that time. He also shows how our culture of feasting has had far-reaching consequences for human social evolution. By studying the activities of our closest relatives, chimpanzees, and unearthing ancient hearths, some over 30,000 years old, scientists have been able to piece together a picture of how our ancient ancestors found, killed, cooked, and divided food supplies. They have also created a timeline showing the introduction of increasingly advanced tools and sophisticated social customs. In sites uncovered all over the world, fragments of bone, remnants of charred food, pieces of stone or clay serving vessels, and the outlines of ancient halls tell the story of how we slowly developed the complex traditions of eating we recognize in our own societies today. Jones takes on a tour of the most fascinating sites and artifacts that have been discovered, and shows us how archeologists are able to make their fascination conclusions. In addition, he traces the rise of such recent phenomena as biscuits, "going out to eat," and the Thanksgiving-themed TV dinner. [+]From the earliest evidence of human consumption around half a million years ago to the era of the drive-through diner, this fascinating account unfolds the history of the human meal and its huge impact on human society.
Creator: Sandra Oliver
Edition: With more than 250 Recipes
Publication date: 2008-11-08
Dewey code: 641.5975
List Price: $30.00
Price: $15.00
Review Hearthside Cooking: Early American Southern Cuisine Updated for Today's Hearth and Cookstove / The University of North Carolina Press:Foreword by Sandra Oliver; with more than 250 recipes. For cooks who want to experience a link to culinary history, Hearthside Cooking is a treasure trove of early American delights. First published in 1986, it has become a standard guide for museum interpreters and guides, culinary historians, historical re-enactors, campers, scouts, and home cooks interested in foodways and experimenting with new recipes and techniques. Hearthside Cooking contains recipes for more than 250 historic dishes, including breads, soups, entrées, cakes, custards, sauces, and more. For each dish, Nancy Carter Crump provides two sets of instructions, so dishes can be prepared over the open fire or using modern kitchen appliances. For novice hearthside cooks, Crump offers specific tips for proper hearth cooking, including fire construction, safety, tools, utensils, and methods. More than just a cookbook, Hearthside Cooking also includes information about the men and women who wrote the original recipes, which Crump discovered by scouring old Virginia cookbooks, hand-written receipt books, and other primary sources in archival collections. With this new edition, Crump includes additional information on African American foodways, how the Civil War affected traditional southern food customs, and the late-nineteenth-century transition from hearth to stove cooking. Hearthside Cooking offers twenty-first-century cooks an enjoyable, informative resource for traditional cooking.
Creator: Jonathan Deutsch
Publication date: 2008-11-14
Dewey code: 641
List Price: $29.95
Price: $19.53
Review Gastropolis: Food and New York City (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History) / Columbia University Press: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 irresistible sampling of the city's rich food heritage, Gastropolis explores the personal and historical relationship between New Yorkers and food. Beginning with the origins of cuisine combinations, such as Mt. Olympus bagels and Puerto Rican lasagna, the book describes the nature of food and drink before the arrival of Europeans in 1624 and offers a history of early farming practices. Essays trace the function of place and memory in Asian cuisine, the rise of Jewish food icons, the evolution of food enterprises in Harlem, the relationship between restaurant dining and identity, and the role of peddlers and markets in guiding the ingredients of our meals. They share spice-scented recollections of Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx, and colorful vignettes of the avant-garde chefs, entrepreneurs, and patrons who continue to influence the way New Yorkers eat. Touching on everything from religion, nutrition, and agriculture to economics, politics, and psychology, Gastropolis tells a story of immigration, amalgamation, and assimilation. This rich interplay between tradition and change, individual and society, and identity and community could happen only in New York.
Edition: 2
Publication date: 2007-08-16
Dewey code: 641
List Price: $25.95
Price: $19.72
Review Introduccion A La Historia De La Gastronomia/ Introduction To The Gastronomy History:
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 2007-10-16
Dewey code: 641.50922
List Price: $39.95
Price: $20.24
Review My Last Supper: 50 Great Chefs and Their Final Meals / Portraits, Interviews, and Recipes / Bloomsbury USA:Annie Leibovitz meets Heat in this award-winning photographer’s stunning celebration of world-famous chefs and their final meals. Chefs have been playing the “My Last Supper” game among themselves for decades, if not centuries, but it had always been kept within the profession until now. Melanie Dunea came up with the ingenious idea to ask fifty of the world’s famous chefs to let her in on this insider’s game and tell her what their final meals would be. My Last Supper showcases their fascinating answers alongside stunning Vanity Fair–style portraits. Their responses are surprising, refreshing, and as distinct from each other as the chefs themselves. The portraits—gorgeous, intimate, and playful—are informed by their answers and reveal the passions and personalities of the most respected names in the business. Lastly, one recipe from each landmark meal is included in the back of the book. With My Last Supper, Dunea found a way into the typically harried, hidden minds of the people who have turned preparing food into an art. Who wouldn’t want to know where Alain Ducasse would like his supper to be? And who would prepare Daniel Boulud’s final meal? What would Anthony Bourdain’s guest list look like? As the clock ticked, what album would Gordon Ramsay be listening to? And just what would Mario Batali eat for the last time? Featuring: Ferrán Adrià, José Andrés, Dan Barber, Lidia Bastianich, Mario Batali, Rick Bayless, Michelle Bernstein, Daniel Boulud, Anthony Bourdain, Scott Conant, Gary Danko, Hélène Darroze, Alain Ducasse, Wylie Dufresne, Suzanne Goin, Gabrielle Hamilton, Fergus Henderson, Thomas Keller, Giorgio Locatelli, Masa Kobayashi, Nobu, Jamie Oliver, Jacques Pepin, Gordon Ramsay, Michel Richard, Eric Ripert, Marcus Samuelsson, Charlie Trotter, Jean-Georges Vongerichten and more….
Authors
- The Junior League of Chicago; IL
Dewey code: 641.59
List Price: $29.95
Price: $19.76
Review Peeling the Wild Onion / The Cookbook Marketplace:The culinary culture of the city of Chicago.
Publication date: 2003-10
Dewey code: 641
List Price: $11.95
Price: $19.95
Review Ham / Asppan:
Publication date: 2009-05-01
Dewey code: 338.76635
List Price: $29.99
Price: $19.79
Review The King of Vodka: The Story of Pyotr Smirnov and the Upheaval of an Empire / Collins Business:
Publication date: 2007-10-30
Dewey code: 641.5941
List Price: $34.95
Price: $19.95
Review Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking / Bloomsbury USA:A fascinating history of how Britain learned to cook, from prehistory to the modern age. Written with a storyteller’s flair and packed with astonishing facts, Taste is a sumptuous social history of Britain told through the development of its cooking. It encompasses royal feasts and street food, the skinning of eels and the making of strawberry jelly, mixing tales of culinary stars with those of the invisible hordes cooking in kitchens across the land. Beginning before Roman times, the book journeys through the ingredients, equipment, kitchens, feasts, fads, and famines of the British; it covers the piquancy of Norman cuisine, the influx of undreamed-of spices and new foods from the East and the New World, the Tudor pumpkin pie that journeyed with the founding fathers to become America’s national dish, the austerity of rationing during World War II, and the birth of convenience foods and take-away, right up to the age of Nigella Lawson, Heston Blumenthal, and Jamie Oliver. The first trade book to tell the story of British cooking—which is, of course, the history that led up to American colonial cooking as well—Taste shows that kitchens are not only places of steam, oil, and sweat, but of politics, invention, cultural exchange, commerce, conflict, and play.
Edition: Facsimile
Publication date: 2007-12-30
Dewey code: 641
List Price: $30.00
Price: $19.85
Review 'Wyvern' (Colonel Arthur Robert Kenney-herbert): Culinary Jottings for Madras: a Facsimile of the 1885 Edition / Prospect Books (UK):'Wyvern' was a colonel in the Indian Army and long resident of Madras who whiled away his spare time writing about cookery in the Madras Athenaeum and Daily News. The upshot of his interesting hobby was this book, which set out to instruct the memsahibs of the day in the best ways to cope with Indian kitchen staff and cooking arrangements and in how to produce decent English and French food with local ingredients and imported supplies. It is a fascinating hybrid, for it tells the modern reader a great deal about Anglo-Indian cookery while providing a matchless description of Victorian haute cuisine. There is possibly no better introduction to good cookery than this book. So talented a teacher was 'Wyvern' that when he came home to Britain he set up a successful cookery school in London. His subsequent books, most notably Commonsense Cookery, were also models of their type, though in many respects never improved on his first attempt, published here. Leslie Forbes has contributed a bravura introduction. The chapters cover every aspect of the kitchen, from the cook and his management, the store-room, and the batterie de cuisine, to all dishes suitable for dainty dining. Chapters on 'Our Curries,' 'Camp Cookery,' and 'Our Kitchens in India' are also included. Extensive model menus for parties of six or eight people or for 'Little Home Dinners' round out the volume. [+]Elizabeth David once said of this book: "I should recommend anyone with a taste for Victorian gastronomic literature to snap [Wyvern's recipes] up. His recipes are so meticulous and clear that the absolute beginner could follow them, yet at the same time he has much to teach the experienced cook.
Publication date: 2008-10-20
Dewey code: 641
List Price: $29.95
Price: $19.77
Review Famosos postres franceses/ Famous French desserts / Vergara & Riba:
Publication date: 2005-01-01
Dewey code: 641
List Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00
Review A Beer History: A Day at a Time Through the Year / Whitmore Publishing:When you take that first pleasing sip of your favorite brew, do you ever wonder where it came from? Not who made it or where it was bottled, but where and how beer itself was born. You might think of German or British brewers, but A Beer History: A Day at a Time Through the Year takes you back to beer’s earliest beginnings—ancient Sumeria, some four to six thousand years ago. Did you know… - As Noah made preparations for the ark, beer was there; Assyrian tablets show that he took ale aboard to sustain his family. - Sophocles wrote that a balanced diet should include bread, meat, vegetables, and a daily beer. - March 1, 1916: Pabst seemed to predict prohibition with the release of its non-alcoholic near-beer, Pablo. - April 7, 1933: Budweiser Clydesdales made their first promotional appearance. - July 28, 2003: Merriam-Webster dictionary would include the term “longneck. ” Learn more facts like these, from the mundane (January 10, 1935: first beer can introduced) to the fantastic (December 28, 2001: Fort Myers, FL, neighborhood menaced by beer-guzzling raccoons), in this unique handbook. Read it like a traditional book, for fast facts, or as a day-at-a-time history. Each chapter presents a month’s worth of beer data, day by day, and so much more. [+]With its wealth of trivia on licensing, taxes, breweries, founders and namesakes, and innovations, A Beer History is a perfect tool for entertainment and enlightenment, showing the prominent role played, throughout the ages and across cultures, by our favorite brew.
Publication date: 2007-02-19
Dewey code: 641
List Price: $19.95
Price: $19.94
Review All-American Frank:: A History of the Hot Dog / PublishAmerica:Hot dogs were ranked as America’s third-favorite food in 1994 behind pizza and sandwiches. Every year, Americans eat about twenty billion hot dogs. Between Memorial Day and Labor Day alone this year, Americans will eat seven billion hot dogs, reports Oscar Mayer. If these hot dogs were laid end to end, they would form a link of dogs 500 times longer than the distance between California and New York. In All-American Frank: A History of the Hot Dog, you get the inside story of the history, manufacture, marketing, cooking, selling, and consumption of frankfurters. It’s a frank (pun intended) appraisal of the hot dog’s many roles in nutrition, cuisine, the food industry, and American popular culture. The book covers the development and rising popularity of the hot dog. It also presents recipes, both for making your own hot dogs and for using store-bought franks as a cooking ingredient.
Creator: Hattie Ellis
Publication date: 2005-10-30
Dewey code: 641
List Price: $30.00
Price: $21.00
Review Sussex Recipe Book: With a Few Excursions into Kent (Southover Press Historic Cookery and Housekeeping) / Southover Press: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. The author was lucky to own a large collection of cookery books herself and luckier that in those days, many local families still kept family recipe books. Many of the mouth-watering dishes in this collection go back to the early 18th century and even earlier. In addition to the recipes, the book includes an introduction by contemporary food writer and broadcaster Hattie Ellis as well as a note by Catherine Mant, grandaughter of the author and former Assistant Editor of The Good Food Guide.
Edition: 2
Publication date: 2001-06
Dewey code: 641
List Price: $24.60
Price: $19.93
Review LA Cocina De Los Antropologos (Los 5 Sentidos) / Tusquets:
Publication date: 2001-03
Dewey code: 641
List Price: $19.95
Price: $19.95
Review Libations of the Eighteenth Century: A Concise Manual for the Brewing of Authentic Beverages from the Colonial Era of America, and of Times Past / Universal Publishers:A manual dedicated to recreating the brewed beverages that existed in the American Colonies. All of the historic recipes were documented as dating from 1800 or earlier, and all were taste-tested. The book consists of more than fifty recipes for ale, beer, mead, hard cider, and mixed drinks, including an award winning recipe for porter. Along with the recipes is a how-to chapter on brewing. There is an additional chapter on non-alcoholic brews, such as tea and coffee, and herbalsubstitutes for both. Plus, a section on making non-alcoholic beer, and carbonated soft drinks.
Creator: Peter Campbell
Publication date: 2004-10
Dewey code: 641
List Price: $27.00
Price: $22.96
Review Mourjou: The Life and Food of an Auvergne Village / David Brown Book Company:This classic account of life, food and cookery in a village in the Auvergne by a long-tome British resident is here published in paperback. It was first published in hardback by Viking in 1998. The remarkable fusion between life, the produce of the countryside and the food on the table that is Auvergne continues as it has done fore generations. The season dictate the rhythm of activity on the filed and the kitchen as well as the relationships between households and families. For twenty years Peter Graham has been part of this community, discovering its countryside, traditions, markets, kitchen and the warmth of the local people, sharing its rustic idyll and, most importantly, its great passion for food. Auvergnat cooks have learned how to get the very best from their land and their local traditions have molded their recipes. In this delightful portrait of a community, there are included many Auvergne dishes such as stuffed cabbage, a saffron-flavored stew of medieval origin and a curd cheese tart as well as a full account of stockfish (unsalted wind-dried cod), a remarkable survival from the centuries of English occupation under the Black Prince. In Maurjour, Peter Graham interweaves history, folklore and gastronomy to capture the full richness and flavor of this distinctive and varied region. 20 b/w drawings.
Publication date: 2002
Review The Best Tar Heel Barbecue: Manteo to Murphy / Best Tar Heel Barbecue Manteo to Murphy:
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A History of Food, Deer Camp Tales & Recipes, Feast: Why Humans Share Food, Hearthside Cooking: Early American Southern Cuisine Updated for Today's Hearth and Cookstove, Gastropolis: Food and New York City (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History), Introduccion A La Historia De La Gastronomia/ Introduction To The Gastronomy History, My Last Supper: 50 Great Chefs and Their Final Meals / Portraits, Interviews, and Recipes, Peeling the Wild Onion, Ham, The King of Vodka: The Story of Pyotr Smirnov and the Upheaval of an Empire, Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking, 'Wyvern' (Colonel Arthur Robert Kenney-herbert): Culinary Jottings for Madras: a Facsimile of the 1885 Edition, Famosos postres franceses/ Famous French desserts, A Beer History: A Day at a Time Through the Year, All-American Frank:: A History of the Hot Dog, Sussex Recipe Book: With a Few Excursions into Kent (Southover Press Historic Cookery and Housekeeping), LA Cocina De Los Antropologos (Los 5 Sentidos), Libations of the Eighteenth Century: A Concise Manual for the Brewing of Authentic Beverages from the Colonial Era of America, and of Times Past, Mourjou: The Life and Food of an Auvergne Village, The Best Tar Heel Barbecue: Manteo to MurphyTop headlines: Insurance may soon cover maggot therapy: Maggot therapy has received a boost from the medical establishment that could make it easier for patients and doctors to get insurance reimbursement for this treatment. ›22:43 19 Nov, Wed Yellowstone reverts to more snowmobiles: Yellowstone National Park will let in 720 snowmobiles a day the same as the past three winters while officials try to form a long-term access plan. ›22:33 18 Nov, Tue New penguin found, 500 years after extinction: Researchers studying a rare and endangered species of penguin have uncovered a previously unknown species that disappeared about 500 years ago. ›14:32 19 Nov, Wed Bush to sign legislation to extend jobless aid: Because of the tight job market, the White House says President George W. 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