Cooking - History

Samurai have fired our imagination with their fighting spirit and heroic deeds ever since Europeans set foot on Japanese shores during the middle of the 16th century. But what was the fuel on which these men ran? What was in their stomachs as they...

Step into the world of gastronomy and indulge in the pleasures of the table with this delightful almanac of good eating. Written by food writer B.E. Hill, The Epicure's Almanac is a veritable feast of recipes, menus, and food lore. From oyster patties to...

An early description of a cocktail as 'a mix of alcoholic drinks with flavoring ingredients' does nothing to convey the alchemy and speakeasy glamour of these elaborate drinks. The cocktail's humble beginnings as a medicinal tonic through the inclusion of botanicals into distilled spirits...

Taking readers back to the Spanish Habsburg court, this critical edition and translation of Arte de cocina presents a nuanced understanding of what foods were prepared and consumed during a monumental time in Spain's culinary history. Author: Francisco Monti?oISBN-10: 1487549377ISBN-13: 9781487549374Publisher: University of Toronto...

A rollicking biography of a pioneering American woman and one of our greatest culinary figures In Hometown Appetites, Kelly Alexander and Cynthia Harris come together to revive the legacy of the most important food writer you have never heard of. Clementine Paddleford was a...

Cooking For Profit: A New American Cookbook Adapted For The Use Of All Who Serve Meals For A Price (1893) is a comprehensive guide for anyone looking to start a food business or improve their existing one. Written by Whitehead and Jessup, experienced chefs...

Marion Harland's Cook Book Of Tried And Tested Recipes (1907) is a comprehensive guide to cooking and baking, written by the renowned American author and food writer, Marion Harland. The book contains over 600 recipes, ranging from classic American dishes to international cuisine, and...

Taste, perhaps the most intimate of the five senses, has traditionally been considered beneath the concern of philosophy, too bound to the body, too personal and idiosyncratic. Yet, in addition to providing physical pleasure, eating and drinking bear symbolic and aesthetic value in human...

New York, the city of money, glass, and concrete, seems like no kind of place to produce food. Yet in this smart, funny, and beautifully written book, Robin Shulman places today's urban food production in the context of hundreds of years of history, tracing...

Jeremy Jackson has four goals: Make cornbread one word. Once and for all. Have cornbread named the official bread of the United States. Find a wife. Think outside the box of cornmeal about the Possibilities, potentialities, and promises of cornbread. Cornbread is the American...

Jonny Garrett, cofounder of the YouTube sensation Craft Beer Channel, travels in search of the deeper cultural impact of brewing--how it has shaped our lives and helped build the modern taproom What's the oldest and most consumed alcoholic beverage on earth? Beer, of course....

There is no more celebrated cookbook in Ireland than Maura Laverty's Full & Plenty and now Mercier brings this selection of recipes to a new audience. The original 500-page text with its 300 recipes has been edited to a short, usable and practical 160-page...

Equal parts writer's guide, comedy, and historical cookbook, fantasy author Krista D. Ball takes readers on a journey into the depths of epic fantasy's obsession with rabbit stew and teaches them how to catch the blasted creatures, how to move armies across enemy territories...

Gala and Honeycrisp. Pink Lady and Pacific Rose. King Luscious and Winesap. The names of apples are as juicy as the fruit itself. One of the most widely distributed fruits on the planet, apples have always meant something beyond food and drink--their seeds have...

The surprising, spicy story of this globe-trotting vegetable protein staple. To the untrained eye, there's nothing as unexciting as tofu, normally regarded as a tasteless, beige, congealed mass of crushed, boiled soybeans. However, tofu more than stands up on its own. Reviled for decades...

Now in paperback, Cake Boss is the New York Times bestselling life story of Buddy Valastro, the star of the hit TLC show, Cake Boss, and master baker of Carlo's Bake Shop, the Hoboken, New Jersey institution that he runs with the help of...

Discover the transformative power of "Survival Food: South African Pioneer Cuisine" - a culinary odyssey that will take you on a journey through history, heritage, and the unifying force of food.Unleash the benefits of reading this book: learn about the resilience and resourcefulness of...

During wartime, families were often encouraged to adopt more frugal cooking habits to conserve resources. Nevada Davis Hitchcock's book provides practical recipes and tips for making the most of your ingredients, without sacrificing flavor.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important,...

The essential reference for steak lovers. An encyclopaedic yet accessible journey through the world of chefs, farmers, butchers and restaurants, Steak is the essential guide for enthusiasts improving their kitchen skills or diners chasing the greatest steaks around the world. With stories, recipes, traditional...

Fancy a tipple? Then pull up a stool, raise a glass, and dip into this delightful paean to the grand old saloon days of yore. Written by Chicago-based journalist, playwright, and all-round wit George Ade in the waning years of Prohibition, The Old-Time Saloon...

2018 James Beard Foundation Book of the Year 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner inWriting Nominee for the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction #75 on The Root100 2018A renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on our most divisive cultural issue, race,...

Tib's Tit-Bits: Two Hundred and Thirty-One Recipes is a cookbook originally published in 1869 by Frances Freeling Broderip. The book contains a collection of 231 recipes for a variety of dishes, including soups, fish, meats, vegetables, desserts, and beverages. The recipes are presented in...

A historian reveals the illuminating history of milk, from ancient myth to modern grocery store How did an animal product that spoils easily, carries disease, and causes digestive trouble for many of its consumers become a near-universal symbol of modern nutrition? In the first...

The egg is a paradox--both alive and not alive--and a symbol as old as culture itself. In this wide-ranging and delightful journey through its natural and cultural history, Lizzie Stark explores the egg's deep meanings, innumerable uses, and metabolic importance through a dozen dazzling...

This vintage book contains a complete guide to taxidermy, with instructions for trapping, tanning, fleshing, mounting, and all other related aspects. Complete with detailed diagrams and a wealth of useful tips, this classic handbook is highly recommended for the beginner, and would make for...

Imparting all the warmth and fragrance of an old-fashioned, turn-of-the-century kitchen, The Settlement Cook Book was originally devised as a cooking and homemaking primer for newly arrived immigrants. Filled with hundreds of recipes for good eating, this back-to-basics book is also good reading. A...

The book ""A Leechbook or Collection of Medical Recipes of the Fifteenth Century"" was written by Warren R. Dawson and was published in 1934. The book is a compilation of medical recipes from the fifteenth century, which were used by physicians and healers during...

This updated edition features recipes from the world's greatest mixologists, including 107 classic gin and vodka Martinis, more than 110 Modern Martinis, and a directory of the world's best Martini loungesShaken Not Stirred(R) celebrates the Martini--the quintessential cocktail, the crowning jewel of civilized decadence....

This is a delicious read for any cookery enthusiast or historian. Recipes are extensively illustrated with text and full page photographs. Contents Include: Off to a Good Start, Menus, Meats, Soups and Accessories, Salads, Fish, Canap s and Appetizers, Poultry, Vegetables, Eggs and Cheese,...

"I wrote this book to extol the pleasures of my own habit of afternoon tea in the hope of drawing others into it." "Wars have been waged, royal marriages arranged, companies formed, and world problems solved over a perfect cup of tea. It's neither...

The Virginia Cookery Book, written by Mary Stuart Smith and originally published in 1912, is a comprehensive guide to traditional Southern cuisine. The book covers a wide range of dishes, from classic Virginia ham and biscuits to more elaborate desserts and preserves. The recipes...

The Appledore Cookbook is a culinary guidebook written by Maria Parloa and published in 1880. The book contains a wide range of practical recipes for both plain and rich cooking, including soups, meats, vegetables, desserts, and preserves. The author provides detailed instructions for each...

A special limited edition to celebrate the 275th Anniversary of the Amer. Philosophical Soc. (APS), which was founded by Benjamin Franklin. The accidental discovery in the Franklin Papers of a set of cooking recipes and the many allusions to food scattered through Ben Franklin's...

During the Depression, the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) dispatched scribes to sample the fare at group eating events like church dinners, political barbecues, and clambakes. Its America Eats project sought nothing less than to sample, and report upon, the tremendous range of foods eaten...

My Summer In The Kitchen is a memoir written by Hetty Athon Morrison in 1878, recounting her experiences working in the kitchen of a wealthy family during the summer of 1877. The book provides a detailed account of the daily routines, challenges, and joys...

Winner, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards - Food - Food Heritage - USA Nominee, Book Award in Food Issues and Advocacy, James Beard Foundation The Italian political right is outraged by halal tortellini and a pork-free lasagna served at the Vatican. In India, Hindu fundamentalists...

Winner, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards - Food - Food Heritage - USA Nominee, Book Award in Food Issues and Advocacy, James Beard Foundation The Italian political right is outraged by halal tortellini and a pork-free lasagna served at the Vatican. In India, Hindu fundamentalists...

A rare and beautiful gem of a cookbook, Purple Citrus and Sweet Perfume celebrates the succulent cuisine of the Eastern Mediterranean, a land rich in multi-cultural Ottoman tradition. Popular British chef Silvena Rowe gives us a beautifully designed, lavishly photographed compendium of inspiring and...

One of The New Yorker's Best Cookbooks of 2020! A meticulously researched, beautifully written, and richly photographed cookbook celebrating the recipes, ingenuity, history, and heritage of British baking. "Regula Ysewijn blends history and recipes in the most delectable way, with traditional cakes, buns, ppies,...

Michael Pollan, the bestselling author of The Omnivore's Dilemma, Food Rules, How to Change Your Mind, and This is Your Mind on Plants explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen in Cooked. "Having described what's wrong with American food in his best-selling...

Celebrated Portland chef Bonnie Frumkin Morales brings her acclaimed Portland restaurant Kachka into your home kitchen with a debut cookbook enlivening Russian cuisine with an emphasis on vibrant, locally sourced ingredients. "With Kachka, Bonnie Morales has done something amazing: thoroughly update and modernize Russian...

The only reporter present at the mythic Paris Tasting of 1976 for the first time introduces the eccentric American winemakers and records the tremendous aftershocks of this historic event that changed forever the world of wine. The Paris Tasting of 1976 will forever be...

The authors of the international bestseller Wine and War chronicle the untold dramatic history of Champagne from the 13th century through the crucibles of two world wars to the 21st centuryThroughout history, waves of invaders including Franks, Visigoths, Burgundians, Merovingians, Barbarians, Alamanshave swept across...

"I grew up in Via dei Cappellari, a dingy, narrow street of Camp di Fiori in Rome. Every morning, I woke up to the sound of the market carts rattling on the cobblestones, as they made their way to the market, laden with tightly...

The most favored Dutch cookbook of the seventeenth century, The Sensible Cook (De Verstandige Kock) had a major impact on the foodways of the Dutch in the Netherlands and in their New World territories. As a part of the larger work, The Pleasurable Country...

"A hilarious and insightful journey into the world of restaurant meals."--Mario Batali "Nobody goes to restaurants for nutritional reasons. They go for the experience. And what price a really top experience?" What price indeed? Fearlessly, and with great wit and verve, award-winning restaurant critic...

A food writer travels the Silk Road, immersing herself in a moveable feast of foods and cultures and discovering some surprising truths about commitment, independence, and love. As a newlywed traveling in Italy, Jen Lin-Liu was struck by culinary echoes of the delicacies she...

The Potato tells the story of how a humble vegetable, once regarded as trash food, had as revolutionary an impact on Western history as the railroad or the automobile. Using Ireland, England, France, and the United States as examples, Larry Zuckerman shows how daily...

This book has been deemed as a classic and has stood the test of time. The book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations.Author: UnknownISBN-10: 9352971809ISBN-13:...

Mrs Beeton's classic book of needlework. This is the complete fully illustrated edition.Author: Isabella Mary BeetonISBN-10: 1849026785ISBN-13: 9781849026789Publisher: Benediction ClassicsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/02/2010Pages: 610Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.34lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.50d