Cooking - History

Nestled between the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, and stretching from Hampton Roads to Assateague Island, Virginia's Eastern Shore is a distinctly southern place with an exceptionally southern taste. In this inviting narrative, Bernard L. Herman welcomes readers into the communities, stories, and...

Psyche A. Williams-Forson is one of our leading thinkers about food in America. In Eating While Black, she offers her knowledge and experience to illuminate how anti-Black racism operates in the practice and culture of eating. She shows how mass media, nutrition science, economics,...

Join Carole Bumpus and her husband in Book Three of the Savoring the Olde Ways series as they take you on their first culinary trek through Italy, including regions of Lombardy, Tuscany, Compania, Apulia, and Lazio. Embrace unforgettable characters such as lovely guides Lisa...

Gary Paul Nabhan takes the reader on a vivid and far-ranging journey across time and space in this fascinating look at the relationship between the spice trade and culinary imperialism. Drawing on his own family's history as spice traders, as well as travel narratives,...

Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance's inaugural compilation of Family Heirloom Recipes from the Illinois State Fair is in honor of the Illinois Bicentennial. Since 2009, we have sponsored family heirloom recipe contests at Midwestern state fairs.Contestants would enter their best scratch family heirloom recipe suitable...

An illustrated A-Z compendium of everything you need to know about whisky, from all over the world.This is the drinker's guide to every aspect of whisky, from Scotch to Japanese, rye to bourbon and beyond. With hundreds of entries covering everything from history, ingredients...

Unabridged reproduction of the 1895 Modern American Drinks bartenders guide, by George J. Kappeler.What a special book in many ways. Not only does it have five different Absinthe recipes (Straight, California Style, Dripped, Italian Style, and Swiss Style) with a warning never to serve...

Unabridged reproduction of the 1935 bar guide Bar La Florida Cocktails with a new introduction by Ross Bolton.Bar La Florida, also known as the "Floridita", made the Daiquiri famous, with a little help from Papa.Ernest "Papa" Hemingway, would meet friends like Spencer Tracy or...

How to cook and eat like the ancient Egyptians, from the author of My Egyptian Grandmother's Kitchen Judging from the evidence available from depictions of daily life on tombs and in historical texts, the ancient Egyptians were just as enthusiastic about good food and...

Unabridged reproduction of "Boothby's World Drinks and How to Mix Them" from 1907. This book, published before prohibition, has over 500 mixed drinks, including one of the first references of the 'Dry Martini' It is a fantastic "unabridged encyclopedia of all popular beverages" of...

With more breweries per capita than any other Oregon city, Bend is a beer mecca. Prior to Prohibition, the state had a burgeoning brewing industry and plenty of saloons to cater to the needs of the hardy frontiersmen who settled Central Oregon. The teetotaling...

Pull up a chair to the kitchen table and enjoy a delicious adventure through Bluegrass food history. Kentucky's cuisine can be traced back to Cherokee, Irish, Scottish, English and German roots, among others. A typical Kentucky meal might have the standarAuthor: Fiona Young-BrownISBN-10: 1626192634ISBN-13:...

300 delicious recipes that explore the fascinating Mayan cuisine and heritage in Guatemala and its surrounding countries by celebrated food historian and cook Copeland Marks.Author: Copeland MarksISBN-10: 1590772768ISBN-13: 9781590772768Publisher: M. Evans and CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/03/2014Pages: 408Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 8.96h x 6.08w x 1.20d

"Like many miniencyclopedias, this one is studded with often intriguing facts."--KirkusNew York Post Required Reading and an Entertainment Weekly Top 3 Must-Read!From the chief historian at HISTORY(R) comes a rich chronicle of the evolution of American cuisine and culture, from before Columbus's arrival to...

Now in paperback--Kitchen Confidential meets Heat in the first behind-the-scenes portrait of the world's most influential restaurant and the aspiring culinary geniuses who toiled to make it so exceptional. WHAT GOES ON BEHIND THE SCENES AT ELBULLI? Elected best restaurant in the world by...

First published by Yankee Magazine in 1977, this book remains the authority on how old-time brick ovens were designed and used. The book explains the evolution of the brick oven from the 17th through the 19th centuries, out lines the basic points to consider...

In little more than a century, industrial practices have altered every aspect of the cheesemaking process, from the bodies of the animals that provide the milk to the microbial strains that ferment it. Reinventing the Wheel explores what has been lost as raw-milk, single-farm...

Filled with classic recipes and inspirational stories, A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove will make you think twice about the food on your plate. Here is the first book to recount how American women have gathered, cooked, and prepared food for lovers, strangers,...

This engaging case study of food, conservation, and life during World War I brings alive the unparalleled, mostly voluntary efforts made by everyday Minnesotans to help win the war.Author: Rae Katherine EighmeyISBN-10: 0873517180ISBN-13: 9780873517188Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2010Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.94h...

Barbecue: It's America in a mouthful. The story of barbecue touches almost every aspect of our history. It involves indigenous culture, the colonial era, slavery, the Civil War, the settling of the West, the coming of immigrants, the Great Migration, the rise of the...

The Food of Campanile skillfully blends sophistication and simplicity, making the recipes not only mouthwatering but entirely approachable for the home cook. A Sampling of Recipes: - Cold Steamed Mussels with Marjoram Pesto - Baked Radicchio with Gorgonzola and Red Pears - Farro and...

With a uniquely balanced combination of salty, sweet, sour, and spicy flavors, Thai food burst onto Los Angeles's and America's culinary scene in the 1980s. Flavors of Empire examines the rise of Thai food and the way it shaped the racial and ethnic contours...

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, working-class Americans had eating habits that were distinctly shaped by jobs, families, neighborhoods, and the tools, utilities, and size of their kitchens--along with their cultural heritage. How the Other Half Ate is a deep exploration by...

In this authoritative and immensely readable insider's account, celebrated cookbook author and former chef Joyce Goldstein traces the development of California cuisine from its formative years in the 1970s to 2000, when farm-to-table, foraging, and fusion cooking had become part of the national vocabulary....

Hailed by critics on both sides of the Atlantic, The Bloodless Revolution is a comprehensive history of vegetarianism, draw[ing] the different strands of the subject together in a way that has never been done before (Keith Thomas, author of Man and the Natural World)."Author:...

The long journey of the potato, from Incan gardens in the Andes thousands of years ago to a NASA manned rocket destined for Mars in the twenty-first century The potato--humble, lumpy, bland, familiar--is a decidedly unglamorous staple of the dinner table. Or is it?...

Written by one of the world's leading authorities and hailed by American Brewer as "brilliant" and "by a wide margin the best reference now available," Beer offers an amusing and informative account of the art and science of brewing, examining the history of brewing...

Scholar and historian Kakuzō Okakura celebrates the history of tea and the Japanese tea ceremony in this classic text, and explores the connection of the Way of Tea to art, architecture, flowers, philosophy and religion. The Book of Tea is a delightful, meandering stroll...

Because of wartime rationing, World War II folks faced fresh challenges to feed their families. The thought of running out of food or not being able to make ends meet led to great effort-many of these citizens had not so long ago survived the...

Go down memory lane with epic vintage recipes from the 1970s The seventies were popularly referred to as the disco era and its cuisine left a memorable heritage If there were a yearbook of great foods from the 20th century, the popular cuisine of...

What do you get when you mix 19th-Century Southern recipes with a 21st-Century Southern historian? You get a unique volume entitled Vintage Southern Cookbook: 2,000 Delicious Dishes From Dixie, by award-winning Tennessee author Col. Lochlainn Seabrook!In his ongoing personal campaign to preserve authentic Southern...

Honeybees have been a part of Virginia's history since they arrived with the first European colonists. They were Jamestown's valuable addition and a Civil War soldier's sweet if painful temptation, and they served as homefront heroes when the world wars caused sugar shortages. In...

Caesar Country is a love letter to Canada by way of one cocktail--our cocktail--the Caesar. In this stunning book, Aaron Harowitz and Zack Silverman--co-founders of Walter Craft Caesar--take you on a deep and detailed dive through the art and science of Caesar making. They...

What do you get when you mix 19th-Century Southern recipes with a 21st-Century Southern historian? You get a unique volume entitled Vintage Southern Cookbook: 2,000 Delicious Dishes From Dixie, by award-winning Tennessee author Col. Lochlainn Seabrook!In his ongoing personal campaign to preserve authentic Southern...

A commemorative collection retracing the history of Les Amis d'Escoffier Society of Chicago from its founding dinner in 1936 through 2020. This book is a historical accounting of the Society's founding, a collection of its annual dinner menus and a historical chronology and photographs...

We are not born knowing what to eat; as omnivores it is something we each have to figure out for ourselves. From childhood onward, we learn how big a "portion" is and how sweet is too sweet. We learn to enjoy green vegetables --...

New York is the greatest restaurant city the world has ever seen. In Appetite City, the former New York Times restaurant critic William Grimes leads us on a grand historical tour of New York's dining culture. Beginning with the era when simple chophouses and...

The enthralling, definitive account -- with guns, diamonds, and champagne that never stops -- of the world's most storied nightspot, where starlets stalked millionaires, where Jack wooed Jackie, and where Walter Winchell snubbed the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.Author: Ralph BlumenthalISBN-10: 0316106178ISBN-13: 9780316106177Publisher: Back...

Not so long ago, Italian food was regarded as a poor man's gruel--little more than pizza, macaroni with sauce, and red wines in a box. Here, John Mariani shows how the Italian immigrants to America created, through perseverance and sheer necessity, an Italian-American food...

Embrace backcountry living at home with these delicious recipes inspired by life in the Rocky Mountains, from celebrated backcountry chef Katie Mitzel, bestselling author of The Skoki Cookbook. Nestled in and around the Rocky Mountains are a series of remote backcountry lodges offering the...

In his second in-depth foray into the world of professional cooking, Michael Ruhlman journeys into the heart of the profession. Observing the rigorous Certified Master Chef exam at the Culinary Institute of America, the most influential cooking school in the country, Ruhlman enters the...

Apicius (or De re coquinaria / De re culinaria) Cookbook is a collection of over 400 Roman cookery recipes translated into english. This edition has been translated and completed by cross analysing ancient latin editions, it includes the original Roman weights and volumes that...

"This book is meant to trace the long life stories of the fruits and vegetables we grow within the United States today 1968], where they came from, and, whenever possible, who were the dedicated men and women who developed them into the superior products...

This unique collection of Charleston memories and receipts is drawn from Rose P. Ravenel (1850-1943), daughter of a Huguenot planter, merchant, and ship owner, who kept notebooks throughout her life with stories of the Carolina Lowcountry as well as accounts of her family. During...

A detailed exploration of the foods of India through 200 recipes; organized by ethnic and geographic origin.Author: Copeland MarksISBN-10: 0871316722ISBN-13: 9780871316721Publisher: M. Evans and CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/05/1991Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.06w x 0.96d

This inescapably controversial study envisions, defines, and theorizes an area that Laura Wright calls vegan studies. We have an abundance of texts on vegans and veganism including works of advocacy, literary and popular fiction, film and television, and cookbooks, yet until now, there has...

From cookies and custards to savory dishes and salads, Rose shows that historical cooking--whether done over an open fire or on a stovetop--need not be a thing of the past. Rose includes an engaging overview of Dutch culinary history from the middle ages to...

The distinctive beverage of the Western world, bourbon is Kentucky's illustrious gift to the world of spirits. Although the story of American whiskey is recorded in countless lively pages of our nation's history, the place of bourbon in the American cultural record has long...

What is American food? From barbecue to Jell-O molds to burrito bowls, its history spans a vast patchwork of traditions, crazes, and quirks. A close look at these foods and the recipes behind them unearths a vivid map of American foodways: how Americans thought...

This enchanting follow-up to My Life in France--the beloved bestselling memoir--chronicles Julia Child's rise from home cook to the first celebrity chef. "Inspiring and engaging ... It's impossible not to love Julia Child." --The Wall Street JournalThe story of a remarkable woman who found...