Cooking - History

This monumental collection contains over 350 royalty-free illustrations of every conceivable activity concerned with the preparation and consumption of food and drink. Jim Harter, well-known commercial designer and collagist, has selected the most versatile and eye-catching material, mainly from rare nineteenth-century sources. These fine...

Cheese, wine, honey and olive oil - four of Greece's best known contributions to culinary culture - were already well known four thousand years ago. Remains of honeycombs and of cheeses have been found under the volcanic ash of the Santorini eruption of 1627...

Food has never been more exalted as part of a lifestyle, yet fewer and fewer people really know what good food is. Drawing on enough culinary experiences to fill several lifetimes, Gina Mallet's irreverent memoir combines recollections of meals and their milieus with recipes...

We are what we eat--not just physiologically, but culturally. This collection of cross-cultural, generational essays, and accompanying recipes shows the profound importance of food dishes within American women's lives. For people of every ethnicity, food provides much more than mere fuel for the body--it...

The success of the new settlements in what is now the United States depended on food. This book tells about the bounty that was here and how Europeans forged a society and culture, beginning with help from the Indians and eventually incorporating influences from...

Hailed as a classic when initially published in 1961, Eat Not This Flesh was the first book that explored, from a historical and cultural perspective, taboos against eating certain kinds of flesh. Frederick J. Simoons's research remains original and invaluable, the only attempt of...

This extra special edition, created in 2019, to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the first printed recipe for wedding cake, contains a reproduction of the first edition of the original cookbook from 1769; includes an Appendix with the additional recipes featured in the second...

An international celebrity and founder of molecular gastronomy, or the scientific investigation of culinary practice, Herv This is known for his ground-breaking research into the chemistry and physics behind everyday cooking. His work is consulted widely by amateur cooks and professional chefs and has...

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....

When did we first serve meals at regular hours? Why did we begin using individual plates and utensils to eat? When did "cuisine" become a concept and how did we come to judge food by its method of preparation, manner of consumption, and gastronomic...

Mark Kurlansky, bestselling author of Salt and Cod, serves up a smorgasbord of food writing through the ages, from Plato to Louis Prima Choice Cuts offers more than two hundred mouth-watering selections, including Brillat-Savarin on chocolate; Waverley Root on truffles; M. F. K. Fish...

View recipes from Food and Friends.The coauthor of Mastering the Art of French Cooking shares an irresistible feast of reminiscence and recipes. Simone "Simca" Beck first met Julia Child in 1949 in the women's cooking club Cercle des Gourmettes in Paris. Soon afterwards, the...

Traditional Country Life recipes appeal to the cook in all of us - recipes like grandma used to make, but with modern techniques, styles, clear step-by-step directions, and all natural ingredients. We have taken care to prepare basic, home-spun, down-to-earth recipes, elegant in their...

What is American cuisine? What national menu do we share? What dishes have we chosen, how did they become American, and how are they likely to evolve from here? In Food Americana, David Page answers all these questions and more. America is more than...

In this remarkable work, Rae Katherine Eighmey presents Franklin's delight and experimentation with food throughout his life. At age sixteen, he began dabbling in vegetarianism. In his early twenties, citing the health benefits of water over alcohol, he convinced his printing-press colleagues to abandon...

The only cocktail book you will ever need! "A handbook of classic cocktails essential to every host's repertoire." --Vogue "The ultimate guide to drinks-making for beginners. And the ultimate guide to making friends and influencing people.' Buzzfeed Want to master the art of mixology...

Gin is a global alcoholic drink that has polarized opinion like no other, and its history has been a roller coaster, alternating between being immensely popular and utterly unfashionable.The Weird and Wonderful Story of Gin explores the exciting, interesting and downright curious aspects of...

"In the most desolate and hopeless of circumstances, blacks caught in the grip of slavery often exhibited uncommon wisdom, beauty, strength and creativity. The kitchen was one place where their imagination and skill could have free rein and full expression, and they often excelled."Recipes...

Author: Tom StandageISBN-10: 8200096297ISBN-13: 9798200096299Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/25/2011Format: MP3 CDWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 6.69h x 5.35w x 0.63d

Have you heard that the way to a person's heart is through their stomach? Would you enjoy preparing meals for or with the one you love? Isn't Valentine's Day the best time to make that happens? Whether you are a single person, currently looking...

Is Anthimus' work "the oldest European medieval cookbook"? Well, it IS six centuries older than a twelfth century book that has been touted as exactly that. In the sixth century an Ostrogoth king sent a Byzantine physician to one of the Frankish courts where...

This cookbook is many things rolled into one, but four themes stand out: forgotten gems, a gathering of time travellers, culture appreciation, and sheer joy. There are cooks among us who would like to please an audience with a dish that they haven't had...

CONTENTS "In the beginning"--The coming of the nations Assyria and the other kingdoms of the "tawny men" Egypt and the Egyptians The "vegetable kingdom" of Ancient Egypt Greece before the age of luxury Rome in the days of her greatest prosperity The ancient Jews...

Brewed in 1859 near what is now the heart of downtown, Denver's first beer quenched the thirst of fortune hunters following the gold rush. It lubricated the city's transformation from Wild West town to the Queen City of the Plains until Prohibition broughAuthor: Jonathan...

Ultimate Persian cookbookTOP 111 Persian dishes that you can cook right now Learn to how cook DELICIOUS Persian recipes.Sabzi polo, Kookoo Shibzamini and original dolmah recipes inside Within these pages you will learn 111 authentic recipes from a Persian cook. These are not ordinary...

'In the kitchen, via the garden, I am often torn between theory and praxis, when surely the latter is all that matters here. Yet the largest bench, the one dividing the dining area from the kitchen itself, is never used for culinary preparation. It...

The Original Mediterranean Cuisine is both culinary history and cookbook, with 70 recipes from fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Catalan and Italian manuscripts, adapted for today's kitchens. Starting with the natural and cultural affinities of Mediterranean Europe, such that a medieval merchant from Italy could be...

The Boke of Keruynge is a handbook or manual for well-born boys in Tudor times who had to learn how to behave at court. They were often sent to court or to a great house at an early age to be instructed, as was...

Food trucks announcing "halal" proliferate in many urban areas but how many non-Muslims know what this means, other than cheap lunch? Here Middle Eastern historians Febe Armanios and Bogac Ergene provide an accessible introduction to halal (permissible) food in the Islamic tradition, exploring what...

Stories, anecdotes and recipes about Viennese cuisine.Everyone associates a certain impression with Viennese cuisine: Sacher Torte, Wiener Schnitzel, Gugelhupf and Kaiserschmarrn.But Viennese cuisine is much more than just a collection of recipes. Rather, it is a symbol of the Viennese's ability to enjoy the...

This book examines Chinese food and the culture of food consumption in East and Southeast Asia. Through the lens of food, the authors address recent theories in social science concerning cultural identity, ethnicity, boundary formation, consumerism and globalization, and the invention of local cuisine...

Winner of the Louis Gottschalk PrizeWinner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize "Witty and full of fascinating details."--Los Angeles Times Why are there restaurants? Why would anybody consider eating alongside perfect strangers in a loud and crowded room to be an enjoyable pastime?...

Learn to Make Classic American Pies, Cakes and Tarts It is dawn of the 1940s and America is in the midst of a difficult war. The women of the Home Front are dealing with shortages of sugar, butter, canned goods and a host of...

When students gathered in a London coffeehouse and smoked tobacco; when Yorkshire women sipped sugar-infused tea; or when a Glasgow family ate a bowl of Indian curry, were they aware of the mechanisms of imperial rule and trade that made such goods readily available?...

Possibly the best brief history of the foodways of early French settlers in America, French Cooking in Early America, utilizes primary source materials to explain the dietary habits and cooking techniques of Gallic immigrants. Generous endnotes detail sources of information for scholars, and actual...

Produced to remember and honor those hard-as-steel railroad people who helped build the American West - and cooked on the railroads - Iron Horse Cookery Cookbook is about cooking in the firebox of a steam locomotive. The recipes were actually cooked in the firebox...

..".giving New and Plain Directions How to Order all manner of Entertainments, and the best sort of the most exquisite a-la-mode Ragoo's. Together with New Instructions for Confectioners: Shewing How to Preserve all sorts of Fruits, as well dry as liquid: Also, How to...

After an exhausting day at work, hitting the drive-thru or nuking a pre-fab meal is all too often the go-to decision for feeding a family. Cooking a meal from scratch using fresh ingredients can seem beyond the average person's time, energy, or financial means....

A collection of delightful stories and mouthwatering recipes as told to the author by locals of St. Augustine, Florida, the nation's oldest City. The author is a descendent of the city's Minorcan Colony that arrived in Florida in 1768. Her stories are related in...

Reminiscent of God in a Cup and The Devil's Cup, this is an inside look into the modern business of making coffee. But rather than a general history, Coffee for One focuses on the revolution that made single serve such a popular way to...

If you've never tried mangoes, you're in for a treat. Not only are mangoes light, delicious, and juicy, they go with anything from grilled pork chops to ice cream. Discover mouth-watering recipes that feature mangoes in salads, meat and seafood dishes, desserts, drinks, and...

"You'll wish the alphabet had more letters just so Dawn Drzal would keep on writing."--Laura Shapiro, author of What She Ate, Julia Child, Something from the Oven, and Perfection Salad As it was for M. F. K. Fisher in The Gastronomical Me, food is...

Brewing in Columbus began more than two centuries ago. The taps were only turned off during Prohibition and the short pause that preceded the modern craft beer explosion. For generations, names such as Hoster, Born, Schlee and Wagner secured staunch local loyalty for their...

Originally published in 1985, More Mountain Spirits" is a companion volume to Joseph Dabney's American classic "Mountain Spirits." More mountain moonshine stories and characters on both sides of the law come to life alongside intoxicating recipes for brandy, wine and beer made from every...

The hunt for red crawfish is the thing, the raison d'etre, of Acadian spring. Introduced to Louisiana by the swamp dwellers of the Atchafalaya Basin, the crawfish is a regional favorite that has spurred a $210 million industry. Whole families work at the same...

Long before the era of the foodie, the little coal-mining town of Krebs set the standard for celebrating food in Oklahoma. Its reputation as the Sooner State's Little Italy began in the mid-1870s when Italian immigrants chased the coal boom to Pittsburg CAuthor: David...

Featuring gardening tips, recipes, and beautiful full-color pencil drawings of each vegetable, this book for farm-to-fork aficionados and gardeners with an esoteric bent explores the secret history of 48 well known and rare vegetables, examining their symbolism, astrological connections, healing properties, and overall character....

What was served at President James K. Polk's White House dinners? What foods graced the table of John Sevier, Tennessee's First Governor? In Taproots of Tennessee, Lynne Drysdale Patterson answers these questions and more, exploring nearly two centuries of Tennessee foodways. Readers will discover...

Originally published in 1896 by Thomas Stuart, "Stuart's Fancy Drinks and How to Mix Them" is an exceptional collection of delicious classic cocktails, including multiple ways of serving absinthe, champagne, gin, beer, and whiskey. There is even a chapter of "temperance" drinks and another...

"Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum " A favorite of pirates, the molasses-colored liquid brings to mind clear blue seas, weather-beaten sailors, and port cities filled with bar wenches. But enjoyment of rum spread far beyond the scallywags of the Caribbean--Charles Dickens...