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  • Theology on the Menu: Asceticism, Meat and Christian Diet by Grumett, David
    David Grumett

    Theology on the Menu: Asceticism, Meat and Christian Diet

    Food - what we eat, how much we eat, how it is produced and prepared, and its cultural and ecological significance- is an increasingly significant topic not only for scholars but for all of us. Theology on the Menu is the first systematic and...
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  • The Anchor Brewing Story: America's First Craft Brewery & San Francisco's Original Anchor Steam Beer by Burkhart, David
    David Burkhart

    The Anchor Brewing Story: America's First Craft Brewery & San Francisco's Original Anchor Steam Beer

    The sweeping illustrated story of America's oldest and most iconic craft brewery, featuring a history of American brewing traditions and homebrew recipes for Anchor's top brews including Anchor Steam and California Lager "A tale of worldly curiosity, brilliance, persistence, and a thirst to succeed...
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  • Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil by Mueller, Tom
    Tom Mueller

    Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil

    For millennia, fresh olive oil has been one of life's necessities-not just as food but also as medicine, a beauty aid, and a vital element of religious ritual. Today's researchers are continuing to confirm the remarkable, life-giving properties of true extra-virgin, and "extra-virgin Italian"...
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  • Gastronaut: Adventures in Food for the Romantic, the Foolhardy, and the Brave by Gates, Stefan
    Stefan Gates

    Gastronaut: Adventures in Food for the Romantic, the Foolhardy, and the Brave

    An irreverent journey through the culinary world of the exotic, the bizarre, and the truly extraordinary, Gastronaut is equal parts cookbook and quest book. For your bedside or your stoveside, this hilarious and captivating journey through some of the strangest food experiences, past and...
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  • History of American Cooking by Smith, Merril D.
    Merril D. Smith

    History of American Cooking

    Ideal for American history and food history students as well as general readers, this book spans 500 years of cooking in what is now the United States, supplying recipes and covering the "how" and "why" of eating. This book examines the history and practice...
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  • Food in Medieval Times by Adamson, Melitta Weiss
    Melitta Weiss Adamson

    Food in Medieval Times

    Students and other readers will learn about the common foodstuffs available, how and what they cooked, ate, and drank, what the regional cuisines were like, how the different classes entertained and celebrated, and what restrictions they followed for health and faith reasons. Fascinating information...
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  • Food in the United States, 1890-1945 by Elias, Megan J.
    Megan J. Elias

    Food in the United States, 1890-1945

    No American history or food collection is complete without this lively insight into the radical changes in daily life from the Gilded Age to World War II, as reflected in foodways. From the Gilded Age to the end of World War II, what, where,...
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  • Cooking in Europe, 1650-1850 by Day, Ivan
    Ivan P. Day

    Cooking in Europe, 1650-1850

    From the Baroque Era to the Victorian Era, 1650-1850, unprecedented changes took place in the food ways and dining habits of European society. This daily life aspect of history comes alive for students and food enthusiasts as they read and try out these recipes,...
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  • Cooking in Europe, 1250-1650 by Albala, Ken
    Ken Albala

    Cooking in Europe, 1250-1650

    Ever get a yen for hemp seed soup, digestive pottage, carp fritters, jasper of milk, or frog pie? Would you like to test your culinary skills whipping up some edible counterfeit snow or nun's bozolati? Perhaps you have an assignment to make a typical...
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  • Food in Early Modern Europe by Allen, Robert W.
    Ken Albala

    Food in Early Modern Europe

    Rarely do we read about the roles of food in history. Yet its study offers us a humanizing look at those who lived before us. This unique book examines food's importance during the massive evolution of Europe following the Middle Ages. It was a...
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  • The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food by Gopnik, Adam
    Adam Gopnik

    The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food

    From the author of Paris to the Moon, a beguiling tour of the morals and manners of our present food mania, in search of eating's deeper truths. Never before have we cared so much about food. It preoccupies our popular culture, our fantasies, and...
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  • The Wild Vine: A Forgotten Grape and the Untold Story of American Wine by Kliman, Todd
    Todd Kliman

    The Wild Vine: A Forgotten Grape and the Untold Story of American Wine

    A rich romp through untold American history featuring fabulous characters, The Wild Vine is the tale of a little-known American grape that rocked the fine-wine world of the nineteenth century and is poised to do so again today. Author Todd Kliman sets out on...
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  • The Physiology of Taste: Or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy; Introduction by Bill Buford by Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme
    Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

    The Physiology of Taste: Or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy; Introduction by Bill Buford

    A culinary classic on the joys of the table--written by the gourmand who so famously stated, "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are"--in a handsome new edition of M. F. K. Fisher's distinguished translation and with a new...
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  • Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination by Freedman, Paul
    Paul Freedman

    Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination

    How medieval Europe's infatuation with expensive, fragrant, and exotic spices led to an era of colonial expansion and the discovery of new worlds The demand for spices in medieval Europe was extravagant and was reflected in the pursuit of fashion, the formation of taste,...
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  • The Hamburger: A History by Ozersky, Josh
    Josh Ozersky

    The Hamburger: A History

    What do Americans think of when they think of the hamburger? A robust, succulent spheroid of fresh ground beef, the birthright of red-blooded citizens? Or a Styrofoam-shrouded Big Mac, mass-produced to industrial specifications and served by wage slaves to an obese, brainwashed population? Is...
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  • The Other Milk: Reinventing Soy in Republican China by Fu, Jia-Chen
    Jia-Chen Fu

    The Other Milk: Reinventing Soy in Republican China

    In the early twentieth century, China was stigmatized as the "Land of Famine." Meanwhile in Europe and the United States, scientists and industrialists seized upon the soybean as a miracle plant that could help build modern economies and healthy nations. Soybeans, protein-packed and domestically...
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  • Food and Cooking in Victorian England: A History by Broomfield, Andrea L.
    Andrea L. Broomfield

    Food and Cooking in Victorian England: A History

    Nine recipes serve as entry points for detailing the history of food production, cooking, and diet throughout Queen Victoria's reign in England. More than that, however, Broomfield offers an introduction to the world of everyday dining, food preparation, and nutrition during one of the...
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  • All Manners of Food: Eating and Taste in England and France from the Middle Ages to the Present by Mennell, Stephen
    Stephen Mennell

    All Manners of Food: Eating and Taste in England and France from the Middle Ages to the Present

    So close geographically, how could France and England be so enormously far apart gastronomically? Not just in different recipes and ways of cooking, but in their underlying attitudes toward the enjoyment of eating and its place in social life. In a new afterword that...
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  • Note-By-Note Cooking: The Future of Food by This, Hervé
    Hervé This

    Note-By-Note Cooking: The Future of Food

    Note-by-Note Cooking is a landmark in the annals of gastronomy, liberating cooks from the constraints of traditional ingredients and methods through the use of pure molecular compounds. 1-Octen-3-ol, which has a scent of wild mushrooms; limonene, a colorless liquid hydrocarbon that has the smell...
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  • The Winemaker's Hand: Conversations on Talent, Technique, and Terroir by Berkowitz, Natalie
    Natalie Berkowitz

    The Winemaker's Hand: Conversations on Talent, Technique, and Terroir

    In these fascinating interviews, winemakers from the United States and abroad clarify the complex process of converting grapes into wine, with more than forty vintners candidly discussing how a combination of talent, passion, and experience shape the outcome of their individual wines. Each winemaker...
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  • Religion, Food, and Eating in North America by Zeller, Benjamin E.
    Benjamin E. Zeller

    Religion, Food, and Eating in North America

    The way in which religious people eat reflects not only their understanding of food and religious practice but also their conception of society and their place within it. This anthology considers theological foodways, identity foodways, negotiated foodways, and activist foodways in the United States,...
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  • Chow Chop Suey: Food and the Chinese American Journey by Mendelson, Anne
    Anne Mendelson

    Chow Chop Suey: Food and the Chinese American Journey

    Chinese food first became popular in America under the shadow of violence against Chinese aliens, a despised racial minority ineligible for United States citizenship. The founding of late-nineteenth-century "chop suey" restaurants that pitched an altered version of Cantonese cuisine to white patrons despite a...
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  • Let the Meatballs Rest: And Other Stories about Food and Culture by Montanari, Massimo
    Massimo Montanari

    Let the Meatballs Rest: And Other Stories about Food and Culture

    Known for his entertaining investigations into culinary practice, Massimo Montanari turns his hungry eye to the phenomenon of food culture, food lore, cooking methods, and eating habits throughout history. An irresistible buffet of one hundred concise and engaging essays, this collection provides stimulating food...
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  • The Secret Financial Life of Food: From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets by Newman, Kara
    Kara Newman

    The Secret Financial Life of Food: From Commodities Markets to Supermarkets

    One morning while reading Barron's, Kara Newman took note of a casual bit of advice offered by famed commodities trader Jim Rogers. "Buy breakfast," he told investors, referring to the increasing value of pork belly and frozen orange juice futures. The statement inspired Newman...
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  • Cheese, Pears, & History in a Proverb by Montanari, Massimo
    Massimo Montanari

    Cheese, Pears, & History in a Proverb

    "Do not let the peasant know how good cheese is with pears" goes the old saying. Intrigued by these words and their portent, Massimo Montanari unravels their origin and utility. Perusing archival cookbooks, agricultural and dietary treatises, literary works, and anthologies of beloved sayings,...
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  • Food and Faith in Christian Culture by Albala, Ken
    Ken Albala

    Food and Faith in Christian Culture

    Without a uniform dietary code, Christians around the world used food in strikingly different ways, developing widely divergent practices that spread, nurtured, and strengthened their religious beliefs and communities. Featuring never-before published essays, this anthology follows the intersection of food and faith from the...
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  • Craving Earth: Understanding Pica: The Urge to Eat Clay, Starch, Ice, and Chalk by Young, Sera
    Sera Young

    Craving Earth: Understanding Pica: The Urge to Eat Clay, Starch, Ice, and Chalk

    Humans have eaten earth, on purpose, for more than 2,300 years. They also crave starch, ice, chalk, and other unorthodox items of food. Some even claim they are addicted and "go crazy" without these items, but why? Sifting through extensive historical, ethnographic, and biomedical...
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  • British Food: An Extraordinary Thousand Years of History by Spencer, Colin
    Colin Spencer

    British Food: An Extraordinary Thousand Years of History

    Until the middle of the nineteenth century, English cuisine was known throughout Europe as extraordinarily stylish, tasteful, and contemporary, designed to satisfy sophisticated palates. So, as Colin Spencer asks, why did British food "decline so direly that it became a world-wide joke, and how...
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  • Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America by McWilliams, James
    James McWilliams

    Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America

    Sugar, pork, beer, corn, cider, scrapple, and hoppin' John all became staples in the diet of colonial America. The ways Americans cultivated and prepared food and the values they attributed to it played an important role in shaping the identity of the newborn nation....
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  • A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America by McWilliams, James
    James McWilliams

    A Revolution in Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America

    Sugar, pork, beer, corn, cider, scrapple, and hoppin' John all became staples in the diet of colonial America. The ways Americans cultivated and prepared food and the values they attributed to it played an important role in shaping the identity of the newborn nation....
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  • Pasta: The Story of a Universal Food by Serventi, Silvano
    Silvano Serventi

    Pasta: The Story of a Universal Food

    Ranging from the imperial palaces of ancient China and the bakeries of fourteenth-century Genoa and Naples all the way to the restaurant kitchens of today, Pasta tells a story that will forever change the way you look at your next plate of vermicelli. Pasta...
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  • Fear of Food: A History of Why We Worry about What We Eat by Levenstein, Harvey
    Harvey Levenstein

    Fear of Food: A History of Why We Worry about What We Eat

    There may be no greater source of anxiety for Americans today than the question of what to eat and drink. Are eggs the perfect protein, or are they cholesterol bombs? Is red wine good for my heart or bad for my liver? Will pesticides,...
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  • The Culinarians: Lives and Careers from the First Age of American Fine Dining by Shields, David S.
    David S. Shields

    The Culinarians: Lives and Careers from the First Age of American Fine Dining

    He presided over Virginia's great political barbeques for the last half of the nineteenth century, taught the young Prince of Wales to crave mint juleps in 1859, catered to Virginia's mountain spas, and fed two generations of Richmond epicures with terrapin and turkey. This...
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  • Urban Appetites: Food and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York by Lobel, Cindy R.
    Cindy R. Lobel

    Urban Appetites: Food and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York

    Glossy magazines write about them, celebrities give their names to them, and you'd better believe there's an app (or ten) committed to finding you the right one. They are New York City restaurants and food shops. And their journey to international notoriety is a...
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  • Smart Casual: The Transformation of Gourmet Restaurant Style in America by Pearlman, Alison
    Alison Pearlman

    Smart Casual: The Transformation of Gourmet Restaurant Style in America

    Fine dining and the accolades of Michelin stars once meant chandeliers, white tablecloths, and suited waiters with elegant accents. The stuffy attitude and often scant portions were the punchlines of sitcom jokes-it was unthinkable that a gourmet chef would stoop to plate a burger...
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  • Devoured: How What We Eat Defines Who We Are by Egan, Sophie
    Sophie Egan

    Devoured

    A provocative look at how and what Americans eat and why--a flavorful blend of The Omnivore's Dilemma, Salt Sugar Fat, and Freakonomics that reveals how the way we live shapes the way we eat.Food writer and Culinary Institute of America program director Sophie Egan...
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  • Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll: How Food Lovers, Free Spirits, Misfits and Wanderers Created a New American Profession by Friedman, Andrew
    Andrew Friedman

    Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll: How Food Lovers, Free Spirits, Misfits and Wanderers Created a New American Profession

    An all-access history of the evolution of the American restaurant chefChefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll transports readers back in time to witness the remarkable evolution of the American restaurant chef in the 1970s and '80s. Taking a rare, coast-to-coast perspective, Andrew Friedman goes...
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  • Great British Cooking: Wellkept Secret, a by Garmey, Jane
    Jane Garmey

    Great British Cooking: Wellkept Secret, a

    This book is a revelation to Americans who have never tasted real Cornish Pasties, Scotch Woodcock (a splendid version of scrambled eggs) or Brown Bread Ice Cream. From the sumptuous breakfasts that made England famous to the steamed puddings, trifles, meringues and syllabubs that...
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  • Food-Related Poems: A Wonderful Collection Of Poetry: Poetry Books About Food by Sakiestewa, Mae
    Mae Sakiestewa

    Food-Related Poems: A Wonderful Collection Of Poetry: Poetry Books About Food

    Feast on this smorgasbord of poems about eating and cooking, exploring our relationships with food.From recipes for love to recipes for disaster, you will be entertained and engaged by this poetry from one of New Zealand's brightest rising poets.Author: Mae SakiestewaISBN-10: 853182995XISBN-13: 9798531829955Publisher: Independently...
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  • Code Noir: Afro-Caribbean Stories and Recipes by Lewis, Lelani
    Lelani Lewis

    Code Noir: Afro-Caribbean Stories and Recipes

    "Informative and full of big flavors, this is a delicious and accessible introduction to Caribbean food for novices; will be a welcome addition to library shelves." --Library Journal Through 80+ recipes, Code Noir tells the interesting and complex story of Caribbean cuisines that are...
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  • Willis Johnson: Inventor: Father of Mechanical Mixers by Peoples, Jerome T.
    Jerome T. Peoples

    Willis Johnson: Inventor: Father of Mechanical Mixers

    Willis Johnson was born in 1858 and became a house slave, responsible for cooking and chopping wood for woodburning stoves, as well as other duties. He invented the mechanical mixer-or eggbeater-to help in the kitchen, especially when creating chocolate, lemon, and coconut cakes. He...
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  • Ration Book Christmas Cookbook by Harper, Margaret
    Margaret Harper

    Ration Book Christmas Cookbook

    World War 2 saw rationing of food and other items in Britain. The war effort plus a blockade of imported food to Britain led to shortages. Many foods such as bananas were not available. Other basic foods - such as meat, sugar and eggs...
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  • Chocolate - A Healthy Passion by Aaron, Shara
    Shara Aaron

    Chocolate - A Healthy Passion

    The world loves chocolate and chances are you do too. This enjoyable book, written by two leading dieticians, will serve to deepen your love and also your understanding of chocolate. The authors help you explore some surprising applications of chocolate to your life: from...
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  • Poetry And Food: Moving & Evocative Poetry: Poetry About Food And Love by Shidler, Kimbery
    Kimbery Shidler

    Poetry And Food: Moving & Evocative Poetry: Poetry About Food And Love

    Feast on this smorgasbord of poems about eating and cooking, exploring our relationships with food.From recipes for love to recipes for disaster, you will be entertained and engaged by this poetry from one of New Zealand's brightest rising poets.Author: Kimbery ShidlerISBN-10: 8531842824ISBN-13: 9798531842824Publisher: Independently...
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  • Cocktail Hour Around the World: Recipes & Stories of Cocktails from 12 Exciting Countries (Mixed Drinks History) by Perrett, Christine
    Christine Perrett

    Cocktail Hour Around the World: Recipes & Stories of Cocktails from 12 Exciting Countries (Mixed Drinks History)

    Enjoy Recipes and Lore with Cocktail Hour around the WorldMade for craft cocktail enthusiasts and those looking for interesting happy-hour recipes--sit, sip, and celebrate your evenings away with Cocktail Hour Around the World. Jump into the history and the exciting lores of cocktail hours...
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  • The Complete Hannukah Holiday Cookbook by Eric Green
    Eric Green

    The Complete Hannukah Holiday Cookbook

    Welcome to The Joy of Hannukah, the ultimate cookbook for celebrating the Festival of Lights! Hannukah is a time for family, friends, and delicious food, and this cookbook has everything you need to create memorable meals and treats that will delight your loved ones.In...
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  • The Grammar of Spice Notecards by Hildebrand, Caz
    Caz Hildebrand

    The Grammar of Spice Notecards

    The illustrations on these chic notecards are all taken from award-winning designer Caz Hildebrand's The Grammar of Spice, a culinary resource that illuminates the role of spices in food and in our cultural identity. Inspired by the work of Owen Jones, one of the...
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  • The Story of Food in the Human Past: How What We Ate Made Us Who We Are by Cutright, Robyn E.
    Robyn E. Cutright

    The Story of Food in the Human Past: How What We Ate Made Us Who We Are

    A sweeping overview of how and what humans have eaten in their long history as a species The Story of Food in the Human Past: How What We Ate Made Us Who We Are uses case studies from recent archaeological research to tell the...
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  • Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American by Macallen, Ian
    Ian Macallen

    Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American

    Red Sauce traces the evolution of popular Italian-American foods like lasagna, eggplant parmigiana, and penne alla vodka while seeking the origins of these "red sauce" recipes, debunking myths, and examining how Italians lost their foreign otherness as Americans embraced Italian-American cuisine over the Twentieth...
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  • The One Taste of Truth: Zen and the Art of Drinking Tea by Wilson, William Scott
    William Scott Wilson

    The One Taste of Truth: Zen and the Art of Drinking Tea

    This heartfelt ode to the meditative practice of drinking tea examines the origins of traditional tea culture in the East, revealing how a good cuppa can elevate both the mind and spirit Traditionally in China and Japan, drinking a cup of tea was an...
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