Cooking - History

Food, Cooking & Recipes The Shelf2Life Food, Cooking & Recipes Collection is a unique set of pre-1923 cookbooks and other materials focused on food preparation, preservation and cooking instruction. From recipes for steamed dumplings, roast beef and pumpkin soup to peach pie, soft molasses...

Veganism is more than just a dietary choice; it's a way of life that has gained widespread attention in recent years. But where did this movement begin? In this comprehensive history book, readers will discover the origins of veganism and the individuals and events...

The world's last authentic overnight wooden steamboat, the Delta Queen cruised America's inland waters from 1927 through 2008, offering passengers breathtaking views, luxury accommodations, rousing entertainment, and southern-style feasts. For over eighty-two years, chefs in the small galley served memorable meals--from fried chicken and...

Roger and Linda Welsch matched references from Willa Cather's writing with recipes they collected from Cather family recipe files, from other period cookbooks, and from old-time ethnic cooks still living in the Bohemian tradition. Cather's Kitchens comes as close as possible to the precise...

Let Joseph Wesley Uhl be your guide to the entire world of tea; from peeks into tea production around the world to brewing your own blends at home. "Water is the mother of tea, a teapot its father, and fire the teacher." --Chinese Proverb...

In the populist tradition of Andrea Immer, New York City's first female whiskey sommelier translates today's hottest spirit for a new generation of imbibers Whiskey is in the midst of a huge renaissance. Ten years ago, the United States housed sixty-nine craft distillers; today,...

This we can be sure of: when a restaurant in the western world is famous for its cooking, it is the tricolor flag that hangs above the stove, opined one French magazine, and this is by no means an isolated example of such crowing....

Recipes born in the city of starsLos Angeles is a city where film mingles with food. From healthful salads to sweet treats inspired by California's agricultural bounty, the innovative fare mirrors the rise from a sleepy, western outpost to celluloid dream, where food has...

For the most part, this book contains the unusual, the exotic and the different sandwiches that will put delicious, new, and exciting tastes at your fingertips. But don't forget the all time American favorites, the hamburger, the ballpark hot dog, the world famous peanut...

Did you just get your new multi function pressure cooker that includes an air fryer? Now you're now wondering how to use the fabulous Ninja cooking system. Well, we have instructions for you plus lots of easy Ninja Foodi recipes for you now!Here's just...

Get ready for a culinary coloring adventure for food lovers of all ages-- an ode to all the best foods from yesterday and yesteryear. This book combines the peaceful practice of mindfulness in coloring, while exploring delectable American vintage food favoritesAuthor: California Ward, La...

Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want an edible experience? Would you like some culinary guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Eat Like a Local book is for you. Eat Like...

Here in That book you gonna know what are the historian meals which have grown up into our present time in Egypt Since the ancient pharaohs food recipes, How those meals have became historian ( By which ِOccupation age ) And how have these...

A tasty compendium of spices and a fascinating history and wide array of uses of the world's favorite flavors?The Book of Spice: From Anise to Zedoary reveals the amazing history of spices both familiar and esoteric. John O'Connell's erudite chapters combine history with insights...

In the 1840s a culinary genius emerged in Charleston, S.C. Nat Fuller, a slave, trained by the free black pastry chef Eliza Seymour Lee, became the foremost private chef in the antebellum city. In the 1850s he negotiated a kind of semi-liberty from his...

The History of Bread From Pre-historic to Modern Times is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition . Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres....