Essays & Narratives

Report copyright infringementby Olia Hercules (Author)A celebration of the food, flavors, and heritage of Eastern Europe--from the Black Sea to Baku, Kiev to Kazakhstan--Mamushka features...

Report copyright infringementby Cynthia Gallaher (Author), Robert R. Sanders (Cover Design by), Shawn Aveningo Sanders (Editor)In Epicurean Ecstasy, Cynthia Gallaher celebrates not only historical and...

Report copyright infringementby Martin Dahinden (Author)Switzerland is known for fondue, chocolate, and muesli. But did you know that some of the most outstanding contributions to...

Report copyright infringementby Martin Dahinden (Author)Switzerland is known for fondue, chocolate, and muesli. But did you know that some of the most outstanding contributions to...

Report copyright infringementby Crystal Ward Kent (Author)Experience the fairs, feasts and foliage that herald harvest time in the Pine Tree State. Autumn traditions and flavors...

Report copyright infringementby Janet Theophano (Author)Some people think that a cookbook is just a collection of recipes for dishes that feed the body. In Eat...

Report copyright infringementby Yasmin Khan (Author)Yasmin Khan unlocks the flavors and fragrances of modern Palestine, from the sun-kissed pomegranate stalls of Akka, on the coast...

Report copyright infringementby Gustavo Arellano (Author)The nationally syndicated columnist and bestselling author of Ask a Mexican! presents a fascinating and tasty trip through the history...

Report copyright infringementby Amy Bentley (Editor)In the modern age (1920-2000), vast technological innovation spurred greater concentration, standardization, and globalization of the food supply. As advances...

Report copyright infringementby Martin Bruegel (Editor)The nineteenth-century West saw extraordinary economic growth and cultural change. This volume explores and explains the birth of the modern...

Report copyright infringementby Henri Charpentier (Author), Boyden Sparkes (Editor)This memoir of the first celebrity chef, back in print after six decades, relates Charpentier's rags-to-riches story...

Report copyright infringementby Robert L. Wolke (Author), Marlene Parrish (With)This sequel to the best-selling What Einstein Told His Cook continues Bob Wolke's investigations into the...

Report copyright infringementby Robert L. Wolke (Author)Do you wish you understood the science of foods, but don't want to plow through dry technical books? What...

Report copyright infringementby Harold McGee (Author)An award-winning kitchen classic for over 35 years, and hailed by Time magazine as "a minor masterpiece" when it first...

Report copyright infringementby Reay Tannahill (Author)An enthralling world history of food from prehistoric times to the present. A favorite of gastronomes and history buffs alike,...

Report copyright infringementby Donna R. Gabaccia (Author)Ghulam Bombaywala sells bagels in Houston. Demetrios dishes up pizza in Connecticut. The Wangs serve tacos in Los Angeles....

Report copyright infringementby Denise Gigante (Editor)The French invented the restaurant in the late eighteenth century. Not long after, they invented gastronomy, the modern art of...

Report copyright infringementby Mimi Smith-Dvorak (Author)Too Many Eggs is a compendium of all things eggs. It is the most comprehensive book on egg cookery ever...

Report copyright infringementby Calvin W. Schwabe (Author)An engaging look at "food prejudices," or why we eat what we eat and why we reject other food...

Report copyright infringementby Aimee Zaring (Author)Each year, the United States legally resettles tens of thousands of refugees who have fled their homelands. Refugees, unlike economic...

Report copyright infringementby Jeremy Strong (Editor), Jeremy Strong (Introduction by)The old adage "you are what you eat" has never seemed more true than in this...

Report copyright infringementby Margaret Visser (Author)A staple of the food-writing genre that prefigured the current locavore and foodist movements by almost two decades, Margaret Visser's...

Report copyright infringementby Sharon V. Salinger (Author)Sharon V. Salinger's Taverns and Drinking in Early America supplies the first study of public houses and drinking throughout...

Report copyright infringementby Larry Zuckerman (Author)The Potato tells the story of how a humble vegetable, once regarded as trash food, had as revolutionary an impact...

Report copyright infringementby Frederick J. Simoons (Author)Hailed as a classic when initially published in 1961, Eat Not This Flesh was the first book that explored,...

Report copyright infringementby Diane Holloway Cheney (Author)Eating with others is a restorative activity. When dining in an historic restaurant, the setting, cuisine, and relics of...

Report copyright infringementby Gina Mallet (Author)Food has never been more exalted as part of a lifestyle, yet fewer and fewer people really know what good...

Report copyright infringementby Bee Wilson (Author)Award-winning food writer Bee Wilson's secret history of kitchens, showing how new technologies--from the fork to the microwave and beyond--have...