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Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)

Frederick Douglass Opie deconstructs and compares the foodways of individuals of African descent during the Americas, translates the well-being legacies of black culinary traditions, and explains the idea that of soul itself, revealing soul nutrients to be an amalgamation of West and critical African social and cultural affects in addition to the variations blacks made to the stipulations of slavery and freedom within the Americas.

Seventeenth-Century English Recipe Books: Cooking, Physic and Chirurgery in the Works of Elizabeth Talbot Grey and Aletheia Talbot Howard: Essential Works ... – Essential Works Series III, Part Three)

Recipe books are a key a part of meals background; they sign up the beliefs and practices of household paintings, actual well-being and sustenance and they're on the middle of fabric tradition because it used to be skilled via early smooth Englishwomen. In a global within which day-by-day sustenance and actual future health have been basically women's tasks, ladies have been imperative to those texts that checklist what used to be either a standard paintings and new technological know-how.

What a Swell Party It Was!: Rediscovering Food & Drink from the Golden Age of the American Nightclub

Chef and restaurateur Daniel Boulud as soon as defined: “The way forward for cooking is ready how we will rewrite the historical past of it—it’s very important to maintain the reminiscence and be entertained by means of it and encouraged by way of it. ” What A Swell celebration It used to be! entertains and conjures up with a scrumptious slice of approximately forgotten culinary history—an period that the good melancholy and prohibition’s repeal, the place the United States boomed and the nightclub scene flourished.

The Measure of My Powers: A Memoir of Food, Misery, and Paris

A narrative approximately one woman's look for self-love, skilled via nutrients and shuttle. at the floor, Jackie Kai Ellis's lifestyles used to be the person who each woman--herself included--wanted. She used to be in her past due twenties and married to a good-looking guy, she had a profitable occupation as a dressmaker, and a house that she shared together with her husband.