Kansas City: A Food Biography (Big City Food Biographies) by Andrea L. Broomfield

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 through the Americas, translates the healthiness legacies of black culinary traditions, and explains the concept that of soul itself, revealing soul nutrients to be an amalgamation of West and crucial African social and cultural impacts 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 nutrition historical past; they sign up the beliefs and practices of household paintings, actual health and wellbeing and sustenance and they're on the center of fabric tradition because it was once skilled through early smooth Englishwomen. In a global during which day-by-day sustenance and actual overall healthiness have been essentially women's obligations, girls have been primary to those texts that list what was once either a conventional paintings and new technology.

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 set how we will rewrite the background of it—it’s very important to maintain the reminiscence and be entertained by means of it and encouraged through it. ” What A Swell get together It was once! 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 foodstuff and trip. at the floor, Jackie Kai Ellis's lifestyles was once the one who each woman--herself included--wanted. She used to be in her overdue twenties and married to a good-looking guy, she had a profitable profession as a fashion designer, and a house that she shared along with her husband.