Life in the Victorian Kitchen: Culinary Secrets and by Karen Foy

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 overall healthiness legacies of black culinary traditions, and explains the concept that of soul itself, revealing soul foodstuff to be an amalgamation of West and important 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 nutrients heritage; they check in the beliefs and practices of family paintings, actual overall healthiness and sustenance and they're on the center of fabric tradition because it was once skilled through early glossy Englishwomen. In a global during which day-by-day sustenance and actual wellbeing and fitness have been essentially women's duties, ladies have been important to those texts that checklist what used to be either a conventional artwork 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 set how we will rewrite the historical past of it—it’s very important to maintain the reminiscence and be entertained by way of it and encouraged by way of it. ” What A Swell get together It used to be! entertains and evokes with a scrumptious slice of approximately forgotten culinary history—an period that the good melancholy and prohibition’s repeal, the place the USA 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 existence was once 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 winning occupation as a fashion designer, and a house that she shared along with her husband.