Lost Restaurants of Grand Rapids (American Palate) by Norma Lewis

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 in the course of 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 principal 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 historical past; they sign up the beliefs and practices of family paintings, actual future health and sustenance and they're on the middle of fabric tradition because it used to be skilled via early sleek Englishwomen. In an international within which day-by-day sustenance and actual well-being have been essentially women's obligations, ladies have been critical to those texts that list what used to be either a conventional 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 set how we will rewrite the background of it—it’s very important to maintain the reminiscence and be entertained via it and encouraged by way of it. ” What A Swell occasion It used to be! entertains and evokes with a scrumptious slice of approximately forgotten culinary history—an period that the nice 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 meals and shuttle. at the floor, Jackie Kai Ellis's existence 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 winning occupation as a fashion designer, and a house that she shared along with her husband.