Savoring the Past: The French Kitchen and Table from 1300 to by Barbara Ketcham Wheaton

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 health and wellbeing legacies of black culinary traditions, and explains the idea that of soul itself, revealing soul meals to be an amalgamation of West and relevant African social and cultural impacts in addition to the diversifications 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 check in the beliefs and practices of household paintings, actual future health and sustenance and they're on the middle of fabric tradition because it was once skilled via early sleek Englishwomen. In a global within which day-by-day sustenance and actual wellbeing and fitness have been essentially women's tasks, ladies have been imperative to those texts that checklist what was once 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 background of it—it’s vital to maintain the reminiscence and be entertained via it and encouraged through it. ” What A Swell social gathering 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 nutrition 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 overdue twenties and married to a good-looking guy, she had a profitable occupation as a fashion designer, and a house that she shared along with her husband.