Talking Turkey: A Food Lover’s Guide to the Origins of by Robert Hendrickson

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 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 primary African social and cultural affects 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 foodstuff historical past; they sign in the beliefs and practices of household paintings, actual health and wellbeing and sustenance and they're on the middle of fabric tradition because it was once skilled via early glossy Englishwomen. In an international during which day-by-day sustenance and actual future health have been basically women's obligations, ladies have been crucial to those texts that checklist what was once 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 ready how we will be able to rewrite the heritage of it—it’s very important to maintain the reminiscence and be entertained via it and encouraged via it. ” What A Swell celebration 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 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 nutrients and shuttle. at the floor, Jackie Kai Ellis's existence was once the one who each woman--herself included--wanted. She was once 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.