Turning the Tables: Restaurants and the Rise of the American by Andrew P. Haley

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 wellbeing and fitness legacies of black culinary traditions, and explains the idea that of soul itself, revealing soul nutrition to be an amalgamation of West and valuable 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 nutrition heritage; they sign in the beliefs and practices of family paintings, actual healthiness and sustenance and they're on the center of fabric tradition because it was once skilled by means of early smooth Englishwomen. In an international within which day-by-day sustenance and actual future health have been basically women's obligations, girls have been valuable to those texts that list what was once either a standard 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 historical past of it—it’s vital to maintain the reminiscence and be entertained by way of it and encouraged by means 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 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 meals and shuttle. at the floor, Jackie Kai Ellis's existence used to be the one who each woman--herself included--wanted. She was once in her past due twenties and married to a good-looking guy, she had a winning occupation as a dressmaker, and a house that she shared along with her husband.