When Everybody Ate at Schrafft's: Memories, Pictures, and by Joan Kanel Slomanson

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 wellbeing and fitness legacies of black culinary traditions, and explains the concept that of soul itself, revealing soul foodstuff to be an amalgamation of West and vital 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 nutrition historical past; they check in the beliefs and practices of household paintings, actual health and wellbeing and sustenance and they're on the center of fabric tradition because it used to be skilled via early sleek Englishwomen. In a global within which day-by-day sustenance and actual healthiness have been basically women's duties, girls have been principal to those texts that checklist what used to be either a standard 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 ready how we will be able to rewrite the background of it—it’s vital to maintain the reminiscence and be entertained via it and encouraged by way of it. ” What A Swell social gathering It was once! 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 US 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 go back and forth. at the floor, Jackie Kai Ellis's lifestyles 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 winning occupation as a fashion designer, and a house that she shared together with her husband.