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Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"You've seen the headlines: Parmesan cheese made from sawdust. Lobster rolls containing no lobster at all. Extra virgin olive oil that isn't. Fake foods are in our supermarkets, our restaurants, and our kitchen cabinets. Award-winning food journalist and travel writer Larry Olmsted exposes the pervasive and dangerous fraud perpetrated on unsuspecting Americans. Real Food/Fake Food brings readers into the unregulated food industry, revealing the alarming...
22) The farm to table French phrasebook: master the culture, language and savoir faire of French cuisine
Author
Publisher
Ulysses Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Whether you're spending a semester in Paris, vacationing in the Riviera, dining at a local bistro or mastering the French culinary art in your own kitchen, The Farm to Table French Phrasebook opens a bountiful world of food that you won't find in any textbook or classroom"--
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Publisher
Greystone Books
Language
English
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Description
In the tradition of Michael Pollan, Anthony Bourdain, and Mark Bittman, 'The Lost Supper' is an exciting and globe-trotting account of ancient cuisines - from Neolithic wines to ancient Roman fish sauce - and why reviving the foods of the past is the key to saving the future. Taras Grescoe lives in Montreal, QC. From the author of 'Possess the Air'.
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Language
English
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Description
In Bite by Bite, poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil explores the way food and drink evoke our associations and remembrances--a subtext or layering, a flavor tinged with joy, shame, exuberance, grief, desire, or nostalgia. Nezhukumatathil restores our astonishment and wonder about food through her encounters with a range of foods and food traditions. From shave ice to lumpia, mangoes to pecans, rambutan to vanilla, she investigates how food marks...
26) The American way of eating: undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, farm fields, and the dinner table
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Language
English
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Description
"In 2009 McMillan embarked on a groundbreaking undercover journey to see what it takes to eat well in America. For nearly a year, she worked, ate, and lived alongside the working poor to examine how Americans eat when price matters"--Jacket.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Jim Harrison is one of this country's most beloved writers, a muscular, brilliantly economic stylist with a salty wisdom. For more than twenty years, he has also been writing some of the best essays on food around, now collected in a volume that caused the Santa Fe New Mexican to exclaim: "To read this book is to come away convinced that Harrison is a flat-out genius - one who devours life with intensity, living it roughly and full-scale, then distills...
Author
Publisher
HarperWave
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In the spirit of books like Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat and Food Lab, an informative, entertaining, and essential guide to taking your kitchen smarts to a higher level?from two food world professionals (a chef and a writer). When food writer Matt Rodbard met chef Daniel Holzman while covering the opening of his restaurant, The Meatball Shop, on New York's Lower East Side, it was a match made in questions. More than a decade later, the pair have remained...
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Language
English
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Description
"Over the past several decades, globalization has homogenized what we eat, and done so ruthlessly. The numbers are stark: Of the roughly six thousand different plants once consumed by human beings, only nine remain major staples today. Just three of these-rice, wheat, and corn-now provide fifty percent of all our calories. Dig deeper and the trends are more worrisome still: The source of much of the world's food-seeds-is mostly in the control of just...
Publisher
Black Balloon Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
This collection of intimate, illustrated essays by some of America's most well-regarded literary writers explores how comfort food can help us cope with dark times--be it the loss of a parent, the loneliness of a move, or the pain of heartache.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Celebrating the life of this extraordinary woman, a selected anthology collects 50 years worth of the award-winning author's essays on food, travel and the arts, which have appeared in scholarly journals, popular magazines and newspapers as varied as The New York Times, Saveur and Vogue,"--Amazon.com.
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Language
English
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Description
"This book is a comprehensive, evidence-based guide to the diagnosis, management, prevention, and treatment of food allergies and intolerances in children and adults, written in an accessible question-and-answer format for those with allergies and those who care for them"--
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Marvin Gapultos, a food blogger-turned-gourmet food trucker, brings the exotic-- yet easy to make-- flavors of the Philippines into your home. With a distinct lack of Filipino restaurants to be found, the road to great Filipino food begins and ends at home. In his debut cookbook, Marvin demonstrates that Filipino cuisine can be prepared in any kitchen-- from Manila to Los Angeles and everywhere in-between. Marvin interprets traditional Filipino...
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