History
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A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression: A James Beard Award Winner
$18.99 Add to cartJames Beard Foundation Book Award Winner
From the author of the acclaimed 97 Orchard and her husband, a culinary historian, an in-depth exploration of the greatest food crisis the nation has ever faced
- Author: Ziegelman, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0062216422
- Language: English
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Food in History
$18.00 Add to cartAn enthralling world history of food from prehistoric times to the present. A favorite of gastronomes and history buffs alike, Food in History is packed with intriguing information, lore, and startlin… [more below]
- Author: Tannahill, Reay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 10 1995
- ISBN10: 0517884046
- Language: English
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At the Table with LBJ and Lady Bird: History, Humor, and True Texas Recipes
$38.95 Add to cartWelcome to the table! This is a love story about an ambassador and two Texans. Not any ol’ ambassador or any ol’ Texans. He was Lyndon Baines Johnson, and she was Claudia Alta Taylor, better known as
- Author: Schuler, Jean E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: November 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0875658237
- Language: English
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American Advertising Cookbooks: How Corporations Taught Us to Love Bananas, Spam, and Jell-O
$29.95 Add to cartAmerican Advertising Cookbooks, How Corporations Taught Us To Love Spam, Bananas, and Jell&ndashO explores the world of Twentieth Century food culture combining historical cookbook images and intellig
- Author: Ward, Christina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 239
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1934170747
- Language: English
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Food: A Culinary History
$35.00 Add to cartWhen did we first serve meals at regular hours? Why did we begin using individual plates and utensils to eat? When did “cuisine” become a concept and how did we come to judge food by its method of pre
- Series: European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
- Author: Flandrin, Jean-Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 023111155X
- Language: English
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43 Tables: An Internet Community Cooks During Quarantine
$26.65 Add to cartWhen businesses and restaurants closed down in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, many people returned to their kitchens to provide meals for their families. The endless social media pho
- Author: Robinson, Kat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: October 27, 2020
- ISBN10: 1952547997
- Language: English
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The Forgotten Art of Building and Using a Brick Bake Oven
$12.50 Add to cartFirst published by Yankee Magazine in 1977, this book remains the authority on how old-time brick ovens were designed and used. The book explains the evolution of the brick oven from the 17th through … [more below]
- Author: Bacon, Richard M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0911469257
- Language: English
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Dinner with the President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House
$26.00 Add to cartA wonderfully entertaining, often surprising history of presidential taste, from the grim meals eaten by Washington and his starving troops at Valley Forge to Trump’s fast-food burgers and Biden’s ice… [more below]
- Author: Prud’homme, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0525433031
- Language: English
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Lift Your Spirits: A Celebratory History of Cocktail Culture in New Orleans
$29.95 Add to cartThe Sazerac, the Hurricane, and the absinthe glass of Herbsaint are among the many well-known creations native to New Orleans’s longstanding drinking culture. But more than vehicles for alcohol, the c
- Series: Southern Table
- Author: Williams, Elizabeth M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 02 2016
- ISBN10: 0807163260
- Language: English
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A Culinary History of West Virginia: From Ramps to Pepperoni Rolls
$23.99 Add to cartThe Mountain State’s irregular borders and rugged geography are home to a fascinating mix of cultures, landscapes and foods. West Virginia’s culinary history is rooted among the native fauna and flora… [more below]
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Tinnell, Shannon Colaianni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1625859252
- Language: English
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Eat My Words: Reading Women’s Lives Through the Cookbooks They Wrote
$27.99 Add to cartSome people think that a cookbook is just a collection of recipes for dishes that feed the body. In Eat My Words: Reading Women’s Lives through the Cookbooks They Wrote, Janet Theophano shows that coo… [more below]
- Author: Theophano, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1403962936
- Language: English
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Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food
$24.99 Add to cartAs late as the 1960s, tacos were virtually unknown outside Mexico and the American Southwest. Within fifty years the United States had shipped taco shells everywhere from Alaska to Australia, Morocco … [more below]
- Author: Pilcher, Jeffrey M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0190655771
- Language: English
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On the Chocolate Trail: A Delicious Adventure Connecting Jews, Religions, History, Travel, Rituals and Recipes to the Magic of Cacao
$20.99 Add to cartTake a delectable journey through the religious history of chocolate-a real treat!
In this new and updated second edition, explore the surprising Jewish and other religious connections to chocolate in
- Author: Prinz, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 168336676X
- Language: English
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A History of Virginia Wines: From Grapes to Glass
$32.99 Add to cartGo beyond the bottle and step inside the minds, and vines, of Virginia’s burgeoning wine industry in this groundbreaking volume. Join grape grower and industry insider Walker Elliott Rowe as he guides… [more below]
- Author: Rowe, Walker Elliott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1540220028
- Language: English
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The Fireside Cook Book: A Complete Guide to Fine Cooking for Beginner and
$31.99 Add to cartThe Fireside Cook Book is designed for people who are not content to regard food just as something one transfers periodically from plate to mouth. It is for those who recognize that a simple family me… [more below]
- Author: Beard, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 06 2013
- ISBN10: 1476743495
- Language: English
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L.A.’s Landmark Restaurants: Celebrating the Legendary Locations Where Angelenos Have Dined for Generations
$50.00 Add to cartL.A.’s Landmark Restaurants: Celebrating the Legendary Locations Where Angelenos Have Dined for Generations follows in the footsteps of George Geary’s now classic and critically acclaimed book, L.A.’s
- Author: Geary, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1595801138
- Language: English
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On the Chocolate Trail: A Delicious Adventure Connecting Jews, Religions, History, Travel, Rituals and Recipes to the Magic of Cacao (2nd Edit
$30.99 Add to cartTake a delectable journey through the religious history of chocolate-a real treat!
In this new and updated second edition, explore the surprising Jewish and other religious connections to chocolate in
- Author: Prinz, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1683366778
- Language: English
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Butter: A Rich History
$16.99 Add to cart“Edifying from every point of view–historical, cultural, and culinary.” –David Tanis, author of A Platter of Figs and Other Recipes
It’s a culinary catalyst, an agent of change, a gastronomic rock s- Author: Khosrova, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1616207396
- Language: English
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How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious (But True) Stories of Common Vegetables
$21.99 Add to cartDiscover why Roman gladiators were massaged with onion juice before battle, how celery contributed to Casanova’s conquests, how peas almost poisoned General Washington, and why some seventeenth-centur… [more below]
- Author: Rupp, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 07 2011
- ISBN10: 1603429689
- Language: English
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Serendipity: A History of Accidental Culinary Discoveries
$24.99 Add to cartEataly founder Oscar Farinetti reveals the accidental, serendipitous discoveries that gave birth to some of the world’s most well-known gastronomic delights.
Did you know that your morning coffee could… [more below]
- Author: Farinetti, Oscar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1954641184
- Language: English
