History
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Famous Florida Recipes: Centuries of Good Eating in the Sunshine State
$17.95 Add to cartThis little cookbook is a favorite of many Floridians. For more than ten years, Lowis Carlton traveled Florida, collecting and testing recipes found to be popular with different cultures in all the re
- Author: Carlton, Lowis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1683343506
- Language: English
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The Civilian Conservation Corps Cookbook
$23.99 Read moreThe Civilian Conservation Corps was a voluntary government work relief program that offered nearly 3 million unemployed, unmarried men the job of restoring and conserving America’s public lands, fores… [more below]
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Bizzarri, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153265
- Language: English
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Casseroles, Can Openers, and Jell-O: American Food and the Cold War, 1947-1959
$33.95 Add to cartAn “all-you-can-eat” tour of American life in the postwar period, told through the foods we loved.
- Author: Aldrich, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: November 02 2023
- ISBN10: 143849307X
- Language: English
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Pastrami on Rye: An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli
$22.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2015 National Jewish Book Award in Education and Jewish Identity from the Jewish Book Council
The history of an iconic food in Jewish American culture For much of the twentieth century,- Author: Merwin, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1479872555
- Language: English
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The Flavor of Wisconsin: An Informal History of Food and Eating in the Badger State
$29.95 Add to cartThe Wisconsin Historical Society published Harva Hachten’s The Flavor of Wisconsin in 1981. It immediately became an invaluable resource on Wisconsin foods and foodways. This updated and expanded edit
- Author: Hachten, Harva
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 197660012X
- Language: English
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Cooking in Iran: Regional Recipes and Kitchen Secrets
$65.00 Add to cart“The Grande Dame of Iranian Cooking” Esteemed American chef. Award-winning cookbook author. Persian cooking instructor. Iranian immigrant. Storyteller. Mother of two acclaimed sons – Zal, a filmmaker;… [more below]
- Author: Batmanglij, Najmieh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 728
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1949445070
- Language: English
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The Secret History of Food: Strange But True Stories about the Origins of Everything We Eat
$19.99 Add to cartAn irreverent, surprising, and entirely entertaining look at the little-known history surrounding the foods we know and love
Is Italian olive oil really Italian, or are we dipping our bread in lamp oil
- Author: Siegel, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 0062973207
- Language: English
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Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat
$19.99 Add to cartAward-winning food writer Bee Wilson’s secret history of kitchens, showing how new technologies – from the fork to the microwave and beyond – have fundamentally shaped how and what we eat.
Since preh- Author: Wilson, Bee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 08 2013
- ISBN10: 0465056970
- Language: English
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Oyster: A Gastronomic History (with Recipes)
$40.00 Add to cartFrom the one-time editor of the #1 bestselling The Good Food Guide, award-winning writer Drew Smith’s Oyster: A Gastronomic History offers readers a global view of the oyster, tracing its role in cook… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Drew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 141971922X
- Language: English
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Holy Food: How Cults, Communes, and Religious Movements Influenced What We Eat — An American History
$32.95 Add to cartDoes God have a recipe?
“Holy Food is a titanic feat of research and a fascinating exploration of American faith and culinary rites. Christina Ward is the perfect guide – generous, wise, and ecumenical
- Author: Ward, Christina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 26, 2023
- ISBN10: 1934170941
- Language: English
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Egg: A Dozen Ovatures
$28.00 Add to cartThe egg is a paradox–both alive and not alive–and a symbol as old as culture itself. In this wide-ranging and delightful journey through its natural and cultural history, Lizzie Stark explores the e
- Author: Stark, Lizzie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 0393531503
- Language: English
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The Discovery of Pasta: A History in Ten Dishes
$27.95 Add to cartWhat is Italy without pasta? Come to think of it, where would the rest of us be without this staple of global cuisine? An acclaimed Italian food writer tells the colorful and often-surprising history … [more below]
- Author: Cesari, Luca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 3, 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363165
- Language: English
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Depression Era Recipes
$9.95 Add to cartA collection of over 450 Depression Era recipes and nostalgic photos, illustrations and comments.
- Author: Wagner, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 05 1990
- ISBN10: 0934860556
- Language: English
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Dinner in Rome: A History of the World in One Meal
$27.50 Read moreWith a celebrated food writer as host, a delectable history of Roman cuisine and the world–served one dish at a time. Now in paperback.
“There is more history in a bowl of pasta than in the Colosseu- Author: Viestad, Andreas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 01, 2022
- ISBN10: 1789146747
- Language: English
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White Heat 25
$44.99 Add to cartA 25th anniversary edition of the collection of classic recipes from the ‘enfant terrible’ of the
Once in a blue moon
UK restaurant scene, featuring striking photographs of his kitchen and his cooking.- Author: Pierre White, Marco
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 07 2015
- ISBN10: 1784720003
- Language: English
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Food of Life: Ancient Persian and Modern Iranian Cooking and Ceremonies
$54.95 Read moreThis is an updated and expanded fourth edition of New Food of Life: Ancient Persian and Modern Iranian Cooking and Ceremonies ISBN 0934211345.
- Author: Batmanglij, Najmieh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 639
- Publish Date: February 02, 2012
- ISBN10: 193382347X
- Language: English
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Dinner in Rome: A History of the World in One Meal
$21.00 Add to cartWith a celebrated food writer as host, a delectable history of Roman cuisine and the world–served one dish at a time. Now in paperback.
“There is more history in a bowl of pasta than in the Colosseu- Author: Viestad, Andreas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1789147824
- Language: English
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Smithsonian American Table: The Foods, People, and Innovations That Feed Us
$40.00 Read moreIn collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, a sweeping history of food and culture that summons everyone to the table for a fresh look at the people, ingredients, events, and movements that hav
- Author: Smithsonian Institution
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0358008662
- Language: English
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The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past
$29.95 Add to cartA New Scientist, Globe and Mail, and Eater Best Book of 2023
In the tradition of Michael Pollan, Anthony Bourdain, and Mark Bittman, “a surprising, flavorsome tour of ancient cuisines” (Kirkus, STARR- Series: David Suzuki Institute
- Author: Grescoe, Taras
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: 19-Sep-23
- ISBN10: 1771647639
- Language: English
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Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking: A Cookbook
$35.00 Add to cart“A celebration of African American cuisine right now, in all of its abundance and variety.”–Tejal Rao, The New York Times
JAMES BEARD AWARD WINNER – IACP AWARD WINNER – IACP BOOK OF THE YEAR – TONI T- Author: Tipton-Martin, Toni
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: 5-Nov-19
- ISBN10: 1524761737
- Language: English
