Summary: Best-selling author, culinary adventurer and self-proclaimed hedonist, Anthony Bourdain has carved out a distinct place as a gastronomic Indiana Jones. In this series, his journey introduces viewers to people and places far beyond the realm of food as he travels the world sampling local foods and culture. Paris: Take an unusual tour of the city of light and love as Tony ventures from a hardcore...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Discovery Communications 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: ""In almost any culture, at any time, you can find food writing," writes guest editor Mark Bittman in his introduction. "Food means growing and hardship, and health and medicine, and work and holiday. In its abundance it is a gift and a joy, and in its absence a curse and a tragedy. If a culture has writing, that culture has food writing." The stories in this year's Best American Food Writing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 BESSummary: Join Ming Tsai on the Emmy-nominated 'Simply Ming' as he and a great group of guest chefs find inspiration from his East-West pantry and from surprise ingredients that range from exotic fruits and vegetables to meats and fish. Ming highlights techniques to help you at home, from filleting a fish to sharing a technique for cooking veggies kids will love. Includes six episodes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.595 SIMTschann, Judith
Summary: "Food and words--we rely on both to sustain our daily lives. We begin each morning hungry for nourishment and conversation, and our happiest moments and fondest memories are often filled with ample servings of both. Food historian Judith Tschann celebrates this glorious intersection of linguistic and culinary affinities with Romaine Wasn't Build in a Day, a decadent romp through the history of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Voracious, Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3001 TSCSummary: Follow chef Marcus Samuelsson as he immerses himself in diverse immigrant communities and cuisines in cities across the US. In each hour, Marcus will travel to a different city and dive into a new food culture. He'll discover the important immigrant histories - and delicious culinary traditions - that shape the way America eats today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV NOFreeman, Danyelle.
Summary: Presents an ode to the delights and wonders of culinary tourism with an introduction to tasty foods around the world, accompanied by sidebars, short essays, and information about culturally sensitive dinner table manners.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59 FREMiller, Tim (Timothy Jon)
Summary: American Home Cooking provides an answer to the question of why, in the face of all the modern technology we have for saving time, Americans still spend time in their kitchens cooking. Americans eat four to five meals per week in a restaurant and buy millions of dollars' worth of convenience foods. Cooking, especially from scratch, is clearly on its way out. However, if this is true, why do we...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641 MILSummary: It explores the remarkable life of Jeremiah Tower, one of the most controversial and influential figures in the history of American gastronomy. Tower began his career at the renowned Chez Panisse in Berkeley in 1972, becoming a pioneering figure in the emerging California cuisine movement. After leaving Chez Panisse, due in part to a famously contentious relationship with founder Alice Waters,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF JERSummary: Each week chef Marcus Samuelsson, an immigrant himself, visits a new city to learn about the dynamic and creative ways a particular community has made its mark. Season Two has him visiting Seattle's Filipino community, West African neighborhoods in Houston, Philadelphia's Italian-Americans, the Portuguese in Boston, a widespread Armenian community throughout SoCal, and the Chinese traditions of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV NODownie, David
Summary: Examines the history and geography of Paris to discover what it is about the history of the city that has made it a food lover's paradise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394.1 DOWMajumdar, Simon.
Summary: An internationally popular food savant and blogger chronicles his yearlong journey around the world in search of everything delicious.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.013 MAJSummary: Season 4 of the Emmy and James Beard Award-winning series The Mind of a Chef takes you into the mind of Chef Gabrielle Hamilton, best-selling author of "Blood, bones, and butter", as she runs her restaurant, explores her roots in Pennsylvania, and ventures to Rome and Milan, all the while retracing the inspiration for her culinary career ad exploring what it truly means to cook, think, create,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 GABSinger, Peter
Summary: An investigation of the food choices people make and practices of the food producers who create this food for us leading to a discussion of how we might put more ethics into our shopping carts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cook's Country 2005
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Summary: Travel journalist Rudy Maxa and Washington, D.C. restaurateur Daisuke Utagawa present three episodes that highlight three distinct regions of Japan, focusing on the nation's food and food producers. From the ramen of the northern island of Hokkaido, to the sushi of Tokyo, to the Wagyu beef raised on the southern island of Kyushu, food is a window on the soul of Japan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.2 RUDAhdoot, Dan
Summary: "A collection of hilarious essays about how food became one man's obsession and coping mechanism, and how it came to rule-and sometimes ruin-his relationships, from the Cobra Kai actor, stand-up comic, and host of Food Network's Raid the Fridge. "When most people say they have an unhealthy relationship with food, they mean they eat too much of it or too little. When I say I have an unhealthy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AHDOOT, DAN AHDCurry, Ayesha
Summary: Ayesha Curry shares 100 of her favorite recipes and invites readers into the home she has made with her two daughters and her husband Stephen Curry. Ayesha knows firsthand what it is like to be a busy mom and wife, and she knows that for her family, time in the kitchen and around the table is where that balance begins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.5 CURSummary: Jonathan Gold pulls back the curtain on the perceived superficiality of Los Angeles to show viewers a genuine and vibrant world where ethnic cooking is a kaleidoscopic doorway to the mysteries of an unwieldy city and the soul of America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CITSummary: "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"--Amazon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Balloon Publishing 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An compilation of essays, fiction, and cartoons on the world of food and drink from the pages of The New Yorker features contributions by Susan Orlean, Calvin Trillin, Joan Didion, Anthony Bourdain, John Cheever, and Roald Dahl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.8 SECSummary: Premiering on PBS, Vivian travels the changing South in search of the dishes that connect all, dumplings, hand pies, porridge and more, but which are expressed in delightfully different ways across cultures. Along the way, she meets new friends and teachers, and as she says, she discovers how breaking bread and sharing a meal can create a comfortable place to have meaningful, memorable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SOMEpstein, Jason.
Summary: Editor and publisher Jason Epstein takes us on a culinary tour of his life, presenting recollections of chefs and restaurants, along with recipes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.013 EPSFisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley Pub. 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.01 FISFussell, Betty Harper
Summary: "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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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2016