Summary: 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,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

Waters, Alice

Summary: "From chef and food activist Alice Waters, an impassioned plea for a radical reconsideration of the way each and every one of us cooks and eats"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

Singer, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

Lee, Jennifer 8.

Summary: "A woman's search for the world's greatest Chinese restaurant proves that egg rolls are as American as apple pie"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2008

Copies Available at Fife Lake

Summary: 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.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

Summary: 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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

Bourdain, Anthony.

Summary: Tracking his own strange and unexpected voyage from journeyman cook to globe-traveling professional eater and drinker, and even to fatherhood, Bourdain takes no prisoners as he dissects what he's seen, pausing along the way for a series of confessions, rants, investigations, and interrogations of some of the most controversial figures in food.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco Press 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

Summary: 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,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

Ahdoot, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

Greene, Gael.

Summary: In 1968, Gael Greene became restaurant critic of the fledgling New York magazine. She'd never written a restaurant review in her life, but she was a passionate foodie, and dining in great restaurants on someone else's dime was too enticing to resist. Thus began a remarkable career charting the restaurants that changed the way Americans ate, the chefs who turned cooking into an art form, and the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

Fisher, M. F. K. (Mary Frances Kennedy)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

Harrison, Jim

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

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.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

Rayner, Jay

Summary: "You're about to die. What would your final meal be?" An awful lot of people seem to want Jay Rayner dead, if the regularity with which he hears that question is anything to go by. Rather than dwell too much on that fact, Jay embarks on a journey through his life in food, in pursuit of the meal to end all meals. His quest takes him from oysters on the Essex coast to sourdough in San Francisco,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Guardian Faber 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

Liebling, A. J. (Abbott Joseph)

Contents: The sweet science -- The Earl of Louisiana -- The jollity building -- Between meals -- The press.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

Dunea, Melanie.

Contents: Ferran Adria -- Tom Aikens -- Jose Andres -- Elena Arzak and Juan Mari Arzak -- Dan Barber -- Lidia Bastianich -- Mario Batali -- Rick Bayless -- Michelle Bernstein -- Raymond Blanc -- April Bloomfield -- Daniel Boulud -- Anthony Bourdain -- Guillaume Brahimi -- Amit Chowdhury -- Scott Conant -- Gary Danko -- Helene Darroze -- Vimal Dhar -- Alain Ducasse -- Wylie Dufresne -- Tyler Florence --...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

Downie, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

Goodall, Jane

Summary: "An exploration of the global meaning of food and what all of us can do to exercise power over the food industry and, ultimately, our environment"--Provided by the publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

Summary: 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.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

Tschann, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Voracious, Little, Brown and Company 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere