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 New Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 BESTschann, 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 TSCDownie, 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 DOWSummary: 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 GABSummary: 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 RUDFussell, 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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 FUSRozin, Elisabeth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59 ROZWilson, Bee
Summary: "In just two generations, the world has undergone a massive shift from traditional, limited diets to more globalized ways of eating-- from bubble tea to quinoa, Soylent to meal kits. Paradoxically, our diets are getting healthier and less healthy at the same time. For some, there has never been a happier food era than today: a time of unusual herbs, farmers' markets, and internet recipe swaps....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.01 WILGoodall, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2006