A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband
by Louise Bennett Weaver and Helen Cowles Lecron
Food is a basic requirement of daily life, more essential and (some would say) more comforting than religion, love, or sex. The emotional and social resonances connected with food have long been explored by writers in novels and poetry, drama and biography, diaries and letters, and this anthology brings together a splendid cornucopia of comment and opinion. Attitudes to food are as various as food itself: Montaigne adored fish but disliked fruit and salad, while the German philosopher Kant love...
Following the potato from its early cultivation in 16th-century South America to its 20th-century marriage to battered fish, this social history covers developments in agriculture, class, diet, politics, economics, and technology. For two centuries after the potato's arrival in Europe it was regarded as poison fit only for pigs. Yet, the author suggests, the potato's impact on world history became as striking as that of the railway or the car. The text draws on personal diaries, chronicles, news...
Oenophiles know that Matt Kramer is one of the world's most distinguished and insightful writers on wine. Kramer has written about the subject for 32 years and his full-page column in "Wine Spectator" has appeared in every issue for the last 14 years. The time is ripe for a retrospective and here it is, covering topics from terroir to glassware to the various grapes and regions and personalities. Most of the essays are drawn from his work in "Wine Spectator" and "The New York Sun", along with ex...
The founder of Commonweal discusses the problem of isolation and disconnection in American society and sets forth her vision of how life should be lived, drawing on her work and her own experience with a life-threatening disease.
Can you describe how the flavor of halibut differs from that of red snapper? How the taste of a Fuji apple differs from a Spartan? For most of us, this is a difficult task: flavor remains a vague, undeveloped concept that we don't know enough about to describe-or appreciate-fully. In this delightful and compelling exploration of our most neglected sense, veteran science reporter Bob Holmes shows us just how much we're missing. Considering every angle of flavor from our neurobiology to the scienc...
Cornbread Nation 3
Focusses on the connections through food in Appalachia and beyond. The stories, poems, and essays gathered in ""Cornbread Nation 3: Foods of the Mountain South"" were born along the winding roads of Appalachia, in the vales of the Ozarks, and in the flatlands beyond, where mountain people traveled in the hillbilly diaspora. Here, wisdom is gleaned in coal-mining camps, at roadside vegetable stands, at dinners on church grounds, and on shady front porches. In these tantalizing pieces, leather bri...
The Art of the Tart appealed to cooks of all ages and abilities, even those who didn't 'do' pastry. Smart Tart is a book about food and how it defines us - in 15 autobiographical sketches, Tamasin takes us back to early memories of making jam tarts with her mother, the matchless taste of the Bakewell tart made by her grandparents' cook Rhoda, her father's elaborate Christmas rituals and the pleasures of tea at Fortnum & Mason with her brother Daniel. She writes at length of the beauty and restor...
“The ultimate truffle true crime tale”*: A thrilling journey through the hidden underworld of the world's most prized luxury ingredient. *Bianca Bosker, New York Times bestselling author of Cork Dork Beneath the gloss of star chefs and crystal-laden tables, the truffle supply chain is touched by theft, secrecy, sabotage, and fraud. Farmers patrol their fields with rifles and fear losing trade secrets to spies. Hunters plant poisoned meatballs to eliminate rival truffle-hunting dogs. Naive buy...
With contributions from Karen Leathem, Patricia Kennedy Livingston, Michael Mizell-Nelson, Cynthia LeJeune Nobles, Sharon Stallworth Nossiter, Sara Roahen, and Susan Tucker New Orleans Cuisine: Fourteen Signature Dishes and Their Histories provides essays on the unparalleled recognition New Orleans has achieved as the Mecca of mealtime. Devoting each chapter to a signature cocktail, appetizer, sandwich, main course, staple, or dessert, contributors from the New Orleans Culinary Collective plate...
Over a Red-Hot Stove (Food and Society, #14)
The Winter 2022 issue of Gravy culminates a year’s explorations of natural, built, and imagined environments. Essays, verse, and recipes consider the spaces we inhabit and how we move through them, and the ways in which they may nourish and deprive. These reflections begin along the Texas Gulf Coast, where journalist Kayla Stewart brings us on board a boat helmed by the only Black commercial fisherman in the region, asking questions about access and equity. Scholar and organizer John Simpkins co...
