Food Writing
A History of Cooks and
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Never has there been so little need to cook. Yet Michael Symons maintains that to be truly human we need to become better cooks; practical and generous sharers of food.
Food: What We Eat (Hard)
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New in paperback! Among the 200 writers represented in this illustrated anthology of culinary literature (which covers everything from Apples to Zucchini) are many readers will expect to find: Julia Child, Elizabeth David, James Beard, Escoffier.
My Kitchen Wars
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A veteran of the era\'s domestic battles takes no prisoners in a fierce and funny memoir. My Kitchen Wars is a war story, but the warrior is a woman, and the battleground is the kitchen.
South Wind Through the Kitchen
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Compiled by Jill Norman Like M.F.K. Fisher and Julia Child, Elizabeth David changed the way we think about and prepare food. Before her death in 1992, she wrote nine books that, with impeccable wit and considerable brilliance, helped educate the postwar generation.
Literary Feast
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Sumptuous anthology of 27 stories, essays & excerpts about art of eating, penned by some of this century\'s finest writers. 273 pgs. Not a cookbook. Hard (reg. 20.
Consuming Culture
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Sale! Essays on food in different cultures around the world: as power, love, religion, health, class, taboo, theatre, money, more. Not a cookbook.
Food for Thought
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Examines through art and literary criticism, the peculiar relationship between verbal and oral functions - speaking and eating, boasting and gluttony, lying and cannibalism. Not a cookbook.
Food An Oxford Anthology
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Allen, ed. Irresistible menu of tidbits taken from sources as varied as the Bible, Thomas Mann, classical Greece, menus, 16th-century Muscovy, advertising, more. Not a cookbook.