From the publisher: A global celebration of the iconic restaurant dishes that defined the course of culinary history over the past 300 years. Today’s food-lovers often travel the globe to […]
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Seeds of Change: Six Plants that Transformed Mankind
by Henry Hobhouse From the publisher: A personal and highly original take on the history of six commercial plants, Seeds of Change illuminates how sugar, tea, cotton, the potato, quinine, […]
Savage Barbecue: Race, Culture, and the Invention of America’s First Food
by Andrew Warnes From the publisher: Barbecue is a word that means different things to different people. It can be a verb or a noun. It can be pulled pork […]
Relish: The Extraordinary Life of Alexis Soyer, Victorian Celebrity Chef
by Ruth Cowen From the publisher: Alexis Soyer (1810-1858) was a working-class Frenchman from an unremarkable town north-west of Paris, but his exceptional cooking skills and ebullient personality turned him […]
Refrigerator
by Jonathan Rees From the publisher: It may be responsible for a greater improvement in human diet and longevity than any other technology of the last two thousand years-but have […]
Refrigeration Nation: A History of Ice, Appliances, and Enterprise in America
by Jonathan Rees From the publisher: Only when the power goes off and food spoils do we truly appreciate how much we rely on refrigerators and freezers. In Refrigeration Nation, […]
Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana’s Sugar Parishes, 1862-1880
by John C. Rodrigue From the publisher: In Reconstruction in the Cane Fields, John C. Rodrigue examines emancipation and the difficult transition from slavery to free labor in one enclave […]
Prison Food in America
by Erika Camplin From the publisher: America seems presently fascinated by prison culture and the inner workings of what happens behind clinked doors. With TV shows creating binge-watchers of us […]
Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
by Larry Zuckerman From the publisher: The Potato tells the story of how a humble vegetable, once regarded as trash food, had as revolutionary an impact on Western history as […]
Pomodoro! A History of the Tomato in Italy
by David Gentilcore From the publisher: More than just the beloved base ingredient of so many of our favorite dishes, the tomato has generated both profound riches and controversy in […]