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 […]
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Mrs Goodfellow: The Story of America’s First Cooking School
by Becky Libourel Diamond From the publisher: In Philadelphia during the first decades of the nineteenth century, Mrs. Elizabeth Goodfellow ran a popular bakery and sweet shop. In addition to […]
Hometown Appetites: The Story of Clementine Paddleford, the Forgotten Food Writer Who Chronicled How America Ate
by Kelly Alexander and Cynthia Harris From the publisher: In Hometown Appetites, Kelly Alexander and Cynthia Harris come together to revive the legacy of the most important food writer you […]
History of Howard Johnson’s: How a Massachusetts Soda Fountain Became an American Icon
by Anthony Mitchell Sammarco From the publisher: Howard Johnson created an orange-roofed empire of ice cream stands and restaurants that stretched from Maine to Florida and all the way to […]
Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald’s
by Ray Kroc From the publisher: Few entrepreneurs can claim to have radically changed the way we live, and Ray Kroc is one of them. His revolutions in food-service automation, […]
Frozen in Time: Clarence Birdseye’s Outrageous Idea about Frozen Food
by Mark Kurlansky From the publisher: Adventurer and inventor Clarence Birdseye had a fascination with food preservation that led him to develop and patent the Birdseye freezing process and start […]
Duncan Hines: How a Traveling Salesman Became the Most Trusted Name in Food
by Louis Hatchett From the publisher: Duncan Hines (1880–1959) may be best known for the cake mixes, baked goods, and bread products that bear his name, but most people forget […]
Culinarians: Lives and Careers from the First Age of American Fine Dining
by David S. Shields From the publisher: He presided over Virginia’s great political barbeques for the last half of the nineteenth century, taught the young Prince of Wales to crave mint […]
Johnny Appleseed’s obituary in 1845
John Chapman, popularly known as Johnny Appleseed, died suddenly at the age of 70 on March 18, 1845 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. His obituary in the Fort Wayne Sentinel newspaper: […]
Eggs or Anarchy: The Remarkable Story of the Man Tasked with the Impossible: To Feed a Nation at War
by William Sitwell From the publisher: Eggs or Anarchy is one of the great, British stories of the Second World War yet to be told in full. It reveals the heroic […]