Gastronomy Books


Cooking for Gold: Recipes from the Culinary Olympics (Pbs Cooking Series) (Pbs Cooking Series) Best Price: $4.94 This book contains a collection of mouth-watering recipes from the teams who competed in the...	Big Shots: The Men Behind the Booze Best Price: $6.50 Great book if you ever wanted to know how and where the names of some of the most popular booze...	Cooking Up a Storm (Good Old Days) Best Price: $8.66 The kitchen was the center of the home back in the Good Old Days. This 160-page book beautifully...	Simply Delectable Best Price: $0.86 My girlfriend and I bought this book at our local bookstore the Book Inc. on sale in San...	Italy, the Romagnoli Way: A Culinary Journey Best Price: $12.47



Libations of the Eighteenth Century: A Concise Manual for the Brewing of Authentic Beverages from the Colonial Era of America, and of Times Past Best Price: $19.95 I enjoyed this book. The author gave very simple and basic instructions for making numerous...	Mild Ale: History, Brewing, Techniques, Recipes (Classic Beer Style Series, 15) Best Price: $8.92 While traveling in the UK years ago I entered a pub and asked the publican to pour me one of his...	Irrepressible Appetites Best Price: $3.52 Excellent range of writing and recipes. Loved the stories, and especially the poetry!	Culinary Tourism (Material Worlds) Best Price: $28.00 The lure of exotic food has motivated many people to travel and the tourism industry thrives on...	Eating in Eden: Food and American Utopias (At Table) Best Price: $20.69 Perennially viewed as both a utopian land of abundant resources and a fallen nation of...



How To Be A Pregnant Father Best Price: $1.00 This whole series is the best I know of. I started purchasing them in the 70s for my...	The Ungarnished Truth: A Cooking Contest Memoir Best Price: $0.32 This book was a delight to read. I cook, but not as a compulsive, over-enthusiastic chef. Thus,...	All-American Frank:: A History of the Hot Dog Best Price: $19.94 Hot dogs were ranked as America?s third-favorite food in 1994 behind pizza and sandwiches. Every...	Whole Foods Companion: A Guide For Adventurous Cooks, Curious Shoppers, and lovers of natural foods Best Price: $19.64 This is my food "bible". I find it facinating enough to read like a novel from cover...	The Agnes & Muriel's Cafe Cookbook Best Price: $11.50 Upon arrival, the cover of the book was dirty, torn in the seam corner and the back had a...

EARLY AMERICAN TABLE: Food and Society in the New World Best Price: $28.99 An exploration in the history of biopolitics, The Early American Table offers a unique study...	The Art of Cidermaking While not a big beer drinker, I do enjoy a good cider now and then. Coming from a family that...	Bitter Harvest : A Chef's Perspective on the Hidden Danger in the Foods We Eat and What You Can Do About It Best Price: $16.95 This book focuses on sustainability, safety, and nutrition in the food we eat. There are a lot...	Grandma's Wartime Baking Book: World War II and the Way We Baked Best Price: $20.18 The previous reviewer did a wonderful job in summarizing the chapters of this book so I will...	Better Than Homemade: Amazing Food That Changed the Way We Eat Best Price: $2.50 Better Than Homemade is a trip back in time, in an era when food was enjoyed for what it was,...

Mariage Freres: French Tea Best Price: $31.50 Only the French can take tea to an exaulted level. Revel in the details about the various types...	In the Devil's Garden: A Sinful History of Forbidden Food Best Price: $6.35 Sample each of the seven deadly sins while exploring food taboos through history. Complete...	A1 Diner: Real Food, Recipes, and Recollections Best Price: $10.98 GREAT TO HAVE A BOOK THAT PAYS HOMMAGE TO THE DINER, LOVE THE FACT THAT IT IS STILL HEALTHY AND...	Women Who Eat: A New Generation on the Glory of Food (Live Girls Series) Best Price: $2.00 This is one of the better food anthologies I have read. The quality of writing here is so...	The Primal Cheeseburger: A Generous Helping of Food History Served On a Bun Best Price: $8.29 The Primal Cheeseburger attempts to delve into the history of basic food groups while utilizing...

Food in the United States, 1820s-1890 (Food in American History) Best Price: $39.96 The period from the 1820s to 1890 was one of invention, new trends, and growth in the American...	Dishing: Great Dish -- and Dishes -- from America's Most Beloved Gossip Columnist Best Price: $0.01 As the subtitle of DISHING states, author Liz Smith is "America's most beloved gossip...	Curiosities of Food: Or the Dainties and Delicacies of Different Nations Obtained from the Animal Kingdom Best Price: $6.35 This small book does not pretend to be an original work, rather a compilation of accounts and...	Forklore: Recipes and Tales from an American Bistro Best Price: $17.50 Co-founded in 1997 by Ellen Yin, Fork, a casual but sophisticated restaurant nestled in Old...	Miss Leslie's Directions for Cookery: An Unabridged Reprint of the 1851 Classic Best Price: $107.55

Edible Schoolyard Best Price: $16.47 Alice Waters, executive chef and owner of Chez Panisse restaurant is a strong advocate for...	The Prawn Cocktail Years Best Price: $26.95 While Lindsey Bareham was helping Simon Hopkinson put together his best-selling book,...	Dreadful Delicacies Best Price: $3.87	Cook, Eat, Cha Cha Cha: Festive New World Recipes This book contains the recipes for some of your favorite dishes fron CHA CHA CHA on Haight...	Savoring the Past: The French Kitchen and Table from 1300 to 1789 Best Price: $7.97 You know, I just finished this book last night. It's a good book. Not a great book, but...

Out of the Kitchen: Adventures of a Food Writer Best Price: $10.97 How does one become a "food writer", and what does that actually mean anyway? These...	Food Finds: America's Best Local Foods and the People Who Produce Them Best Price: $2.22 Extremely well written survey of various small out-of-the-way artisan specialty food...	The Five Roses Cook Book (Classic Canadian Cookbook Series) Best Price: $157.56 This is a great book for anyone interested in baking as our ancestors did it, or experienced...	Unmentionable Cuisine Best Price: $22.05 That's all it is. A 30 year old cookbook. Although the publication is a reprint the statistics...	Lambic (Classic Beer Style Series) Excellent book on the history and chemistry of brewing Lambic beers. Unfortunately it is out of...

173 Pre-Prohibition Cocktails : Potations So Good They Scandalized A President The only beverage book that includes lost and almost-lost cocktail recipes from before 1920, 173...	Arab/American: Landscape, Culture, and Cuisine in Two Great Deserts Best Price: $10.45 The landscapes, cultures, and cuisines of deserts in the Middle East and North America have...	Remembrance of Repasts: An Anthropology of Food and Memory (Materializing Culture) Best Price: $26.22 Proust's famous madeleine captures the power of food to evoke some of our deepest memories. Why...	Recipes for Russia: Food and Nationhood Under the Tsars Best Price: $35.59 Smith examines changing attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs about the production and consumption...	Basically Morels: Mushroom Hunting, Cooking, Lore & Advice (Nature & Cooking) Best Price: $3.98 This is a poorly written monograph by the claimed 'world expert" on morels and provides...

La Varenne's Cookery: The French Cook, The French Pastry Chef, The French Confectioner Best Price: $62.18 These three books by Francois Pierre de la Varenne (c. 1615-1678), who was chef to the Marquis...	A Literary Feast: Recipes and Writings by American Women Authors from History Best Price: $10.88 From Louisa May Alcott to Kate Douglas Wiggin, early-American writers found time to describe and...	The Artful Eater: A Gourmet Investigates the Ingredients of Great Food Best Price: $8.99 The best book on food, eating, etc, I have ever read. There are 18 chapters on 18 different...	More Retro Diner: A Second Helping of Roadside Recipes (Retro) Best Price: $8.80 When someone gifted me this book, my first thought was, "Oh, No, not ANOTHER...	Confessions of a Coffee Bean: The Complete Guide to Coffee Cuisine (Square One Classics) Best Price: $8.93 Confessions of a Coffee Bean first provides a fascinating history of coffee and details the...

Nosh New York: The Food Lover's Guide to New York City's Most Delicious Neighborhoods Best Price: $10.61 If you are interested in exploring New York's vibrant, delicious underbelly, and are willing to...	Sound Bites: Eating on Tour with Franz Ferdinand Best Price: $5.97 This collection is great for people who are into food, but not "foodies". I.e.,...	A Chef in Provence Best Price: $14.98 I worked for Chef Loubet in Bonnieux at his restaurant Bastide de Capelongue. He is a man who...	Meals and Memories: How To Create Keepsake Cookbooks I am creating my first cook book with my favorite recipes to pass on to my children. This book...	Many Beautiful Things: Stories and Recipes from Polizzi Generosa Best Price: $7.98 I happened to pick this book up while needing something to read on a traveling layover. I...

The Last Days of Haute Cuisine: The Coming of Age of American Restaurants Best Price: $3.74 Reading this book, I find that the author's ego interferes often with the documentation of how...	Turning the Tables: Restaurants from the Inside Out Best Price: $2.34 About: Shaw, the founder of eGullet, discuses various aspects of the restaurant industry. He...	Escoffier: The King of Chefs Best Price: $19.16 Auguste Escoffier (1846 -1935) was the first great star of modern cooking. Acknowledged during...

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