Gastronomy Books


Hungarian Cookbook: Old World Recipes for New World Cooks (Hippocrene International Cookbooks) Best Price: $87.50 As I read through this cookbook soon after purchase, I felt as though I was re-living my years...	Saha: A Chef's Journey Through Lebanon and Syria Best Price: $26.18 I thought that characterizing hope as a weed was thoughtful and apt. That comment came from a ...	Pleyn Delit: Medieval Cookery for Modern Cooks Best Price: $14.84 `Pleyn Delit' subtitled `Medieval Cookery for Modern Cooks' by Constance B. Hieatt,...	Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Meal Best Price: $6.97 A quirky, very informative book about the foods we eat. I found it very, very interesting.	The Inquisitive Cook Best Price: $6.49 When I first began reading "The Inquisitive Cook", I was disappointed at its...



Feast at Your Fingertips: The Ultimate Catalog of Fabulous Foods by Mail Best Price: $2.20	Turning the Tables: Restaurants and the Rise of the American Middle Class, 1880-1920 Best Price: $34.54 In most American towns, we take it for granted that any evening we can go out for pizza, sushi,...	Mini-Mart a la Carte: Tasty Recipes for the Convenience Store Connoisseur Best Price: $0.95 OK, say you're getting old and have been doing the low fat, fresh veggie diet for years. The...	Haute Cuisine: How the French Invented the Culinary Profession Best Price: $13.00 OK, the topic of the book is french cuisine. But Ms Trubek writes so simplistically worshipful...	Haute as in Oat Your guide to the correct pronunciation of European wines and cuisine that is both authoritative...



Le Cordon Bleu Cuisine Foundations Best Price: $14.25 Ever feel like chefs are speaking another language? Mis en place, chiffonade, julienne...? ...	Immortal Milk: Adventures in Cheese Best Price: $0.01 For those of us who grew up with two choices--American yellow or American white--"Immortal...	The Golden Age Cookbook - 1898 Reprint Best Price: $14.08 Reprint of Henrietta Dwight's 1898 cookbook "The Golden Age Cook Book". This...	The Taste of Sweet: Our Complicated Love Affair With Our Favorite Treats Best Price: $22.95 Dismissed as déclassé by gourmands, blamed for the scourge of obesity, and yet loved...	Judgment of Paris: California vs. France and the Historic 1976 Paris Tasting That Revolutionized Wine Best Price: $18.79 The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History houses, amid its illustrious...

Mrs. Letsaveit Best Price: $8.53 I grew up with many of these recipes and I must say they hold such dear and happy memories. You...	The Dinner Bell; A Gastronomic Manual Best Price: $14.13 This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing...	366 Easy and Inexpensive Dinners for Young Housekeepers Best Price: $19.99 This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free...	The Maple Syrup Book One of our favorite sections in this wonderful book is entitled "Beyond Pancakes"....	Eating Up the Santa Fe Trail: Recipes and Lore from the Old West Best Price: $7.00 Eating Up The Santa Fe Trail: Recipes And Lore From The Old West combines authentic recipes used...

Feast or Famine: Food and Drink in American Westward Expansion Best Price: $39.92 This first comprehensive account of food and drink in the winning of the West describes the...	Ladie Borlase's Receiptes Booke (Iowa Szathmary Culinary Arts) Best Price: $35.35 Before you even look inside, the Dust Jacket tells you this is much more than just another...	Chocolate, Strawberry, and Vanilla: A History Of American Ice Cream Best Price: $12.70 Not only was this one of the quirkiest and funniest things I've read in a long time, but...	The Cheeses of Vermont: A Gourmet Guide to Vermont's Artisanal Cheesemakers Best Price: $5.30 Henry Tewksbury spent the better part of his career as Peter Tewksbury in California, where he...	The upstart cuisine: Proceedings of the First Symposium of Australian Gastronomy, Carclew, Adelaide, March 12 and 13, 1984

If You Can't Stand the Heat, Get Out of the Kitchen!: Volume II Best Price: $24.95 I fell in love with this book for the Truman info plus the receipes...I also ordered 2 more for...	The History of Cheese Making in New York State: The History of Cheese Making in the Empire State from the Early Dutch Settlers to Modern Times	The Kitchen Chronicles: Lunches with J. Krishnamurti Best Price: $15.50 Probably the book would not be very different if written by anybody else who spent the same time...	173 Pre-Prohibition Cocktails : Potations So Good They Scandalized A President Best Price: $55.00 "Like a great civilization, the cocktail flourished, went out of fashion, and faded. ...	Meals and Memories: How To Create Keepsake Cookbooks Best Price: $38.92 At one time or another I would look at the jumble of cookbooks and collected recipe cards in my...

Le Cordon Bleu Cuisine Foundations Best Price: $14.25 Ever feel like chefs are speaking another language? Mis en place, chiffonade, julienne...? ...	Immortal Milk: Adventures in Cheese Best Price: $0.01 For those of us who grew up with two choices--American yellow or American white--"Immortal...	The Golden Age Cookbook - 1898 Reprint Best Price: $14.08 Reprint of Henrietta Dwight's 1898 cookbook "The Golden Age Cook Book". This...	The Taste of Sweet: Our Complicated Love Affair With Our Favorite Treats Best Price: $22.95 Dismissed as déclassé by gourmands, blamed for the scourge of obesity, and yet loved...	Judgment of Paris: California vs. France and the Historic 1976 Paris Tasting That Revolutionized Wine Best Price: $18.79 The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History houses, amid its illustrious...

Mrs. Letsaveit Best Price: $8.53 I grew up with many of these recipes and I must say they hold such dear and happy memories. You...	The Dinner Bell; A Gastronomic Manual Best Price: $14.13 This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing...	366 Easy and Inexpensive Dinners for Young Housekeepers Best Price: $19.99 This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free...	The Maple Syrup Book One of our favorite sections in this wonderful book is entitled "Beyond Pancakes"....	Eating Up the Santa Fe Trail: Recipes and Lore from the Old West Best Price: $7.00 Eating Up The Santa Fe Trail: Recipes And Lore From The Old West combines authentic recipes used...

Why Prohibition! Best Price: $22.35 This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can...	Art, Culture, and Cuisine: Ancient and Medieval Gastronomy Best Price: $18.66 Phyllis Bober has long been a pioneer in the history of cooking/foodways. Her thesis is that we...	Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery and Booke of Sweetmeats Best Price: $27.46 I don't suppose we can say it too often but Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery was...	Kitchen Mysteries: Revealing the Science of Cooking (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History) Best Price: $7.00 You know those "precious metals cleaning plates" sold at ridiculous prices in airline...	The Science of the Oven (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History) Best Price: $13.98 I received this book as a review copy from the publisher. "The Science of the Oven"...

Pomodoro!: A History of the Tomato in Italy (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History) Best Price: $14.34 Tomatoes are ubiquitous in the American diet. It is hard to imagine pizza or pasta without them,...	The Kitchen as Laboratory: Reflections on the Science of Food and Cooking (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History) Best Price: $14.95 Eating is a multisensory experience, yet chefs and scientists have only recently begun to...	Swallowing Clouds Best Price: $123.10 Some time ago, a scholar entered a his favorite bookstore. The owner asked if he could help...	Habeas Codfish: Reflections on Food and the Law Best Price: $5.97 As the author writes, food is more than nutrients, It is our culture, and thus our laws reflect...	The Ni'matnama Manuscript of the Sultans of Mandu: The Sultan's Book of Delights (Routledge Studies in South Asia) Best Price: $175.77 The Ni'matnama is a late fifteenth-century book of the recipes of the eccentric Sultan of...

Gusto: Essential Writings in Nineteenth-Century Gastronomy Best Price: $29.03 This delicious anthology of primary texts brings together the major English and French...	My Father's Daughter: Delicious, Easy Recipes Celebrating Family & Togetherness Best Price: $15.00 For years i thought that Gwyneth Paltrow was a self obsessed, snooty ice queen! But for the past...	Four Kitchens: My Life Behind the Burner in New York, Hanoi, Tel Aviv, and Paris Best Price: $2.80 At the French Culinary Institute, Lauren Shockey learned to salt food properly, cook fearlessly...	The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food Best Price: $3.48 "Fortune Cookie" really is several books in one, with the idea of fortune cookies...	Between Bites: Memoirs of a Hungry Hedonist Best Price: $8.50 James Villas is somewhat older than me, but he has many of the same values and attitudes. This...

The True History of Chocolate (Second Edition) Best Price: $12.87 I was very disappointed at how the author managed to taint a fascinating story with his own...	Eating Right in the Renaissance Best Price: $39.10 Ken Albala is a thoroughly charming writer. This short excursion into the state of renaissance...	Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health (California Studies in Food and Culture) Best Price: $4.74 There's much to say about Nestle's "Food Politics" and "What To...	Born Again Bodies: Flesh and Spirit in American Christianity (California Studies in Food and Culture) Best Price: $23.66 Griffith's "Born Again Bodies" is outstanding. It's elegantly written,...	M. F. K. Fisher among the Pots and Pans: Celebrating Her Kitchens (California Studies in Food and Culture) Best Price: $16.38 From her very first book, Serve It Forth, M.F.K. Fisher wrote about her ideal kitchen. In her...

The Raj at Table: A Culinary History of the British in India Best Price: $44.29 While the British were in India they developed a curious cuisine all of their own. As they made...	Remembering Recipes Best Price: $12.76 Here is an instance when the art of cooking and the art of couture converge with pleasant...	Cooking For My Family: From Catherine Pasculli's Hoboken Kitchen Best Price: $19.82 These recipes are amazingly good and so easy! I have friends raving over the recipes I make in...	Around The World In 80 Bars: Discover 80 of the world's best cocktails and the bars that made them famous (Hamlyn Food & Drink) Best Price: $4.15 Imagine sipping a sophisticated Bellini while watching the gondolas glide by on Venice's...	The Living Language Non-Connoisseur's Menu Guide: to Ordering and Enjoying French, Italian, Latin American and Spanish Cuisine (LL NonConnoisseur Menu Gde(TM)) Best Price: $0.29 An excellent resource for novices and experts alike. I especially appreciated the did you know...

Between Two Fires: Intimate Writings on Life, Love, Food, and Flavor "The return to the kitchen was not easy. I wanted my daughter to know her past, to eat what...	A Social History of Tea Best Price: $108.34 Jane Pettigrew has written from the eyes of the people who brought tea to the West, as well as...	Best Food Writing 2008 Best Price: $4.99 The Best Food Writing series is wonderful not only for the great writing, but also as a snapshot...	Falling Cloudberries: A World of Family Recipes Best Price: $11.99 Customer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program ( What's this? ) Tessa...	Recipes & Rhyme: Comfort Food from the Northeast Kingdom Best Price: $14.95 The recipes in this appealing book were compiled from personal cookbooks begun in the 1890s and...

Savor the Spirit: Heritage Recipes Passed Down Through the Years Best Price: $3.00 Savor The Spirit: Heritage Recipes Passed Down Through The Years offers recipes from the members...	The Tastemakers Best Price: $21.95 Vicki Oppenheimer's opening words about her cherished, eighty-year-old recipe cards...	Pasta and Pizza (Paradigm) Best Price: $8.95 Pasta and pizza, in all their infinitely delicious and universally appealing varieties, are...	From My Mama's Kitchen: Food for the Soul, Recipes for Living Best Price: $13.22 Mothers are an inspiration to us and food has always been a focus for social interaction. Johnny...	From My Mama's Kitchen: Food for the Soul, Recipes for Living Best Price: $1.06 "Respect the past, because it is a classroom for lessons learned. Be prepared for the...

The Recipe Club: A Tale of Food and Friendship Best Price: $5.00 Have you ever wondered how childhood relationships form your later years? The Recipe Club...	A booke of cookerie and the order of meates to bee serued to the table, both for flesh and fish dayes With many excellent wayes for the dressing of all vsuall sortes of meates. (1629) Best Price: $12.61 EARLY HISTORY OF FOOD. Imagine holding history in your hands. Now you can. Digitally preserved...	Bon Appetit Vintage Food Posters 2012 Wall Calendar Best Price: $5.70 The demand for highly collectible pieces of vintage memorabilia combined with recent design...	Food and Flavor (Cooking in America) Best Price: $27.05 Henry Finck's aim in his 1913 work "Food and Flavor" is to introduce gastronomy to...	Bon Appetit!: Complete & Unabridged: Travels Through France with Knife, Fork and Corkscrew The early part of Peter Mayle's life was spent in the gastronomic wilderness of post-war...

Beard on Food Best Price: $5.00 This is laid out so well in a series of articles that Beard writes on his experiences with food,...	Hamburger America: One Man's Cross-Country Odyssey to Find the Best Burgers in the Nation [DVD] Best Price: $2.49 I bought the paperback version of this book several months ago and it included the DVD...	The Texas Cowboy Cookbook: A History in Recipes and Photos Best Price: $12.01 Whilst the title is technically correct and there are a number of notable recipes, observations...	Mediterranean Summer: A Season on France's Cote d'Azur and Italy's Costa Bella Best Price: $10.00 David Shalleck had cooked in a number of noted American restaurants. But like any cook worth his...	The Mere Mortal's Guide to Fine Dining: From Salad Forks to Sommeliers, How to Eat and Drink in Style Without Fear of Faux Pas Best Price: $7.08 As a business skill trainer, I found this book an exceptional resource since it provided...

Da Vinci's Kitchen: The Culinary Adventures and Inventions of Leonardo Da Vinci	The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City Best Price: $8.19 I've been to Paris several times and stayed for a month last year and this book is a spot on...	Cognac: A Liquid History Best Price: $4.91 It's called the noble spirit --and who better to explain why than the world expert on...	Horsemen of the Esophagus: Competitive Eating and the Big Fat American Dream Best Price: $0.01 I picked this book up because I enjoyed Fagone's profiles and articles for Philadelphia...	Life Is Meals: A Food Lover's Book of Days Best Price: $15.87 "The meal is the essential act of life. It is the habitual ceremony, the long record of...

What the Great Ate: A Curious History of Food and Fame Best Price: $3.49 The Jacobs' book What the Great Ate: A Curious History of Food and Fame is packed full of...	A Southerly Course: Recipes and Stories from Close to Home Best Price: $16.95 In the highly anticipated follow-up to her bestselling Screen Doors & Sweet Tea...	Bon Appetit: Travels Through France With Knife, Fork and Corkscrew Best Price: $14.69 Peter Mayle's tale of bizarre French country fairs is sure to please the amature...	Spilling the Beans As a child, Clarissa Dickson Wright was surrounded by wealth and privilege. Her mother was an...	The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell Best Price: $11.19 I wish I could be more positive about a history of one of my favorite foods. I eat oysters on...

Reflections of a Wine Merchant Best Price: $4.15 If you are looking for another Kermit Lynch, you will be disappointed. If you liked Alice...	What Einstein Told His Cook: Kitchen Science Explained Best Price: $19.16 This is a most delightful book, full of kitchen wisdom and chemistry, good and bad puns, and...

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