A beloved culinary historian's short takes on six famous women through the lens of food and cooking-what they ate and how their attitudes toward food offer surprising new insights into their lives. "Establishes Laura Shapiro...
Dinners and dining
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Author:Shapiro, LauraSummary: -
Author:Carroll, AbigailSummary:We are what we eat, as the saying goes, but we are also how we eat, and when, and where. Our eating habits reveal as much about our society as the food on our plates, and our national identity is written in the eating schedules we...
- Author:Lipstein, AndrewSummary:
Herschel Caine is a soon-to-be master of the universe. His hedge fund, built on the miracle of machine learning, is inches away from systematically extracting obscene profits from the market. His SoHo offices (shoes optional, therapy...
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Author:Bate, DanaSummary:Hannah Sugarman seems to have it all. She works for an influential think tank in Washington, DC, lives in a great apartment with her high-achieving boyfriend, and is poised for graduate school and an academic career just like her famous...
- Author:El-Waylly, SohlaSummary:
A collection of the year's top food writing, selected by guest editor Sohla El-Waylly and series editor Silvia Killingsworth. Culinary creator, writer and community advocate, Sohla El-Waylly selects the best twenty articles...
- Author:Tucci, StanleySummary:
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kitchen. Stanley Tucci grew up in an Italian American family that spent every...
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Author:Mechefske, LindySummary:Winner, Taste Canada Gold Medal for Culinary Narrative. Commemorating the two-hundredth anniversary of Sir John A. Macdonald's birth, Sir John's Table is a refreshing look at Canada's first prime minister. Sir John's Table traverses the...
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Author:Mintz, Corey, Murray, Steve, Polley, SarahSummary:A fun, informative guide to hosting the perfect party every time. "Every dinner party experience I’ve had in the last ten years at Corey’s has been incredible. But practice really does make perfect and I can now honestly say there is...
- Author:Spence, CharlesSummary:
The science behind a good meal: all the sounds, sights, and tastes that make us like what we're eating-and want to eat more. Why do we consume 35 percent more food when eating with one other person, and 75 percent more when dining...
- Author:Mayle, PeterSummary:
In French Lessons, Mayle broadens his horizons and sets out on a gastronomic voyage to every region of France, ready to eat and drink his way into blissful oblivion. Along the way, Mayle unearths rare local delicacies, irresistible...
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Author:Mente, Boye Lafayette deSummary:Dining in Japan is both an art and an adventure-an experience that is made memorable by the variety of unique dishes, their gourmet quality, and the style in which they are served! With Dining Guide to Japan, you will have an extensive...
- Author:Traill, Catherine Parr StricklandSummary:
What did you eat for dinner today? Did you make your own cheese? Butcher your own pig? Collect your own eggs? Drink your own home-brewed beer? Shanty bread leavened with hops-yeast, venison and wild rice stew, gingerbread cake with...
