Double Cup Love: On the Trail of Family, Food, and Broken Hearts in China
From the author of Fresh Off the Boat, now a hit ABC sitcom, comes a hilarious and fiercely original story of culture, family, love, and red-cooked pork Eddie Huang was finally happy. Sort of. He’d written a bestselling book and was the star of a TV show that took him to far-flung places around the globe. His New …
Candid, relatable, confessional, and opinionated, you won’t be able to put down this intriguing tome. Adventures of A Terribly Greedy Girl includes 25 pivotal recipes that Kay has discovered along the way, including Ivy on the Shore Salad, Salty-sweet Peanut Cookies, and Thai Gravadlax. Imagine Adventures of A Terribly Greedy Girl as a book written by the illegitimate …
Why are you are you eating diet foods and getting fatter? Why do you still have cellulite even though you eat “healthy”? Why don’t you know what you are eating, even when you read the label? Why does the obesity rate in America keep climbing, even though the weight-loss market is a $300 billion industry? It is because …
The redefinition of family values as seen from the eyes of a polyamorous, queer Italian Canadian obsessed with food. This mouthwatering, intimate, and sensual memoir traces Monica Meneghetti’s unique life journey through her relationship with food, family and love. As the youngest child of a traditional Italian-Catholic immigrant family, Monica learns the intimacy of the dinner table and …
The Fermented Man: A Year on the Front Lines of a Food Revolution
The fermentation craze has been sweeping the nation, but can a person live for one year on nothing but pickles, beer, and other fermented food and drinks? One brave homebrewer tries to find out.On January 1, 2014, homebrewer and writer Derek Dellinger began a journey that would change everything he thought he knew about fermented food and beverage. …
Literary Nonfiction. Food. Essays. EATEN BACK TO LIFE is a series of essays, observations, and overly intellectualized meanderings about eating, drinking, indulging, and the culture and philosophy of food. With his trademark skeptical, stink-eyed observations, Jonah Campbell considers the many pleasures of modern life—including urchins, fudge, potato chips, calvados, Nigella Lawson, and depictions of corpulence in old French …
This is a prose nonfiction book about food and food aversions throughout history. Britney Spears loathes meatloaf and “all lumpy stuff.” Arturo Toscanini hated fish. Ayn Rand despised salads. Alexander Theroux’s Einstein’s Beets is a study of the world of food and food aversions. The novelist and poet probes the secret and mysterious attitudes of hundreds of people―mostly …
From the award-winning author of The Mushroom Hunters comes the story of an iconic fish, perhaps the last great wild food: salmon. For some, a salmon evokes the distant wild—thrashing in the jaws of a hungry grizzly bear on TV, perhaps. For others, it’s the catch of the day on a restaurant menu, or a deep red fillet …
Strong in the Broken Places: A Memoir of Addiction and Redemption Through Wellness
Wellness expert Quentin Vennie shouldn’t be alive―he’s walked a path that many don’t live long enough to write about. Surrounded by dead ends and haunted by addiction, abandonment and violence, he’s battled anxiety and depression for most of his life. He’s been shot at twice, sold drugs up and down the East Coast, lingered on the brink of …
Todd survived. In the face of a gut-wrenching childhood, the topsy-turvy world of the kitchen, and his own continuous cycle of self-destruction, the “bad boy of good food” lives to tell his tales. His life stories will make you laugh, cry, and may even inspire contempt. Hate him or love him, there is no denying his fiery disposition …