Nourished: A Memoir of Food, Faith, and Enduring Love (with Recipes)
A noted entrepreneur, food writer and recipe developer serves up an evocative adventure story of her quest for love, God, and the perfect persimmon pudding.Hunger comes to us in many forms, writes Lia Huber–we long to be nourished physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Nourished: A Memoir of Food, Faith, and Enduring Love (with Recipes) invites readers on Huber’s search for …
For two hundred years, a rogues’ gallery of chefs, line cooks, and dishwashers have slaved away, largely unseen, to serve the dining public. Their pedigrees reach back to the first restaurants during the reign of France’s Louis XVI and extend to the Delmonico brothers in New York, Escoffier in Paris, and, in Fried: Surviving Two Centuries in Restaurants, …
Excerpt from America and the Americans: The Theatres, the Streets, the Cars, the Newspapers, New York, Philadelphia, the Ladies, the Restaurants, the Races, the Waiters, Albany, NiagaraIn the following pages M. Offenbach does not pretend to give any very exhaustive account of America and the Americans, nor does he affect to believe that all he states is quite …
No one knows Mexican food–or Mexico–like Josefina Howard. Her Rosa Mexicano is not only rated by Zagat’s as the top Mexican restaurant in New York, its fare is honored by Mexicans themselves. Cooks who have seen her on PBS, CNN, the Television Food Network, and Martha Stewart Living have longed to re-create her mouth-watering dishes at home. Now …
Letter to a Young Farmer: How to Live Richly without Wealth on the New Garden Farm
For more than four decades, the self-described “contrary farmer” and writer Gene Logsdon has commented on the state of American agriculture. In Letter to a Young Farmer, his final book of essays, Logsdon addresses the next generation―young people who are moving back to the land to enjoy a better way of life as small-scale “garden farmers.” It’s a …
If you’ve ever wondered how to clean a ferrets’ GI tract or remove corneal ulcers from a pot-bellied pig, you’ll soon learn much more than that. Beyond the clinical side of Dr. Hess’s experience as one of only a few exotic animal veterinarians, Unlikely Companions tells the story of what the remarkable pets she treats and their equally …
For fans of Reading Lolita in Tehran, a true story of forbidden love set against the rich cultural and political backdrop of modern-day Iran. Jennifer Klinec is fearless. In her 30s she abandons her bland corporate job to launch a cooking school from her London apartment and travel the world in search of delicious recipes and obscure culinary …
A Little Slice of Heaven: A Celebration of Faith, Family, Perseverance, and Pie
On an out-of-the-way corner of a Virginia country road, four generations of the indomitable Woodruff family struggled and overcame impossible odds to create Woodruff’s Café and Pie Shop, home of what Southern Living magazine called the best apple pie ever (yes, really ever). With Southern grace, hospitality and humor, Angela Woodruff Scott tells the uplifting tale …
Excerpt from The Rev. Alfred Cookman: With Some Account of His Father, the Rev. Georage Grimston CookmanAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing …
My Tastes and Travels: A journey of food, fun and friendship (My Journeys and My Tastes)
This is an autobiographical travel cookbook. I have been fortunate to travel and live in countries outside the U.S. During those experiences I have made friends I so value, laughed, cried and seen some wondrous sites. I have also experienced some fantastic food. This book in a nod to some of the great dishes I have eaten, or …