Curry serves up a delectable history of Indian cuisine, ranging from the imperial kitchen of the Mughal invader Babur to the smoky cookhouse of the British Raj.In this fascinating volume, the first authoritative history of Indian food, Lizzie Collingham reveals that almost every well-known Indian dish is the product of a long history of invasion and the fusion …
When it comes to food, there has never been another city quite like New York. The Big Apple–a telling nickname–is the city of 50,000 eateries, of fish wriggling in Chinatown baskets, huge pastrami sandwiches on rye, fizzy egg creams, and frosted black and whites. It is home to possibly the densest concentration of ethnic and regional food establishments …
The discovery of cheese is a narrative at least 8,000 years old, dating back to the Neolithic era. Yet, after all of these thousands of years we are still finding new ways to combine the same four basic ingredients – milk, bacteria, salt, and enzymes – into new and exciting products with vastly different shapes, sizes, and colors, …
A restaurant critic can tell you about the chef. A menu can tell you about the farm-sourced ingredients. Now who’s going to tell you about the people preparing your meal? From James Beard Leadership Award winner Saru Jayaraman, Forked is an enlightening examination of what we don’t talk about when we talk about restaurants: Is the …
Sodas are astonishing products. Little more than flavored sugar-water, these drinks cost practically nothing to produce or buy, yet have turned their makers–principally Coca-Cola and PepsiCo–into a multibillion-dollar industry with global recognition, distribution, and political power. Billed as “refreshing,” “tasty,” “crisp,” and “the real thing,” sodas also happen to be so well established to contribute to poor dental …
Interest in wine has steadily increased in recent years, with people far more sophisticated about wine than they used to be, and with more and more books being written about it, not to mention the success of films like Sideways. And, inevitably, those who take a serious interest in wine find themselves asking questions about it that …
Hailed by Frank J. Prial in The New York Times as “a required reference for anyone who is serious about wine,” and by Anthony Dias Blue as “one of the definitive reference books on the subject,” The Oxford Companion to Wine won every major wine book award, including the Julia Child and the James Beard awards. Now, Jancis …
Published in 1994 to worldwide acclaim, the first edition of Jancis Robinson’s seminal volume immediately attained legendary status, winning every major wine book award including the Glenfiddich and Julia Child/IACP awards, as well as writer and woman of the year accolades for its editor on both sides of the Atlantic. Combining meticulously-researched fact with refreshing opinion and wit, …
Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States
In 1784, passengers on the ship Empress of China became the first Americans to land in China, and the first to eat …