Corbt Kummer, The Atlantic Forty years ago a young anthropology graduate student named Merry White published a book of recipes she’d used as...
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Mastering the Art of French Eating: Lessons in Food and Love from a Year in Paris
Ann Mah, Goodreads “Excellent ingredients, carefully prepared and very elegantly served. A really tasty book.” —Peter Mayle, author of...
MoreCooked: A Natural History of Transformation
GoodReads In Cooked, Michael Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. Here, he discovers the enduring power of the...
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Terri Schlichenmeyer, The Spectrum You can just about taste it now. That special food may be the traditional dish Grandma used to make and now...
MoreMeet the gastronomic innovators helping Ferran Adrià disrupt the kitchen
Katie Collins, Wired Chefs usually have a reputation for secrecy, but Adrià is a collaborator. To step forward, he decided, he must step back, go...
MoreThe new food dictionary
Larissa Dubecki, Stuff Food baby. The newly coined term for the protruding stomach of the over-eater has just been added by the Oxford English...
MoreMOLECULE-R Flavors Releases its First Molecular Gastronomy Cookbook
Broadway World At-home kitchen dabblers who have ever thought that molecular gastronomy’s innovativeness was beyond their amateur abilities...
MoreMarinated Snark Is a Dish Best Served Cold
Dwight Garner, The New York Times ‘Anything That Moves,’ on Food Culture, by Dana Goodyear. A book, about being a wallflower at the American food...
MoreFashioning Appetite: Restaurants and the Making of Modern Identity
Joanne Finkelstein, Columbia University Press Public spaces have become platforms for the invention and display of self-identity, especially in...
MoreEating Culture: an anthropological guide to food
Gillian Crowther, University of Toronto Press Eating Culture offers a highly engaging overview of how anthropologists understand food. It draws on...
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Virginia B. Wood, The Austin Chronicle During my forty year culinary career, there have been a select number of books that became touchstones...
MoreGlobal Hunger Index Calls for Greater Resilience-Building Efforts to Boost Food and Nutrition Security
Reliefweb October 14, 2013, Washington D.C.—The developing world is becoming more vulnerable to a variety of shocks and stressors, from extreme...
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