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Culinarians Lives and Careers from the First Age of American Fine Dining
ISBN: HB: 9780226406893, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
560 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 16 colour plates, 91 halftones, 10 line drawings
"He presided over Virginia's great political barbeques for the last half of the nineteenth century, taught the young Prince of Wales to crave mint juleps in 1859, catered to Virginia's mountain spas, and fed two generations of Richmond epicures with...
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£34,00
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Southern Provisions The Creation and Revival of a Cuisine
ISBN: PB: 9780226422022, ISBN: HB: 9780226141114, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones, 1 line drawing, 2 tables
Southern food is America's quintessential cuisine. From creamy grits to simmering pots of beans and greens, we think we know how these classic foods should taste. Yet the southern food we eat today tastes almost nothing like the dishes our ancestors...
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£16,00
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£24,00
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Cowley Road Cookbook Culinary Tales and Recipes from Oxford's Most Eclectic Street
ISBN: PB: 9781909930322, Signal Books, October 2015
128 pp., 21.1x21.3 cm
For sale in CIS only! Cowley Road, Oxford, is a wonderfully chaotic, cultural and culinary crossroads. Geographically adjacent to the university's dreaming spires, ethnographically it might as well be on another planet. From its holy medieval origin...
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£14,99
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Questions of Taste The Philosophy of Wine
ISBN: PB: 9781909930216, Signal Books, January 2015
224 pp., 21.8x14 cm
For sale in CIS only! Interest in and consumption of wine have grown exponentially in recent years and there has been a corresponding increase in consumers' knowledge of wine, which in turn has generated discussions about the meaning and value of wi...
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£9,99
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Eating the Enlightenment Food and the Sciences in Paris, 1670-1760
ISBN: PB: 9780226214467, ISBN: HB: 9780226768861, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 halftones
"Eating the Enlightenment" offers a new perspective on the history of food, looking at writings about cuisine, diet, and food chemistry as a key to larger debates over the state of the nation in Old Regime France. Embracing a wide range of authors an...
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£24,00
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£39,00
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Knish In Search of the Jewish Soul Food
ISBN: HB: 9781611683127, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, May 2014
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
When Laura Silver's favorite knish shop went out of business, the native New Yorker sank into mourning, but then she sprang into action. She embarked on a round-the-world quest for the origins and modern-day manifestations of the knish. The iconic po...
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£16,00
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