Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
Kyle Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of 140 innovative and traditional Indian recipes for entertaining, along with menus for celebrations such as Diwali, Christmas and Holi. The book also includes recipes for breads and naans, cooling drinks and smoothies.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.2 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
Traces the rise of the processed food industry and how addictive salt, sugar, and fat have enabled its dominance in the past half century, revealing deliberate corporate practices behind current trends in obesity, diabetes, and other health challenges.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of the famous book offers insight into food consumption in the twenty-first century, explaining how an abundance of unlimited food varieties reveals the responsibilities of consumers to protect their health and the environment.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A decade ago, farmed Atlantic salmon replaced tuna as the most popular fish on North America’s dinner tables. We are told salmon is healthy and environmentally friendly. The reality is disturbingly different. In Salmon Wars, investigative journalists Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins bring readers to massive ocean feedlots where millions of salmon are crammed into parasite-plagued cages and fed a chemical-laced diet. The authors reveal the conditions...
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
"Perhaps the most significant meals in the world have been consumed at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue by the presumptive leaders of the free world. Thomas Jefferson had an affinity for eggplant and FDR for terrapin stew. Nixon ate a lump of cottage cheese topped with barbecue sauce every day and Obama regularly had arugula. Now, Alex Prud'homme takes us to the dining tables of the White House to look at what the presidents chose to eat, how the food was...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique―comedian Jamie Loftus's debut, Raw Dog, will take you on a cross-country road trip in the summer of 2021, and reveal what the creation, culture, and class influence of hot dogs says about America now. “Wise and funny” ―ANDY RICHTER • “Gonzo yet vulnerable” ―GABE DUNN • “Hot dog Moby-Dick” ―BRANSON REESE • “Revealing, funny, sad, horny, and insatiably curious”...
Author
Publisher
ECW
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A rollicking exploration of the history and future of our favorite foods. When we humans love foods, we love them a lot. In fact, we have often eaten them into extinction, whether it is the megafauna of the Paleolithic world or the passenger pigeon of the last century. In Lost Feast, food expert Lenore Newman sets out to look at the history of the foods we have loved to death and what that means for the culinary paths we choose for the future. Whether...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In The Dorito Effect, Mark Schatzker shows us how our approach to the nation's number one public health crisis has gotten it wrong. The epidemics of obesity, heart disease, and diabetes are not tied to the overabundance of fat or carbs or any other specific nutrient. Instead, we have been led astray by the growing divide between flavor--the tastes we crave--and the underlying nutrition" -- Publisher.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A literary tour de force, First, Catch is food writing at its best: a cookbook without recipes, an invitation to journey through the digressive mind of a chef at work, and a hymn to a singular nine-dish festive spring lunch. London chef Thom Eagle is an enthusiastic explorer of the world of ingredients and a thoughtful commentator on the ways immigration, technology, and fashion have changed the way we eat. He has the sharp eye of a food scientist,...
Author
Publisher
Mango Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Food Americana is targeted directly at the millions of Americans for whom food is more than just sustenance. This is a wide and diverse group for whom information about the culinary world has become an important element of enjoying life, even if they themselves do not enjoy cooking. For many, it’s a true curiosity. For others, a way to burnish one’s “foodie credentials.” But whatever the reason, this is an audience eager for inside...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Graham didn't want to be just a tourist in a foreign country...he was determined to try to live in it. An ordinary guy who liked trying interesting food, he moved to the capital city and embarked on a quest to find real Vietnamese food."--Book jacket, p. [2]
17) Worms for lunch?
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Easy-to-read text and die-cut illustrations allow various creatures to reveal what they like to eat.
Author
Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
More than a recipe collection, it's a big-hearted celebration of food, love, and community. For flavor-craving, art-loving, community-celebrating home cooks, Please Wait to Be Tasted serves up tropical comfort recipes, alongside musings on wine, music, love, sex, friendship, and fashion. At Lil' Deb's Oasis in the Hudson Valley of New York, chefs Carla Kaya Perez-Gallardo and Hannah Black, both art school graduates, have created a bright, welcoming,...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request