Examining the roots and fruits of the urban foodscape
Our cities are places of food polarities — food deserts and farmers’ markets, hunger and food waste, fast food delivery and urban gardening. While locavores...
Food and drink
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Author:Moncrieff, HelenaSummary: - Author:Gibbons, GailSummary:
Berries, apples, melons and grapes; oranges, grapefruits, bananas-yum! This scrumptious collection of facts, a companion to The Vegetables We Eat , offers youngsters an inviting, information-packed cornucopia of favorite fruits. Gail...
- Author:Spring, JustinSummary:
A biography of six writers on food and wine whose lives and careers intersected in mid-twentieth-century FranceDuring les trente glorieuses--a thirty-year boom period in France between the end of World War II and the 1974 oil crisis--...
- Author:Hobbelink , HenkSummary:
The Great Climate Robbery connects analysis of the food system to larger issues affecting the planet, and links peoples' struggles over food to climate change. This book will help readers to understand the ways in which...
- Author:AnonymousSummary:
According to the unknown author, “Without a perfect knowledge of the art of Carving, it is impossible to perform the honor of the table with propriety; and nothing can be more disagreeable to one of a sensitive disposition, than to...
- Author:McDougall, JohnSummary:
The bestselling author and internationally celebrated physician and expert on nutrition offers an appealing, approachable health solution-eat the foods you love to lose weight and get healthy.
- Author:Porter, JessicaSummary:
Provides a detailed overview of the health benefits of eating a macrobiotic diet and combines cooking tips and recipes with practical advice on how to strengthen one's body and mind through eating high-quality whole foods.
- Author:Winson, AnthonySummary:
The Industrial Diet chronicles the long-term transformation of food from a natural resource into an edible commodity that far too often fails to nourish us. Anthony Winson reveals how a combination of technological changes, population...
- Author:Wagner, PaulSummary:
You don’t have to master the entire repertoire of grapes, techniques, ingredients, variations, and other components to truly appreciate the wine you’re drinking. Simply armed with the senses you already have, an expert guide, and a...
- Author:Flinn, KathleenSummary:
The author of The Sharper Your Knife tells the inspiring story of how she helped nine others find their inner cook. After graduating from Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, writer Kathleen Flinn returned with no idea what to do next, until one...
- Author:Grescoe, TarasSummary:
The world can't sustain the way we eat today. Whether it's ultra-processed oils, factoryfarmed meat, or monoculture wheat, industrial agriculture has increasingly dire consequences for the vibrancy of our plates, health, and...
- Author:Birdsall, JohnSummary:
In the first portrait of James Beard in twenty-five years, John Birdsall accomplishes what no prior telling of Beard's life and work has done: He looks beyond the public image of the "Dean of American Cookery" to give...
- Author:Narayan, ShobaSummary:
When Shoba Narayan, a writer and cookbook author who had lived for years in Manhattan, moves back to Bangalore with her family, she befriends the milk lady, from whom she buys fresh milk every day. These two women from very different...
- Author:Mintz, CoreySummary:
A searing expose of the restaurant industry, and a path to a better, safer, happier meal. In 2019, the restaurant business was booming. Americans spent more than half of their annual food budgets dining out. In a generation, chefs had...
- Author:Roberts, WayneSummary:
In this updated edition of The No-Nonsense Guide to World Food Wayne Roberts puts under the microscope a global food system that is under strain from climate change and from economic disaster. He shows how a world food system based on...
- Author:Schreiner, John, Whittall, LukeSummary:
The definitive guide to Interior BC wineries, covering the Okanagan, Similkameen, Thompson and Kootenays. With updated maps and travel tips, it’s your ultimate glove-box guide, now in a newly expanded and updated edition.For nearly...
- Author:Pollan, MichaelSummary:
What should we have for dinner? When you can eat just about anything nature (or the supermarket) has to offer, deciding what you should eat will inevitably stir anxiety, especially when some of the foods might shorten your life. Today,...
- Author:LeBlanc, Robin, St. John, JordanSummary:
With nearly one hundred new breweries, this second edition of The Ontario Craft Beer Guide is an indispensable field guide to the province’s beer. The explosion of craft beer variety in North America has created a climate of amazing...
- Author:Buzzi, AldoSummary:
"The writer who never talks about eating, about appetite, hunger, food, about cooks and meals, arouses my suspicion, as though some vital element were missing in him." Scholarly, playful, idiosyncratic, and witty, Aldo Buzzi...
- Author:Coutts, IanSummary:
The perfect keg. Filled with perfect beer. A symphony of flavors in the mouth. The right blend of sweet and bitter. The fluid in that keg represents a year’s work. Actually brewing it took a few weeks. But to make it truly the perfect...
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