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Food & Wine Books
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By Eric Schlosser, 2005
ISBN 0060838582
Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. That's a lengthy list of charges, but Eric Schlosser makes them stick with an artful mix of first-rate reportage, wry wit...
- In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
By Michael Pollan, 2009
ISBN 0143114964
The companion volume to The New York Times bestseller The Omnivore’s Dilemma Michael Pollan’s lastbook , The Omnivore’s Dilemma, launched a national conversation about the American way of eating; now In Defense of Food shows us how to change it, one meal at a time.
- Food Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do About It
By Karl Weber, 2009
ISBN 1586486942
Food, Inc. is guaranteed to shake up our perceptions of what we eat. This powerful documentary deconstructing the corporate food industry in America was hailed by Entertainment Weekly as “more than a terrific movie—it’s an important movie.” Aided by expert commentators such as Michael...
- Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America
By Morgan Spurlock, 2006
ISBN 0425210235
The nauseating truth from the producer, director, and guinea pig of the Academy Award-nominated documentary Super Size Me. Just when you figured it was safe to scarf fries again comes the factpacked and funny new alarm bell from the man whose month-long McDonald's diet became the subject of an...
- Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
By Michael Pollan, 2009
ISBN 014311638X
Michael Pollan, our nation's most trusted resource for food-related issues, offers this indispensible guide for anyone concerned about health and food. Simple, sensible, and easy to use, Food Rules is a set of memorable rules for eating wisely, many drawn from a variety of ethnic or cultural...
- Salt: A World History
By Mark Kurlansky, 2003
ISBN 0142001619
Mark Kurlansky, the bestselling author of Cod and The Basque History of the World, here turns his attention to a common household item with a long and intriguing history: salt. The only rock we eat, salt has shaped civilization from the very beginning, and its story is a glittering, often...
- What to Drink with What You Eat: The Definitive Guide to Pairing Food with Wine, Beer, Spirits, Coffee, Tea - Even Water - Based on Expert Advice from America's Best Sommeliers
By Andrew Dornenburg, 2006
ISBN 0821257188
The most comprehensive guide to matching food and drink ever compiled, by the James Beard Award winning author team of Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg, with practical advice from more than seventy of America’s leading pairing experts In a great meal, what you drink is just as important as...
- Real Food: What to Eat and Why
By Nina Planck, 2007
ISBN 1596913428
Hailed as the “patron saint of farmers’ markets” by the Guardian and called one of the “great food activists” by Vanity Fair’s David Kamp, Nina Planck is single-handedly changing the way we view “real food.” A vital and original contribution to the hot debate about what to eat and...
- What to Eat
By Marion Nestle, 2007
ISBN 0865477388
Since its publication in hardcover last year, Marion Nestle’s What to Eat has become the definitive guide to making healthy and informed choices about food. Praised as “radiant with maxims to live by” in The New York Times Book Review and “accessible, reliable and comprehensive” in The...
- A History of the World in 6 Glasses
By Tom Standage, 2006
ISBN 0802715524
From beer to Coca-Cola, the six drinks that have helped shape human historyThroughout human history, certain drinks have done much more than just quench thirst. As Tom Standage relates with authority and charm, six of them have had a surprisingly pervasive influence on the course of history...
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
By Barbara Kingsolver, 2008
ISBN 0060852569
Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life—vowing that, for one year, theyd only buy food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable...
- Red, White, and Drunk All Over: A Wine-Soaked Journey from Grape to Glass
By Natalie MacLean, 2006
ISBN 1582346488
MacLean's enthusiasm for wine is contagious. For the winner of the prestigious MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award, each glass represents a personal history, "a secret cellar in our minds where we collect our empty bottles filled with memories." Her passionate desire to learn about all aspects...
- The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite
By David Kessler, 2009
ISBN 1605297852
Most of us know what it feels like to fall under the spell of food when one slice of pizza turns into half a pie, or a handful of chips leads to an empty bag. But it s harder to understand why we can't seem to stop eating even when we know better. When we want so badly to say "no," why do we...
- The Fattening of America: How The Economy Makes Us Fat, If It Matters, and What To Do About It
By Eric A. Finkelstein, 2008
ISBN 0470124660
In The Fattening of America, renowned health economist Eric Finkelstein, along with business writer Laurie Zuckerman, reveal how the U.S. economy has become the driving force behind our expanding waistlines. Blending theory, research, and engaging personal anecdotes the authors discuss how...
- Chew On This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Food
By Charles Wilson, 2007
ISBN 0618593942
In the New York Times bestseller Chew on This, Eric Schlosser and Charles Wilson unwrap the fast-food industry to bring you a behind-the-scenes look at a business that both feeds and feeds off the young. Find out what really goes on at your favorite restaurants—and what lurks between those sesame...
- Culinary Artistry
By Andrew Dornenburg, 1996
ISBN 0471287857
"In Culinary Artistry...Dornenburg and Page provide food and flavor pairings as a kind of steppingstone for the recipe-dependent cook...Their hope is that once you know the scales, you will be able to compose a symphony."—Molly O'Neil in The New York Times Magazine.
- Death by Supermarket: The Fattening, Dumbing Down, and Poisoning of America
By Nancy Deville, 2007
ISBN 1569803323
Although Americans worship youth and beauty, we are aging rapidly. Death by Supermarket makes a compelling case that the epidemic of obesity and degenerative and neurological diseases in the US is the result of a new form of malnutrition. Since World War II, factory produced food, diets, and drugs...
- Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World
By Greg Critser, 2003
ISBN 780618380602
What in American society has changed so dramatically that nearly 60 percent of us are now overweight, plunging the nation into what the surgeon general calls an "epidemic of obesity"? Greg Critser engages every aspect of American life - class, politics, culture, and economics - to show how we have...
- Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition, and Health
By Marion Nestle, 2007
ISBN 0520254031
An accessible and balanced account, Food Politics laid the groundwork for today's food revolution and changed the way we respond to food industry marketing practices. Now, a new introduction and concluding chapter bring us up to date on the key events in that movement.
- Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure
By Donald Kladstrup, 2002
ISBN 0767904486
The remarkable untold story of France’s courageous, clever vinters who protected and rescued the country’s most treasured commodity from German plunder during World War II."To be a Frenchman means to fight for your country and its wine." –Claude Terrail, owner, Restaurant La Tour d’ArgentIn...
- The Great American Detox Diet: Feel Better, Look Better, and Lose Weight by Cleaning Up Your Diet
By Alex Jamieson, 2006
ISBN 9781594864841
Here, for all those eagerly awaiting the paperback edition, is the detox plan featured in the hit movie Super Size Me-the program that reversed the damage filmmaker Morgan Spurlock did to his body in a month of gorging on nothing but fast food. Alex Jamieson, a certified holistic health counselor...
- The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
By Benjamin Wallace, 2009
ISBN 0307338789
“Part detective story, part wine history, this is one juicy tale, even for those with no interest in the fruit of the vine. . . . As delicious as a true vintage Lafite.” —BusinessWeekThe Billionaire’s Vinegar tells the true story of a 1787 Château Lafite Bordeaux—supposedly owned by...
- Great Wine Made Simple: Straight Talk from a Master Sommelier
By Andrea Robinson, 2005
ISBN 0767904788
From “one of the wine world’s most popular voices” (USA Today), a newly updated edition of her by-now classic introduction to wine, GREAT WINE MADE SIMPLE: Straight Talk from a Master Sommelier, reflects up-to-the minute wine trends, including the burgeoning popularity of the Shiraz grape...
- Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
By Mark Kurlansky, 1998
ISBN 0140275010
A delightful romp through history with all its economic forces laid bare, Cod is the biography of a single species of fish, but it may as well be a world history with this humble fish as its recurring main character. Cod, it turns out, is the reason Europeans set sail across the Atlantic, and it is...
- Oldman's Guide to Outsmarting Wine: 108 Ingenious Shortcuts to Navigate the World of Wine with Confidence and Style
By Mark Oldman, 2004
ISBN 0142004928
Winner of the Georges Duboeuf Best Wine Book of the Year For the thousands of people who know nothing about wine and want to rectify that swiftly and painlessly, Mark Oldman-the "Naked Chef" of wine-is here to help with the kind of information readers can use right now: Australian Shiraz is...
- Au Revoir to All That: Food, Wine, and the End of France
By Michael Steinberger, 2009
ISBN 1596913533
A rich, lively book about the upheaval in French gastronomy, set against the backdrop of France’s diminishing fortunes as a nation. France is in a rut, and so is French cuisine. Twenty-five years ago it was hard to have a bad meal in France; now, in some cities and towns, it is a challenge to...
- Adventures on the Wine Route: A Wine Buyer's Tour of France
By Kermit Lynch, 1990
ISBN 0374522669
Kermit Lynch’s recounting of his experiences on the wine route and in the wine cellars of France takes the reader through the Loire, Bordeaux, the Languedoc, Provence, Northern and Southern Rhone, and the Cote d’Or.
