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  • The Lost Art of Real Cooking

    Rediscovering the Pleasures of Traditional Food One Recipe at a Time: A Cookbook

    It's time to take back the kitchen. It's time to unlock the pantry and break free from the shackles of ready-made, industrial food. It's time to cook supper.The Lost Art of Real Cooking heralds a new old-fashioned approach to food-laborious and inconvenient, yet extraordinarily rewarding and worth bragging about. From jam, yogurt, and fresh pasta to salami, smoked meat, and strudel, Ken Albala and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Beans

    A History

    by Ken Albala ...
    This is the story of the bean, the staple food cultivated by humans for over 10,000 years.From the lentil to the soybean, every civilization on the planet has cultivated its own species of bean. The humble bean has always attracted attention - from Pythagoras' notion that the bean hosted a human soul to St. Jerome's indictment against bean-eating in convents (because they "tickle the genitals"), ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Banquet

    Dining in the Great Courts of Late Renaissance Europe

    by Ken Albala ...
    Series series The Food Series
    The importance of the banquet in the late Renaissance is impossible to overlook. Banquets showcased a host’s wealth and power, provided an occasion for nobles from distant places to gather together, and even served as a form of political propaganda. But what was it really like to cater to the tastes and habits of high society at the banquets of nobles, royalty, and popes? What did they eat and how ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Lost Arts of Hearth and Home

    The Happy Luddite's Guide to Domestic Self-Sufficiency

    The Lost Arts of Hearth and Home is not about extreme, off-the-grid living. It’s for city and suburban dwellers with day jobs: people who love to cook, love fresh natural ingredients, and old techniques for preservation; people who like doing things themselves with a needle and thread, garden hoe, or manual saw.Ken Albala and Rosanna Nafziger Henderson spread the spirit of antiquated self ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Noodle Soup

    Recipes, Techniques, Obsession

    by Ken Albala ...
    Every day, noodle shops around the globe ladle out quick meals that fuel our go-go lives. But Ken Albala has a mission: to get YOU in the kitchen making noodle soup.This primer offers the recipes and techniques for mastering quick-slurper staples and luxurious from-scratch feasts. Albala made a different noodle soup every day for two years. His obsession yielded all you need to know about making ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Pancake

    A Global History

    by Ken Albala ...
    Series Book 2 - Edible
    Round, thin and made of starchy batter cooked on a flat surface, the pancake is a food that goes by many names: crêpes, flapjacks and okonomiyaki, to name just a few. This treat is a treasured food the world over, and now Ken Albala unearths the surprisingly rich history of pancakes and their sizzling goodness.Pancake traverses over centuries and civilizations to examine the culinary and cultural ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • New Orleans

    A Food Biography

    Series series Big City Food Biographies
    Beignets, Po’ Boys, gumbo, jambalaya, Antoine’s. New Orleans’ celebrated status derives in large measure from its incredibly rich food culture, based mainly on Creole and Cajun traditions. At last, this world-class destination has its own food biography. Elizabeth M. Williams, a New Orleans native and founder of the Southern Food and Beverage Museum there, takes readers through the history of the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • At the Table

    Food and Family around the World

    Edited by Ken Albala ...
    What's for dinner? Not just in America, but around the world? And how is it cooked, what's the historical significance of that food, how is it served and consumed, and who gets to clean up? This book provides fascinating insight into how dinner is defined in countries around the world.Almost universally, "dinner" is a key meal in most countries around the world, whether it be a simple dish of rice ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Three World Cuisines

    Italian, Mexican, Chinese

    by Ken Albala ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Food and Gastronomy
    The text begins with a comprehensive theory of cuisine in the introduction and moves to the parallel culinary histories of Italy, Mexico, and China: the independent domestication of crops in each, the social, political, and technological developments that gave rise to each cuisine, and cooking in both professional and home settings. It also compares the internal logic of the cooking style and ... Read more

    $178.99 USD

  • Opulent Nosh

    A Cookbook for Audacious Appetites

    by Ken Albala ...
    Foodie-scholar extraordinaire Ken Albala offers adventurous cooks a treasury of innovative recipes to transform noshing ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • A Cultural History of Food in the Renaissance

    Edited by Ken Albala ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    Food and attitudes toward it were transformed in Renaissance Europe. The period between 1300 and 1600 saw the discovery of the New World and the cultivation of new foodstuffs, as well as the efflorescence of culinary literature in European courts and eventually in the popular press, and most importantly the transformation of the economy on a global scale. Food became the object of rigorous ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Routledge International Handbook of Food Studies

    Edited by Ken Albala ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Over the past decade there has been a remarkable flowering of interest in food and nutrition, both within the popular media and in academia. Scholars are increasingly using foodways, food systems and eating habits as a new unit of analysis within their own disciplines, and students are rushing into classes and formal degree programs focused on food.Introduced by the editor and including original ... Read more

    $91.99 USD