Essays

When Top Chef judge Gail Simmons first graduated from college, she felt hopelessly lost. All her friends were going to graduate school, business school, la...

You've Seen The Headlines: Parmesan Cheese Made From Wood Pulp. Lobster Rolls Containing No Lobster At All. Extra-virgin Olive Oil That Isn't. So Many Fake ...

The team behind the bestselling The Food52 Cookbook and the James Beard Award–winning website Food52.com are back. Powered by a thriving online community...

Many Books Teach The Mechanics Of Cooking And Even Inspire Us To Cook; Not Many Dwell On The Kitchen's Ability To Be A Place Of Awakening And Joy. In Findin...

Review This is a book for novices and geeks interested in the significance of California through America's wine history, from the swashbuckling era of ...

Today’s Most Highly Regarded Writer On Indian Food Gives Us An Enchanting Memoir Of Her Childhood In Delhi In An Age And A Society That Has Since Disappear...

In the 1970s, Calvin Trillin informed America that its most glorious food was not to be found at the pretentious restaurants he referred to generically as L...

One Phrase Summarized Marcella Hazan's Cooking Philosophy: What You Keep Out Is Just As Important As What You Put In. She Was Best Known For Recipes Listing...

[a] Culinary Combo Plate Of Hunter S. Thompson, Ernest Hemingway, Julian Schnabel, And Sam Peckinpah . . . Harrison Writes With Enough Force To Make Your Kn...

With the new emphasis on environmentalism in the 1990's, Lappe stresses how her philosophy remains valid, and how food remains the central issue through w...

NPR's Best Books of 2017 Best Books on Food of 2017, The Guardian Best Food-Focused Memoirs, Eater Top 10 Narrative Food & Drink Books, Booklist 20 Bes...

A new book from Joy Bauer based on her wildly popular "Joy Fit Club" segments on the "Today" show Joy Bauer, the long-time on-air diet and nutrition exper...

Advance Praise for Trattoria Cooking "Who wouldn't love doing Biba's research, tracking down the simple, down-to-earth, tasty food that makes Italy such a...

Amie's Kitchen-the Television Show-began As An Experiment And Turned Into A Phenomenon. It Started When Jamie Took In 15 Unemployed, Enthusiastic Kids, Trai...

Winner of the James Beard Award for the Best Restaurant in America, the acclaimed Union Square Cafe serves some of the most imaginative, interesting, and t...

One Day Hart, A Bored New York City Transplant, Decided To Make A Fake Cooking Show For A Friend Back In California. In Her Book, She Presents A Collection ...

A joyful, practical celebration of the truth that some of life's sweetest memories are created around Grandmother's table. When timeswere lean, Southern g...

As A Young Bookworm Reading In Her Grandfather's Butcher Shop, Cara Nicoletti Saw How Books And Food Bring People To Life. Now A Butcher, Cook, And Writer, ...

James Beard Award-winning Food Journalist Kevin Alexander Traces An Exhilarating Golden Age In American Dining. Over The Past Decade, Kevin Alexander Saw Am...

Never before have we cared so much about food. It preoccupies our popular culture, our fantasies, and even our moralizing—“You still eat meat?” With our top...

Look who’s making dinner! Twenty-one of our favorite writers and chefs expound upon the joys—and perils—of feeding their families. Mario Batali’s ...

A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2017 and a Christian Science Monitor Best Book of 2017. Winner of the Gourmand World Cookbook Award in Culinary...

From James Beard Award-winning writer Elissa Altman comes a story that marries wit to warmth, and flavor to passion. Born and raised in New York to a food-...

100 recipes for bold, gutsy, comforting dishes inspired by the flavors of Northern Italy, from the acclaimed Manhattan restaurant Sorella, co-owned and ope...

Curry Is A Dish That Doesn't Quite Exist, But, As This Hilarious And Sharp Essay Points Out, A Dish That Doesn't Properly Exist Can Have Infinite, Equally A...

Our best-laid plans will yield to fate.And we will say, “We lived. We ate.” Roy Blount Jr. is one of America’s most cherished comic writers. He’s b...

Documents The Author's Efforts To Eat Food Produced Within Ten Miles Of Her Home In Puget Sound, Washington, Exposing The Cause-and-effect Consequences Of A...

A Humorous And Revealing Account From Inside The Ultimate Boys' Club As One Female Cook Transforms The Frat Food Experience And Serves Up Generous Helpings ...

Sheds no longer need to be ugly utilitarian buildings, rusting and rotting away on sagging foundations. This revised and expanded second edition of Sheds ma...