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During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans depended upon ice to stay cool and to keep their perishable foods fresh. Jonathan Rees tells the fascinating story of how people got ice before mechanical refrigeration came to the household. Drawing on newspapers, trade journals, and household advice books, Before the Refrigerator explains how Americans built a complex system to harvest, store, and transport ice to everyone who wanted it, even the very poor.

From family feasts to comfort food, first dates to office cake; how does what we eat define us, and the relationships we have with others? Finney investigates the role that food plays in modern society, exploring how eating unites us in varied ways throughout our lives. She discusses her own childhood spent in her grandmother’s hotel kitchen. She talks about the meals and recipes that have shaped the person she is today.

Their authentic podcast conversations spill over the pages of this book and explore how the kitchen can be a place where the things we care about most in the world are reflected in the foods we prepare and the way we prepare them. In a world where disconnection from the earth, our food, our faith, and each other is becoming the norm, Weston and Woofenden bring together voices of hope who are working for a world of organic reconnections. They invite us to dig deeply into the complexity of ecology and food systems, as well as how faith communities are connected to them.

“Food and travel are natural companions,” writes guest editor Padma Lakshmi. From this pairing comes “the possibility of seeing anew, of examining how we make and assign meaning.” The essays in this year’s Best American Food and Travel Writing circle the world—from Dakar in Senegal, to Michoacán in south-central Mexico, to the Camino de Santiago in Spain—and deepen our understanding of our place in it.

Una meditación singular sobre la íntima conexión entre el cuidado de los demás y el de uno mismo, sobre el valor profundo de la hospitalidad. Priya Basil explora cómo la comida, y ofrecer comida a los demás, pueden servir para expresar amor y apoyo. La autora arroja una luz distinta sobre lo que significa ser anfitrión y ser invitado. En una época donde se construyen y se cierran fronteras, Elogio de la hospitalidad es un llamamiento, tan delicado como convincente, en favor de un mundo más amable y acogedor donde en definitiva todos nos sintamos en todo lugar como en casa.

In times of plenty, we stuff ourselves. When the food runs out, we're stuffed too. How have people in the British Isles shared the riches from our fields, dairies, kitchens and seas, as well as those from around the world? And when the cupboard is bare, who steps up to the plate to feed the nation's hungry children, soldiers at war or families in crisis? Stuffed tells the stories of the food and drink at the center of social upheavals from prehistory to the present.

Neste audiolivro, Jane M. G. Lutti reúne crônicas e receitas para aquecer o coração. Atribuindo sabores a pessoas e experiências íntimas, a autora compartilha insights despretensiosos sobre si e provoca o ouvinte a percorrer suas próprias memórias em busca de sabores e vivências de sua vida.

Lucky readers in the 1970s and ’80s discovered Laurie Colwin’s urbane, witty fiction in The New Yorker, as well as her warm, engaging food writing in Gourmet magazine columns. More Home Cooking, the second collection of these columns, is an expression of Colwin’s lifelong passion for cuisine and offers a delightful mix of recipes, advice, and personal anecdotes from the kitchen and beyond. She muses over the many charms and challenges of cooking at home in timeless essays including “Desserts That Quiver,” “Real Food for Tots,” and “Catering on One Dollar a Head.”

Il cibo è cultura perché ha inventato e trasformato il mondo. È cultura quando si produce, quando si prepara, quando si consuma. È il frutto della nostra identità e uno strumento per esprimerla e comunicarla. Una grande opera di sintesi da uno dei massimi storici dell'alimentazione. Massimo Montanari insegna Storia medievale e Storia dell'alimentazione all'Università di Bologna.

The spatter of sauce in a pan, a cook's subtle deviation from a recipe, the careful labour of cooking for loved ones: these are not often the subjects of critical enquiry. Cooking, we are told, has nothing to do with serious thought; the path to freedom and fulfilment, especially for women, leads directly out of the kitchen. In this invigorating, revelatory book, Rebecca May Johnson rewrites the kitchen as a space of infinite variety and infinite potential.

In Sweet Land of Liberty: A History of America in 11 Pies, food writer Rossi Anastopoulo cracks open our relationship to pie with wit and good humor. She traces the pies woven into our history, following the evolution of our country across centuries of innovation and change and examining how America’s relationship with this iconic dessert impacted culture across eras—and vice versa.

Audiobook "Wino. Krótka historia szlachetnego trunku" w interesujący sposób przybliża dzieje jednego z najpopularniejszych alkoholi na świecie. W drugim odcinku serii poświęconej rozmaitym napojom, zapraszamy do ekscytującej wędrówki po winnicach i piwniczkach wypełnionych beczkami szlachetnego trunku, jakim z całą pewnością jest wino.

Audiobook "Piwo. Krótka historia złocistego trunku" stwarza okazję do poznania przeszłości z perspektywy jednego z najpopularniejszych napojów alkoholowych. Książka daje odbiorcy szansę na udział w fascynującej wędrówce po różnych zakątkach globu, w których rodziła się i rozwijała kultura piwna. Słuchacz zetknie się z przedstawicielami wielu cywilizacji i narodów, którzy początkowo szukali sposobu na konsumpcję piwa, a potem pracowali nad jego udoskonaleniem.

Home is a vital base for us to thrive, yet, for some, the question of where home is isn't as simple as an address. Depending on circumstance, 'home' may not simply be where we rest, eat and sleep. With the concept of home comes questions of ancestry, identity and belonging, and the understanding that there is no one fixed idea of what or where home is. In No Place Like Home, Charlene White boldly shares her own story and understanding of home as a Jamaican Londoner exploring all the smells, memories and voices from her childhood.

Steve Hoffman is a perfectly comfortable middle-aged Minnesotan man who has always been desperately, pretentiously in love with France, more specifically with the idea of France. To follow that love, he and his family move, nearly at random, to the small, rural, scratchy-hot village of Autignac in the south of the country, and he immediately thinks he’s made a terrible mistake.

Mokhtar Alkhanshali, hijo de inmigrantes yemeníes, ha crecido en el barrio más conflictivo de San Francisco y a sus veinticuatro años es incapaz de pagarse la universidad. Mientras trabaja de portero en un bloque de pisos de lujo, descubre que el café, al igual que él, tiene su origen en Yemen, por lo que decide investigar la historia y la producción de esta antiquísima bebida viajando al país de sus antepasados.

Publicado pela primeira vez em 1994, este livro reúne crônicas e receitas que Nina Horta escreveu para a Folha de S.Paulo ao longo de mais de uma década. Nina soube, como ninguém, traduzir com sabedoria e simplicidade um mundo nada gastronômico, porém real, de sabores, cheiros, reflexões e humor, com uma pitada de nonsense – ingredientes que se tornaram sua marca registrada.

Personagem de Andrea Camileri, inspetor Salvo Montalbano é campanilista, adepto (avant la lettre) do movimento slowfood. Como siciliano, mergulha numa Pasta alla Norma.

O pintor surrealista Dalí dedicou dois grandes livros, de vinho e comida, para sua mulher Gala, ciente de que "a mandíbula é a melhor forma para conhecer o conhecimento filosófico".

A refrescante granita de amêndoas de Noto, na Sicília, é tão barroca e tradicional quanto a cidade. Em Piave, província de Treviso, lagostins estão no centro de uma secular Última Ceia renascentista.