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Consider the Fork : A History of How We Cook and Eat by Annabel (ILT) Bee; Lee Wilson
Category: Food & Wine
Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat by Bee Wilson
Category: Food Cooking Wine
Bee Wilson is the food writer and historian who writes as the 'Kitchen Thinker' in the Sunday Telegraph, and is the author of Swindled! Her charming and original new book, Consider the Fork, explores how the implements we use in the kitchen have shaped the way we cook and live. This is the story of how ...Show more
Consider the Fork: A History of Invention in the Kitchen by Bee Wilson
Category: Food and Drink
A wooden spoon - most trusty and loveable of kitchen implements - looks like the opposite of 'technology', as the word is normally understood. But look closer. Is it oval or round? Slotted or solid? Does it have an extra-long handle to give your hand a place of greater safety from a hot skillet? Or a po ...Show more
First Bite by Bee Wilson
Category: Food and Drink
We do not come into the world with an innate sense of taste and nutrition; as omnivores, we have to learn how and what to eat, how sweet is too sweet, and what food will give us the most energy for the coming day. But how does this education happen? What are the origins of taste? In First Bite, the bel ...Show more
First Bite: How We Learn to Eat by Bee Wilson
Category: Diet
Fortnum & Mason Food Book of the Year 2016 We are not born knowing what to eat. We all have to learn it as children sitting expectantly at a table. For our diets to change, we need to relearn the food experiences that first shaped us. Everyone starts drinking milk. After that it's all up for grabs. ...Show more
Sandwich : A Global History by Bee Wilson
Category: Food Cooking Wine | Series: Edible
The first book-length history of a seemingly humble food, the sandwich, in which Bee Wilson unravels the mystery of how the Fourth Earl of Sandwich could have 'invented' this most elementary and appealing way of eating.
Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper - A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China by Fuchsia Dunlop; Bee Wilson (Foreword by)
Category: Biography
Fuchsia Dunlop, the first Westerner to train at the prestigious Sichuan Institute of Higher Cuisine, "has done more to explain real Chinese cooking to non-Chinese cooks than anyone" (Julia Moskin, New York Times). In Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper, Dunlop recalls her rapturous encounters with China's cu ...Show more
Swindled by Bee Wilson
Category: Fiction
Salmonella ...toxins ...additives ...food scares ...Have you ever wondered how our food has become so untrustworthy? Have we ever been able to trust what we eat? Via a fascinating mix of food politics, history and culinary detective work, Bee Wilson uncovers the many methods by which swindlers have tamp ...Show more
Swindled: From poison sweets to counterfeit coffee - The dark history of the food cheats by Bee Wilson
Category: History
Salmonella ...toxins ...additives ...food scares ...Have you ever wondered how our food has become so untrustworthy? Have we ever been able to trust what we eat? Via a fascinating mix of food politics, history and culinary detective work, Bee Wilson uncovers the many methods by which swindlers have tamp ...Show more
The Hive by Bee Wilson
Category: Gardening Landscape Plants
Ever since men first hunted for honeycomb in rocks and daubed pictures of it on cave walls, the honeybee has been seen as one of the wonders of nature: social, industrious, beautiful, terrifying. No other creature has inspired in humans an identification so passionate, persistent or fantastical. In this ...Show more
The Hive : The Story of the Honeybee and Us by Bee Wilson
Category: History
With a cast of characters from Alexander the Great to Mohammed Ali, this book presents the story of the relationship between bees, their hive and the human world.