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Avocado - A Global History by Jeff Miller
Category: Cook Books | Series: Edible Ser.
The avocado is arguably the most iconic food of the twenty-first century. In less than one-hundred years, it has gone from a little-known regional delicacy to global embrace and social media fame. This may seem like an astounding trajectory for a fruit that isn't sweet, that gets bitter when it is cooke ...Show more
Beans - A Global History by Natalie Rachel Morris
Category: Cook Books | Series: Edible Ser.
Beans are considered a basic staple in most kitchen cupboards, yet these unassuming foodstuffs have a very long history: there is evidence that beans have been eaten for 9,000 years. Whether dried, frozen, or canned, beans have substantial nutritional and environmental benefits, and can easily be made i ...Show more
Breakfast Cereal - A Global History by Kathryn Cornell Dolan (Contribution by)
Category: Food & Wine | Series: Edible Ser.
Oats, an ancient grain used for that most enduring breakfast meal, porridge, have been found preserved in 5,000-year-old European 'bog bodies', The word 'cereal' derives from the name of the Roman goddess of agriculture, Ceres, Scotland hosts the annual porridge festival known as the Golden Spurtle Worl ...Show more
Cabbage : A Global History by Meg Muckenhoupt
Category: Food Cooking Wine | Series: Edible Ser.
Cabbage has as many faces as it does leafy furbelows. How could a vegetable be so beloved, so universal, and at the same time so disdained? One of the oldest crops in the world, cabbage has for millennia provided European and Asian peoples with vitamins A and C . . . and babies--a belief lent credence b ...Show more
Coconut - A Global History by Constance L. Kirker; Mary Newman
Category: Nature | Series: Edible Ser.
From curries to creamy piña coladas, a delectable global history of the many culinary incarnations of the coconut. The flavor and image of the coconut are universally recognizable, conjuring up sweet, exotic pleasures. Called the "Swiss army knife" of the plant world, the versatile coconut can be an ...Show more
Cod - A Global History by Elisabeth Townsend
Category: World History | Series: Edible Ser.
From Viking fisheries to Portuguese bacalao and beyond, a delectable and informative journey through cod fact, cuisine, and lore. This is the first culinary history of a truly remarkable fish. Elisabeth Townsend follows cod around the globe, showing how its pursuit began with the Vikings, and explorin ...Show more
Coffee : A Global History by Jonathan Morris
Category: Cook Books | Series: Edible Ser.
Most of us can't make it through morning without our cup (or cups) of joe, and we're not alone. Coffee is a global beverage: it's grown commercially on four continents and consumed enthusiastically on all seven--and there is even an Italian espresso machine on the International Space Station. Coffee's j ...Show more
Dumplings : A Global History by Barbara Gallani
Category: Food Cooking Wine | Series: Edible Ser.
From gnocchi to pierogi to wonton, the dumpling has become synonymous with comfort food around the world. Whether stuffed or unfilled, steamed or boiled, many countries have their own version of the dish. In this book, Barbara Gallani looks at the differences and similarities between the ways dumplings ...Show more
Edible Insects: A Global History by Gina Louise Hunter
Category: Science | Series: Edible Ser.
From grasshoppers to grubs, an eye-opening look at insect cuisine around the world. An estimated two billion people worldwide regularly consume insects, yet bugs are rarely eaten in the West. Why are some disgusted at the thought of eating insects while others find them delicious? Edible Insects: A ...Show more
Fats : A Global History by Phillipov, Michelle
Category: Food Cooking Wine | Series: Edible Ser.
Description: No other food is as nutritionally crucial, symbolically important or controversial as fat. Butter, oil, tallow, lard, schmaltz - culinary fats have not only shaped world cuisines, they are themselves steeped in cultural and symbolic meanings. From Paleolithic times to contemporary popular c ...Show more
Figs : A Global History by David Sutton
Category: Food Cooking Wine | Series: Edible Ser.
Figs, fresh and dried, have become the fruit of celebrations and festivities throughout the western world, and have been the typical fruit of Christmas since at least the time of Charles Dickens. In Figs: A Global History, David C. Sutton examines the festive and celebratory importance of figs in many ...Show more
Foie Gras: A Global History by Norman Kolpas
Category: Cook Books | Series: Edible Ser.
Few ingredients inspire more high-soaring praise and provoke greater outrage than foie gras. Literally meaning 'fat liver', foie gras is traditionally produced by force-feeding geese or ducks, a process which has become the object of widespread controversy and debate. In Foie Gras: A Global History, Nor ...Show more