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Olive : A Global History by Fabrizia Lanza
Category: Food Cooking Wine | Series: Edible
Olives are at once a mythical food - bringing to mind scenes from Ancient Rome and the Bible - and an everyday one, given the ubiquity of olive oil in contemporary diets. In this original, succinct and engaging history Fabrizia Lanza traces the olive's roots from antiquity, when olive oil was exalted fo ...Show more
Onions and Garlic : A Global History by Martha Jay
Category: Food Cooking Wine | Series: Edible Ser.
Look at any recipe for a savory dish and chances are it will start with this step: fry onions in a pan over medium heat. Onions--and their allium family relatives, shallots, garlic, chives, and leeks--are one of the most heavily used ingredients in cuisines all over the world. You'll rarely find them in ...Show more
Oranges : A Global History by Clarissa Hyman
Category: Food Cooking Wine | Series: Edible
The tangy, juicy sweetness of oranges has made them a popular feature on our breakfast tables in the form of fresh fruit, juice and marmalade. Indeed, oranges and orange juices are so ubiquitous nowadays that we take them for granted - but their journey to our supermarket shelves is a long and tantalizi ...Show more
Oyster : A Global History by Carolyn Tillie
Category: Food Cooking Wine | Series: Edible
In Oysters: A Global History, Carolyn Tillie delves into the culinary, artistic, sexual, historical, and scientific history of the humble bivalve. Since the dawn of time oysters have inhabited the earth. Naturally high in essential vitamins and minerals, they are one of the oldest known and most widely ...Show more
Pasta and Noodles : A Global History by Shelke Kantha
Category: Food Cooking Wine | Series: Edible Ser.
Pasta and noodles are so ubiquitous and popular that many nations around the world claim them as their own invention. In fact, their origins are as murky as ever, a destination that Kantha Shelke sets out for in this fascinating history. Journeying across five continents and through distant lands, she t ...Show more
Pickles : A Global History by Jan Davison
Category: Food Cooking Wine | Series: The\Edible Ser.
From the fiery kimchi of Korea to American dill spears; from the spicy achar of India to the ceviche of Latin America; from Europe's sauerkraut to brined herrings and chutneys, pickles are unquestionably a global food. Across continents and throughout history, humans have relied upon pickling to preserv ...Show more
Pie : A Global History by Janet Clarkson
Category: Food and Drink | Series: Edible
The pie, to quote one Victorian writer, is 'a great human discovery which has universal estimation among all civilized eaters'. It is astonishing, given the widespread appeal of this humble dish, that the pie does not appear to have had a single book devoted to its complex but fascinating story; this bo ...Show more
Pineapple : A Global History by Kaori O'Connor
Category: Food Cooking Wine | Series: Edible
'Too ravishing for moral taste ...like lovers' kisses she bites - she is a pleasure bordering on pain, from the fierceness and insanity of her relish' wrote the poet Charles Lamb about the pineapple, the fruit that seduced the world. From the moment Christopher Columbus discovered it on a Caribbean is ...Show more
Pizza : A Global History by Carol F. Helstosky
Category: Food Cooking Wine | Series: Edible
"Pizza" describes the history and evolution of one of our favourite foods in Italy, the United States, and throughout the world, from its humble origins in eighteenth-century Naples to its current status as one of the world's most popular fast foods. The book looks at the history of pizza by focusing on ...Show more
Pomegranate: A Global History by Damien Stone
Category: Cook Books | Series: Edible
Juicy, crunchy, tart: with its multitude of seeds and juice akin to blood, it's not hard to see why the pomegranate has so appealed to the imagination. After being held in high esteem in the rituals of the polytheistic religions of the ancient world, the pomegranate came to be revered in Christianity, I ...Show more
Pork : A Global History by Katharine M. Rogers
Category: Food Cooking Wine | Series: Edible
Pork is the most widely eaten meat in the world. It formed the high point of Roman feasts and was the mainstay of the traditional working-class diet in Europe and North America for centuries. Today it remains popular in Western countries, while for the Chinese, 'meat' means pork unless otherwise specifi ...Show more
Potato: A Global History by Andrew F. Smith
Category: Food Cooking Wine | Series: Edible
Potato tells the captivating tale of a seemingly lowly vegetable that has changed - and continues to change - the world. Featuring lip-smacking images, the book also contains recipes for potatoes fried, puffed, scalloped, mashed and wedged, as well as potato cakes, tattie scones and Chinese potato chips ...Show more