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Hummus - A Global History by Harriet Nussbaum
Category: Food Cooking Wine | Series: Edible Ser.
Complete with recipes, a mouthwatering look at the complicated origins and rise of the world's favorite garbanzo bean spread and dip. This is a global history of hummus bi-tahina, the delicious combination of chickpeas, tahini, lemon, and garlic that we know and love as hummus. The story begins in the m ...Show more
Liqueur - A Global History by Lesley Jacobs Solmonson
Category: Beer, Wine & Spirits | Series: Edible Ser.
A guide to the cultural history of liqueurs from a celebrated spirits journalist. The original recreational spirit, liqueurs traveled the Silk Road, awaited travelers at the Fountain of Youth, and traversed the globe from ancient times through the industrial revolution and beyond. In this thrilling exp ...Show more
Melon : A Global History by Sylvia Lovegren
Category: Food Cooking Wine | Series: Edible Ser.
Sweet, succulent, cooling, and often with a beguiling floral fragrance, a ripe melon can be one of the most delicious things you sink your teeth into. As Sylvia Lovegren shows in this book, the melon's complex flavor profile is matched by an equally complex history. Cutting into the melon's past, she ta ...Show more
Mustard - A Global History by Demet Güzey
Category: Cook Books | Series: Edible Ser.
Whether grainy or smooth, spicy or sweet, Dijon, American, or English, mustard accompanies our food and flavors our life around the globe. It has been a source of pleasure, health, and myth from ancient times to the present day, its tiny seed a symbol of faith and its pungent flavor a testimony to refin ...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
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
Rice : A Global History by Renee Marton
Category: Food Cooking Wine | Series: The\Edible Ser.
From jambalaya to risotto, curry to nasi kandar, few foods are as ubiquitous in our meals as rice. A dietary staple and indispensable agricultural product from Asia to the Americas, the grain can be found in Michelin restaurants and family kitchens alike. In this engaging culinary history, Renee Marton ...Show more
Saffron - A Global History by Ramin Ganeshram
Category: Cook Books | Series: Edible Ser.
Explore the dramatic history of the world's most expensive spice in Saffron: A Global History. Literally worth their weight in gold, sunset-red saffron threads are prized internationally. Saffron can be found in cave art in Mesopotamia, in the frescoes of ancient Santorini, in the dyed wrappings of Egyp ...Show more
Salad : A Global History by Judith Weinraub
Category: Food Cooking Wine | Series: Edible Ser.
Light, healthy, and easily tossed together, salads have been an herbaceous staple for as long as we have eaten food. Sometimes bitter, sometimes sweet--ladled over with buttermilk dressings or gently dressed in oil and vinegar--they come in an astonishing variety of forms and feature as both side and ma ...Show more
Sauces : A Global History by Maryann Tebben
Category: Food Cooking Wine | Series: Edible Ser.
Where would eggs benedict be without hollandaise, spaghetti without Bolognese, tortilla chips without salsa, or French fries without ketchup? A world without sauces is a dull and dry world indeed. But what exactly are sauces? How did they become a crucial element in every country’s cuisine? Maryann Tebb ...Show more
Soda and Fizzy Drinks - A Global History by Judith Levin
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Edible Ser.
An effervescent exploration of the global history and myriad symbolic meanings of carbonated beverages. More than eighty years before the invention of Coca-Cola, sweet carbonated drinks became popular around the world, provoking arguments remarkably similar to those they prompt today. Are they medic ...Show more