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202429332<p>London:: Unbound 2024. First Printing of the First UK Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. A Feast of Folklore explores the history and superstitions behind British food from why we throw salt over our shoulders to the origins of cheese-rolling. The book delves into eccentric tales dark remedies and lesser-known folklore connected to everyday foods revealing the quirky history behind British eating habits.</p> Unbound, hardcover
200228062New York:: Ballantine Books 2002. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. From the lusciously tempting fruit in the Garden of Eden to the divine foie gras Stewart Lee Allen engagingly illustrates that when a pleasure as primal as eating is criminalized there is often an astonishing tale to tell. Among the foods thought to encourage Lust the love apple now known as the tomato was thought to possess demonic spirits until the nineteenth century. The Gluttony “course” invites the reader to an ancient Roman dinner party where nearly every dish served—from poppy-crusted rodents to “Trojan Pork”—was considered a crime against the state. Filled with incredible food history and the author’s travels to many of these exotic locales In the Devil’s Garden also features recipes like the matzo-ball stews outlawed by the Spanish Inquisition and the forbidden “chocolate champagnes” of the Aztecs. Ballantine Books, unknown
200232035AB2002. Koeln Komet Verlag c.2002. Octavo. 126 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. This wonderful little book includes many classical dishes from Brandenburg and Berlin like: Kasseler Rippespeer mit Honigkruste / Nonneferzchen / Schleie in Senfsauce / Senfgurken / Spreewaelder KArtoffelsalat mit Speck / Teltower Ruebchen / Wildschweinragout / Arme Ritter etc. etc. hardcover
200628907New York:: Knopf 2006. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight unread copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. The authors have compiled a rich collection of daily tributes to culinary wisdom history recipes and literary pleasures in this sophisticated yet practical tribute to the glory of food and drink. Included are such tasty tidbits as: the final menu of the Titanic John Irving's meatball recipe Balzac's love of coffee and much more. Knopf, unknown
201127333Berkeley:: Counterpoint 2011. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. In An Extravagant Hunger the turning points and casual strolls of M.F.K. Fisher's life are unwrapped and savored. From the Berengaria that washed her across the sea to France in 1929 to Le Paquis the Swiss estate that later provided a backdrop for some of the most idyllic and fleeting moments of her life the stories of Fisher's love for food and her love for family and men are meticulously researched and exquisitely captured in this book. Exploring Fisher's lonely and formative time in Europe with her first husband; her subsequent divorce and re-marriage to her creative sparkplug Dillwyn Parrish and his tragic suicide; and the child she carried from an unnamed father the story of M.F.K. Fisher's life becomes as vibrant and passionate as her prolific words on wine and cuisine. Letters and journal entries piece together a dramatic life but An Extravagant Hunger steps further bridging the gaps between personal notes and her public persona filling in the silences by offering an engaging and unprecedented depth of intuitive commentary. With a passion of her own Anne Zimmerman is the careful witness lingering beside M.F.K. Fisher through her most dramatic and productive years. Counterpoint, unknown
201626671<p>Food Writing Prud'homme Alex. The French Chef in America. Julia Child's Second Act. New York: Knopf 2016. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. In this follow-up to My Life in France—Julia Child's beloved and best-selling memoir—her co-author and grandnephew Alex Prud'homme chronicles Julia's rise from home cook to the first celebrity chef. While at the beginning of her career Julia's name was synonymous with French cooking she fashioned a new identity in the 1970s reinventing and Americanizing herself. Here we see her dealing with difficult colleagues and the challenges of fame and ultimately using her newfound celebrity to create what would become a totally new type of food television. The story of a remarkable woman who found her true voice in middle age and profoundly shaped our relationship with food The French Chef in America is a fascinating look at the second act of a unique culinary icon. </p> Knopf, hardcover
202127855<p>Food Writing Waters Alice. We are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto. New York: Penguin Press 2021. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine dust jacket. In We Are What We Eat Alice Waters urges us to take up the mantle of slow food culture the philosophy at the core of her life's work. When Waters first opened Chez Panisse in 1971 she did so with the intention of feeding people good food during a time of political turmoil. Over years of working with regional farmers Waters and her partners learned how geography and seasonal fluctuations affect the ingredients on the menu as well as about the dangers of pesticides the plight of fieldworkers and the social economic and environmental threats posed by industrial farming and food distribution. </p> Penguin Press, hardcover
20084461Winnipeg Manitoba: FortWhyte Alive Cookbook Committee December 2008. First Edition First Printing. Spiral Bound. pp. 115. Small 8vo. measuring 6" x 9". Illustrated laminated card covers held with plastic spiral binding. Colour frontispiece of the cookbook committee accompanied with various other photographs throughout. A rich selection of over 206 recipes from 53 contributors as compiled by the volunteers of FortWhyte Alive a nature conservancy and habitat located in Manitoba. Sections include: Appetizers; Soups Salads & Sauces; Side Dishes & Pastas; Meat Poultry & Fish; Cakes & Cookies; Pies Slices & Squares; Muffins & Breads etc. Bright clean and unmarked; fine. Unrecorded in OCLC. Scarce in commerce. <br/><br/> FortWhyte Alive Cookbook Committee unknown
200729123New York:: Penguin Books 2007. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket with fading to the spine. This is the authorized biography of Alice Waters and her counterculture restaurant Chez Panisse founded in 1971 in Berkeley California. The restaurant has become the premier American example of "market cooking" and Alice one of the most influential restauranteurs in the world. Penguin Books, unknown
200327616New York:: Ballantine Books 2003. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. The nearly 200 recipes in this collection were culled from some our best known works of fiction and non-fiction including Buttermilk scones from All things Bright and Beautiful slapjacks from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow chicken noodle soup from Middlemarch Lentil-vegetable soup from Angela's Ashes carrot pudding from A Christmas Carol and Turkish delight from The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe. Ballantine Books, unknown
200128886New York:: Grove Press 2001. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight unread copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. For more than twenty years Jim Harrison wrote some of the best essays on food around collected in this volume featuring forty of his published writings on food from a variety of magazines. From his legendary Smart and Esquire columns to present-day pieces including a correspondence with French gourmet Gerard Oberle fabulous pieces on food in France and America for Men's Journal and a paean to the humble meatball The Raw and the Cooked is a nine-course meal that will satisfy every appetite. Grove Press, unknown
200128995<p>New York:: Grove Press 2001. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine tight copy in a Near Fine bright unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear. For more than twenty years Jim Harrison wrote some of the best essays on food around collected in this volume featuring forty of his published writings on food from a variety of magazines. From his legendary Smart and Esquire columns to present-day pieces including a correspondence with French gourmet Gerard Oberle fabulous pieces on food in France and America for Men's Journal and a paean to the humble meatball The Raw and the Cooked is a nine-course meal that will satisfy every appetite.</p> Grove Press, hardcover
200129105New York:: Grove Press 2001. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight unread copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. For more than twenty years Jim Harrison wrote some of the best essays on food around collected in this volume featuring forty of his published writings on food from a variety of magazines. From his legendary Smart and Esquire columns to present-day pieces including a correspondence with French gourmet Gerard Oberle fabulous pieces on food in France and America for Men's Journal and a paean to the humble meatball The Raw and the Cooked is a nine-course meal that will satisfy every appetite. Grove Press, unknown
200129386New York:: Grove Press 2001. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight unread copy in a Near Fine bright price clipped dust jacket. For more than twenty years Jim Harrison wrote some of the best essays on food around collected in this volume featuring forty of his published writings on food from a variety of magazines. From his legendary Smart and Esquire columns to present-day pieces including a correspondence with French gourmet Gerard Oberle fabulous pieces on food in France and America for Men's Journal and a paean to the humble meatball The Raw and the Cooked is a nine-course meal that will satisfy every appetite. Grove Press, unknown
200159996Denver CO: Sundance Publications Inc. 2001. 4to. 416 pp. Frontisp. 100s of colour and black & white photo illustrations maps diagrams. Half-purple over colour-illustrated boards minor shelfwear very slight dustsoiling w/ glassine cover minor shelfwear minor bumping lower corners VG/VG copy signed by three authors on half-title numbered. First edition signed & No. 1285 “Display Copy†of this lavishly illustrated history and installment in the Rio Grande Southern saga against the backdrop of the rich gold mining district previously occupied by the Ute Indigenous Peoples. Sundance Publications, Inc., hardcover
201629428<p>Koln:: Taschen 2016. First Printing of the First Re-issue Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine decorated gold foil dust jacket. In this exquisite volume Salvador Dali has written the definitive book on haute cuisine. Les Dîners de Gala is a surrealist cookbook by Salvador Dalí that documents the extravagant dinner parties he hosted with his wife Gala. It features 136 elaborate recipes from top French chefs accompanied by Dalí's unique and bizarre illustrations and is divided into 12 chapters including a section on aphrodisiacs. The book is a collector's item that combines art culinary instruction and Dalí's philosophical musings on food pleasure and life. The book contains 21 recipes prepared by such French restaurants as Lasserre LaTour d'Argent and Maxim's. Richly illustrated with drawings photographs and 55 color illustrations.</p> Taschen, hardcover
2011x-1108021239Cambridge University Press 2011. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 365 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. Cambridge University Press paperback
2013AME_9789382423287DBS IMPRINTS 2013. UNKNOWN. Hardcover. New/New. DBS IMPRINTS hardcover
2013DBS-9789382423287DBS Imprints 2013. 1st. Hardcover. New. DBS Imprints hardcover
2013DBS-9789382423287DBS Imprints 2013. 1st. Hardcover. New. DBS Imprints hardcover
20229781737356646-2025Dark Vine Media LLC 2022. Hardcover. New/New. <p><strong>Author:</strong> Abbi Cook</p><p><strong>Publisher:</strong> Dark Vine Media LLC</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Hardcover</p><p><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9781737356646</p><p><strong>Release Date:</strong> 2022</p><p><strong>Number Of Pages:</strong> 274</p><p><strong>Details:</strong> The first book in the Villains Club series about five billionaire brothers all anti-heroes you're going to love!Maddox Rule lives a life most men can only dream of.Nothing is out of his reach thanks to his family’s wealth and power.He wields that control with one goal—his pleasure.But the good life he enjoys comes with strings and if he wants to keep doing all those things he loves he has to live up to his family’s expectations.That means taking a wife even if he doesn’t want one.Not that I have any interest in being shackled to him either.When the man holding the most of my father’s debt the notoriously cruel Stephen Rule decides I’d be a perfect wife for his wayward son I understand the true effect of my father’s lifetime of mistakes.He won’t have to pay for them. I will.Just how I’ll have to do that is up to one man. Maddox Rule.</p> Dark Vine Media LLC hardcover
20229781737356646-2025Dark Vine Media LLC 2022. Hardcover. New/New. <p><strong>Author:</strong> Abbi Cook</p><p><strong>Publisher:</strong> Dark Vine Media LLC</p><p><strong>Binding:</strong> Hardcover</p><p><strong>ISBN:</strong> 9781737356646</p><p><strong>Release Date:</strong> 2022</p><p><strong>Number Of Pages:</strong> 274</p><p><strong>Details:</strong> The first book in the Villains Club series about five billionaire brothers all anti-heroes you're going to love!Maddox Rule lives a life most men can only dream of.Nothing is out of his reach thanks to his family’s wealth and power.He wields that control with one goal—his pleasure.But the good life he enjoys comes with strings and if he wants to keep doing all those things he loves he has to live up to his family’s expectations.That means taking a wife even if he doesn’t want one.Not that I have any interest in being shackled to him either.When the man holding the most of my father’s debt the notoriously cruel Stephen Rule decides I’d be a perfect wife for his wayward son I understand the true effect of my father’s lifetime of mistakes.He won’t have to pay for them. I will.Just how I’ll have to do that is up to one man. Maddox Rule.</p> Dark Vine Media LLC hardcover
2007Q-0878425284Mountain Press 2007-05-14. paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Mountain Press paperback
2009__9004182357Brill Academic Pub 2009. Hardcover. New. xvii 761 pp. part1: xvii 46 ed. edition. 761 pages. 12.25x9.50x2.25 inches. Brill Academic Pub hardcover
2015__9004308490Brill Academic Pub 2015. Hardcover. New. multilingual edition. 269 pages. Aramaic language. 12.25x9.25x1.00 inches. Brill Academic Pub hardcover