Eating Animals - Jonathan Safran Foer

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Conor M.

The first nonfiction book by the novelist Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals (Little, Brown, $25.99), is part memoir, part reportage, and all personal, Foer takes us behind the curtain, exposing some of the hardest truths about the American food industry.  As a father facing the question of deciding what his children should eat, Foer weaves food traditions, pop culture, and diet myths into a deeply affecting story of how we all should eat.  Like The Jungle and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Eating Animals speaks with an honesty and creativity all its own.

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Eating Animals (Paperback)

By Jonathan Safran Foer
$18.99
ISBN: 9780316069885
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Published: Back Bay Books - September 1st, 2010

The Deluxe Food Lover's Companion - Ron Herbst, Sharon Tyler Herbst

Submitted by lluncheon on Tue, 2015-12-22 16:42
Barbara M.

First published in 1990, the popular kitchen reference, The Deluxe Food Lover’s Companion (Barron’s $29.99), by Sharon and Ron Herbst, has been updated to reflect the global ingredients that have entered our cuisine in the last decades.  I could easily find the thick and sweet Indonesian soy sauce I was looking for (kecap) as well as the popular Southeast Asian seafood sauce (sri racha) in the glossary of sauces and stocks.  With apple pies on deck for the holidays, I at last have a three-page summary of the differences between all those apples at Whole Foods; ditto, the olive oils and the cheeses.  There’s a potful of information here for all aspiring kitchen Quiz Kids.

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The Deluxe Food Lover's Companion (Hardcover)

By Ron Herbst, Sharon Tyler Herbst
$29.99
ISBN: 9780764167034
Availability: Special Order—Subject to Availability
Published: Sourcebooks - April 1st, 2015

Why Italians Love to Talk about Food - Elena Kostioukovitch

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Liz S.

Chefs, foodies, and Italophiles will treasure Elena Kostioukovitch’s Why Italians Love To Talk About Food (Farrar Straus & Giroux, $35). This masterful tome is a culinary encyclopedia and travelogue—a chronicle of Italy’s regional cuisines. In each chapter, Kostioukovitch introduces a region and explores the foods that define it.  We learn about Piedmontese truffles, Neapolitan mozzarella di bufala, and the Roman Jews’ unique relationship to eggplant. Cuisine is a “code that pervades all of Italy,” Kostioukovitch writes, and discussing it “means celebrating a rite, uttering a magic formula.” Gorgeous photos and mouthwatering sample menus round out this literary feast.

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