FOOD LIT
Chef bios, food histories, culinary theories, reviews, and general food writing and literature.
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The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice and Sustainability
$20.00We’ve been told that a vegetarian diet can feed the hungry, honor the animals, and save the planet. Lierre Keith believed in that plant-based diet and spent twenty years as a vegan. But in The Vegetarian Myth, she argues that we’ve been led astray--not by our longings for a just and sustainable world, but by our ignorance. Learn More -
The Supper Club Book: A Celebration of a Midwest Tradition
$29.95The supper club of the Upper Midwest is unmistakably authentic, as unique to the region as great lakes, cheese curds, and Curly Lambeau. Learn More -
The Hundred Year Diet: America's Voracious Appetite for Losing Weight
$24.99A lively cultural history of the American weight loss industry that explores the origins of our obsession with dieting. Learn More -
The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table
$25.00What if you can’t afford nine-dollar tomatoes? That was the question award-winning journalist Tracie McMillan couldn’t escape as she watched the debate about America’s meals unfold, one that urges us to pay food’s true cost—which is to say, pay more. Learn More -
Skirt Steak: Women Chefs on Standing the Heat and Staying in the Kitchen
$24.95In this in-depth, behind-the-scenes tell-all about the lives of women chefs, journalist Charlotte Druckman walks the reader into the world behind the hot line. Learn More -
Roadfood: The Coast-to-Coast Guide to 800 of the Best Barbecue Joints, Lobster Shacks, Ice Cream Parlors, Highway Diners, and Much, Much More
$21.99For road warriors and armchair epicures alike, the seventh edition of Roadfood is the key to finding some of the tastiest treasures in the United States. Learn More -
It's Only Slow Food Until You Try to Eat It: Misadventures of a Suburban Hunter-Gatherer - SIGNED!
$25.00A longtime contributor to Field and Stream, Bill Heavey knew more than a little about hunting and fishing when he embarked on an ambitious project a few years ago to see how far he could get “eating wild.” Learn More -
Hungry Planet: What the World Eats
$24.95On the banks of Mali's Niger River, Soumana Natomo and his family gather for a communal dinner of millet porridge with tamarind juice. Learn More -
How to Cook Like a Man: A Memoir of Cookbook Obsession
$24.00When Daniel Duane became a father, this San Francisco surfer and climber found himself trapped at home with no clue how to contribute. Inept at so many domestic tasks, and less than eager to change diapers, he took on dinner duty. Learn More -
How Italian Food Conquered the World
$25.00Not so long ago, Italian food was regarded as a poor man’s gruel—little more than pizza, macaroni with sauce, and red wines in a box. Here, John Mariani shows how the Italian immigrants to America created, through perseverance and sheer necessity, an Italian-American food culture, and how it became a global obsession. Learn More
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