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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"An immersive journey through the culture and cuisine of one Japanese town, its forest, and its watershed--where ducks are hunted by net, saké is brewed from the purest mountain water, and charcoal is fired in stone kilns--by an American writer and food stylist who spent years working alongside artisans. One night, Brooklyn-based artist and food writer Hannah Kirshner received a life-changing invitation to apprentice with a "saké evangelist" in...
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Follows René Redzepi and his staff as they temporarily close the world-renowned Noma restaurant in Copenhagen and relocate to Tokyo, with the challenge to develop and serve a locally-sourced 14-course meal at a 5-week pop-up restaurant in the Mandarin Oriental, Tokyo hotel.
Author
Publisher
The Feminist Press at the City University of New York
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Grace M. Cho grew up in a small, rural American town as the daughter of a white American merchant marine and the Korean bar hostess he met abroad. When Grace was fifteen, her Korean mother experienced the onset of schizophrenia, a condition that would continue for the rest of her life. Part food memoir, part sociological investigation, TASTES LIKE WAR is a hybrid text about a daughter's search through intimate and global history to understand herself...
Author
Publisher
Godine
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Ever wonder if there's a better way to live, work, and eat? You're not alone. Here is the story of five back-to-the-land movements, from 1840 to present day, when large numbers of utopian-minded people in the United States took action to establish small-scale farming as an alternative to mainstream agriculture. Then and now, it's the story of people striving to live freely and fight injustice, to make the food on their table a little healthier, and...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In India's long and diverse coastline, fish inhabit the heart of many aspects of life: food of course, and also culture, commerce, sports, history, and society. Journeying along the edges of the peninsula, Samanth Subramanian delivers a kaleidoscope of extraordinary stories. Following Fish conducts rich, journalistic investigations of the use of fish to treat asthmatics in Hyderabad; of the preparation and the process of eating West Bengal's prized...