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Although the last decade has seen an intense and widespread interest in the writing and publishing of cookery books, surprisingly little contextualized analysis of the recipe as a generic form has appeared. This essay collection asserts that the recipe in all its cultural and textual contexts is a complex, distinct, and important form of cultural expression.

Robert V. Camuto's interest in wine turned into a passion when he moved to France and began digging into local soils and cellars. Corkscrewed recounts Camuto's journey through France's myriad regions - and how the journey profoundly changed everything he believed about wine.

Although My Kitchen Wars is a war story, this time the warrior is a woman and the battleground the kitchen. Betty Fussell gives voice to a generation of women whose stories were shaped and yet simultaneously silenced by an era of domestic strife and global conflict, from World War II to Vietnam.

Presents a debate over the merits of the cuisines of vegetarians and carnivores by professional chefs. This work features recipes that make a persuasive case for each chef's point of view. It also provides eighty recipes as creative as beef brisket with blueberry BBQ sauce, and jackfruit pineapple BBQ on a bun.

A collection of thirteen essays, which broaden familiar definitions of utopianism and community to explore the ways Americans have produced, consumed, avoided, and marketed food and food-related products and meanings to further their visionary ideals.

Contains more than two hundred recipes interwoven with historical background and notes from the author's experiences traveling through Central and Eastern Europe. This book contains period illustrations and an introduction by the author, which describes how dramatically this region and its food have changed since the end of its isolation in 1989.