Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...
  • Food Cultures of France

    Recipes, Customs, and Issues

    Series series The Global Kitchen
    As a comprehensive overview of French food from fine dining to street food and from Roman Gaul to current trends, this book offers anyone with an interest in French cuisine a readable guide to the country and its customs.In France, food is integral to the culture. From the Revolutionary cry for good bread at a fair price to the current embrace of American bagels and "French tacos," this book tells ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Savoir-Faire

    A History of Food in France

    Series series Foods and Nations
    This is a comprehensive account of France’s rich culinary history, not only full of tales of haute cuisine, but seasoned with myths and stories from a wide variety of times and places; from snail hunting in Burgundy to female chefs in Lyon, and from cheese appreciation in Roman Gaul to bread debates from the Middle Ages to the present. It examines the use of less familiar ingredients such as ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Sauces

    A Global History

    Series Book 48 - Edible
    Sauces have the ability to transform any food from dull to delectable; they are food enhancers that define national cuisines. They can be savoury or sweet, simple or complex, served as a side dish or presented as the main event. Sauces: A Global History takes readers on a journey from fermented sauces in fifth-century China to present-day cuisine, where sauces that are barely recognizable as such ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • The Sweet Life in Paris

    Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City

    From the New York Times bestselling author of My Paris Kitchen and L'Appart, a deliciously funny, offbeat, and irreverent look at the city of lights, cheese, chocolate, and other confections.Like so many others, David Lebovitz dreamed about living in Paris ever since he first visited the city and after a nearly two-decade career as a pastry chef and cookbook author, he finally moved to Paris to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • French Women Don't Get Fat

    **#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The book that launched a French Revolution about how to approach healthy living: the ultimate non-diet book—now with more recipes.“The perfect book.... A blueprint for building a healthy attitude toward food and exercise"—San Francisco Chronicle**French women don’t get fat, even though they enjoy bread and pastry, wine, and regular three-course meals. Unlocking the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • My Paris Kitchen

    Recipes and Stories [A Cookbook]

    A collection of stories and 100 sweet and savory French-inspired recipes that reflect the way Parisians eat today, featuring lush Parisian photography“David Lebovitz is a rare specimen: both a terrific storyteller and a brilliant, uncompromising recipe writer.”—Yotam OttolenghiIn 2004, David Lebovitz packed up his most treasured cookbooks, a well-worn cast-iron skillet, and his laptop and moved to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • French Country Cooking

    Authentic Recipes from Every Region

    Translated by Jeannette Seaver ...
    Here are 180 recipes of traditional French appetizers, entrees, and desserts that members of the French National Assembly, representing the myriad regions of their native country, have decided to share with the world. From a challenging slow-cooked hare recipe that predates the French Revolution to the simplest bread, The Cuisine of the French Republic is both wittily political and warmly personal ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Apprentice

    My Life in the Kitchen

    A culinary legend tells his story, from boyhood in wartime France to stardom in America, and shares favorite recipes: "A delicious book…a joy."— The New York Times Book ReviewIn this memoir, the man Julia Child called "the best chef in America" tells of his rise from a frightened apprentice in an exacting Old World kitchen to an Emmy Award-winning superstar who taught millions of Americans how to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mastering the Art of French Eating

    From Paris Bistros to Farmhouse Kitchens, Lessons in Food and Love

    by Ann Mah ...
    The memoir of a young diplomat’s wife who must reinvent her dream of living in Paris—one dish at a timeWhen journalist Ann Mah’s diplomat husband is given a three-year assignment in Paris, Ann is overjoyed. A lifelong foodie and Francophile, she immediately begins plotting gastronomic adventures à deux. Then her husband is called away to Iraq on a year-long post—alone. Suddenly, Ann’s vision of a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Canadian Cuisine

    Series series Food Fare Culinary Collection
    "Canadian Cuisine" contains information about the food and culture of Canada, including a brief history, common Canadian dishes, the people and traditions, the Mounties, Canadian beer and wine, food terms, Canadian recipes, words and phrases, and resources for further study."Canadian Cuisine" is Book #20 in Food Fare's Culinary Collection. Recipes in "Canadian Cuisine" are also freely available at ... Read more

    $1.00 USD

  • A Bite-Sized History of France

    Gastronomic Tales of Revolution, War, and Enlightenment

    A "delicious" (Dorie Greenspan), "genial" (Kirkus Reviews), "very cool book about the intersections of food and history" (Michael Pollan)—as featured in the New York Times**"The complex political, historical, religious and social factors that shaped some of [France's] . . . most iconic dishes and culinary products are explored in a way that will make you rethink every sprinkling of fleur de sel." ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Confessions of a French Baker

    Breadmaking Secrets, Tips, and Recipes

    Attention bread lovers!In the first of his famous books about Provence, Peter Mayle shared with us news of a bakery in the town of Cavaillon where the baking and appreciation of breads “had been elevated to the status of a minor religion.” Its name: Chez Auzet.Now, several hundred visits later, Mayle has joined forces with Gerard Auzet, the proprietor of this most glorious of Provençal bakeries, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD