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At the age of 47, when he was a successful publishing executive and living with his wife and four children in an affluent Chicago suburb, John Shafer made the surprise announcement that he had purchased a vineyard in the Napa Valley. In 1973, he moved his family to California and, with no knowledge of winemaking, began the journey that would lead him, 30 years later, to own and operate what distinguished wine critic Robert M. Parker, Jr. called "one of the world’s greatest wineries".

Ever since Darwin and The Descent of Man, the existence of humans has been attributed to our intelligence and adaptability. But in Catching Fire, renowned primatologist Richard Wrangham presents a startling alternative: our evolutionary success is the result of cooking. In a groundbreaking theory of our origins, Wrangham shows that the shift from raw to cooked foods was the key factor in human evolution.

A 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. But Heavey knew next to nothing about gardening or foraging, and he lives in northern Virginia, close to Washington, D.C. The rural wilds, this was not. Is it any surprise that his tasty triumphs were equaled by his hilarious misadventures?

Get ready to devour America. Adam Richman, the exuberant host of Travel Channel’s Man v. Food and Man v. Food Nation, has made it his business to root out unique dining experiences from coast to coast. Now, he zeroes in on some of his top-favorite cities - from Portland, Maine, to Savannah, Georgia - to share his uproariously entertaining food travel stories, top finds, and some invaluable (and hilarious) cautionary tales.

This book will appeal to foodies and those who are deprived of cookbooks in audio format. Molecular Gastronomy documents the sensory phenomena of eating and uses basic physics to put to bed many culinary myths. This audiobook presents pieces of conventional wisdom - such as whether it is better to make a stock by placing meat in already boiling water, or water before it is boiled - and gives its history before making scientific pronouncements.

Mezcal. In recent years, the oldest spirit in the Americas has been reinvented as a pricy positional good popular among booze connoisseurs and the mixologists who use it as a cocktail ingredient. Unlike most high-end distillates, most small-batch mezcal is typically produced by and for subsistence farming communities, often under challenging conditions.

As historian Mark Essig reveals in Lesser Beasts, swine have such a bad reputation for precisely the same reasons they are so valuable as a source of food: they are intelligent, self-sufficient, and omnivorous. What's more, he argues, we ignore our historic partnership with these astonishing animals at our peril.

Michael Ruhlman, author of best-selling books about professional cooking and chefs and best-selling cookbooks with such chefs as Thomas Keller, Eric Ripert, and Michael Symon, turns his reporter's eye and engaging style on himself to answer the question "how on earth did I get here?" In an unlikely and unplanned series of chance connections, and work often motivated primarily by fear of poverty, he managed to carve a unique place for himself in the increasingly obsessive world of restaurants, chefs, and writers.

When the Khourys and McKissicks meet to share a neighborly meal, an adventure begins.

Living in the changing ethnic landscape of Kansas City, one is a family of Syrian immigrants; the other, African Americans with roots in Louisiana. What brings them together is a love of food. Along with friendship, a dream takes root between the two mothers, Miriam and Tamara - starting a new restaurant that will feature the specialties from both of their traditions, the Caf Deux Mondes, or Two Worlds Cafe.

On October 12, 2005, a massive fire broke out in the Wines Central wine warehouse in Vallejo, California. Within hours, the flames had destroyed 4.5 million bottles of California's finest wine worth more than $250 million, making it the largest destruction of wine in history. The fire had been deliberately set by a passionate oenophile named Mark Anderson, a skilled con man and thief with storage space at the warehouse who needed to cover his tracks.

Everyone hates them...and yet just about everyone has them, at least sometimes. In the United States, 11.6 million employees have reported going to work with a hangover within the previous 12 months. In this personal essay - a spirituous blend of philosophy, theology, history and biochemistry - Evan Rail sings the praises of the bad morning, arguing that a well-made katzenjammer can change our world and ourselves for the better, allowing us to find at least some good in feeling very bad.

Anna Del Conte brought Italian cooking to Britain at a time when the nearest most of us came to pasta was a Heinz spaghetti hoop. Sharply observant, evocative, full of tastes and talk of food, hers is a delicious, poignant memoir of an unusual life and the food she loves to cook, which launched a culinary revolution.She arrived in England in 1949 when much of Britain was a culinary wasteland, married an Englishman, and stayed on.

Conoceremos la evolución de la cocina española, desde las tortas de harina de bellota íbera al caviar esférico de melón de Ferran Adrià. Descubriremos que el mejor relato sobre la fructífera convivencia entre las cocinas cristiana, judía y musulmana se lo debemos a la prostituta Aldonza, La lozana andaluza; que en el segundo viaje de Colón a las "Indias Occidentales", su marinería comió tres manatíes (vacas marinas) creyendo que eran sirenas poco agraciadas; que somos el único país que puede presumir de haber tenido un perro gourmet.

In this engrossing memoir, Marion Nestle reflects on how she achieved late-in-life success as a leading advocate for healthier and more sustainable diets. Slow Cooked recounts of how she built an unparalleled career at a time when few women worked in the sciences, and how she came to recognize and reveal the enormous influence of the food industry on our dietary choices.

Recognised as one of the most beloved fruits of the Black diaspora, plantain holds profound value within the cultures and communities it is part of. A Quick Ting on Plantain is a cultural insight into the versatile fruit. Through exploring the sentimental meaning plantain has within Black households and cultures alike, this book reveals how food within the Black community is an intimate marker of identity and culture. This concise and insightful book traces the international history of plantain, as well as delving into the contemporary issues surrounding the fruit.

Il cibo è cultura perché ha inventato e trasformato il mondo. È cultura quando si produce, quando si prepara, quando si consuma. È il frutto della nostra identità e uno strumento per esprimerla e comunicarla. Una grande opera di sintesi da uno dei massimi storici dell'alimentazione. Massimo Montanari insegna Storia medievale e Storia dell'alimentazione all'Università di Bologna.

The kitchen is often the heart of South Asian homes. Muslim South Asian kitchens, in particular, are the engines of an entire culture. The alchemy that takes place within them affects nations and economies, politics and history, and of course human relationships. There is proof of it in Desi Delicacies, Claire Chambers’ anthology of essays, stories and recipes supplied by some of the region’s most well-loved writers, historians and chefs.

Kaffee ist einer der meistgehandelten Rohstoffe der Welt. Von Menschen, die ihn in Äthiopien oder Vietnam anbauen, über Geschäftsleute, deren Arbeitstag an der Wall Street mit einem coffee to go beginnt, bis hin zu KaffeeforscherInnen in Costa Rica – rund um den Globus prägt dieses faszinierende Genussmittel unseren Alltag. In der Sonderausstellung "Kosmos Kaffee" nähert sich das Deutsche Museum dem vielseitigen Getränk aus einer wissenschaftlichen und zugleich sinnlichen Perspektive.

Neste audiolivro, Jane M. G. Lutti reúne crônicas e receitas para aquecer o coração. Atribuindo sabores a pessoas e experiências íntimas, a autora compartilha insights despretensiosos sobre si e provoca o ouvinte a percorrer suas próprias memórias em busca de sabores e vivências de sua vida.

O autor dos EUA fez uma espécie de genealogia da comida ao percorrer, em marcha a ré, a trajetória do alimento da mesa até sua origem mais remota. Muito além do jornalismo, dá absolutamente todas as explicações a respeito de cada ingrediente consumido diariamente. Ao contrário dos que tentam esquecer os abusos da indústria alimentícia, Michael Pollan leu o rótulo e viajou até o pedaço de terra onde cada substância foi plantada.