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Émile Zola trata em "O Ventre de Paris" do dia a dia do ruidoso Les Halles Centrales, com seus personagens, peixes e queijos, todos fortes. Assim compôs o retrato da burguesia gorda da sua época.

A história da sedução à mesa nunca mais foi a mesma depois dos banquetes de Cleópatra para Marco Antônio. Nos "churrascos" pré-históricos, o auroque antecipou o prazer pelo ossobuco.

Tordesilhas, o restaurante – eleito o melhor de cozinha brasileira pelos guias Veja São Paulo, Época, Folha de S.Paulo, Estadão, Prazeres da Mesa, Gula e Go Where –, não fica longe da linha imaginária do Tratado de Tordesilhas no Brasil (latitude 23,5º, longitude 46,6º), assim como a cidade paulista de Penápolis, onde nasceu a chef Mara Salles, uma das donas do restaurante

Escavações no château-refúgio de Luís XIV encontraram históricos coprólitos (paleopoop), reveladores da pompa dos jantares da corte, mas também das doenças que afetavam a nobreza.

O figo-da-índia, que brota do cacto Opuntia, foi domesticado no México e foi parar até na Grécia. Chef François Vatel apresentou o "creme da casa" ao rei sol Luís XIV. Nascia o chantilly.

Preciosidades do Norte da África e Crescente Fértil, as tâmaras levam ao mundo mensagens de doçura. Na Europa, tradicionais castanhas assadas trazem eficiente conforto ao estômago.

No cardápio ateniense, sempre há café grego (não turco) e ouzo. E quando se fala em vinho, cada país destila seus ditados, quase sempre na base de In vino veritas, "no vinho, a verdade".

Jan Wong knows food is better when shared, so when she set out to write a book about home cooking in France, Italy, and China, she asked her 22-year-old son, Sam, to join her. While he wasn’t keen on spending excessive time with his mom, he dreamed of becoming a chef. Ultimately, it was an opportunity he couldn’t pass up. On their journey, Jan and Sam live and cook with locals, seeing first-hand how globalization is changing food, families, and cultures.

Eat Like a Local – Seoul by Author Jason Kim offers the inside scoop on food in Seoul. Culinary tourism is an important aspect of any travel experience. Food has the ability to tell you a story of a destination, its landscapes, and culture on a single plate. Most food guides tell you how to eat like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the Eat Like a Local series, this book will give you a food guide from someone who has lived at your next culinary destination.

In this book, you will discover advice on having a unique edible experience. This book will not tell you exact addresses or hours but instead will give you excitement and knowledge of food and drinks from a local that you may not find in other travel food guides.

"Monkey Weddings & Summer Sapphires" is a lovely telling of a childhood spent in Johannesburg, South Africa, and of settling into adult life and motherhood in Nova Scotia, Canada. Recipes, collected from travels, family, and friends allows the story to be told with the foods and dishes as the conveyance. The changing seasons, the natural wild beauty that surrounds everyday life, the abundance of wild edibles and local produce all serve as the inspiration to each chapter.

Food is the primary way andrea bennett connects with the world. They worked in the restaurant industry for a decade, and though they don’t eat much meat and can’t eat gluten, they take as much pleasure in food as Jeffrey Steingarten, Anthony Bourdain, or Guy Fieri. When they want to show someone they care, they cook them a meal. The essays in Hearty offer a snapshot of the North American cultural relationship to food and eating.

The story of twelve friends who gathered to share and celebrate the extraordinary wines of Bordeaux. Like-minded in their love of wine, they differed wildly (often alarmingly!) in their personal wealth, life and circumstances. Their opinions, always voiced, had the power to ignite anger and divide friendships just as easily as they bound them together.

On the Future of Food is a deep dive into our complex relationship with food on a global scale - from a means to assert ownership of the world to an indispensable tactic of civil rights movements. Catherine Joy White takes her experience as an advisor to the United Nations to establish the cultural, social, personal and political power of food, as a blueprint to life, a flagstone of community and a human right that many go without.

Adéntrate en tu papel de líder culinario con confianza y experiencia, armado con "Fundamentos de Liderazgo Culinario". Esta guía atractiva no es solo un libro, sino un kit completo para chefs que se adentran en el liderazgo por primera vez.

For years, there has been no doubt that widespread consumption of meat is both environmentally destructive and morally dubious. A growing chorus of scientists, health experts, and activists champion the benefits of a plant-based diet. Nevertheless, change has been slow to arrive, and the chasm between our appetites and our collective well-being seems impossibly vast. We know we must transition to a more plant-based world. But what would such a world look like, and how do we realistically get there? One group of people has been grappling with this question for decades: vegans.

Roberto Pinto traça, neste livro, um panorama da gastronomia brasileira nos últimos 40 anos. A pretexto de uma narrativa biográfica sobre mim e também dos chefs Mara Salles e Alex Atala, vai percorrendo as mudanças pelas quais passaram a cozinha brasileira desde a vinda dos franceses Claude Troisgros e Laurent Suaudeau para o Brasil, nos anos 1980. Ele conta de como o ofício de cozinheiro transformou-se ao longo dessas décadas e como os vários produtos regionais passaram a ser valorizados e a fazer parte da mesa dos badalados restaurantes de cozinha brasileira.

Já conhecido por um estilo polemista e provocativo, o sociólogo Carlos Alberto Dória, autor de vários livros sobre história e cultura culinária, nesse e-Boca Livre a sua visão sobre como a culinária e a gastronomia estão misturadas no cotidiano da vida. A perspectiva do distanciamento do dia a dia permite a reflexão do leitor a partir das coisas mais simples – o consumo de leite condensado, o excesso de açúcar, a descoberta de novas sabores e ingredientes – até os rumos imaginados da "nova gastronomia brasileira" em processo de formação.

Apples, a common New England crop, have been called the United States' most endangered food. The iconic Texas Longhorn cattle is categorized at critical risk for extinction. Unique date palms, found nowhere else on the planet, grow in California’s Coachella Valley, but the family farms that caretake them are shutting down. Apples, cattle, dates―these are foods that carry significant cultural weight. But they’re disappearing. In Endangered Eating, culinary historian Sarah Lohman travels the country learning about the distinct ingredients at risk of being lost.

Did Marco Polo bring pasta back from China, or is that a myth? How did the Neapolitan "macharoni" turn into the ubiquitous spaghetti? Is it even an Italian dish? Hundreds of shapes and thousands of recipes give expression to the culture and products of the country's regions. But spaghetti with tomato sauce remains Italy's identity dish par excellence. Massimo Montanari goes in search of the dish's true origins, tracing its history along the multiple, intricate routes taken by its raw ingredients to merge and become a distinctive element of culinary tradition.