Food Writing

Compelling quotations from 150 chefs--including James Beard, Julia Child, Gordon Ramsay, April Bloomfield--to inspire and delight professional chefs, foodies, and anyone who's ever resolved a crisis by adding more butter. Great chefs are not self-effacing or meek--there's no room for indecision in the professional kitchen, where the slightest stumble can send an entire restaurant into the weeds. So it follows that even in quieter moments, what chefs have to say is usually opinionated and always illuminating. The Chef Says invites readers to the ultimate food-lover's dinner party, where cooks from ancient Greece rub shoulders and talk shop with today's rising stars. These unruly culinarians compliment, compete, and disagree with one another as they discuss childhood and training, taste preferences and trends, the quest for perfection, and the grueling but exhilarating business of opening a restaurant.Authors Nach Waxman and Matt Sartwell are the owner and manager, respectively, of the celebrated Kitchen Arts & Letters bookstore in New York City, which offers 13,000 food- and drink-related titles

First published in 1904, a literary-culinary journal by the first art critic of The New York Times offers 365 recipes, along with the literary quotations, drawn from great works of English literature, that prompted their creation.

Food is humanity's greatest obsession. We think about it constantly -- cooking it, eating it, not eating it, where to eat it. Stuffed with insight and humour on our love affair with all things edible, and illustrated with a smattering of unique recipes, a portable compendium of culinary wit for anyone who eats or cooks -- whether devotees of grandmother's kitchen or a qualified chef.

Maria Polushkin Robbins has compiled an astonishing array of quotations about cooking and dining from centuries of observations, numbering in the hundreds. An alphabetically arranged treasure trove of quips and quotes on everything from airline food to quiche to vegetarians. A delicious treat for any cook or food lover.

A delicious collection of insightful, wise, and humorous remarks on the joys of cooking and eating.

Featuring more than 600 quotations by famous foodies, this collection presents rude and highly entertaining criticism about cookery. From reviews about pretentious cuisine and lousy waitstaff to comments on vegetables, seafood, and desserts, these notable critics leave no culinary delight untouched and even offer cutting remarks about gourmet masters.

Commonplace books, observes M. F. K. Fisher in her preface, "are rarely compiled by commonplace people." Robert Grabhorn was a San Francisco fine printer and publisher who "also worked diligently at the arts of eating and drinking." Thanks to his lifelong habits of reading, clipping, and filing, his "fever for the printed word," we can, with him, "pluck gastronomical crumbs from off and from under the tables of the great, sub-great, superficial wits and thinkers of History." A Commonplace Book of Cookery is a celebration of food and drink, a feast to be ravenously entered into or ceremoniously nibbled at, a banquet of offerings producing flavors of recognition and surprise, delight, wit, and wisdom.

Sharon Tyler Herbst, writer of user-friendly food reference books, offers an "appeteasing" collection of racy, wicked, funny, informative, and historical quotations about food and drink. Feast on: A delicious assortment of more than 1,500 quotes on food- and drink-related subjects including dinner parties, health food, holidays, diets, gourmets, gluttons, manners, and cocktails. More than 200 subjects arranged in a user-friendly A-to-Z format. Quotations from an eclectic and intriguing array of over 700 personalities. A potpourri of fifty easy recipes. Informative, entertaining tidbits featuring anecdotes, etymologies, history, and cooking tips.

A collection of humorous poetry by America's funniest poet as he examines the question of salad dressings, the dilemma of dining, his impressions of assorted food, and more.

Original recipes and modernized versions of Elizabethan dishes mentioned in Shakespeare's plays comprise thirteen feast menus which are presented with comments on the food and social customs of the times.

A little book with a quotation from Shakespeare on one page, matched to a tempting recipe on the next. Fascinating quotations from Shakespeare relating to food are complemented on the facing page by a simple but succulent recipe. All recipes are workable, if concise! Many of the recipes have a sixteenth-century English flavour.

Over 230 easy, tasty recipes using readily available ingredients are at the heart of these pages, but Vegetariana is more than a cookbook. It's a sampler of wit, folk wisdom, verse, botanical lore, literary anecdotes, and aphrodisia, all pertaining to the delights of delicious food and wholesome meals.

From Thomas Keller to Julia Child--hundreds of quotes that are sure to please anyone who loves to cook, bake, drink, and eat. The Little Red Book of Kitchen Wisdom presents thoughts on the happenings in kitchens around the world, from the preparation of ingredients to the consumption of meals and everything in between. This book will include quotes from the most respected chefs in the world (such as Heston Blumenthal, Alice Waters, and Grant Achatz), recognizable celebrity chefs and television personalities (Alton Brown, Mario Batali, Cat Cora), food critics and writers (Michael Pollan, Ruth Reichl, Michael Ruhlman), and various actors, actresses, authors, comedians, and poets who like to eat and talk about it. The mix of professionals and celebrities featured in this book will draw the attention of cooks at every level--professionals, home cooks, and hobbyists--and people who simply love to eat and drink.