Presents a collection of dishes, experiences, reflections, history and philosophy raised gastronomy to an art form. This book gives the author's views on taste, diet and maintaining a healthy weight, on digestion, sleep, dreams and being a gourmand. It offers an argument for the pleasures of good food and a hearty appetite.

Presents a collection of more than 500 desserts, biscuits, cakes, and pastries, together with 60 recipes for sauces, custards, icings, preserves, creams, and more. This book features classic desserts, cakes, and pastries, from Charlotte a la Chantilly and Black Forest Gateau to Passion Fruit Sorbet and Danish Cherry Flan.

Written by a French-born and bred author, this book shows how to eat with balance and control. It combines memoir, wisdom, wit, delicious recipes, and French common sense.

Blending humor, wisdom, history, pop culture, science, and basic cooking knowledge, the author presents an instructional cooking guide that features various cooking techniques accompanied by a master recipe for each technique.

Aims to give confidence to the ordinary home cook by providing hundreds of recipes and menus and by encouraging the reader to see cooking in context and, most importantly, to acquire a real understanding. Coverage includes kitchen basics, children's food, everyday cooking, weekend lunch and the last minute dinner party.

The Sunday Times Bestseller, and the biggest memoir of the year, from Britain's best loved food writer.

A successor to Schott's Original Miscellany .

From the Vikings to Clarence Birdseye, the author introduces the explorers, merchants, writers, chefs and fisherman, whose lives have been interwoven with the prolific fish. He chronicles the cod wars of the 16th and 20th centuries. He shows how the most profitable fish in history is faced with extinction.

From the internationally acclaimed author Isabel Allende, comes a magical, fascinating book exploring the intimate relationship between food and sex.

When an exotic stranger, Vianne Rocher, arrives in the French village of Lansquenet and opens a chocolate boutique directly opposite the church, Father Reynaud identifies her as a serious danger to his flock. War is declared as the priest denounces the newcomer's wares as instruments of murder.

What the World Eats. This book provides a fascinating expose on the rich and the famished - who is eating what, where and how much.

Featuring colourful collage illustrations, simple story, die-cut pages and finger-sized holes, this book is suitable for children.

Gives a balanced account for today's food revolution and changes the way we respond to food industry marketing practices. This work gives a introduction and bring us up to date on the key events in that movement. It also helps us understand what we eat and why.

Explores our eating habits, making us look at what we eat as a moral issue. This book follows three families with varying eating habits, from fast-food eaters to vegans, to explore how the food we eat makes its way to the table, and at what expense. It also offers ways to make choices within the framework of a diet that includes animal products.

This volume is not about being a goddess, but about feeling like one. Nigella shows that there can be more feelgood mileage from running up a tray of muffins or baking a sponge cake than in almost any other cooking - and that it's not actually hard.

Featuring recipes, this book explores the nuances of the Italian landscape, history and cuisine. It about the tastes and pleasures of Tuscany.

A collection of uncomplicated, fresh recipes that are easy to make after a busy day at the office, fun to linger over at weekends or to make with the kids, dreamy to look at and delicious to eat. Recipes include late breakfasts, party food, TV dinners, trailer trash and indoor picnics.

Features over 1,000 classic and contemporary recipes, more than 300 color photos, menus, instructions and helpful tips for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas and New Year's.