Food
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TITLE: Anthony Bourdain's Hungry Ghosts
AUTHOR: Anthony Bourdain & Joel Rose WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Bou - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: On a dark, haunted night, a Russian Oligarch dares a circle of international chefs to play the samurai game of 100 Candles-where each storyteller tells a terrifying tale of ghosts, demons and unspeakable beings-and prays to survive the challenge. Inspired by the Japanese Edo period game of Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai, Hungry Ghosts reimagines the classic stories of yokai, yorei, and obake, all tainted with the common thread of food. |
TITLE: The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science
AUTHOR: J. Kenji López-Alt WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 641 Lóp SUMMARY: A guide to cooking, with recipes. |
TITLE: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
AUTHOR: Barbara Kingsolver WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 641 Kin SUMMARY: The author tells how she and her family relocated to southern Appalachia from Arizona in order to live a simpler life, grow their own food, and live among a community of local organic growers. |
TITLE: The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook: From Cauldron Cakes to Knickerbocker Glory--More Than 150 Magical Recipes for Wizards and Non-Wizards Alike
AUTHOR: Dinah Bucholz WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 641.5 Buc SUMMARY: Contains 150 recipes inspired by the Harry Potter novels, with a guide to where the foods can be found in the books, including good food with bad relatives, treats from the train, the favorite cook's dishes, holiday fare, and more. |
TITLE: The Teen Kitchen: Recipes We Love to Cook
AUTHOR: Emily & Lyla Allen WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 641.5 All SUMMARY: Provides over 75 fresh, natural recipes, including comfort foods, healthy options, and family favorites. |
TITLE: Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food and Love
AUTHOR: Edited by Elsie Chapman and Caroline Tung Richmond WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Hun- NOVELS SUMMARY: A collection of interconnected short stories that explore the intersection of family, culture, and food in the lives of thirteen teens. |
TITLE: With the Fire on High
AUTHOR: Elizabeth Acevedo WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Ace - NOVELS SUMMARY: Teen mother Emoni Santiago struggles with the challenges of finishing high school and her dream of working as a chef. |
TITLE: A New Way to Food: 100 Recipes to Encourage a Healthy Relationship with Food, Nourish Your Beautiful Body, and Celebrate Real Wellness for Life
AUTHOR: Maggie Battista WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 641.5 Bat SUMMARY: The founder of an award-winning online boutique and story-driven recipe site shares over 100 wholesome, refined-sugar-free recipes that helped her reconcile her relationship with food and be kinder to herself. |
TITLE: Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Giants Hooked Us
AUTHOR: Michael Moss WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 613.2 Mos SUMMARY: Reveals how the world's largest processed food companies redirect concerns about the health risks of their products by dialing back on one harmful ingredient while increasing another; use technology to calculate the bliss point of sugary beverages or enhance the mouth feel of fat by manipulating the chemical structure; and refer to their most ardent customers as addicted to salt, sugar, and fat. |
TITLE: The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science
AUTHOR: J. Kenji López-Alt WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 641 Lóp SUMMARY: Collects easy-to-prepare, illustrated recipes for practicing simple, fool-proof techniques, based on the science of cooking, for creating great food, including blanching, defatting stock, emulsions, and knife skills. |
TITLE: Simple Organic Kitchen & Garden: A Complete Guide to Growing and Cooking Perfect Natural Produce, with over 150 Step-By-Step Recipes
AUTHOR: Ysanne Spevack, Christine Lavelle and Michael Lavelle WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 641.5 Spe SUMMARY: A guide to growing natural produce and cooking with organic ingredients, with seasonal recipes for soups, appetizers, main courses, and desserts. |
TITLE: An Edible History of Humanity
AUTHOR: Tom Standage WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 394.1 Sta SUMMARY: Explores the history of food from antiquity to the twenty-first century, and describes how food allowed for the formation of civilizations and societies, and discusses innovations in agriculture, egalitarianism, trade, and other topics. |
TITLE: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
AUTHOR: Michael Pollan WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 394.1 Pol SUMMARY: Offers insight into food consumption in the twenty-first century, explaining how an abundance of unlimited food varieties reveals the responsibilities of consumers to protect their health and the environment. |
TITLE: Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
AUTHOR: Eric Schlosser WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 394.1 Sch SUMMARY: Presents the history of the fast food industry and discusses problems it has created. |
TITLE: Seconds
AUTHOR: Bryan Lee O'Malley WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC O'Ma - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: After her life hits some unexpected snags, Katie, a successful chef, meets a mysterious girl who provides her with a set of simple instructions for getting a magical do-over. Katie suddenly finds herself with another chance to get things right--and with an irresistible urge to keep resetting the clock until her life is not just good, but perfect. |
TITLE: The Hundred-Foot Journey
AUTHOR: Richard C. Morais WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Mor - NOVELS SUMMARY: Hassan Haji and his family are forced to leave their home and restaurant in Mumbai and try to reestablish their lives in a small village in the French Alps, but their inexpensive Indian cuisine becomes unwanted competition for a locally renowned chef, Madame Mallory. |
TITLE: The Reproach of Hunger: Food, Justice, and Money in the Twenty-First Century
AUTHOR: David Rieff WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 363.8 Rie SUMMARY: Explores whether ending extreme poverty and widespread hunger is within reach as is increasingly promised, revealing the issues that hinder this mission that are often glossed over. |
TITLE: A Place at the Table
AUTHOR: Susan Rebecca White WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Whi - NOVELS SUMMARY: The lives of an ostracized gay Southern boy, a wealthy Connecticut woman, and an African-American chef converge in a chic Manhattan café, in a tale ranging from 1920s North Carolina to the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and the present day. |