Fourth Estate, 2004 Antony Wild's Coffee: A Dark History One of the coolest bits of Antony Wild's work is waiting for readers in the appendix: The Find at Kush. And what is it? Well, this is non-fiction, right? So it's hardly a spoiler to say that they found
Jaspreet Singh's Chef Vintage Canada, 2008 Kirpal is on the train when he overhears a child ask her mother what people miss most when they die. He thinks, food. "We miss peaches, strawberries, delicacies like Sandhurst curry, kebab pasanda and rogan josh. The dead do not eat marzipan. The smell
Oran B. Hesterman's Fair Food Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All NY: Public Affairs, 2011 Though viewed through a consistently American lens, Fair Food has much of value to offer readers and eaters beyond those borders. In his introduction, Hesterman draws lines between what others who have written
Elspeth Cameron's And Beauty Answers: The Life of Frances Loring and Florence Wyle Cormorant Books, 2007 It certainly wasn't something that a lot of women were doing in the early 1900s; girls weren't lining up to become sculptors. But Frances Loring and Florence Wyle did just that, meeting in 1906
All year I've been dragging on my reading for the Foodie's Reading Challenge. In the later part of the year I even started to wonder why I'd joined. And then I started reading for it. (Inspired by Dewey's Read-a-Thon.) This is why I join challenges; they seem to keep my
