The Food Lover's Book of Lists

The Food Lover's Book of Lists
Author: Patricia Altobello
Publisher: Plume Books
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1979
Genre: Cooking
ISBN:

Abstract: This book of trivia is intended for list and food lovers. Included are random food facts, food related quotes, esateric and useless recipes, medical remedies and international foods. Food historical facts are included.

Food Lovers' Guide to® Queens

Food Lovers' Guide to® Queens
Author: Meg Cotner
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2012-12-04
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0762792590

The Best Restaurants, Markets & Local Culinary Offerings The ultimate guides to the food scene in their respective states or regions, these books provide the inside scoop on the best places to find, enjoy, and celebrate local culinary offerings. Engagingly written by local authorities, they are a one-stop for residents and visitors alike to find producers and purveyors of tasty local specialties, as well as a rich array of other, indispensable food-related information including: • Favorite restaurants and landmark eateries • Farmers markets and farm stands • Specialty food shops, markets and products • Food festivals and culinary events • Places to pick your own produce • Recipes from top local chefs • The best cafes, taverns, wineries, and brewpubs

The Literature Lover's Book of Lists

The Literature Lover's Book of Lists
Author: Judie L. H. Strouf
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 437
Release: 1999-09-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0735201218

Wonderful for browsing, and invaluable for finding specific information, Literature Lovers Book of Lists is a compendium of useful and sometimes whimsical information for anyone who loves books and loves to read, at any age or reading level. It is organized into nine sections and provides nearly 200 lists relating to genres, authors, characters and settings, awards, literary terms with their definitions and much more. There are even lists of books of prose and poetry available on audiocassettes. If it has to do with literature, this book has the answers. What book has had the longest run on The New York Times best-seller list? Who is the only four-time winner of the Pulitizer Prize for drama? What is the complete list of Shakespeare's plays and poems? Who are some of the most notable African American authors? What are the three main variations of the sonnet? What famous writers belonged to The Bloomsbury Group? Literature Lovers Book of Lists is both exciting and informative at the same time.

The Food Lover's Companion to the Napa Valley

The Food Lover's Companion to the Napa Valley
Author: Lori Lyn Narlock
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2003-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780811836197

This is the first of its kind: an insider's food guide to that gourmand's paradise, the Napa Valley. Author and longtime resident Lori Lyn Narlock goes behind the scenes to discover where chefs shop, the best places to take a cooking class, or where to get a grapeseed oil massage. With complete details on the where, when, how, and how much, plus dozens of artful black-and-white photographs, this indispensible guide for food lovers even includes 50 recipes honoring the region's local specialties. It's a mouthwatering roster of the best that Napa has to offer.

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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 337
Release:
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ISBN: 0544187881

The Food Lover's Guide to Wine

The Food Lover's Guide to Wine
Author: Andrew Dornenburg
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2011-12-06
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0316084069

A wine book unlike any other,The Food Lover's Guide to Wine offers a fresh perspective via the single aspect of wine most compelling to food lovers: flavor. At the heart of this indispensable reference, formatted like the authors' two previous bestsellers The Flavor Bible and What to Drink with What You Eat, is an encyclopedic A-to-Z guide profiling hundreds of different wines by their essential characteristics-from body and intensity to distinguishing flavors, from suggested serving temperatures and ideal food pairings to recommended producers (including many iconic examples). The book provides illuminating insights from dozens of America's best sommeliers via informative sidebars, charts and boxes, which complement the book's gorgeous four-color photography. Another groundbreaking work from two of the ultimate culinary insiders, this instant classic is the perfect gift book.

The New Food Lover's Companion

The New Food Lover's Companion
Author: Ron Herbst
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 928
Release: 2013-09-01
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1438092334

"Essential for anyone who talks, eats, or thinks about food." —Bev Bennett, Chicago Sun-Times The New Food Lover's Companion is an indispensable resource for everyone from home cooks to culinary professionals. This widely praised and highly esteemed reference guide has been updated with new information to reflect the way we eat in today's world, taking into account our healthier lifestyles and more diverse palates, including: Over 500 new cultural listings, including Korean, Persian, and South American additions Definitions and explanations for cooking tools and techniques A microwave oven conversion chart An extensive breakdown of food labels and nutritional facts Suggestions for substituting recipe ingredients Among the myriad of foods and culinary subjects defined and explained are meat cuts, breads, pastas, and literally everything else related to good food and enjoyable dining—a veritable food bible for the novice home-cook, culinary student, or the self-proclaimed foodie. The New Food Lover's Companion is a reference guide—not a cookbook—but it includes hundreds of cooking tips plus an extensive bibliography of recommended cookbooks. More than 7,200 entries plus line art are included in this seminal work. "As thick and satisfying as a well-stuffed sandwich." —The New York Times