Bee Wilson
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
This book offers a novel approach to food writing, presenting a history of eating habits and mores through the lens of the technologies we use to prepare, serve, and consume food. It tells the history of food through its tools across different eras and continents to present a fully rounded account of humans' evolving relationship to kitchen technology. From the birth of the fork in Italy as it discovered pasta, to culture wars over spoons in Restoration...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In First Bite, acclaimed food historian Bee Wilson delves deep into the latest research from food psychologists, neuroscientists, and nutritionists to reveal that our food habits are shaped by family and culture, memory and gender, hunger and love. We do not come into the world with an innate sense of taste or nutrition as omnivores, we have to learn how and what to eat, how sweet is too sweet and what food will give us the most energy for the coming...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Helping you make the kitchen work better for you to make cooking enjoyable, the cofounder of TastEd presents this culinary companion in which she shares ways of speeding cooking up or slowing it down through easy-to-make, delicious recipes for unfussy food that makes every day taste better."--
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009" "Shortlisted for the 2008 André Simon Book Awards" Bee Wilson is the author of The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us. She writes a weekly food column for London's Sunday Telegraph and is a former food critic for the New Statesman. She has been named Food Journalist of the Year by the Guild of Food Writers and Food Writer of the Year by BBC Radio 4.
Bad food has a history. Swindled tells...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In just two generations, the world has undergone a massive shift from traditional, limited diets to more globalized ways of eating-- from bubble tea to quinoa, Soylent to meal kits. Paradoxically, our diets are getting healthier and less healthy at the same time. For some, there has never been a happier food era than today: a time of unusual herbs, farmers' markets, and internet recipe swaps. Yet modern food also kills-- diabetes and heart disease...
