The best food books of 2009 Not a comprehensive list, more of an entrée. Which are your favourite food and drink books of this year, and of the decade? The culinary themes which dominated the food books of 2009 are the common threads of the last few years - obsessions with seasonal, local and home-grown, and the omnivore's perpetual dilemma – how to eat well, cheaply, healthily and ethically. Happily, o... Submitted: on 18th Dec 2009 Tags: · The · Food And Drink Books · ThemesThe best food books of the decade The best books of the noughties, as chosen by Fuschia Dunlop, Jay Rayner, Rosie Boycott, Tom Parker Bowles, Allegra McEvedy, Matthew Fort and other leading food writers Putting together the picks of the decade in food and drink books has been rather a painful process, not least due to the number of outstanding volumes published in the last gasp of the old century. The trickiest example was Fergus ... Submitted: on 23rd Dec 2009 Tags: · The · Best Books · Chosen · Food And Drink Books · Published · Together · WritersLiterary feasts for children It seems only right that children, whose appetites are so often voracious, enjoy devouring stories full of victuals. What sticks in your mind from the food and drink in your childhood reading? Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland is released today, the latest adaptation of Lewis Carroll's books. Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass are packed with descriptions of food: treacle w... Submitted: on 5th Mar 2010 Tags: · children · The · What · Alice in Wonderland · Childhood · Lewis Carroll · Literary · mind · Reading · Stories · WhatThe top ten food books of the noughties The Guardian asked a group of food lovers and food writers about the best food books of the last decade.One title they all mentioned:McGee on Food and Cooking: An Encyclopedia of Kitchen Science, History and Culture by Harold McGeeA greatly expanded edition of his earlier On Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Fuchsia Dunlop picked On Food and Cooking out as "one of the essential books in any cook's Submitted: on 20th Jan 2010 Tags: · Science · The · Edition · History · The · The Guardian · Top Ten · WritersGood-Bye to our Funny Boy… October 16, 1999 – December 17, 2009 Today Kip and I said good-bye to Argus – our sweet, loving, and funny boy. Despite our attempts to make him more comfortable, he declined rapidly and was not eating. This morning he vomited every time he tried to drink water. Always a hard decision when to help a Submitted: on 17th Dec 2009 Tags: · When · Always · Good-ByeSubmit your question for author Michael Pollan before January 18, 2010 for an interview in Time magazine Loved The Omnivore's Dilemma and gobbled up In Defense of Food? Using Food Rules to make better food choices everyday? Well, now here's your chance to get award-winning author Michael Pollan to answer those lingering questions you still have about everything from food to eating to whatever it is you still want to know more about within his realm of expertise. Time magazine invites you to p... Submitted: on 14th Jan 2010 Tags: · p · The · Up · Author · Interview · Magazine · Michael Pollan · Time MagazinePhotos of the Day Revelry Partier that I am, I had all of one sip of champagne. It's not my drink; I prefer asti spumante, its much sweeter cousin. Even then, I think my days of enjoying things alcoholic are long gone. I have enough trouble staying awake without alcohol, and being of northern European extraction my pale skin turns bright red after about half a sip. But on the rare occasions I do drink, oh good lord... Submitted: on 4th Jan 2010 Tags: · The · Oh · Photos · Skin · TroubleLibraryThing party in Boston If you'll be in Boston this Saturday, January 16th (for a library conference or any other reason), come meet up with us for our LibraryThing meetup. We're taking advantage of a library conference in Boston to pull together all our favorite bibliophiles, eat food, drink drinks, and talk about the state of books, the future of the book, and what you just finished reading. We're provid... Submitted: on 12th Jan 2010 Tags: · The · Up · What · Eat Food · Reading · Together · WhatThe Settler's Cookbook, By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Passionate, generous and articulate, Alibhai-Brown has one of the most distinctive voices in British journalism. This engaging book has these qualities in brimming quantity. Categorised as "Memoir/Food & Drink", it begins with mini-biographies of the author's cooking utensils – the colander made by Abdullah, the Indian wok made by "Mr Harry Belafonte the Third". Submitted: on 22nd Feb 2010 Tags: · Mini · The · Author · Biographies · Cookbook · Memoir · Passionate · S CookbookEating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer “Stories about food are stories about us – our history and our values.” When I sat down to write this review I did so with 16 pages of notes and ambitions to compose a review that would change the eating habits of every person who read it. Only such lofty goals, I felt, could do justice Submitted: on 5th Mar 2010 Tags: · The · When · History · Jonathan Safran Foer · Notes · Review · Stories · When · Write
