Soul food is just what the name implies. It is soulfully cooked food . . . good for your ever-loving soul . . . the shur-nuf kinda down-home cookin’ that I grew up on,” writes Sheila Ferguson. Abundant in flavor and varietyranging from classics such as barbecued spare ribs, fried chicken, cornbread, and collard greens to less well …
From Papantla in Mexico-“the city that perfumed the world”-to the Indian Ocean islands, Vanilla traces the story of the vanilla plant and its secretive trade. From the golden cups of Aztec emperors to the ice-cream dishes of U.S. presidents, Vanilla has mystified and tantalized man for centuries. The only orchid that produces an agriculturally valuable crop, vanilla can …
It’s Only Slow Food Until You Try to Eat It: Misadventures of a Suburban Hunter-Gatherer
Mr. Heavey takes us back to the joysand occasional pitfallsof the humble edibles around us, and his conclusions ring true.”Wall Street JournalLongtime Field & Stream contributor Bill Heavey has become the magazine’s most popular voice by writing for sportsmen with more enthusiasm than skill. In his first full-length book, Heavey chronicles his attempts to eat wild,” seeing how …
Jim Harrison is one of this country’s most beloved writers, a muscular, brilliantly economic stylist with a salty wisdom. For more than twenty years, he has also been writing some of the best essays on food around, now collected in a volume that caused the Santa Fe New Mexican to exclaim: “To read this book is to come …