Culinary Memoirs: What’s the Point?
They usually start by describing a kitchen from that vast desert common to all of us: memory. Filled with nostalgia, …
Category Archives: Book Reviews
Recipes from the White Hart Inn: An 18th-Century Cookbook for Today’s Cook
The writing of cookbooks often becomes fraught with injured egos and accusations bordering on the libelous. William Verral’s Recipes from the …
An Imam in Paris: Al-Tahtawi’s Visit to France (1826–1831) by Rifa’a Rafi’ al-Tahtawi, Translated by Daniel L. Newman
“For readers interested in early encounters between European and Arabic culture, An Imam in Paris: Al-Tahtawi’s Visit to France (1826–1831) provides an alluring …
La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life: Explaining the French
In celebration of the 2012 French elections … “. . . your best bet for understanding the French would be …
War. Cook. Eat. Love.
Annia Ciezadlo, author of Day of Honey* (Free Press, 2011) , isn’t the first person to cook her way through …
Assimilating “The Other”
Leslie Page Moch, author of Moving Europeans: Migration in Western Europe Since 1650 (1992, Indiana U. Press), has written another …
Heat and Dust and Cooks: The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook
“The tale of the British in India holds keys to the universal story of colonization. A no-nonsense book, The Complete Indian …
Arabs in France: An Early Account by an Egyptian Imam
Rare is the native English speaker who reads and writes Arabic, classical or otherwise. And thus a vast body of …
The Expert (French) Cook in Enlightenment France: A Review
If you scrutinize sixteenth-century Dutch artist Pieter Aertsen’s painting, “The Cook in Front of the Stove,” you will see a …
A Long Tradition: French Chefs in Britain, or, Daniel Galmiche’s French Brasserie Cookbook: The Heart of French Home Cooking
Britain, much to the chagrin of her more patriotic sorts, has long enjoyed the the food of France. In The …
