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Culinary Arts: Books for Cooks

This is a guide to information resources in the field of culinary arts.
Animal Factory: the looming threat of industrial pig, dairy, and poultry farms to humans and the environment

Animal Factory

HD9415 .K57 2011 (CM)

Jerusalem: a cookbook

Jerusalem: a cookbook

TX724 .O88 2012 (ML)

Modern French Pastry:  innovative techniques, tools and design

Modern French Pastry

TX773 .W28 2017 (CM)

New Native Kitchen: celebrating modern recipes of the American Indian

New Native Kitchen

TX715.2.N38 B58 2021 (ML)

Noma 2. 0:  vegetable, forest, ocean

Noma 2. 0: vegetable, forest, ocean

TX722.D4 .R43 2022 (ML Oversize)

Charcutería:  the soul of Spain

Charcutería: the soul of Spain

TX609 .W45 2021 (ML)

The Sous Vide Cookbook

The Sous Vide Cookbook

TX691 .S68 2017 (ML)

Meat Illustrated: a foolproof guide to understanding and cooking with cuts of all kinds

Meat Illustrated

TX749 .M417 2020 (ML)

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Forage, Harvest, Feast

Forage, Harvest, Feast

TX823 .V55 2018 (ML)

 In this groundbreaking collection, celebrated New York City forager, cook, kitchen gardener, and writer Marie Viljoen incorporates wild ingredients into everyday menus and special occasion fare. Motivated by a hunger for new flavors and working with thirty-six versatile wild plants―some increasingly found in farmers markets―she offers deliciously compelling recipes, including variations on: Cocktails Snacks & Appetizers Entrées Desserts Breads Preserves, Sauces and Syrups Ferments, spices, and salts From underexplored native flavors like bayberry and spicebush to accessible ecological threats like Japanese knotweed and mugwort, Viljoen presents hundreds of recipes unprecedented in scope. 

Taste: My Life through Food

Taste: My Life through Food

 TX 649.T83 A3 2021 (AC)

From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kitchen.

Cooking for Kings

Cooking for Kings

 TX649.C37 K44 2004 (ML)

My Big Fat Greek Feast

My Big Fat Greek Feast

TX723.5.G8 K97 2004 (CM,ML,WO)

British Table:  A New Look at the Traditional Cooking of England, Scotland, and Wales

British Table: A New Look at the Traditional Cooking of England, Scotland, and Wales

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Celebrates the best of British cuisine old and new. Drawing on a vast number of sources, both historical and modern, the book includes more than 150 recipes, from traditional regional specialties to modern gastropub reinventions of rustic fare. 

Mouthfeel: How Texture Makes Taste

Mouthfeel: How Texture Makes Taste

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Why is chocolate melting on the tongue such a decadent sensation? Why do we love crunching on bacon? Why is fizz-less soda such a disappointment to drink, and why is flat beer so unappealing to the palate? Our sense of taste produces physical and emotional reactions that cannot be explained by chemical components alone. Eating triggers our imagination, draws on our powers of recall, and activates our critical judgment, creating a unique impression in our mouths and our minds. How exactly does this alchemy work, and what are the larger cultural and environmental implications? 

Catherine Saxelby's Complete Food and Nutrition Companion : The Ultimate A-Z Guide

Catherine Saxelby's Complete Food and Nutrition Companion : The Ultimate A-Z Guide

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Winner of the Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology Bruce Chandler Book Prize in 2014 for this ultimate guide to health through food and nutrition, Catherine Saxelby, Australia's most respected nutritionist, now brings you an updated edition of the guide.

My Bombay Kitchen

My Bombay Kitchen

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The first book published in the United States on Parsi food written by a Parsi, this beautiful volume includes 165 recipes and makes one of India's most remarkable regional cuisines accessible to Westerners. In an intimate narrative rich with personal experience, the author leads readers into a world of new ideas, tastes, ingredients, and techniques, with a range of easy and seductive menus that will reassure neophytes and challenge explorers.

Where are the Culinary Books?

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The books at Atlantic Cape are arranged using the Library of Congress Classification System, which uses letters and numbers to group similar materials together on the library shelves.

 

Books on culinary and related subjects can be found at these call numbers. 

  • TX 341-641 Nutrition, Foods and Food supply
  • TX 642-840 Cookery
  • TX 851-885 Dining Room Service
  • TX 901-946 Hospitality Industry, Hotels, Clubs, Restaurants, etc.
  • TX 950-953 Taverns, Barrooms, Saloons

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Classic Works on Food

Eating in America:  a history

Eating in America: a history

TX 353 .R64 1995 (WO)

The story of American eating begins and ends with the fact that American food, by most of the world's standards, is not very good. This is a rather sad note considering the "land of plenty" the first American settlers found, and even sadder considering that with the vast knowledge of food we possess, we have still managed to create things such as the TV dinner and "Finger Lickin' Good" chicken. Nevertheless, America's eating habits, the philosophy behind these habits, and much of the food itself are deliciously fascinating. Waverly Root and Richard de Rochemont, in a style that is rich, tasty, and ironic, chronicle the history of American food and eating customs from the time of the earliest explorers to the present. In writing this chronicle on American food, Root and de Rochemont have in fact created a fresh and commanding history of the United States itself. Eating in America is an erudite, sumptuous, witty, marvelously readable study; truly a book to feast on time and again.

The Fannie Farmer Cookbook

The Fannie Farmer Cookbook

TX715 .F234 1979 (ML)

Mastering the art of French cooking

Mastering the art of French cooking

TX 719 .C454 1983 2 volumes (WO)

Honey from a Weed

Honey from a Weed

TX725.M35 G73 1987 (ML)

A literary memoir of life, food, and travel in the Mediterranean.

Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking

Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking

TX 723 .H342 1992 (ML)

From award-winning, bestselling "queen of Italian cooking" (Chicago Tribune), a culinary bible for anyone looking to master the art of Italian cooking. Essentials of Italian Cooking is a culinary bible for anyone looking to master the art of Italian cooking, bringing together Marcella Hazan's most beloved books, The Classic Italian Cook Book and More Classic Italian Cooking, in a single volume. Designed as a basic manual for cooks of all levels of expertise--from beginners to accomplished professionals--it offers both an accessible and comprehensive guide to techniques and ingredients and a collection of the most delicious recipes from the Italian repertoire. As home cooks who have used Marcella's classic books for years (and whose copies are now splattered and worn) know, there is no one more gifted at teaching us just what we need to know about the taste and texture of a dish and how to achieve it, and there is no one more passionate and inspiring about authentic Italian food.

Mediterranean Cooking

Mediterranean Cooking

TX725.M35 W64 1994 (ML)

Renowned food writer Paula Wolfert revises her classic cookbook in which she celebrates the sensuous pleasures of health and popular Mediterranean cooking with more than 150 delicious dishes from this region, 75 of them new.

Madhur Jaffrey's World-Of-the-East Vegetarian Cooking

Madhur Jaffrey's World-Of-the-East Vegetarian Cooking

TX724.5.A1 J33 (ML)

From her own India, from Bali, Japan, China, from Far Eastern and Middle Eastern countries, Madhur Jaffrey brings us tantalizing new dishes, new flavors and new aromas. 400 recipes using nutritious ingredients.

The Moosewood Cookbook

The Moosewood Cookbook

TX837 .K2593 1977 (CM,ML)

The Cuisines of Mexico

The Cuisines of Mexico

TX716.M4 K466 1989 (ML)

A classic! The world's foremost authority on Mexican cuisine provides a mouth-watering array of delicious recipes. "She's taken a piece of the culinary world and made herself its queen."--New York

The Silver Palate Cookbook

The Silver Palate Cookbook

TX 715 .R8414 1982 (CM,ML)

With over 2.2 million copies in print, the widely acclaimed The Silver Palate Cookbook is firmly established as a contemporary classic. Originally published in 1982, the book's elegant, innovative recipes and emphasis on pure, fresh, ingredients ushered a new passion for food and hospitality into the American consciousness. The lively collection of clear, step-by-step recipes ranges from sublimely refined traditions-Pesto, Manhattan Clam Chowder, and Stuffed Artichokes-to original creations certain to become the topic of conversation at any dinner party. There's PatS de Campagne with Walnuts and Juniper Berries. Fruit-Stuffed Cornish Hens. Caviar Eclairs. Blueberry Bisque. Plus over 300 more recipes for hors d'oeuvres, dips and sauces, picnic fare, entrSes, salads, soups, breads, desserts. Throughout the book are valuable menu and serving suggestions, literary quotes, food guides, food lore, and whimsical illustrations. Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, Quality Paperback Book Club, Book-of-the-Month Club's HomeStyle Books, Better Homes & Gardens Family Book Service, and the ABA Basic Booklist. A James Beard Book Awards inductee into the cookbook Hall of Fame.

The Art of Simple Food: notes, lessons, and recipes from a delicious revolution

The Art of Simple Food: notes, lessons, and recipes from a delicious revolution

TX 714 .W37 2007 (ML)

An indispensable resource for home cooks from the woman who changed the way Americans think about food.  Perhaps more responsible than anyone for the revolution in the way we eat, cook, and think about food, Alice Waters has "single-handedly chang[ed] the American palate" according to the New York Times. Her simple but inventive dishes focus on a passion for flavor and a reverence for locally produced, seasonal foods. With an essential repertoire of timeless, approachable recipes chosen to enhance and showcase great ingredients, The Art of Simple Food is an indispensable resource for home cooks. Here you will find Alice's philosophy on everything from stocking your kitchen, to mastering fundamentals and preparing delicious, seasonal inspired meals all year long. Always true to her philosophy that a perfect meal is one that's balanced in texture, color, and flavor, Waters helps us embrace the seasons' bounty and make the best choices when selecting ingredients. Fill your market basket with pristine produce, healthful grains, and responsibly raised meat, poultry, and seafood, then embark on a voyage of culinary rediscovery that reminds us that the most gratifying dish is often the least complex.

Becoming a Chef

Becoming a Chef

TX911.3.V62 D67 1995 (ML,WO)

The Omnivore's Dilemma: a natural history of four meals

The Omnivore's Dilemma: a natural history of four meals

GT 2850 .P65 2006 (ML)

One of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year Winner of the James Beard Award Author of How to Change Your Mind and the #1 New York Times Bestsellers In Defense of Food and Food Rules What should we have for dinner? Ten years ago, Michael Pollan confronted us with this seemingly simple question and, with The Omnivore's Dilemma, his brilliant and eye-opening exploration of our food choices, demonstrated that how we answer it today may determine not only our health but our survival as a species. In the years since, Pollan's revolutionary examination has changed the way Americans think about food. Bringing wide attention to the little-known but vitally important dimensions of food and agriculture in America, Pollan launched a national conversation about what we eat and the profound consequences that even the simplest everyday food choices have on both ourselves and the natural world. Ten years later, The Omnivore's Dilemma continues to transform the way Americans think about the politics, perils, and pleasures of eating.

Fast Food Nation: the dark side of the all-American meal

Fast Food Nation: the dark side of the all-American meal

TX 715 .S2968 2001 (CM,WO)

TX 945.3 .S355 2005 (ML)

FAST FOOD NATION is a groundbreaking work of investigation and cultural history that may change the way America thinks about the way it eats.

Are we what we eat? To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar America. Though created by a handful of mavericks, the fast food industry has triggered the homogenization of our society. Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled the juggernaut of American cultural imperialism abroad. 

Credits

This guide was developed by Ellen Parker, and revised by Robert Mast and Leslie Murtha, Atlantic Cape Community College Libraries.
Published 2012; last updated June 2023.