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Archestratus de Gela escreveu versos como se fossem dicas dos melhores ingredientes de seu tempo (350 a.C.).

No cardápio ateniense, sempre há café grego (não turco) e ouzo. E quando se fala em vinho, cada país destila seus ditados, quase sempre na base de In vino veritas, "no vinho, a verdade".

O figo-da-índia, que brota do cacto Opuntia, foi domesticado no México e foi parar até na Grécia. Chef François Vatel apresentou o "creme da casa" ao rei sol Luís XIV. Nascia o chantilly.

Despedida do verão na Suécia é celebrado com lagostins e akvavit. Nas ilhas Cayman, a Strombus gigas é a concha-rainha que já foi provisão de marinheiros capitaneados por Cristovão Colombo.

Tordesilhas, o restaurante – eleito o melhor de cozinha brasileira pelos guias Veja São Paulo, Época, Folha de S.Paulo, Estadão, Prazeres da Mesa, Gula e Go Where –, não fica longe da linha imaginária do Tratado de Tordesilhas no Brasil (latitude 23,5º, longitude 46,6º), assim como a cidade paulista de Penápolis, onde nasceu a chef Mara Salles, uma das donas do restaurante

A história da sedução à mesa nunca mais foi a mesma depois dos banquetes de Cleópatra para Marco Antônio. Nos "churrascos" pré-históricos, o auroque antecipou o prazer pelo ossobuco.

Escavações no château-refúgio de Luís XIV encontraram históricos coprólitos (paleopoop), reveladores da pompa dos jantares da corte, mas também das doenças que afetavam a nobreza.

Já conhecido por um estilo polemista e provocativo, o sociólogo Carlos Alberto Dória, autor de vários livros sobre história e cultura culinária, nesse e-Boca Livre a sua visão sobre como a culinária e a gastronomia estão misturadas no cotidiano da vida. A perspectiva do distanciamento do dia a dia permite a reflexão do leitor a partir das coisas mais simples – o consumo de leite condensado, o excesso de açúcar, a descoberta de novas sabores e ingredientes – até os rumos imaginados da "nova gastronomia brasileira" em processo de formação.

Roberto Pinto traça, neste livro, um panorama da gastronomia brasileira nos últimos 40 anos. A pretexto de uma narrativa biográfica sobre mim e também dos chefs Mara Salles e Alex Atala, vai percorrendo as mudanças pelas quais passaram a cozinha brasileira desde a vinda dos franceses Claude Troisgros e Laurent Suaudeau para o Brasil, nos anos 1980. Ele conta de como o ofício de cozinheiro transformou-se ao longo dessas décadas e como os vários produtos regionais passaram a ser valorizados e a fazer parte da mesa dos badalados restaurantes de cozinha brasileira.

Did Marco Polo bring pasta back from China, or is that a myth? How did the Neapolitan "macharoni" turn into the ubiquitous spaghetti? Is it even an Italian dish? Hundreds of shapes and thousands of recipes give expression to the culture and products of the country's regions. But spaghetti with tomato sauce remains Italy's identity dish par excellence. Massimo Montanari goes in search of the dish's true origins, tracing its history along the multiple, intricate routes taken by its raw ingredients to merge and become a distinctive element of culinary tradition.

How did the Cuban sandwich become a symbol for a displaced people, win the hearts and bellies of America, and claim a spot on menus around the world? The odyssey of the Cubano begins with its hazy origins in the midnight cafes of Havana, from where it evolved into a dainty high-class hors d'oeuvre and eventually became a hearty street snack devoured by cigar factory workers.

Von den bescheidenen Anfängen in Japan bis hin zu seiner weltweiten Beliebtheit - dieses Buch erzählt die faszinierende Geschichte, wie Sushi am Fließband zu einer globalen kulinarischen Sensation wurde.

Cask Strength is more than a history book. In it, Mike Gerrard, an award-winning travel and drinks writer, investigates the making, buying, and selling of barrels and details how drinks like wine, tequila, rum, cognac, and others are enhanced by specific kinds of barrel production.

There is a corner of every town and city in Britain where the air is tangy with vinegar and thick with the scent of frying. It is almost impossible not to follow this mesmeric vapour trail, fuelling a nostalgic rush of parents across the land declaring ‘Chippy tea!’, followed by the golden anticipation of the chip shop queue. In this lively and relatable book, acclaimed author Daniel Gray ponders the magic of chippies and rejoices in the delights they have sprinkled among us over the last 150 years.

The origin story of barbecue is a popular topic with a ravenous audience, but commonly held understandings of barbecue are often plagued by half-truths and misconceptions. From Barbycu to Barbecue offers a fresh new look at the story of southern barbecuing. Award winning barbecue cook Joseph R. Haynes sets out to correct one of the most common barbecue myths, the "Caribbean Origins Theory," which holds that the original southern barbecuing technique was imported from the Caribbean to what is today the American South.

It began in Ireland in the mid 1700s. The water in Ireland, indeed throughout Europe, was famously undrinkable, and the gin and whiskey that took its place devastated civil society. It was a disease ridden, starvation-plagued, alcoholic age, and Christians like Arthur Guinness—as well as monks and even evangelical churches—brewed beer that provided a healthier alternative to the poisonous waters and liquors of the times. This is where the Guinness tale began.

Cakes are present at all of life’s defining moments. We commemorate the day of our birth, our weddings, our most significant festivals through the medium of cake. It is a source of comfort and joy, a reminder of all that is good.  Across Britain, particular cakes represent the heritage and resources of the communities that created them.  The book will cover twelve cakes that intersect with our lives at important moments and the individuals who have shaped the history of cake in our land; slices of our lives and slices of British life.

Cook, author and Team Ottolenghi writing partner Tara Wigley had been to cookery school, read hundreds of cookbooks and developed recipes for over a decade. Yet she found herself confused. The fewer the ingredients in a recipe, Tara found, the more confusion there was about how best to make it. In How to Butter Toast Tara examines the many ways in which an everyday dish can be made.

A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during Pol Pot's genocide in the 1970s but who finds hope by reclaiming the recipes she tasted in her mother's kitchen.

Jenna Holmes, known affectionately by her community as P Mami, has cultivated a lifestyle centred around extracting the most pleasure from the simplest of things. The ones readily available to us if we just open our eyes: a perfectly juicy peach, an ocean swim on a hot day, a salted margarita rim, a hyena laugh with a friend. With her trademark infectious energy, in this book Jenna shares the nine core principles that guide all the decisions she makes - big and small - to build the most creative and inspired life possible.