How to Cook an Early French Peacock: De Observatione Ciborum - Roman Food for a Frankish King (Bilingual Second Edition)    by Jim Chevallier
Price: $3.99 USD. 42290 words. Language: English. Published on May 19, 2013. Nonfiction » Cooking, Food, Wine, Spirits » History.
Is Anthimus' work "the oldest European medieval cookbook"? Well, it IS six centuries older than a twelfth century book that has recently been touted as exactly that. In the sixth century an Ostrogoth king sent a Byzantine physician to one of the Frankish courts where the food, being for the rich, was essentially Roman. Anthimus wrote his host this long letter on diet - De Observatione Ciborum.

Foodie Facts 1: Why Beer Goes Better with Cheese and Other Tasty Tidbits    by Gary Hidalgo
Price: $4.99 USD. 14250 words. Language: English. Published on April 7, 2013. Nonfiction » Cooking, Food, Wine, Spirits » History.
Get ready to bite into this delicious first "Foodie Facts" release. "Foodie Facts 1: Why Beer Goes Better with Cheese and Other Tasty Tidbits" is a mouth-watering buffet of speedy features and helpful how to's about food, drinks, history, culture, and travel collected from around the world, including tidbits about coffee, teas, wines, cheeses, food facts and origins. Bon Appétit!

Genuine Swedish traditional food and dishes in one single cookbook    by Chris Swede
Price: Free! 110 words. Language: English. Published on March 15, 2013. Nonfiction » Cooking, Food, Wine, Spirits » Scandinavian.
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Eating Our Way Toward Civilization: How food processing shaped human body, mind and cultures    by Nataly Sielicki
Price: $0.99 USD. 5810 words. Language: English. Published on March 1, 2013. Nonfiction » Cooking, Food, Wine, Spirits » History.
In the series of short essays the author overviews works of anthropologists, archeologists, cultural sociologists, historians and gastronomists who argue that the cooking played a significant role in human evolution and history, and sometimes even whole Empires “were built not by the sword but by the spoon”.

Eggs, Cheese and Butter in Old Regime France    by Jim Chevallier
Price: $2.99 USD. 9480 words. Language: English. Published on January 14, 2013. Nonfiction » Cooking, Food, Wine, Spirits » History.
Green eggs were popular once, and long before Dr. Seuss, in France. Poached eggs were served with orange juice and spices. These are just a few of the facts found in the brief but wide-ranging chapter the eighteenth century writer Le Grand d'Aussy included on eggs and dairy products in his three volumes on the history of French food.

Memories of the Heart: Comfort Food    by Toni Leland
Price: $0.99 USD. 6460 words. Language: English. Published on January 13, 2013. Nonfiction » Cooking, Food, Wine, Spirits » History.
This 30-page series of articles by freelance writer and published author Toni Leland takes a look back at the food that shaped a nation and the traditions that endure to this day. Comfort food is many things to many people, always different, but always the same. What follows are thoughts and memories of the author's own life with comfort food, supported by over two dozen proven family recipes.

Feed the Dog: A short history of feeding the domestic dog    by Amy Fernandez
Price: $3.99 USD. 5160 words. Language: English. Published by Puppy Care Education  on November 24, 2012. Nonfiction » Home and Garden » Pets & livestock.
Feed the Dog, an illustrated dog history e-book from Puppy Care Education. This book provides a short review of the history of feeding practices for domestic dogs up to the 1930s, including the development of packaged dog foods in the late nineteenth century. In only a hundred and fifty years the dinner of most pet and working dogs has gone from whatever it could get to a massive range of

What Kings Ate and Wizards Drank    by Krista D. Ball
Price: $7.99 USD. 65700 words. Language: English. Published by Tyche Books Ltd. on November 23, 2012. Nonfiction » Reference » Writing skills.
A Fantasy Lover’s Food Guide. Equal parts writer’s guide, comedy, and historical cookbook.

Apres Moi le Dessert: A French Eighteenth Century Model Meal    by Jim Chevallier
Price: $4.95 USD. 13750 words. Language: English. Published on July 17, 2012. Nonfiction » Cooking, Food, Wine, Spirits » History.
Original eighteenth century recipes - most newly translated from French - selected to match a "model meal" given in a classic period cookbook. Recipes appear for three services: FIRST SERVICE (Soups and entrees) - SECOND SERVICE (roasts) - THIRD SERVICE (Entremets) - and range from chickens in galantine to fried testicles.