Big Appetites: Five Couples Who Dreamed Up a Revolution in Food
Mar 2027 · Sold by Penguin
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From the acclaimed author of What She Ate, the story of five couples whose dreams, experiments, and triumphs fueled a revolution at the kitchen table.
In Big Appetites, the journalist and culinary historian Laura Shapiro introduces readers to some of the cooks and activists who turned their passion for good eating into a public campaign that transformed food culture in America and Britain. Their ideas helped to establish farmers markets, promote sustainable agriculture, and put countless thirty-minute recipes based on fresh ingredients within the reach of home cooks everywhere. With a lively sense of character, an eye for delicious and surprising details, and deep roots in cultural history, this short, memorable book will change the way you look at your plate.
In Big Appetites, the journalist and culinary historian Laura Shapiro introduces readers to some of the cooks and activists who turned their passion for good eating into a public campaign that transformed food culture in America and Britain. Their ideas helped to establish farmers markets, promote sustainable agriculture, and put countless thirty-minute recipes based on fresh ingredients within the reach of home cooks everywhere. With a lively sense of character, an eye for delicious and surprising details, and deep roots in cultural history, this short, memorable book will change the way you look at your plate.
From the acclaimed author of What She Ate, the story of five couples whose dreams, experiments, and triumphs fueled a revolution at the kitchen table.
In Big Appetites, the journalist and culinary historian Laura Shapiro introduces readers to some of the cooks and activists who turned their pass...
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About the author
Laura Shapiro was a columnist at The Real Paper (Boston) before beginning a sixteen-year-run at Newsweek, where she covered food, women's issues, and the arts, and won several journalism awards. Her reviews and features have appeared in numerous publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Gourmet, the Atlantic, and Slate. She is the author of Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century; Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America; Julia Child, and What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories.
Laura Shapiro was a columnist at The Real Paper (Boston) before beginning a sixteen-year-run at Newsweek, where she covered food, women's issues, and the arts, and won several journalism awards. Her reviews and features have appeared in numerous publications including The New Yorker, The New York...
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