The season’s new releases include a bounty of exciting culinary memoirs and a fast-paced history of French cuisine ...

Rare book and maps curator Eric Ensley flips through the pages of a church cookbook Tuesday in the Special Collections and Archives at the University of Iowa Main Library in Iowa City. The Szathmary ...

The food geek universe may buzz with every newfangled tool to document and decipher our food passions and drinking delights. But none of these tools provokes the thrill of leafing through a massive, ...

The exterior of Bold Fork Books. Photo courtesy of Sam Vasfi. When Clementine Thomas walked into Montreal’s Appetite for Books, a bookstore that sells cookbooks and offers cooking classes, “everything ...

On a recent summer evening, I sat cross-legged under a stand of pines in a quiet corner of Sequoia National Park, feeling a bit like a carb-stuffed tick after a late-afternoon cookie raid. Still, I ...

The publishing world has changed a lot in recent years. In some ways, the digital era has fostered a flowering of creativity, making it possible to publish small but important books, to the great ...

A restaurant chef who aspires to a high degree of professional competence needs to achieve mastery in three spheres. The first of those is, not surprisingly, technique, the hands-on skills that are ...

Independent bookstores are the heartbeats of their communities. They provide culture and community, generate local jobs and sales tax revenue, promote literacy and education, champion and center ...