http://www.thegastronomersbookshelf.com collaborative book reviews about all things food and wine Fri, 16 Jul 2010 05:32:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.thegastronomersbookshelf.com/7360_new-release-it-tastes-better http://www.thegastronomersbookshelf.com/7360_new-release-it-tastes-better#comments Sun, 13 Jun 2010 06:36:52 +0000 admin http://www.thegastronomersbookshelf.com/?p=7360 In It Tastes Better, Kylie Kwong has created over 100 recipes inspired by fresh, seasonal and sustainably produced food. Embarking on a journey around Australia to meet the people behind sustainable produce, she learns about the care they take to produce food that tastes better.]]> http://www.thegastronomersbookshelf.com/7360_new-release-it-tastes-better/feed 0 http://www.thegastronomersbookshelf.com/6475_fish-tales-bart-van-olphen-2009-uk http://www.thegastronomersbookshelf.com/6475_fish-tales-bart-van-olphen-2009-uk#comments Sun, 18 Apr 2010 09:31:23 +0000 Sarah http://www.thegastronomersbookshelf.com/?p=6475 Line caught, farmed, wild, sustainable, line-caught, organic – for the conscientious foodie, seafood can be an ethical minefield. This is where Fish Tales comes in. More than a recipe book, authors Bart van Olphen and Tom Kime take readers on a journey across the globe, to nine different sustainable fisheries. Sharing the fishermen’s stories, they give the reader a sense of the breadth and variety in fishing practices, and show us just how precarious our seafood supply is.]]> http://www.thegastronomersbookshelf.com/6475_fish-tales-bart-van-olphen-2009-uk/feed 0 http://www.thegastronomersbookshelf.com/4609_year-end-countdown-food-writing-food-guides-and-famous-names http://www.thegastronomersbookshelf.com/4609_year-end-countdown-food-writing-food-guides-and-famous-names#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:47:23 +0000 admin http://www.thegastronomersbookshelf.com/?p=4609 In the last installment of our feature on year-end releases, we're taking a look at cookbooks from famous chefs and restaurants, as well as the un-cookbooks: books with essays on food, food issues, and guidebooks on specific subjects. ]]> http://www.thegastronomersbookshelf.com/4609_year-end-countdown-food-writing-food-guides-and-famous-names/feed 0 http://www.thegastronomersbookshelf.com/2396_new-edition-the-world-food-problem http://www.thegastronomersbookshelf.com/2396_new-edition-the-world-food-problem#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:50:22 +0000 admin http://www.thegastronomersbookshelf.com/?p=2396 Why do millions of people in the less-developed countries go hungry? What can be done about it? This book is the best available analysis of the current world food problem, as well as a provocative assessment of prospects for the future.]]> http://www.thegastronomersbookshelf.com/2396_new-edition-the-world-food-problem/feed 0 http://www.thegastronomersbookshelf.com/83_eating-between-the-lines-rebecca-huntley-2008-au-full http://www.thegastronomersbookshelf.com/83_eating-between-the-lines-rebecca-huntley-2008-au-full#comments Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:55:39 +0000 Duncan Markham http://www.thegastronomersbookshelf.com/?p=83 Eating Between the Lines claims to be "A different kind of food tour" and sociologist Rebecca Huntley certainly takes the readers on a journey. The book is a series of discreet chapters exploring aspects of food culture in Australia. From the subtitle of the book, "Food & Equality in Australia", you might expect the focus to be on poverty, access to food, and perhaps the ability to cook. In fact, Huntley ranges over these themes and adds a sociopolitical agenda involving gender roles, racism, Slow Food and more. At times, the reader might feel that the author lacks much insight into deeper cultural and historical issues, leaving her argumentation a little popular-conscience rather than achieving insightful examination. Nonetheless, many interesting pieces of information come out of the interviews and stories and the footnotes are interesting. I found Eating Between the Lines very irritating, but it's well written and designed to hit the right "how terrible" buttons with certain types of readers. Huntley might, however, have cast her net a bit too wide, because there are enough touches of sneering through the book that she might well offend even some of her target audience.]]> http://www.thegastronomersbookshelf.com/83_eating-between-the-lines-rebecca-huntley-2008-au-full/feed 1