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New Orleans is a restaurant city and it's long been that way. Food, cooking and restaurants reflect the spirit of New Orleans, her people and their many cultures and cuisines. Restaurants are our spiritual salve, our meeting place to connect, converse, consume, and of course, plan the next meal. Culinary traditions here are firm, though there is a dynamic food/dining evolution taking place in what we have come to call the new New Orleans. Today's restaurant recipe includes a lot of love, a taste of tradition, and the flavor of something new. New Orleans continues to be a most delicious city, from its finest white tablecloth restaurants to homey mom and pop cafes and chic new eateries--and there's a place at the table waiting for you. With recipes for the home cook from over 50 of the city's most celebrated restaurants and showcasing beautiful full-color photos, The New New Orleans Chef's Table is the ultimate gift and keepsake cookbook.
This updated compendium of facts, observations, discoveries, reviews, serendipities, humor, experiences, and more is not only for the road traveler, but the armchair traveler as well. Unlike typical guides, which read more like phone directories, Romancing the Roads is a shared diary of discoveries along America's highways and byways. Join Gerry on a tour of hotels, B & B's, restaurants, national parks, antique stores, consignment shops, boutiques, and little-known places that make America such a great place for road-tripping. Unless otherwise noted, the author has visited every place mentioned, from the ostrich farm along Interstate 10 in Arizona to the Biltmore hotel in Los Angeles. Even if you never get in the car and discover such wonders for yourself, you will enjoy this vicarious journey to places both sublime and ordinary as the author makes her way from Washington to California and east to the Mississippi River.
You're in New York City. You're hungry. You're thirsty. You don't want to spend a fortune. Now what? Drink. Eat. Save. Every Day of the Year with 365 Guide. The most comprehensive guide to the best restaurant and bar deals anywhere in the city Compiled by New York Food Host and Deals Expert, Monica DiNatale, you get the inside scoop on where to go at a fraction of the price. Inside 365 Guide there is a deal a day for every day of the year This is the only New York City guide that tells you where you can find: free, yes, FREE food specials throughout the city, $2-$3 drinks any day of the week, the best happy hours where you can nosh to your stomach's content and more deals than any other guide on the planet From five-star restaurants to the best dive bars, Monica DiNatale is your savings guru. Whether you live here, hope to live here, or are visiting, if you want to know all about New York City's restaurants and bars-at a discount-then 365 Guide is the book for you www.365guidenyc.com About the Author: Monica DiNatale, a 2007 Writer's Guild Award winner, is your New York City Food Host & Dining Deals Expert. Monica has been featured as the Dining Expert for iFood.tv, The Frugalicious Show and Brick Underground NY. She has hosted segments for The New York Chocolate Show and The New York City Craft Beer Week Festival. Her passion for eating, drinking and saving while living in New York City led to 365 Guide.
Food Lover's Guide to Pittsburgh is the ultimate guide to the city's food scene and provides the inside scoop on the best places to find, enjoy, and celebrate local culinary offerings. Engagingly written by local foodies, this guide is a one-stop resource for residents and visitors alike to find producers and pureyors of tasty local specialities, as well as a rich array of other, indispensible food-related information including: * One-of-a-kind restaurants and landmark eateries * Speciality food shops * The city's best bakeries * Local drink scene * Food festivals and culinary events * Recipes from top Pittsburgh chefs
"The Best Restaurants, Markets & Local Culinary Offerings""" The ultimate guides to the food scene in their respective states or regions, these books provide the inside scoop on the best places to find, enjoy, and celebrate local culinary offerings. Engagingly written by local authorities, they are a one-stop for residents and visitors alike to find producers and purveyors of tasty local specialties, as well as a rich array of other, indispensable food-related information including: - Favorite restaurants and landmark eateries- Farmers markets and farm stands- Specialty food shops, markets and products- Food festivals and culinary events- Places to pick your own produce- Recipes from top local chefs- The best cafes, taverns, wineries, and brewpubs
This handy portable guide features up-to-date information, including food, drinks, facilities and opening hours, for the best pubs in London and the south east of England, as chosen by the highly respected editors of the annual Good Pub Guide. Spanning Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey, Sussex, and London here are handpicked pubs specialising in food, wine, malt whisky or own-brew beer. Whether you're planning a holiday in this part of the UK and trying to find some charming pub accommodation, looking for a place to enjoy a weekend walk with the dog, or simply in search of some warming pub food and a welcome pint of real ale, this is the guide for you.
The ultimate guide to Napa Valley's food scene provides the inside scoop on the best places to find, enjoy, and celebrate local culinary offerings. Written for residents and visitors alike to find producers and purveyors of tasty local specialties, as well as a rich array of other, indispensable food-related information including: food festivals and culinary events; specialty food shops; farmers' markets and farm stands; trendy restaurants and time-tested iconic landmarks; and recipes using local ingredients and traditions.
Gloucester is a city with a long and distinguished history and it has had more than its fair share of interesting pubs. This book identifies more than 600 pubs, going back as far as the thirteenth century; it explores the most interesting of these, past and present, and their connection to the city's history. The Story of Gloucester's Pubs examines the links that the earliest inns have with the cathedral, and the role pubs have played in the social, political and commercial life of the city. Discover pubs with links to Edward II and Henry III, and luminaries such as George Whitefield, Dick Whittington and pioneer of Sunday Schools, Robert Raikes. Explore nautical links with Francis Drake's Golden Hind and the Pilgrim Fathers' Mayflower, and literary links with Beatrix Potter's The Tailor of Gloucester. Reminisce about those much-cherished pubs that are no longer with us, and join us for a drink in those that are.
Reading has always been home to a plethora of pubs, inns, beerhouses and breweries. But as the town itself has undergone huge changes, these institutions have had to adapt in turn, and many have been left by the wayside. This selection of archive and new photographs relates the history of Reading's many pubs, from the days when they were filled with factory workers and bar billiards enthusiasts to the pool tables and cigarette machines of today's theme bars and chain 'mega pubs'. John Dearing guides the reader through these pubs and their history, and adds life to the images with tales and anecdotes from regulars and local characters. This book provides a fascinating and comprehensive history of brewing in the area, and is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of Reading and its drinking establishments.
In this book, Christine and Dennis Graf give a bistro-by-bistro tour of Paris and recommend places to find wonderful food, service and atmosphere, as well as how to avoid overpriced tourist traps.
With over 650 to choose from and hundreds visited, the task of selecting a representative number of historic pubs in Shropshire was far from easy, especially since this perfect embodiment of an English county has so many unique establishments worthy of mention. The search to find the choicest pubs took the author through all of the county's towns and villages, along its rivers, over the rugged hills and along Shropshire's lost and forgotten highways and byways. There were certainly more pubs found that could be put into this book, but sixty of the best were selected as a fair choice. All the pubs represent a particular style, type, or age of establishment and are dispersed throughout the whole county, but above all, they are of the highest standard. Included here are establishments that capture the essence of the wayside inn, the local, riverside mug house, railway and canal pub as well as the increasingly brewery tap house. Suffice it to say the pubs featured in this book are among the best in Shropshire and all certainly have a history and perhaps a tale of the unusual or even the supernatural. They are whole-heartedly recommended to anyone in search of good beer, a warm welcome and a historical setting.
This essential guide to eating along the Maine coast has dozens of
new entries and updates in this new second edition.
The first authorized biography of "the mother of American cooking"
("The New York Times")
This A-Z covering Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire is a delightful tour around the most interesting pubs in the area. Taking in all manner of establishments such as the Coach and Horses, an old village pub in Longborough, to the White Hart Royal Hotel, a sixteenth-century inn in Moreton-on-Marsh, the author visits a huge variety of pubs that have made the Cotswolds the delightful area they are today. It is sure to appeal to those who live in the Cotswolds and also to visitors wishing to tour the area's charming pubs.
The Industrial Revolution borough tens of thousands of rural folk into Burnley from Yorkshire Dales and Derbyshire. In just a few decades, the town became the 'Cotton Capital of the World', with more than 100,000 looms in operation. The price of such fame came at a cost - to cope with the influx of workers, low-class slum housing was built, row upon row in the smoke-blackened streets. Poverty was rife, and strikes and famine common - it was not the 'New Jerusalem' that many had hoped for. Often workers turned to drink, and their need to ale was satisfied and quenched by hundreds of beerhouses and taverns, often unlicensed. By 1881, Burnley was known as 'The Most Drunken Town in England'. Illustrated with more than 70 archive photographs, this book tells the histories of many of the 300 beerhouses, pubs and inns which were in the town. Snippets from the local newspapers of the day add to the interest, with tales of violence, robbery, drunkenness, street crime, rape, and even murder. This is an essential guide to the inns and taverns of Burnley.
Presents a history of the pubs in the region accompanied by approximately 100 archive images.
Noted TV personality and columnist Reid Duffy showcases 30 Indiana restaurants that have stood the test of time in this updated and expanded edition of Indiana s Favorite Restaurants. These showcased restaurants have been in existence for 25 years or more, and in some cases for several generations. Recipes for favorite dishes from these restaurants are included so that you can recreate the foods you love at home. Approximately 60 recipes from Acapulco Joe s Taco Filling to Nashville House Fried Biscuits accompany Duffy s reviews. "Comfort food" abounds in Indiana 162 restaurants are included in this category, and 23 well-known steak houses are highlighted in "Where s the Beef?" No fewer than 137 ethnic restaurants around the state are profiled here. Duffy looks to the future as well: he reviews 80 new restaurants that are "destined to stand the test of time." All of the restaurants popularized by Indiana Cooks (IUP, 2005) have been included in this mouthwatering guidebook. Double the size of the original guide, Reid Duffy s Guide to Indiana s Favorite Restaurants serves up 432 thorough and extensive reviews. Each establishment has been visited in person and the food taste-tested. The result is the best guide to great dining for Indiana residents as well as visitors to the Hoosier state."
Presents a pictorial history of the pubs in the region, along with approximately 200 photographs.
If you enjoy the occasional pub meal, a drink at the bar, or if you're interested in Lancashire's social history, you're sure to find something entertaining in Peter Thomas's introduction to the county's pubs. It opens with a round-up of the history of brewing, pubs and ale-selling, and a section on Lancashire's pub signs, though most of the book is dedicated to an A-Z of over fifty of the most interesting inns. Their history, architecture, ghosts and associated legends are all featured, as well as the exploits of their famous and infamous landlords and landladies. Peter's exhaustive research has resulted in a gem of a book which brings together the proud history, traditions and customs associated with Lancashire hostelries; from ale tasting at the Plough at Eaves to the Britannia Coconut Dancers at the Crown Inn at Bacup. A fascinating journey, with plenty of refreshment stops along the way, this will appeal to anyone with an interest in local history, and those who'd like to know more about the convival surroundings in which they might enjoy a pint.
Features the pubs and inns of the Gower Peninsula. This book, featuring a collection of photographs, prints, and postcards, is for all those who want to know more about the history of the area's pubs, their clientele, landlords and ladies, and takes the reader on a journey into the past of their favourite local.
Illustrated with over 100 images, this book presents the history of central Birmingham's public houses, the people who ran them, the customers who frequented them and the brewers who supplied and usually owned them. It is of interest to both those who frequent the pubs of this area and those interested in the history of Birmingham.
Featuring the cafes of Paris, this book provides a look into an institution that is vital in the lives of the French. It includes a range of cafes, from simple to the opulent, and from authentic local hangouts to legendary cafes frequented by Joyce, Baldwin, Sartre, and Beauvoir.
Like its older sibling Cafe Life Rome, author Joe Wolff and photographer Roger Paperno's new book profiles family-owned cafes, bars, and gelaterias, this time in the glorious and historic city of Florence. Reap the rewards of their exhaustive research into the fine espressos and artisanal gelatos to be found in the city that is the heart of Tuscany, one of the world's great regions of gustatory pleasure. Not only will this book recommend choice vantage-points from which to sit back and enjoy Florence, but Wolff's interviews with the cafes' owners make a fascinating read. It seems the gregarious owners of these establishments can't help but sprinkle their information about the ancient freezing systems for the gelato or the best sources for coffee beans with local customs, Italian film history (of course), and gossip (about a certain American actor's indigestion, for example). If the stories in Cafe Life Florence make you want head to the Barberi bar or the Ciolli gelateria to hear some more, Paperno's stunning and evocative photography makes you feel as if you're already there--the steam rising from your espresso, your spoon slipping into a creamy gelato. Florence is like no other city, and Cafe Life Florence pays homage to its simplest pleasures.
Illustrated with over 100 old photographs, postcards and promotional advertisements, this book looks at the beers and breweries which vanished and the ones which survived. Glimpses of working and social life, and some of the pubs' lively clientele are also featured, each image recalling the social history of Cardiff's brewing industry. |
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