Explores how the implements we use in the kitchen have shaped the way we cook and live. This title tells the story of how we have tamed fire and ice, wielded whisks, spoons, graters, mashers, pestles and mortars, all in the name of feeding ourselves.

Bad food has a history. Swindled tells it.

Since prehistory, humans have braved sharp knives, fire, and grindstones to transform raw ingredients into something delicious-or at least edible. Tools shape what we eat, but they have also transformed how we consume, and how we think about, our food. Technology in the kitchen does not just mean the Pacojets and sous-vide of the modernist kitchen. It can also mean the humbler tools of everyday...

In First Bite, award-winning food writer Bee Wilson draws on the latest research from food psychologists and neuroscientists to reveal that our food habits are shaped by a host of factors: family and culture, memory and gender, hunger and love. Taking the reader on a journey across the globe, Wilson introduces us to people who can only eat foods of a certain color, an anosmia sufferer who has no...

award-winning food writer Bee Wilson's secret history of kitchens, showing how new technologies " from the fork to the microwave and beyond " have fundamentally shaped how and what we eat.

Trawling through the archives, features writer Sarah Rainey, has read through the great and the good as well as the more nostalgic recipes and culinary contemplations.

Kochen boomt und Essen ist Lebensstil - jedenfalls in reichen Gesellschaften. Wir sind Produktkenner und Rezeptsammler, aber über die

Sandwich: A Global History is the first book-length history of a seemingly humble food. Bee Wilson unravels the mystery of how the Fourth Earl of Sandwich could have 'invented' this most elementary way of eating, as well as describing sandwiches around the world, from the decadent meatball hoagie to the dainty cucumber sandwich.

The story of the inspiring relationship between bees, their hive and the human world, brilliantly reviewed in hardback

Award-winning food writer and historian Bee Wilson traces the ancient lineage of our modern culinary tools, revealing the startling history of objects we often take for granted.

Award-winning food writer and historian Bee Wilson traces the ancient lineage of our modern culinary tools, revealing the startling history of objects we often take for granted.

Through a mixture of cultural and scientific history, food politics, and culinary detective work, this book covers the ways swindlers have cheapened, falsified, and poisoned our food throughout history. It gives a view of this history, from the leaded wine of the ancient Romans to today's food frauds - such as fake organics.

We are not born knowing what to eat; as omnivores it is something we each have to figure out for ourselves. From childhood onward, we learn how big a ?portion" is and how sweet is too sweet. We learn to enjoy green vegetables?or not. But how does this education happen? What are the origins of taste?...

Describes the personalities and behaviors attributed to bee society by humans throughout history, in an account that offers insight into the role of bees in culture.

It took countless inventions to get to the well-equipped kitchens we have now, where our old low-tech spoon is joined by mixers, freezers and microwaves, but the story of human invention in the kitchen is largely unseen. This book explores how the implements we use in the kitchen have shaped the way we cook and live.

Award-winning food writer and historian Bee Wilson traces the ancient lineage of our modern culinary tools, revealing the startling history of objects we often take for granted.