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Food Lit: A Reader's Guide to Epicurean Nonfiction: Real Stories

Autor Melissa Brackney Stoeger
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 ian 2013 – vârsta până la 17 ani
An essential tool for assisting leisure readers interested in topics surrounding food, this unique book contains annotations and read-alikes for hundreds of nonfiction titles about the joys of comestibles and cooking.Food Lit: A Reader's Guide to Epicurean Nonfiction provides a much-needed resource for librarians assisting adult readers interested in the topic of food-a group that is continuing to grow rapidly. Containing annotations of hundreds of nonfiction titles about food that are arranged into genre and subject interest categories for easy reference, the book addresses a diversity of reading experiences by covering everything from foodie memoirs and histories of food to extreme cuisine and food exposés. Author Melissa Stoeger has organized and described hundreds of nonfiction titles centered on the themes of food and eating, including life stories, history, science, and investigative nonfiction. The work emphasizes titles published in the past decade without overlooking significant benchmark and classic titles. It also provides lists of suggested read-alikes for those titles, and includes several helpful appendices of fiction titles featuring food, food magazines, and food blogs.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781598847062
ISBN-10: 1598847066
Pagini: 372
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.89 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Libraries Unlimited
Seria Real Stories

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Notă biografică

Melissa Brackney Stoeger, MLIS, is readers' advisory librarian at Deerfield Public Library, IL.

Cuprins

Series ForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I Life StoriesChapter 1-Food Memoirs and AutobiographiesDefinition of Food Memoirs and AutobiographiesAppeal of Food Memoirs and AutobiographiesOrganization of the ChapterWorking Life MemoirsPersonal Endeavor MemoirsFoodie MemoirsComfort FoodConsider Starting WithReferencesChapter 2-Food BiographiesDefinition of Food BiographiesAppeal of Food BiographiesOrganization of the ChapterCollective Food BiographiesConsider Starting WithReferencesPart II Nonfiction GenresChapter 3-Food TravelDefinition of Food TravelAppeal of Food TravelOrganization of the ChapterFood TravelExpatriate LifeConsider Starting WithReferencesChapter 4-Food AdventureDefinition of Food AdventureAppeal of Food AdventureOrganization of the ChapterFood Adventures and ExplorationsExtreme CuisineConsider Starting WithReferencesPart III Nonfiction Subject InterestsChapter 5-History of FoodDefinition of History of FoodAppeal of History of FoodOrganization of the ChapterEpic Food HistoriesDefining TimesInfluential Food EnterprisesFood Micro-HistoriesConsider Starting WithReferencesChapter 6-Food ScienceDefinition of Food ScienceAppeal of Food ScienceOrganization of the ChapterConsider Starting WithReferencesPart IV Stylistic GenresChapter 7-Investigative Food WritingDefinition of Investigative Food WritingAppeal of Investigative Food WritingOrganization of the ChapterIn-Depth ReportingImmersion JournalismFood ExposésConsider Starting WithReferencesChapter 8-Narrative CookbooksDefinition of Narrative CookbooksAppeal of Narrative CookbooksConsider Starting WithReferencesChapter 9-Food EssaysDefinition of Food EssaysAppeal of Food EssaysConsider Starting WithReferencesAppendix A: Cooks and Their BooksAppendix B: Other FormatsAppendix C: Food in FictionAppendix D: Food Writing AwardsAuthor/Title IndexSubject Index

Recenzii

The hundreds of annotations alone make any librarian's job much, much easier, but Stoeger's inclusion of appendix materials from famous cooks and their books, food blogs, feature films and documentaries, fiction featuring food, and food-writing awards makes this an outstanding reference tool for any public library collection.
Check out this jam-packed readers' advisory gem for further reading suggestions when you're feeling hungry for the written word. . . . A scrumptious buy for public libraries.