Category Archives: Food and Drink

Stewart Lee Allen’s The Devil’s Cup: Coffee, The Driving Force in History

Posted on 27th August 2025 by Diverse Voices

Pinky Vincent wrote this review. You need be no joe junkie to sip the pleasures of The Devil’s Cup — meaning the book. Stewart Lee Allen has taken on the seemingly onerous task of merging a traveler’s tale with a … Continue reading →

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Ivan Day’s Ice Cream: A History

Posted on 20th June 2025 by Richard Dansky

Ask anyone waving around a Drumstick cone or Klondike Bar where ice cream comes from, and you’re lucky if you get a smart-aleck response like “the freezer.” Ice cream may be near universally loved (there’s an ice cream truck going … Continue reading →

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Daniel Karaczun’s Out of This Kitchen: A History of the Ethnic Groups and Their Foods in Steel Valley

Posted on 15th May 2025 by Jack Merry

Food is part of the daily life of everyone, but the labouring class that worked in particularly dangerous occupations such as mining and steel making came to consider food more than something that you ate to keep going: food was … Continue reading →

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Lesley Chamberlain’s The Food and Cooking of Eastern Europe

Posted on 6th May 2025 by J.J.S. Boyce

I have previously reviewed The Food and Cooking of Russia, and I am finally ready to tell you about Chamberlain’s companion volume, The Food and Cooking of Eastern Europe. Both are reissues of books initially released in the 1980s. This … Continue reading →

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Lesley Chamberlain’s The Food and Cooking of Russia

Posted on 6th May 2025 by J.J.S. Boyce

I decided to stretch my reviewing muscles and try something a little different this time around, by accepting two regional cookbooks. The Food and Cooking of Eastern Europe is now out as well, but today, from the same author, we … Continue reading →

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Dark Horse’s action figures: Roald Dahl’s The Gremlins: The Lost Walt Disney Production

Posted on 24th April 2025 by Aptil Gutierrez

Dark Horse Books, a division of Dark Horse Comics, recently released Roald Dahl’s The Gremlins in commemoration of the sixtieth anniversary of the United States Air Force. In a slightly melodramatic and over-sentimentalized introduction, Leonard Maltin gives a nevertheless fascinating … Continue reading →

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Kim Wilson’s Tea with Jane Austen

Posted on 22nd April 2025 by Denise Kitashima Dutton

Books are a lot like meals: sometimes you want something long, drawn-out and filling, other times you want something light and easy, but with enough substance to make it worthwhile. I have to admit that my current diet of epic-length … Continue reading →

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Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations: Iceland Special Edition

Posted on 25th March 2025 by Diverse Voices

Joseph Thompson wrote this review. In January 2010 Anthony Bourdain may possibly have visited my favorite bar. I say “possibly” because his trip to Portland, Maine, won’t air on the Travel Channel until 12 April 2010, a few months after … Continue reading →

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Anthony Bourdain’s Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

Posted on 25th March 2025 by Diverse Voices

Joseph Thompson wrote this review. Few things in this world highlight humanity’s truculence like the feast of Ortolan. This small bunting, force fed through manipulations of its diurnal cycle and then drowned in Armagnac, is eaten whole. With a cloth … Continue reading →

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Chapon Chocolatier’s 100% Venezuelan Chocolate Mousse

Posted on 6th March 2025 by Kelly Caspari

Kelley wrote this for Sleeping Hedgehog. On entering the store at 69 Rue de Bac, the back wall covered in metal chocolate molds drew me in. The next thing I noticed was the gracious smile of the handsome young man … Continue reading →

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