Melissa Brackney Stoeger

Food Lit (eBook, ePUB)

A Reader's Guide to Epicurean Nonfiction

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216085911
• Artikelnr.: 68345693

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Part I Life Stories Chapter
1-Food Memoirs and Autobiographies Definition of Food Memoirs and
Autobiographies Appeal of Food Memoirs and Autobiographies Organization of
the Chapter Working Life Memoirs Personal Endeavor Memoirs Foodie Memoirs
Comfort Food Consider Starting With References Chapter 2-Food Biographies
Definition of Food Biographies Appeal of Food Biographies Organization of
the Chapter Collective Food Biographies Consider Starting With References
Part II Nonfiction Genres Chapter 3-Food Travel Definition of Food Travel
Appeal of Food Travel Organization of the Chapter Food Travel Expatriate
Life Consider Starting With References Chapter 4-Food Adventure Definition
of Food Adventure Appeal of Food Adventure Organization of the Chapter Food
Adventures and Explorations Extreme Cuisine Consider Starting With
References Part III Nonfiction Subject Interests Chapter 5-History of Food
Definition of History of Food Appeal of History of Food Organization of the
Chapter Epic Food Histories Defining Times Influential Food Enterprises
Food Micro-Histories Consider Starting With References Chapter 6-Food
Science Definition of Food Science Appeal of Food Science Organization of
the Chapter Consider Starting With References Part IV Stylistic Genres
Chapter 7-Investigative Food Writing Definition of Investigative Food
Writing Appeal of Investigative Food Writing Organization of the Chapter
In-Depth Reporting Immersion Journalism Food Exposés Consider Starting With
References Chapter 8-Narrative Cookbooks Definition of Narrative Cookbooks
Appeal of Narrative Cookbooks Consider Starting With References Chapter
9-Food Essays Definition of Food Essays Appeal of Food Essays Consider
Starting With References Appendix A: Cooks and Their Books Appendix B:
Other Formats Appendix C: Food in Fiction Appendix D: Food Writing Awards
Author/Title Index Subject Index