Food Lit: A Reader's Guide to Epicurean Nonfiction Contributor(s): Stoeger, Melissa Brackney (Author) |
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ISBN: 1598847066 ISBN-13: 9781598847062 Publisher: Libraries Unlimited OUR PRICE: $79.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Library & Information Science - Collection Development |
Dewey: 016.641 |
LCCN: 2012038052 |
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 7" W x 10" (1.95 lbs) 372 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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 expos s. 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. |