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The Angel and the Cholent

Food Representation from the Israel Folktale Archives

Idit Pintel-Ginsberg

A collection of food-focused folktales from the Israel Folktale Archives.

Paperback
Published: October 2021
ISBN: 9780814348840
$36.99
Hardcover
Published: October 2021
ISBN: 9780814348857
$92.99
eBOOK
Published: October 2021
ISBN: 9780814348864
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Northern Harvest

Twenty Michigan Women in Food and Farming

Emita Brady Hill

Pays tribute to the women behind the local, sustainable, and quality foods of northwestern Michigan.

Paperback
Published: May 2020
ISBN: 9780814347133
$26.99
eBOOK
Published: May 2020
ISBN: 9780814347140
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The Faygo Book

Joe Grimm

The story behind Faygo, a Detroit soft drink company since 1907.

Paperback
Published: October 2018
ISBN: 9780814345856
$24.99
eBOOK
Published: October 2018
ISBN: 9780814345863
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Brewed in Michigan

The New Golden Age of Brewing in the Great Beer State

William Rapai

A celebration of Michigan craft beer.

Paperback
Published: October 2017
ISBN: 9780814342107
$34.99
eBOOK
Published: October 2017
ISBN: 9780814342114

Detroit's Eastern Market

A Farmers Market Shopping and Cooking Guide, Third Edition

Lois Johnson and Margaret Thomas
Photographs by Bruce Harkness

An updated guide to Detroit’s renowned open-air farmers market, featuring stories and recipes from four generations of families, with new information, photos, and recipes.

Paperback
Published: May 2016
ISBN: 9780814341599
$24.99
eBOOK
Published: May 2016
ISBN: 9780814341605

Appetites and Anxieties

Food, Film, and the Politics of Representation

Cynthia Baron, Diane Carson, and Mark Bernard

Employs the foodways paradigm to analyze the ideological dimensions of food imagery and food behavior in fiction and documentary films.

Paperback
Published: November 2012
ISBN: 9780814334317
$34.99
Ebook
Published: November 2012
ISBN: 9780814338056
$24.99
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Coney Detroit

Joe Grimm and Katherine Yungphotographs by Bobby Alcott, Brett J. Lawrence, Brian Blanco, Christine Dunshee Peterson, E. Terry Clark, Eric Peoples, Keith Burgess, Paul Hitzelberger, Rob Terwilliger, Ryan Southen, Spike, and Ted Fines

A lively and thorough history of Detroit's culinary icon: the coney island hot dog.

Paperback
Published: April 2012
ISBN: 9780814335185
$26.99
Ebook
Published: April 2012
ISBN: 9780814337189
$26.99

Learning to Cook in 1898

A Chicago Culinary Memoir

Ellen F. Steinberg
Recipe adaptations by Eleanor Hudera Hanson

Based on the pocket notebook and handwritten recipes of Irma Rosenthal Frankenstein, a young Chicago housewife from the turn of the twentieth century, Learning to Cook in 1898 is a glimpse into American culinary history.

Paperback
Published: July 2007
ISBN: 9780814333648
$22.99

Brewed in Detroit

Breweries and Beers Since 1830

Peter H. Blum

Brewed in Detroit describes the history of the brewing industry in the Detroit metropolitan area from its beginning in the 1830s to the present revival by microbrewers and brewpubs.

Hardcover
Published: October 1999
ISBN: 9780814326619
$39.99