Books about Handcrafted Food

  Artisan Cheese Making at Home is the most ambitious and comprehensive guide to home cheese making, filled with easy-to-follow instructions for making mouthwatering cheese and dairy items. Renowned cooking instructor Mary Karlin has spent years working alongside the country’s most passionate artisa..

65 Easy Homemade Wines, Beers, Meads and CidersThis new collection of brewing recipes brings an exciting and healthful twist to home brewing by infusing herbs and other healing ingredients into the brews. Herbalism has gained popularity over the past couple years, as more people seek a holistic..

Dozens of Recipes for Artisan Loaves, Crackers, and Sweet BreadsBy Göran Söderin and George StrachalSourdough is magic. It’s healthy, it’s tasty, and it’s alive. But that doesn’t mean you have to be a magician to craft beautiful, tasty loaves from it. Baking Sourdough Bread guides you throug..

A classic beginner's guide to fermenting just about anything.At last, a new edition of fermentation guru Sandor Katz's first published work, including all new, step-by-step photography. A great introduction to fermenting foods at home, whether you're looking to expand your kitchen repertoire in..

Learn (and Break!) the Rules for Making Ipas, Sours, Belgian Beers, Porters, Barleywines, Lagers, Ancient Ales, and Gluten-Free BeersIn this colorful homebrewing guide, The Kitchn's Emma Christensen gives you the keys to the brewery. Start out by mastering the basic styles, like A Very Good IP..

The Comprehensive Photographic Guide to Humane Slaughtering and ButcheringSlaughter and butcher your own animals safely and humanely with this award-winning guide.Providing detailed photography of every step of the process, Adam Danforth shows you everything you need to know to butcher poul..

The Beginner's Guide to Crafting Starters, Bread, Snacks, and Moreby John Moody and Jessica MoodyYour helping hand for adding simple, homemade, whole grain sourdough to your weekly schedule.Real life is busy enough without having social media-worthy sourdough on your to-do list. But if y..

This completely revised and updated edition of the best-selling classic features detailed sausage-making instructions for a range of techniques and 100 recipes for pork, beef, lamb, veal, wild game, poultry, seafood, and vegetarian sausages; plus 100 recipes for cooking with sausage.Home Sausage..

The secret’s out! Get cooking the very best homemade sausage with techniques from Nashville’s Porter Road Butcher.Homemade Sausage is an extremely accessible guide for making sausage right in your own kitchen.James Peisker and Chris Carter of Nashville’s Porter Road Butch..