Pepperpot City, a lavishly illustrated collection of seventeen thematic essays ranging from memoir to investigative history written by veteran food writer and Philadelphian William Woys Weaver, provides an engaging and accessible tour of Old Philadelphia cuisine as well as modernized re-creations of historical dishes, including pepperpot soup.

Tracing the literal and literary uses of sugar in seventeenth-century England, The Sweet Taste of Empire shows how literary genres associated with gastronomic and aesthetic pleasure shaped representations of Caribbean colonization and slavery.