Brandy Brandy Drinks or Mediterranean Soups

Brandy & Brandy Drinks (Quamut)

Author: Quamut

Quamut is the fastest, most convenient way to learn how to do almost anything. From tasting wine to managing your retirement accounts, Quamut gives you reliable information in a concise chart format that you can take anywhere. Quamut charts are:

• Authoritative: Written by experts in their field so you have the most reliable information available.
• Clear: Our explanations take you step-by-step through everything from performing CPR to threading a needle.
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Break out the snifters.

Nothing puts a night to bed like a fine glass of brandy—or gets a party rolling like a classic brandy cocktail. So prepare to add a touch of sophistication to your evenings with:

• A brief history of brandy and the basics of how brandy is made
• A rundown of different types of brandy, so you’ll know what you’re buying
• Brandy cocktail recipes from the Four Seasons restaurant

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Mediterranean Soups

Author: Carol Robertson

Mediterranean Soups presents glimpses of the Mediterranean at its most charming—people attending to the simple tasks of everyday life, architecture that evokes memories of the converging histories of East and West, and a wonderful array of traditions, cultures and cuisines. All contribute their stories and recipes to this unique travel cookbook. Don't hesitate to dive right in and transport yourself to the Spanish countryside, the lavender fields of southern France, the spice markets of North Africa, or the enchanting islands that dot the coast of Italy, Greece, and Turkey. Enjoy!

Simply Delicious Irish Christmas or Flavors of Provence

Simply Delicious Irish Christmas

Author: Darina Allen

Christmas too often is a complex combination of activity and frustration, yet it should be a reflective time for families, feasting, and fun. Here, the author provides recipes for delicious Irish dishes and helpful hints on reducing holiday stress.

The recipes are kept simple to minimize preparation time. Many dishes, such as St. Stephen's Day Pie, even may be cooked ahead of time and frozen, or at least be kept a week or longer without the need for freezing, like White Christmas Cake. Just by doing this, anyone may instantly reduce the anxiety that accompanies last-minute cooking and enjoy an authentic Irish Christmas dinner as well.

Colleen Clancy Zanotti

As the title suggests, readers will discover many traditional Yuletide recipes that are easy to prepare, delicious and truly Irish. . . . This is a tempting collection of traditional Irish recipes guaranteed to simplify and enrich holiday celebrations. -- ForeWord Magazine

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Flavors of Provence

Author: Isabelle de Borchgrav

Oscar Wilde said that when good Americans die they go to Paris, but today they would more likely go to Provence. The Flavors of Provence envelops you in the charm of this magical land, combining gorgeous paintings that capture the sights with recipes from the most respected Provençal chefs that evoke the tastes and smells of the region. Provence continues to captivate the imaginations of millions in the wake of Peter Mayle's bestsellers. And its Mediterranean cuisine, the health benefits of which have received so much attention in recent press, has only added to the phenomenon.
Here you'll discover a field of lavender, a café table under plane trees, an orchard of olive trees, a rocky promontory by the sea-all rendered by Isabelle de Borchgrave in the vibrant colors that made Van Gogh's works so beloved. The dishes, which capitalize on simple combinations that are easy to achieve at home, include regional specialties like Red Mullet with Basil, Duck with Olives, and Warm Apricot Soufflé, as well as innovative takes on classics such as Jerusalem Artichoke Soup with Curry, Truffled Raviolis with Leeks, and Goat Cheese and Blackberry Terrine. Interspersed throughout are brief essays on the essential elements of Provençal culture. Exceptionally packaged, The Flavors of Provence conveys both the visual beauty and the culinary poetry of this land as no other book has.

Kitchen in Corfu or Moveable Feasts

Kitchen in Corfu

Author: James Chatto

Since Odysseus died on mezethes and spit-roasted meat on Corfu in the Homeric epic, the island has been conquered by Rome and Byzantium; taken by Norman adventurers, Genoese pirates and the Angevin kings of Naples; and held for four hundred years by the Venetians. Through the vicissitudes of war and peace the classical Greek cooking has become distinctly Corfiot.

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Moveable Feasts: The History, Science, and Lore of Food

Author: Gregory McName

Food has functioned both as a source of continuity and as a subject of adaptation over the course of human history. Onions have been a staple of the European diet since the Paleolithic era; by contrast, the orange is once again being cultivated in large quantities in southern China, where it was originally grown. Other foods remain staples of their original regions as well as of the world diet at large. Still others are now grown in places that would have seemed impossible in the past—bananas in heated greenhouses in Iceland, corn on the fringes of the Gobi Desert, tomatoes on the International Space Station. But how did humans discover how to grow and incorporate these foods into their diet in the first place? How were they chosen over competing foods? In this charming and frequently surprising compendium, Moveable Feasts gathers revelations from history, anthropology, chemistry, biology, and many other fields and spins them into entertaining tales of discovery while adding more than ninety delicious recipes from various culinary traditions around the world.  Among the thirty types of food discussed in the course of this alphabetically arranged work are the apple, the banana, chocolate, coffee, corn, garlic, honey, millet, the olive, the peanut, the pineapple, the plum, rice, the soybean, the tomato, and the watermelon. All the recipes accompanying these diverse food histories have been adapted for re-creation in the modern kitchen.

KLIATT

Have you ever wondered about the history of a particular food? Well, here is a delightful book that answers those questions. Each chapter contains a brief history of the food, basic nutritional information and trivia, all related in a conversational tone, followed by several recipes containing the featured ingredient and suggestions for further reading. Some of the 30 foods discussed are: apple, chocolate, coffee, garlic, honey, peanut, plum, soybean, tomato and watermelon. All recipes accompanying these diverse food histories have been adapted for the modern kitchen. Gregory McNamee is the author of 28 books and has also published articles in a wide variety of periodicals including Smithsonian and Sierra. He is also a contributing editor for Encyclopedia Britannica. This is a fascinating book. Reviewer: Shirley Reis

Pauline Baughman - Library Journal

All food is the product of history, but who ate the first tomatoes and garlic, and how did they become so important in our diet and ubiquitous at the grocery store? Writer, journalist, editor, and critic McNamee presents a cultural geography of how food, such as broccoli, corn, rice, and honey, has moved about the planet. Each chapter contains a brief history of the food, basic nutritional information, and trivia, spun together in a chatty, conversational tone, followed by several recipes containing the featured ingredient and suggestions for further reading. While the primary focus is supposedly history, this title is heavy on anecdote with its true focus on storytelling. Recipes seem like a bit of an afterthought and, on occasion, in some ways unrelated to the text. Nevertheless, this amusing volume will likely appeal to casual readers; serious scholars of food history, as well as those writing reports, will want to explore further reading. For larger collections.

Practical Cook Book Including Suggestions Regarding Proper Food Combinations with Illustrative Menus or Practical Food and Beverage Cost Control

Practical Cook Book Including Suggestions Regarding Proper Food Combinations with Illustrative Menus (1926)

Author: John Henry Tilden

Including Suggestions Regarding Proper Food Combinations with Illustrative Menus. By the leading naturopathic doctor of the late 1800's.

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Practical Food and Beverage Cost Control

Author: Clement Ojugo

This book provides a complete, comprehensive overview of the food and beverage industry's cost control methods and how they are applied within profitable, successful food-service establishments. It presents useful and important guidelines for assessing, interpreting and planning food and beverage operations, as well as financial information that will help owners, operators and managers minimize expenditures and improve profits. Unique coverage of issues such as "make or buy" decisions, inventory control, forecasting, departmental interaction, how to view markets and customers, and more, give this book a richness and relevance that can truly impact the bottom line.

Duchess Who Wouldnt Sit Down or Why Water Just Wont Do

Duchess Who Wouldn't Sit Down: An Informal History of Hospitality

Author: Jesse Browner

Partisan, witty, and laced with astonishing historical detail, The Duchess Who Wouldn't Sit Down is dedicated to a new understanding of the art of hospitality. Jesse Browner leads the way back through Western civilization, from a present-day poker game where Browner's devastatingly delicious sandwiches leave the best players penniless, to the ancient Greeks, whose gods punished or exalted the mortals according to their excellence as hosts. On the way, we visit Hitler at his summer home, Gertrude Stein in Paris and Lady Ottoline Morrell in England, Audubon in nineteeth-century America, Louis XIV at Versailles, and the Roman emperors, for whom classic dinner-table entertainment was a good poisoning. As delightful and edifying as an evening in favored company, The Duchess Who Wouldn't Sit Down is a must-read for anyone who's ever accepted an invitation-or wonders why they keep sending them out.

The New York Times

Hospitality, Browner writes in The Duchess Who Wouldn't Sit Down, is designed to give the host what he needs while letting the guest imagine that he has been gratified. It is ''Your guests must be made to bend to your will or else you are lost.'' — Elizabeth Hanson

Publishers Weekly

Like an artfully served canap , Browner's brief exploration of hospitality may seem light, but has a rich, lingering flavor. He works backward through time, beginning with Adolf Hitler's quirky type of hospitality at his retreat, at which every guest room had a copy of Mein Kampf and French pornography books on the bedside table. From there, novelist Browner (Conglomeros; Turnaway) wanders into the realm of Gertrude Stein, John James Audubon and Louis XIV, whose court witnessed the humiliation of a duchess who wouldn't sit because she was offered a stool instead of a chair. The book also explores Rome's Julio-Claudian dynasty and the rough days of Agamemnon's army. Browner plumbs these historical periods for hospitality anecdotes and finds some pearls, proving the host-and-guest relationship has never been particularly carefree. While directing the conversation, Browner proves an excellent host himself, throwing out delicious bons mots and peppering the work with personal details. Excursions into his daughter's teddy bear teas and his own propensity for weakening his poker buddies' resolve with homemade sandwiches give the book a sense of coherence and smooth charm. By the time he devotes an entire chapter to his family's Thanksgiving dinner, it's easy to see how his analysis of hospitality through the ages has shaped the event. He writes, "When I am a good host, I can order the world precisely as I believe it ought to be." It's no effort to delight in the fact that Browner is also a good storyteller, and the way he orders the world here is an invitation worth answering. (Oct. 1) Forecast: Browner's book has the quirky appeal to land it the book review sections of culinary and travel magazines, aided by blurbs from New York restaurateur Danny Meyer and Oxford Companion to Food author Alan Davidson. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

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Why Water Just Won't Do

Author: Malcolm Gluck

Here, leading wine writer Malcolm Gluck explains how to get the most out of wine in our everyday lives. This book contains all the essential facts and information you need to know, such as why wine is good for you and your health, as well as all essential wine names (whether region or brand name), and what to drink on different occasions, from birthdays to barbecues. It also explodes some of the ridiculous myths about wine and shows that you don’t have to spend a fortune on a bottle for it to be a real treat.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	7
1	Why wine matters to health	13
2	Why wine matters to food	39
3	Why wine rules don't always matter	55
4	Why the wine world must change	85
5	Which wine names matter & why	99
	A final word about enjoyment	156
	Index	158

Baby Shower Book or Anthony Dias Blues Pocket Guide to Wine 2006

Baby Shower Book: Etiquette, Decorations, Games and Food

Author: Pauline Glendenning

This book is the first, complete step-by-step guide to making a baby shower fun! Its filled with easy ideas on planning, dozens of baby shower games & activities for the party itself, as well as lots of simple & tasty recipes & detailed instructions on establishing guest lists, handling the gift, registry, choosing a theme, & decorating the home in which the shower will be held. Dont throw an ordinary baby shower! Jazz up the invitations, supercharge the menu, & get both the guests & the Mother of Honor laughing. A complete & practical guide for new & experienced baby shower hostesses alike. Illustrated.

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Anthony Dias Blue's Pocket Guide to Wine 2006

Author: Anthony Dias Blu

From the expert who promises to avoid winespeak comes an unfussy guide that focuses on American wines and on up-and-coming wineries from around the globe.

For novices and afficionados alike, Anthony Dias Blue's Pocket Guide to Wine 2006 will lead you to the best choices -- and values -- without pretense or hyperbole. With a special eye for American wines and those that are unheralded yet not to be missed, Blue makes the process of choosing wine in a store or restaurant simple. He provides:

• Extensive listings of wineries on six continents, from Mexico to South Africa, from Long Island to Israel, and even from China to India

• Outstanding and cult wineries -- and wineries to watch

• Profiles of each region that focus on key characteristics and varieties

• Ratings, succinct descriptions, and opinions about each producer

• Updated vintage reports

• Advice about what to drink now

Salud or Fresh from the Past

Salud!: The Rise of Santa Barbara's Wine Industry

Author: Victor W Geraci

In 1965, soil and climatic studies indicated that the Santa Ynez and Santa Maria valleys of Santa Barbara County, California, offered suitable conditions for growing high-quality wine grapes. Thus was launched a revival of the area's two-centuries-old wine industry that by 1995 made Santa Barbara County an internationally prominent wine region. Salud! traces the evolution of Santa Barbara viticulture in the larger context of California's history and economy, offering unique insight into one of the state's most important industries.

California has produced wine since Spanish missionaries first planted grapes to make sacramental wines, but it was not until the late twentieth century that changing consumer tastes and a flourishing national economy created the conditions that led to the state's wine boom. Historian Victor W. Geraci uses the Santa Barbara wine industry as a case study to analyze the history and evolution of American viticulture from its obscure colonial beginnings to its current international acclaim. As elsewhere in the state, Santa Barbara County vintners faced the multiple challenges of selecting grape varieties appropriate to their unique conditions, protecting their crops from disease and insects, then of developing local wineries capable of producing consistently high-quality wines and of marketing their products in a highly competitive national and international market. Geraci gives careful attention to all the details of this production: agriculture, science, and technology; capitalization and investment; land-use issues; politics; the specter posed by the behemoth Napa and multinational wine corporations; and the social and personal consequences of creating and supporting an industry vulnerable to so many natural and economic crises. His extensive research includes interviews with many industry professionals.

California is today one of the world's major wine producers, and Santa Barbara County contributes significantly to the volume and renowned quality of this wine production. Salud! offers a detailed and highly engaging overview of an industry in which the ancient romance of wine too often obscures a complex and highly diverse modern vintibusiness that for better, and sometimes for worse, has shaped the regions it dominates.

Table of Contents:

	List of Illustrations
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	Northern European Roots and the First American Wine Culture	7
2	Boom and Bust: Birth and Death of the First California Wine Industry	25
3	The California Wine Revolution	47
4	Santa Barbara Pioneers Plant Winegrapes	62
5	Santa Barbara Develops Wineries: 1970s-1980s	80
6	Santa Barbara Gains Recognition	100
7	The Business of Wine: 1990s	116
8	Santa Barbara Vintibusiness	131
9	Wine Is Here to Stay: Santa Barbara, California, and the United States	144
	Epilogue: A Backward Look Forward	153
	Notes	179
	Selected Bibliography	213
	Index	231

Look this: Feeding Your Appetites or Half a Brain Is Enough

Fresh from the Past

Author: Sandra Sherman

Sherman takes readers along on a wild ride back in time, describing how historic families learned to cook with the seasons. From cookbook of the day she gives us 120 original recipes, together with contemporary translations that give step-by-step instructions for cooks of any level.

Library Journal

Sherman, a food and cultural historian and professor of British literature (Univ. of Arkansas), became interested in British recipes of the 18th century when she wrote an earlier book on the food crisis that arose then. For this ambitious new title, she researched the food of the era's rich and the poor and, with the Chotokowskis' assistance, "translated" 120 recipes from cookbooks of the time. Unlike the recipes in Francine Segan's recent The Philosopher's Kitchen (LJ 8/04), which featured the food of ancient Greece and Rome, most of these probably have more appeal as curiosities than as dishes for a contemporary cook; many seem overly rich or complicated, with lengthy ingredients lists and subcomponents like General Cullis and Essence of Ham. The breadth of Sherman's research is impressive, but her book will be more valuable as a culinary history. Recommended for special collections. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Fortune Cookie Chronicles or Food in the Social Order

Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food

Author: Jennifer 8 Le

If you think McDonald's is the most ubiquitous restaurant experience in America, consider that there are more Chinese restaurants in America than McDonalds, Burger Kings, and Wendys combined. New York Times reporter and Chinese-American (or American-born Chinese). In her search, Jennifer 8 Lee traces the history of Chinese-American experience through the lens of the food. In a compelling blend of sociology and history, Jenny Lee exposes the indentured servitude Chinese restaurants expect from illegal immigrant chefs, investigates the relationship between Jews and Chinese food, and weaves a personal narrative about her own relationship with Chinese food. The Fortune Cookie Chronicles speaks to the immigrant experience as a whole, and the way it has shaped our country.

The New York Times - Jane and Michael Stern -

Lee is a city-beat reporter for The New York Times. Her inclination as a journalist is to trace a story all the way to its genesis, but not without taking some fascinating detours…It's fun to read about the Jewish passion for "safe treyf" (Yiddish for nonkosher food) and to accompany Lee on an exhaustive hunt for "The Greatest Chinese Restaurant in the World" outside China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. But amusing as such diversions are, Lee's book is more serious than its jolly subtitle suggests, exposing some very ugly sides of the business.

The Washington Post - Christine Y. Chen

Reading Lee's book is almost like watching a documentary travelogue. From all-you-can-eat buffets in Kansas to the small southern Chinese village of Jietoupu, where she tracks down descendants of General Tso (who, natch, have never heard of, seen or tasted their forefather's infamous chicken dish), the author takes readers by the hand and brings them on her adventure…Where Lee really shines, though, is in describing the people who have cooked, served and delivered America's favorite cuisine. The Fortune Cookie Chronicles isn't just about the popularization of Chinese food; it's also a story of Chinese immigrants in America.

Publishers Weekly

Readers will take an unexpected and entertaining journey-through culinary, social and cultural history-in this delightful first book on the origins of the customary after-Chinese-dinner treat by New York Timesreporter Lee. When a large number of Powerball winners in a 2005 drawing revealed that mass-printed paper fortunes were to blame, the author (whose middle initial is Chinese for "prosperity") went in search of the backstory. She tracked the winners down to Chinese restaurants all over America, and the paper slips the fortunes are written on back to a Brooklyn company. This travellike narrative serves as the spine of her cultural history-not a book on Chinese cuisine, but the Chinese food of take-out-and-delivery-and permits her to frequently but safely wander off into various tangents related to the cookie. There are satisfying minihistories on the relationship between Jews and Chinese food and a biography of the real General Tso, but Lee also pries open factoids and tidbits of American culture that eventually touch on large social and cultural subjects such as identity, immigration and nutrition. Copious research backs her many lively anecdotes, and being American-born Chinese yet willing to scrutinize herself as much as her objectives, she wins the reader over. Like the numbers on those lottery fortunes, the book's a winner. (Mar.)

Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information

School Library Journal

Adult/High School- Lee takes readers on a delightful journey through the origins and mysteries of the popular, yet often overlooked, world of the American Chinese food industry. Crossing dozens of states and multiple countries, the author sought answers to the mysteries surrounding the shocking origins of the fortune cookie, the inventor of popular dishes such as chop suey and General Tso's chicken, and more. What she uncovers are the fascinating connections and historical details that give faces and names to the restaurants and products that have become part of a universal American experience. While searching for the "greatest Chinese restaurant," readers are taken on a culinary tour as Lee discovers the characteristics that define an exceptional and unique Chinese dining experience. Readers will learn about the cultural contributions and sacrifices made by the Chinese immigrants who comprise the labor force and infrastructure that supports Chinese restaurants all over the world. This title will appeal to teens who are interested in history, Chinese culture, and, of course, cuisine. Recommend it to sophisticated readers who revel in the details and history that help explain our current global culture, including fans of Thomas L. Friedman's The World Is Flat (Farrar, 2006) and Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner's Freakonomics (Morrow, 2006).-Lynn Rashid, Marriots Ridge High School, Marriotsville, MD

Kirkus Reviews

A quest. With eggrolls. Debut author Lee, a New York Times metro reporter, has been fascinated by the culturally mixed nature of Chinese restaurants ever since she discovered from reading The Joy Luck Club in middle school that fortune cookies are not Chinese. "It was like learning I was adopted while being told there was no Santa Claus," writes this ABC (American-born Chinese), who never thought to wonder why the food in those white takeout cartons tasted nothing like Mom's home cooking. But she didn't become really obsessed until March 30, 2005, when a surprisingly large batch of lottery-ticket buyers across the country scored some big money in a Powerball drawing with numbers they got from fortune cookies. Lee drew up a list of the restaurants that had served the Powerball winners and used that as a jumping-off point for a trip that covered 42 states and included stops at eateries ranging from no-frills chow mein joints to upscale dim sum parlors. As she explored this vast sector of the food-service world-there are more Chinese restaurants in the United States than McDonald's, Burger Kings and KFCs combined-she learned about the science of soy sauce, the manufacture of takeout containers and the connection between Jewish culture and Chinese food. Lee's charming book combines the attitude and tone of two successful food industry-themed titles from 2007. Like Trevor Corson (The Zen of Fish: The Story of Sushi, from Samurai to Supermarket), she embeds her subject's history in an entertaining personal narrative, eschewing cookie-cutter interviews and dry lists of facts and figures. Like Phoebe Damrosch (Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter), she has a breezy,likable literary demeanor that makes the first-person material engaging. Thanks to Lee's journalistic chops, the text moves along energetically even in its more expository sections. Tasty morsels delivered quickly and reliably.

Table of Contents:

Prologue: March 30, 2005     1
American-Born Chinese     9
The Menu Wars     27
A Cookie Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigma     38
The Biggest Culinary Joke Played by One Culture on Another     49
The Long March of General Tso     66
The Bean Sprout People Are in the Same Boat We Are     84
Why Chow Mein Is the Chosen Food of the Chosen People-or, The Kosher Duck Scandal of 1989     89
The Golden Venture: Restaurant Workers to Go     107
Take-out Takeaways     139
The Oldest Surviving Fortune Cookies in the World?     143
The Mystery of the Missing Chinese Deliveryman     151
The Soy Sauce Trade Dispute     165
Waizhou, U.S.A.     179
The Greatest Chinese Restaurant in the World     209
American Stir-fry     250
Tsujiura Senbei     260
Open-Source Chinese Restaurants     266
So What Did Confucius Really Say?     273
Acknowledgments     292
Notes     296
Bibliography     303

Book review: Global Insitutions and Development or Cost Estimating

Food in the Social Order: Studies of Food and Festivities in Three American Communities, Vol. 9

Author: Mary Douglas

This title is available as part of the 10-volume set, Mary Douglas: Collected Works, or as an individual volume.

The Home Science Cook Book or Amanda Rorys Favorite Recipes

The Home Science Cook Book

Author: Mary Lincoln

"Distinctly a cook-book," this 1910 volume by Mary Lincoln and Anna Barrows aims "not to answer the question "what" as to choice of foods, nor "why" certain processes have been adopted as best suited to their preparation for the table, but it endeavors to tell "how" to put materials together to produce results pleasing to the eye and palate and nourishing to the body."

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Amanda & Rory's Favorite Recipes

Author: Arlene J Warner

Amanda and Rory's Favorite Recipes is a culinary album of memories and events in the lives of the couple who inspired author, Arlene J. Warner, to write the fact based novels Amanda's New Song and Amanda and Rory, The Song Continues.

Land That Thyme Forgot or Soup Book

Land That Thyme Forgot

Author: William Black

A gastronomic journey around Britain and Ireland.

In the spirit of Al Dente, The Land that Thyme Forgot describes the intrepid gastronome’s search for the heart and soul of Britain through the food we eat. Talking to producers and restaurateurs, visiting the great and the awful, seeking out Britain’s disappearing specialities — tripe, Singing Hinnies, Solomongundy, Hindle wakes, Sussex Pond pudding and Flummery. Great names, but who on earth still eats, let alone cooks them?

Britain is a country with a rich tradition. Its meat can be among the best, and the worst. The quality of its cheeses has improved exponentially over the past few years. Farmer’s markets are thriving and restaurant culture is burgeoning. So, perhaps even if Britain has been a little forgotten in the league of culinary greats, times really are a-changing.

From boiling vegetables in Sussex, to herrings in Kent, yellowman toffee in Derry, smokies in Scotland, Cornish pasties in Cornwall and clotted cream in Devon, William Black takes us on a journey of food and cooking to explain what Britain eats and why.

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Soup Book: More than 120 Superb Soups, Ranging from Chilled, Smooth and Chunky Vegetable Soups to Sustaining Poultry, Meat and Fish Gumbos, Broths, Chowders and Rouilles

Author: Anne Sheasby

Contains everything from light and refreshing broths and satisfying vegetarian and pasta fillers, to soups and stews based on flavoursome poultry, meat, fish and shellfish.

Tequila and Tequila Drinks or Rick Steins Seafood Odyssey

Tequila and Tequila Drinks (Quamut)

Author: Quamut

Quamut is the fastest, most convenient way to learn how to do almost anything. From tasting wine to managing your retirement accounts, Quamut gives you reliable information in a concise chart format that you can take anywhere. Quamut charts are:

• Authoritative: Written by experts in their field so you have the most reliable information available.
• Clear: Our explanations take you step-by-step through everything from performing CPR to threading a needle.
• Concise: You’ll learn just what you need to know—no more, no less.
• Precise: Quamut charts include detailed text, photos, and illustrations to show you exactly how to do just about anything.
• Portable: Your know-how goes with you wherever your projects lead.

Golden delicious.

Best known as the spirit used in margaritas, in recent years tequila has expanded its appeal—inexpensive tequilas are great for mixed drinks, while premium brands can be sipped like brandy. Discover the secrets of this spirit through:

• A brief history of tequila and the basics of how tequila is made
• A rundown of different types of tequila, so you’ll know what you’re buying
• Tequila cocktail recipes from the Four Seasons restaurant

 

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Rick Stein's Seafood Odyssey: Over 150 Supurb New Dishes from Around the World

Author: Rick Stein

Presenting over 100 seafood recipes, this book takes readers on a tour of the world in search of the ideas, techniques and ingredients on which they are based. Among the places visited are Chesapeake Bay, the Carolinas, the small Australian town of Noosa, Goa, and the Thai village of Hua Hin.

Capsicum or Shunju

Capsicum (Medicinal and Aromatic Plants-Industrial Profiles Series): The Genus Capsicum

Author: Amit Krishna D

Capsicum has been used since ancient times not only as a traditional medicine but also as a natural colorant. The medicinal properties of capsicum make it popular in both ayurvedic and homeopathic treatments. In Capsicum: The Genus Capsicum, experts provide information on all aspects of this plant, including its ethnobotany, chemistry, pharmacology, toxicology, cultivation, tissue culture and commercial uses. Capsaicin, the pungent, principle component of capsicum, was used in the recent discovery of a "hot receptor," or pain sensor, in the human heart. This and a variety of other therapeutic properties have earned capsicum much industrial importance. This book details the therapeutic applications of capsaicin together with its action on different biological systems.

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Shunju: New Japanese Cuisine

Author: Takashi Sugimoto

Shunju: New Japanese Cuisine takes you on a tour of the restaurants and philosophy at the forefront of Japan's cooking revolution. Just as Alice Waters changed the way Americans thought about food, Takashi Sugimoto has revolutionized the act of dining in Japan.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword	4
	The shunju way	6
	The seasonal kitchen	30
	Spring	34
	Summer	90
	Autumn	142
	Winter	192
	Appendices	242
	Step by step preparation techniques
	Glossary of ingredients
	Mail-order sources of ingredients
	Acknowledgments
	Chefs

Tested and Tried Recipes of Azusa and Vicinity Housekeepers or Convenience Cook

Tested and Tried Recipes of Azusa and Vicinity Housekeepers

Author: Azusa Womans Club Azusa Calif

This 1909 cook book is comprised of recipes collected from the members of the Azusa Woman's Club (Azusa, California).

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Convenience Cook: 125 Best Recipes

Author: Judith Finlayson

How to make delicious meals from prepared convenience foods.

Create sensational family meals that taste like they were made from scratch, yet actually use convenience foods -- canned, frozen, bagged, boxed, or from a jar. For soul-satisfying weekday meals to decadent desserts, all you need are common and convenient supermarket ingredients. With the 125 recipes in The Convenience Cook, managing mealtime has never been easier.

Take a can of salmon and create an inspired Thai-Style Curry, simply by adding some coconut milk and a few pantry ingredients. Create an Easy Shepherd's Pie by using convenience foods like ground beef, canned beef broth and frozen hash brown potatoes. A dozen recipes use one of the most commonly available convenience foods: chicken. When kids need a quick treat, simply unwrap the crescent roll dough, add some applesauce, dried cranberries, a little sugar and cinnamon and presto! you have an easy and delicious Apple Cranberry Pan Dowdy.

Included is a listing of pantry staples and lots of helpful tips, techniques and imaginative variations for each recipe.

Hearty Vegetarian Soups and Stews or Enciclopedia de la Cerveza

Hearty Vegetarian Soups and Stews

Author: Jeanne Marie Martin

Wholesome and filling, yet low in calories and cholesterol, these tempting soups and stews are made with a cornucopia of fresh vegetables, whole grains, legumes, and zesty herbs and spices. There are recipes for hot soups, chilled soups and hearty stews, all made with vegetarian soup stocks so delicious you'll never miss the meat. There's a complete shopping guide, an ingredient substitution chart and lists of tasty alternatives to meat, dairy products and wheat, for allergies or special diets.

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Enciclopedia de la Cerveza

Author: Berry Verhoef

Educational, entertaining, and stimulating to the senses, these authoritative and handsome encyclopedias present each of their subjects in rich detail. Packed with information, photographs, and illustrations each book is organized around helpful themes.

This reference includes extensive reviews of more than 1,200 beers from around the world and discussions of brewing, beer etiquette, breweries, and the different ways in which beer is enjoyed.
 
 

Conteniendo información completa, estas hermosas enciclopedias son también educativas y entretenidas. Ya sea para satisfacer la curiosidad o para estimular los sentidos presentan cada uno de los temas con gran detalle. Llenas de información, fotografías e ilustraciones, cada trabajo en esta serie es de muy fácil acceso ya que están ingeniosamente organizadas en torno a temas prácticos.

Incluye una extensa revisión de más de 1.200 cervezas de alrededor del mundo y discusiones sobre elaboración de cerveza, etiqueta, fábricas de cerveza y las diferentes formas en que se puede disfrutar una cerveza.

Chocolate or Engineering Trouble

Chocolate: From Start to Finish

Author: Samuel G Woods

Begins with cacao tree and the harvesting of beans, includes chocolate blending, molding, filling, coating, packaging, and new product development. Special sidebar on the history of chocolate with the ancient Olmecs, Toltecs, Mayans, and Aztecs of Meso America.

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Engineering Trouble: Biotechnology and Its Discontents

Author: Rachel A Schurman

Talk of genetically engineered organisms (GEOs) has moved from the hushed corridors of life science corporations to the front pages of the world's major newspapers. As Europeans began rejecting genetically engineered foods in the marketplace, the StarLink corn incident exploded in the United States and farmers set fire to genetically modified crops in India. Citizens and consumers have become increasingly aware of and troubled by the issues surrounding these new technologies. Considering cases from agriculture, food, forestry, and pharmaceuticals, this book examines some of the most pressing questions raised by genetic engineering. What determines whether GEOs enter the food supply, and how are such decisions being made? How is the biotechnology industry using its power to reshape food, fiber, and pharmaceutical production, and how are citizen-activists challenging these initiatives? And what are the social and political consequences of global differences over GEOs?

Table of Contents:

	List of illustrations
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Biotechnology in the New Millenium: Technological Change, Institutional Change, and Political Struggle	1
1	Wonderful Potencies? Deep Structure and the Problem of Monopoly in Agricultural Biotechnology	24
2	Building a Better Tree: Genetic Engineering and Fiber Farming in Oregon and Washington	63
3	The Migration of Salmon from Nature to Biotechnology	84
4	Making Biotech History: Social Resistance to Agricultural Biotechnology and the Future of the Biotechnology Industry	111
5	Eating Risk: The Politics of Labeling Genetically Engineered Foods	130
6	The Global Politics of GEOs: The Achilles' Heel of the Globalization Regime?	152
7	Biotech Battles: Plants, Power, and Intellectual Property in the New Global Governance Regimes	174
8	From Molecules to Medicines: The Use of Genetic Resources in Pharmaceutical Research	195
9	The Brave New Worlds of Agricultural Technoscience: Changing Perspectives, Recurrent Themes, and New Research Directions in Agro-Food Studies	218
	Conclusion: Recreating Democracy	239
	Glossary	255
	Contributors	259
	Bibliography	263
	Index	297

Fast and Fabulous or Are You Hungry Dear

Fast and Fabulous: Flavor Secrets

Author: Judy Gilliard

Fast and Fabulous: Flavor Secrets is one of three titles in the new Fast and Fabulous Series! This book shows readers how to use herbs and spices to put flavor back into low-fat, low-calorie, low-cholesterol cooking People often fear that just because food is deemed "healthy," it probably doesn't taste very good or is missing flavor and richness. One thing we do know is that Americans are have become unhealthy eaters, so the challenge is to change bad habits to good ones without losing taste and flavor to inspire us to eat well. Fast and Fabulous: Flavor Secrets does just that, while keeping in mind that people are busy and harried and don't have lots of time to devote to preparing meals. One of the best ways to make healthy foods appealing is through the use of herbs and spices, and this book spends lots of time explaining how to use them to get the most out of food. It guides you through the different available herbs and spices and provides charts on how best to use them. The book also gives the reader creative ideas on how to make their own special herb blends, and includes useful information on harvesting, drying, and storing homegrown herbs and spices. The book is organized by food types such as salad, pasta, poultry, vegetables, breads, and desserts, so it is simple to find what you are looking for and provides limitless options. Each chapter opens with a helpful introduction and each recipe has side notes that include stories behind the recipe and/or suggestions for how to serve. This book full of simple, flavorful recipes and valuable information about cooking with herbs is a must-have in any kitchen.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Starters

Chapter 2: Salads

Chapter 3: Soups

Chapter 4: Beans.

Chapter 5: Pasta

Chapter 6: Seafood

Chapter 7: Meat

Chapter 8: Vegetables

Chapter 9: Potatoes, Orzo, Rice

Chapter 10: Breakfast

Chapter 11: Breads

Chapter 12: Desserts

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Are You Hungry Dear?

Author: Doris Roberts

Warm, funny episodes, each complete with the perfect recipe from the life of America’s favorite mother-in-law from the hit comedy Everybody Loves RaymondIn Are You Hungry, Dear?, Doris takes her signature line from the show and makes it her own in a program that pairs hilarious stories and dramatic turning points from her fascinating life with delicious recipes from her kitchen. She shares the lessons learned in two marriages and numerous love affairs, her struggles with her own family, and her heroic efforts to build a career and raise a son on her own. Those who love feisty, judgmental, opinionated Marie Barone will see how Doris is all that and more: tough, sweet, brave, direct, and vibrant. Listeners will embrace the unforgettable life of this very open star, and relate to the issues--like ageism in Hollywood, sex in the senior years, and her daughter-in-law’s imperfect meat sauce--that Doris cares about passionately.Are You Hungry, Dear? is for everyone who loves a laugh, a great recipe, and a true inside glimpse of a very approachable star.

Publishers Weekly

Roberts, who plays Marie Barone on the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, uses her TV character's preoccupation with food to underscore her own needs in this memoir. Her autobiography isn't a sexy tell-all, but it's honest and life-affirming. Roberts was desperate for love and attention. What she got was a hardscrabble childhood, two tough marriages and a career she adored. She repeats her mantra-"I am a survivor"-throughout the book, along with her recipes. These delectable treats-lasagna, chicken crepes, flourless chocolate cake-match moods or milestones in her life. It's a cute, though not innovative, way of breaking up her tale. Roberts's dad left at her birth, her indifferent grandparents raised her in the Bronx, and her mother never paid her a compliment. Still, by age 11, she decided to be an actress, and she got some terrific breaks, due as much to talent as tenacity. That she pursued her dreams while raising a son is laudable, especially with little help from her family. A hardworking actress fond of peppering her prose with homilies (e.g., "If you want life to surprise you, you've got to be open to it rather than defending against it"), Roberts saves the best part of her saga-the early years, the struggle, the triumphs-for the last third of the book. Still, readers will applaud her victories, even if the recounting is less than stellar. (May) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

Best known for her role as Marie Barone on the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, Emmy-winning actress Roberts gathers anecdotes from her life as an entertainer for this warm, revealing memoir. She recounts her childhood, being raised by undemonstrative grandparents in the Bronx while her mother tried to earn money after her husband left. Deciding at age 11 to become an actress, Roberts clung tenaciously to her dream until it came true. With a fortunate break she landed a role on Broadway (Last of the Red Hot Lovers), moved to film (A New Leaf), and then on to television (Remington Steel), all while raising her son alone. Having opinions on such topics as spaghetti sauce, ageism, getting along with daughters-in-law, and trying to lose weight, the author expresses herself with humor and enthusiasm that make up for the occasional platitude. Part of this memoir's charm comes from Roberts's reading; with her Bronx accent still evident, she sounds like a mother talking to her children. Her fans will love this book. Tape and CD quality are excellent. Recommended for large public libraries.-Nancy R. Ives, SUNY at Geneseo Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

With wry humor and good sense, the Emmy-winning Italian-American Mom of Everybody Loves Raymond offers advice, recipes, and reminiscences about personal and professional good and bad times. This is not one of those linear memoirs that proceed from humble birth to exalted present. Instead, Roberts sidetracks here, detours there, but cumulatively offers up a lively if discursive account of her life. She accompanies each chapter with an appropriate recipe, usually an example of good Italian home cooking like her potato salad or lasagna. Beginning with an assessment of Marie, the character she plays in the hit comedy, Roberts revisits particular times, experiences, and relationships. Now in her 70s, expected when young to marry early and stay home raising the children, she admits to loving Marie because if things had turned out differently she too could have been such an overbearing mother. In other chapters, Roberts describes the unusual annual Christmas party she throws for the cast ("the greed party, where guests scheme to get the gifts they want"), recalls how she landed the part; and expresses the satisfaction she gets from still being able to work. Without self-pity she describes a lonely childhood: her taciturn, critical, and divorced mother had to work, and Doris was left with grandparents who regarded her as imposition. Only an uncle gave her a sense of worth that enabled Roberts to survive her first marriage (to a man she supported while he went to law school) and difficult early attempts to become an actress. Her second husband was the love of her life, she has one son and three grandchildren, and she happily details the joys of motherhood. She seasons everything with insights shepicked up along the way: the value of perseverance, a positive attitude (think pink rather than angry red), and accepting who you are. An agreeable visit with a chatty old friend.

Wild about Seafood or Book of Tea

Wild about Seafood

Author: Staff of Stoeger Publishing Co

Since 1925, Stoeger Publishing has been committed to producing quality cookbooks that promote a healthy diet and an active, outdoor lifestyle.

The fifth title in this collection, Wild about Seafood feature more than 50 original recipes to prepare and serve Salmon Tuna, Flounder, Lobster, Shrimp and Oysters, just to name few. Discover tasty new recipes such as Flounder Stuffed with Spinach and Dried Tomatoes, Tuna Steaks with Orange Slices and Almonds, Two-Salmon Tartare, Lobster in Court Bouillon, Ginge Sesame Oysters and Shrimp Bisque.

This volume includes full-color photographs of each recipe.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	5
	Saltwater Fish	8
	Shellfish and Crustaceans	72
	Index	125

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Book of Tea

Author: Kakuzo Okakura

Written in English by a Japanese scholar in 1906, The Book of Tea is an elegant attempt to explain the philosophy of the Japanese Tea Ceremony, with its Taoist and Zen Buddhist roots, to a Western audience in clear and simple terms.

Booknews

Kakuzo was a leading figure in Japanese art and culture at the end of the 19th century, and this book, first published in 1906, is a classic treatise explicating the philosophical nuances of tea and the tea ceremony in Japanese culture. This edition contains an introduction by Liza Dalby who was the first American trained as a Geisha in the 1970s, and elegant photos by Daniel Proctor. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Lalmanach Du Whisky Pur Malt or Safe Handling of Foods

L'almanach Du Whisky Pur Malt

Author: Wallace Milroy

Now in its 6th edition, this guide to malt whisky has been extended and updated. Additional chapters include "Thought for Food" - matching various malts on a regional basis with the cuisine to which it is most suited, and "Whisky on the Web" - listing the top 100 whisky Websites.

The almanac seeks to provide the enthusiast with as much information as possible on each distillery, and offers: brand/malt name and address

manager's name and telephone/fax number

ownership

production status

establishment date

water source

type of maltings

cask woods used for maturation

and number of wash and spirit stills. Reception centre details include opening times, admission charges, disabled access, information on tastings and other attractions. Tasting notes, colour labels and vintage bottling lists are also provided.

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Safe Handling of Foods, Vol. 98

Author: Jeffrey Farber

A discussion of all aspects of safe food handling, encompassing the production of all varieties of foods by the processing and foodservice industries, where risk factors are likely to occur, and what can be done to prepare food safely. It examines categories of foods, places where food is served, and groups of food consumers. The text also lists sources of food safety information available on the Internet.

Acta Alimentaria

...covers all type of foods from farm to fork....written by experts....up-to-date.

Booknews

Farber and Todd (both from the Microbiology Research Division, Food Directorate, Health Canada in Ontario, Canada) present 17 contribution that address the science concerns of preventing food borne pathogens in a variety of foods, cuisines, and settings. Chapter cover such topics as safe handling of meat, dairy, fruits and vegetables, canned foods, and seafood; as well as problems associated with airline catering, the retail setting, institutions, developing countries, and traveling. A final chapter discusses the use of the Internet for food safety information and education. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Casseroles to the Rescue or World Guide to Bread

Casseroles to the Rescue: Easy-to-Make Home-Cooked Casseroles

Author: Barbara C Jones

More than 250 great one-dish recipes will make your life a whole lot easier! Enjoy delicious and colorful casseroles perfect for potlucks, new neighbors, church suppers, kids, families and weekend entertaining. Use handy ingredients from your pantry to create one-dish meals in minutes or make several ahead of time and stock the freezer! Includes classic and contemporary recipes, plus Super Salad section. Don't miss Spinach Enchiladas, South-of-the-Border Chicken, Overnight Breakfast, Italian Manicotti and more!

Table of Contents:

	Casserole Dish Sizes	6
	Freezing Tips	6
	Brunch Casseroles	7
	Side Dishes Casseroles	31
	Vegetables Casseroles	53
	Chicken Casseroles	119
	Beef Casseroles	173
	Pork Casseroles	205
	Seafood Casseroles	229
	Salads	253
	Master Grocery List	265
	Index	268
	Order Form	286

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World Guide to Bread

Author: Christine Ingram

A comprehensive fully illustrated reference guide to the breads of the world.

Asian Accents or Fat Free Cooking

Asian Accents

Author: Martyne Kupciunas

This remarkable book presents a

Author Bio:

Lisa KimTribolati, an avid

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Fat-Free Cooking: Over 50 Recipes Each Containing No More than 5 Grams of Fat Per Serving

Author: Anne Sheasby

Over 50 recipes containing no more than five grams of fat per serving-and many less than one gram-prove that you can cook healthily but still retain flavor and variety.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	6
	Healthy eating guidelines	8
	Nature's low fat ingredients	10
	Fat reducing tips	12
	Fat-free cooking methods	13
	Cooking with low fat or non-fat ingredients	14
	Minimizing oil in cooking	16
	Low fat stocks	17
	Low fat sauces	18
	Low fat sweet options	19
	The fat and calorie contents of food	20
	Soups and Starters	22
	Pasta, Pulses and Grains	34
	Meat and Poultry	46
	Fish and Seafood	58
	Vegetables and Salads	68
	Desserts, Cakes and Bakes	80
	Index	96

2009 Coffee Talk Wall Calendar or 2009 Organic Recipes Recycled Wall Calendar

2009 Coffee Talk Wall Calendar

Author: Ephemera Inc

Add 12 witty, tongue-in-cheek captions to vintage coffee illustrations and you get a year's worth of scalding, over-caffeinated humor!

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2009 Organic Recipes Recycled Wall Calendar

Author: The Time Factory

This wall calendar is a perfect companion to every cook's kitchen. Featuring beautiful photographs of kitchen gardens and the lush produce they offer. Each month offers a simple, seasonal and healthful recipe along with tips on growing, harvesting, canning and cooking-all with an emphasis on the importance of an organic approach

Sticks Seeds Pods and Leaves or Spirit House Thai Cooking

Sticks, Seeds, Pods and Leaves: A Cook's Guide to Culinary Spices and Herbs: Includes More Than 150 Recipes

Author: Ian Hemphill

Presented in an accessible A-to-Z format, and including a wonderful selection of more than 150 simple and modern recipes that show off the unique flavor of each ingredient, this is the ultimate guide to growing, sourcing, and cooking more than 80 herbs and spices. Cooks will discover how to grow and use their favorites to create delectable dishes, including Roasted Mushrooms with Ajowan, Cauliflower with Indian Spices, Vietnamese Chicken with Lemongrass, Ras El Hanout Chicken, a hearty Lamb Shanks Tagine, Risotto with Garlic and Fennel, Rosemary Scones, and Lavender Ice cream. Beautifully illustrated throughout, including full-color identification photos of all herbs and spices (and blends), this reference is a must-have cookbook for chefs of all skill levels.

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Spirit House Thai Cooking

Author: Helen Brierty

A virtual cooking class in your own kitchen, these recipes demystify Asian Ingredients and cooking methods. Helen Brierty, owner of the internationally acclaimed Spirit House restaurant at Yandina Queensland, and head chef Annette Fear have brought together their most popular and requested dishes, which have been enjoyed for years by diners at the restaurant and taught to students at its hands-on cooking school.

Southern Recipes and Legends or Crab Lovers Book

Southern Recipes and Legends

Author: Nancy Rhyn

Blending two of the South's favorite pastimes, storytelling and cooking, this book features a hearty feast of recipes spiced with legendary tales of the Low Country. These charming tales of Charleston, Beaufort and Savannah are rich with the real flavor of these colorful old cities, Meet pirates, rice planters, debutantes and plantation mistresses and sample fare for which this area of the country is so popular.

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Crab Lover's Book: Recipes and More

Author: Mary Ethelyn Orso

Collected here with the author's family recipes are those from all parts of America, as well as from Europe, Asia, Central America, and the Caribbean. Among these are delicious appetizers, tasty soups and chowders, luscious salads, and savory main dishes that feature blue crabs, Dungeness crabs, Alaskan king crabs, and Florida stone crabs. If you catch and clean your own, there's useful information here on how best to proceed. And interspersed with the recipes are fascinating stories from history, folklore, mythology, astrology, and archeology. For cooks, naturalists, and food lovers this treasury of crab lore reveals the strong appeal this enduring creature has cast over the world.

Seasons Celebrations or Food Choice and Obesity in Black America

Seasons & Celebrations: Cooking Secrets Of Italian Villages Deliciously Translated for the American Table

Author: Rosalie Fuscaldo Gaziano

The festive recipes I have included are essentially hearty, family inspired traditional recipes. Some of these unique holiday specialties can be traced to remote villages of Italy. Many were the guarded secret of the community for generations. Others are seasonal specialties with a rich history of ancient tradition-- now expanded in the American culture by the abundance and flavor of American foods.

Each recipe is aimed at elegant simplicity, simple enough for even children to follow directions and prepare, as indeed the children of our family have demonstrated.

Simple as the preparation of these coice seasonal foods is, the elegance of serving them can make a celebration of any meal.

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Food Choice and Obesity in Black America: Creating a New Cultural Diet

Author: Eric J Bailey

Anthropologist Eric Bailey uses a cultural and holistic analysis of African American food preferences to show how black Americans generally perceive health, body image, food, dieting, physical fitness, and exercise. As is true of Americans overall, black Americans are becoming more overweight and obese than ever before. So, too, they are seeing the consequences: heart attacks, strokes, hypertension, and Type II diabetes at earlier and earlier ages. Bailey offers a new "cultural" diet for black Americans and a prescription for working collectively, not only to understand this critical health issue, but also to establish a lifestyle strategy that will be both effective and manageable.

Table of Contents:

Pt. I	The African American overweight and obesity problem
1	The African American weight problem	3
2	Overweight and obesity among African American	23
Pt. II	Sociocultural issues
3	Body image preferences among African Americans	43
4	Food preferences among African Americans	61
5	Exercise and physical fitness perspectives among African Americans	81
6	Adding African American culture to health, physical fitness, diet, and food programs	105
Pt. III	The new cultural approach
7	The new black cultural diet and lifestyle	131

Christmas with Southern Living 2005 or Saltwater Cookbook

Christmas with Southern Living 2005

Author: Oxmoor Hous

This year, the secret to a truly spectacular holiday season is MORE. You will find more of what you love best about Christmas on every page of the new Christmas with Southern Living 2005. More glitter, shimmer, and shine with dazzling new ways to deck your halls, doors, and table in Christmas finery. More holiday lights and festive delights. Discover the unlimited possibilities in Christmas as you wow and dazzle your family and friends. Not to mention more textures, tastes and treats with scrumptious holiday recipes from the Southern Living test kitchens.

You'll get:

Nearly 100 crowd-pleasing holiday recipes

More than 100 extraordinary ways to adorn your house, inside and out

50 nifty tips, super shortcuts, and cleaver timesavers from the pros

More than 200 lavish color photographs to inspire and guide you

Plus so much more!

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Saltwater Cookbook: Fish and Seafood - From Ocean to Table

Author: Tim Lauer

This is the only seafood cookbook you'll ever need-whether you catch your own or depend on the local fish market. Every step of preparation is made easy.
The Purchasing and Preparing section includes detailed information on buying seafood from a fish market. The author discusses in detail how to choose the very freshest seafood, and how to handle it once you get it home.

The Sport Angler chapter lists important questions to ask about various fish species and their transport care when hiring a charter and catching your own seafood.

The fin fish chapter includes an overview of the best cooking methods for fish. Author Tim Lauer explains and compares the different oil content, flavor strength and texture of various fishes.

The shellfish chapter outlines the best cooking methods for shellfish. It also details procedures that guarantee the safety of shellfish preparation and consumption.

The Saltwater Cookbook includes recipe sections such as Soups & Chowders, Appetizers & Light Meals, Sauces & Marinades, Sides & Salads, Main Courses, and Preserving Tips.

In addition to more than 150 great recipes with complete cooking instructions, this book provides information to sport anglers who catch their own seafood. You'll find lots of seafood preparation safety tips, seasonal guide and substitution information, along with complete nutrition data.

Vegetables or 101 Best Ever Recipes

Vegetables

Author: Christine Ingram

The ultimate illustrated guide to over 180 different vegetables, featuring more then 100 step-by-step recipes. This is the only reference book on identifying, preparing, using and cooking vegetables that you will need!

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101 Best-Ever Recipes: Stand-up Cards: A Deck of Fantastic Dishes

Author: Martha Day

This beautifully presented deck of recipe cards has a pull-out easel on the back of the box and sturdy corner pockets on the front so that individual recipe card can be simply slotted in place for hands-free display. Contained within the pack are 101 mouthwatering recipes suitable for all occasions and every palate.

Anthropology of Food and Body or Decantations

Anthropology of Food and Body: Gender, Meaning and Power

Author: Carole Counihan

The Anthropology of Food and Body explores the way that making, eating, and thinking about food reveal culturally determined gender-power relations in diverse societies. Carole M. Counihan takes a cross-cultural approach to ask compelling questions about eating disorders, body dissatisfaction, bodily changes in reproduction, and gender differences around food.

Using ethnographic data from her fieldwork in Europe and the U.S., the author addresses issues around food, culture and gender such as: What powers do women gain and lose through their control over food preparation and distribution? What do food images in children's fantasy stories tell us about their sense of self? How do beliefs about eating and intercourse in different cultures reflect and affect gender ideology? How does the objectification of the female body subordinate women, and how can women challenge it? And how do pregnancy and birth affect women's body image and empowerment? This book brings feminist and anthropological theories to bear on these provocative issues and will interest anyone investigating the relationship between food, the body, and cultural notions of gender.

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Decantations: Reflections on Wine by the New York Times Wine Critic

Author: Frank J Prial

Frank J. Prial has written authoritative and entertaining wine articles for The New York Times for over 25 years. His pieces have delighted wine lovers of all ages with celebrations of old favorites and forays into new tastings from around the world. In Decantations, Prial's first book since Wine Talk was published in 1978, the wine master's finest columns are gathered on everything from imbibing with the Rothschilds in France to stalking Zinfandels and Chardonnays in Africa.

This robust collection of articles, organized by topic, include informative, humorous, and sometimes unorthodox observations on wine making, wine families, wine personalities and the wine business, as well as tips on ordering, tasting, and enjoying wine. An essential book for lovers of wine and lovers of lovers of wine.

Kirkus Reviews

Unlike Rod Phillips (see above), New York Times wine critic Prial can be both stiff and fawning, but he brings to his reporting two invaluable qualities: he's been on the beat for 30 years, and he keeps an eye skinned for the beat less beaten. For his first book since "Wine Talk" (1978), Prial gathers pieces that he's contributed to his "Wine Talk" column over the last 20 years. Status-conscious to a fault and given to a degree of toadyism-"urbane doyen," "golden Lexus," and "a double magnum for $8,000" fall from his lips like crumbs from dry toast-he can also be lazy, as when he builds an entire article out of pull-quotes from A. J. Liebling's Between Meals. Fortunately, however, he has much of interest to say about the culture of wine (he doesn't waste much time with tasting notes), informative and fascinating things that allow wine's bigger picture to take shape. There is a terrific column on the Irish immigrants to France, the "Wild Geese" who lent their names to Lynch-Bages and Leoville-Barton. There is time well-spent with small producers, including an extended article on the "garagistes" of France and cult wines and custom-crush operations of California, and three good columns on Randall Grahm of Bonny Doon, who is always happy to administer some much-needed oxygen to the rarified world of making wine. Prial is good at the odd angle-how "alternative wood products" are used to put the oak in Chardonnay, or how the Scots make wine out of silver birch-and his moments of humor come like fat drops of rain after a Sonoma summer: One January ("the time of year when even normally prudent people lose all sense of caution"), he makes a prediction that "Four more bottles of winebearing Thomas Jefferson's initials will mysteriously turn up at a wine auction in Zurich." Like a good newspaperman, Prial deploys his nose for the story before taking in the bouquet.

Soyfoods Cookery or Ice Cream

Soyfoods Cookery: Your Road to Better Health

Author: Louise Hagler

Versatile soyfoods can enhance your everyday meals in so many delicious, healthful, and simple ways. Tasty soyfoods offer a readily available, versatile, and economical source of high quality protein, as well as other healthful benefits, for vegetarians and non-vegetarian alike.

The number of recognized health benefits gained from consuming soyfoods continues to grow. Mark Messina, Ph.D. and Virginia Messina, M.P.H., R.D. present an overview of the exciting recent findings.

Discover how easy it is to cook up a wide variety of delectable dishes using tofu, tempeh, soymilk, miso, textured vegetable protein, and other readily available soyfoods. Add a little soy to your life, and be on your road to better health!

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Ice Cream: From Cassata Semi-Freddo to Cider Apple Sorbet

Author: The Tanner Brothers

With a history spanning 200 years, ice cream has developed from its original recipe of ice mixed with fruit into the popular and beloved dessert we know today. The Tanner Brothers have compiled a stunning array of recipes, updating the traditional ice cream concept and adding their own unique twist. From sorbets to savory ices, the book has a recipe to suit all tastes, from the most seasoned chocolate lover to those with more sophisticated palates. Developed by the Tanner Brothers at their restaurant in Plymouth, the recipes are designed to appeal to both amateurs and professional chefs and are accompanied by mouthwatering photographs and easy-to-follow instructions, rendering the art of ice cream-making accessible to everyone.

Street Food or Fuss Free Food for Babies and Toddlers

Street Food: Exploring the World's Most Authentic Tastes

Author: Tom Kim

For those who dream about the great foods you will eat as you travel around the world, Tom Kime documents his personal voyage of culinary discovery in this continent-by-continent cookbook that shows you how to prepare at home the food, the traditions and techniques of true locals.

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Fuss-Free Food for Babies and Toddlers: 150 Healthy Home-Made Recipes

Author: Sara Lewis

Invaluable advice on topics such as equipment; hygiene; when to begin weaning; batchcooking; nutrition; fussy eating; going vegetarian and much more

Food of Japan or Louisiana Temptations

Food of Japan

Author: Shirley Booth

A Japanese culinary revolution is taking place in America: witness the explosion in the number of sushi bars, as well as the popularity of noodles, rice, and other Japanese foods, and their appearance in supermarkets across the country. Japanese cuisine is being served up in restaurants everywhere, and much has been written about the health benefits of miso, steamed fish, and green tea. Japanese foods are finally being appreciated in the West, but most of us are still unfamiliar with how they are prepared. In Food of Japan, Japanese cooking specialist and food writer Shirley Booth takes us on a fascinating step-by-step tour of the history, culture, recipes, and techniques of Japanese cuisine. Japanese cuisine is a cuisine low in saturated fats and oils, and rich in foods that are good for you -- soy, rice, fish, vegetables, and fruit. And it has been shown to prevent heart disease and other illnesses, and to lower blood pressure and cholesterol. The Japanese style of eating is also conducive to good health: lots of small portions eaten slowly and in a relaxed fashion. It is as convivial as Spanish tapas or Greek meze, especially when accompanied by sake, Japanese rice wine. But above all, it is as delicious as it is healthful.

Simplicity is one of the most surprisingly pleasant elements of Japanese cooking. Like Mediterranean cooking, it relies on fresh, seasonal ingredients, and is simply and easily prepared. In Food of Japan, author Shirley Booth reveals the intriguing history of Japanese cooking, its styles and traditions -- from Imperial cooking to Zen cooking to the food of the Yayai, or street vendors. Every aspect is explained: the ingredients, the techniques, the equipment, and the importance of color and presentation. She shares over 200 tempting recipes including soups, broths, dumplings, noodle dishes, tempura, sushi, pickles, desserts, and beverages. With or without chopsticks, classics such as Broiled Eel on a Bowl of Rice (Unagi donburi or unadon) and new dishes with a twist like Chicken Breasts with Vinegar, Mustard, and Miso Dressing (Sasami no karashi zu) make Japanese cuisine very much the food of today. Food of Japan invites us to sample these recipes and discover a whole new/old world of tantalizing tastes and textures.

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Louisiana Temptations: Recipes from Louisiana Farm Bureau Women

Author: Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation

Prepare to be tempted by "Louisiana Temptations". Giving in never tasted so good. This beautiful cookbook features family-favorite recipes from Louisiana Farm Bureau Women. Eight chapters offer a delicious collection of all the cuisine the Bayou State has to offer. Full-color cover and concealed Wire-O bound to lie flat, and includes nutritional analysis.

Cooking the Roman Way or How to Throw a Great Derby Party

Cooking the Roman Way: Authentic Recipes from the Home Cooks and Trattorias of Rome

Author: David Downi

Rome is the most beloved city in Italy, if not the world. Rich in culture, art, and charm, the Eternal City is also home to some of the most delicious and accessible cooking in all of Italy. Influenced by both the earthy peasant fare of the surrounding hillsides and the fish from the nearby Mediterranean, Roman food makes the most of local ingredients and simple, age-old techniques. Yet while Italian cookbooks abound, no American book has focused on Romes unique and varied fare. In this beautifully illustrated cookbook, author David Downie and photographer Alison Harris offer a comprehensive collection of more than 125 Roman recipes, exploring the lively, uncomplicated food traditionally served in Roman homes and trattorie. From well-known dishes like Spaghetti Carbonara, to popular snack food like Pizza Bianca, to distinctive specialties like Roast Suckling Lamb, each recipe in Cooking the Roman Way is simple, authentic, and easy to make at home. With four-color photographs of landmarks, markets and food, stories about and profiles of food vendors, entertaining anecdotes, and a food lovers guide to the streets of the city, this book paints a vivid picture of Rome and the food that has sustained it for millennia.

Publishers Weekly

Food writer Downie explores the streets and alleys of Rome, gathering recipes from trattoria chefs, home cooks, and even his Roman-born mother in this wonderfully complete culinary tour of the Eternal City. The food of Rome has both inspired and been inspired by the food from other regions throughout Italy, and Downie highlights each recipe with history and anecdotes. For starters, Downie explores Rome's Jewish Ghetto and appears with Carciofi alla Giuda (Fried Artichokes, Jewish Style) and Fiori di Zucca Fritti (Fried Zucchini Flowers). Ubiquitous throughout Italy are two dishes-both of which are made with guanciale, cured pork jowl, and generous helpings of Pecorino Romano cheese: the Bucatini all'Amatriciana (named for the mountain town southeast of Rome) and the Spaghetti alla Carbonara (which many believe got its name from the dish's carbon-looking pepper flakes). Main meals include Martino al Forno (Monkfish Baked on a Bed of Lemony Potatoes) and the comfort dish, Frittata con le Zucchine (Zucchini Frittata with Fresh Mint and Pecorino Romano). For dessert there's the Christmastime special, Fichi Ripieni (Dried Figs Stuffed with Ricotto and Almonds and a summer cooler, La Granita di Caffe della Tazza d'Oro, a coffee granita. In his first cookbook, Downie has beautifully and evocatively captured the cuisine of one of the world's best-known cities. (Nov.) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

Considering the number of Italian cookbooks published in the last few years, it's surprising that Downie's is one of a handful to focus on the food of the Eternal City. Of course, there are regional cookbooks that include the city and its environs, and dishes alla romana appear in many other Italian cookbooks, but none has explored Roman food in such passionate detail. Downie, a well-known food and travel writer, provides truly authentic versions of both specialties (e.g., Fried Artichokes Jewish-Style, which reflects the Roman "obsession" with artichokes and the strong influence of the Jewish community) and relatively unknown but delectable dishes (e.g., Curly Endive Risotto and Sweet-and-Sour Wild Boar or Pork). He writes amusingly and knowledgeably on everything Roman, including the city's long culinary history, and color photographs of markets and other street scenes, architectural details, and many of the recipes add to the appeal of the book. Highly recommended. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

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How to Throw a Great Derby Party

Author: Sue Wyli

Almost as famous as the race itself, the Kentucky Derby party is a celebrated rite of spring. With its roots in the heart of horse country, the Derby party has a rich history in Kentucky. Horse owners and breeders fete their guests with extravagant dinners, top-class entertainment, and free-flowing libations. Derby party fever has swept the country, and these days fun seekers celebrate the Run for the Roses in cities and towns across the country. Indeed, the largest Derby party outside of Kentucky takes place in Washington, D.C. How to Throw a Great Derby Party contains recipes for mint juleps and more, tips from famous hostesses, trivia, and history.

Wrestling with Gravy or Southwest Indian Cookbook

Wrestling with Gravy: A Life, with Food

Author: Jonathan Reynolds

In this inviting feast of a memoir, former New York Times food columnist Jonathan Reynolds dishes up a life that is by turns hilarious and tender–and seasoned with the zest of cooking, family, eating, and lounging around various tables in tryptophanic stupors.

Growing up on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, a child of material privilege and emotionally distant parents, young Jonathan discovers that food serves as a catalyst for adventure, a respite from loneliness, and a fail-safe way to navigate his often eccentric surroundings. When Jonathan is thirteen, his uncle Bus, a surrogate father of sorts, treats him to his first fine dining experience, at the old Westbury Hotel on Madison Avenue. The suspicious teen orders pheasant under glass–and from the moment the glass dome is lifted, Reynolds’s culinary curiosity takes off.

Always absorbing, often hilarious, and surprisingly affecting, Wrestling with Gravy is full of wonderful characters and anecdotes. With droll self-effacement and a sharp eye for detail, Reynolds relives the time that his own father made a move on his girlfriend during a meal at Maxim’s in Paris; extols the surprising virtues of baseball stadium cuisine (with the exception of New York); and recounts how he once whipped up a seductive meal for a woman, only to have her excuse herself after dessert because she had another date lined up, buffet-style, later in the evening. Even on a glum Christmas day in New York City, or at the deathbed of his dear cousin the actress Lee Remick, food offers solace and a cathartic sense of home.

Rare among culinary memoirs, Wrestling with Gravy speaks eloquentlyabout food without affectation, while striking a note of cosmic comedy and honest regret. And of course, the recipes are all here, too–from a perfect water-smoked Thanksgiving turkey to a barbecued Chinese duck, from an old-fashioned malted to Flaming Babas au Armagnac. Like a truly great meal, Wrestling with Gravy will entertain and satisfy any reader’s appetite.


For five years, Jonathan Reynolds brought oxygen to the food page of The New York Times Magazine. He was smart and buoyant as he rummaged around in memory's trunk for food-worthy anecdotes to chew upon. The pieces were highly personal, showcasing his quirks and irreverence as much as any foodstuff. His theatrics (fittingly –- Reynolds is a seasoned actor and playwright) were endearing; no surprise, then, when readers took personal interest in his passage, with its hints of darkness lurking amid the drollery.
Reynolds' memoir, "Wrestling With Gravy," is as consistently entertaining, in a grim way, as his columns, unveiling the many familial, romantic and professional land mines he discovered –- too late! –- under nearly every step he took, each fitted with emblematic recipes, balms for his wounds: "Food is controllable, while most of life isn't."
His father was absent, off performing "entrepreneurial calisthenics"; his mother was lost to depression. There were boarding school expulsions, and a jail stay prompted by his youthful infatuation with actress Kim Novak. Hollywood was a bitter pill –- "The stars sip their strawsful of sugarless broth fumes and vapor of fetal watercress leaf helicoptered to their trailers" –- part and parcel of his "insanely and unrealistically ambitious" screenwriting career. Friends and family died; his marriage went south.
The gloom is beveled, thankfully, by his children, a guiding-star uncle, a second marriage, sweet playwriting success, all artfully etched with a hand as graceful as his progress clubfooted. (Said clubfoot precedes him during an ill-advised, weirdly nescient chapter analyzing American politics, but then half of Reynolds' charm is his flaws.)
Not to forget the associative, heartening foods, like Kubbervik Scallops, Undocumented Tamales and Stargazy Pie, with sardine snouts poking through the puff pastry. If hunger is the best sauce, a spoonful of agony worked wonders for Reynolds. –The Atlanta-Journal Constitution

The New York Times - John T. Edge

Reynolds is at his best when purposefully entangling libido and linguine. He relishes a Paris dinner during which his father makes a move on his girlfriend. (Ditto his time in the Philippines, working on a book about the filming of "Apocalypse Now" while rooming with a former Playboy Playmate of the Year.) And he preens when recounting the response of his first wife to a dish of truffles poached in Champagne and sherry, describing her response as "so appreciative and sexual that the afternoon was gone completely, and I knew this match would work." He even manages to declare his unrequited love for Dolly Parton in the midst of a discursive exploration of malted milk.

Publishers Weekly

Reynolds, a self-described "artistic entrepreneur," has been an actor, a screenwriter, a playwright, a television producer, as well as a food columnist for the New York Times Magazine. As a boy, he first discovered fine dining with his indulgent Uncle Bus, who not only let him order pheasant under glass in a ritzy Madison Avenue restaurant but rescued him from having to eat it by quietly offering to trade plates. Some years later, when his wealthy divorced father gave him a transatlantic first-class ticket on the SS France, the food was so exquisite Reynolds found himself "beginning to wonder if there was anything in life worth doing between meals." While he ultimately found much to do campaigning for Eugene McCarthy, studying at various acting schools, working with great Hollywood directors there was always some dish that made each episode memorable. From the "gruesome oatmeal" he's served after a night in jail for trying to crash Kim Novak's private home to the Cinderella truffles he made to seduce his first wife, Reynolds tells the tale as well as sharing the recipe. Even if we don't actually make his pissaladi re au confit de canard or the simpler sea urchin ceviche, to read through the intricate steps in these preparations reminds readers of the drama and delight of great eating. (Oct.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

Former New York Times Magazine food columnist and award-winning playwright Reynolds has penned an entertaining coming-of-age memoir. In a self-effacing style, he recounts humorous and bittersweet passages of a life that revolves around food, ranging over his parents, his loves, his writing career, current events, his cousin actress Lee Remick (among other celebrities), and his passion for all things culinary. Recipes, encompassing the simple and the exotic, are adapted from cookbooks and notable restaurant chefs. Reynolds even offers up his own creations. It would have been a treat to see a recipe index, but that's only a quibble. Sure to delight readers; recommended for public libraries.-Christine Holmes, San Jose State Univ. Lib., CA Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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Southwest Indian Cookbook: Pueblo and Navajo Images, Quotes and Recipes

Author: Marcia Keegan

This richly descriptive book includes recipes and folklore about the preparation of food by Southwest Indian people. A best-selling favorite that delights the palate and the eye, this cookbook ventures beyond mere recipes into the hearts and souls of the Pueblo and Navajo Indians. In these Native cultures, growing food and its preparation are intimately tied to religious ceremony.

Associated Press

This book combines recipes and text with sensitive color photographs. The photo book is a gourmet treat for jaded appetites.

New York Times Book Review

Striking color photographs and an informative and beguiling text and recipes on the food and folklore.... [A] loving and poetic presentation of both the cuisines and the people behind them.

New England Review of Books

An amazing mix of history, folklore, photography and recipes from the American Southwest.... The recipes are direct and easy. An excellent addition to any cook's library.