Carol Palmer - Böcker

Nothing beats the sensation and satisfaction of home-baked bread - and the sales figures for breadmakers prove it. This is the book that will turn new users into old hands and give the experts plenty of great new recipe ideas to experiment with. Here Carol Palmer gives users a great range of recipes. She takes all the hard work out of getting the best from this kitchen wizard. She shows you how to set it to work and forget it - or use the dough programme to shape and bake in the traditional way.With top tips for fail-safe results no matter which breadmaker you use.

Lucjan Turkowski’s first‑hand account of peasant life in 1940s British Mandate Palestine explores farming,food, language and craft production. He examines cultivated crops, the role of animals and the division oflabour, highlighting its material culture in a vivid portrait of rural life.While preserving Turkowski’s original ethnographic and agricultural research, this book offers a rare historical,botanical and anthropological resource. Rich with first‑hand observations, it provides scholars andgeneral readers with valuable insights into Palestinian peasant life near Jerusalem in the 1940s. His meticulousfieldwork records farming, food, language, agricultural tools and household utensils, exploring thelong‑term effects of Ottoman land reforms and the introduction of new crops. Original drawings and periodphotographs collected in Jerusalem illustrate this volume. This book opens with two introductory chaptersby editor Carol Palmer, who situates Turkowski within his historical and intellectual context and highlightshis ambition to document peasant material culture and its integration into Palestinian life. The main textcomprises eight translated chapters of Turkowski’s writing, followed by bibliographical annexes. This volumedeepens understanding of rural life amid shifting political and economic forces, contributing to studies ofresilience, agriculture and cultural continuity.This book is a fundamental resource for scholars in Levantine and Palestine studies, linguistics, anthropology,ethnography, archaeology and agricultural history. It also contributes to an understanding of the region’shistoriography and the changing academic approaches to Palestine. For those connected to the communitiesdescribed, it offers a tangible link to the past and shows how carefully gathered knowledge can preserve culturalmemory and bring lived experience into view.