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Barolo
Inbunden, 2010
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
415 kr
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After a childhood of microwaved meat and saturated fat, Matthew Gavin Frank got serious about food. His "research" ultimately led him to Barolo, Italy (pop. 646), where, living out of a tent in the garden of a local farmhouse, he resolved to learn about Italian food from the ground up. Barolo is …
Chef's Tale
A Memoir of Food, France, and America
Av Pierre Franey, Richard Flaste m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
234 kr
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The embodiment of the art and pleasure of French cookery, Pierre Franey (1921–96) was one of the most influential and beloved of America's culinary figures. Before creating his "60-Minute Gourmet" column in the New York Times, writing his celebrated cookbooks, and entering our homes via television, …
Moveable Feasts
The History, Science, and Lore of Food
Häftad, 2008
211 kr
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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 …
Eating in Eden
Food and American Utopias
Av Etta M. Madden, Martha L. Finch
Häftad, 2008
294 kr
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Perennially viewed as both a utopian land of abundant resources and a fallen nation of consummate consumers, North America has provided a fertile setting for the development of distinctive foodways reflecting the diverse visions of life in the United States. Immigrants, from colonial English …
Educated Tastes
Food, Drink, and Connoisseur Culture
Häftad, 2011
390 kr
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The old adage "you are what you eat" has never seemed more true than in this era, when ethics, politics, and the environment figure so prominently in what we ingest and in what we think about it. Then there are connoisseurs, whose approaches to food address "good taste" and frequently require a …
My Kitchen Wars
A Memoir
Häftad, 2009
234 kr
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Although My Kitchen Wars is a war story, this time the warrior is a woman and the battleground the kitchen. Her weapons—the batterie de cuisine of grills and squeezers and knives—evoke a lifetime's need to make dinner, love, and war. By prying open the past with these implements, Betty Fussell …
Jewish American Food Culture
Av Jonathan Deutsch, Rachel D. Saks
Häftad, 2009
277 kr
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Many Jewish foods are beloved in American culture. Everyone eats bagels, and the delicatessen is a ubiquitous institution from Manhattan to Los Angeles. Jewish American Food Culture offers readers an in-depth look at both well-known and unfamiliar Jewish dishes and the practices and culture of a …
Corkscrewed
Adventures in the New French Wine Country
Häftad, 2010
188 kr
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Robert V. Camuto's interest in wine turned into a passion when he moved to France and began digging into local soils and cellars. Corkscrewed recounts Camuto's journey through France's myriad regions—and how the journey brought about a profound change in everything he believed about wine. The world …
Banana
Empires, Trade Wars, and Globalization
Av James Wiley
Häftad, 2010
334 kr
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The banana is the world's most important fresh fruit commodity. Little more than a century old, the global banana industry began in the late 1880s as a result of technological advances such as refrigerated shipping, which facilitated the transportation of this highly perishable good to distant …
Recipe Reader
Narratives, Contexts, Traditions
Av Janet Floyd, Laurel Forster
Häftad, 2010
277 kr
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Although the last decade has seen an intense and widespread interest in the writing and publishing of cookery books, surprisingly little contextualized analysis of the recipe as a generic form has appeared. This essay collection asserts that the recipe in all its cultural and textual contexts—from …
Fried Walleye and Cherry Pie
Midwestern Writers on Food
Av Peggy Wolff
Häftad, 2013
264 kr
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With its corn by the acre, beef on the hoof, Quaker Oats, and Kraft Mac n' Cheese, the Midwest eats pretty well and feeds the nation on the side. But there's more to the midwestern kitchen and palate than the farm food and sizable portions the region is best known for beyond its borders. It is to …
Palmento
A Sicilian Wine Odyssey
Häftad, 2012
218 kr
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His book takes wine as a powerful metaphor for the independent identity of this mythic land, which has thrown off its legacies of violence, corruption, and poverty to emerge, finally free, with its great soul intact. Inspired by a deep passion for wine, an Italian heritage, and a desire for a land …
Barolo
Häftad, 2012
218 kr
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After a childhood of microwaved meat and saturated fat, Matthew Gavin Frank got serious about food. His "research" ultimately led him to Barolo, Italy (pop. 646), where, living out of a tent in the garden of a local farmhouse, he resolved to learn about Italian food from the ground up. Barolo is …
How to Cook a Tapir
A Memoir of Belize
Av Joan Fry
Häftad, 2012
294 kr
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In 1962 Joan Fry was a college sophomore recently married to a dashing anthropologist. Naively consenting to a year-long "working honeymoon" in British Honduras (now Belize), she soon found herself living in a remote Kekchi village deep in the rainforest. Because Fry had no cooking or housekeeping …
Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens
Indigenous Recipes and Guide to Diet and Fitness
Häftad, 2020
369 kr
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Educators, librarians, food sovereignty activists, culinary arts students, and those interested in Native American food history and sovereignty will find that this book is an excellent resource.-Elise Krohn, Tribal College Journal2020 Gourmand World Cookbook Award This new edition is revised, …
Sacred Feast
Reflections on Sacred Harp Singing and Dinner on the Ground
Häftad, 2013
192 kr
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Some have called Sacred Harp singing America's earliest music. This powerful nondenominational religious singing, part of a deeply held Southern culture, has spread throughout the nation over the past two centuries. In A Sacred Feast, Kathryn Eastburn journeys into the community of Sacred Harp …
In Food We Trust
The Politics of Purity in American Food Regulation
Inbunden, 2014
534 kr
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One of the great myths of contemporary American culture is that the United States' food supply is the safest in the world because the government works to guarantee food safety and enforce certain standards on food producers, processors, and distributors. In reality U.S. food safety administration …
Good Things
Häftad, 2006
311 kr
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“Cooking something delicious is really much more satisfactory than painting pictures or making pottery. At least for most of us. Food has the tact to disappear, leaving room and opportunity for masterpieces to come. The mistakes don’t hang on the walls or stand on the shelves to reproach you …
Jane Grigson's Fruit Book
Av Jane Grigson
Häftad, 2007
357 kr
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Jane Grigson’s Fruit Book includes a wealth of recipes, plain and fancy, ranging from apple strudel to watermelon sherbet. Jane Grigson is at her literate and entertaining best in this fascinating compendium of recipes for forty-six different fruits. Some, like pears, will probably seem homely and …
Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book
Av Jane Grigson
Häftad, 2007
396 kr
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In Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book American readers, gardeners, and food lovers will find everything they've always wanted to know about the history and romance of seventy-five different vegetables, from artichokes to yams, and will learn how to use them in hundreds of different recipes, from the …
Dueling Chefs
A Vegetarian and a Meat Lover Debate the Plate
Av Maggie Pleskac, Sean Carmichael
Häftad, 2007
294 kr
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One eats meat. The other doesn't. Both are professional chefs. And both have recipes that make a deliciously persuasive case for each chef's point of view. In a delightful culinary turn on "he said, she said," dueling chefs Maggie Pleskac and Sean Carmichael engage in a delectable debate over the …
Food and Cooking of Eastern Europe
Häftad, 2006
430 kr
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The Food and Cooking of Eastern Europe, first published in 1989 and a companion volume to Lesley Chamberlain’s acclaimed The Food and Cooking of Russia, surveys the rich and diverse food cultures that were known to few people in the West during the half century when Europe was divided. It contains …
Food and Cooking of Russia
Häftad, 2006
294 kr
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Lesley Chamberlain lived in Soviet Russia in 1978–79 and recorded her experiences in the form of two hundred recipes interwoven with details of Russian culture and history and her own practical advice. From blini to cabbage soup, and caviar eggs to "Russian salad," she reveals the continuity of …
Masters of American Cookery
M. F. K. Fisher, James Beard, Craig Claiborne, Julia Child
Häftad, 2006
353 kr
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Ever since American soldiers returned home after World War II with a passion for pâté and escargots instead of pork and beans, our preferences have moved from cooked to raw, from canned to fresh, from bland to savory, from water to wine. And guiding us through our culinary revolution have been four …
Dining with Marcel Proust
A Practical Guide to French Cuisine of the Belle Epoque
Av Shirley King
Häftad, 2006
218 kr
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Marcel Proust's literary masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu overflows with brilliant, minutely described accounts of food and drink drawn from the author's vivid memories. After all, it was the taste of one of those short, plump little cakes called petites madeleines, dipped into a cup of …
Pampille's Table
Recipes and Writings from the French Countryside from Marthe Daudet's Les Bons Plats De France
Häftad, 2006
294 kr
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Inspired by references to the "delicious books of Pampille" in Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, the veteran cookbook author Shirley King adapted this gastronomic gem of a book for the modern American kitchen. Marthe Daudet (1878–1960) was Pampille, and her book Les Bons Plats de France, …
Taste of Heritage
Crow Indian Recipes and Herbal Medicines
Häftad, 2006
211 kr
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“A rich repository of recipes, folklore and advice for living and healing.”-Lively TimesDrawing on the knowledge and wisdom of countless generations of Crow Indian women, the well-known speaker and teacher Alma Hogan Snell presents an indispensable guide to the traditional lore, culinary uses, and …
Predictable Pleasures
Food and the Pursuit of Balance in Rural Yucatán
Inbunden, 2020
592 kr
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The pursuit of balance pervades everyday life in rural YucatÁn, Mexico, from the delicate negotiations between a farmer and the neighbor who wants to buy his beans to the careful addition of sour orange juice to a rich plate of eggs fried in lard. Based on intensive fieldwork in one indigenous …
Global Jewish Foodways
A History
Av Hasia R. Diner, Simone Cinotto
Inbunden, 2018
592 kr
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The history of the Jewish people has been a history of migration. Although Jews invariably brought with them their traditional ideas about food during these migrations, just as invariably they engaged with the foods they encountered in their new environments. Their culinary habits changed as a …
¡Vino!
The History and Identity of Spanish Wine
Inbunden, 2023
709 kr
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¡Vino! explores the history and identity of Spanish wine production from the mid-nineteenth century to today. Nineteenth-century infestations of oidium fungus and phylloxera aphids devastated French and Italian vineyards but didn’t extend to the Iberian Peninsula at first, giving Spanish vintners …
