You've heard it from doctors, nutritionists, and your mom: breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It's also one of the most diverse, varying greatly from family to family and region to region, even while individuals tend to eat the same thing every day. While Americans traditionally like to chow down on eggs, cereal, and doughnuts, the Japanese eat rice and miso soup, and New Zealanders enjoy porridge. But while we know bacon and sausage links belong alongside pancakes and waffles in the early morning hours, we don't know how breakfast came to be. Taking a multifaceted approach to...

373 Days Afloat (and counting) is the true story of an ordinary couple dissatisfied with the daily 9 to 5 routine who sold their house, bought a sailing yacht and took to a life at sea for fun and adventure initially off the west coast of Scotland. This book is based upon the journal that they kept and begins with an account of the events that forged their desire to do something different and ends at the conclusion of their first complete cruising season. Sometimes tragic and occasionally amusing, this quirky tale is punctuated by comments, observations, literary quotations and a few of the...

A detailed revelation of what was eaten in the court of the Eastern Roman Empire, accompanied by colourful descriptions of the sights and smells of Constantinople and its marketplaces. For centuries, the food and culinary delights of the Byzantine empire - centred on Constantinople - have captivated the west, although it appeared that very little information had been passed down to us. Tastes of Byzantium now reveals in astonishing detail, for the first time, what was eaten in the court of the Eastern Roman Empire - and how it was cooked. Fusing the spices of the Romans with the seafood...