The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu
ISBN: 9780393240832 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why do we eat toast for breakfast, and then toast to good health at dinner? What does the turkey we eat on Thanksgiving have to do with the country on the eastern Mediterranean? Can you figure out how much your dinner will cost by counting the words on the menu?
In The Language of Food, Stanford University professor and MacArthur Fellow Dan Jurafsky peels away the mysteries from the foods we think we know. Thirteen chapters evoke the joy and discovery of reading a menu dotted with the sharp-eyed annotations of a linguist. Jurafsky points out the subtle meanings hidden in... Why do we eat toast for breakfast, and then toast to good health at dinner? What does the turkey we eat on Thanksgiving have to do with the country on...
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The Engineer of Food at The Cantina Of Lost Souls
ISBN: 9781484851050 / Angielski / Miękka / 50 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Food tales, hints and inspirations from Gabriel Augusto Gil for anyone interested in good honest simple nourishment or fending for themselves for the very first time. Food writing? Fantasy? Philosophy? Perhaps all three. Gabriel Augusto Gil is an extraordinary cook. In the kitchen of his cantina he is calm, creative and beautifully clear in his methods because - as he puts it - he is not a chef, rather an Engineer of Food. He builds nourishment from the nuts and bolts of simple ingredients. Here, for the first time, he allows us into his kitchen and shares with us his observations of the...
Food tales, hints and inspirations from Gabriel Augusto Gil for anyone interested in good honest simple nourishment or fending for themselves for the ...
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31,88 zł |
Jam Today Too: The Revolution Will Not Be Catered
ISBN: 9781935259251 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A book to be savored." --DEBORAH MADISON, author of The New Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone "Laughing with Tod at her loves and disasters will make you laugh at your own, and keep cooking." --ANNA THOMAS, author of Love Soup and The New Vegetarian Epicure "Chatty, wise, and terrifically useful, Tod Davies' second serving of Jam makes disaster delicious and success the stuff of everyday life. What a treat to read and eat." --KATE LEBO, author of A Commonplace Book of Pie Warm, conversational, and exquisitely practical, Davies...
"A book to be savored." --DEBORAH MADISON, author of The New Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone "Laughing with Tod at her loves and dis...
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78,59 zł |
Twelve Recipes
ISBN: 9780062270306 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the 2015 International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) Cookbook Award Forewords by Alice Waters and Michael Pollan In this dazzling, full color cookbook and kitchen manual filled with lush photographs and beautiful drawings, the chef of Alice Waters' Chez Panisse offers basic techniques and essential recipes that will transform anyone into a confident home cook. When his oldest son was leaving for college, Cal Peternell, the chef of San Francisco's legendary Chez Panisse, realized that, although he regularly made dinners for his... Winner of the 2015 International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) Cookbook Award Forewords by Alice Waters and M... |
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91,60 zł |
Braised Blue: Year One: Think Eat Drink
ISBN: 9781484807293 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Braised Blue is a food blog I started in late February 2012 under the assumption that the world would end in December 2012. The end did not come, so I decided to create something more than just a blog. There have been people have published books based on their blogs but until now, none have been quite this delicious. Braised Blue: Year One recounts the food, the feelings and the images that went into my first year of blogging. Food, wine, whisky, mental illness and humour; all dove tail into one informative, visually striking and funny book. Braised Blue: Year One is all about making and...
Braised Blue is a food blog I started in late February 2012 under the assumption that the world would end in December 2012. The end did not come, so I...
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147,78 zł |
Word of Mouth: What We Talk about When We Talk about Food Volume 50
ISBN: 9780520273924 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today, more than ever, talking about food improves the eating of it. Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson argues that conversation can even trump consumption. Where many works look at the production, preparation, and consumption of food, Word of Mouth captures the language that explains culinary practices. Explanation is more than an elaboration here: how we talk about food says a great deal about the world around us and our place in it. What does it mean, Ferguson asks, to cook and consume in a globalized culinary world subject to vertiginous change? Answers to this question demand a...
Today, more than ever, talking about food improves the eating of it. Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson argues that conversation can even trump consumption....
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136,50 zł |
Let the Meatballs Rest: And Other Stories about Food and Culture
ISBN: 9780231157339 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Known for his entertaining investigations into culinary practice, Massimo Montanari turns his hungry eye to the phenomenon of food culture, food lore, cooking methods, and eating habits throughout history. An irresistible buffet of one hundred concise and engaging essays, this collection provides stimulating food for thought for those curious about one of life's most fundamental pleasures. Focusing on the selection, preparation, and mythology of food, Montanari traverses such subjects as the status of the pantry over the centuries, the various strategies of cooking over time, the...
Known for his entertaining investigations into culinary practice, Massimo Montanari turns his hungry eye to the phenomenon of food culture, food lore,...
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166,45 zł |
Nash Davis Campbell Collection of Family Recipes: In Celebration of the Seventy-Fifth Family Reunion June 2014
ISBN: 9781496195562 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the side toward the county road there were big wash tubs filled with grapes and ice. The watermelons were stacked up in a pile on each side of the walkway, but that would have been in the sun. That may have been the overflow. Cousin Lucy had those cantaloupes on their back porch. Recipes and memories merge in the charming Nash Davis Campbell Collection of Family Recipes, compiled by Carolyn Peele Davis. With their Texas family reunions dating all the way back to 1939, the Nash-Davis-Campbell family has compiled quite the recipe list-not to mention a treasure... On the side toward the county road there were big wash tubs filled with grapes and ice. The watermelons were stacked up in a pile on each side o... |
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163,43 zł |
Harvest: Field Notes from a Far-Flung Pursuit of Real Food
ISBN: 9780393350838 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After an epiphany caused by a harrowing bite into a pink-slime burger, Max Watman resolves to hunt, fish, bake, butcher, preserve, and pickle. He buys a thousand-pound-steer--whom he names Bubbles--raises chickens, gardens, and works to transform his small-town home into a gastronomic paradise. In this compulsively readable memoir, Watman records his experiments and adventures as he tries to live closer to the land and the source of his food.
A lively raconteur, Watman draws upon his youth in rural Virginia with foodie parents--locavores before that word existed--his time cooking in... After an epiphany caused by a harrowing bite into a pink-slime burger, Max Watman resolves to hunt, fish, bake, butcher, preserve, and pickle. He buys...
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70,93 zł |
The Friendly Cook: Remembering, with Recipes
ISBN: 9781499398809 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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55,43 zł |
Year of the Cow: How 420 Pounds of Beef Built a Better Life for One American Family
ISBN: 9781250052582 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the story of a man, a cow, and a question: What am I eating? This is the story of a man, a cow, and a question: What am I eating? |
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175,94 zł |
The Tattered Yellow Recipe Book: Survivor of Sandy
ISBN: 9781500313166 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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45,97 zł |
Pig Tails 'n' Breadfruit - Anniversary Edition
ISBN: 9789766378820 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Growing up in Barbados, Austin Clarke was surrounded by women in the kitchen. Enveloped in the heavenly smells and smoke of their cooking, he listened to their talk about the food they were preparing. His mother; several aunts and numerous cousins always recited the steps they were taking as they cooked, and through them, he learned how to cook the traditional dishes of Barbados - food that has its origins in the days of slavery, of hardships and economic grief, when 'ingreasements' (ingredients) were scarce. The food was not just intended to 'full a hole in your stomach', according to...
Growing up in Barbados, Austin Clarke was surrounded by women in the kitchen. Enveloped in the heavenly smells and smoke of their cooking, he listened...
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99,18 zł |
The Neurotic Cook Book
ISBN: 9781500580476 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Neurotic Cook Book" combines cooking and psychoanalysis in 50 chapters, an allusion on the number of minutes of a psychoanalytic session, in which humor and fiction are main spices. Along the book, family relations, psychological themes as well as psychoanalytic concepts are presented as a context in which writer and psychoanalyst Ana Cecilia Carvalho teaches her recipes for a good meal meant to gather friends and relatives around a generous and joyful dining table.
"The Neurotic Cook Book" combines cooking and psychoanalysis in 50 chapters, an allusion on the number of minutes of a psychoanalytic session, in whic...
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46,15 zł |
The Virtues of the Table: How to Eat and Think
ISBN: 9781847087157 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How we eat, farm and shop for food is not only a matter of taste. Our choices regarding what we eat involve every essential aspect of our human nature: the animal, the sensuous, the social, the cultural, the creative, the emotional and the intellectual. Thinking seriously about food requires us to consider our relationship to nature, to our fellow animals, to each other and to ourselves. So can thinking about food teach us about being virtuous, and can what we eat help us to decide how to live?
From the author of "The Ego Trick"and "The Pig that Wants to be Eaten"comes a thought-provoking... How we eat, farm and shop for food is not only a matter of taste. Our choices regarding what we eat involve every essential aspect of our human nature...
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Recipes and Road Stories
ISBN: 9781941644089 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Mariscadera
ISBN: 9789569544040 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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46,20 zł |
Chowder Summer: One Man Eats Rhode Island, Manhattan and New England (And Still Has Room For Oyster Crackers)
ISBN: 9780985493967 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Memorias de cocina y bodega
ISBN: 9781502709486 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Tambien yo he pagado mi tributo al arte de cocina y bodega: ya un poema sobre la confiteria de Toledo o una rapida alusion a las sevillanas y murillescas yemas de San Leandro; y hasta he dejado noticia de mis andanzas en busca de caracoles borgonones. En fin, este no es un libro de tesis ni de disertaciones. Este libro solo se destina a gente de honrada naturaleza capaz de apreciar el arte del buen comer.""
"Tambien yo he pagado mi tributo al arte de cocina y bodega: ya un poema sobre la confiteria de Toledo o una rapida alusion a las sevillanas y murille...
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Savvy Sightseer's Foods to travel by
ISBN: 9781502851680 / Angielski / Miękka / 50 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Savvy Sightseer specializes in travel information for the solo, savvy traveler. Foods to travel by is the latest addition to the Savvy Sightseer collection. Recipes, commentary and even foodie fun facts are included in this illustrated cookbook, with most recipes scaled to single-serving size. Take a culinary vacation to Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Ireland, Germany and England with these traditionally-based starters, sides, entrees and desserts. Pairing suggestions are also provided
Savvy Sightseer specializes in travel information for the solo, savvy traveler. Foods to travel by is the latest addition to the Savvy Sightseer colle...
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55,43 zł |