Profiles from the Kitchen: What Great Cooks Have Taught Us about Ourselves and Our Food
ISBN: 9780813123981 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In an age where convenience often ranks above quality, many Americans have abandoned traditional recipes and methods of cooking for fast solutions to their hunger and nourishment needs. Modern families are busier than ever, juggling hectic schedules that send them to fast-food restaurant drive-through windows and to grocery stores crowded with pre-processed and ready-to-eat foods. With parents frequently working during the daytime, efficient food preparation in the evenings has become the number one priority in kitchens across the country. This trend began during the post--World War II... In an age where convenience often ranks above quality, many Americans have abandoned traditional recipes and methods of cooking for fast solutions ... |
|
cena:
116,09 zł |
How to Cook a Wolf
ISBN: 9780865473362 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written to inspire courage in those daunted by wartimes shortages, How to Cook a Wolf continues to rally cooks during times of plenty, reminding them that providing sustenance requires more than putting food on the table. M. F. K. Fisher knew that the last thing hungry people needed were hints on cutting back and making do. Instead, she gives her readers license to dream, to experiment, to construct adventurous and delicious meals as a bulwark against a dreary, meager present. Her fine prose provides reason in itself to draw our chairs close to the hearth; we can still enjoy her... Written to inspire courage in those daunted by wartimes shortages, How to Cook a Wolf continues to rally cooks during times of plenty, remin... |
|
cena:
72,65 zł |
Serve It Forth
ISBN: 9780865473690 / Angielski / Miękka / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Serve It Forth, her first book, M. F. K. Fisher takes readers on an animated journey through culinary history, beginning with the honey-loving Greeks and the immoderate Romans. Fisher recalls a hunt for snails and truffles with one of the last adepts in that art and recounts how Catherine de Medici, lonely for home cooking, touched off a culinary revolution by bringing Italian chefs to France. Each essay makes clear the absolute firmness of Fisher's taste--contrarian and unique--and her skill at stirring memory and imagination into a potent brew. In Serve It Forth, her first book, M. F. K. Fisher takes readers on an animated journey through culinary history, beginning with the honey-l... |
|
cena:
64,10 zł |
An Alphabet for Gourmets
ISBN: 9780865473911 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Alphabet for Gourmets, M.F.K. Fisher arranges a selection of her essays in a whimsical way that reveals the breadth and depth of her passion. From A for (dining) alone to Z for Zakuski, "a Russian hors d'oeuvre," Fisher alights on both longtime obsessions and idiosyncratic digressions. As usual, she liberates her readers from caution and slavish adherence to culinary tradition-- and salts her writings with a healthy dose of humor. In Alphabet for Gourmets, M.F.K. Fisher arranges a selection of her essays in a whimsical way that reveals the breadth and depth of her pass... |
|
cena:
76,92 zł |
The Gastronomical Me
ISBN: 9780865473928 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1929, a newly married M.F.K. Fisher said goodbye to a milquetoast American culinary upbringing and sailed with her husband to Dijon, where she tasted real French cooking for the first time. The Gastronomical Me is a chronicle of her passionate embrace of a whole new way of eating, drinking, and celebrating the senses. As she recounts memorable meals shared with an assortment of eccentric and fascinating characters, set against a backdrop of mounting pre-war tensions, we witness the formation not only of her taste but of her character and her prodigious talent. In 1929, a newly married M.F.K. Fisher said goodbye to a milquetoast American culinary upbringing and sailed with her husband to Dijon, where she t... |
|
cena:
81,20 zł |
La Bonne Table
ISBN: 9780879238087 / Angielski / Miękka / 446 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A glorious celebration of a lifetime love affair with the art of dining, by the author of the classic Madeline series. Illustrated.
A glorious celebration of a lifetime love affair with the art of dining, by the author of the classic Madeline series. Illustrated.
|
|
cena:
106,63 zł |
Secret Ingredients: Race, Gender, and Class at the Dinner Table
ISBN: 9781403970084 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A series of fascinating chapters analyze cookery books through the ages. From the convenience-food cookbooks of the 1950s, to the 1980s rise in 'white trash' cookbooks, and the surprise success of the Two Fat Ladies books from the 1990s, leading author Sherrie Inness discusses how women have used such books over the years to protest social norms.
A series of fascinating chapters analyze cookery books through the ages. From the convenience-food cookbooks of the 1950s, to the 1980s rise in 'white...
|
|
cena:
194,08 zł |
HIS-STORY of Good Cooking
ISBN: 9781418449841 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
|
cena:
98,91 zł |
Women Who Eat: A New Generation on the Glory of Food
ISBN: 9781580050920 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More than just great food writing, this long-overdue rebuttal to the notion that all women are on a diet celebrates food with grace, wit, and gusto. Women are reclaiming their pots and pans, but it s a new era in the kitchen. Today s generation of women is putting a fresh spin on the "joy of cooking"and eating and entertaining.
Women both in and out of the culinary profession share their stories about the many ways food shapes and enhances their lives. New York Times columnist Amanda Hesser praises the joys of simple food. Kate Sekules discusses the importance of having a restaurant where... More than just great food writing, this long-overdue rebuttal to the notion that all women are on a diet celebrates food with grace, wit, and gusto. W...
|
|
cena:
118,41 zł |
A Stew or a Story: An Assortment of Short Works
ISBN: 9781593761653 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Like the savory, simple dishes she favored, M. F. K. Fisher's writing was often "short, stylish, concentrated in flavor, and varied in form," writes Joan Reardon in her introduction to this eclectic, lively collection. Magazine writing launched and helped to sustain Fisher's long, illustrious career and in these fifty-seven pieces we experience again the inimitable voice of the woman widely known to have elevated food writing to a literary art. A Stew or a Story covers five decades of Fisher's writing for such notable and diverse publications as Gourmet, Bon Appetit, Ladies Home...
Like the savory, simple dishes she favored, M. F. K. Fisher's writing was often "short, stylish, concentrated in flavor, and varied in form," writes J...
|
|
cena:
76,71 zł |
The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones
ISBN: 9781596913608 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the multiweek "New York Times" bestseller "The Nasty Bits," bestselling chef and "No Reservations" host Anthony Bourdain serves up a well-seasoned hellbroth of candid, often outrageous stories from his worldwide misadventures. Whether surviving a lethal hot pot in Chengdu, splurging on New York's priciest sushi, or singing the praises of Ecuadorian line cooks and Hell's Kitchen dives, Bourdain is as provocative, engaging, and opinionated as ever. "The Nasty Bits "is an irresistible tasting menu of food writing at its outrageous best-served up Bourdain style. In the multiweek "New York Times" bestseller "The Nasty Bits," bestselling chef and "No Reservations" host Anthony Bourdain serves up a well-season... |
|
cena:
76,92 zł |
In the Land of the Magic Pudding: A gastronomic miscellany
ISBN: 9781862545304 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A fabulous potpourri of popular writing by our top writers, on the theme of Australian cooking and eating, the vital ingredient being the entertaining quality of the prose. Through fiction, journalism, books of etiquette, letters, diaries and travel accounts, the book presents wonderful reading fodder from the eighteenth century to the present day.
A fabulous potpourri of popular writing by our top writers, on the theme of Australian cooking and eating, the vital ingredient being the entertaining...
|
|
cena:
134,02 zł |
Wild Food: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery: 2004
ISBN: 9781903018439 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery continues to be the premier English conference on these topics, gathering academics, professional writers and amateurs from Britain, the USA, Australia and many other countries. Prospect Books has published these proceedings since 1981 with a short break in 2001-2003.
The Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery continues to be the premier English conference on these topics, gathering academics, professional writers and...
|
|
cena:
256,41 zł |
Pan Alternativo
ISBN: 9781931456296 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a harmonious combination of history, sociology, conservationism, culinary arts, medicine and nutrition, the author offers us the famous and sought after bread, on a silver platter, with all of the possibilities and recipes we have been waiting for. The philosophy behind the bread is presented with interesting images, making this book a means of reflection and an invitation to not only learn about bread, but to prepare and savor it as you would a work of art. This allows us to reevaluate the presence of this food that is so prevalent around the world, this food that possesses much more than...
In a harmonious combination of history, sociology, conservationism, culinary arts, medicine and nutrition, the author offers us the famous and sought ...
|
|
cena:
90,89 zł |
Nostalgic Cooks: Another French Paradox
ISBN: 9789004143463 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why is it that French chefs tend to develop a syndrome of professional nostalgia? Educated to work in the most prestigious restaurants, they soon discover another reality in common foodservices and are viewed as having made an egotistical professional choice. Regardless of the improvement in their working conditions, their identity is distorted. This book describes foodservices as a whole, including international and inter-industry comparisons in the sociological field of gastronomical professionals, in an attempt to analyze their identities in different stages and diversities.
Why is it that French chefs tend to develop a syndrome of professional nostalgia? Educated to work in the most prestigious restaurants, they soon disc...
|
|
cena:
368,82 zł |
Sex and Bacon: Why I Love Things That Are Very, Very Bad for Me
ISBN: 9781580052283 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It s said that how we eat is reflective of our appetite in bed. Food and sex: two universal experiences that can easily become addictive and all consuming. You don t need to look farThe Food Network, billboards, TV spots to name just a fewto witness firsthand the explosive combination of food and sex.
In Sex and Bacon: Why I Love Things That Are Very, Very Bad for Me, Sarah Katherine Lewis is a seductress whose observations about the interplay between food and sex are unusually delightful, sometimes raunchy, and always absorbing. Sex and Bacon is a unique type of lovefest,... It s said that how we eat is reflective of our appetite in bed. Food and sex: two universal experiences that can easily become addictive and all consu...
|
|
cena:
93,98 zł |
Cornbread Nation 4: The Best of Southern Food Writing
ISBN: 9780820330891 / Angielski / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new collection in the Southern Foodways Alliance's popular series serves up a fifty-three-course celebration of southern foods, southern cooking, and the people and traditions behind them. Editors Dale Volberg Reed and John Shelton Reed have combed magazines, newspapers, books, and journals to bring us a "best of" gathering that is certain to satisfy everyone from omnivorous chowhounds to the most discerning student of regional foodways. After an opening celebration of the joys of spring in her natal Virginia by the redoubtable Edna Lewis, the Reeds organize their collection under... This new collection in the Southern Foodways Alliance's popular series serves up a fifty-three-course celebration of southern foods, southern cooki... |
|
cena:
119,45 zł |
Texas Monthly on . . .: Food
ISBN: 9780292718449 / Angielski / Miękka / 219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From reviews of the newest, hippest restaurants in cities across Texas to stories about the comfort foods we all love, Texans have long relied on Texas Monthly to dish up some of the best writing about food in the Lone Star state. This anthology brings together twenty-eight classic articles about food in Texas and the culture that surrounds it--markets that purvey exotic and traditional foods, well-known chefs, tributes to the cooks and cookbooks of days gone by, and even a feature on how to open a restaurant. Many of the articles are by Patricia Sharpe, Texas... From reviews of the newest, hippest restaurants in cities across Texas to stories about the comfort foods we all love, Texans have long relied on <... |
|
cena:
111,00 zł |
Food Problem
ISBN: 9781429010573 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this 1917 work, Kellogg and Taylor look deeply at the international problem of food production and distribution, particularly at a time of war, in order to understand and solve these problems for future generations. Includes a preface by Herbert Hoover.
In this 1917 work, Kellogg and Taylor look deeply at the international problem of food production and distribution, particularly at a time of war, in ...
|
|
cena:
76,06 zł |
Letters to a Young Housekeeper (1892)
ISBN: 9781429010955 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Published in 1892, Marie Hansen Taylor's work provided advice and support to young women beginning their married lives.
Published in 1892, Marie Hansen Taylor's work provided advice and support to young women beginning their married lives.
|
|
cena:
80,55 zł |