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Spices: The Story of Spices the Spices Described
ISBN: 9780820603506 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Volume 1 of Spices covers the history of spices from ancient time to the modern world, description of spices, as well as an outline of trends in the spice industry. An Appendix, in alphabetical order, details the origins and nature of the spices described and additional information on essential oils of the spices. This two volume set is an excellent reference sources for those who need to understand spices.
Volume 1 of Spices covers the history of spices from ancient time to the modern world, description of spices, as well as an outline of trends in the s...
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375,85 zł |
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Rare Bits: Unusual Origins of Popular Recipes
ISBN: 9780821412329 / Angielski / Twarda / 331 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In terms of geological time, good cooks are a young species. They've been evolving for a scant half a million years, since fire was first tamed and tended. "Rare Bits" is a delightful and illuminating account of humankind's progression from skewering meat to whipping up a batch of Strawberries Sarah Bernhardt.
The range is wide, from Bismarcks to Green Goddess dressing. Stevens provides much food for thought as she delves always deeper, brushing aside spurious anecdotes to find the truth. This is culinary history at its most appetizing. Stevens brings serious historical research to a... In terms of geological time, good cooks are a young species. They've been evolving for a scant half a million years, since fire was first tamed and te...
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140,99 zł |
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Rare Bits: Unusual Origins of Popular Recipes
ISBN: 9780821412336 / Angielski / Miękka / 331 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In terms of geological time, good cooks are a young species. They've been evolving for a scant half a million years, since fire was first tamed and tended. Rare Bits is a delightful and illuminating account of humankind's progression from skewering meat to whipping up a batch of Strawberries Sarah Bernhardt. The range is wide, from Bismarcks to Green Goddess dressing. Stevens provides much food for thought as she delves always deeper, brushing aside spurious anecdotes to find the truth. This is culinary history at its most appetizing. Stevens brings serious historical research to a neglected...
In terms of geological time, good cooks are a young species. They've been evolving for a scant half a million years, since fire was first tamed and te...
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75,51 zł |
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The Forgotten Art of Building and Using a Brick Bake Oven, 1st Edition
ISBN: 9780911469257 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published by Yankee Magazine in 1977, this book remains the authority on how old-time brick ovens were designed and used. The book explains the evolution of the brick oven from the 17th through the 19th centuries, out lines the basic points to consider in building such an oven today, and describes in detail construction of a brick oven, ash pit complex, including the tools required, procedures to be followed, types of brick and mortar, lintels and doors, plans, dimensions, and actual brickwork, graphically illustrated with photographs, diagrams and drawings. Also covered is how to heat...
First published by Yankee Magazine in 1977, this book remains the authority on how old-time brick ovens were designed and used. The book explains the ...
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65,64 zł |
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Depression Era Recipes
ISBN: 9780934860550 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Learn about the Depression Era, how Grandma cooked, and enjoy simple, basic cooking This book commemorates an era that will never be forgotten, with over 450 back-to-the-basics recipes, household hints, a spice guide and some period poetry.
Learn about the Depression Era, how Grandma cooked, and enjoy simple, basic cooking This book commemorates an era that will never be forgotten, with ...
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39,28 zł |
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Eat My Words: Reading Women's Lives Through the Cookbooks They Wrote
ISBN: 9781403962935 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Some people think that a cookbook is just a collection of recipes for dishes that feed the body. In Eat My Words: Reading Women's Lives through the Cookbooks They Wrote, Janet Theophano shows that cookbooks provide food for the mind and the soul as well. Looking beyond the ingredients and instructions, she shows how women have used cookbooks to assert their individuality, develop their minds, and structure their lives. Beginning in the seventeenth century and moving up through the present day, Theophano reads between the lines of recipes for dandelion wine, "Queen of Puddings," and...
Some people think that a cookbook is just a collection of recipes for dishes that feed the body. In Eat My Words: Reading Women's Lives through the...
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110,50 zł |
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Housekeeping in Old Virginia
ISBN: 9781410105080 / Angielski / Miękka / 532 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1879, this cooking classic was praised by Mrs. President Rutherford B. Hayes, Mrs. Chief Justice M. H. Waite, Mrs. Secretary of State W. M. Evarts, and a wide range of wives of Senators and Governors. The editor was the granddaughter of Patrick Henry, and herself one of the famous housekeepers of Virginia.
Originally published in 1879, this cooking classic was praised by Mrs. President Rutherford B. Hayes, Mrs. Chief Justice M. H. Waite, Mrs. Secretary o...
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132,44 zł |
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The Pantropheon: Or a History of Food and Its Preparation in Ancient Times
ISBN: 9781589633599 / Angielski / Miękka / 556 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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88,21 zł |
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The Cook Book of Left-Overs
ISBN: 9781589636620 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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101,48 zł |
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Old-Time Farmhouse Cooking: Rural American Recipes & Farm Lore
ISBN: 9781883206413 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Climb down off your tractor and dig into some old-fashioned, farm-fresh comfort food We've got cranberry beef stew simmering on the old wood cookstove and some sweet corn just pulled off the stalks. Try a dab of this farm-churned golden butter on the orange rye bread still warm from the oven. Whether you're a born farmer, or a country-minded city person, you'll enjoy these creative rural American recipes from a time when the food was wholesome and life was full of fresh air and sunshine. These recipes, stores, jokes, advice, farm lore, and illustrations were collected from a wide variety of...
Climb down off your tractor and dig into some old-fashioned, farm-fresh comfort food We've got cranberry beef stew simmering on the old wood cookstov...
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31,38 zł |
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Water of Life: A History of Wine-distilling and Spirits from 500 BC to AD 2000
ISBN: 9781903018460 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This important book looks at the entire history of distilling in the Middle East and Europe from the earliest experiments by the Pythagorean alchemists of Ptolomaic Egypt in the fourth century BC to the commercial production of spirits to drink in the British Isles to the year 2000. It is important because Ms Wilson has explored byways of early history that have been little noticed by previous scholars. She links the art of distilling to alchemical practice; to the Dionysian cults of ancient Greece and Rome; to the development of the art by the Gnostic mystic Christian sects (who greatly...
This important book looks at the entire history of distilling in the Middle East and Europe from the earliest experiments by the Pythagorean alchemist...
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178,61 zł |
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Moveable Feasts: The History, Science, and Lore of Food
ISBN: 9780803216327 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 originally grown. Other foods remain staples of their original regions as well as of the world diet at large. Still others are now grown in places that would have seemed impossible in the past-bananas in heated greenhouses in Iceland, corn on the fringes of the Gobi Desert, tomatoes on the...
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 E...
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74,81 zł |
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Hard to Swallow: A Brief History of Food
ISBN: 9780521064941 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Richard Lacey questions the nature of what we eat in an entertaining and informative way.
Richard Lacey questions the nature of what we eat in an entertaining and informative way.
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248,96 zł |
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La Varenne's Cookery: The French Cook, the French Pastry Chef, the French Confectioner
ISBN: 9781903018415 / Angielski / Twarda / 655 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These three books by Francois Pierre de la Varenne (c. 16151678), who was chef to the Marquis d Uxelles, are the most important French cookery books of the seventeenth century. It was the first French cookery book of any substance since Le Viandier almost 300 years before, and it ran to thirty editions in 75 years. The reason for its success was simply; it was the first book to record and embody the immense advances which French cooking had made, largely under the influence of Italy and the Renaissance, since the fifteenth century. Some characteristics of medieval cookery are still visible,...
These three books by Francois Pierre de la Varenne (c. 16151678), who was chef to the Marquis d Uxelles, are the most important French cookery books o...
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280,67 zł |
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Food in Medieval Times
ISBN: 9780313361760 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Students and other readers will learn about the common foodstuffs available, how and what they cooked, ate, and drank, what the regional cuisines were like, how the different classes entertained and celebrated, and what restrictions they followed for health and faith reasons. Fascinating information is provided, such as on imitation food, kitchen humor, and medical ideas. Many period recipes and quotations flesh out the narrative. The book draws on a variety of period sources, including as literature, account books, cookbooks, religious texts, archaeology, and art. Food was a... Students and other readers will learn about the common foodstuffs available, how and what they cooked, ate, and drank, what the regional cuisines w... |
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177,64 zł |
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The Hamburger: A History
ISBN: 9780300144499 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What do Americans think of when they think of the hamburger? A robust, succulent spheroid of fresh ground beef, the birthright of red-blooded citizens? Or a Styrofoam-shrouded Big Mac, mass-produced to industrial specifications and served by wage slaves to an obese, brainwashed population? Is it cooking or commodity? An icon of freedom or the quintessence of conformity? This fast-paced and entertaining book unfolds the immense significance of the hamburger as an American icon. Josh Ozersky shows how the history of the burger is entwined with American business and culture and, unexpectedly,...
What do Americans think of when they think of the hamburger? A robust, succulent spheroid of fresh ground beef, the birthright of red-blooded citizens...
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132,56 zł |
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Chocolate: Pathway to the Gods [With CD (Audio)]
ISBN: 9780816524648 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chocolate: Pathway to the Gods takes readers on a journey through 3,000 years of the history of chocolate. It is a trip filled with surprises. And it is a beautifully illustrated tour, featuring 132 vibrant color photographs and a captivating sixty-minute DVD documentary. Along the way, readers learn about the mystical allure of chocolate for the peoples of Mesoamerica, who were the first to make it and who still incorporate it into their lives and ceremonies today. Although it didn't receive its Western scientific name, Theobroma cacao--"food of the gods"--until the eighteenth...
Chocolate: Pathway to the Gods takes readers on a journey through 3,000 years of the history of chocolate. It is a trip filled with surprises. ...
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137,81 zł |
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A History of Food
ISBN: 9781405181198 / Angielski / Twarda / 776 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of cuisine and the social history of eating is a fascinating one, and Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat covers all its aspects in this classic history.
The story of cuisine and the social history of eating is a fascinating one, and Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat covers all its aspects in this classic hist...
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153,51 zł |
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Cooking in Europe, 1650-1850
ISBN: 9780313346248 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the Baroque Era to the Victorian Era, 1650-1850, unprecedented changes took place in the food ways and dining habits of European society. This daily life aspect of history comes alive for students and food enthusiasts as they read and try out these recipes, most translated into English for the first time. There are nearly 200 recipes, organized overall by the mini-periods of the Baroque and Rococo Era, the Reign of Louis XV to the French Revolution, and the reign of Napoleon to the Victorian Era. Author Ivan Day, a renowned food historian who specializes in meticulous recreation of... From the Baroque Era to the Victorian Era, 1650-1850, unprecedented changes took place in the food ways and dining habits of European society. This... |
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310,30 zł |
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Foods
ISBN: 9780710311382 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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287,08 zł |