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Sex, Death and Oysters: A Half-Shell Lover's World Tour
ISBN: 9781582435558 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When award-winning Texas food writer Robb Walsh discovers that the local Galveston Bay oysters are being passed off as Blue Points and Chincoteagues in other parts of the country, he decides to look into the matter. Thus begins a five-year journey of discovery into the culture of one of the world's oldest delicacy, and adventure that takes him from oyster reefs to oyster bars and from corporate boardrooms to hotel bedrooms in a quest for the truth about the world's most profitable aphrodisiac. On the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts of the United States, as well as the Canadian Maritimes,...
When award-winning Texas food writer Robb Walsh discovers that the local Galveston Bay oysters are being passed off as Blue Points and Chincoteagues i...
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The Master Cheesemakers of Wisconsin
ISBN: 9780299234348 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book--beautifully photographed and engagingly written--introduces hardworking, resourceful men and women who represent an artisanal craft that has roots in Europe but has been a Wisconsin tradition since the 1850s. Wisconsin produces more than 600 varieties of cheese, from massive wheels of cheddar and swiss to bricks of brick and limburger, to such specialties as crescenza-stracchino and juustoleipa. These masters combine tradition, technology, artistry, and years of dedicated learning--in a profession that depends on fickle, living ingredients--to create the rich tastes and beautiful...
This book--beautifully photographed and engagingly written--introduces hardworking, resourceful men and women who represent an artisanal craft that ha...
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Full & Plenty: Classic Irish Cooking
ISBN: 9781856356343 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brings some of the best classic Irish recipes. This book includes 150 classic Irish recipes ranging from wholemeal brown bread to lamb stew.
Brings some of the best classic Irish recipes. This book includes 150 classic Irish recipes ranging from wholemeal brown bread to lamb stew.
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85,10 |
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Letters to My Children
ISBN: 9781847484369 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Benn Haidari was separated from his children by domestic turbulence and physical distance, he refused to become just another absent father. With only the simplest medium and purest will, he set out to maintain contact the only way he knew how: a series of letters to his children. In them, he carefully identifies the lessons he thinks they ought to learn about life and, through these ideas, teaches them about himself. Rich in its detailing of life's peculiarities, passionate about simple pleasures and compelling in its poignancy, Letters to my Children serves as a reminder of the love and...
When Benn Haidari was separated from his children by domestic turbulence and physical distance, he refused to become just another absent father. With ...
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59,56 |
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Squeezed: What You Don't Know about Orange Juice
ISBN: 9780300164558 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Close to three quarters of U.S. households buy orange juice. Its popularity crosses class, cultural, racial, and regional divides. Why do so many of us drink orange juice? How did it turn from a luxury into a staple in just a few years? More important, how is it that we don't know the real reasons behind OJ's popularity or understand the processes by which the juice is produced? In this enlightening book, Alissa Hamilton explores the hidden history of orange juice. She looks at the early forces that propelled orange juice to prominence, including a surplus of oranges that plagued Florida... Close to three quarters of U.S. households buy orange juice. Its popularity crosses class, cultural, racial, and regional divides. Why do so many o... |
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240,44 |
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Gastropolis: Food and New York City
ISBN: 9780231136525 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Whether you're digging into a slice of cherry cheesecake, burning your tongue on a piece of fiery Jamaican jerk chicken, or slurping the broth from a juicy soup dumpling, eating in New York City is a culinary adventure unlike any other in the world. An irresistible sampling of the city's rich food heritage, Gastropolis explores the personal and historical relationship between New Yorkers and food. Beginning with the origins of cuisine combinations, such as Mt. Olympus bagels and Puerto Rican lasagna, the book describes the nature of food and drink before the arrival of Europeans in...
Whether you're digging into a slice of cherry cheesecake, burning your tongue on a piece of fiery Jamaican jerk chicken, or slurping the broth from a ...
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87,23 |
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Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Mea
ISBN: 9780802144935 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A staple of the food-writing genre that prefigured the current locavore and foodist movements by almost two decades, Margaret Visser s "Much Depends on Dinner" is a delightful and intelligent history of the food we eat, and a cornucopia of incredible details about the ways we do it.
Presented as a meal, each chapter of Much Depends on Dinner represents a different course or garnish, which Margaret Visser handpicks from the most ordinary American dinner: corn on the cob with butter and salt, roast chicken with rice, salad dressed in lemon juice and olive oil, and ice cream. Visser tells the... A staple of the food-writing genre that prefigured the current locavore and foodist movements by almost two decades, Margaret Visser s "Much Depends o...
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76,02 |
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Food Will Win the War: Minnesota Crops, Cook, and Conservation During World War I
ISBN: 9780873517188 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Meatless Mondays, Wheatless Wednesdays, vegetable gardens and chickens in every empty lot. When the United States entered World War I, Minnesotans responded to appeals for personal sacrifice and changed the way they cooked and ate in order to conserve food for the boys "over there." Baking with corn and rye, eating simple meals based on locally grown food, consuming fewer calories, and wasting nothing in the kitchen became civic acts. High-energy foods and calories unconsumed on the American home front could help the food-starved, war-torn American Allies eat another day and fight another...
Meatless Mondays, Wheatless Wednesdays, vegetable gardens and chickens in every empty lot. When the United States entered World War I, Minnesotans res...
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106,24 |
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All about Coffee (Second Edition)
ISBN: 9781578988709 / Angielski / Miękka / 826 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reprint of the second edition (1935). The second and standard edition of this definitive work on the history and influence of coffee. Covers the historical, technical, scientific, commercial, social and artistic dimensions of coffee. A still unsurpassed work on the subject. Lavishly illustrated.
Reprint of the second edition (1935). The second and standard edition of this definitive work on the history and influence of coffee. Covers the histo...
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194,63 |
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Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Japan
ISBN: 9780520262270 / Angielski / Twarda / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How did one dine with a shogun? Or make solid gold soup, sculpt with a fish, or turn seaweed into a symbol of happiness? In this fresh look at Japanese culinary history, Eric C. Rath delves into the writings of medieval and early modern Japanese chefs to answer these and other provocative questions, and to trace the development of Japanese cuisine from 1400 to 1868. Rath shows how medieval "fantasy food" rituals--where food was revered as symbol rather than consumed--were continued by early modern writers. The book offers the first extensive introduction to Japanese cookbooks, recipe...
How did one dine with a shogun? Or make solid gold soup, sculpt with a fish, or turn seaweed into a symbol of happiness? In this fresh look at Japanes...
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344,90 |
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Archaeologies of Colonialism: Consumption, Entanglement, and Violence in Ancient Mediterranean France
ISBN: 9780520265516 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents a theoretically informed, up-to-date study of interactions between indigenous peoples of Mediterranean France and Etruscan, Greek, and Roman colonists during the first millennium BC. Analyzing archaeological data and ancient texts, Michael Dietler explores these colonial encounters over six centuries, focusing on material culture, urban landscapes, economic practices, and forms of violence. He shows how selective consumption linked native societies and colonists and created transformative relationships for each. Archaeologies of Colonialism also examines the role...
This book presents a theoretically informed, up-to-date study of interactions between indigenous peoples of Mediterranean France and Etruscan, Greek, ...
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363,06 |
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Millinery Hat Making and Design - Fancy and Draped Crowns and Special-Purpose Millinery
ISBN: 9781445506128 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This vintage volume contains a detailed guide to millinery, with directions for making veils, caps, special-purpose hats, and much more. With simple directions and useful, detailed illustrations, this book is ideal for the beginner, and would make for a fantastic addition to collections of handcrafting literature. Contents include: Fancy Crowns, Draped Crowns, Fancy and Draped Crowns, Examination Questions, Special-Purpose Millinery, Nature and Importance, Veils, Hats and Related Millinery, Hats, Novelty Sports Sets, Caps, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly rare...
This vintage volume contains a detailed guide to millinery, with directions for making veils, caps, special-purpose hats, and much more. With simple d...
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153,22 |
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Honey, I'm Homemade: Sweet Treats from the Beehive Across the Centuries and Around the World
ISBN: 9780252077449 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Honey, I'm Homemade: Sweet Treats from the Beehive across the Centuries and around the World" showcases a wealth of recipes for cookies, breads, pies, puddings, and cakes that feature honey as an essential ingredient. Noted entomologist May Berenbaum also details the fascinating history of honey harvesting and consumption around the world, explains the honey bee's extraordinary capacity to process nectar into concentrated sweetness, and marvels at honey's diverse flavors and health benefits.Honey is a unique food because of its power to evoke a particular time and place. Every time it is... "Honey, I'm Homemade: Sweet Treats from the Beehive across the Centuries and around the World" showcases a wealth of recipes for cookies, breads, p... |
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Le Bureau Des Menus-Plaisirs
ISBN: 9781145004252 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, e...
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67,90 |
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Food and Friends: Recipes and Memories from Simca's Cuisine
ISBN: 9780140178173 / Angielski / Miękka / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. View recipes from Food and Friends.The coauthor of Mastering the Art of French Cooking shares an irresistible feast of reminiscence and recipes.
Simone "Simca" Beck first met Julia Child in 1949 in the women's cooking club Cercle des Gourmettes in Paris. Soon afterwards, the two began collaborating on what would become Mastering the Art of French Cooking. During her extraordinary career, Simca was mentor and friend to a generation of cooks and food writers. In Food and Friends, she interweaves tantalizing recipes and menus with a wonderfully... View recipes from Food and Friends.The coauthor of Mastering the Art of French Cooking shares an irresistible feast of reminiscence a...
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114,03 |
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The Meals-For-Two Cook Book
ISBN: 9781445513102 / Angielski / Twarda / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a delicious read for any cookery enthusiast or historian. Recipes are extensively illustrated with text and full page photographs. Contents Include: Off to a Good Start, Menus, Meats, Soups and Accessories, Salads, Fish, Canapes and Appetizers, Poultry, Vegetables, Eggs and Cheese, Refrigerator Desserts, Leftovers, Cakes and Cookies, Pies and Pastries, Beverages, Sauces and Frostings, Desserts and Breads. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in...
This is a delicious read for any cookery enthusiast or historian. Recipes are extensively illustrated with text and full page photographs. Contents In...
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178,75 |
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The Meals-For-Two Cook Book
ISBN: 9781445509266 / Angielski / Miękka / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a delicious read for any cookery enthusiast or historian. Recipes are extensively illustrated with text and full page photographs. Contents Include: Off to a Good Start, Menus, Meats, Soups and Accessories, Salads, Fish, Canapes and Appetizers, Poultry, Vegetables, Eggs and Cheese, Refrigerator Desserts, Leftovers, Cakes and Cookies, Pies and Pastries, Beverages, Sauces and Frostings, Desserts and Breads. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in...
This is a delicious read for any cookery enthusiast or historian. Recipes are extensively illustrated with text and full page photographs. Contents In...
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114,90 |
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Annals of the Caliphs' Kitchens: Ibn Sayyār al-Warrāq's Tenth-Century Baghdadi Cookbook
ISBN: 9789004188112 / Angielski / Miękka / 908 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written nearly a thousand years ago, al-Warraq's cookbook is the most comprehensive work of its kind. This traditional cookbook with more than 600 recipes from the luxurious cuisine of medieval Islam is also a rare guide to the contemporary culinary culture. Its numerous anecdotes and poems unfold the role of food in the politics of Islam's golden era. Introducing this elegant translation is a thorough survey of the period and its food culture. An extensive Glossary, in Arabic and English, of medieval ingredients and dishes, and an Appendix of historical figures provide the necessary...
Written nearly a thousand years ago, al-Warraq's cookbook is the most comprehensive work of its kind. This traditional cookbook with more than 600 rec...
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250,71 |
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Eating for Ireland
ISBN: 9781907593055 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eating for Ireland by Tom Doorley is a nostalgic exploration of iconic Irish (and international) food brands and food culture. Taking a look at how we eat and how we used to eat throughout the years, Eating for Ireland is a must-read, and an ideal Christmas present, for any food-lover and for anyone who has an interest in the food culture of Ireland. Why is lemonade red? How do they get the figs in Jacob's Fig Rolls? And why do some people like Marmite? These and other mysteries are tackled in Eating for Ireland, a collection of short pieces on the weird and wonderful world of food in...
Eating for Ireland by Tom Doorley is a nostalgic exploration of iconic Irish (and international) food brands and food culture. Taking a look at how we...
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67,96 |
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Eating Out in Europe: Picnics, Gourmet Dining and Snacks Since the Late Eighteenth Century
ISBN: 9781859736586 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Europeans are eating out in unprecedented numbers-in cafes, pubs, brasseries, and restaurants. But what if we open up this concept of "eating out" to include any eating that takes place outside the home? What cultural shifts can we see through time? What does this tell us about pre-industrial, industrial, and post-industrial societies? Eating Out in Europe addresses such questions as it examines changes in eating patterns. Case studies include the evolution of the pub, the rise of the fast food industry in Britain, picnicking in nineteenth-century France, snack culture in the... Europeans are eating out in unprecedented numbers-in cafes, pubs, brasseries, and restaurants. But what if we open up this concept of "eating out" ... |
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173,81 |
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