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Ethnic American CookingRecipes for Living in a New World
Ethnic American Cooking: Recipes for Living in a New World is much more than a cookbook. It contains recipes from almost every nationality or ethnicity residing in the US and includes a brief introduction to understanding how those recipes represent that group's food culture. It illustrates the ways in which recipes, like identities, are fluid, adapting to new ingredients, tastes, and circumsta…
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PortlandA Food Biography
The infant city called The Clearing was a bald patch amid a stuttering wood. The Clearing was no booming metropolis; no destination for gastrotourists; no career-changer for ardent chefs — just awkward, palsied steps toward Victorian gentility. In the decades before the remaining trees were scraped from the landscape, Portland's wood was still a verdant breadbasket, overflowing with huckleber…
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PepperA Guide to the World's Favorite Spice
If you are interested in pepper--its provenance, history, taste, and uses—then this is a book for you. J.E. Barth recounts the fascinating history of pepper from ancient times through the present and traces the challenges at each step of the pepper supply chain as it make its way from the growers to the kitchens and dining tables around the world. He covers quality assessment, storage, proces…
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Food at SeaShipboard Cuisine from Ancient to Modern Times
Food at Sea: Shipboard Cuisine from Ancient to Modern Times traces the preservation, preparation, and consumption of food at sea, over a period of several thousand years, and in a variety of cultures. The book traces the development of cooking aboard in ancient and medieval times, through the development of seafaring traditions of storing and preparing food on the world's seas and oceans. Follo…
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New Art of CookeryA Spanish Friar's Kitchen Notebook by Juan Altamiras
Winner of the Jane Grigson Trust Award 2017 and the Aragonese Academy of Gastronomy's 2017 Prize for Research New Art of Cookery, Drawn from the School of Economic Experience, was an influential recipe book published in 1745 by Spanish friary cook Juan Altamiras. In it, he wrote up over 200 recipes for meat, poultry, game, salted and fresh fish, vegetables and sweet things in a chatty style ai…
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The PicnicA History
Picnics are happy occasions and have always been a diversion from every day cares. We think of the picnic as an outdoor meal, set on a blanket, usually in the middle of the day, featuring a hamper filled with tasty morsels and perhaps a bottle of wine, but historically picnics came in many forms, served any time of the day. This first culinary history reveals rustic outdoor dining in its more f…
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New York CityA Food Biography
New York City's first food biography showcases all the vibrancy, innovation, diversity, influence, and taste of this most-celebrated American metropolis. Its cuisine has developed as a lively potluck supper, where discrete culinary traditions have survived, thrived, and interacted. For almost 400 years New York's culinary influence has been felt in other cities and communities worldwide. New Yo…
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Food on the RailsThe Golden Era of Railroad Dining
In roughly one hundred years – from the 1870s to the 1970s – dining on trains began, soared to great heights, and then fell to earth. The founders of the first railroad companies cared more about hauling freight than feeding passengers. The only food available on trains in the mid-nineteenth century was whatever passengers brought aboard in their lunch baskets or managed to pick up at a br…
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Comida no cotidiano
Feijão bem temperado com arroz soltinho. Tapioca com queijo de coalho no ponto. Café acompanhado de um belo bolo de fubá. Deu água na boca? Comer é tão fundamental quanto respirar, como todos sabem. Mas não comemos apenas para sobreviver. Afinal, comida é também uma construção histórica e cultural. E como tal constitui uma das dimensões formadoras das identidades individuais e cole…
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La vera dieta dei gruppi sanguigni
Perché c'è chi può mangiare tutti i dolci che vuole, mentre altri ingrassano solo a guardarli? Perché alcuni prendono sempre l'influenza e altri non si ammalano mai? Esiste una risposta precisa a queste domande: il segreto per vivere bene, essere sani e riuscire a dimagrire dipende dal nostro gruppo sanguigno. Infatti il modo in cui assorbiamo i cibi che mangiamo, come il nostro corpo reagi…
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