Xesc Reina reúne por primera vez en Porca miseria: Los oficios de la carne su manera de entender todos los aspectos de la charcutería. Partiendo de los conceptos básicos de la profesión, Xesc Reina se adentra poco a poco en sus entresijos actuales hasta culminar con una prospección: pasado, presente y futuro de los oficios de la carne. Todo salpicado con pasajes de su trayectoria persona…
Dürr, Schnapps Distillery Technology. In this book, the six authors, all experts in their field, present the latest scientific findings in relation to schnapps distilleries. Professional distillers, beverage technologists, students of foodstuffs technology and scientists of related disciplines are given a sound and practically oriented introduction into schnapps distilling. This third edition …
Un hortelano y una rana. Una prensa sádica y una cometa de carne. Un cocinero desarmado, un sándwich y un pastelito rosa. El periodista y escritor Pau Arenós, con la prosa vívida que le caracteriza, indaga en esta serie de artículos sobre lo extraordinario, lo prohibido y lo diferente en la gastronomía. Meterse un pájaro en la boca es un recordatorio de que el mundo culinario es increí…
Women across the Caribbean have been writing, reading, and exchanging cookbooks since at least the turn of the nineteenth century. These cookbooks are about much more than cooking. Through cookbooks, Caribbean women, and a few men, have shaped, embedded, and contested colonial and domestic orders, delineated the contours of independent national cultures, and transformed tastes for independence …
The restaurant industry is one of the few places in America where workers from lower-class backgrounds can rise to positions of power and prestige. Yet with over four million cooks and food-preparation workers employed in America's restaurants, not everyone makes it to the high-status position of chef. What factors determine who rises the ranks in this fiercely competitive pressure-cooker envir…
The title of my book is Simple Southern Recipes from Mother to Son. The title comes from cooking in the kitchen with my grandmother, Anna Dorothy Jones. That was my favorite thing to do growing up. We would be in the kitchen for hours planning and preparing food for the family. As she shared her recipes for food, she also shared her recipes for love. I did not realize until later in life that t…
A delightful romp through America's Golden Age of Cocktails The decades following the American Civil War burst with invention—they saw the dawn of the telephone, the motor car, electric lights, the airplane—but no innovation was more welcome than the beverage heralded as the "cocktail." The Gilded Age, as it came to be known, was the Golden Age of Cocktails, giving birth to the classic Ma…
How the Prohibition law of 1920 made alcohol, savored in secret, all the more delectable when the cocktail shaker was forced to go "underground" "Roaring Twenties" America boasted famous firsts: women's right to vote, jazz music, talking motion pictures, flapper fashions, and wondrous new devices like the safety razor and the electric vacuum cleaner. The privations of the Great War were over, …
A delightful history of cocktails from the era of new interstate highways, sprouting suburbs, and atomic engineering America at midcentury was a nation on the move, taking to wings and wheels along the new interstate highways and in passenger jets that soared to thirty thousand feet. Anxieties rippled, but this new Atomic Age promised cheap power and future wonders, while the hallmark of the e…