Marcella Cucina or Recipes for the Heart Morsels for the Soul

Marcella Cucina

Author: Marcella Hazan

Since the publication of her first book, The Classic Italian Cookbook, more than 20 years ago, Marcella Hazan has been hailed as the queen of Italian cooking in America. Marcella, whose name conjures up a splendid world of food for the devoted millions who love her books and attend her cooking classes, is back again with her finest book yet, Marcella Cucina. Filled with the passion and personality of its author, it is a book not only of fine food and its careful preparation but of personal reminiscences and penetrating commentary about the sensual pleasure of food and its place in our lives.

In vivid introductory essays and seductive headnotes, the narrative of an extraordinary culinary life unfolds. With each memory of a trip, a meal or a flavor, we are treated to the perspective of a great cook and teacher--one who believes that the finest Italian cooking is found in the home. In Marcella Cucina, she focuses on regional cooking, turning her sharp eye to every area of Italy and offering a rich array of flavors and textures from cities and villages alike. Best of all, Marcella cooks at your side with easy-to-follow instructions and lavish full-color photographs that teach you her techniques--from preparing homemade pasta to cleaning artichokes--and allow you flawlessly to re-create her magic in your own kitchen.

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Recipes for the Heart Morsels for the Soul: An Invitation to Life, Love, and Wellness with a Cookbook for Delicious Heathy Eating

Author: Carol Anne Pock

This book begins with the true story of a young couple who faced the two biggest causes of death in society today: cancer and heart disease. Like the authors themselves, the story jumps quickly from an energy of fear to one of courage and determination. Rather than submit to a seemingly cruel twist of fate, Carol and Les began upon a quest for wellness and joy, and take you right along with them for the most delicious ride of your life!

Get to know them, and partake of the wonderful repast they have prepared for you, both at the table with Carol's recipes, and in every moment of the day. The tools are here, the time is now, and your very well-being is on the line.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments	IX
	Foreword	XIII
	Preface: A Change of Heart	XVII
Chapter 1	Good Times... Come on, Let's Celebrate	1
Chapter 2	Discovery	7
Chapter 3	New Beginnings	13
Chapter 4	Baby Steps	17
Chapter 5	A Double Triumph	19
Chapter 6	Change in Course	23
Chapter 7	Recipe for a Wealth of Health	31
Chapter 8	Getting to the Heart of What Matters	35
Chapter 9	Super Marketing and Label-Ease	39
Chapter 10	The Meat of the Subject	47
Chapter 11	Get to "Know" Fat	65
Chapter 12	Lick the Problem, Not Your Plate	79
Chapter 13	Eating for the Health of It	85
Chapter 14	Tips, Tricks, Clues and What to Do's	91
Chapter 15	Dining Out Defensively... and Enjoyably	101
Chapter 16	Eat, Drink and Chill	111
	In Conclusion...	117
	Recipes
	Appetizers	121
	Beverages & Condiments	141
	Soups	149
	Salads	157
	Main Courses	175
	Side Dishes	243
	Jewish Cooking	265
	Desserts	289
	Kids' Cooking	317
	Appendices
Appendix A	Daily Requirements of Nutrients	329
Appendix B	Measures	335
Appendix C	Common Pan and Dish Sizes	339
	Recipe Index	341
	About the Author	347

Food and Cultural Studies or Exotic Appetites

Food and Cultural Studies (Studies in Consumption and Markets)

Author: Bob Ashley

What and how we eat are two of the most persistent choices we face in everyday life. Whatever we decide on though, and however mundane our decisions may seem, they will be inscribed with information both about ourselves and about our positions in the world around us. Yet, food has only recently become a significant and coherent area of inquiry for cultural studies and the social sciences.

Food and Cultural Studies re-examines the interdisciplinary history of food studies from a cultural studies framework, from the semiotics of Barthes and the anthropology of Levi-Strauss to Elias' historical analysis and Bourdieu's work on the relationship between food, consumption and cultural identity. The authors then go on to explore subjects as diverse as food and nation, the gendering of eating in, the phenomenon of TV chefs, the ethics of vegetarianism and food, risk and moral panics.

This book is fascinating reading for students and academics studying both consumption and cultural studies morebroadly.

Table of Contents:

1	Food-cultural studies : three paradigms	1
2	The raw and the cooked	27
3	Food, bodies and etiquette	41
4	Consumption and taste	59
5	The national diet	75
6	The global kitchen	91
7	Shopping for food	105
8	Eating in	123
9	Eating out	141
10	Food writing	153
11	Television chefs	171
12	Food ethics and anxieties	187

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Exotic Appetites: Ruminations of a Food Adventurer

Author: Lisa M Heldk

Exotic Appetites is a far-reaching exploration of what Lisa Heldke calls "food adventuring": the passion, fashion and pursuit of experimentation with ethnic foods. The aim of Heldke's critique is to expose and explore the colonialist attitudes embedded in our everyday relationship and approach to foreign foods. Exotic Appetites brings to the table the critical literatures in postcolonialism, critical race theory, and feminism in a provocative and lively discussion of eating and "ethnic" cuisine. Chapters look closely at the meanings and implications involved in the quest for unusual restaurants and exotic dishes, related restaurant reviews and dining guides, and ethnic cookbooks.

The Best of Amish Cooking or Guide for the Greedy by a Greedy Woman

The Best of Amish Cooking: Traditional and Contemporary Recipes Adapted from the Kitchens and Pantries of Old Order Amish Cooks

Author: Phyllis Pellman Good

This beautiful book by a New York Times bestselling author who is also a leading expert on Amish cooking highlights traditional and contemporary recipes adapted from the kitchens and pantries of Amish cooks.

Phyllis Pellman Good has spent years researching these foods. She has interviewed Amish grandmothers and dipped into old books, diaries, and recipe boxes.

The dishes she selected are ones that were and continue to be popular in eastern Pennsylvania, usually in the Lancaster area. According to Good, they reflect the fruitfulness of Amish fields and gardens, as well as the group's emphasis on family and community.

Color photos set the mood. Wonderful descriptions and introductions prepare the setting. And delicious, savory recipes fill this book with some of the best food you'll find anywhere.

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Guide for the Greedy by a Greedy Woman (Library of Culinary Arts)

Author: Pennell

This is surely the most extraordinary book on food and eating ever published in the English language. Elizabeth Robins Pennell, who was a correspondent for the Pall Mall Gazette at the height of its fashionability, was obviously the inspiration of the "Two Fat Ladies." Beginning with an essay on the virtue of gluttony, it traverses past breakfast, sandwiches, dinner, supper, portage, soups, sole, oysters, partridge, salads, and savouries, coming sadly to an all-too-soon stop at cheese and coffee. Oh, but not forgetting a skirmish with the vegetables.

The Bloodless Revolution or Moorish Recipes

The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism from 1600 to Modern Times

Author: Tristram Stuart

"Magnificently detailed and wide-ranging."—Steven Shapin, The New Yorker

Hailed by critics on both sides of the Atlantic, The Bloodless Revolution is a pioneering history of puritanical revolutionaries, European Hinduphiles, and visionary scientists who embraced radical ideas from the East and conspired to overthrow Western society's voracious hunger for meat. At the heart of this compelling history are the stories of John Zephaniah Holwell, survivor of the Black Hole of Calcutta, and John Stewart and John Oswald, who traveled to India in the eighteenth century, converted to the animal-friendly tenets of Hinduism, and returned to Europe to spread the word. Leading figures of the Enlightenment—among them Rousseau, Voltaire, and Benjamin Franklin—gave intellectual backing to the vegetarians, sowing the seeds for everything from Victorian soup kitchens to contemporary animal rights and environmentalism.

Spanning across three centuries with reverberations to our current world, The Bloodless Revolution is a stunning debut from a young historian with enormous talent and promise, "draw[ing] the different strands of the subject together in a way that has never been done before" (Keith Thomas, author of Man and the Natural World). 24 pages of illustrations.

The Washington Post - Mark Kurlansky

Tristram Stuart's thought-provoking book is not a global history of this taboo. Instead, it revolves around the vegetarian movement that began in 17th-century England -- the name first came into use in the 1840s -- and that remains strong today. But there is nothing narrow about the author's focus. Both scholarly and entertaining, The Bloodless Revolution is a huge feast of ideas -- ideas from India and France and America, from ancient Greece and Thoreau and Emerson, from Rousseau, Hobbes, the Kabbalah, the Old Testament, Descartes and Darwin, to name just a few of the better-known sources that weigh in on the meatless diet.

Publishers Weekly

The word "vegetarian" wasn't coined until the 1840s, but Stuart's magisterial social history demonstrates how deeply seated the vegetarian impulse has been in Western culture since the 17th century. Thinkers such as Francis Bacon and Thomas Bushell contended that a vegetarian diet provided a key not only to long life but also to spiritual perfection: God had permitted Adam and Eve to eat only plants, fruits and seeds, and doing so could restore humankind to Edenic wholeness with nature. Seventeenth- and 18th-century travelers to India introduced the Hindu idea of ahimsa (the preservation of all life) as an ideal for a slaughter-free society. Stuart follows the development of vegetarianism through its Romantic proponents Shelley and Rousseau and on into the 19th century, when doctors proffered scientific evidence that human teeth and intestines were more similar to those of herbivores than of carnivores. Looking at literary culture, Stuart notes that Samuel Richardson, Mary Shelley and Jane Austen included vegetarian characters in their novels. Stuart offers a masterful social and cultural history of a movement that changed the ways people think about the food they eat. 24 pages of color illus., b&w illus. throughout. (Jan.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Kristin Whitehair - Library Journal

In his first book, historian and freelance writer Stuart explores the advocacy of vegetarianism by numerous individuals and groups in the West from 1600 to the present. Examining various vegetarian practices, he identifies common trends and beliefs while doing important work in highlighting connections between vegetarian advocates and political and social trends. Stuart also profiles influential individuals in the movement, providing historical context; for example, he thoroughly examines the beliefs and impact of 18th-century British vegetarian George Cheyne. Overall, this work is extensively researched and includes detailed descriptions of ideological arguments advocating vegetarianism. Though Stuart himself does not aim to promote vegetarianism, a pro-vegetarian viewpoint is evident throughout. With 24 pages of color illustrations; suitable for undergraduate and graduate readers.

Kirkus Reviews

An epic of non-carnivorous restraint. Stuart, a young British scholar, offers portraits of often little-known figures who would not eat anything with a mother or a face, and he blends these character studies with smart analyses of historical trends and the transmission of ideas. The earliest vegetarians in this account, from the 17th century, were mostly driven by religious ideas, though often with a strong scientific bent. For instance, Thomas Bushell, a disciple of the natural philosopher Francis Bacon, reasoned that, according to the Bible, humans lived to be 900 years old until after the Flood, when God gave them permission to eat meat, after which they started dying off at age 70; logic demanded that vegetarians therefore could live, if not to 900, to at least some greater age. To Judeo-Christian religious impulses, complicated by widespread contact with Hindu and other Indian ideas after the 17th century, were added ethical and proto-ecological arguments, with some maintaining that it was simply wrong to eat things that demonstrably had consciousness, and that creating feed for livestock was a wanton waste of natural resources. All these arguments are with us today, Stuart notes. Along the way, he identifies founding fathers of the self-help movement, including perhaps the first diet doctor in history. He looks into the ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, moved by the rigor of Linnean science to argue that because women had only two breasts, as compared to, say, a wolf's many teats, our kind is likely not innately carnivorous: "Breasts," writes Stuart, "were not just symbols of gentle nourishment and innocence, they bore scientific testimony to humanity's original herbivorous nature."And he examines the effects of Darwinian theory on various strains of vegetarian thought, one of them the ideology propounded by Adolf Hitler, who seems to have thought that eating meat could "purify" him of any Jewishness flowing through his veins. Culinary and cultural history intertwined: readable, and endlessly interesting.

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Moorish Recipes (The Kegan Paul Library of Culinary Arts Series)

Author: John Fourth Marquis of But

This useful book on Moroccan cooking provides notes on traditional Moroccan spices and eating habits, along with numerous recipes.

Candles and Parsley when Company Comes or Coffee Cocoa and Tea

Candles and Parsley when Company Comes: Tips for Entertaining and a Record of Your Best Menus

Author: Starrhill Press

Keep notes on your dinner parties: the guests, the menu, what worked, and what didn't. With Gibson drawings.

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Coffee, Cocoa and Tea

Author: Willson Cabi

While botanically quite different, coffee, cocoa and tea are all important plantation cash crops grown primarily in warmer, less developed regions of the world. They are typically considered together in horticulture and agriculture courses. This is the first book to provide a general introduction and overview of the scientific principles underlying their production.

Cranks Bible or Windows Across Missouri

Crank's Bible: A Timeless Collection of Vegetarian Recipes

Author: Nadine Abensur

This is the definitive collection of Cranks recipes, displaying the exciting breadth of vegetarian cuisine, clearly in tune with today's modern style of lighter, healthier eating. It includes delicious, quick vegetarian recipes for all occasions centred around the key food groups. This volume, featuring colourful, specially commissioned photography, clearly illustrates the richness and diversity of vegetarian meals.

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Windows Across Missouri: A Culinary View

Author: Staff of Missouri State Medical Association Alllianc

Enhance your culinary experience with Windows across Missouri

Windows across Missouri features classic and contemporary cuisine portrayed with nostalgic recollections and helpful suggestions to guide you through more than 500 appealing recipes collected and tested by Alliance members and friends.

This tempting and extraordinary tour depicts Missouri's colorful heritage through portraits of the state's natural wonders and scenic waterways, magical and magnificent metropolitan centers, and fascinating and entertaining historic venues.

San Rafael Cook Book or Taste of Dreams

San Rafael Cook Book

Author: Applewood Books

This 1906 cookbook was compiled by the Ladies of San Rafael, California.

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Taste of Dreams: An Obsession with Russia and Caviar

Author: Vanora Bennett

The Taste of Dreams is both a quest for the romantic Russia of the author's dreams, and a tale of amazement as she discovers and gets caught up in the new, anarchic Russia emerging from its Soviet constraints. At its heart is the story of caviar: beluga, the rarest type of sturgeon, harvested from the Caspian Sea. It is now an endangered species, and no one knows how—or wants—to stop the plunder. People kill for it.

Library Journal

London Times correspondent Bennett (Crying Wolf) has a foreigner's knack for catching Russia's contradictions. From the cramped living conditions in a land so vast to the gourmand attitude in a country of rations and long lines, she knows the tension among the government, the land, and the people, and how all three shape one another. Part memoir and part travelog, this book captures a lot about Russia, not least the sense that there is always something vaguely menacing just beyond view: the low-level radiation in vegetables, a burst of random gunfire in the distance, a sudden governmental decision to devalue the ruble, the disappearance of friends. Russia is a hard place to explain to people who haven't been there, but Bennett gets the feel of it right. Recommended for both public and academic libraries of all sizes. Travis McDade, Ohio State Univ. Law Lib., Columbus Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Table of Contents:

1.	Dreams	1
2.	Three Tastes	9
3.	What Eating Caviar Feels Like	37
4.	No More Caviar for the Masses	53
5.	The Caviar Thieves	71
6.	In the Dollar Bubble	81
7.	South Down the River of Azart	113
8.	The Caspian, Where Sturgeon Come From	121
9.	A Coup on the Caviar Coast	147
10.	How Fish Die	177
11.	Getting Away	215
12.	A Different Kind of Egg	229
13.	Farewell to Dagestan	259
14.	Home	275

Eating and Drinking in Roman Britain or Math Principles for Food Service

Eating and Drinking in Roman Britain

Author: H E M Cool

What were the eating and drinking habits of the inhabitants of Britain during the Roman period? Drawing on evidence from a large number of archaeological excavations, this fascinating new study shows how varied these habits were in different regions and amongst different communities and challenges the idea that there was any one single way of being Roman or native. Integrating a range of archaeological sources, including pottery, metalwork and environmental evidence such as animal bone and seeds, this book illuminates eating and drinking choices, providing invaluable insights into how those communities regarded their world. The book contains sections on the nature of the different types of evidence used and how this can be analysed. It will be a useful guide to all archaeologists and those who wish to learn about the strength and weaknesses of this material and how best to use it.

Table of Contents:

1. Aperitif;
2. The food itself;
3. The packaging;
4. The human remains;
5. Written evidence;
6. Kitchen and dining basics: techniques and utensils;
7. The store cupboard;
8. Staples;
9. Meat;
10. Dairy products;
11. Poultry and eggs;
12. Fish and seafood;
13. Game;
14. Greengrocery;
15. Drink;
16. The end of independence;
17. A brand new province;
18. Coming of age;
19. A different world;
20. Digestif.

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Math Principles for Food Service

Author: Anthony J Strianes

"Math Principals for Food Service Occupations, 4th Edition" is an important tool for the student preparing for a career in the food service industry. The book explains that, like cooking or baking, math is sequential and a student must first master basic math skills before being able to create gourmet meals or desserts. Quotes from chefs and managers are interspersed throughout the book, relaying the relevancy of math skills to the food service professional on the job. This 4th edition contains completely updated material and presents the math problems and concepts in a simplified, logical, step-by-step process. The book offers practical and useful information including explanations relative to figuring menu and food cost procedures and teaches math skills needed to utilize a computer spreadsheet program.

Booknews

Discusses such math basics as converting recipes, guest checks, and daily cash reports. The fourth edition adds explanations concerning spreadsheet software, food cost procedures, and pricing a menu. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Tofu or Kava

Tofu (Quamut)

Author: Quamut

Quamut is the fastest, most convenient way to learn how to do almost anything. From tasting wine to managing your retirement accounts, Quamut gives you reliable information in a concise chart format that you can take anywhere. Quamut charts are:

• Authoritative: Written by experts in their field so you have the most reliable information available.
• Clear: Our explanations take you step-by-step through everything from performing CPR to threading a needle.
• Concise: You’ll learn just what you need to know—no more, no less.
• Precise: Quamut charts include detailed text, photos, and illustrations to show you exactly how to do just about anything.
• Portable: Your know-how goes with you wherever your projects lead.

Tofu, explained.

Everything you need to know in order to buy and prepare perfect tofu every
time, including:

• The history, different types, and nutritional value of tofu
• What to look for when buying tofu, and how to store it after you buy
• How to make your own tofu from scratch at home

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Kava: The Genus Kava

Author: Singh

Kava is an herb that has been used for ceremonial, ritual, religious, social, political, and medicinal purposes for centuries. In the past few decades, kava has been widely marketed as an over-the-counter treatment for anxiety, stress, restlessness, and sleep disorders. Kava: From Ethnology to Pharmacology describes the history, botanical origins, production, economic aspects, and chemical and biological properties of this medicinal herb. A major part of the book focuses on the chemical and pharmacological properties of kavalactones, the psychoactive constituents of kava that reportedly have sedative, anxiolytic, analgesic, local anesthetic, anticonvulsant, and neuroprotective properties. Clinical and medical studies that provide evidence of kava's therapeutic benefits are balanced with an assessment of the known adverse effects and interactions in which kava has been implicated. With contributions from experts in the field, this volume presents a comprehensive view of the traditional aspects of kava and the latest applications for the herb. It is a valuable reference for botanists, phytochemists, toxicologists, physicians, pharmacists, herbalists, and alternative medicine practitioners.

Leiths Fish Bible or Quality Restaurant Service Guaranteed

Leiths Fish Bible

Author: CJ Jackson

A complete and authoritative guide to preparing meals centered entirely around seafood, this cookbook explains a wide range of dishes, from classic to contemporary, using plenty of diagrams and straightforward language.  Readers will be guided through the proper techniques of filleting, boning, and home-smoking,  and will discover a wide array of simple recipes such as Risotto Nero, or Deep-fried Cod in Beer Batter, to more extravagant menu items including Noisettes of Salmon with Cucumber and Fennel Salsa, or Braised Octopus in Rioja.

Publishers Weekly Review Annex

"Fish enthusiasts of all skill levels are certain to find at least a handful of recipes worth trying in this mammoth compilation billed as “the only fish cookbook you will ever need.”"

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Quality Restaurant Service Guaranteed: A Training Outline

Author: Nancy Loman Scanlon

How to match quality service with increased profitability—a systematic and detailed guide for hotel and restaurant owners, operators, managers, and trainers.

Are you looking for a way to make your food and beverage operation really stand out? One sure way is to improve your service program so that it not only satisfies your customers but increases your operation's profits. This book provides a detailed guide that foodservice professionals can easily follow to discover the hidden potential in every service program.

Foodservice owners and managers will learn how to chart an effective path to high-quality service and what steps they need to take to get there. This approach is one that has been used in dozens of hotels and restaurants nationwide with continued success. With these detailed blueprints in hand, the reader will be well equipped to develop quality service for operations ranging from quick-food establishments to full-service restaurants.

The author thoroughly covers the basic level of service for each type of foodservice operation and then highlights areas where specific techniques can boost overall quality. One important area—identifying and meeting customer needs and expectations—is made less confusing with the help of marketing exercises. Applying this knowledge to real-world situations is seamless with the aid of the worksheets provided. Dozens of photographs throughout vividly illustrate quality foodservice in action in hotels and restaurants throughout the country.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	Quality Service Success Stories	1
2	The Keys to Success	13
3	The Quality Service Customer	21
4	Capturing Market Share	39
5	The Successful Service Experience	51
6	Delivering Quality Service	57
7	Creating Quality Service	63
8	Guaranteeing Quality Service	193
	Bibliography	199
	Index	201

Nimatnama Manuscript of the Sultans of Mandu or James McNairs Grill Cookbook

Ni'matnama Manuscript of the Sultans of Mandu: The Sultan's Book of Delights

Author: Norah M M Titley

The Ni'matnama is a late fifteenth-century book of recipes written for the Sultan of Mandu, in what is now Madhya Pradesh, India. It contains recipes for cooking a variety of delicacies and epicurean delights, as well as providing remedies and aphrodisiacs for Nasir ad-Din Shah of Mandu and his court. The text provides a unique account of courtly life in a fifteenth century Indian Sultanate and documents a fascinating stage in the history of Indian cookery.

There is only one copy of The Sultan's Book of Delights in existence, held in the Oriental and India Office Collections of the British Library (BL-Persian 149). The book manuscript is illustrated with fifty elegant miniature paintings, most of which show showing the Sultan observing the women of his court as they prepare and serve him various dishes. These illustrations are important historical art documents in their own right. Painted in a distinctive Shirazi (Southern Iranian) style, they are also stylistically influenced by indigenous styles ofbook painting found in Central and Western India, and are the earliest known example of miniature painting in an Islamic Deccani style.

For the first time, a facsimile of the original text is reproduced for a scholarly audience. Norah Titley, formerly assistant keeper, Oriental Collections at the British Library, has masterfully translated this unique book.

Table of Contents:

1. Preface
2. Introduction
3. List and description of the manuscript's illustrations
4. Facsimile of the manuscript including color inserts for illustrations
5. Translation of the manuscript
6. Bibliography
7. Glossary
8. Index

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James McNair's Grill Cookbook

Author: James McNair

As every observant cook knows, what was once backyard barbecuing has now achieved gourmet status in the form of grilling. James McNair, acknowledged master of the single subject cookbook, explores this exciting upscale approach to the world's oldest cooking method in the only book on the market to feature smoking as well as grilling techniques. Here are myriad inspiring ways to grill everything from freshwater fish and succulent seafood to poultry, game, breads, and even fruit, as well as sensible suggestions for choosing equipment, starting perfect fires, using flavor imparting woods and fuels, and preparing fresh ingredients for grill cooking, both indoors and out. Among the updated recipes are Speckled Trout with Roasted Pecans, Smoked Venison with Orange Juniper Sauce, Summer Vegetables Aioli, Peach-Stuffed Pork Tenderloin, Spicy Catfish Remoulade, and Warm Exotic Fruits with Coconut Sauce. Once again, Patricia Brabant has beautifully photographed McNair's exquisitely styled dishes, this time on contemporary tableware exclusively from Tiffany and Company.

Nimatnama Manuscript of the Sultans of Mandu or James McNairs Grill Cookbook

Ni'matnama Manuscript of the Sultans of Mandu: The Sultan's Book of Delights

Author: Norah M M Titley

The Ni'matnama is a late fifteenth-century book of recipes written for the Sultan of Mandu, in what is now Madhya Pradesh, India. It contains recipes for cooking a variety of delicacies and epicurean delights, as well as providing remedies and aphrodisiacs for Nasir ad-Din Shah of Mandu and his court. The text provides a unique account of courtly life in a fifteenth century Indian Sultanate and documents a fascinating stage in the history of Indian cookery.

There is only one copy of The Sultan's Book of Delights in existence, held in the Oriental and India Office Collections of the British Library (BL-Persian 149). The book manuscript is illustrated with fifty elegant miniature paintings, most of which show showing the Sultan observing the women of his court as they prepare and serve him various dishes. These illustrations are important historical art documents in their own right. Painted in a distinctive Shirazi (Southern Iranian) style, they are also stylistically influenced by indigenous styles ofbook painting found in Central and Western India, and are the earliest known example of miniature painting in an Islamic Deccani style.

For the first time, a facsimile of the original text is reproduced for a scholarly audience. Norah Titley, formerly assistant keeper, Oriental Collections at the British Library, has masterfully translated this unique book.

Table of Contents:

1. Preface
2. Introduction
3. List and description of the manuscript's illustrations
4. Facsimile of the manuscript including color inserts for illustrations
5. Translation of the manuscript
6. Bibliography
7. Glossary
8. Index

Books about: Éthique D'affaires :Partie prenante et Approche de Direction d'Éditions

James McNair's Grill Cookbook

Author: James McNair

As every observant cook knows, what was once backyard barbecuing has now achieved gourmet status in the form of grilling. James McNair, acknowledged master of the single subject cookbook, explores this exciting upscale approach to the world's oldest cooking method in the only book on the market to feature smoking as well as grilling techniques. Here are myriad inspiring ways to grill everything from freshwater fish and succulent seafood to poultry, game, breads, and even fruit, as well as sensible suggestions for choosing equipment, starting perfect fires, using flavor imparting woods and fuels, and preparing fresh ingredients for grill cooking, both indoors and out. Among the updated recipes are Speckled Trout with Roasted Pecans, Smoked Venison with Orange Juniper Sauce, Summer Vegetables Aioli, Peach-Stuffed Pork Tenderloin, Spicy Catfish Remoulade, and Warm Exotic Fruits with Coconut Sauce. Once again, Patricia Brabant has beautifully photographed McNair's exquisitely styled dishes, this time on contemporary tableware exclusively from Tiffany and Company.

Nimatnama Manuscript of the Sultans of Mandu or James McNairs Grill Cookbook

Ni'matnama Manuscript of the Sultans of Mandu: The Sultan's Book of Delights

Author: Norah M M Titley

The Ni'matnama is a late fifteenth-century book of recipes written for the Sultan of Mandu, in what is now Madhya Pradesh, India. It contains recipes for cooking a variety of delicacies and epicurean delights, as well as providing remedies and aphrodisiacs for Nasir ad-Din Shah of Mandu and his court. The text provides a unique account of courtly life in a fifteenth century Indian Sultanate and documents a fascinating stage in the history of Indian cookery.

There is only one copy of The Sultan's Book of Delights in existence, held in the Oriental and India Office Collections of the British Library (BL-Persian 149). The book manuscript is illustrated with fifty elegant miniature paintings, most of which show showing the Sultan observing the women of his court as they prepare and serve him various dishes. These illustrations are important historical art documents in their own right. Painted in a distinctive Shirazi (Southern Iranian) style, they are also stylistically influenced by indigenous styles ofbook painting found in Central and Western India, and are the earliest known example of miniature painting in an Islamic Deccani style.

For the first time, a facsimile of the original text is reproduced for a scholarly audience. Norah Titley, formerly assistant keeper, Oriental Collections at the British Library, has masterfully translated this unique book.

Table of Contents:

1. Preface
2. Introduction
3. List and description of the manuscript's illustrations
4. Facsimile of the manuscript including color inserts for illustrations
5. Translation of the manuscript
6. Bibliography
7. Glossary
8. Index

Books about: Éthique D'affaires :Partie prenante et Approche de Direction d'Éditions

James McNair's Grill Cookbook

Author: James McNair

As every observant cook knows, what was once backyard barbecuing has now achieved gourmet status in the form of grilling. James McNair, acknowledged master of the single subject cookbook, explores this exciting upscale approach to the world's oldest cooking method in the only book on the market to feature smoking as well as grilling techniques. Here are myriad inspiring ways to grill everything from freshwater fish and succulent seafood to poultry, game, breads, and even fruit, as well as sensible suggestions for choosing equipment, starting perfect fires, using flavor imparting woods and fuels, and preparing fresh ingredients for grill cooking, both indoors and out. Among the updated recipes are Speckled Trout with Roasted Pecans, Smoked Venison with Orange Juniper Sauce, Summer Vegetables Aioli, Peach-Stuffed Pork Tenderloin, Spicy Catfish Remoulade, and Warm Exotic Fruits with Coconut Sauce. Once again, Patricia Brabant has beautifully photographed McNair's exquisitely styled dishes, this time on contemporary tableware exclusively from Tiffany and Company.

Cocinar con chile or Kitchen Stitchin

Cocinar con chile: Haga su cocina mas picante con esta coleccion de recetas de fuerte sabor

Author: Edimat

For chefs and novices alike, this handy series makes cooking a delight and eating a pleasure. Featuring cuisines from around the world, each recipe is depicted with clear instructions and illustrated sequences. The versatility and use of everyday ingredients to enhance and enrich meals is explored in each book.
 

Si comer es un placer, cocinar puede ser un deleite con esta colección de recetas mundiales, está pensado para cocineros y para los novatos. Todas las recetas incluyen claras instrucciones que se completan con ilustraciones. Estos libros revelan la versatilidad de los ingredientes más cotidianos así como estos trucos que enriquecen la comida.

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Kitchen Stitchin: 50 Quick and Easy Project to Liven Up Your Table

Author: Chris Malon

As the gathering spot for generations of family and friends, kitchens are a prime place to showcase unique home décor. In Kitchen Stitchin' sewers and crafters discover more than 50 easy projects to add pizzazz and a personal touch to kitchens and dining areas.

Quickly and easily create distinctive pieces for kitchens and dining areas using quilting, embroidery, sewing, rug hooking, appliqué, beading and other techniques! This must-have reference, with more than 175 color photos, plus illustrations, guides sewers of all levels through a variety projects, including place mats, recipe album, toaster covers, napkins, wine bag, coasters and more.

*More than 50 fun and simple projects for sewers of all experience levels

*Easy-to-follow illustrations and 175+ color photos guide and inspire sewers

*A variety of techniques to dress up any table give sewers something practical and beautiful for their homes

Fresco or Healthy Entertaining

Fresco

Author: Michele Cranston

Este sugerente libro de cocina nos muestra primero los ingredientes esenciales que siempre tienen que estar presentes en nuestra despensa, y luego nos enumera los productos frescos que podemos encontrar en el mercado en cada estación del año para recrearnos en la cocina y disfrutar al máximo el sabor de la temporada.

Un libro necesario para aquellos que siempre se atreven a probar nuevas experiencias culinarias, éste será un libro de inspiración y guía. Sólo resta desear buen provecho.

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Healthy Entertaining

Author: Staff of Kyle Books

The perfect solution to entertaining in a world where people are more health conscious and simply don't have time to prepare and cook complicated meals.

Food in the USA or Really Useful Guide to White Wine

Food in the USA: A Reader

Author: Carole M Counihan

From Thanksgiving to fast food to anorexia nervosa, Food in the USA brings together essential reading on these topics and is the only substantial collection of essays on food and culture in America. The broad range of essay topics include: the corporate food industry, soup kitchens, meat-eating, fast food, waitressing, Coca-Cola, Aunt Jemima, the Passover seder, soul food, diabetes, and nutrition. Together, the collection provides a fascinating look at how and why we are what we eat.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
1	Introduction: Food and the Nation	3
2	The Taste of Y2K	15
3	Eating American	23
4	What Do We Eat?	35
5	The Invention of Thanksgiving: A Ritual of American Nationality	41
6	Future Notes: The Meal-in-a-Pill	59
7	The American Response to Italian Food, 1880-1930	75
8	The Origins of Soul Food in Black Urban Identity: Chicago, 1915-1947	91
9	The Nutritional Impact of European Contact on the Omaha: A Continuing Legacy	109
10	Consumer Culture and Participatory Democracy: The Story of Coca-Cola during World War II	123
11	"Farm Boys Don't Believe in Radicals": Rural Time and Meatpacking Workers	143
12	The Rise of Yuppie Coffees and the Reimagination of Class in the United States	149
13	Islands of Serenity: Gender, Race, and Ordered Meals during World War II	171
14	The Passover Seder: Ritual Dynamics, Foodways, and Family Folklore	193
15	Continuity and Change in Symptom Choice: Anorexia	205
16	"A Way Outa No Way": Eating Problems among African-American, Latina, and White Women	219
17	Diabetes, Diet, and Native American Foraging Traditions	231
18	The Contemporary Soup Kitchen	239
19	The Signifying Dish: Autobiography and History in Two Black Women's Cookbooks	249
20	"To Eat the Flesh of His Dead Mother": Hunger, Masculinity, and Nationalism in Frank Chin's Donald Duk	263
21	"We Got Our Way of Cooking Things": Women, Food, and Preservation of Cultural Identity among the Gullah	277
22	Food as Women's Voice in the San Luis Valley of Colorado	295
23	Food, Masculinity, and Place in the Hispanic Southwest	305
24	Who Deserves a Break Today? Fast Food, Cultural Rituals, and Women's Place	315
25	The International Political Economy of Food: A Global Crisis	325
26	China's Big Mac Attack	347
27	NAFTA and Basic Food Production: Dependency and Marginalization on Both Sides of the US/Mexico Border	359
28	New Agricultural Biotechnologies: The Struggle for Democratic Choice	373
29	Hunger in the United States: Policy Implications	385
30	Growing Food, Growing Community: Community Supported Agriculture in Rural Iowa	401
	Contributors	409
	Permissions	415
	Index	417

Interesting textbook: Ritalin Nation or Private Parts

Really Useful Guide to White Wine

Author: Susy Atkins

Armed with Susy Atkins' great little guide to white wine you will never again be daunted by lengthy restaurant wine lists, or settle for a medium-priced house white. Equipping the reader with all the information to choose and buy wine successfully, the chapters are organized by style of wine so that the reader can easily pick out the types of wine they most enjoy. Chapters include Light Dry Whites, Fruity Spicy Whites, Rich Oaky Whites, Champagne and Sparkling Wines. The reader is taught to appreciate the principal characteristics of each wine by looking at, smelling and tasting various wines and assessing their texture, appearance, aroma, flavor and finish.

The Wild Olive or California Wine Country

The Wild Olive

Author: Basil King

Illustrated by Lucius Hitchcock.

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California Wine Country

Author: Janine Sain

On this joyful getaway to seven of California's finest wineries we will discover a unique California lifestyle through original, delicious and spectacular recipes. Chefs from such outstanding wineries as Fetzer, Kendall-Jackson, E. & J. Gallo, Arrowood, Beringer, L. M. Martini and R. H. Phillips offer a fresh and colorful cuisine that emanates multiethnic flavors and aromas in combinations as unexpected as they are astounding. Each recipe features a suggested wine to delightfully complement every course. The California dream in all its splendor! In addition to the recipes, which are true to the purest California winery tradition, whose philosophy and history are shared by today's owners and chefs, this incomparable book offers sumptuous color photographs, along with a wealth of details on the history of cuisine and winemaking in California, the phenomenal rise of organic growing and the region of San Francisco, the American capital of the avant-garde. California Wine Country, A Way of Life in 50 Recipes showcases the ingenuity of artisans who work in an extraordinary natural setting. The birthplace of "fusion cuisine", organic agriculture and a dynamic wine industry, California offers a bounty of delights that its chefs and oenologists energetically display for the whole world to discover.

Down Home or World Class Diabetic Cooking

Down Home: Treasured Recipes from Our House to Yours

Author: West Point Junior Auxiliary Staff

This cookbook features southern fare, Down Home cooking, and some of the most treasured recipes that have been passed down from generations. In addition to the tried and true, you'll enjoy new twists on some old favorites as well. Special sections include Chocolate, Main Dish Casseroles, and Seafood/Game Birds.

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World-Class Diabetic Cooking

Author: Kay Spicer

A unique collection of more than 200 menu choices appropriate for the person with diabetes.

Para Personas Con Reparos or Herbs Spices and Flavorings

Para Personas Con Reparos

Author: Igone Marrodan

Cuidar la salud no debe ser un impedimento para disfrutar de la buena comida. Gracias a estos deliciosos y equilibrados menús, desde la personas hipertensas a las diabéticas podrán encontrar una agradable solución a sus problemas dietéticos, sin olvidar por ello los consejos de su médico.

Es un amplio recorrido por el mundo de la cocina: desde los tradicionales cocidos a los platos más actuales. Con un lenguaje sencillo y con una letra clara, las recetas, bien equilibradas, van acompañadas en su mayoría de información útil e interesante acerca del plato y, así, de forma amena, enriquecen la cultura culinaria del lector. Aprovechando en cada época del año los productos que la naturaleza nos ofrece, esta obra destierra para siempre viejas concepciones erróneas: Cocinar no es un sufrimiento, es un placer que todos podemos disfrutar.

New interesting textbook: O Poder de Eventos:uma Introdução para Processamento de Evento Complexo em Sistemas de Empresa Distribuídos

Herbs, Spices and Flavorings

Author: Tom Stobart

The most complete—and famous—guide to herbs and spices ever published, and a necessary volume for every cook's shelf.

Tom Stobart's extensively researched, alphabetical reference guide to herbs, spices, and flavorings, quite literally, defines good taste. Illustrated throughout, this comprehensive volume discusses nearly four hundred different herbs, spices, and flavorings found all over the world.

From Almond to Zedoary, each entry includes a detailed description of native uses, origins, and history; magical, medicinal, and scientific uses; and botanical, native, and popular names. There are also knowledgeable assessments of the gradations in taste and intensity, and the effects of cooking, freezing, pickling, and maturing on every spice, herb, and flavoring covered—a feature all cooks will surely appreciate.

"Tom Stobart is the authority on herbs." — Craig Claiborne

"A meticulously researched and fascinating work. . . . Handsome illustrations enhance a book that will provide a helpful reference to any cook or connoisseur desiring a knowledge of herbs, spices and flavorings—the most complex and rewarding of all culinary tools." — Publishers Weekly

Tom Stobart is not only an expert on cookery, but also a well-known photographer, mountaineer, and filmmaker. His last film was Master Chefs and he is also the author of The Cook's Encyclopedia: Ingredients and Processes.

Wine and Conversation or Just 24 Days till Christmas

Wine and Conversation

Author: Adrienne Lehrer

The vocabulary of wine is large and exceptionally vibrant -- from straight-forward descriptive words like "sweet" and "fragrant", colorful metaphors like "ostentatious" and "brash", to the more technical lexicon of biochemistry. The world of wine vocabulary is growing alongside the current popularity of wine itself, particularly as new words are employed by professional wine writers, who not only want to write interesting prose, but avoid repetition and cliche. The question is, what do these words mean? Can they actually reflect the objective characteristics of wine, and can two drinkers really use and understand these words in the same way?
In this second edition of Wine and Conversation, linguist Adrienne Lehrer explores whether or not wine drinkers (both novices and experts) can in fact understand wine words in the same way. Her conclusion, based on experimental results, is no. Even though experts do somewhat better than novices in some experiments, they tend to do well only on wines on which they are carefully trained and/or with which they are very familiar. Does this mean that the elaborate language we use to describe wine is essentially a charade? Lehrer shows that although scientific wine writing requires a precise and shared use of language, drinking wine and talking about it in casual, informal setting with friends is different, and the conversational goals include social bonding as well as communicating information about the wine. Lehrer also shows how language innovation and language play, clearly seen in the names of new wines and wineries, as well as wine descriptors, is yet another influence on the burgeoning and sometimes whimsical world of winevocabulary.

Table of Contents:

Preface and Acknowledgments

Part I. The Wine Vocabulary

1. The Early Wine Words

2. Extending the Vocabulary

3. New Wine Words

4. Aromas and Wine Wheels

5. Evaluating Wine: Scoring Systems

6:. Semantic analysis

Part II. The Experiments

7. Experiments and Subjects

8. The Stanford Subjects

9. The Tucson Subjects

10. The Davis Subjects

11. Later Experiments

12. Research on Taste and Smell

Part III. Functions of Wine Talk:

13. Functions of Language

14. Scientific Language

15. Non-Scientific Language

16. Snobs, Anti-Snobs, and Marketing

17. What Else is Like Wine Talk?

18. Conclusion

Appendix - A Semantic Theory by Adrienne Lehrer and Keith Lehrer

Endnotes

References

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Just 24 Days till Christmas: Act 1: Old and New

Author: Mylinda Butterworth

Here's a remedy for what ails the modern Christmas. Just 24 Days Till Christmas, a book for all ages which delivers what today's Santa's can't-the directions and fun to be found in celebrating Christmas as a family with a smorgasbord of activities for everyone, young and old, children and adults. Popular with busy families who want to find ways to build traditions with their children. Individuals who want to find new ways to celebrate the holiday. Teachers for all the stories and activities they can use in their classrooms.
Heartland Reviews says, "It is more than a recipe book or a storybook or even a activity book to keep the kids occupied. It is all three wrapped into one. With stories, activities and recipes for each of the 24 days leading to Christmas. An advent calendar with a twist. Destined to be a Perennial Favorite!"

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Just 24 Days Till Christmas is a combination recipe, story, and activities book filled with things to do and make for each of the twenty-four days leading up to Christmas. MyLinda Butterworth has created a kind of 212-page advent calendar that parents can use to create Christmas traditions with their children, individuals can share seasonal comraderies with friends, and teachers can draw upon for classroom activities. From Cinnamon Crunch Nuts and German Chocolate Pie, the recipes are nutritious and delicious. From holiday banner decorations to Christmas ornaments for birds, the crafts-based activities are totally entertaining. The stories are inspiring and engaging. Just 24 Days Till Christmas is a welcome addition to any family, school or community library Christmas celebration ideas and references collection.

Flavors of the World or Coyotes Pantry

Flavors of the World: 25 Magical Flavors and Tastes to Transform Your Cooking

Author: Paul Gayler

Understanding flavor and flavoring can make all the difference between an average meal and an extraordinary taste sensation. Award-winning chef Paul Gayler here presents a collection of restaurant-class recipes that elicits a dazzling variety of tastes and aromas from a list of 25 ingredients including chocolate, lavender, honey, olives and balsamic vinegar, as well as many well-loved herbs and spices. Inspired by his extensive globetrotting, Paul borrows the bright accents of the world's cuisines to create a unique stamp for his own signature dishes, from Lemongrass Soy Chicken Skewers to Real Vanilla Ice cream. Every ingredient is introduced with information about its culinary uses, directions for growing and buying, and emphasis on the versatility of different flavors. Paul also suggests complementary flavors and explains noteworthy combinations to inspire you in your own kitchen. The results are sometimes unexpected but always imaginative and truly delicious.

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Coyote's Pantry: Southwest Seasonings and at Home Flavoring Techniques

Author: Mark Charles Miller

The author of the popular Coyote Cafe Cookbook teams up with Coyote Cafe's head chef Mark Kiffin to present an uncommonly accessible approach to the joys of making authentic, natural condiments and accompaniments at home. Here are 125 recipes for salsas, chutneys, flavored oils, dressings, and more. Color throughout.

BookList

Southwestern cooking is known for zesty seasonings, colorful sauces, and pungent flavors. In this latest effort from the principals of Sante Fe's Coyote Cafe, the authors provide a guide to setting up a pantry equipped and stocked for the preparation of various condiments. All the basic and necessary ingredients are listed, but the most pleasing component of this sourcebook comes in the form of many innovative medleys--among them are unusual fresh salsas, chutneys, dressings, marinades, and accompanying recipes for bean and rice dishes. These offerings provide a good basis for meals with a festive southwestern flair.

Ruth Pretty Cooking at Springfield or The Tea Ceremony and Womens Empowerment in Modern Japan

Ruth Pretty Cooking at Springfield

Author: Ruth Pretty

Ruth Pretty is a name associated with great food and good times. The creative force behind Ruth Pretty Catering and the Ruth Pretty Cooking School, Ruth's life truly revolves around wonderful food. As you would expect, being entertained at the Pretty home in Springfield is always memorable. Ruth Pretty Cooking at Springfield is scattered with stories and anecdotes about a lifetime associated with restaurants and catering. Ruth's passion for fresh ingredients takes you around local producers, seeking the finest cheeses, fruit and vegetables. Photographed in and out of Ruth's elegant house and garden, experience the style of a superb cook -- relaxed and at home with family and friends. From formal dinners to birthday parties, from pizza parties in the garden to weddings and picnics, this is a book all food lovers will cherish.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	06
	A Big Night In	10
	Birthdays	46
	A Wood-fired Oven	67
	Champagne Interludes	80
	Christmas Day	93
	Boxing Day	110
	Grazing	125
	Cakes	146
	Weddings at Home	163
	Larder	184
	Index	190

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The Tea Ceremony and Women's Empowerment in Modern Japan (Anthropology of Asia Series): Bodies Re-presenting the Past

Author: Etsuko Kato

The subject of the tea ceremony is well researched both in and outside Japan, but the women who practice it are hardly ever discussed. The Tea Ceremony and Women's Empowerment in Modern Japan rectifies this by discussing the meaning of the Japanese tea ceremony for women practitioners in Japan from World War II to the present day. It examines how lay tea ceremony practitioners have been transforming this cultural activity whilst being, in turn, transformed by it.

Drawing on Foucault's concept of discipline and focusing primarily on the body, this book illuminates how female ceremony practitioners have empowered themselves through the unique way of using their bodies. In particular the book examines:

* The relationship between the tea ceremony and the body
* Myths surrounding the body
* Body discipline
* Postwar effects on the tea ceremony
* Tea ceremony networks
* Meaning of the ceremony in the lives of women

By combining anthropological observation with historical examination of the tea ceremony, this book radically revises mainstream discourses surrounding women and the tea ceremony in Japan. It will prove of interest to scholars of Japanese Studies, Gender Studies and anthropology alike.

Anointed to Cook or Sweet Comfort Food

Anointed to Cook

Author: Penny Tootl

This book offers a fool proof planning method for meal preparation for the busy moms and dads of today.

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Sweet Comfort Food: Glorious Desserts and Treats like Mother Used to Make

Author: Bridget Jones

A delightfully indulgent collection of over 70 tempting and delicious, tried and tested recipes.

Barbecues or Food Culture in Japan

Barbecues: and Other Outdoor Feasts

Author: Hugo Arnold

Cold duck salad with coriander and mango salsa; grilled squid with chili oil, hummus, and arugula salad; marinated leg of lamb with grilled fennel; peaches with lime and ginger cream: award-winning author Hugo Arnold has gathered scores of marvelous recipes for Barbecues and Other Outdoor Feasts. Inspired by food from around the world—from the teriyaki of Japan and the street food of India to the lavish char-grilled spreads of America—Arnold presents a wealth of ideas for grilling vegetables, fish, and meat; an array of recipes for tasty soups, salads, and sandwiches; and a lucious selection of desserts. Brimming with color photos and helpful hints on planning and cooking, Barbecues and Other Outdoor Feasts will entice you to explore the delights—whatever the weather—of al fresco dining.

Book review: Führung "aus dem Kasten"

Food Culture in Japan

Author: Greenwood Press

Americans are familiarizing themselves with Japanese food, thanks especially sushi's wild popularity and ready availability. This timely book satisfies the new interest and taste for Japanese food, providing a host of knowledge on the foodstuffs, cooking styles, utensils, aesthetics, meals, etiquette, nutrition, and much more. Students and general readers are offered a holistic framing of the food in historical and cultural contexts. Recipes for both the novice and sophisticated cook complement the narrative.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Timeline
1	Historical Overview	1
2	Major Foods and Ingredients	29
3	Cooking	91
4	Typical Meals	117
5	Eating Out	127
6	Special Occasions: Holiday, Celebrations, and Religious Rituals	145
7	Diet and Health	169
	Glossary	177
	Resource Guide	187
	Bibliography	193
	Index	197

2009 Paula Deens Engagement Calendar or 2009 What Do You Know About Wine Box Calendar

2009 Paula Deen's Engagement Calendar

Author: Paula Deen

2009 promises to satisfy your soul and your taste buds! Savannah’s own cuisine queen, Paula Deen, invites you to spend 365 delicious days in pure Southern comfort as she serves up a year’s worth of tasty tips and savory secrets for melt-in-your-mouth meals and tantalizing treats. Week to week, season to season, Paula and her family will tempt you with everything from juicy Salmon Burgers and savory Vidalia Onion Pie to classic Peach Amaretto Parfaits. Her mouthwatering recipes–more than forty in all–are guaranteed to keep everyone coming back for more, her stories are heartwarming, and a host of fabulous color photos are a feast for the eyes. Paula Deen’s 2009 Calendar is sure to please your palate.

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2009 What Do You Know About Wine Box Calendar

Author: Jeff Burhart

This year's What Do You Know About Wine? calendar is written by Jeff Burkhart, bartender, columnist, and author of Pomegranate's popular Hey Bartender!, Name Your Poison!, and What's on Tap? decks of Knowledge Cards®. Here Burkhart offers expert commentary on all aspects of wine, including selection and storage, viticultural concepts, terminology, varietals, and wine-producing regions. The 313 entries (Saturdays and Sundays share pages and entries) are presented in Q&A format to test your wine knowledge. Also includes a pronunciation guide for selected wines and terms, yearly grids for 2009 and 2010, and pages for notes. 365-day padded tear-off calendar with plastic base. Size: 6 1/4 x 5 1/4 in. (box 7 x 6 in.)

Cooking Around the World or The Essence of Style

Cooking Around the World: Japanese

Author: Masaki Ko

These are recipes which are all accessible to the Western cook, whether served individually or in combination as a complete Japanese meal.

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The Essence of Style: How the French Invented High Fashion, Fine Food, Chic Cafes, Style, Sophistication, and Glamour!

Author: Joan DeJean

What makes fashionistas willing to pay a small fortune for a particular designer accessory -- a luxe handbag, for example? Why is it that people all over the world share the conviction that a special occasion only becomes really special when a champagne cork pops -- and even more special when that cork comes from a bottle of Dom Pérignon? Why are diamonds the status symbol gemstone, instantly signifying wealth, power, and even emotional commitment?

One of the foremost authorities on seventeenth-century French culture provides the answer to these and other fascinating questions in her account of how, at one glittering moment in history, the French under Louis XIV set the standards of sophistication, style, and glamour that still rule our lives today.

Joan DeJean explains how a handsome and charismatic young king with a great sense of style and an even greater sense of history decided to make both himself and his country legendary. When the reign of Louis XIV began, his nation had no particular association with elegance, yet by its end, the French had become accepted all over the world as the arbiters in matters of taste and style and had established a dominance in the luxury trade that continues to this day. DeJean takes us back to the birth of haute cuisine, the first appearance of celebrity hairdressers, chic cafes, nightlife, and fashion in elegant dress that extended well beyond the limited confines of court circles. And Paris was the magical center -- the destination of travelers all across Europe.

As the author observes, without the Sun King's program for redefining France as the land of luxury and glamour, there might never have been a Stork Club, a BergdorfGoodman, a Chez Panisse, or a Cristophe of Beverly Hills -- and President Clinton would never have dreamed of holding Air Force One on the tarmac of LAX for an hour while Cristophe worked his styling genius on the president's hair.

Written with wit, dash, and élan by an author who knows this astonishing true story better than virtually anyone, The Essence of Style will delight fans of history and everybody who wonders about the elusive definition of good taste.

The New York Times - William Grimes

In The Essence of Style, her effervescent account of the birth of French chic, Joan DeJean returns, again and again, to the idea that virtually everything associated with the high life today can be traced back to one man, whose tastes and desires transformed France into an international luxury brand.

Publishers Weekly

Not only do French women not get fat, they've led the world in style for the past 300 years. French historian DeJean's premise is simple yet wonderfully effective: largely because of one obsessive spendthrift, Louis XIV, France, in the late 17th century, became the arbiter of chic, a position from which it has never since faltered. Louis's outrageous vanity, sumptuous court and devotion to his own well-being led to growth in the manufacturing of fine clothing and shoes, and the invention of shops in which to buy them, and to celebrity cuisine, cafes and Champagne (a particularly amusing-and explosive-chapter). Louis was enthralled by glitter, which fostered a huge increase in the diamond trade; the theft of the Venetians' mirror-making secrets and subsequent rise of France as world leader in that field; and the first night streetlights (hence the "City of Lights"). Louis also abhorred mud (so streets were paved with cobblestones) and disliked getting wet (thus umbrellas were invented). This engaging history "lite"-to be published on Bastille Day-is a fun read despite its many Sex in the City references. Photos, illus. Agent, Alice Martell. (July 14) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

School Library Journal

Adult/High School-DeJean gives readers an entertaining and engrossing account of how and when France cornered the market on luxury. Beginning with a description of what life was like before Louis XIV ascended the throne in 1643, she then details the radical changes that occurred as he and his ministers redirected French manufactures toward the creation of new luxury items. Each of the various subjects she discusses has its own chapter that can stand alone; taken together they show how desire for style created new products and markets. Louis's sumptuous, constantly redesigned wardrobe was copied by his court. The interest in the elegant new styles led to the development of the fashion press. The magazines with their engravings (the original fashion plates) enthralled the common people, who wanted their own bit of glamour. The manufacture of luxury accessories allowed almost everyone to feel like a fashionista. Since women needed somewhere to show off their stylish clothes, the dark, smoky coffeehouses were replaced by elegant, glittering cafes with fine coffee and exquisite pastries. Teens who gather in modern cafes, flip through fashion magazines, and purchase designer bags will enjoy this book. They will also discover that Madison Avenue has nothing on 17th-century Paris.-Kathy Tewell, Fairfax County Public Library, VA Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Smart Guide to Low Carb Anti Aging Cooking or Food Safety in the Hospitality Industry

Smart Guide to Low Carb Anti Aging Cooking

Author: John Morgenthaler

With over 150 succulent recipes, this book shows readers how to prepare great-tasting meals from non-starchy vegetables, protein-rich foods, and healthy fats.

Go to: The I That Is We or Cancer de la Prostata

Food Safety in the Hospitality Industry

Author: Tim Knowles

Ideal reading for the core food safety component of hospitality management and catering qualifications, the text is also a useful reference for industry practitioners who need to be up to speed on the legal requirements and best practice for maintaining safety and hygiene in the workplace.

Northern Spain or Roman Cookery

Northern Spain: How to Find Great Wines off the Beaten Track

Author: Susie Barri

From traditional, world-famous bodegas to new, futuristic wineries, this invaluable guide guarantees any lover of northern Spanish wines a wonderful wine-finding trip. After exploring the geography of the region—complete with advice on getting around, finding the best hotels, and selecting great local cuisine—it discusses tours of the wine areas and explores the individual wines, from the exciting whites of Rias Baixas to the historic reds of Rioja. Handy hints throughout help you arrange visits to the finest producers and discover other places of interest nearby.

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Roman Cookery: Recipes and History

Author: Jane Renfrew

One of a series of books which look at the art of cookery in Britain at different periods in history. The recipes, which have been adapted for the modern kitchen, provide a taste of the times and the book also includes information on food, cooking equipment, kitchen designs, serving of meals and the development of etiquette.

Cocktails or Healthy Kitchen

Cocktails: Classics and Trend-Setters with and Without Alcohol, Delicious Recipes for Cocktail Snacks

Author: Alessandra Redies

Aperitifs, cocktails, coladas, after-dinner drinks, and even lo-alcohol and no-alcohol drinks—they're all here in this fail-safe handbook for home entertaining. Each drink recipe is categorized according to its basic ingredient: gin, rum, brandy, tequila, whiskey, or vodka. Here are easy-to-follow directions for making classic cocktails like the Manhattan, the Martini, or an Old Fashioned. Here too are recipes for trendy, new cocktails—creations like Long Island Iced Tea, which mixes several liquors with fruit and a cola beverage, or the Latin Lover, which combines fruit juice, fruit slices, and ice with tequila. Party hosts will find recipes for more than 100 different drinks, as well as suggestions for party snacks, and even recommended cures for hangovers. Color photos on every two-page spread show prepared drinks, as well as the steps involved in making many of them. Also shown and explained are various bartender's tools, the right glasses for the right drinks, and techniques for slicing fruits and blending ingredients.

See also: The House or Wilsons Ghost

Healthy Kitchen: Recipes for a Better Body, Life and Spirit

Author: Andrew Weil

Andrew Weil—author of the bestselling Eating Well for Optimum Health—brings to this perfect collaboration a comprehensive philosophy of nutrition grounded in scientific fact. Rosie Daley brings to it her innovative style.

Their lively dialogue about ingredients and preparation makes clear that there are many approaches to creative, healthy cooking. Information is provided on such subjects as the real meaning of "organic," the safety of our water, the most health-giving oils, how much salt/sugar is good for us—and much more. There are tips on losing weight, developing good eating habits in children and nurturing seniors.

The Healthy Kitchen will forever change the way you cook for yourself and your family.

Publishers Weekly

What might at first seem a jumble of nutrition facts and recipes turns out to be a stimulating invitation to healthy, pleasurable eating. Well-known for his holistic approaches to physical and mental health, physician Weil (Eating Well for Optimum Health) loves good food. Not one to settle for bland albeit health-promoting fare, Weil insists that not only are low-fuss, delicious meals and good health more easily attainable than most Americans imagine, they actually go hand in hand. Coauthor and former Oprah Winfrey chef Daley (In the Kitchen with Rosie), provides recipes that, for the most part, reflect Weil's conception of the optimum diet. (Where they differ, Weil offers options.) Weil's introduction is a concise version of his dietary philosophy, with more advice scattered throughout the book. All of the 135 recipes include nutrition counts (calories, fat, cholesterol, etc.). According to Weil, eating has become yet another stressful activity that must be fit into jam-packed days. To remedy this, Weil and Daley not only offer satisfying recipes that make use of nourishing, readily available ingredients, they give tips on stocking the pantry, preparation, reading food labels and daily menu planning. Recipes include tempting twists on classics (eggs, grilled fish, pasta), to more adventurous items (broccoli pancakes). While miso, tofu and yogurt may not be appetizing to the meat-and-potatoes crowd, others willing to spread their culinary wings will find in these recipes and the authors' enthusiasm for good food a serious incentive to get their daily requirements of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. (Apr.) Forecast: With both Weil and Daley combining efforts, expect nothing but great sales. The book is a selection of BOMC, QPB, Literary Guild, Doubleday Book Club, One Spirit Book Club and The Good Cook. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

This appealing collaboration (first printing, 750,000 copies) between Weil (Eating Well for Optimum Health) and Daley (In the Kitchen with Rosie: Oprah's Favorite Recipes) is filled with healthful recipes and information on topics ranging from growing herbs to wine to the Mediterranean diet. Recipes contain nutrition information, but this is not "diet food": recipes include Smoked Fish with Horseradish Sauce, Roasted Cornish Hens with Roasted Garlic, and Thai Shrimp and Papaya Salad. There are "Tips from Rosie's Kitchen" and boxes called "Andy Suggests" scattered throughout the text, and the authors don't always agree (Weil often opts for "more spice"; he doesn't eat chicken, but Daley does). Obviously an essential purchase; most libraries will want multiple copies. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 11/1/01; BOMC, Literary Guild, Good Cook, etc.] Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Ice Cream Lovers Companion or Cooking in Porcelain

Ice Cream Lover's Companion: The Ultimate Connoisseur's Guide to Buying, Making and Enjoying Ice Cream

Author: Diana L Rosen

From Italian gelati to fresh fruit sorbet to creamy non-dairy desserts and the traditional ice cream delights, this book offers readers exceptional and effortless recipes for a variety of frozen treats. Illustrations.

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Cooking in Porcelain

Author: Rachel Agranoff

Here are different and delicious recipes for quiche dishes, casseroles, gratin dishes, ramekins, souffle bakers and more.

• 100 innovative recipes developed especially for porcelain cookware
• first courses - savory tarts, souffles, roasted vegetables, terrines and spreads
• baked soups
• entrees -- eggs, meats, poultry, fish and vegetarian
• side dishes -- quiches, rice and grains, gratins and vegetables
• special sauces and flavored butters
• luscious desserts -- flans, custards, tarts, puddings and fruits

Cookin Healthy with One Foot out the Door or Hopi Cookery

Cookin' Healthy with One Foot out the Door: Quick Meals For Fast Times

Author: Polly Pitchford

Over 140 creative ways to spend minimum time in the kitchen--most recipes take less than 15 minutes preparation time, with easy-to-find ingredients. Plus: tips on shopping for healthful ingredients, how to plan and prepare ahead of time, why eat natural, vegetarian foods?

Book review: For the Love of Food or Veggie Revolution

Hopi Cookery

Author: Juanita Tiger Kavena

More than one hundred authentic recipes center around Hopi staples of beans, corn, wheat, chilies, meat, gourds, and native greens and fruits.

Lady in the Palazzo or Celebration of Herbs

Lady in the Palazzo: At Home in Umbria

Author: Marlena De Blasi

With the breathless anticipation that seduced her readers to fall in love with Venice and then Tuscany, Marlena de Blasi now takes us on a new journey as she moves with her husband, Fernando, to Orvieto, a large and ancient city in Italy's Umbria. Having neither an edge to a sea nor a face to a foreign land, it's a region less trampled by travelers and, in turn, less accepting of strangers. So de Blasi sets out to establish her niche in this new place and to win over her new neighbors by doing what she does best, cooking her way into their hearts. (Her recipes are included.)

Rich with history and a vivid sense of place, her memoir is by turns romantic and sensual, joyous and celebratory, as she searches for the right balance in this city on the hill, as well as the right home—which turns out to be the former ballroom of a dilapidated sixteenth-century palazzo.

De Blasi meets and makes friends with an array of colorful, memorable characters, including cooks and counts and shepherds and a lone violinist, and their stories, too, become a part of the tapestry of life that she weaves for herself in Orvieto. With a voice full of wonder, she brings to life these engagingly quirky people and the aloof, almost daunting society that exists in Umbria. Not since Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence has a writer so happily succeeded in capturing the essence of a singular place and in creating a feast for readers of all stripes.

Publishers Weekly

Following A Thousand Days in Venice and A Thousand Days in Tuscany, de Blasi's new book, set in Orvieto, is ostensibly about her effort, with her Italian husband, first to find, then to renovate and at last to move into the ballroom of a splendid, dilapidated medieval palazzo. The renovation becomes an engrossing portrait of the town and some of its inhabitants. Nothing goes according to plan or schedule, but de Blasi uses the years (literally) of waiting to explore the life of the town, centering on the home-based caff -kitchen of her friend Miranda and the caff 's patrons. De Blasi's exuberance and her American disregard of Italian class distinctions at times distress her new friends and also her husband, but eventually, almost by accident, she pulls off a coup of diplomatic d tente just after they finally set up housekeeping in the palazzo. Vvid writing and an affectionate appreciation of the sounds, scenes and flavors of Italy, as well as of the somewhat eccentric Umbrians she meets, will charm lovers of that country. (Jan. 26) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

De Blasi's book will make you hungry, and that's a good thing. The latest gastronomic adventure from the author of A Thousand Days in Venice brings to life an Italian culture steeped in culinary tradition and social eccentricity. De Blasi's narrative focuses on the city of Orvieto a city "built on wine" in Italy's Umbria, where she and her husband, Fernando, search for a home and find one: a former ballroom in a 15th-century palazzo. Her exploration of her new life in Orvieto is meal-centered, showing us mouth-watering community feasts, fascinating culinary traditions did you know that polenta should only be stirred clockwise? and quirky characters who help pass the time between espressos and the construction in the author's home. Recipes are included, so in the end, de Blasi's Umbria may or may not be a place you need to visit, but, thanks to this book, it will already be a place that you have "tasted" and "seen." Recommended for public libraries. Mari Flynn, Keystone Coll., La Plume, PA Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

A third sumptuous volume about the author's quest to find a home in Italy. After A Thousand Days in Venice (2002) and A Thousand Days in Tuscany (2004), de Blasi and her husband move to Umbria, a place where "stories and sins are passed down like sets of silver." There, they enter into a complex, decidedly Italian contract with a local family, the storied Ubaldini, who own a grand, decrepit palazzo. The couple will pony up money to repair the old building, then move in for a few years of rent-free living. While the palazzo is being made habitable, they set up house in a charming cottage-charming, that is, except for the mold and the absence of a kitchen, which poses quite a challenge for the gourmand author. In describing this new life in Umbria, de Blasi follows the formula of her two earlier books, and it works like a tried-and-true recipe. The local eccentrics (and all the locals are eccentric, of course) are charming and sometimes speak real wisdom, though not so often as to be precious. When one of de Blasi's friends cautions her that "Most all of us abide in ruins. . . . Our own, the ones we inherit," he is speaking about more than old houses. The food, of course, is an epicurean's fantasy. The author prepares and includes the recipes for "rustic, refined" dishes like pan-sauteed pears with pecorina and brown-sugar gelato with caramelized blood oranges. In her hands, food also becomes the stuff of metaphor and simile: Her eye shadow is a dab of milk chocolate, she flicks away fatigue "like crumbs of old cake," walls are red like pomegranate seeds. De Blasi is a skilled, quirky writer; her prose is by turns reserved, rococo, earthy and, above all, fresh-fresh, like rich cream andstrawberries, she might say. Delicious.

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Celebration of Herbs: Recipes from the Huntington Herb Garden

Author: Shirley Kerins

In this gorgeous cookbook, which was named the National Winner of the 2003 Tabasco Community Cookbook Awards, Shirley Kerins shares her wealth of knowledge about growing and cooking with herbs. Featuring a full range of dishes, from appetizers, salads, side dishes, soups and breads to entrees, preserves, desserts, and beverages, the book includes an innovative Pad Thai Pesto, a tried-and-true Herbed Vichyssoise, and a luscious Apple-Rosemary Tarte Tatin. Gardeners will find A Celebration of Herbs to be an essential reference, with information on cultivating, harvesting, drying, and storing herbs and an extensive listing of plant and seed suppliers in North America. Peppered throughout the cookbook are excerpts from the Huntington Library's collection of rare herbals and botanical books from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries.

Egg Gravy or 180 Barbecues

Egg Gravy: Authentic Recipes from the Butter in the Well Series

Author: Linda K Hubalek

Everyone who's ever treasured a family recipe or marveled at the special touches Mother added to her cooking will enjoy this collection of recipes and wisdom from the homestead family.

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180 Barbecues

Author: Linda Tubby

The complete guide to barbecuing and grilling with over 150 hot ideas for every occasion, shown step-by-step in over 750 colour photographs. Get the most out of your barbecue with expert tips, techniques and sizzling recipes for grilled and griddled.

Good the Bad and the Yummy or Tea

Good, the Bad, and the Yummy: Food That Suits Your Mood

Author: Adina Steiman

Ah, the dilemma of food-"comfort food" versus "temple food"; dessert versus salad; good versus bad. We've all experienced it, the feeling that we want to indulge in something chocolate-y, but know we should go for something salad-y. Adina Steiman's The Good, the Bad, & the Yummy is the perfect companion for all of us who have felt the tug between satisfaction and discipline. While each and every single recipe in this book falls under the Yummy category, half of them are for when you're feeling like being good, and the other half, for the naughtier side of your cravings.

Steiman tells readers that they can eat what they crave while still (occasionally) tending to the angel on their shoulder. Chock full of everything from amusing self-tests that assess which foods fit your moods, to what to look for in quality bacon, The Good, the Bad, & the Yummy also includes simple lifestyle tips for feeling great anytime and musings on the mysterious nostalgic power of Twinkies.

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Tea: The Drink That Changed the World

Author: Laura C Martin

Camellia sinensis, commonly known as tea, is grown in tea gardens and estates around the world. A simple beverage, served either hot or iced, tea has fascinated and driven us, calmed and awoken us, for well over two thousand years.

Tea: The Drink that Changed the World tells of the rich legends and history surrounding the spread of tea throughout Asia and the West, as well as its rise to the status of necessity in kitchens around the world. From the tea houses of China's Tang Dynasty (618-907), to fourteenth century tea ceremonies in Korea's Buddhist temples' to the tea plantations in Sri Lanka today, this book explores and illuminates tea and its intricate, compelling history.

Good Old Fashioned Puddings or As You like It Cookbook

Good Old-Fashioned Puddings

Author: Sara Paston Williams

The great British pudding is alive and well and this book demonstrates exactly why. This collection of established favorites and little-known but great recipes traces the history of the pudding—from the earliest medieval spiced jellies through the elaborate pies of the Elizabethans and Stuart and the elegant custards of the Georgians to the substantial puddings of the Victorians. All the best recipes that have stood the test of time are provided here with sumptuous photography. Indulge in Roly-Poly Pudding and Damson Cobbler or savor elegant and delicate Marbled Rose Cream and Blackcurrant and Mint Fool. Anyone who enjoys a healthy dose of great British puddings will find their ultimate comfort foods collected here.

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As You like It Cookbook: Imaginative Gourmet Dishes with Exciting Vegetarian Options

Author: Ron Pickarski

Have you ever prepared a wonderful dish, but because it contained beef or chicken, your daughter-in-law, the vegetarian, wouldn't go near it? The challenge of cooking for both vegetarians and nonvegetarians is becoming more and more common. Wouldn't it be nice to have a cookbook that provided delicious recipes for nonvegetarians, but also offered vegetarian options for the same dish? Guess what? Now there is such a cookbook, written by one of the most celebrated chefs in this country.

The As You Like It Cookbook was designed to help you find the perfect meal for today's contemporary lifestyles. Written by Ron Pickarski, an executive chef with over twenty-five years of experience, the As You Like It Cookbook offers over 175 recipes for great-tasting dishes designed to appeal to a broad range of tastes. Many of the easy-to-follow recipes use lean and luscious cuts of beef, pork, poultry, or seafood, but guide you in substituting vegetarian ingredients so that the dish will also appeal to vegans and vegetarians. And handy substitution guidelines enable you to turn any of your favorite meat, poultry, seafood, egg, and dairy recipes into meatless options. So don't despair the next time someone asks what's for dinner. With the As You Like It Cookbook, a tantalizing meal--cooked exactly as your family likes it--is just minutes away.

Ron Pickarski is the first professional vegetarian chef to be certified executive chef by the American Culinary Federation, and is President and Chef/Consultant of Eco-Cuisine, Inc., a food technology consulting service. A recognized expert in the preparation of both traditional and vegetarian cuisine, Mr. Pickarski is also the author of Eco-Cuisine: An Ecological Approach to Gourmet Vegetarian Cooking.

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