Food Culture in India or Americas Founding Food

Food Culture in India

Author: Colleen Taylor Sen

The extreme diversity of Indian food culture-including the dizzying array of ingredients and dishes--is made manageable in this groundbreaking reference. India has no national dish or cuisine; however, certain ingredients, dishes, and cooking styles are typical of much of the subcontinent's foodways. There are also common ways of thinking about food. The balanced coverage found herein covers many states ignored by previous food writers. Students will find much of cultural interest here to complement country studies and foodies will discover fresh perspectives.

Table of Contents:

	Series foreword
	Introduction : India, a land of diversity
1	Historical overview and attitudes toward food	1
2	Major foods and ingredients	37
3	Cooking	69
4	Typical meals	81
5	Eating out	125
6	Special occasions	139
7	Diet and health	165

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America's Founding Food: The Story of New England Cooking

Author: Keith Stavely

From baked beans to apple cider, from clam chowder to pumpkin pie, Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald's culinary history reveals the complex and colorful origins of New England foods and cookery. Featuring hosts of stories and recipes derived from generations of New Englanders of diverse backgrounds, America's Founding Food chronicles the region's cuisine, from the English settlers' first encounter with Indian corn in the early seventeenth century to the nostalgic marketing of New England dishes in the first half of the twentieth century.

Focusing on the traditional foods of the region--including beans, pumpkins, seafood, meats, baked goods, and beverages such as cider and rum--the authors show how New Englanders procured, preserved, and prepared their sustaining dishes. Placing the New England culinary experience in the broader context of British and American history and culture, Stavely and Fitzgerald demonstrate the importance of New England's foods to the formation of American identity, while dispelling some of the myths arising from patriotic sentiment.

At once a sharp assessment and a savory recollection, America's Founding Food sets out the rich story of the American dinner table and provides a new way to appreciate American history.

From Bangkok to Bali in 30 Minutes or For the Love of Soup

From Bangkok to Bali in 30 Minutes: 175 Fast and Easy Recipes with the Lush, Tropical Flavors of Southeast Asia

Author: Theresa Volpe Laursen

The authors present 165 fabulous recipes that use ingredients now found in supermarkets everywhere to create home-cooked southeast Asian meals in less than half an hour.

Publishers Weekly

In this tour through such countries as Thailand, Cambodia and Indonesia, the authors present recipes perfect for a hot summer. Home cooks will be pleased to see the many recipes, including the familiar standbys that make Southeast Asian cuisine so popular: Rendang-Style Beef Curry, for example, and Thai-Style Stir-Fried Rice Noodles, as well as instructions for creating popular condiments, such as sweet vegetable pickles and Sweet Hot Thai Chilli Sauce. The Laursens (Theresa is a food writer and cooking teacher; Byron is a freelance writer) offer subtle twists on such recipes as Cambodian Steamed Mussels with Pineapple and Thai Basil; Pan-seared Tuna Steaks Au Poivre; and Chicken and Fennel with Thai Green Curry and Basil. Less certain to appeal are recipes with a Western spin, such as the Philly-Style Vietnamese Hoagies with BBQ Pork and the Bangkok-to-Bali Burgers with Grilled Onions. Rounding out these heat-inspired recipes are beverages (Vietnamese-Style Iced Coffee; Lychee Bellinis), appetizers (Spicy Stir-Fried Cashews; Fried Spring Rolls Filippino Style) and salads (Seared Scallops and Fresh Orange Salad with Mint Leaves and Crisp-Fried Shallots). The result is a mixed bag. While the sheer number of dishes may overwhelm some readers, those looking to expand their regional cooking repertoire will find much of what they need in these easy-to-follow recipes. (June) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

The Laursens are the coauthors of Victor Sodsook's excellent True Thai, and their new book grew out of their experiences with it. When a woman at a book signing asked if they could point out "three easy recipes...without any special ingredients" for a dinner party (and her kids), the idea for this cookbook, with its easy, approachable recipes adapted from or inspired by Southeast Asian cuisines, was born. The authors include both classics such as Thai Chicken and Coconut Soup and cross-cultural improvisations like Green Mango and Prosciutto. A glossary covers basic ingredients, with substitutions given where practical, and headnotes provide serving suggestions and ideas for variations. Readers will find the Laursens' enthusiasm contagious, their recipes approachable and inviting. Recommended for most collections. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

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For the Love of Soup

Author: Jeanelle Mitchell

Few aromas spark the appetite like that of simmering soups, particularly those prepared with fresh ingredients and flavoured with fragrant herbs. This book features more than 100 irresistible and easy-to-prepare soup recipes that everyone will enjoy. These soups have been created to increase their health value without compromising taste: they are all low in fat and sodium but they are full of flavour. So indulge your senses with soup as an elegant first course or a hearty main meal. You will find just the right recipe for every season and palate in For the Love of Soup.

Low Fat No Fat Italian or The Best of Finnish Cooking

Low-Fat No-Fat Italian: The Authentic Healthy Taste of Italy in 160 Recipes

Author: Anne Sheasby

You might think that all Italian food is very high in calories and fat, but this cookbook shows that it is possible to enjoy all the flavors of Italian cuisine while maintaining a healthy, low-fat eating plan.

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The Best of Finnish Cooking: A Hippocrene Original Cookbook

Author: Taimi Previdi

Two hundred easy to follow recipes covering all courses of the meal, along with menu suggestions and cultural background for major holidays and festivities such as Mayday and Midsummer.

Holiday Pumpkins or The Saint Tropez Diet

Holiday Pumpkins: A Collection of Inspired Recipes, Gifts, and Decorations

Author: Georgeanne Brennan

GEORGEANNE BRENNAN, winner of both Julia Child and James Beard cookbook awards, has written over a dozen books on cooking and gardening. A writer and columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and regular contributor to numerous other publications, she divides her time between her Northern California farm and her home in the Provence region of France.JENNIFER BARRY is the creator and designer of several successful books on holiday theme cooking and craft. She has won numerous awards, including James Beard and Julia Child cookbook awards. Her book packaging and design firm is based in Fairfax, California.

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The Saint-Tropez Diet: The Delicious and Healthy Weight Loss Plan Presenting the Best Scientific Principles of the French and Mediterranean Omega

Author: Apostolos Pappas

“Eat chocolate, drink wine, dine on pasta, enjoy your food: it's the delightful, decadent diet that delivers real weight loss results!”


It’s the age-old dilemma. Finding a diet that is easy to follow--with food you’ll actually enjoy--that provides maximum and immediate healthful benefits. You want to lose weight. You want food that is wholly tasteful and easy to prepare. And you want to feel the results of your program when you wake up every day.

Through his many visits to the exotic, sensual playground of Saint-Tropez, Apostolos Pappas, Ph.D., was inspired to develop The Saint-Tropez Diet, a complete eight-week meal plan with delicious and easy-to-make French dishes from Marie-Annick Courtier and chefs from some of the most celebrated restaurants on the Cote d’Azur.

In The Saint-Tropez Diet, Dr. Pappas reveals the four simple principles to unlock your fat-burning receptors so that you can lose weight quickly, fight chronic diseases, and erase years of premature aging:

·Eat more foods containing large amounts of healthy unsaturated fats, especially omega-3 essential fatty acids.
·Eat foods rich in vitamin A together with foods containing omega-3 essential fatty acids.
·Eliminate foods with unhealthy ratios of omega-6 to omega-3 essential fatty acids.
·Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables to boost your consumption of vital nutraceuticals with antioxidant activity.

The Saint-Tropez Diet is a mouth-watering, pleasure-loving, and life-enhancing eating plan that will teach you to cook and eat and love food. And theresults? Steady and sensible weight loss, a noticeable increase in your energy levels, and the acquisition of powerful biological immunity boosters to ward off chronic diseases such as hypertension, high cholesterol, diabetes, and a host of heart-related disorders.

The Saint-Tropez Diet:
·Blends the best of French and Mediterranean cuisine for a diet that lets you have your cake and lose weight too
·Slows your aging process and fights heart disease, diabetes, and other chronic conditions
·Celebrates food and the enjoyment of life, increasing your energy and vitality

You hold in your hands the blueprint of the healthiest diet in the world, completely demystified and presented in an enlightening and understandable way.
Experience a renewed sense of living and enhanced level of culinary delight and enjoy eight weeks of fresh gourmet foods, fine wine, and even chocolate–and watch the pounds melt away. Bring the Saint-Tropez lifestyle home with you and discover the secrets of a slimmer, sexier, and healthier you.

Table of Contents:

Introduction

PART ONE Principles of the Saint-Tropez Diet
Chapter 1 Welcome to Saint-Tropez
Chapter 2 Improving on the Healthiest Diet in the World
Chapter 3 The Good and the Bad of Fat
Chapter 4 Turbocharging Your Fat-Burning Receptors
Chapter 5 The Power of Nutraceuticals
Chapter 6 Myths and Facts about Food and Dieting
Chapter 7 Why Wine Is Good for Your Diet

PART TWO Meal Plans for the Saint-Tropez Diet
Before You Begin How to Use the Saint-Tropez Meal Plans
Phase 1 Introducing Good Fats and Fresh Ingredients
Phase 2 Balancing Diet and Lifestyle
Phase 3 Reaching Your Ideal Weight
Phase 4 Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle

PART THREE Recipes for the Saint-Tropez Diet
Chapter 1 Breakfasts
Chapter 2 Fish Entrees
Chapter 3 Meat Entrees
Chapter 4 Soups and Salads
Chapter 5 Snacks and Side Dishes
Chapter 6 Desserts
Chapter 7 Specialties from the Chefs of Saint-Tropez

List of Recipes

Conclusion

References

Index

About the Authors

Mexican Delights or Great Indian Feasts

Mexican Delights: A Treasury of Favorite Mexican Recipes

Author: Dorothy K Hilburn

Explore culinary fare from many different regions of Mexico with over 190 recipes. Includes wonderful spices and ingredients for the Mexican kitchen.

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Great Indian Feasts: 150 Wonderful, Simple Recipes for Every Festive Occasion

Author: Mridula Baljekar

In this sumptuous collection of Indian recipes, Mridula Baljekar (Secrets from an Indian Kitchen) offers an original twist on cooking for festive occasions.

Everyone loves a celebration, and with great celebrations come great food. In her marvelous new book, Indian chef Mridula Baljekar brings her own unique touch to food for all kinds of festivities. For the traditional Indian feasts of Diwali, Eid-Ul-Fitre, Hohiri, and Baisakhi, she has produced original and delicious recipes for each occasion. For the Christian feast days of Christmas and Easter, she has added an Indian twist to more traditional dishes. All are carefully planned and surprisingly simple to make, including Channa Dhal with Coconut; Spiced Spring Lamb Roast; Fruity Hot Cross Buns; Spiced Mustard Greens; Pilau Rice with Mini Meatballs; and Marinated Spiced Turkey. Whatever the occasion, Great Indian Feasts has the perfect dish to make it more special. Mridula Baljekar is the author of many cookbooks, including Real Fast Indian Food and Curry Lover's Cookbook.

Publishers Weekly

With its descriptions of the customs surrounding each major festival, this cookbook is as much a cultural education as it is a recipe collection. Baljekar, the U.K.'s answer to Madhur Jaffrey (she has numerous bestsellers to her name, as well as a television show and restaurant), arranges 150 flavorful recipes by festival and touches on all the important Indian holidays, including Diwali, Eid-Ul-Fitre and Christmas, representing the country's main religions of Hinduism, Islam and Christianity. Readers will be hard-pressed to find most of these dishes at any Indian restaurant; while the foods use common Indian spices like cumin and coriander, the collection offers a good opportunity to explore some of India's lesser known dishes, such as Lentil Fritters with Chilli, Ginger and Curry Leaves, served during the South Indian festival of Pongal; and Fragrant Pigeon Peas with Seasonal Vegetables, made during Durga Puja. Baljekar's interpretation of Indian Christmas is notable for its uniqueness; she features dishes like Stuffed Breasts of Chicken in Almond Sauce, and Garlic and Rosemary Naan with Truffle Oil. Alas, the book's subtitle is misleading: these recipes are laborious and require numerous ingredients. But for grand occasions when readers want to impress with uncommon food, Baljekar's book fits the bill. (May 15) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

The owner of a popular Indian restaurant just outside of London, Baljekar has also written a number of other cookbooks and hosted several British television series. Here, she presents recipes that celebrate the major Indian festivals, along with dishes for Easter and Christmas (including a contemporary Indian menu for Christmas from her restaurant). Many of the recipes feature long ingredients lists (and many Britishisms), and some of them are rather complicated. However, these are generally special-occasion dishes, and Baljekar serves up recipes not found in standard Indian cookbooks. She also provides background on the festivals and a glossary of ingredients, and there are color photographs throughout. For most subject collections. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Weed Em and Reap or Cooking from the Heart of Spain

Weed 'Em and Reap: A Weed Eater Reader

Author: Roger Welsch

There are lots of books out there about how to accurately and skillfully identify and cook wild foods, but not very many about first-rate, industrial-grade weed eating. And not many that are guaranteed to make the reader laugh -- until now.

This book is for those who admire the notion of being out on a camping trip and amazing everyone else around the campfire by serving up a salad, stew, vegetable, tea, or dessert that comes as a total surprise ... and is made out of something found within yelling distance of the tents. It will teach readers more about morels, cattails, and smut (the fungus kind), than they ever thought possible. There's also information on making wine, jams and jellies, and even gathering and enjoying acorns the Native American way.

The author is not a botanist or a chef, but rather an accomplished and widely acclaimed eater and writer. This walking billboard for gustatory endeavors is full of entertaining stories about identifying, preparing, and eating weeds. Readers will be left with a new eagerness to know more about plants, a desire for cooking them, and a new enthusiasm for wandering around the wilds.

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Cooking from the Heart of Spain: Food of La Mancha

Author: Janet Mendel

For forty years, American-born freelance journalist and award-winning cookbook author Janet Mendel has made her home in Spain. Becoming a "local" has provided Mendel with the unique opportunity to explore the authentic foods of her adopted country, and to bring the best recipes to American kitchens. Now, in Cooking from the Heart of Spain, she turns her attention to the region of La Mancha.

Mendel has taken part in the harvesting of saffron, wine grapes, and garlic. She has made marzipan in Toledo, joined in a partridge shoot, and prepared trout caught fresh from the streams in Cuenca. She tells stories of artisanal cheesemakers and wine producers. Her own home in an olive grove gives her special insight into world-class Spanish olive oil.

Cooking from the Heart of Spain features traditional foods from the country's heartland, a region of vineyards, olive groves, and wheat fields. From here come Spain's most famous products -- Manchego cheese, saffron, serrano ham, and olive oil. These ingredients, along with its rich and diverse Moorish and Sephardic heritages, give Manchegan cooking an air of refinement and delicate complexity beyond its sturdy simplicity.

The recipes in Cooking from the Heart of Spain include simple pisto, a medley of summer vegetables sautéed in olive oil; lamb stuffed with spinach and pine nuts; a robust peasant garlic soup; and a delightfully subtle saffron ice cream. Mendel also includes sophisticated dishes such as cheese and ham flan and partridge braised in wine sauce, as well as fun food, such as "fried milk," a sweet custard with a crisp-fried exterior. Oh, yes -- and Madrid tapas too.

Laced with quotes from Cervantes' Don Quixote -- which had lots to say about the food of La Mancha -- Janet Mendel´s cookbook provides recipes for delicious dishes, both traditional and modern.

Library Journal

Mendel, who has lived in Spain since the late 1960s, is the author of several other good books on Spanish cuisine, including My Kitchen in Spain. Although she lives in Andalusia, she thinks of the region of La Mancha, geographically the heart of the country, as the "real" Spain, notable for cooking that is "true to its roots and enticing in its future." Manchego cheese and the best-quality saffron come from La Mancha-as did Don Quixote, and Mendel punctuates her text with quotations from Cervantes's story, including many observations on food. Her almost 200 recipes include both traditional dishes and those from the country's talented young chefs, "the vanguardistas" of the new Spanish cuisine. Spanish food may be the latest culinary hot topic, but Mendel has been writing knowledgeably and engagingly about the cuisine of her adopted country for years; highly recommended. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Simple Delicacies or Cocina latinoamericana

Simple Delicacies: Japanese Recipes from Hirozen

Author: Candice Obayashi

This compilation of recipes makes Japanese cooking accessible, even to beginners. With its easy-to-follow dishes for Japanese-cuisine novices and inventive dishes which encourage experienced chefs to further master their skills, this book demonstrates how simple it is to prepare simple, elegant meals with an authentic Japanese flair. Adapted from recipes made famous at the restaurant Hirozen Gourmet, this cookbook features a combination of traditional and original recipes that chronicle Mr. Obayashi’s inventiveness in the kitchen. From its detailed instructions on how to prepare rice and create basic broths to creating sukiyaki and exquisite sushi dishes, this cookbook contains a balanced mixture of recipes that are accessible to those just learning and challenging to those more proficient in the art of cooking.

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Cocina latinoamericana: 100 ingredientes esenciales, mas de 200 recetas

Author: Elisabeth Luard

The world of Latin American cuisine is made available to food enthusiasts with this cookbook that includes old favorites and little-known specialities, such as brownies and tortillas, caipirinha brandy cocktail, and farofa (toasted meal). Familiar ingredients are put to surprising uses while unfamiliar ingredients are introduced and explained. The recipes are accompanied by stunning photographs of both the individual ingredients and the prepared dishes. Incluye recetas populares y especialidades menos conocidas como brownies y tortillas, un coctel de caipirinha y farofa. Ingredientes familiares son usados de maneras sorprendentes mientras ingredientes nuevos son introducidos y explicados. Las recetas vienen acompañadas de fotografías de las recetas y los platos terminados.

Eaters Digest or Hawaii Light and Healthy

Eater's Digest: 400 Delectable Readings About Food and Drink

Author: Lorraine E Bodger

Americans are as crazy about food as they are about trivia, and Eater's Digest is a deliciously unique and playful book that addresses both of these passions with a practical and quirky array of flavorful folklore and facts.

Have you ever wondered what astronauts dine on in space or how Sumo wrestlers achieve their beefy physiques? Do you know the 10 best Web sites for buying kitchen supplies, the 8 most hated kitchen chores, or the 5 hottest peppers? Just what are the 10 most appealing foods to eat in bed after sex? Lorraine Bodger, the prolific author of numerous cookbooks and books of lists, has combined her talents to create this appetizing and entertaining smorgasbord of short articles and lists that answers all these questions and so many more. Fun to dip into whenever you're looking for a tasty treat, Eater's Digest is filled with fascinating and hilarious tidbits to savor and share. Readers are sure to find it the most delicious fun they can have without gaining a pound.

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Hawaii Light and Healthy

Author: Helfland

MidWeek's popular "Heart-y Chef" columnist presents recipes for delicious, satisfying, easy-to-prepare "comfort foods" that are low in fat and calories. This collection of readers' favorites includes information about ingredients, preparation methods, and nutrition per serving, as well as tips for incorporating sensible eating into busy lives. As a bonus, it includes tempting recipes and photographs from ten of Honolulu's favorite restaurants.

Taste of Romania or Masterpieces

Taste of Romania: Its Cookery and Glimpses of Its History, Folklore, Art, Literature, and Poetry

Author: Nicolae Klepper

Over 140 recipes, including the specialty dishes of Romania's top chefs, are intermingled with fables, poetry, illustrations, and photos. "A brilliant cultural and culinary history of this little-known country . . . a collection of recipes to be treasured, tested, and enjoyed".--George Lang, owner, Cafe de Artistes (New York). 319 pp.

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Masterpieces: A Celebration of Food and Art in Virginia

Author: Terry Ward Libby

In commemoration of its fiftieth anniversary, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Council has created a beautiful cookbook, Masterpieces: A Celebration of Food and Art in Virginia, which offers a magnificent selection of recipes and artwork from around Virginia. Masterpieces, the second cookbook published by the VMFA Council, collects eighty-three recipes gathered from arts organizations and their supporters around Virginia. Contributors include many notable Virginians, such as the former first ladies of Virginia Lynda Robb, Virginia Holton, and Alma Powell and chefs from VMFA, the Governor's Mansion, the Jefferson Hotel, Barboursville Vineyards, and the Trellis, to name a few.Recipes range from the simple ("Boursin Cheese Spread") to the more ambitious ("Maestro Lobster Ravioli with Bisque Sauce"), and akin to the art, the recipes vary from traditional ("Monticello Muffins") to more contemporary fare ("Pistachio-Crusted Rockfish"). Whether simple or more elaborate to prepare, traditional or contemporary, the recipes here represent the rich diversity of Virginia's cuisines--and their results are delicious. Bon appetit!

Beach Appetit or Town Country Elegant Entertaining

Beach Appetit

Author: Junior League of the Emerald Coast Staff

Take a culinary vacation and be introduced to the scenery, spirit, and flavor of Northwest Florida. Our unique location affords us authentic Creole and Cajun dishes, traditional Southern cooking, and seafood recipes of every description. Let Beach Appetit refresh your cooking repertoire the way a week by the Gulf refreshes your spirit.

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Town & Country Elegant Entertaining

Author: Francine Maroukian

Town & Country sets the standard for gracious living, and this most elegant guide to entertaining shows how to make any occasion unforgettable. Each stunning photo is an inspiration: every table looks beautiful, every dish delicious, every decoration exquisite. Whether the plans include a formal dinner, relaxed buffet, cocktail party, open house, or outdoor event, these ideas plus loving, careful planning will ensure success. Here are basic guidelines for being a good host and advice on finding the approach that's right for you and appropriate to the celebration. Inside stories from those renowned for their entertaining abilities reveal how they make people feel comfortable and get them to mingle, how they handle the cooking and decorating, and how they stay cool and collected through it all.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword	6
	Introduction	10
Chapter 1	The Seated Dinner	12
Chapter 2	The Buffet	50
Chapter 3	Cocktail Parties and the Open House	70
Chapter 4	Outdoor Entertaining	110
Chapter 5	The Grand Scheme	131
	Index	170
	Acknowledgments	172
	Credits	174

Classic Conran or Backyard Bartender

Classic Conran: Plain, Simple and Satisfying Food

Author: Terence Conran

In the style-setting tradition that is a Conran trademark, this award-winning cookbook could start a new trend in the way people think about food. Cooking today has become too complex, say the Conrans, and they demonstrate convincingly that the best dishes are in fact perfectly simple—and simple to prepare. With a lavish collection of timeless classics, including such favorites as Soupe a l'Oignon, Steak au Poivre and Summer Pudding, they stress the principle that the quality of the ingredients comes first, and the secret of preparing each dish to perfection is to concentrate on bringing out those ingredients' natural flavors. The result is a collection of mouthwatering recipes that cooks will return to again and again.

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Backyard Bartender: 55 Cool Summer Cocktails

Author: Nicole Aloni

Muggy afternoons spent poolside, picnics at the beach, parties under a starry sky; summer is all about relaxation and fun.

And when the mercury climbs, there’s no better way to unwind than with an ice-cold cocktail. With more than fifty recipes for stylish martinis and fizzy libations that celebrate summer’s laid-back attitude, The Backyard Bartender brings out your inner mixologist and turns your yard into summer’s coolest hangout. Frozen, on the rocks, or shaken, The Backyard Bartender offers an array of must-try concoctions that celebrate the season. Nicole Aloni includes creative recipes based on summer’s freshest ingredients, refined interpretations of classics like martinis and sidecars, plus nonalcoholic quaffs with plenty of zing.

Why not try a:
Spicy Ginger Blush Martini
Aromatic Lavender Lush
Dessert-inspired Key Lime Pie
Swimming Pool-blue The Deep End

From cocktail lingo to the tools of the trade, you’ll find everything you need to transform your backyard into a summer retreat.

All about Pasta and Noodles or Drinkology

All about Pasta and Noodles

Author: Irma S Rombauer

The book that taught America how to cook, now illustrated with glorious color photography

ALL ABOUT

PASTA & NOODLES

A fresh and original way to put the classic advice of Joy of Cooking to work -- illustrated and designed in a beautiful and easy-to-use new book.

• More than 90 sensational recipes, including Orecchiette with Sausage and Broccoli Rabe, Roasted Red Pepper and Herb Goat Cheese Lasagne, and classic Macaroni and Cheese

• Explanations for 27 different pasta shapes, featuring cooking times, creative substitutions, and appropriate sauces

• Step-by-step recipes for preparing a wide range of sauces -- from pesto to ragú to Alfredo -- as well as noodles, from Spdtzle to Beef Chow Fun

Sixty years after Irma Rombauer advised new cooks to "Stand facing the stove," America's love affair with Joy of Cooking continues unabated. And why not? Joy in hand, tens of millions of people -- from novices to professionals -- have learned to do everything from make a meat loaf to clean a squid to frost a wedding cake. For decades, Joy of Cooking has taught America how to cook, serving as the standard against which all other cookbooks are judged.

All About Pasta & Noodles upholds that standard. While keeping the conversational and instructional manner of the flagship book, All About Pasta & Noodles is organized into chapters that include fresh pasta, sauces, filled and baked pastas, American noodle dishes, Asian noodles, dumplings, and more. The chapters incorporate more than 90 of Joy's best-loved recipes -- Spaghetti alla Carbonara to Spicy Szechuan Noodles to BologneseSauce. You'll also find rules for cooking pasta, step-by-step information for making homemade pasta, and suggestions for pasta shapes and sauces. Add to that more than 150 original photographs, specially commissioned for this volume, presented in the most easy-to-use design imaginable.

Whether you belong to one of the millions of American households that already own a copy (or two) of Joy, or you have never cracked the spine of a cookbook before, Joy of Cooking: All About Pasta & Noodles is for you. It is a spectacular achievement, worthy of its name. Joy has never been more beautiful.

The Indispensable Kitchen Resource...

All-New, All-Purpose, and now All-in-Color

Library Journal

The first four titles in a new series, these are spin-offs from The All New All Purpose Joy of Cooking (LJ 10/15/97), the major revision of the old favorite. Unlike the "new Joy" or any previous edition, these are filled with photographs, 100 full-color and 50 black-and-white each. Most of the text and the recipes come directly from the 1997 book, although some of the material has been reorganized, and some new material is included that didn't make it into that edition. (On the other hand, not all the recipes from the chicken chapter, for example, made it into All About Chicken.) The books have a very appealing look, and readers will find the photographs of ingredients, finished dishes, and techniques helpful, but since the 1,136-page Joy is still available for $35, most home cooks may not want to buy these, too. By the same token, they seem great for "borrowing," and libraries are sure to face demand. Strongly recommended. Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

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Drinkology: The Art and Science of the Cocktail

Author: James Waller

Perfectly mixed cocktails deserve their reputation as the key element of any great party. Drinkology is an elegantly packaged, entertainingly written, and easy-to-use guidebook for the budding bartender and the experienced mixologist alike. Contained herein are the techniques and secrets anyone needs to create classic cocktails and cutting edge concoctions.James Waller has meticulously tested the recipes for 450 drinks, from such standards as the Gimlet and Gin and Tonic to nostalgic faves like the Singapore Sling and Pink Lady. Drinkology also includes sections on frozen blender drinks, hot drinks, party punches, and nonalcoholic cocktails, as well as practical information on setting up a home bar and preparing for parties. Designed to be used "at the bar"—print-tabbed pages let the drinkmaker quickly find recipes, organized by liquor, while a waterproof Kivar cover protects it from spills. Its compact size and sewn binding allow it to lie flat, while a ribbon marker keeps tabs of your favorite cocktail. Fully indexed and with a glossary of bartending terms, Drinkology also features playful instructional art and illustrations by Glenn Wolff.

Author Bio: James Waller is a writer and editor in Brooklyn, New York. His previous books include The Moviegoer's Journal, The Well-Bred Dog, and The Well-Bred Cat. Waller teaches writing at Brooklyn's Polytechnic University.

Gary Rhodes at the Table or The Herbal Epicure

Gary Rhodes at the Table

Author: Gary Rhodes

With two Michelin–starred London restaurants, as well as nine popular BBC television series, Gary Rhodes is one of Britain’s favorite chefs. In this handsomely produced cookbook, he delves deep into the riches of the British culinary tradition to create a marvelous collection of recipes.

For chef Gary Rhodes, good food is the perfect way to bring family and friends together. Here, he has created more than 140 recipes that will do just that. Guiding the cook through each course, he offers modern British dishes like Smoky Lentil Soup, Celery with Apples and Walnuts, and Glazed Honey and Lemon Roasted Chicken. To finish, there are delectable sweets, such as Hot Chocolate Soufþé with Chocolate Sauce and Fresh Cream Tea Custards. With the emphasis on matching courses and balancing the depth of þavors, Rhodes shows us how to mix and match dishes to create the perfect menu, from a simple supper to an elegant dinner party.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	11
	Appetizers
	Grilled Asparagus with Champ Potato Sauce and Tarragon Oil	15
	Bacon and Beans	16
	Crispy Prawn Cocktail	18
	Warm Sole Salad 'Belle Vapeur'	20
	Spicy Vegetarian Crispy-top Pie	21
	Grilled Mackerel with Champ Potatoes and Black Pudding	22
	Country Pate	24
	Game Sausage and Clapshot	26
	Marinated Vegetables with Soft Cauliflower Cream	27
	Chicken Liver Pate with Bramley Apple Jelly	29
	Pressed Rabbit Terrine with Sweet Sherry, Tea and Prune Dressing	30
	Smoked Haddock Scotch Eggs with Curried Mayonnaise	31
	Smoked Trout and Almond Tart with a Nut-brown Butter Dressing	33
	Poached Eggs Benedict and Seared Tunafish Benedict	34
	Poached Ale 'Open Potted' Herrings	36
	Roast Pigeon 'Hearts' with a Spinach and Chicory Salad	37
	Two-onion, Two-cheese Potato Tart	38
	Soups
	Mushroom and Butter Bean Soup	41
	Fisherman's Soup - the British Bouillabaisse	42
	Potato, Onion and Garlic Parsley Soup with Parmesan Toasts	44
	Cream of Tomato Soup	45
	Oxtail Soup	46
	Lettuce Soup Finished with French Dressing	47
	Cock-a-leekie Soup	48
	Cod Brandade Soup with Leeks and Potatoes	49
	'Meat and Two Veg' Soup	51
	Smoky Lentil Soup	52
	Fresh Spinach Soup with Goat's Cheese and Sweet Pepper Pancakes	53
	Fresh Herb Broth	54
	Smoked Haddock Soup with Welsh Rarebit Gnocchi	56
	Creamy Roast Chicken Soup	57
	Vichysoisse	59
	Onion Soup with Steak and Kidney 'Sausage' Dumplings	60
	Winter Vegetable Soup (Creme Garbure)	61
	Fish
	Roast Sea Bass with Glazed Crab Mashed Potatoes	63
	Roast Monkfish with Crispy Bacon or Parma Ham	64
	Steamed Monkfish 'Scampi' with a Minestrone Sauce	66
	Steamed Baby Turbot on English Spinach with a 'Moules Mariniere' Sauce	68
	Roast Fish on the Bone with a Chicken, Lemon and Thyme Liquor	69
	Tunafish Steaks on Bitter Red-wine Onions	71
	Steamed and Roasted Salt Cod with Baby Fennel and Lemon-garlic Potatoes	72
	Rich Fish Stew	74
	Pan-fried Sea Bass with Blackberry Shallots and Creamy Hollandaise Sauce	76
	Warm Salmon 'Quiche Lorraine'	78
	Creamy Smoked Haddock 'Shepherd's Pie'	79
	Two Salmons with Sorrel-flavoured Leeks and Creme Fraiche Mashed Potatoes	80
	Fillets of John Dory Poached in Shiraz on Creamed Celeriac and Cabbage	82
	Fresh Salmon on Slowly Caramelized Lemon Chicory	84
	Seared Red Mullet with Leeks, Butter Fondant Potatoes and Red-wine Sauce	85
	Seared Sea Trout with Fennel-flavoured Sauerkraut and a Red-wine Sauce	86
	Whole Round Fish Cake with Melting Swiss Cheese	87
	Blackened Cod Casserole	89
	Roast Cod with Garlic Baked Beans and Chestnut Mushrooms	90
	Shellfish Pie Vol-au-vent	92
	Mains
	Braised Creamy Rice and Poached Egg 'Pie'	95
	Roast Salt and Peppered Duck Breast with Spicy Plums	96
	Steak and Kidney Sausages with Caramelized Onions	98
	Red-wine Beef Lasagne	100
	Boneless Potato Oxtail with Creamy Cabbage	102
	Roast Loin of Lamb on Leek Greens with Lamb-kidney Sausages	104
	Aubergine Charlottes with Ratatouille Dressing	106
	Pigeon and Red Onion 'Pasty'	108
	Cote de Boeuf with Caramelized Chicory Bearnaise Sauce	109
	Glazed Honey and Lemon Roasted Chicken with Buttered Forked Potatoes	111
	Crusted Lamb with Creamy Ham and Red-pepper Potatoes	112
	Roast Turkey Ballotine with a Ham and Armagnac Stuffing	113
	Pot-roast Riesling Chicken with Fresh Herbs and Cream Cheese	117
	Roast Rump of Lamb with Redcurrant Jelly and Lyonnaise Potatoes	118
	Chicken Saute with Mushrooms and Tarragon	120
	Pork Mixed Grill Plate with Roasted Apple, Bacon and Mustard-seed Bearnaise Sauce	122
	Hot Cheshire Pork Pies	123
	Braised Pork 'Daube' with Parsnip and Bramley Apple Puree	125
	Beef Goulash with Sweet Red Pepper and Parsley Gnocchi	126
	Steamed Rabbit, Fennel and Tarragon Suet Pudding	128
	Calf's Liver with Roasted Apples, Onions and Turnips	129
	Roast Rib of Beef with Steamed Savoury Red-onion Jam Roly-poly	130
	Hotchpot	132
	Boiled Gammon and Broad Beans with a Crunchy Mustard and Marjoram Mash	134
	Pork Cutlet Hotpot	136
	Roast and Poached Beef Fillets with Guinness Onions, Crispy Bacon and Butter-friend Carrots	137
	Layered Mushroom and Onion Suet Pudding with 'Truffle' Cream Sauce	138
	Vegetables
	Baked Mashed Potatoes (Pommes Macaire)	141
	Mashed Potatoes or Mousseline Mashed Potatoes	142
	English Spinach	142
	Sauted Butternut Squash	143
	Roast (or Braised) Onions	144
	'Braised' Blue Cheese Leeks	146
	Jersey Royals - the Richest New Potato	147
	Celery with Apples and Walnuts	148
	Clapshot	150
	Red-wine Baby Carrots	150
	Butter Fondant Potatoes	151
	Slowly Caramelized Lemon Chicory	152
	Nutmeg Spring Greens	154
	Desserts
	Warm Whole Lemon and Almond Pudding with Fresh Raspberries	156
	Iced Pear Parfait with Sweet Kirsch Cherries	158
	Iced Nougat Glace with Bitter-sweet Kumquats	160
	Orange Sorbet	161
	Rich Summer-fruit Pavlovas	162
	Rich Bramley Apple Millefeuilles	164
	Whisky Rice Pudding with Warm Syruped Dried Fruits	166
	Marmalade Cream Tart	167
	Frozen White Chocolate Mousse with Port-wine Figs	168
	Toasted Spicy Breadcrumbed Gooseberry Crumble	170
	Fresh Cream-tea Custards with Home-made Digestive Biscuits	171
	Caramelized Dutch Apple Steamed Pudding	172
	Hot Chocolate Souffle with Chocolate Sauce	174
	Classic Rum Baba	175
	Toasted Apricots on Warm Sugared Custard Toasts	176
	Glasses of Dark Chocolate Mousse with Icy Frothy Coffee Milkshake	178
	Flourless Chocolate Slice	179
	Warm Mini Dundee Cakes with Whisky Sabayon	180
	Bitter-sweet Strawberry Tart with Mascarpone Cheesecake Cream	182
	Savouries
	Home-made Baked Beans on Toast	185
	Twice-baked Cheese Souffles	186
	Open Smoked Haddock Lasagne	188
	Soft-boiled Eggs with Spinach and Parmesan Cheese	189
	Onion and Fromage Blanc Tart	190
	Twice-cooked Poached Eggs with Red-wine Sauce	191
	Dressed Crab Salad	192
	Sardines on Toast	194
	Classic Savoury Mince Pies	195
	Mushroom Toasts with Melting Swiss Cheese	196
	Soft Herring Roes on Toast	197
	Oatmeal Fried Salmon Slice on Toast with a Lemon Butter Whisky Dressing	198
	Cheese	198
	Basic recipes
	Fish Stock	201
	Court Bouillon	201
	Chicken Stock	201
	Game Stock	202
	Lamb Stock	202
	Veal or Beef Stock or Jus	203
	Vegetable Stock	204
	Red-wine Fish Gravy	204
	Red-wine Dressing	204
	Sauce Bearnaise	205
	Basic Butter Sauce	206
	Simple Hollandaise Sauce	206
	Mayonnaise	207
	Home-made Tomato Ketchup	207
	Tarragon Oil	207
	Fresh Pasta	208
	Goat's Cheese and Sweet Pepper Pancakes	209
	Poached Eggs	209
	Blanching Tomatoes	209
	Home-made Crunchy Breadsticks	210
	Bread Croutons for Soup	210
	Caramelized Melba Toasts	211
	Shortcrust Pastry and Sweet Shortcrust Pastry	212
	Quick Puff or Flaky Pastry	212
	Home-made Digestive Biscuits	212
	Ground Caramel	213
	Stock Syrup	213
	Creme Anglaise (Custard Sauce)	213
	Redcurrant Jelly	214
	Pumpkin and Date Chutney	214
	Menus
	Two courses	218
	Three courses	219
	Four courses	220
	Six courses	221
	Index	222

Interesting book: Pilates Pregnancy or Parched

The Herbal Epicure: Growing, Harvesting, and Cooking Healing Herbs

Author: Carole Ottesen

Lavender oil to help you sleep—and for a deliciously soothing crиme brulee…fennel to aid digestion—and for a refreshingly cool salad with apple…dandelion as an effective blood purifier—and for a tasty lasagna with shiitakes. These are just some of the amazing uses and unique tastes featured in The Herbal Epicure, a one-of-a-kind treasury of practical gardening instruction, healing techniques, and fantastic recipes.

Here are miracle medicines and folk wisdom passed from generation to generation, the latest scientific confirmation of the efficacy of these traditional remedies, and innovative contemporary and heirloom recipes for favorite and newly rediscovered herbs.

Carefully researched, this A-to-Z collection presents more than one hundred herbs, healing plants, and restorative fruits and vegetables. It tells everything needed for tapping into each herb's potent properties, including: How to cultivate them, indoors and out; the uses of stems, leaves, flowers, and roots; preparing medicinal foods, teas, infusions, tinctures, and ointments.

The Herbal Epicure gives readers the where-withal for a lifelong partnership with the earth—and all the joys of good gardening, good food, and good health.

About the Author:
Carole Ottensen is an organic gardener and author of The New American Garden, Ornamental Grasses, and Native Plant Primer. She lectures widely and is well known for her trend-setting gardening ideas.

Truly Madly Pasta or Chez Panisse Cooking

Truly, Madly Pasta: The Ultimate Book for Pasta Lovers

Author: Ursula Ferrigno

Elegant or simple, humble or classic, the infinite variety of pasta has made it a contemporary staple and the original five-minute meal. With more than 150 truly authentic recipes, this comprehensive cookbook covers everything the pasta fanatic needs to know--from dough and shapes to sauces and stuffings. Eating pasta is meant to be a sensual experience--with each of the various textures awakening the palate--and this book evokes this experience like no other in mouthwatering photographs that accompany each recipe.

The book opens with an informative chapter on making your own fresh pasta, including specialist needs such as wheat-free pastas. Following are chapters on Pasta Soups, Instant Pasta, Everyday Pasta, Light and Healthy Pasta, and Pasta to Impress. Throughout the book are master class recipes built to lend themselves to myriad variations, according to taste and seasonal availability; you could develop a new and delicious pasta meal for every day of the year. Innovative methods for cooking pasta, such as baking in parchment paper, simmering in broth, poaching in a roll, deep frying, and baking in a sweet tart are presented in stunning stylish photography that demonstrates how to prepare and serve pasta.

With an enthusiastic Italian chef as your guide, Truly, Madly Pasta offers up a treasury of authentic recipes that are sourced from every region of Italy, as well as from the author's own family and friends.

Publishers Weekly

Frequently leaving her London digs to teach cooking in her native Italy, Ferrigno (Risotto) assembles more than 150 recipes in this oddly titled book based on the ingredient she extols as "a complex-carbohydrate food" that "isn't high in calories at all," although she concedes that sauces often are. Not exactly "ultimate," this is more suitable to cooks new to the joys of pasta, because it is heavily weighted toward such mainstays as Pasta with Garlic and Oil, Farfalle with Gorgonzola Cream, and Spaghetti with Mushrooms. Recipes are arranged in six sections-"Soups," "Instant," "Everyday," "Light and Healthy," "Cook Ahead" and "Pasta to Impress"-and nearly all are within easy reach of cooks at any level. Among the most appealing are Conchiglie with Roasted Vegetables, Roasted Bell Pepper Pesto with Penne Rigate and Lasagne with Meatballs. The pastas to impress include Cheese Cappellacci with Bolognese Sauce (egg- and cheese-stuffed morsels shaped like bishops' miters) and Spinach, Ricotta and Tomato Pasta Roll, which is a long stuffed roll, wrapped in cheesecloth and boiled for 30 minutes, then sliced and broiled for five more. As expected from Rizzoli, the 175 color photos are sumptuous, including an 18-photo sequence demonstrating the steps for making pasta by hand. (June) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

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Chez Panisse Cooking

Author: Paul Bertolli

"Extraordinary," "poetic," and "inspired" are only a few words that have been used to describe the food at Chez Panisse. Since the first meal served there in 1971, Alice Waters's Berkeley, California, restaurant has revolutionized American cooking, earning its place among the truly great restaurants of the world. Renowned for the brilliant innovations of its ever-changing menu, Chez Panisse has also come to represent a culinary philosophy inspired by nature — dedicated to the common interest of environment and consumer in the use of gloriously fresh organic ingredients.

In Chez Panisse Cooking, chef Paul Bertolli — one of the most talented chefs ever to work with Alice Waters — presents the Chez Panisse kitchen's explorations and reexaminations of earlier triumphs. Expanding upon — and sometimes simplifying — the concepts that have made Chez Panisse legendary, Bertolli provides reflections, recipes, and menus that lead the cook to a critical and intuitive understanding of food itself, of its purest organic sources and most sublime uses. Perhaps best described by Richard Olney, "Paul Bertolli's cuisine is what 'health food' should be and never is: a celebration of purity. The food is imaginative but never complicated; it is art."

Enhanced by Gail Skoff's breathtaking hand-colored photographs, Paul Bertolli's recipes remind us of the simple and passionate joys in cooking and of the inspiration to be drawn from each season's freshest foods: glistening local salmon creates a wildly colorful springtime carpaccio or is grilled later in the season with tomatoes and basil vinaigrette; autumn's fresh white truffles are sliced into an extraordinarilytextured salad of pastel hues with fennel, mushrooms, and Parmesan cheese; figs left on the tree until they grow heavy and sweet appear in a fall fruit salad with warm goat cheese and herb toast. Season by season, Chez Panisse Cooking will captivate the senses and imagination of the cook with such entrancing recipes as Sugar Snap Peas with Brown Butter and Sage; Buckwheat Cakes with Smoked Salmon, Creme Fraiche, and Capers; Grilled Fish Wrapped in Fig Leaves with Red Wine Sauce; Lamb Salad with Garden Lettuces, Straw Potatoes, and Garlic Sauce; Marinated Veal Chops Grilled over an Oak Fire; or Seckel Pears Poached in Red Wine with Burnt Caramel. Here, some of the restaurant's most remarkable recent menus for special occasions are recreated, from a White Truffle Dinner to the Chez Panisse Tenth Annual Garlic Festival, to a supper for poet Vikram Seth that began. with "The Season's song, a summer ballad/Tomatoes, basil, flowers, beans/In unison dance, Lobster Salad..."

Many of these recipes reflect Paul Bertolli's love of northern Italian food; for other dishes, the inspiration is French; in all, there is a keen awareness of the abundance of uncompromisingly pure, seasonal ingredients to be found in America.

Above all, the Chez Panisse recipes are meant to inspire the cook to create his or her own version; to awaken the senses to the nuances of taste, texture, and color in cooking; to "discover the ecstatic moments when the intuition, skill, and accumulated experience of the cook merge with the taste and composition of the food." Since its original publication in 1988, this classic cookbook has proved to be indispensable to the shelf of every serious cook and every serious cookbook reader.

Publishers Weekly

In the 15 years of its existence, Chez Panisse has become a landmark among American restaurants. Now, Paul Bertolli, chef at Chez Panisse since 1982, offers his version, with Alice Waters, of Chez Panisse cooking. Their rich and literate volume is written with care and grace. The introduction to bread-baking is an essay, not a manual; an explanation of oils and their uses makes helpful and diverting reading. One of the book's chief virtues is the way the authors bring a sophisticated cuisine and its techniques within reach of non- specialists, while also refreshing the most sated palates. Many wonderful recipes will reward readers. Among the most enticing: fish soup with rouille (a red pepper sauce); stuffed artichokes; eggplant croutons; rosemary noodles with pigeon essences; and buckwheat cakes with smoked salmon. Theme menus are included in an appendix. Without doubt, this sequel to Waters's Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook will reach an equally broad and enthusiastic audience. Photos not seen by PW. (Oct.)

Library Journal

Another winner from Chez Panisse, this one by the restaurant's long-time chef. Bertolli's lively, creative recipes serve as starting points for fascinating essays on a diversity of topics, from collecting wild mushrooms in Italy to the science of bread making to the qualities of the best ice cream. Techniques as difficult as making puff pastry are presented clearly enough for even the most inexperienced reader. The recipes themselves will appeal to both the novice and the intrepid, knowledgeable cook. Highly recommended. JS

Cultures of Taste Theories of Appetite or One Dish Dinners

Cultures of Taste/Theories of Appetite: Eating Romanticism

Author: Timothy Morton

Cultures of Taste/Theories of Appetite brims with fresh material: from fish and chips to the first curry house in Britain, from mother's milk to Marx, from Kant on dinner parties to Mary Wollstonecraft on toilets. It examines a wide variety of Romantic writers: Hegel, Coleridge, Charlotte Smith, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley and Keats, and lesser-known writers such as William Henry Ireland and Charles Piggot. It includes a look at some legacies of Romanticism in the twentieth century, such as the work of Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre and Philip Larkin.

Cultures of Taste/Theories of Appetite is a volume of interdisciplinary essays that brings together a wide range of scholarship in diet studies, a growing field that investigates connections between food, drink and culture, including literature, philosophy and history. The collection considers the full range of social, cultural, political and philosophical phenomena associated with food in the Romantic period, reconsidering issues of race, class and gender, as well as those of colonialism, imperialism, and science. Cultures of Taste/Theories of Appetite brings two major critical impulses within the field of Romanticism to bear upon an important and growing field of research: appetite and its related discourses of taste and consumption. As consumption--in all its metaphorical variety--comes to displace the body as a theoretical site for challenging the distinction between inside and outside, food itself has attracted as a device to interrogate the rhetoric and politics of Romanticism. In brief, the volume initiates a dialogue between the cultural politics of food and eating, and the philosophicalimplications of ingestion, digestion, and excretion.

Table of Contents:

	List of Illustrations
	Acknowledgments
	Notes on Contributors
	Preface
	Introduction: Consumption as Performance: The Emergence of the Consumer in the Romantic Period	1
Ch. 1	William Henry Ireland: From Forgery to Fish 'n' Chips	21
Ch. 2	The Taste of Paradise: The Fruits of Romanticism in the Empire	41
Ch. 3	The Politics of the Platter: Charlotte Smith and the "Science of Eating"	59
Ch. 4	Sustaining the Romantic and Racial Self: Eating People in the "South Seas"	77
Ch. 5	Eating Romantic England: The Foot and Mouth Epidemic and Its Consequences	97
Ch. 6	Hegel, Eating: Schelling and the Carnivorous Virility of Philosophy	115
Ch. 7	Byron's World of Zest	141
Ch. 8	Beyond the Inconsumable: The Catastrophic Sublime and the Destruction of Literature in Keat's The Fall of Hyperion and Shelley's The Triumph of life	161
Ch. 9	The Endgame of Taste: Keats, Sartre, Beckett	183
Ch. 10	A "Friendship of Taste": The Aesthetics of Eating Well in Kant's Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View	203
Ch. 11	(In)digestible Material: Illness and Dialectic in Hegel's The Philosophy of Nature	217
Ch. 12	Romantic Dietetics! Or, Eating Your Way to a New You	237
	Afterword: Let Them Eat Romanticism: Materialism, Ideology, and Diet Studies	257
	Index	277

Interesting book: Conoscenza persa: Confronto della minaccia di una mano d'opera di invecchiamento

One Dish Dinners

Author: Better Homes Gardens

Simple mealtime solutions for busy schedules.

Full-flavored recipes that offer the ease of one-pot cooking.

Uses one-dish techniques such as roasting, baking, simmering, and stir-frying.

Includes tip boxes, make-ahead and freezing directions.

Internet Book Watch

Almost two hundred recipes for onedish meals blend from crockery cooker dishes to skillet stirfrys, savory pies and casseroles. The focus on hearty main courses makes for an important guide to daily meals while the color photos liberally accompanying the completed dishes prove useful for duplicating presentation effects. The emphasis on streamlining potentially timeconsuming techniques such as making a quiche crust from biscuit dough is particularly inviting.

Cooking Lessons or Ken Homs Quick Wok

Cooking Lessons: The Politics of Gender and Food

Author: Sherrie A Inness

Meatloaf, fried chicken, Jell-O, cake—Because foods are so very common, we rarely think about them much in depth. The authors of "Cooking Lessons" however, believe that food is deserving of our critical scrutiny and that such analysis yields many important lessons about American society and its values. This book explores the relationship between food and gender. Contributors draw from diverse sources, both contemporary and historical, and look at women from various cultural backgrounds, including Hispanic, traditional southern White, and African American. Each chapter focuses on a certain food, teasing out its cultural meanings and showing its affect on women's identity and lives. For example, food has often offered women a traditional way to gain power and influence in their households and larger communities. For women without access to other forms of creative expression, preparing a superior cake or batch of fried chicken was a traditional way to display their talent in an acceptable venue. On the other hand, foods and the stereotypes attached to them have also been used to keep women (and men, too) from different races, ethnicities, and social classes in their place.

Author Biography: Sherrie A. Inness is associate professor of English at Miami University. She lives in Fairfield, Ohio. She is the editor of several books including "Running for their Lives: Girls, Cultural Identity, and Stories of Survival" and "Delinquents and Debutantes: Twentieth Century American Girls' Cultures".

New interesting textbook: Contabilit� dell'istituto universitario: Capitoli pratici 1-12 di metodo con la guida di studio ed i documenti di lavoro

Ken Hom's Quick Wok: The Fastest Food In the East

Author: Ken Hom

One of Food & Wine’s 10 Best Cookbooks of the Year

Publishers Weekly

For times when speed is a key concern, Hom's latest cookbook offers recipes that are easy to prepare and boast an Asian flair appealing to the American palate. An authority on Chinese cooking, Hom opens his cookbook with a section on ingredients and techniques designed to instruct even the most amateur cook. Though the recipes for poultry and meat are uniquely flavorful finds, the fish and shellfish chapter offers the book's most unusual concoctions. Standouts among the tantalizing dishes in this section include Mussels with Ginger and Spring Onions, and Stir-Fried Coriander and Orange Prawns. While Hom focuses mostly on the meat-lover's end of the spectrum, there are a number of vegetarian dishes, such as Savoury Stuffed Bean Curd and Stir-Fried Vegetables in Lettuce Cups. The author also provides sensible tips on entertaining: never attempt new dishes for guests, don't skimp and "Never have a party where all the guests are from the same profession; nothing is worse than talking shop all evening." He counsels readers who have made mistakes in the kitchen to "just patch it up as best as you can, smile, have another glass of champagne and enjoy." Color photographs throughout. (July) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	7
	Measures	8
	Equipment	8
	Ingredients	10
	Techniques	20
	Basic recipes	23
	Starters and appetisers	27
	Soups	41
	Fish and shellfish	55
	Poultry	75
	Meat	91
	Vegetables	107
	Noodles and rice	131
	Desserts	147
	Menu planning	155
	Index	158

Conservas or Cocinar con hierbas

Conservas

Author: Clara E Serrano Perez

Revealing all the culinary tips and tricks for technique and preparation, this series fosters creativity and skill in the kitchen while preparing something simple, light, and fast or a more sophisticated, special-occasion dish. Instructions appear in a step-by-step format and a glossary of specific terminology is also included.
 
Revelando los trucos y los secretos de las técnicas y preparaciones culinarias, esta colección fomenta la creatividad en la cocina. Desde platos fáciles de preparar, ligeros y rápidos hasta versiones más sofisticadas para ocasiones más festivas, estas guías incluyen extraordinarias fotografías e instrucciones paso a paso, así como un glosario de terminología específica. 

Book about: In My Fathers Bakery or Celebrity Cookbook

Cocinar con hierbas: De un toque fresco a sus platos con el aroma y el sabor de las hierbas

Author: Edimat Libros

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.
 

La cocina dejará de ser un secreto con esta colección de 40 títulos con las recetas más exquisitas de la cocina nacional e internacional. Si comer es un placer, cocinar puede ser un deleite. Todas las recetas incluyen claras instrucciones que se completan con ilustraciones. Estos libros le harán descubrir la versatilidad de los ingredientes más cotidianos así como estos trucos que enriquecerán sus comidas.

Petits Fours Chocolate Frozen Desserts and Sugar Work or Mexican Family Cooking

Petits Fours, Chocolate, Frozen Desserts, and Sugar Work, Vol. 3

Author: Alain Escoffier

This book provides a complete overview of basic techniques and applications for making petits fours, chocolate, and an assortment of frozen desserts, and also provides a thorough description of sugar work.

Interesting textbook: Chocolate Bar or The Taste of Dreams

Mexican Family Cooking

Author: Aida Gabilondo

"I think the cuisine of my country is one of the most exciting in the world." So writes Aida Gabilondo as she takes us on a culinary adventure through the wonderful cuisine of her native Mexico. From the hearty beef dishes of the northern cattle ranches to the delicate seafood specialties of the coastal states, here is the very best of Mexican cooking in easy-to-follow recipes written with the needs of the American cook in mind.

Elegantly designed and beautifully illustrated, this marvelous cookbook is a complete cooking course and more. Throughout, Aida Gabilondo relates the origins of a dish, and the local lore and custom, so that we learn not just about the food but also about the magnificent Mexican landscape, culture, and people.

Publishers Weekly

In this fine volume, Gabilondo, a professional chef, shares a full range of more than 260 appealing recipes from her native Mexico, including a number of desserts and corn tortilla dishes. A chapter on fiesta fare contains the author's favorite recipes: meatball soup; stuffed green chilis with walnut sauce; shrimp, pineapple and jalapeno salad; exotic crabmeat hash; pork ribs and hominy soup; zucchini and cheese crepes; broiled wrapped oysters; tamale pie. Gabilondo describes, in glossary form, various ingredients and their specialized use in Mexican cookery, and where to obtain the more unusual items; the array of fresh, dried and canned chilis and recommended methods of handling them; basic cooking techniques and equipment; and mail-order sources for Mexican food. The chatty, exaggerated narrative is more than compensated for by excellent, step-by-step, well-illustrated instructions that will ease the entree of Mexican cuisine into American homes. Author tour. (July 7)

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Introduction	3
	Ingredients and Utensils	9
	Basic Techniques	27
	Corn Tortilla Dishes	41
	Appetizers	55
	Soups	79
	Meats	105
	Poultry	137
	Seafood	163
	Eggs	189
	Rice and Pasta	211
	Vegetables	231
	Salads, Relishes, and Salad Dressings	255
	Sauces	281
	Fiesta Dishes	305
	Desserts	345
	Mail Order Sources for Mexican Foods	365
	Index	367

Diabetes Double Quick Cookbook or Weekends Away

Diabetes Double-Quick Cookbook

Author: Betty Marks

Including new recipes and a new chapter "Main Dishes in a Minute," this second edition offers more than 130 quick and easy recipes, most taking less than 15 minutes to prepare. These delicious high-carbohydrate, high-fiber meals are low in fat, sugar, and salt — and outstanding in taste. Dishes include Chicken Tarragon, Halibut Steaks Marengo, Sweet Potato Fruit Bake, and Orange Cheesecake.

Read also Diabetes and Hypoglycemia or Beyond Brawn

Weekends Away: Without Leaving Home

Author: Conari Press

This book shows how anyone can create an inspiring weekend at home that brings almost as much pleasure as a vacation away — without the expense or hassle. It offers ways to have adventures in 15 glamorous "destinations" around the world, including Mexico, France, Greece and Morocco, without even leaving the neighborhood. Readers can choose a quiet weekend of classical music in St. Petersburg, a wild carnival in Brazil, or a tour of the Tuscan countryside. Each chapter includes suggestions for setting the scene; videos, books, and music to help get into the spirit; and authentic recipes. Adventures can be adapted for a cozy weekend for two or a lively party for a group of friends.

Complete Outdoor Living Cookbook or Cheese Lovers Cookbook and Guide

Complete Outdoor Living Cookbook: The Best of the Outdoor Collection

Author: Chuck Williams

Celebrate Good Food for the great outdoors by cooking these tantalizing, easy-to-make recipes for every season and setting. Whether you are vacationing in a cabin in snow country, enjoying the warm, lazy days of summer at the seaside, or headed off to a Saturday afternoon picnic or tailgate party, The Complete Outdoor Living Cookbook provides you with the tips, instructions, and recipes you'll need. You'll find easily transportable, warm-weather specialties such as Raspberry-Peach Muffins, Summer Celebration Pasta Salad, Soft-Shell Crab Sandwiches, and Fresh Apricot Tart as well as dishes that are perfect for cooking at your retreat, such as Summer Squash Frittata, Salade Nicoise, Seared Scallops with Saffron Creamed Corn, and Orange Granita. Choose from recipes for heartier autumn and winter fare including such classic favorites as Red Flannel Hash, Three-Onion Soup with Gruyere Croutons, Chicken Pot Pie, and Tarte Tatin.

These satisfying dishes are among the nearly 230 recipes gathered here in the Williams-Sonoma Complete Outdoor Living Cookbook, a compilation of recipes originally published in the four volume Williams-Sonoma Outdoors series. These recipes were created by the renowned cookbook authors and teachers Charles Pierce, Diane Rossen Worthington, and Tori Ritchie, also of Food Network's Ultimate Kitchens fame. The recipes have been developed with the idea of making cooking surrounded by nature as easy and as pleasurable as possible. The ingredients and equipment are simple; the results, delicious.

More than just an excellent collection of recipes, this attractive volume provides a guidebook to cooking in and for the outdoors. You'll find suggestions for maximizing your surroundings while caring for the environment; tips on high-altitude cooking; ideas for selecting tableware to complement the setting; and advice for stocking a retreat kitchen and pantry. A glossary defines relevant cooking terms and ingredients. Colorful still-life photographs illustrate the text.

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Cheese Lover's Cookbook and Guide: Over 100 Recipes, with Instruction on How to Buy, Store and Serve All Your Favorite Cheeses

Author: Paula Lambert

Paula Lambert is a godsend to cheese lovers everywhere. She so yearned for delicious cheese that she built her own factory, the Mozzarella Company, in Dallas, Texas. The Cheese Lover's Cookbook and Guide is her indispensable resource on buying, storing, cooking, and serving cheese, and even making your own cheese at home. In more than 150 recipes, Lambert presents a down-to-earth approach to cooking with many varieties, whether it's Gruyиre, Camembert, or just tried-and-true Cheddar. Learn to put the cheeses you love into every meal, from appetizers like a Savory Herbed Cheesecake to such desserts as an Orange-Ricotta Almond Tart.

With so many wonderful cheeses available, it can be difficult to choose among them. To help navigate this abundance of riches, The Cheese Lover's Cookbook and Guide contains descriptions of a hundred cheeses by taste, texture, country of origin, and type of milk used to make them, as well as suggestions on selecting cheeses and putting together a cheese course when entertaining.

Reflecting various influences -- Southern, Mexican, Southwestern, and Italian -- The Cheese Lover's Cookbook and Guide is at once international and familiar, and always full of flavor. Because Lambert is a cheesemaker, she is not afraid to experiment in the kitchen, and she shares her delicious results. From the bold and unusual Artichoke, Spinach, and Goat Cheese Spring Rolls to the delicious and traditional Fettuccine ai Quattro Formaggi, cheese is the main focus in each of these artfully creative recipes. She also includes recipes for courageous and unintimidated cooks to make their own Crиme Fraоche, Fresh Cream Cheese, Cottage Cheese, Mascarpone, Ricotta, Queso Blanco, and Aged Tomme at home.

For home chefs and anyone interested in learning more about the delicious world of cheese, The Cheese Lover's Cookbook and Guide is ideal. Every cheese lover will be thrilled with the mouth-watering results.

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There is always something new to learn about cheese, and this is the book to read. Enthusiastic, knowledgeable, and fun, The Cheese Lover's Cookbook and Guide will change, improve, and add variety to your kitchen repertoire.

Table of Contents:

Contents

Why My Book Is Like It Is The Story of the Mozzarella Company

Introduction

What Is Cheese?

The New Popularity of Cheese A Little Cheese History How Cheese Is Made

Cheese and Nutrition

Nutrients in Cheese Fats in Cheese Lactose Intolerance

The World of Cheese:

Cheese Types and Characteristics

Buying Cheese

What to Look For When You're Buying Cheese How Much Cheese to Buy How Many Different Cheeses to Buy Storing Cheese

Cooking with Cheese: Troubleshooting

Serving Cheese

How to Cut Cheese How to Display Cheeses on a Tray Arranging Cheeses for Serving Serving Temperature for Cheese Accompaniments for Cheese Garnishes for Cheese Breads and Crackers for Serving Cheese Cheese Serving Utensils

Making Cheese at Home

Basic Recipes

Appetizers

Salads

Soups

Pasta and Grains

Brunch

Lunch

Vegetables

Fish, Poultry, and Meat

Breads

Desserts

The Cheese Course

Pairing Wine and Cheese

Cheese Tables Glossary Bibliography Sources Acknowledgments Index

Mexican Cantina Cooking or Big Food

Mexican Cantina Cooking: Authentic Recipes to Capture the Flavours of Mexico

Author: Jean Pierre Vincken

Authentic recipes--both classic and contemporary--that capture all the flavor and vibrancy of casual Mexican cuisine. There's no country where people enjoy casual, outdoor dining as much as in Mexico, with its popular cantinas, street stalls, and food markets. Add to that the lively music of the mariachi or huapango, and a meal becomes a festive affair. While it's true that the familiar tortilla plays an important part in traditional Mexican cuisine, there is so much more to savor--ingredients like beans, meats, fish, cheeses, vegetables, herbs, and spices, which provide an enormous amount of variety and flavor. In Mexican Cantina Cooking, you'll find well-loved classics as well as contemporary dishes, with tempting recipes for every meal--and, of course, la fiesta!

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Big Food: Amazing Ways to Cook, Store, Freeze,and Serve Everything You Buy in Bulk

Author: Elissa Altman

Buy food in bulk and reap the savings—without waste or an endless parade of leftover meals—with this superb cookbook filled with ideas for cooking creatively for an average-sized family

More and more Americans are purchasing their groceries today in large quantities at price clubs and warehouses. But our meal planning and cooking habits have not caught up with this trend. At last, here is the first cookbook designed to help shoppers make the most of the money-saving and culinary rewards that these clubs have to offer—without having to eat the same dish four nights in a row or trash the unused portions.

How long can I keep salad greens before they turn into something out of a horror movie? How can I use that 72-ounce can of tuna without making 110 tuna sandwiches, like Woody Allen did for his army in Bananas? In Big Food, award-winning journalist and food writer/editor Elissa Altman tells readers how to shop, meal plan, and cook inventively; how to store food safely; and how to use her 150 delicious recipes to turn large quantities of chicken, for instance, into Apricot-Glaze Roasted Chicken; Asian Chicken-Stuffed Lettuce Rolls; and Quesadilla of Chicken, Childes, Tequila and Lime or a 6-8-pound salmon fillet into Curried Salmon Salad with Grapes and Walnuts, Cold Poached Salmon with Horseradish Cream, and Smoked Salmon Omelet.

Olive Harvest Cookbook or Western Breakfast and Brunch Recipes

Olive Harvest Cookbook: Olive Oil Lore and Recipes from the McEvoy Ranch

Author: Gerald Gass

This luscious cookbook -- full of glorious recipes for making the most of extra-virgin olive oil -- is a feast for both the eyes and the palate. In 1991 Nan McEvoy planted 1,000 olive tree seedlings on her ranch in Northern California. Today, 18,000 trees later, McEvoy Ranch is highly respected for its fine extra-virgin olive oil. Also producing lavender and honey, and maintaining an extensive kitchen garden, the ranch -- entirely organic -- has evolved into a virtual paradise, replete with heirloom vegetables, fruits, and olive groves as far as the eye can see. With this wealth of ingredients, ranch chef Gerald Gass has created more than 70 recipes combining extra-virgin olive oil with the best the garden has to offer. Comforting soups of winter squash with honey and sage; hearty pasta dishes with olives and tomatoes; savory pork tenderloin flavored with red cherries and spices; crunchy lemon biscotti -- these olive oil-infused recipes are simple to prepare and draw on the fruits of nature as their main ingredients. Stunning photographs of the olive groves, gardens, and recipes make The Olive Harvest Cookbook a lovely gift for anyone who has ever dreamed of living off the land in their own little piece of Eden.

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Western Breakfast and Brunch Recipes

Author: Bruce Fischer

A roundup of hearty western favorites to start your day! Includes ranch-style recipes, Native American and gourmet recipes. Add a western flair to the traditional morning meal!

Cristinas of Sun Valley or Pesach for the Rest of Us

Cristina's of Sun Valley

Author: Cristina Ceccatelli Cook

Located in a charming, salmon-colored house on a small street in the world-famous ski resort of Sun Valley, Cristina's Restaurant has become a special place where people gather to enjoy the company of friends and to tast the fresh, uncomplicated flavors of Cristina's childhood. For more than eleven years, Cristina and her staff have been cooking and baking for enthusiastic customers that include locals as well as the celebrities, politicians, CEOs, and cosmopolitan travelers who have made Sun Valley their personal retreat.

In Cristina's of Sun Valley she draws upon her memories and experiences of growing up in rural Tuscany where the food was simple, delicious, and dictated by the seasons. Devoted customers will finally be able to prepare such favorites as Hungarian Mushroom Soup, San Francisco Airport Salad, and Artichokes with Tomato & Shallot Topping, or enjoy Bread & Tomatoes, Limoncello, and Bacelli & Pecorino--traditional treats from Cristina's family.

Illustrated with over 145 gorgeous photographs, Cristina's of Sun Valley also offers snapshots of the Sun Valley parties, picnics, and dinners that have built Cristina's reputation for extraordinary style and presentation.

With its emphasis on food that is rich in tradition and always fresh in its approach, Cristina's of Sun Valley will inspire readers to re-create and enjoy the unpretentiously elegant meals that have become the hallmark of this European-style bistro nestled in the mountains of central Idaho.

Cristina Ceccatelli Cook grew up in Italy on her family's estate in Tuscany. She is the founder and owner of Cristina's Restaurant, which she opened in 1993, five years after moving to the United States. She livesin Sun Valley, Idaho, with her husband, Steve, a local architect, and their son, Christopher.

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Pesach for the Rest of Us: Making the Passover Seder Your Own

Author: Marge Piercy

Every year, poet and novelist Marge Piercy creates her own Passover seder with a group of family and friends. Babies have been born and grown up, friends have moved or divorced, but the principals continue to gather in her rustic Cape Cod home to participate in a seder that Piercy takes joy in tweaking each spring to make it more meaningful. In this journey through the ritual, Piercy coaxes us toward "a significant contemporary interpretation, rather than an emphasis on what is strictly 'correct' or traditional." She reminisces about her grandmother, who thought herself unworthy to lead a seder because of her limited Hebrew but presided "morally" at the table; she urges adding an orange to the seder plate; she even describes her heroic efforts to make her own gefilte fish (an experiment not to be repeated).
Piercy offers her distinct slant on each element of the feast and provides dozens of her own wonderful recipes, which she delivers in the same warm, commanding voice as is heard in her poems and prose: "When I told Ira that I was going to explain how to cook matzoh brei, he thought I was crazy. Everybody knows how to make matzoh brei, he said. But I am of the opinion that there is no longer anything that everybody knows how to cook."
It is in that spirit-no question too simple-that Piercy welcomes readers to her kind of seder: a homemade and personal affair, the kind we all wish we could attend. This charming and instructive book of Passover wisdom, brimming with favorite dishes and Marge Piercy's own moving Passover poems and blessings, invites us to look at an important Jewish ritual in a whole new way.

Publishers Weekly

The traditional Passover seder is dissected, reinterpreted and given a contemporary and feminist bent in Piercy's guidebook to making the haggadah more readable and meaningful to today's unaffiliated Jews. Novelist Piercy confesses that her own Passover preparations are "heavy on the convenient"; for example, she will use the prohibited sunflower oil to make her dishes tasty. She wants to focus instead on what brings resonance to her observance of the holiday, like adding the Cup of Miriam to her seder table and including a Fifth Child in remembrance of those murdered during the Holocaust. Nearly every page reminds readers to change parts of the seder as they see fit, though traditionalists may feel that this approach belittles the traditional seder. Throughout are Piercy's poems recognizing many aspects of the seder; her own slightly sloppy rendition of traditional blessings into the feminine Hebrew; and ideas on how to create one's own English prayers. Memories of her Grandmother Hannah's Pesach segue into old-time recipes of the holiday's traditional foods, and an entire chapter is dedicated to mouthwatering recipes that can be used for the main meal. Some tangents in this conversational guide seem gratuitous, while others-including histories of the origins of wine, horseradish and other seder foods-are fascinating. (Feb. 20) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Graham Christian - Library Journal

Piercy, perhaps best known for her poetry collection The Moon Is Always Female, as well as her strongly feminist novels, here gives her attention to the festival of Passover. Her charming book mixes reminiscence, recipes, prayers, and advice so as to offer a guide to all Jews, frum(devout) or not, an opportunity to experience the Passover seder. At the seder, she says, we express our "desire for connection: to what is eternal or to our history or to our people or to those, animal or vegetable, with whom we share this earth." For most collections.