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Martin Yan's Chinatown Cooking: 200 Traditional Recipes from 11 Chinatowns Around the World
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"The Chinatowns around the world are amazing communities," writes Martin Yan in his Chinatown Cooking, "filled with history, culture, friendship, and of course food." Naturally, in this companion book to his public television series, Yan focuses on the food--a rich stew from the world's Chinatowns, including, exotically, those in Singapore, Sydn... »
Medieval Cuisine of the Islamic World: A Concise History with 174 Recipes (California Studies in Food and Culture)
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"Bang the casserole against the ground," an instruction from one of the recipes in Medieval Cuisine of the Islamic World (p.135). (Kids, do not do this at home!) The book was written in French, translated to Italian, and from the Italian into English, that is a long journey to take for a text dealing with medieval Islamic cookery written ... »
The Story of Corn
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I must admit, I am actually a beet person (well, root vegetables generally) and bought this book to get ammo to goof on my corn enthusiast friends. But how the worm has turned! Corn and human history are inextricably linked, a bonding of nurture and social evolution. This book lays down the facts. I guess in retrospect my "hubris" about... »
Staff Meals from Chanterelle
Restaurant staff meals are a lot like family meals. In fact, most staffs call it exactly that--the family meal. And the challenges are the same: how to pl... »
The Medieval Kitchen: Recipes from France and I
This book is as good as all the other reviewers say, but didn't they eat breakfast in the Middle Ages? The book should be retitled - Medieval Dinners.... »
Welcome to Junior's! Remembering Brooklyn With
Baking quite possibly the best cheesecakes in the universe, Junior's Restaurant is a legend in its own right. Located in downtown Brooklyn, this home away... »
Slow Food: The Case for Taste (Arts and Traditi
This book offers concise information about the history and various activities of the Slow Food Movement. The book is divided into four chapters. After an ... »
Schott's Food and Drink Miscellany
I cannot recommend these Schott's books enough. They are fabulous gifts because they're just so entertaining. ... »
How We Eat: Appetite, Culture, and the Psycholo
"How we eat" is a fairly uninteresting book that, happily, is breezily written, this making it fast to read and allowing the reader to find that there see... »
German Wheat Beer (Classic Beer Style Series)
This book was published in 1992, you can get just about anything these days as far as ingredients, and equipment is so much better. With that said, the h... »
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