Featuring new and revised recipes, photos, and betes noires, this culminating book of an illustrious career presents the favorite dishes and personal stories of the world's foremost authority on traditional Mexican cooking and one of its most-celebrated food writers Diana Kennedy is the world's preeminent authority on authentic Mexican cooking ......
Stories and Recipes from the Trans Pecos to the Piney Woods and High Plains to the Gulf Prairies
According to Renaissance woman and Pepper Lady Jean Andrews, although food is eaten as a response to hunger, it is much more than filling one's stomach. It also provides emotional fulfillment. This is borne out by the joy many of us feel as a family when we get in the kitchen and cook together and then share in our labors at the dinner table. Food ......
Early Islamic Culinary Art focuses on the meals in the time of Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, after 14 centuries. This work presents the culinary culture of the time, methods of cooking, kitchen utensils, and recipes from the early Islamic period. The collection of plates used in the pictures is another distinguishing feature ......
A companion cookbook to French Comfort Food, Le French Oven showcases authentic, tantalising French recipes that can be created in the cocotte—the French version of a Dutch oven or casserole dish—in all of its sizes and shapes, from mini to large. Using various techniques such as braising, stewing, roasting, baking, stovetop and frying, Le French ......
A handy identification guide, sumptuous recipe book and delightful source of inspiration, Wild Food Foraging in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly offers an accessible introduction to foraging in a special and distinctive landscape. It covers over twenty wild edibles - flowers, fruits, leaves, seeds, shoots and seaweeds - and will appeal to all who ......
There are many gluten-free cookbooks on the market, but none like Goodbye Gluten! Roughly one-third of people in the US are either gluten intolerant or have celiac disease, and for these people, eating gluten can make them sick-very sick. The engaging team of Kim Stanford and Bill Backhaus represents both these audiences, and together they have ......
A Playful Journey Through Chinese Culture, Language, and Cuisine
Physics professor Zee writes about how to understand the menus in Chinese restaurants, explaining the characters, what they mean, and the colorful stories behind the names of various dishes. Anne Tyler (in the Washington Post) called Swallowing Clouds "a study of the very nature of Chinese culture. Zee has a quirky, personal style that draws the ......
From the Ottomans to the Contemporary Turkish Cuisine
In this cookbook, award-winning chef/author Omur Akkor presents a wide variety of nearly forgotten traditional Turkish egg recipes which he unearthed by combing through old Turkish cookbooks and travelling all over the country as well as delicious modern recipes based on eggs. Each recipe is prefaced by its brief history, includes such healthy ......
Omur Akkor looks at the cuisine of one of the earliest empires to come to Anatolia, the Seljuks. Through storytelling and history-rich recipes, Akkor shows how deeply food was intertwined with everyday life during the Seljuk period. Akkor's narration provides a window into what the Seljuks are in their dervish lodges and palaces, in their markets ......
