Sophie Grigsons Country Kitchen or Spirit of the Earth

Sophie Grigson's Country Kitchen

Author: Sophie Grigson

Sophie Grigson's modern and relaxed approach to cooking has appealed to her fans for over a decade, in books like Organic, Fish, and Sophie Grigson's Sunshine Food. Here, Sophie's collected more than 120 recipes that make the most of seasonal food.

Fresh food has always been the cornerstone of Sophie Grigson's cooking, and country living ensures that she has fine produce throughout the year. Her own garden, local markets, to say nothing of what grows wild in the fields--all inspire her to create simple recipes for friends and family. In Sophie Grigson's Country Kitchen, you will find such seasonal pleasures as Pot-Roast Chicken with Leeks and Spring Herbs, Spiced Eggplant Salad, Roast Christmas Goose, and Garden Rhubarb and Honey Compote. Filled with gorgeous color shots of the food, the countryside, and the produce, Sophie Grigson makes cooking an all-year-round delight.

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Spirit of the Earth: Native Cooking from Latin America

Author: Beverly Cox

In Spirit of the Earth, award-winning authors Beverly Cox and Martin Jacobs celebrate the rich cuisine of native Latin American cultures through 125 authentic recipes-from the peppery ajis and scrumptious ceviches of Peru and Chile to the honeyed desserts of the Yucatán Peninsula and the sophisticated moles of Mexico. Traditional recipes for familiar items like tortillas, tamales, and guacamole are included, as well as such delicacies as Pompano in Garlic and Chile Sauce, Quinoa and Potato Gratin, and Spicy Peanut Chowder.

Full-color photographs styled with genuine Latin American artifacts enrich this substantial volume, and cultural essays by noted authorities Michael D. Coe and Jack Weatherford introduce each chapter. Recipes for appetizers and snacks, sauces and seasonings, side dishes, main courses, beverages, and desserts follow. A glossary, explanations of basic techniques, and a list of sources for authentic ingredients complete the book.

Author Biography: Beverly Cox has written 10 cookbooks, including Spirit of the Harvest, co-authored with Martin Jacobs (Stewart, Tabori & Chang), which won James Beard and IACP Awards.

Martin Jacobs is an award-winning food photographer who has photographed more than 40 cookbooks.

Indulgence or Real Chocolate

Indulgence: One Man's Selfless Search for the Best Chocolate

Author: Paul Richardson

From Willy Wonka to Ferrero Rocher, chocolate is embedded in our culture as perhaps no other foodstuff. And although it has been swooned over endlessly in print, Indulgence takes the subject into entirely new realms. In a pleasurable mélange of travel narrative, historical writing, and literary gastronomy, Paul Richardson discovers a substance that still has much to say about the joys and agonies of our human debt to pleasure. In this whimsical chronicle of one of mankind's ruling passions, he concludes that, despite the wholesale debasement of a once-sacred substance, chocolate has lost none of its mysterious capacity to bewitch. Paul Richardson is one of Britain's leading food historians.

The New York Times - Tobin Harshaw

A British food historian, Richardson is sometimes trenchant, sometimes sophomoric, but always good-humored. And while he has a thorough grasp of how this Central American plant took on its ritual and romantic baggage, he's more interested in finding out, on foot, how that history lives on today.

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Real Chocolate

Author: Chantal Coady

In Rococo Real Chocolate Chantal Coady, proprietor of London's exquisite Rococo Chocolates in King's Road presents over 50 groundbreaking and highly unusual recipes that anyone can make at home. Painstakingly tested and illustrated with beautiful, easy-to-follow, step-by-step photographs, the book makes the mysterious art of chocolate accessible to the amateur home enthusiast. Coady is an ardent proponent of what she calls "Real Chocolate" and explains the difference between excellent natural ingredients - the only used in Rococo recipes - and the over-sweetened, fat and additive-laden confections most widely marketed in the world today. Simply put, "Real Chocolate" is chocolate made with only the very finest all-natural ingredients. Fun to make and divine to taste! Recipes will include basics like plain and flavoured ganaches and truffles, decorative chocolate leaves and curls; unusual offerings like chocolate tempura and white chocolate and cardamom pannacotta, and savory recipes like black beans with ginger and cocoa, and chocolate tapenade.

The book is also filled with amazing chocolate lore from irrefutable evidence of chocolate's physical and mental health benefits, to the fact that white chocolate is the closest thing found in nature to human breast milk!

Author Biography: Chantal Coady is founder of the Campaign for Real Chocolate and co-founder of the Chocolate Society. She is evangelical in her mission to share with the world the "Real Chocolate" she has sold in her shop for over 15 years.

Publishers Weekly

Founder of London's Rococo chocolate shop and author of two previous chocolate books, Coady has now unleashed her inexhaustible passion for all things chocolate onto a full-scale cookbook. Coady (who co-founded the standard-bearing Chocolate Society) has made it her personal mission to keep the informed consumer away from "fast chocolate," with its hydrogenated fats and nasty byproducts. Despite its principled stance, this is a highly functional cookbook. It can be used as a chocolate primer-how to make ganache and truffles, how to temper chocolate, how to work with simple molds. But it also contains an intriguing exploration of chocolate as a savory ingredient (a gesture toward chocolate's often overlooked South American origins). Many of these depend on an unexpectedly logical invention: chocolate-balsamic vinegar, the active ingredient in Hangover Fried Eggs; Eggplant, Chocolate and Goat Cheese Pizzettes; and Quick Pan-roasted Chicken with Chocolate Vinegar. Coady also covers surer territory with Classic Mousse, old-fashioned hot cocoa, Chocolate Brownies and an assortment of the usual cakes and cookies. While ingredients can be expensive and not always easy to find (Coady has a ruinous affection for saffron and cocoa nibs, for example), the recipes are generally appealing and straightforward. The photographs are mouthwatering and the design elegant beyond belief-virtual prerequisites for chocolate books. (Feb.)

Library Journal

Coady (The Chocolate Companion; Chocolate: Food of the Gods) acquired an international following with her London chocolate shop, Rococo. Her new, lavishly illustrated book features recipes as well as a history of chocolate and "master classes" on ganache, tempering, and other special techniques. Along with indulgent, mouth-watering desserts and other treats (e.g., drinks such as Chocolate Manhattans), she offers an eclectic selection of savory recipes, from Chocolate Tempura to Pan-Roasted Chicken with Chocolate Vinegar (some of her "nonsweets" may be a bit too exotic for many readers). It's a bit surprising that she doesn't include more information on chocolates with "high cocoa content" (i.e., extra bittersweet and the like) that are increasingly available to consumers. Nevertheless, professionals and other chocolate lovers will find her latest book delectable and a bargain; for most baking collections. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Tray Gourmet or Pickled Herring and Pumpkin Pie

Tray Gourmet: Be Your Own Chef in the College Cafeteria

Author: Larry Berger

The college cookbook spiced with academic humor. Great gift idea.

Publishers Weekly

Dotted with cleverly named recipes, whimsical illustrations, even admonishments for parents--``the authors in no way mean to imply that ownership of Tray Gourmet by your child should cause you to interrupt or discontinue your regular care package schedule''--this thoroughly entertaining book is surprisingly accurate, entirely practical and professionally wrought. This work of Yale graduates--writers Berger ( Up Your Score: The Underground Guide to Psyching Out the SAT ) and Harris and cartoonist Kalb--will sit on the top of college freshmen packing lists, since it literally teaches students how to beat the system and eat ``gourmet'' (i.e., fun and healthy) meals out of their student cafeteria. The basic precept involves utilizing a combination of cafeteria-line fare, salad-bar ingredients, condiments and the ubiquitous microwave oven. Recipes range from the classic ``I Think Therefore I Ham Salad'' (made with condiments and salad-bar items) and ``Fond O' You Cheese Fondue'' (``great for entertaining large groups of friends in the cafeteria''), to a chapter entitled ``Solving the Mystery Meat,'' featuring ``Bitchin' Surf Burger'' and other lower-brow treats. The authors know college students' limitations, and leave little to chance. Ingredients are measured by teaspoons, soup spoons, heaping teaspoons or soup spoons, handfuls, cups, glasses, bowls or pats. (Feb.)

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Pickled Herring and Pumpkin Pie: A Nineteenth-Century Cookbook for German Immigrants to America

Author: Henriette Davidis

Pickled Herring and Pumpkin Pie is the reprint of a best-selling nineteenth-century German cookbook that was adapted for Germans living in America. As several German-language editions were published in Milwaukee, the recipes and other information evolved considerably, and the book was eventually translated into English with the title Practical Cookbook.

The result is a fascinating mix of recipes from Old and New Worlds, ranging from traditional German fare (see the Beef Rouladen) to very American dishes (try the version of Strawberry Shortcake) to frontier cuisine-how about some roasted beaver tails? In addition to such culinary delights, Pickled Herring and Pumpkin Pie offers a glimpse into life in a nineteenth-century immigrant household and how immigrants tried to preserve the old ways while adapting to a new environment. Features of the cookbook include advice on how to use such "new" ingredients as corn or equipment like the Dutch oven, and how to shop in America, grow a proper kitchen garden, preserve food, cook medicinal dishes, and entertain properly.

Pickled Herring and Pumpkin Pie offers authentic immigrant recipes in their cultural, social, and historical context. It is a delightful resource for epicures with a historical bent as well as for those who enjoy learning more about the day-to-day life of their ancestors.

Distributed for the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies

Author Biography: Henriette Davidis (1801-1876) is widely regarded as Germany's most famous and influential cookbook author. A minister's daughter from Westphalia, she spent her young adult years working as a house mistress at wealthy estates and as a teacher at a school for young women. Striving to educate her students to be good housewives and proper young ladies, she saw a lack of written guidelines in the education of young girls and women, especially in their education as young cooks.

In the middle of the nineteenth century, at a time when more than four hundred mostly regional cookbooks were already flooding the German market, Davidis created a cookbook of "tested recipes" from all over German-speaking Europe, recipes that were so clear "that even inexperienced young housewives and children could follow them and become good cooks." Her Practical Cookbook, first published in 1844, became an instant success. It went through twenty personally revised editions during her lifetime, and another forty-two editions before 1906. It was translated into Danish, Dutch, and English.

Roman Community at Table during the Principate or Feast of Words

Roman Community at Table during the Principate

Author: John Donahu

"This book is indispensable both for ancient history and for food history, since it sets the moralizing literature of the Roman republic and empire within the correcting frame of epigraphy to clearly reveal the ordering of status and gender at meal times. Donahue offers fascinating reflections on public and private dining, doing for Roman politics what Pauline Schmitt did for the Greek polis. The Roman Community at Table during the Principate brilliantly ties meal times into the practices of Rome's Hellenistic predecessors and richly reflects the religious and cultural contexts of eating."
---John Wilkins, University of Exeter
"Donahue gives a riveting account of Roman communal dining in the civic sphere. Assembling scattered, difficult evidence, and employing apt cross-cultural comparisons, he skillfully constructs a picture of an activity central to public life in the Roman west, and of its social, economic, and ideological consequences."
---Matthew Roller, Johns Hopkins University

Ranging from the extravagant banquets of the emperors to the numerous feasts in cities and towns throughout the Western Empire, John F. Donahue's new study examines public feasting in Rome during the first four centuries of the Common Era. Taking as its starting point the development of feasting in ancient Greece and then in Rome, this study brings to the fore the importance of the publicly shared meal in ancient culture and its particular significance within the Roman Empire.
Previous studies have focused on the Roman feast largely for its structural and symbolic elements. Through a careful assessment of ancient evidence and modern comparative material, Donahue breaks newground by focusing on the "public" banquet, allowing the exploitation of a broad range of literary and epigraphic texts. The resulting treatment provides the first comprehensive examination of areas such as festal terminology, the social roles of benefactors and beneficiaries, the kinds of foods offered at feasts, and the role of public venues in community banquets.
Donahue's unique study relies on over three hundred Latin honorary inscriptions to recreate the ancient Roman feast. Illustrations depicting these inscriptions, as well as the food supply trades and various festal venues, bring important evidence to the study of this vital and enduring social practice. This book reveals the integral place of feasting in ancient culture as well as the unique power of food to unite and to separate its recipients along class lines throughout the Roman Empire. It will be of interest not only to classicists and historians of the ancient world, but also to anthropologists and sociologists interested in food and social group dynamics.

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Feast of Words: Banquets and Table Talk in the Renaissance

Author: Michael Jeanneret

The banquet gives rise to a special moment when thought and the senses—words and food—enhance each other. Throughout history, the ideal of the symposium has reconciled the angel and the beast in the human, renewing the interdependence between the mouth that speaks and the mouth that eats. Michel Jeanneret's lively book explores the paradigm of the banquet as a guide to significant tendencies in Renaissance Humanist culture and shows how this culture in turn illuminates the tensions between physical and mental pleasures. Ranging widely over French, Italian, German, and Latin texts, Jeanneret not only investigates the meal as a narrative artefact but enquires as well into aspects of sixteenth-century anthropology and aesthetics. 

Booknews

Jenneret (French literature, U. of Geneva) explores the paradigm of the banquet as a guide to significant tendencies in Renaissance Humanist culture and shows how this culture in turn illuminates the tensions between physical and mental pleasures--between the mouth that speaks and the mouth that eats. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Part I - Pleasure and the norm 
1. Humanism on holiday
The feast of the gods
The al fresco meal
Conviviality
The head and the stomach
2. Ceremonies and manners
Civility
Manners and Mannerism
The pomp of princes
Officers of the mouth
3. Rules for the appetite
An archaeology of the table
Diet
Medicine v. cookery
Part II - When the fable comes to table
4. Table talk
Convivial speech
A mouth full of words
Philologists or logophiles?
5. Eating the text
Storytelling while eating
'Our after-dinner entertainers'
'My salad and my Muse'
The marrow bone
Metaphors of bibliophagy
6. Classical banquets
Philosophy at meal time
Satire and its cooking
Greedy grammarians
7. Something for every taste
The copious and the varied
Erasmus: feasting on words
Guillaume Bouchet: stuffings
Giordano Bruno: the failed banquet
8. Dog Latin and macronic poetry
Dog Latin, cooks' talk and gibberish
Folengo and the ars macaronica
Muses with greasy hands
'My country is a pumpkin'
9. 'The centre of all books'
'Monarch of ecumenical symposia'
'You only talk about sex'
'Edible syllables and letters'
'I've never seen people talk so much'
Conclusion
Imitatio/Mimesis
Writing and nature
Paradoxical metaphors
Naturalizing the narrative?
Writing in action
Bibliography
Index

Magic Herbs or Chefs Compendium of Professional Recipes

Magic Herbs: More Than 200 Delicious & Healthy Recipes That are Naturally Low-Fat & Fat-Free

Author: Julie Metcalf Cull

A natural remedy for monotonous meals. In ancient times herbs were thought to heal and perform other wonders. While their magic powers may be just folklore, herbs do provide health benefits—like regulating blood sugar and appetite and raising levels of "good" (HDL) cholesterol. But the real magic of herbs lies in the distinctive flavors they add to foods. They transform low-fat, low-salt meals from, dull to delicious. Magic Herbs is a collection of over 200 recipes that make it easy to spice up your diet, using more than 50 types of herbs in savory dishes that are naturally low-fat and fat-free. Mouthwatering creations include:

• Arugula and Turkey Stuffed Mushrooms
• Dill Weed and Thyme Whole Wheat Herb Bread
• Grilled Porterhouse Steaks and Basil Tomatoes
• Bay Leaf and Cayenne Shrimp Creole
• Nutmeg Orange Marinated Chicken
• Easy Chive and Garlic Twice-Baked Potatoes
• Cinnamon Pumpkin Torte
• Bergamot Strawberry Iced Tea

Each easy-to-make recipe provides preparation time and complete nutrition analysis and exchange information. This unique book also features a "dictionary" of herbs, tips on growing and drying your own, and suggestions for using herbs in decorating and gift-giving.

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Chef's Compendium of Professional Recipes

Author: Edward Renold

This is a well-established reference and textbook for professional chefs and students. This edition presents essential recipes based on traditional and classic methods, but is simplified and adapted to meet the needs and conditions of the busy professional kitchen.

Trends towards healthy and safe eating are taken into account and alternatives are suggested to certain ingredients to meet this demand. Vegetarian recipes are also included.

Well-established reference and textbook
This new edition presents essential recipes based on traditional and classic methods

Table of Contents:

Culinary basics, stocks and sauces; Cold preparations; Soups; Eggs, pastas and rice; Fish; Meat, poultry and game; Vegetables; Pastry and sweets; Savouries and supplementary breakfast dishes; Glossary.