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  • The Lost Art of Real Cooking

    Rediscovering the Pleasures of Traditional Food One Recipe at a Time: A Cookbook

    It's time to take back the kitchen. It's time to unlock the pantry and break free from the shackles of ready-made, industrial food. It's time to cook supper.The Lost Art of Real Cooking heralds a new old-fashioned approach to food-laborious and inconvenient, yet extraordinarily rewarding and worth bragging about. From jam, yogurt, and fresh pasta to salami, smoked meat, and strudel, Ken Albala and ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Beans

    A History

    de Ken Albala ...
    This is the story of the bean, the staple food cultivated by humans for over 10,000 years.From the lentil to the soybean, every civilization on the planet has cultivated its own species of bean. The humble bean has always attracted attention - from Pythagoras' notion that the bean hosted a human soul to St. Jerome's indictment against bean-eating in convents (because they "tickle the genitals"), ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • The Banquet

    Dining in the Great Courts of Late Renaissance Europe

    de Ken Albala ...
    Series series The Food Series
    The importance of the banquet in the late Renaissance is impossible to overlook. Banquets showcased a host’s wealth and power, provided an occasion for nobles from distant places to gather together, and even served as a form of political propaganda. But what was it really like to cater to the tastes and habits of high society at the banquets of nobles, royalty, and popes? What did they eat and how ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Lost Arts of Hearth and Home

    The Happy Luddite's Guide to Domestic Self-Sufficiency

    The Lost Arts of Hearth and Home is not about extreme, off-the-grid living. It’s for city and suburban dwellers with day jobs: people who love to cook, love fresh natural ingredients, and old techniques for preservation; people who like doing things themselves with a needle and thread, garden hoe, or manual saw.Ken Albala and Rosanna Nafziger Henderson spread the spirit of antiquated self ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Noodle Soup

    Recipes, Techniques, Obsession

    de Ken Albala ...
    Every day, noodle shops around the globe ladle out quick meals that fuel our go-go lives. But Ken Albala has a mission: to get YOU in the kitchen making noodle soup.This primer offers the recipes and techniques for mastering quick-slurper staples and luxurious from-scratch feasts. Albala made a different noodle soup every day for two years. His obsession yielded all you need to know about making ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Pancake

    A Global History

    de Ken Albala ...
    Series Libro 2 - Edible
    Round, thin and made of starchy batter cooked on a flat surface, the pancake is a food that goes by many names: crêpes, flapjacks and okonomiyaki, to name just a few. This treat is a treasured food the world over, and now Ken Albala unearths the surprisingly rich history of pancakes and their sizzling goodness.Pancake traverses over centuries and civilizations to examine the culinary and cultural ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • New Orleans

    A Food Biography

    Series series Big City Food Biographies
    Beignets, Po’ Boys, gumbo, jambalaya, Antoine’s. New Orleans’ celebrated status derives in large measure from its incredibly rich food culture, based mainly on Creole and Cajun traditions. At last, this world-class destination has its own food biography. Elizabeth M. Williams, a New Orleans native and founder of the Southern Food and Beverage Museum there, takes readers through the history of the ... Leer más

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  • At the Table

    Food and Family around the World

    Edición de Ken Albala ...
    What's for dinner? Not just in America, but around the world? And how is it cooked, what's the historical significance of that food, how is it served and consumed, and who gets to clean up? This book provides fascinating insight into how dinner is defined in countries around the world.Almost universally, "dinner" is a key meal in most countries around the world, whether it be a simple dish of rice ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Three World Cuisines

    Italian, Mexican, Chinese

    de Ken Albala ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Food and Gastronomy
    The text begins with a comprehensive theory of cuisine in the introduction and moves to the parallel culinary histories of Italy, Mexico, and China: the independent domestication of crops in each, the social, political, and technological developments that gave rise to each cuisine, and cooking in both professional and home settings. It also compares the internal logic of the cooking style and ... Leer más

    $178.99 USD

  • Opulent Nosh

    A Cookbook for Audacious Appetites

    de Ken Albala ...
    Foodie-scholar extraordinaire Ken Albala offers adventurous cooks a treasury of innovative recipes to transform noshing ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • From Famine to Fast Food

    Nutrition, Diet, and Concepts of Health around the World

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    The foods eaten by a nation's population play a key role in shaping the health of that society. This book presents country-specific information on how diet, food security, and concepts of health critically impact the well-being of the world's population.A country's food culture and eating habits directly impact the health and well-being of its citizens. Economic factors contribute to problems such ... Leer más

    $37.99 USD

  • A Cultural History of Food in the Renaissance

    Edición de Ken Albala ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    Food and attitudes toward it were transformed in Renaissance Europe. The period between 1300 and 1600 saw the discovery of the New World and the cultivation of new foodstuffs, as well as the efflorescence of culinary literature in European courts and eventually in the popular press, and most importantly the transformation of the economy on a global scale. Food became the object of rigorous ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD