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A Feast of Weeds: A Literary History of Foraging by BALLERINI LUIGI
$49.95 AUD
Category: Gardening | Series: California Studies in Food & Culture
The primal experience of gathering is inscribed in every human's DNA, and this book invites us to look beyond the refrigerator and cupboard to the abundance of wild edible plants that can be found and harvested everywhere. Part reference guide, part cookbook, "A Feast of Weeds" encourages readers to for ...Show more
Cooking by Herve This
$45.00 AUD
Category: Food & Cooking | Series: California Studies in Food & Culture
From its intriguing opening question - "How can we reasonably judge a meal?" - to its rewarding conclusion, this beautiful book picks up where Brillat-Savarin left off almost two centuries ago. Herve This, a cofounder (with the late physicist Nicholas Kurti) of the new approach to studying the scientifi ...Show more
Of Sugar and Snow: A History of Ice Cream Making by Jeri Quinzio
$53.95 AUD
Category: Food & Cooking | Series: California Studies in Food and Culture
Was ice cream invented in Philadelphia? How about by the Emperor Nero, when he poured honey over snow? Did Marco Polo first taste it in China and bring recipes back? In this first book to tell ice cream's full story, Jeri Quinzio traces the beloved confection from its earliest appearances in sixteenth-c ...Show more
SAFE FOOD THE POLITICS OF FOOD SAFETY UPDATED AND EXPANDED E by Nestle Marion
$31.95 AUD
Category: Food & Cooking | Series: California Studies in Food and Culture
Food safety is a matter of intense public concern, and for good reason. Millions of annual cases of food "poisonings" raise alarm not only about the food served in restaurants and fast-food outlets but also about foods bought in supermarkets. The introduction of genetically modified foods--immediately d ...Show more
Tastes and Temptations: Food and Art in Renaissance Italy by John Varriano
$25.00 AUD
Category: Food & Cooking | Series: California Studies in Food and Culture
Fruits and vegetables as erotic metaphors in still life paintings, the Florentine Baptistry replicated in sausage and cheese by Andrea del Sarto, a recipe for fish molded in the shape of a goat, the discovery of an Ovidian scene at the bottom of a soup bowl. A feast for the mind and eye, this beautifull ...Show more
The Untold History of Ramen - How Political Crisis in Japan Spawned a Global Food Craze by George Solt
$35.00 AUD
Category: Food & Cooking | Series: California Studies in Food and Culture Ser.
A rich, salty, and steaming bowl of noodle soup, ramen has become an international symbol of the cultural prowess of Japanese cuisine. In this highly original account of geopolitics and industrialization in Japan, George Solt traces the meteoric rise of ramen from humble fuel for the working poor to int ...Show more
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