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The Slaw and the Slow Cooked: Culture and Barbecue in the Mid-South by James R. Veteto [0826518028, Format: PDF]

The Slaw and the Slow Cooked: Culture and Barbecue in the Mid-South by James R. Veteto

  • Print Length: 232 Pages
  • Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
  • Publication Date: January 30, 2012
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0826518028, 082651801X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0826518026, 978-0826518019
  • File Format: PDF

Texas has its barbecue tradition, and a library of books to go with it. Same with the Carolinas. The mid-South, however, is a region with as many opinions as styles of cooking. In The Slaw and the Slow Cooked, editors James Veteto and Edward Maclin seek to right a wrong–namely, a deeper understanding of the larger experience of barbecue in this legendary American culinary territory.

In developing the book, Veteto and Maclin cast a wide net for divergent approaches. Food writer John Edge introduces us to Jones Bar-B-Q Diner in Marianna, Arkansas, a possibly century-old restaurant serving top-notch pork and simultaneously challenging race and class boundaries. Kristen Bradley-Shurtz explores the 150-plus-year tradition of the St. Patrick’s Irish Picnic in McEwen, Tennessee. And no barbecue book would be complete without an insider’s story, provided here by Jonathan Deutsch’s “embedded” reporting inside a competitive barbecue team. Veteto and Maclin conclude with a glimpse into the future of barbecue culture: online, in the smoker, and fresh from the farm.

The Slaw and the Slow Cooked stands as a challenge to barbecue aficionados and a statement on the Mid-South’s important place at the table. Intended for food lovers, anthropologists, and sociologists alike, The Slaw and the Slow Cooked demonstrates barbecue’s status as a common language of the South.

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Food Culture in the Mediterranean: (Food Culture around the World) by Carol Helstosky [0313346267, Format: PDF]

Food Culture in the Mediterranean (Food Culture around the World) by Carol Helstosky

  • Print Length: 189 Pages
  • Publisher: Greenwood
  • Publication Date: March 20, 2009
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B002AS9R0O
  • ISBN-10: 0313346267
  • ISBN-13: 978-0313346262
  • File Format: PDF

Food that originated from the Mediterranean area is incredibly popular. Pasta, pizza, gyros, kebab, and falafel can be found just about everywhere. Many people throughout the world have a good idea of what Mediterranean cuisine and diet are all about, but they know less about the entire food culture of the region. This one-stop source provides the broadest possible understanding of food culture throughout the region, giving a variety of examples and evidence from the southern Mediterranean or North Africa (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt), the Western Mediterranean or European side of the Mediterranean (Spain, France, Italy, and the French and Italian islands), to the eastern Mediterranean or Levant (Greece, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, and Israel).

The Mediterranean region region is home to three of the world’s major religions, and for centuries, the Mediterranean Sea has been an invitation to trade, travel, conquest, and immigration. Where different cultures, beliefs, and traditions mix there is always volatility and tension, but there is also great energy. Understanding the food culture in the Mediterranean is one way readers can see how people of different regions come together, share ideas and information to create new dishes, meals, traditions, and forms of sociability. This volume answers questions such as Do people in the Mediterranean still eat the Mediterranean Diet or do they eat American style? Why is it that the same ingredients can be prepared in so many different ways, even in the same country? Why would cooks take the time to make foods like zucchini, lentils, or figs into dozens of different dishes? How and why do religious rituals differ regarding food preparation? What do Jews, Muslims, and Christians eat on religious holidays? Do people eat out or eat at home? Why is hospitality so important to Mediterranean people and what do they do to demonstrate hospitality and good will through the preparation and serving of meals?

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Biokiste vegan: Meine Lieblingsrezepte by Franzi Schädel [3440153630, Format: PDF]

Biokiste vegan: Meine Lieblingsrezepte by Franzi Schädel

  • Print Length: 144 Seiten
  • Publisher: Kosmos
  • Publication Date: 2. Februar 2017
  • Language: Deutsch
  • ASIN: B01N36Z6U4
  • ISBN-10: 3440153630
  • ISBN-13: 978-3440153635
  • File Format: PDF

Gerade für den Speiseplan von Veganern und Vegetariern bietet die Biokiste eine wechselnde Auswahl an regionalem und saisonalem Obst und Gemüse. Die Bloggerin Franzi Schädel zeigt, wie mit diesen frischen Zutaten eine ausgewogene vegane Ernährung umgesetzt werden kann. Ihre einfachen, schnellen Rezepte für jede Jahreszeit und jeden Anlass sind ein Genuss und kommen ganz ohne vegane Ersatzprodukte aus. Mit interessanten Specials: heimisches Superfood, Herstellung von Pflanzenmilch und -sahne, Fermentieren von Gemüse.

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Pure Heart: A Spirited Tale of Grace, Grit, and Whiskey by Troylyn Ball [0062458973, Format: EPUB]

Pure Heart: A Spirited Tale of Grace, Grit, and Whiskey by Troylyn Ball

  • Print Length: 288 Pages
  • Publisher: Dey Street Books
  • Publication Date: February 7, 2017
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B01HM24J3W
  • ISBN-10: 0062458973
  • ISBN-13: 978-0062458971
  • File Format: EPUB

Troylyn Ball and her husband, Charlie, an engineer and real estate developer, had spent their entire lives in Texas. But after a near fatal trip to the emergency room with their non-verbal, wheelchair-bound son Marshall, they admitted the dust and the heat were too dangerous. To save their boys, the Balls cashed out, sold their beloved farm, and moved to Asheville, North Carolina.

Nearing fifty, Troy thought her chance at adventure had passed. But in this booming little Appalachian Mountain city of hippies, farmers, artisans, and retirees, she unexpectedly discovered a support network and something she’d never had in twenty-five years of providing round-the-clock care for her special needs boys: the freedom to pursue her own dreams. She struck up a friendship with a legendary eighty-year-old raconteur from the mountains, met his friends, and soon found herself in a rickety country shack with an ingeniously inventive retired farmer trying to create the best recipe ever for traditional mountain moonshine.

But when the real estate bubble burst and the collapse of her husband Charlie’s new venture in Asheville left them deeply in debt, Troy realized her ten-year business plan for Troy & Sons Platinum Whiskey wasn’t enough. If she was going to save her family—and she was definitely going to save her family—she needed to become the most successful woman in the legal whiskey business. And she needed to do it fast, before the bank took her house, her business, and everything she’d worked so hard to achieve.

Full of eccentric characters and charming locations—from a “haunted” cabin in the mountains to the last farm in the world to grow heritage Crooked Creek corn—Pure Heart is a charming story of a woman who set out to find a purpose in the most unexpected of places, and ended up finding happiness, contentment, and a community of love and respect.

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The Top 100 Zone Foods: The Zone Food Science Ranking System by Barry Sears [0060741856, Format: PDF]

The Top 100 Zone Foods: The Zone Food Science Ranking System by Barry Sears

  • Print Length:
  • Publisher: Avon
  • Publication Date: December 28, 2004
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B0017098EQ
  • ISBN-10: 0060741856
  • ISBN-13: 978-0060741853
  • File Format: PDF

Dr Barry Sears takes you on a tour of the top 100 Zone foods, offering capsule summaries of their nutritional benefits, along with delicious recipes and Zone Food Block information for each food item.

Being in the Zone has just been made easier now that The Top 100 Zone Foods is available as a convenient mass market paperback. Dr Barry Sears selects the top 100 Zone foods and shows you how to mix and match them to form perfectly balanced Zone Meals. For each food item there is a brief description of its health and nutritional bragging points followed by one or two easy–to–prepare Zone–approved recipes and the appropriate Zone Block information for foolproof Zone cooking.

After explaining how to enter and stay in the Zone, Dr Sears shows why not all foods are created equal – at least from a nutritional and hormonal point of view. Organising the Top 100 into protein, carbohydrates and fats, he shows you how to combine your favourite foods to form hundreds of appropriately balanced and deliciously prepared meals such as Prawn Scampi with Vegetables, Mediterranean–Style Chicken, Spinach Feta Pie, Lemon Meringue, and Strawberry Mousse.

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The Minimalist Cooks Dinner: More Than 100 Recipes for Fast Weeknight Meals and Casual Entertaining by Mark Bittman [0767906713, Format: EPUB]

The Minimalist Cooks Dinner: More Than 100 Recipes for Fast Weeknight Meals and Casual Entertaining by Mark Bittman

  • Print Length: 240 Pages
  • Publisher: Clarkson Potter
  • Publication Date: September 11, 2001
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B003EJDGVY
  • ISBN-10: 0767906713
  • ISBN-13: 978-0767906715
  • File Format: EPUB

Back with another splendid collection, America’s most popular cooking authority and author of How to Cook Everything, presents more than 100 fast, sophisticated main courses for home cooks of every skill level.

The Minimalist Cooks Dinner showcases Mark Bittman’s signature ease and imagination, and focuses on center-of-the-plate main dishes. And, in this new volume, he also provides recipes for classic, versatile side dishes as well as recommendations for wine and food pairings. With a majority of its main dish recipes taking less than thirty minutes to prepare, this is truly the book every busy cook has been waiting for. Every recipe in The Minimalist Cooks Dinner is big on flavor, drawing on the global pantry and international repertoire that sets Bittman apart.

This inventive collection offers a refreshing new take on standards, along with ideas that will inspire both novices and experienced home cooks to branch out, making it the perfect solution for weeknight after-work meals or elegant weekend dinner parties. From Steamed Chicken Breasts with Scallion-Ginger Sauce to Korean-Style Beef Wrapped in Lettuce Leaves to Roast Fish with Meat Sauce, Bittman banishes the ordinary with an exciting range of choices. Also covering hearty pasta dishes, steaks, pork, veal, lamb, chicken, and a wide assortment of seafood, The Minimalist Cooks Dinner is the answer when you’re looking for “satisfying dishes with a minimum of effort.”

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The Kitchen Hand: A Miscellany of Kitchen Wisdom by Anthony Telford [1865088900, Format: PDF]

The Kitchen Hand: A Miscellany of Kitchen Wisdom by Anthony Telford

  • Print Length: 304 Pages
  • Publisher: Allen & Unwin
  • Publication Date: October 1, 2004
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1865088900
  • ISBN-13: 978-1865088907
  • File Format: PDF

This handy kitchen reference offers a fount of culinary knowledge, tips, and conversions for cooking globally with international cookbooks. A user-friendly dictionary layout provides quick access to necessary information such as metric conversions, equivalent weights, alternatives for allergy sufferers, and rescue remedies for kitchen disasters. Replacements for hard-to-find ingredients that are often elements of foreign recipes are also included. Guides to commonly used abbreviations, oven temperatures, additives, and dimensions of cooking equipment help cooks convert recipes to use for their own kitchens. Tips for making homemade crème fraiche, using leftover egg whites, perfecting pork glaze, and other kitchen tidbits are interspersed throughout.

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Superfoods For Dummies by Brent Agin [0470445394, Format: PDF]

Superfoods For Dummies by Brent Agin

  • Print Length: 360 Pages
  • Publisher: For Dummies
  • Publication Date: May 4, 2009
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0470445394
  • ISBN-13: 978-0470445396
  • File Format: PDF

Transform your diet and reap the extraordinary benefits of superfoods

Want to eat healthier, lose weight, and fight off disease? You can do it with superfoods! This friendly guide explains everything you need to know — why you need superfoods, the science behind them, and how to prepare and enjoy them. From bananas and carrots to oatmeal and salmon, you’ll gain a healthy attitude toward eating right!

  • Get the skinny on superfoods — know the basics of a balanced, nutritional diet, and why superfoods are so powerful
  • Take a closer look — examine the unique properties of superfoods and the best ways to store and prepare them
  • Explore exotic flavors — discover Asia’s goji berries, Mexico’s chia, Indonesia’s mangosteen, and other unusual superfoods
  • Launch your superfoods lifestyle — plan healthy meals you and your family will enjoy

Open the book and find:

  • A nuts-and-bolts breakdown of each superfood
  • Ways to incorporate superfoods into your everyday diet
  • Tips for saving money on superfoods
  • The healthiest cooking methods
  • More than 50 easy-to-prepare, tasty recipes — from breakfast to dessert
  • The top dietary supplements
  • How to grow your own superfoods garden
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China (International Cuisine) by Christine Yau [0340811188, Format: PDF]

China (International Cuisine) by Christine Yau

  • Print Length: 208 Pages
  • Publisher: Hodder Arnold
  • Publication Date: July 30, 2004
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0340811188
  • ISBN-13: 978-0340811184
  • File Format: PDF

De-mystify the key principles of Chinese cookery and create your own exciting array of authentic dishes with “International Cuisine: China”. Written by two highly regarded experts with a comprehensive knowledge both of the cuisine and its many applications, this book provides in-depth coverage of the key regional influences and essential techniques of Chinese cookery. It is packed with a wide range of dishes, promising a mouth-watering blend of traditional ingredients. From soups and starters to impressive main courses, many of the recipes are accompanied by stunning full colour photographs, as well as clear illustrations of key methods and the use of unique cooking utensils. “International Cuisine: China” is an accessible and innovative step-by-step guide to Chinese cookery, and will prove the ideal kitchen companion for students, professionals and enthusiasts alike.

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Receipts of Pastry and Cookery: For the Use of His Scholars (Iowa Szathmary Culinary Arts Series) by Edward Kidder [0877454108, Format: EPUB]

Receipts of Pastry and Cookery: For the Use of His Scholars (Iowa Szathmary Culinary Arts Series) by Edward Kidder

  • Print Length: 179 Pages
  • Publisher: Univ of Iowa Pr
  • Publication Date: June 1, 1993
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0877454108
  • ISBN-13: 978-0877454106
  • File Format: EPUB

The entrepreneurial Kidder probably dictated this book with his students in mind; surely they would already know how to prepare meats from veal to venison for baking and how hot to make the fire. The notebook contains many recipes for meat “pyes” and pasties with meat, plus recipes for puddings and cakes and meat, poultry, and fish main dishes: First Dishes, Bottome Dishes, Side Dishes, For Ye Midle, Second Course, and Plates. Many recipes have surprising starting points, such as Pidgeon Peares:
Bone your pidgeons all but one leg & put that thro’ ye side out at ye vent cut off ye toes & fill them with forcd meat made of ye hart & liver & cover them with a tender forcd meat being washd over with ye batter of egges & shape them like peares then wash them over & roul them in scalded chopt spinnage…
and then a Regalia of Cowcumbers, a Swan Pye, and a Calves head hasht. These recipes predate modern squeamishness about cooking with organ meats and consuming animal fat and display a sense of familiarity with and awareness of flesh that are no longer second nature to cooks. From the perspective of the twentieth century the language seems oddly direct, “take ye flesh of a foul beef suet & marrow ye same quantity,” and personalized, as in “toss up a handfull of chopt capers.”
Everyone wishing to delve deeper into culinary history will find these recipes, the latest addition to the Iowa Szathmary Culinary Arts Series, fascinating as artifacts of culture and society.

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The Vegan Girl’s Guide to Life: Cruelty-Free Crafts, Recipes, Beauty Secrets and More by Melisser Elliott [1616080922, Format: EPUB]

The Vegan Girl’s Guide to Life: Cruelty-Free Crafts, Recipes, Beauty Secrets and More by Melisser Elliott

  • Print Length: 224 Pages
  • Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
  • Publication Date: November 11, 2010
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1616080922
  • ISBN-13: 978-1616080921
  • File Format: EPUB

Vegan women everywhere are banding together in their efforts to be healthy, cruelty free, and environmentally responsible. This is their handbook. Melisser (known to most as “The Urban Housewife”) presents the basics of veganism for the newbies, lots of DIY craft projects, cruelty-free beauty tips, travel advice, recipes, and more.

This book is not just for vegan girls—it’s also for anyone who’s interested in a cruelty-free lifestyle. Discover the best beauty products, fun vacation spots, plus an assortment of recipes including Jackfruit “Carnitas” Tacos, Twice Baked Chipotle Sweet Potatoes, Curried Red Lentil Veggie Burgers, Chipotle Hominy Stew, and Double Chocolate Cookies. Learn how to make recycled cake stands, find a cross-stitch pattern by Stitch’d Ink, and find out about natural beauty and cleaning products. Reading like a Who’s Who of vegan women, contributions of recipes and craft projects will be provided by some of the most respected vegan chefs and bloggers in the world (Isa Chandra Moskowitz, Hannah Kaminsky, Celine Steen, Julie Hasson, Kittee Berns, Kelly Peloza, and more).

Full of photos and quirky illustrations, this is useful information with a punk rock attitude.

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Nuts: A Global History by Ken Albala [1780232829, Format: PDF]

Nuts: A Global History (Edible) by Ken Albala

  • Print Length: 128 Pages
  • Publisher: Reaktion Books
  • Publication Date: April 15, 2014
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B00KD8YWQM
  • ISBN-10: 1780232829
  • ISBN-13: 978-1780232829
  • File Format: PDF

From almonds and pecans to pistachios, cashews, and macadamias, nuts are as basic as food gets—just pop them out of the shell and into your mouth. The original health food, the vitamin-packed nut is now used industrially, in confectionary, and in all sorts of cooking. The first book to tell the full story of how nuts came to be in almost everything, Nuts takes readers on a gastronomic, botanical, and cultural tour of the world.

Tracking these fruits and seeds through cultivation, harvesting, processing, and consumption—or non-consumption, in the case of those with nut allergies—award-winning food writer Ken Albala provides a fascinating account on how they have been cooked, prepared, and exploited. He reveals the social and cultural meaning of nuts during various periods in history, while also immersing us in their modern uses. Packing scrumptious recipes, surprising facts, and fascinating nuggets inside its hardcover shell, this entertaining and informative book will delight lovers of almonds, hazelnuts, chestnuts, and more.

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Offal: A Global History by Nina Edwards [1780230974, Format: EPUB]

Offal: A Global History (Edible) by Nina Edwards

  • Print Length: 141 Pages
  • Publisher: Reaktion Books
  • Publication Date: April 15, 2013
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B00G2ADR6Q
  • ISBN-10: 1780230974
  • ISBN-13: 978-1780230979
  • File Format: EPUB

“Offal” has the same pronunciation as “awful”—an appropriate homophone, given that offal comprises the whole spectrum of an animal’s glands, essential organs, skin, muscle, guts, and every unmentionable in between. Yet as Nina Edwards shows in this intriguing history, offal has been consumed and enjoyed across ages and continents, often hidden by the rich variety of terms—like fois gras and sweetbread—that have evolved to veil their origins.

Edwards dissects the complicated relationship we have with offal and the extreme reactions it inspires, asking if we can enjoy a pig’s heart, a cow’s eyes, or a sheep’s brain when it reminds us so viscerally of our own flesh and blood. She explores the offal dishes that are specific to regional cuisines and holidays, such as Scottish haggis, Jewish chopped liver, and Southern states’ chitterlings. As she reveals, offal is a food of contradictions—it is high in nutrients but also dangerously high in cholesterol, and it can range from expensive haute cuisine to a cheap alternative for the impoverished. From tongue in Sichuan and gizzard stew in Rio de Janeiro to spicy cartilage in Calcutta, Offal sheds new light on the sometimes stomach-churning foods we consume.
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Onions and Garlic: A Global History by Martha Jay [1780235879, Format: PDF]

Onions and Garlic: A Global History (Edible) by Martha Jay

  • Print Length: 144 Pages
  • Publisher: Reaktion Books
  • Publication Date: May 15, 2016
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B01NAITRXT
  • ISBN-10: 1780235879
  • ISBN-13: 978-1780235875
  • File Format: PDF

Look at any recipe for a savory dish and chances are it will start with this step: fry onions in a pan over medium heat. Onions—and their allium family relatives, shallots, garlic, chives, and leeks—are one of the most heavily used ingredients in cuisines all over the world. You’ll rarely find them in the spotlight, though—except for when they are fried into rings or used to repel vampires. In this book, Martha Jay gives alliums their due, offering an illuminating history of these cherished plants that follows the trail of their aromas to every corner of the globe and from ancient times up to today.

Going back to the earliest recipes from ancient Mesopotamia, Jay traces the spread of alliums along trade routes through Central Asia and into ancient Greece and Rome. Likewise she follows their spread in East Asia, where they have become indispensable, and of course into Europe and the Americas, where the onion—and its odor—gave rise to the name “Chicago” and the leek became the national symbol of Wales. Celebrated, denigrated, prescribed, and proscribed, onions, garlic, and their relatives can be found—as Jay lavishly demonstrates—in the histories of peasants and kings, in cuisine and art, in tales of colonization and those of resistance, and in medicinal cures and magical potions alike. Her book is a welcome celebration of some of the most important ingredients in the world.

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Dates: A Global History by Nawal Nasrallah [1861897960, Format: PDF]

Dates: A Global History (Edible) by Nawal Nasrallah

  • Print Length: 136 Pages
  • Publisher: Reaktion Books
  • Publication Date: April 1, 2011
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B00C2PINN2
  • ISBN-10: 1861897960
  • ISBN-13: 978-1861897961
  • File Format: PDF

In Dates, Nawal Nasrallah draws on her experience of growing up in the lands of ancient Mesopotamia, where the date palm was first cultivated, to explore the history behind the fruit. Dates have an important role in their arid homeland of the Middle East, where they are a dietary staple and can be consumed fresh or dried, as a snack or a dessert, and are even thought to have aphrodisiac qualities.

In this history, Nasrallah describes the central role the date palm has played in the economy of the Middle East. This informative account of the date palm’s story follows its journey from its land of origin to the far-flung regions where it is cultivated today. Along the way, Nasrallah weaves many fascinating and humorous anecdotes that explore the etymology, history, culture, religion, myths, and legends surrounding dates. For example, she explains how the tree came to be a symbol of the Tree of Life and associated with the fiery phoenix bird, the famous ancient goddess Ishtar, and the moon, and how the medjool date acquired its name.

This delightful and unusual book is generously illustrated with many beautiful images, and supplemented with more than a dozen delicious date recipes for savory dishes, sweets, and wine.