Author: Elizabeth DavidPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cooking, International Gastronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Is There a Nutmeg in the House?
Author: Elizabeth DavidPublisher: Viking Adult
ISBN:
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Along with M.F.K. Fisher and Julia Child, Elizabeth David changed the way we think about and prepare food. Her nine books, written with impeccable wit and considerable brilliance, helped educate the taste (and taste buds) of the postwar generation. Insisting on authentic recipes and fresh ingredients, she taught that food need not be complicated to be delicious.Elizabeth David, who died in 1992, was a very private person who seldom gave interviews. However, a 1984 collection of her journalism entitled An Omelet and a Glass of Wine greatly revealed David to her readers and is now considered the best food book written in the twentieth century. Now, nearly twenty years later, Viking will publish the sequel to that landmark book. Is There a Nutmeg in the House? contains material that has never appeared in previous collections. The emphasis throughout is on the practical aspects of cooking and eating and the book includes 150 recipes. These may come from around the world -- Mediterranean tomato consomme or classic English raspberry cream -- but they all have Elizabeth David's unmistakable touch. Delightful essays on her various likes and dislikes -- from the wonders of nutmeg to the utterly useless garlic press -- complete a unique picture of what for so long made David the most influential writer on food in the English language.Both immensely readable and wonderfully instructive, Is There a Nutmeg in the House? is a must-have for David fans and food lovers everywhere.
Is There a Nutmeg in the House?
Author: Elizabeth DavidPublisher:
ISBN: 9780756769666
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Elizabeth David helped change the way we think about and prepare our food. Insisting on authentic recipes and fresh ingredients, she taught that food need not be complicated to be delicious. This volume contains a selection of David's journalistic and occasional work from four decades. Much of it she had chosen herself to be included in this more accessible form. In addition, there is a considerable amount of unpublished material found in her own files or contributed by friends to whom she had given recipes or to whom she had sent letters, either with notes in answer to queries or giving the details of current research. None of the material here appears in any of her previous 9 books. Contains 150+ recipes. A must-have for food lovers everywhere!
Tumtum & Nutmeg
Author: Emily BearnPublisher:
ISBN: 9781448794355
Category : Brothers and sisters
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Wealthy, married mice Tumtum and Nutmeg find adventure when they secretly try to help two human siblings who live in a tumbledown cottage with their absent-minded inventor father.
Cassell's household guide
Author: Cassell, ltdThe Nutmeg's Curse
Author: Amitav GhoshPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226823954
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism’s violent exploitation of human life and the natural environment. A powerful work of history, essay, testimony, and polemic, Amitav Ghosh’s new book traces our contemporary planetary crisis back to the discovery of the New World and the sea route to the Indian Ocean. The Nutmeg’s Curse argues that the dynamics of climate change today are rooted in a centuries-old geopolitical order constructed by Western colonialism. At the center of Ghosh’s narrative is the now-ubiquitous spice nutmeg. The history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation—of both human life and the natural environment. In Ghosh’s hands, the story of the nutmeg becomes a parable for our environmental crisis, revealing the ways human history has always been entangled with earthly materials such as spices, tea, sugarcane, opium, and fossil fuels. Our crisis, he shows, is ultimately the result of a mechanistic view of the earth, where nature exists only as a resource for humans to use for our own ends, rather than a force of its own, full of agency and meaning. Writing against the backdrop of the global pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests, Ghosh frames these historical stories in a way that connects our shared colonial histories with the deep inequality we see around us today. By interweaving discussions on everything from the global history of the oil trade to the migrant crisis and the animist spirituality of Indigenous communities around the world, The Nutmeg’s Curse offers a sharp critique of Western society and speaks to the profoundly remarkable ways in which human history is shaped by non-human forces.
Cassell's Household Guide: Being a Complete Encyclopaedia of Domestic and Social Economy, Etc
Author: Cassell & CompanyEight Flavors
Author: Sarah LohmanPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476753954
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This unique culinary history of America offers a fascinating look at our past and uses long-forgotten recipes to explain how eight flavors changed how we eat. The United States boasts a culturally and ethnically diverse population which makes for a continually changing culinary landscape. But a young historical gastronomist named Sarah Lohman discovered that American food is united by eight flavors: black pepper, vanilla, curry powder, chili powder, soy sauce, garlic, MSG, and Sriracha. In Eight Flavors, Lohman sets out to explore how these influential ingredients made their way to the American table. She begins in the archives, searching through economic, scientific, political, religious, and culinary records. She pores over cookbooks and manuscripts, dating back to the eighteenth century, through modern standards like How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman. Lohman discovers when each of these eight flavors first appear in American kitchens—then she asks why. Eight Flavors introduces the explorers, merchants, botanists, farmers, writers, and chefs whose choices came to define the American palate. Lohman takes you on a journey through the past to tell us something about our present, and our future. We meet John Crowninshield a New England merchant who traveled to Sumatra in the 1790s in search of black pepper. And Edmond Albius, a twelve-year-old slave who lived on an island off the coast of Madagascar, who discovered the technique still used to pollinate vanilla orchids today. Weaving together original research, historical recipes, gorgeous illustrations and Lohman’s own adventures both in the kitchen and in the field, Eight Flavors is a delicious treat—ready to be devoured.
Nutmeg
Author: David LucasPublisher: Andersen Press (UK)
ISBN: 9781842705636
Category : Breakfasts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Bored with her meals of cardboard, string, and sawdust, Nutmeg acquires from a genie a magic spoon to make some different dishes but winds up with more than she bargained for.
Much Ado about Nutmeg
Author: Sarah FoxPublisher: Lyrical Underground
ISBN: 1516107799
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Wedding bells are in the air—along with the aroma of maple syrup—in the latest Pancake House Mystery. But a series of murders threatens to spoil everyone’s appetite. . . Between tourist season, planning her beach wedding, and running her pancake house, the Flip Side, Marley McKinney is busier than ever. On top of that, one of her regulars is competing in Wildwood Cove’s Golden Oldies Games—a sporting event for athletes 50 and over—and Marley wants to cheer her on. Everything’s running as smooth as batter—until sports reporter Yvonne Pritchard stirs up a triple batch of trouble . . . Yvonne has one admirer in town—Ed Herman—but she has many more enemies, from a disgruntled coach to an athlete she once shamed on social media. So when a body washes up on shore, and it’s no accident, it’s not a complete surprise Yvonne is the victim. And when Ed asks Marley to use her sleuthing skills to solve the crime, she’ll have to squeeze in time between squeezing into wedding dresses. Then a second victim turns up, and Marley will have to work at high speed to stop a killer from piling up bodies faster than she can whip up a tall stack . . . Includes pancake recipes right from the Flip Side menu! Praise for Sarah Fox’s Wine and Punishment “Readers will cheer this brisk, literate addition to the world of small-town cozies.” —Kirkus Reviews “Hits all the right notes—a unique setting, friends and family, an intriguing mystery, and even the promise of romance.” —Sofie Ryan, New York Times bestselling author of the Second Chance Cat mysteries. “Draws readers into the fold of suspects in Shady Creek and doesn’t let go until the culprit is uncovered. There are laugh-out-loud moments, hold-your-breath moments, and moments when you’ll think you have the mystery figured out, but the surprises keep coming!” —USA Today bestselling author Amy M. Reade
Author: Charles Dickens