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Truffle Boy

My Unexpected Journey Through the Exotic Food Underground

By: Ian Purkayastha

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Truffle Boy

My Unexpected Journey Through the Exotic Food Underground

By: Ian Purkayastha

[Ian Purkayastha] has a true, deep expertise in everything he sells--caviar, truffles, fish. He knows the stories that we need to sell the stuff tableside . . . he can disrupt the entire luxury foods market." ---From the Foreword by David Chang Ian Purkayastha is New York City's leading truffle importer and boasts a devoted clientele of top chefs nationwide, including Jean-Georges Vongerichten, David Chang, Sean Brock, and David Bouley. But before he was purveying the world's most expensive fungus to the country's most esteemed chefs, Ian was just a food-obsessed teenager in rural Arkansas -- a misfit with a peculiar fascination for rare and exotic ingredients. The son of an Indian immigrant father and a Texan mother, Ian learned to forage for wild mushrooms from an uncle in the Ozark hills. Thus began a single-track fixation that led him to learn about the prized but elusive truffle, the king of all fungi. His first taste of truffle at age 15 sparked his improbable yet remarkable adventure through the strange -- and often corrupt -- business of the exotic food trade. Rife with tales from the hidden underbelly of the elite restaurant scene, Truffle Boy chronicles Ian's high stakes dealings with a truffle kingpin in Serbia, meth-head foragers in Oregon, crooked businessmen and maniacal chefs in Manhattan, gypsy truffle hunters in the forests of Hungary, and a supreme adventure to find "Gucci mushrooms" in the Himalayan foothills -- the land of the gods. He endures harsh failures along the way but rebuilds with tremendous success by selling not just truffles but also caviar, wild mushrooms, rare foraged edibles, Wagyu beef, and other nearly unobtainable ingredients demanded by his Michelin-starred clients. Truffle Boy is a thrilling coming-of-age story and the incredible but true tale of a country kid who grows up to become a force in the world of fine dining.

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031638397X

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Truffle Boy

My Unexpected Journey Through the Exotic Food Underground

By: Ian Purkayastha

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My Unexpected Journey Through the Exotic Food Underground

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The Warm-Up

Maximize Performance and Improve Long-Term Athletic Development

By: Ian Jeffreys

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The Warm-Up

Maximize Performance and Improve Long-Term Athletic Development

By: Ian Jeffreys

Athletes do not all train the same way, but it is rare to see any athlete—at any level—exercise or compete without warming up. Although the warm-up can take many forms, smart coaches and athletes know that the warm-up should be a part of any training session. The Warm-Up is the first book to describe the science of the warm-up and provide guidelines to maximize its effectiveness through the process of constructing effective RAMP-based warm-ups. The RAMP system—Raise, Activate, Mobilize, and Potentiate—looks at the warm-up not only as preparation for the upcoming session, but also as tool for athletic development that can cultivate the skills and movement capacities needed to excel in sport. RAMP has become a standard warm-up system recommended by the United Kingdom Strength and Conditioning Association (UKSCA) and is included in professional resources developed by the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA). The Warm-Up provides a library of activities that can be used to maximize the effectiveness of warm-ups within the structure of the RAMP system. Coaches and athletes can incorporate activities to develop warm-ups that directly contribute to performance, or they can use one of five sample RAMP warm-up programs, which are appropriate for a variety of sports and athlete training levels. More than 160 diagrams and photos enhance the text and provide direction for the drills and exercises, and 17 video clips demonstrate movement patterns of the Raise phase. Plus, exercise and drill finders make it easy to find the exercises best suited for specific needs. It’s time to make the warm-up part of the long-term athlete development plan. The Warm-Up will help coaches and athletes use the RAMP system to make warm-ups a more effective part of training that contributes to better performance.

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216

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Human Kinetics

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1492572640

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Foot and Ankle Injection Techniques

A Practical Guide

By: Stuart Metcalfe,Ian Reilly

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Foot and Ankle Injection Techniques

A Practical Guide

By: Stuart Metcalfe,Ian Reilly

Foot and Ankle Injection Techniques provides the student and practising podiatrist with all they need to understand when, how and what to inject. To support the clinician and student, the text covers: - Changes in legislation - The full range of injectable drugs available to the practitioner - Essential information on nerve physiology, drug action, equipment, patient selection, injection techniques and many other topics - A step-by-step guide to injection techniques - Useful background information in introductory chapters Written by two highly respected consultant podiatric surgeons. - Online resources containing video clips to supplement the text. For access, please log on to, http://booksite.elsevier.com/9780702031076/ and follow the instructions - Abundant photographs and clear line illustrations of the techniques and underlying anatomy

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0702047821

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9780702047824

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