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The Great Little Pumpkin Cookbook

By: Michael Krondl

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The Great Little Pumpkin Cookbook

By: Michael Krondl

Pumpkins are one of those few ingredients that can do it all-soups, salads, starters, side dishes, dinners, and desserts. Make it sweet or make it savory, this native American makes any meal a little more festive. Here, Michael Krondl offers a staggering selection of choices from the traditionally familiar to the exotically ethnic.

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Celestial Arts

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0890878935

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9780890878934

Sweet Invention

A History of Dessert

By: Michael Krondl

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Sweet Invention

A History of Dessert

By: Michael Krondl

A social, cultural, and--above all--culinary history of dessert, Sweet Invention explores the world's great dessert traditions, from ancient India to 21st-century Indiana. Each chapter begins with author Michael Krondl tasting and analyzing an icon of dessert, such as baklava from the Middle East or macarons from France, and then combines extensive scholarship with a lively writing style to spin an ancient tale of some of the world's favorite treats and their creators. From the sweet makers of Persia who gave us the first donuts to the sugar sculptors of Renaissance Italy whose creativity gave rise to the modern-day wedding cake, this authoritative read clears up numerous misconceptions about the origins of various desserts, while elucidating their social, political, religious--and even sexual--uses through the ages.

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426

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Chicago Review Press

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ISBN 10

1556529546

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9781556529542

The Taste of Conquest

The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice

By: Michael Krondl

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The Taste of Conquest

The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice

By: Michael Krondl

The smell of sweet cinnamon on your morning oatmeal, the gentle heat of gingerbread, the sharp piquant bite from your everyday peppermill. The tales these spices could tell: of lavish Renaissance banquets perfumed with cloves, and flimsy sailing ships sent around the world to secure a scented prize; of cinnamon-dusted custard tarts and nutmeg-induced genocide; of pungent elixirs and the quest for the pepper groves of paradise. The Taste of Conquest offers up a riveting, globe-trotting tale of unquenchable desire, fanatical religion, raw greed, fickle fashion, and mouthwatering cuisine–in short, the very stuff of which our world is made. In this engaging, enlightening, and anecdote-filled history, Michael Krondl, a noted chef turned writer and food historian, tells the story of three legendary cities–Venice, Lisbon, and Amsterdam–and how their single-minded pursuit of spice helped to make (and remake) the Western diet and set in motion the first great wave of globalization. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the world’s peoples were irrevocably brought together as a result of the spice trade. Before the great voyages of discovery, Venice controlled the business in Eastern seasonings and thereby became medieval Europe’s most cosmopolitan urban center. Driven to dominate this trade, Portugal’s mariners pioneered sea routes to the New World and around the Cape of Good Hope to India to unseat Venice as Europe’s chief pepper dealer. Then, in the 1600s, the savvy businessmen of Amsterdam “invented” the modern corporation–the Dutch East India Company–and took over as spice merchants to the world. Sharing meals and stories with Indian pepper planters, Portuguese sailors, and Venetian foodies, Krondl takes every opportunity to explore the world of long ago and sample its many flavors. The spice trade and its cultural exchanges didn’t merely lend kick to the traditional Venetian cookies called peverini, or add flavor to Portuguese sausages of every description, or even make the Indonesian rice table more popular than Chinese takeout in trendy Amsterdam. No, the taste for spice of a few wealthy Europeans led to great crusades, astonishing feats of bravery, and even wholesale slaughter. As stimulating as it is pleasurable, and filled with surprising insights, The Taste of Conquest offers a fascinating perspective on how, in search of a tastier dish, the world has been transformed.

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Ballantine Books

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034550982X

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9780345509826

The Great Little Pumpkin Cookbook

By: Michael Krondl

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By: Michael Krondl

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Celestial Arts

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0890878935

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9780890878934

The Essence of Japanese Cuisine

An Essay on Food and Culture

By: Michael Ashkenazi,Jeanne Jacob,Michael Ashkenazi Michael Ashkenazi

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The Essence of Japanese Cuisine

An Essay on Food and Culture

By: Michael Ashkenazi,Jeanne Jacob,Michael Ashkenazi Michael Ashkenazi

The past few years have shown a growing interest in cooking and food, as a result of international food issues such as BSE, world trade and mass foreign travel, and at the same time there has been growing interest in Japanese Studies since the 1970s. This volume brings together the two interests of Japan and food, examining both from a number of perspectives. The book reflects on the social and cultural side of Japanese food, and at the same time reflects also on the ways in which Japanese culture has been affected by food, a basic human institution. Providing the reader with the historical and social bases to understand how Japanese cuisine has been and is being shaped, this book assumes minimal familiarity with Japanese society, but instead explores the country through the topic of its cuisine.

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284

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Routledge

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1136815562

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9781136815560

Social Construction of Law

Potential and Limits

By: Michael Giudice

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Social Construction of Law

Potential and Limits

By: Michael Giudice

This illuminating book explores the theme of social constructionism in legal theory. It questions just how much freedom and power social groups really have to construct and reconstruct law.

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160

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1839103221

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9781839103223

Our Changing Menu

Climate Change and the Foods We Love and Need

By: Michael P. Hoffmann,Carrie Koplinka-Loehr,Danielle L. Eiseman

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Our Changing Menu

Climate Change and the Foods We Love and Need

By: Michael P. Hoffmann,Carrie Koplinka-Loehr,Danielle L. Eiseman

Our Changing Menu unpacks the increasingly complex relationships between food and climate change. Whether you're a chef, baker, distiller, restaurateur, or someone who simply enjoys a good pizza or drink, it's time to come to terms with how climate change is affecting our diverse and interwoven food system. Michael P. Hoffmann, Carrie Koplinka-Loehr, and Danielle L. Eiseman offer an eye-opening journey through a complete menu of before-dinner drinks and salads; main courses and sides; and coffee and dessert. Along the way they examine the escalating changes occurring to the flavors of spices and teas, the yields of wheat, the vitamins in rice, and the price of vanilla. Their story is rounded out with a primer on the global food system, the causes and impacts of climate change, and what we can all do. Our Changing Menu is a celebration of food and a call to action—encouraging readers to join with others from the common ground of food to help tackle the greatest challenge of our time.

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Cornell University Press

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1501754645

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9781501754647

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The Great Little Pumpkin Cookbook

The Great Little Pumpkin Cookbook

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Sweet Invention

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The Taste of Conquest

The Great Little Pumpkin Cookbook

The Great Little Pumpkin Cookbook

The Essence of Japanese Cuisine

The Essence of Japanese Cuisine

Social Construction of Law

Social Construction of Law

Our Changing Menu

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