Golden Cuisine of India or Good Game

Golden Cuisine of India

Author: Brier Tyler

Making a curry, pilau, or biriani is a sensuous and creative process that is presented simply and clearly, but in authentic detail in 53 recipes. Soups, meats, sea foods, and rice dishes are described, while most of the book is devoted to vegetarian preparptions so widely used in India. You should become aware of the feel and scent of the fresh vegetables, meats, and grains as you handle, wash or slice them. In preparing the dish, be a part of the process rather than oriented toward the finish. A series of delightful aromas will arise from your pan as you prepare the meal. 'Golden' in the title refers to the colour of turmeric root used so often in the book.
Curry and pilau recipes should not be considered immutable. As one gains experience with Indian dishes, spice proportions should be altered, and extra spices added to achieve new effects, the vegetables and meats should be exchanged. Most dishes have an initial saut, followed by stewing or braising, both being necessary for the combination of oil extract, and then water extract to develop and blend the host of individual flavours. The result of the process is always a blend.
Trained by traditional family cooks, the authors have made a lifetime of preparing dishes of India. Along the way Brier Tyler received cookery instruction from a number of friends from India, and has developed his own approach to writing about the recipies. He is a retired university professor of fishery oceanography living on Salt Spring Island. Natalie Moir is a biochemist who later became a scientific writer and editor. She has cultivated her interest in Indian cuisine from her experiences with a delightful group of people who understandand enjoy the art.

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Good Game: European and British Game Cookery

Author: Victoria Jardine Paterson

Good Game is a new departure in game cookery books, drawing together a wide range of traditional and modern recipes from all over Europe. Over 25 different species of game animals, birds, and fish are included, each in a separate section, in which Colin McKelvie gives an introduction to its natural history and hunting traditions. There are also practical sections on the preparation of game for the kitchen, with easy-to-follow illustrations.

Consumed or Amy Willcocks Aga Seasons

Consumed: Why Americans Love, Hate, and Fear Food

Author: Michelle Stacey

Something has happened to food in America: It is no longer simply food - filling, good-tasting, life-sustaining. Rather, it is "fat-free" or "high in fiber" or "low in cholesterol" - either an enemy that will steal life away or a savior that will prolong it indefinitely. In this provocative book, Michelle Stacey chronicles the psychological and cultural forces behind this American obsession, forces that have transformed oat bran and broccoli into magical totems, and steak, butter, and eggs into killers. We have refashioned food into preventive medicine, a moral test, sometimes literally a mortal enemy - and in the process we have lost sight of one of its most basic functions: the giving of pleasure. Stacey takes us on a revealing journey through the landscape of American food paranoia, from supermarket aisles, research laboratories, and the factories of food manufacturers to restaurant kitchens and food conventions. We peer inside the heads of advertising slogan writers, and learn from "restrained eaters" why there is no such thing as "normal eating" anymore. In each chapter of Consumed, Stacey delves into a different aspect of the American food obsession, introducing us to the people most actively and publicly involved with our food - rethinking it, selling it, cooking it, refiguring it in the lab. We meet, among others, the inventor of the first FDA-approved fat substitute, who explains how technologically engineered foods are designed to fool us into eating well; the head of nutrition research at the Quaker Oats Company, who takes us through the rise and precipitous fall of the quintessential American health-food fad; a lobbyist for futuristic foods that are designed to prevent specific diseases; a back-to-nature food scientist/baker who is touting a little-known grain he says is the next oat bran; a chef who reveals a kitchen's-eye view of America's conflicted eating patterns. The story these people tell is that of a culture trying to satisfy a near-impossi

Publishers Weekly

Elle columnist Stacey interviews chefs, scientists, high-fat lovers, health gurus and others to examine America's obsession with food. (Apr.)

Library Journal

A contributor to such magazines as The New Yorker and a former editor at Mademoiselle , Savvy , and Outside magazines, Stacey here attempts a look at America's neurotic love-hate relationship with food. Cataloging the long history of food hype and hysteria from the Puritans through the 19th century's health-food revival down to our current low-fat, low-cholesterol present, she examines the paradoxical view of food as both fat-laden killer and sensuous sustainer of life. In conclusion, Stacey calls for a return to ``normal'' eating, asking Americans to rediscover the social and ritual joys of food. Unfortunately, by providing a one-sided polemic, Stacey is guilty of the same sin of which she accuses health-food advocates. She dismisses mainstream concerns for food safety and ignores global environmental and other nonnutritional factors for changing one's diet. By lumping together genuine health concerns such as pesticide residues and chemical additives with zero-calorie fat and designer food, Stacey does a great disservice to the serious issues of food safety and healthier eating habits. It's a shame that a much-needed call for moderation is subsumed by facile arguments and shallow reportage. Not recommended except for some interesting historical trivia.-- Jeffery Ingram, Newport P.L., Ore.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction: A Pinch of Anxiety, A Dash of Sin: Fin de Siecle Eating in America	9
Ch. 1	Seeds of Self-Denial: The Transformation of Food in the 1890s	27
Ch. 2	Foods from the Lab: Building the Illusion of Fat	60
Ch. 3	Inside the Hype Machine: The Life and Death of Oat Bran	85
Ch. 4	Eating Your Medicine: The Battle Over Superfoods	103
Ch. 5	Designer Foods: Making Breads with a Blueprint	130
Ch. 6	Fear of Fats: The American Diet on Trial	151
Ch. 7	Food Control: An Epidemic of Disordered Eating	172
Ch. 8	Public Eating: Serving the Food Phobes	188
	Conclusion: A New (And Old) Way of Eating: Rediscovering Pleasure	206
	Notes	219
	Index	229

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Amy Willcock's Aga Seasons

Author: Amy Willcock

Amy Willcock's Aga Seasons will show you how to cook and enjoy produce at its best, when it should be eaten, in harmony with farming calendars. In spring, Amy brings you perfect recipes such as Milk-fed lamb with lavender, while the summer recipes are all perfect for long hot days and balmy evenings, making the most of seafood, vegetables, and even preserving a little bit of summer for the rest of the year in the ultimate Raspberry jam. Autumn brings Halloween parties and delicious Squash soup with ginger, and winter boasts Cod and saffron kedgeree and Queen of Puddings. Accompanying the 180 recipes is a comprehensive calendar for produce and a section on preserving so that you can enjoy the best of the harvest throughout the year. Written in Amy's simple, informative style, featuring conventional cooking instructions and with stunning colour photographs throughout, this is the culinary calendar no Aga owner should be without.

Prehistoric Cooking or Middle Eastern

Prehistoric Cooking

Author: Jacqui Wood

Based on experimental archaeology at the author's world-famous research settlement in Cornwall, this book describes the ingredients of prehistoric cooking and the methods of food preparation.

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Middle Eastern: Aromatic Dishes From A Varied Cuisine (Classic Cuisine Series)

Author: Southwater

This exciting collection of recipes from Persia, Syria, Turkey and North Africa includes many authentic dishes.

Perla Meyers Art of Seasonal Cooking or Feed a Crowd Southern Cook Book

Perla Meyers' Art of Seasonal Cooking

Author: Perla Meyers

Perla Meyers, the award-winning author, combines the culinary sophistication of the last decade with her original simple notion of seasonality. Here are more than 300 recipes that bring pure pleasure in any season. In the spring try Ziti with Asparagus, Peas & Lemon Cream, Warm Shrimp Salad with Crisp Vegetables Nicoise, & Stuffed Strawberries in Pineapple-Mint Coulis. The book is divided by season, with five superb menus for each time of the year, followed by that seasons appetizers, soups, main courses, vegetables, salads, & desserts. A chapter of classic Basics is handy at the back of the book.

Library Journal

Long before ``fresh'' became a catchword, Meyers wrote The Seasonal Kitchen ( LJ 8/73), full of dishes that made the most of seasonal ingredients. In her first book in many years, she emphasizes ingredients that are ``truly seasonal''--not strawberries flown in from Chile in midwinter, but those picked in New Engalnd in late spring. She offers five menus for each season, along with dozens of additional recipes. The recipes are varied and international in inspiration; however, some are quite complicated, and some of the menus seem rather heavy on cream-based dishes. For larger collections.

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Feed a Crowd Southern Cook Book

Author: Rebecca Smith

211 Recipes from the state of Georgia. Favorite recipes for family gatherings. Beverages, Breads, Cake Recipes, Cookie and Candy Recipes, Casseroles, Vegetables, and Recipes everyone enjoys.

Table of Contents:

HORS D'OEUVRES
Date Balls
Surprise Roll-Ups
Sausage

Just Cook It or Nana Lenas Kitchen

Just Cook It!: How to Get Culinary Fit...1-2-3

Author: Roe Valenti

Discover the revolutionary way of "Thinking Differently" about cooking and eating. Learn how getting back-to-the-basics yet throwing out the rules can motivate you to hit the kitchen. Find out how you can create whimsical dishes for yourself, family and friends. Cook to your mood. Wow everyone with magical leftovers. Think of cooking as an art. Forget following strict recipes. Enjoy tasty meal ideas-without measurements.

Just Cook It! will help you shed unwanted pounds and body fat and stay healthy forever. Isn't that the bottom line? (You are what you eat. It's about changing your eating habits.)

Inside, you'll find unique and wonderful ways to enjoy cooking so you can be your own personal chef.

• It's time to retrain your brain and learn to cook.
• Get kitchen-friendly with Cooking Smarts 101.
• Be bold, resourceful and budget-wise.
• Kill the grocery shopping jitters and dance down the aisles.
• Find your groove in the kitchen, and much more!

Roe Valenti is a veteran chef and caterer who cooks for herself, family and friends. A culinary goddess, she works hard at making cooking creative and easy for everyone, at any age. Cooking is her calling and she wants to share her one-of-a-kind recipe with you.

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Nana Lena's Kitchen: Recipes for Life

Author: Amy Ostrower

One part Tuesdays with Morrie, one part Like Water for Chocolate, Nana Lena's Kitchen by Amy Ostrower is an inspirational collection of stories and recipes from a Southern Jewish kitchen. These recipes read almost like folk tales, fables from a mythic past handed down generation to generation with love. As an extended family of sisters, daughters and granddaughters gather to make a Passover meal or prepare the Shivah table, Nana Lena's recipes are dispensed with an equal measure of wisdom - about life and death, courage and responsibility, family and faith.
We see the spirited Lena grow in these pages from a young girl and impetu-ous bride to a loving mother and grandmother. Her story mirrors the larg-er currents of her times. The daughter of immigrants, Lena Goodman was born on the Fourth of July, 1912 in Berkley, Virginia. During her lifetime she saw the Flu Epidemic of 1918, the Great Depression, the Second World War, the invention of indoor plumbing -- even a Jewish boy named Sandy Koufax play Major League Baseball. She continues to live on in these sto-ries,
fondly remembered by her granddaughter Amy, who is a screenwriter living in Los Angeles.
Nana Lena's Kitchen is a gem -- and a perfect gift for mothers, daughters,
bubbies and best friends.
nanalenaskitchen.com

"Nana Lena's Kitchen warms your heart. In an age of indifference here is a woman, her stories and recipes deliciously remembered, who reminds you of the beauty of the human heart. Pull up a chair and have a nosh."
--Jan Goldstein, Author of All That Matters
"Here are charm and wisdom, served with love."
--Amy Hill Hearth, Co-Author of Having Our Say:
The Delany Sisters' First 100Years

Cooks Guide to Poultry and Game or Taylors Weekend Gardening Guide to Cooking From the Garden

Cook's Guide to Poultry and Game

Author: Lucy Knox

This essential cook's compendium provides all the information you will need to cook these meats successfully.

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Taylor's Weekend Gardening Guide to Cooking From the Garden

Author: Margaret Leibenstein

Covering everything from appetizers to desserts, this book shows how wonderful, sun-ripened vegetables can be transformed into imaginative and succulent dishes.

"Taylor's Guides are the best, most authoritative guides on the market."

Land OLakes Holiday Cooking or Food Culture in the Caribbean

Land O'Lakes Holiday Cooking

Author: Land OLakes Incorporated

Land O' Lakes, one of America's oldest and most trusted names in baking, proudly introduces a volume of holiday treasures. This shining collection spotlights traditional cookies, buttery coffee cakes, elegant tarts and other baked indulgences. As always, helpful tips and hints and beautiful photos tastefully complete a classic cookbook that captures the holiday spirit.

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Food Culture in the Caribbean

Author: Lynn Marie Houston

Food in the Caribbean reflects both the best and worst of the Caribbean's history. On the positive side, Caribbean culture has been compared with a popular stew there called callaloo. The stew analogy comes from the many different ethic groups peacefully maintaining their traditions and customs while blending together, creating a distinct new flavor. On the negative side, many foods and cooking techniques derive from a history of violent European conquest, the importation of slaves from Africa, and the indentured servitude of immigrants in the plantation system. Within this context, students and other readers will understand the diverse island societies and ethnicities through their food cultures. Some highlights include the discussion of the Caribbean concept of "making do"--using whatever is on hand or can be found--the unique fruits and starches, the one-pot meal, the technique of jerking meat, and the preference for cooking outdoors.

Kim Zach - VOYA

These two volumes, Food Culture in the Caribbean and Food Culture in Spain, in a twelve-book series join others that cover Sub-Saharan Africa, Russia and Central Asia, South America, Mexico, Japan, India, China, Italy, Great Britain, and the Near East, Middle East, and North Africa. The purpose of the series, as explained in the foreword that appears in each book, is to examine the role of food in the shaping of human culture. Each volume is consistently formatted, definitely a strong point for any series. At the front is an area map and a detailed time line. The chapters include a historical overview of the region, major foods and ingredients, cooking, typical meals, eating out, special occasions, and diet and health, with recipes provided throughout. One of the most impressive things about the series is that each volume has been written by an expert for that particular region and not by an author who has simply researched the topic. For example, Houston is a food historian whose writing specialty is Caribbean cuisine. Medina is a Senior Researcher at the European Institute of the Mediterranean in Barcelona and is an editor for the journal Anthropology of Food. Even with such a wide spectrum of authorship, each volume remains true to the philosophy of the series. Gathering and growing food is a common denominator for all people throughout history, yet how each group accomplished this task is unique to geographical area and natural resources. By studying the culinary rituals and traditions of others, one can develop an understanding and appreciation for the diversity in cultural attitudes toward food. The series also emphasizes a connectedness between cultures, a key conceptin today's climate of globalization. For example, in Food Culture of the Caribbean, the author asks the reader to consider what other world cuisines would look like without the foods that European explorers discovered there and took with them to other parts of the world. Similar questions are posed by the other authors. Overall this series would be a marvelous addition to any junior or senior high library. The books provide an excellent resource for students who are researching countries about which little has been written previously, such as the Middle East and Africa. Students who want more in-depth information about countries for which basic information has been readily available will also benefit. In addition, teachers of geography, world civilization, history, and foreign languages will find the series an invaluable aid for enriching their regular classroom lesson plans. (Food Culture Around the World). VOYA CODES: 4Q 3P J S (Better than most, marred only by occasional lapses; Will appeal with pushing; Junior High, defined as grades 7 to 9; Senior High, defined as grades 10 to 12). 2005, Greenwood, 166p.; Glossary. Index. Illus. Photos. Maps. Biblio. Source Notes. Further Reading. Chronology., Ages 12 to 18.

Table of Contents:

	Series foreword
1	Historical overview	1
2	Major foods and ingredients	31
3	Cooking	81
4	Typical meals	95
5	Eating out	121
6	Special occasions	129
7	Diet and health	141

Wine Appreciation or American Veterans Cookbook

First Steps: Your Healthy Living Journal

Author: Richard P Vin

Do you want to eat better and become more active but are unsure about where to even begin? Then get on the path to lasting lifestyle change with First Steps: Your Healthy Living Journal, the one tool you need in order to overcome bad habits permanently and shape the healthy life you want.

Both a journal and guidebook, First Steps presents a simple, four-step process to improving your health habits:

1. Build awareness of your starting point, desired results, and obstacles.
2. Create solutions to your barriers to healthy living.
3. Boost your confidence in order to achieve your goals.
4. Sustain commitment to your new healthy lifestyle.

First Steps: Your Healthy Living Journal allows you to track your progress according to your goals, preferences, and fitness level, and it is based on the life-changing principles of Active Living Partners. Active Living Partners programs are offered in hospitals, fitness centers, worksites, colleges, and communities in the United States and abroad.

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American Veterans Cookbook: A Collection of Recipes from Veterans and Their Families

Author: Terry P Rizzuti

Fifty percent of all author royalties from sales of The American Veterans Cookbook: A Collection of Recipes from Veterans and Their Families will be donated directly to the Armed Forces Veterans Homes Foundation, located in Suitland, MD. While the authors believe this organization is worthy of our support, we are not associated with it in any way whatsoever. This Foundation is a non-profit, non governmental organization that operates exclusively for charitable purposes and solely for the public welfare. The organization solicits, receives, manages and disburses financial resources by means of grants and awards to agencies nation wide that serve the needs of elderly and infirm veterans of America's armed forces.

If sales of this recipe collection go well, we plan to produce new editions in the future to continue our fund raising efforts for programs and projects that benefit American Veterans and their families. We appreciate very much your contribution to this worthy goal on behalf of our nation's veterans who have sacrificed so much to ensure our American way of life. Some have sacrificed life or limb(s), others their professional careers and schooling; still others have sacrificed their physical and/or mental health. We as a nation have an obligation to this special segment of our population that absolutely must be expressed in heartfelt ways and actions. Please join us in doing just that.

Tasty and Exotic Foods or The World of Soy

Tasty and Exotic Foods: Tempt Your Taste Buds with These Exotic Foods of the Tropics

Author: Claudia Foleng Achunch

After completing my bachelor's degree in International Relations and Biology from Keele University, Staffordshire, England, and receiving a diploma in Travel Studies from the Greenwich School of Management, I joined the travel and hospitality industry. Spending some seven years in the industry and discovering how very little is known of the culture and cuisine of the West African region, I decided to make my lifelong passion for the delicious flavours and the fresh and unique tastes of this region's cuisine accessible for the world to discover and enjoy. "Discovering a new taste is just like meeting a person for the first time and not knowing that that person might soon be a friend, or even a spouse." Being born and bred in Cameroon, I spent 21 years of my life learning about and cooking the many delicious produce available. I spent hours each day in the kitchen with my family, preparing some of the truly tasty and heartwarming foods. We are a region of food lovers, with the finest fields and fertile lands, producing some of the best organic foods in the world. Sitting down and sharing freshly cooked meals each day is something we cherish.

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The World of Soy

Author: Christine M Du Bois

As the most ecologically efficient and economical source of complete protein in human food, soy is gradually attracting more use in the American diet for its nutritional and financial value. Derived from soybean plants--the leading export crop of the United States and the world's most traded crop--soy produced for human consumption is part of a global enterprise affecting the likes of farmers, economists, dieticians, and grocery shoppers. An international group of expert food specialists--including an agricultural economist, an agricultural sociologist, a former Peace Corps development expert, and numerous food anthropologists and agricultural historians--discusses important issues central to soy production and consumption: genetically engineered soybeans, increasing soybean cultivation, soyfood marketing techniques, the use of soybeans as an important soil restorative, and the rendering of soybeans for human consumption.



Contributors are Katarzyna Cwiertka, Christine M. Du Bois, H. T. Huang, Lawrence Kaplan, Jian-Hua Mao, Sidney W. Mintz, Akiko Moriya, Can Van Nguyen, Donald Z. Osborn, Erino Ozeki, Myra Sidharta, Ivan Sergio Freire de Sousa, Chee-Beng Tan, and Rita de Cássia Milagres Teixeira Vieira.

Table of Contents:

Introduction The significance of soy Sidney W. Mintz Mintz, Sidney W. Chee-Beng Tan Tan, Chee-Beng Christine M. Du Bois 1 1, Christine M. Du Bois

Sect. 1 Acceptance of soy in global and historical context

1 Legumes in the history of human nutrition Lawrence Kaplan Kaplan, Lawrence 27

2 Early uses of soybean in Chinese history H. T. Huang Huang, H. T. 45

3 Fermented beans and Western taste Sidney W. Mintz Mintz, Sidney W. 56

4 Genetically engineered soy Christine M. Du Bois Du Bois, Christine M. Ivan Sergio Freire de Sousa de Sousa, Ivan Sergio Freire 74

Sect. 2 Ethnographic studies of soy's acceptance

5 Tofu and related products in Chinese foodways Chee-Beng Tan Tan, Chee-Beng 99

6 Tofu feasts in Sichuan cuisine Jianhua Mao Mao, Jianhua 121

7 Fermented soybean products and Japanese standard taste Erino Ozeki Ozeki, Erino 144

8 Fermented soyfoods in South Korea : the industrialization of tradition Katarzyna J. Cwiertka Cwiertka, Katarzyna J. Akiko Moriya Moriya, Akiko 161

9 Tofu in Vietnamese life Can Van Nguyen Can, Van Nguyen 182

10 Soyfoods in Indonesia Myra Sidharta Sidharta, Myra 195

11 Social context and diet : changing soy production and consumption in the United States Christine M. Du Bois Du Bois, Christine M. 208

12 Soybeans and soyfoods in Brazil, with notes on Argentina : sketch of an expanding world commodity Ivan Sergio Freire de Sousa de Sousa, Ivan Sergio Freire Rita de Cassia Milagres Teixeira Vieira Vieira, Rita de Cassia Milagres Teixeira 234

13 Soy in Bangladesh : history and prospects Christine M. Du Bois Du Bois, Christine M. 257

14 Soybeans and soybean products in West Africa : adoption by farmers and adaptation tofoodways Donald Z. Osborn Osborn, Donald Z. 276

Conclusion Soy's dominance and destiny Christine M. Du Bois Du Bois, Christine M. Sidney W. Mintz Mintz, Sidney W. 299

App. A Scientific names for plants and edible fungi

App. B More on tofu in Chengdu 320

Contributors 325

Index 329

Count Me in or 1001 Recipes for Every Occasion

Count Me in!: The Houston Fire Department's Hottest Chefs Share Their Sizzling Secrets

Author: Houston Fire Dept

As the third-largest fire department in the United States, the Houston firefighters shares some of their favorite recipes prepared both at home and at the fire station. Enjoy recipes including Totally Involved Chicken Casserole, Ready-To-Roll Picante Sauce, Relief Time Nachos Pizza and 7-Alarm Jalapeno Cheese Squares.

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1001 Recipes for Every Occasion

Author: Martha Day

Here is the ultimate collection of 1001 delicious everyday and special occasion recipes, suitable for every cook and every skill level. Each recipe is accompanied by a beautiful color photograph to both inspire and guide.

Mini Bar or Applied Ethnobotany

Mini Bar: Whiskey: A Little Book of Big Drinks

Author: Chronicl

The Mini Bar series maybe small in size, but each tiny tome is filled with classic and original recipes that pack quite a wallop! Whiskey lovers will find everything from the Perfect Manhattan to the Traditional Southern-Style Mint Julep. Each volume in this new series tells the history of its particular alcohol, as well as its distinct traits and characteristics. A glossary of essential bar tools and cocktail terminology will ensure readers not only walk the walk of an expert mixologist, but also talk the talk. With more than 50 delicious recipes, this little cocktail book makes a spirited stocking stuffer or great gift.

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Applied Ethnobotany: People, Wild Plant Use and Conservation

Author: Anthony Cunningham

Wild or non-cultivated plants are crucial to the lives of a large portion of the world's population, providing low-cost building materials, fuel, food supplements, medicines, tools and sources of income. Despite their importance, their vulnerability to harvesting and other social impacts is not well understood. This is the first practical guide to be published on how to manage wild plant species sustainably.
This practical manual on the value and management of wild plant resources sets out the approaches and field methods involved in participatory work between conservationists and researchers and the primary resource users. Supported by extensive illustrations, it explains how local people can learn to assess the pressures on plant resources and what steps to take to ensure their continued availability.
This guide will be invaluable for all those involved in resource management decisions regarding plant species and diversity, in particular those studying or working in conservation, rural development and park management. Published in association with WWF International and UNESCO

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

One of the book's most important strengths is the excellent didactical presentation of the material.. the numerous maps and other figures provide excellent visual material. The book can be highly recommended to anyone interested in the conservation and sustainable use of tropical landscapes and is particularly useful in the context of biological approaches.

Medicinal Plant Conservation

Supported by 97 excellent illustrations, 16 tables and 22 text boxes, it explains how local people can learn to assess the pressures on plant resources and what steps to take to ensure their continued availability. This guide is invaluable for all those involved in resource management decisions regarding plants and diversity, and in particular those studying or working in conservation, rural development and park management.

TEGNews

The numerous diagrams, tables of data, information flow charts, fieldwork sketches etc. give a great vibrancy to the work. It deserves a wide readership.

Plant Talk

excellent contribution to the science and practice of ethnobotany.. this new book fills a large and important gap by deliberately focusing on tools that will help researchers work within communities and resource managers to understand conservation priorities.

British Ecological Society Bulletin

as well as acting as a manual, this book contains a great deal of information that will be of interest to anyone working with plants in the tropics..this volume contains a great deal of factual and practical information. This alone will be of great interest to plant ecologists, especially those working in the tropics. The socio-economic context into which this material is placed is an important aim of the book and one that anyone wishing to understand the complexities of sustainable management should appreciate. The author is to be congratulated on producing an informative and readable volume. Good value for money for those working on plants in tropical countries.

Bois & Forets des tropiques

(This is the first practical guide to be published on how to manage wild plant species sustainably. This detailed manual on wild plant resources sets out the approaches and field methods involved in participatory work between conservationists, researchers and the primary resource users. Supported by extensive illustrations..For all those involved in resource management decisions regarding plant species and diversity, and in particular those studying or working in conservation, rural development and park management, this guide is invaluable.

Table of Contents:

	List of Figures, Tables and Boxes
	The People and Plants Initiative
	Preface
	Introduction
	People and Plants partners
	Acknowledgements
1	Conservation and context: different times, different views	1
	Historical context	3
	Management myths and effective partnerships	5
	Vegetation and change: spatial and time scales	7
	Human influence: landscapes and species	8
2	Local inventories, values and quantities of harvested resources	10
	Local priorities: vegetation types, resource categories and species	10
	Choosing the right methods	12
	Before starting: attitudes, time spans and cross-checking	15
	Taxonomy with all your senses: the use of field characters	32
	Potentials and pitfalls: combining skills in inventories	44
	Local to international units	51
3	Settlement, commercialization and change	60
	Local markets: order within 'chaos'	63
	Location and mapping of marketplaces	64
	Characteristics of markets	73
	Market schedules	78
	Marketing chains and types of seller	82
	Inventory and frequency of plants on sale	87
4	Measuring individual plants and assessing harvesting impacts	96
	Necessary equipment	97
	Measuring diameter, height and bark thickness	97
	Methods for ageing plants	115
	Harvesting impacts	126
5	Opportunities and constraints on sustainable harvest: plant populations	144
	Plant populations and practical constraints: selecting species	145
	Bridging gaps in knowledge: life forms, plant architecture and reproductive strategies	150
	Plant life forms	150
	Costs and complexity: inventory, management and monitoring	156
	Yields: supply versus demand	180
	Population modelling using transition matrices	184
6	Landscapes and ecosystems: patterns, processes and plant use	192
	Tools for the 'big picture': aerial photographs and satellite images	196
	Distribution, degree of threat and disturbance	202
	Local knowledge, landscapes and mapping	212
7	Conservation behaviour, boundaries and beliefs	222
	Conservation and the ingredients for common property management	223
	Ecological factors, land use, tenure and territoriality	233
	Property rights: land and resource tenure	238
	Boundaries and tenure, meaning and mapping	245
	Ritual, religion and resource control	253
	Who are the stakeholders?	259
8	Striving for balance: looking outward and inward	264
	Looking outward	267
	Looking inward; examining innovative local approaches	269
	Acronyms and abbreviations	272
	Further reading	274
	References	278
	Index	295

The Abandoned Narcotic or Pasta Sauces

The Abandoned Narcotic: Kava and Cultural Instability in Melanesia

Author: Ron Brunton

Ron Brunton revives a problem posed by the great anthropologist W. H. R. Rivers in History of Melanesian Society (1914): how to explain the strange geographical distribution of kava, a narcotic drink once widely consumed by south-west Pacific islanders. Rivers believed that it was abandoned by many people even before European contact in favour of another drug, betel, drawing his speculations from the ideas of the diffusionist school of anthropology. However, Dr Brunton disagrees. Taking the varying fortunes of kava on the island of Tanna, Vanauta, as his starting point, he suggests that kava's abandonment can best be explained in terms of its association with unstable religious cults, and not because of the adoption of betel. The problem of kava is therefore part of a broader problem of why many traditional Melanesian societies were characteristically highly unstable, and Dr Brunton sees this instability as both an outcome and a cause of weak institutions of authority and social coordination.

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Pasta Sauces: 100 Sauces, Starters, Salads and Soups

Author: Jeni Wright

This superb book is truly comprehensive guide to choosing, making, cooking and enjoying Italian pasta. The identification section contains fabulous photographs of the huge range of dried and fresh pasta types.

Contented Poachers Epicurean Odyssey or Bread Making Quality of Wheat

Contented Poachers Epicurean Odyssey: Tales and Recipes from an Epicure in the Wilderness

Author: Elantu B Veovod

ELANTU B. VEOVODE knew how to catch fish with an umbrella and how to bring down a moose without a gun by the time she was 10 years old. She has lived all over North America and earned her living as a chef, cooking instructor, garbage collector, fire-watch resident, and artist. She lives in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, where she is currently working on several other books.

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Bread-Making Quality of Wheat: A Century of Breeding in Europe

Author: B Belderok

Wheat is the world's most important agricultural commodity. In Europe, where wheat is the main staple, bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) covers the majority of land on which wheat is cropped. Wheat breeders and technologists have contributed greatly to the continued success of bread wheat and its products. The 'bread-making quality' of a wheat variety can be described in relation to the processing its kernels must undergo to make a good bread. Bread wheat kernels must be suitable for proper milling into a flour that can produce a dough capable of becoming fine bread. The type of bread varies depending on local bread-making practices.
Part I of this book contains a study of the anatomy and chemical composition of wheat kernels, and of the fundamental difference between 'soft' and 'hard' kernelled varieties. It relates these characteristics to the processes of milling, dough-making and manufacturing of bread, and to biscuit and pasta making. The genetic basis for these characteristics is illustrated, and assay methods for characterizing wheat varieties - ranging from Saunders' chewing test to the most recent developments in glutenin and gliadin research - are evaluated.
Part II briefly describes - country by country - how bread-making quality has been integrated into wheat-breeding programmes throughout Europe, and how breeders have attempted to resolve the conflict between yield and quality. It describes how quality wheats 'travelled' around the world - from their endogenic source in Eastern Europe to North America, and back again to Europe. This explains how specific genetic material can appear in the pedigrees of varieties grown in a widerange of agro-ecological zones.
In addition to giving an interesting historical survey, the book points the way forward for breeders' efforts in the future. Bread-Making Quality updates and interprets knowledge in a way that makes it particularly accessible for food technologists, breeders, students, and teachers.

Sweet Cravings or Entertain

Sweet Cravings

Author: Jean Par

Satisfy your sweet tooth with a delicious dessert or a tasty treat. Any occasion, any excuse -- indulge yourself, and those you love, with Sweet Cravings.

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Entertain

Author: Ed Baines

Ed Baines knows how to entertain, from light lunches and summer frasts to party food and exquisite dinners, and even for that laid-back weekend spirit.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgements	6
	Introduction	8
	Brunches	18
	Lunches	32
	Dining	56
	Barbecues	100
	Sunday food	142
	Party food	170
	Picnics	194
	Bread, cheese, & pickles	222
	Sauces & dressings	238
	Index	254

Simple Recipe Cookbook or Deliciously Easy Vegetables with Herbs

Simple Recipe Cookbook

Author: Shelly Hadley

Remember coming home from school to the smell of cookies or cakes; or the roast in the crock pot? Good old fashioned home cooking! MMMM!

Sometimes, we need something that tastes great, but that doesn't take all weekend to make. Other times, we want to spend the afternoon baking and cooking, just to bring back the home cooking smell to our own kitchen!

Well, my cookbook shows easy ways for you to cook something up without breaking your wallet and without ingredients that you cannot pronounce.

I bring you my cookbook, filled with stuff for us "regular people"! These recipes are truly - SIMPLE RECIPES FOR SIMPLE LIFESTYLES, SIMPLY DELICIOUS!

If you want something that tastes great to eat without a lot of fuss, you can look no further! This cookbook is for regular people, real people, who need something simple to make and wont cost a bundle to buy all of the ingredients! These are recipes for people who want the traditional or want to try something new, and it will always come out great! Your family and friends will beg you for more!

So, go on, get to the kitchen!!

WAIT, Come back, you gotta buy the book first. Click on the link and then get to the kitchen!! Happy Eating! ;)

Table of Contents:

7-Layer Mexican Dip
7-Layer Salad
Apple Crisp Bars
Apple Pie
Artichoke Dip
Bacon Cheese Dip
Bagels
Baked Beans
Baked Macaroni
Baked Onion Dip
Baking Soda Bread
Barbeque Sauce
Bean Burgers
Beef With Broccoli
Beefy Enchiladas
Best Brownies
Betty's Banana Bread
Biscuits
Breakfast Casserole
Broccoli & Rice Dish
Butter Balls
Cabbage Rolls
Caramel Corn
Carrot Cake
Cheese Peas Please
Chicken With Rice
Chile Relleno
Chili
Chocolate Cake
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chocolate No Bake Cookies
Chopped Chicken Salad
Christmas Potatoes
Cinnamon Rolls
Classic Hollandaise
Coconut Macaroons
Coffee Cake
Cole Slaw
Corn Casserole
Corned Beef & Cabbage
Country Fried Steaks
Crabby Patties
Cranberry Relish
Creamy Cheesecake
Crepes
Deviled Eggs
Dinner Rolls
Dogs in a Blanket
Dumplings
Easy Cheesy Ball
Egg Noodles
Egg Rolls
Egg Salad
Fettuccine Alfredo
Fiesta Bean Salad
Fiesta Quiche
Fried Bread
Fried Potatoes
Frito Pie
Frog Eye Fruit Salad
Fruit Salad Basket
Fudge
Garden Fresh Mayonnaise
Garden Fresh Vinaigrette
Garlic Roasted Chicken
Garlic Vinaigrette
German Green Beans
German Potato Salad
Glazed Carrots
Green Bean Casserole
Green Chile
Green Chile Roll-ups
Guacamole
Ham
Hannah's Banana Bread
Herb Dip
Hush Puppies
Jalapeno Corn Bread
Jalapeno Radish Dip
Jo Jo's
Kicked Up Club
Kitchen Sink Salad
Lazy Lasagna
Lemon Bars
Lemon Loaf
Lemon Pepper Chicken
Lemon Pie
Lemon Poppy Seed Bread
Lemon-Lime Salad
Macaroni Salad
Mayonnaise Cake
Meat & Cheese Roll-ups
Meat Ball Bites
Nacho Cheese
No Need To Knead Rolls
No Roll Pie Dough
Oatmeal Cookies
Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies
Oh My Gosh Bread
Old Fash. PB Cookies
Olive Cheese Bites
Oriental Salad
Overnight Caramel Rolls
Party Potatoes
Party Wings
Pasta Salad
Pastrami Toasts
Peach Cobbler
Peanut Brittle
Peanut Butter Choc. Bars
Peanut Butter Cookies
Peanut Dressing
Peanut Toffee
Pecan Pie
Pickled Cucumbers
Pineapple Casserole
Platter Salad
Porcupine Meatballs
Pork Chops With Rice
Potato Salad
Potato Soup
Potatoes Au Gratin
Potatoes O'Brien
Pumpkin Bars
Pumpkin Cheesecake
Pumpkin Cookies
Pumpkin Pie
Raviolis
Rocky Road Clusters
Salmon Packets
Saturday Night Pizza
Sausage Balls
Simple Salsa
Sloppy Janes
Snickerdoodles
Soda Salad
Sopapillas
Spare Ribs
Spice Cake
Spider Leg Bread
Spinach Dip
Spinach Salad
Stuffed Bell Peppers
Stuffed Shells
Sugar Cookies
Surprise Meatloaf
Sweet & Sour Sauce
Swiss Steak
Taco Dip
Tator Tot Casserole
Teriyaki Sauce
Tomatillo Salsa
Tomato & Basil Trios
Tomato Pie
Tomato Sandwiches
Tortilla Casserole
Tuesday Night Pizza
Tuna Salad
Turtle Cookies
Vegetarian Empanadas
Vegetarian Loaf
Waldorf Salad
Wheat Bread
Wheat Rolls
White Bread
Zucchini Bread
Zucchini Casserole

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Deliciously Easy Vegetables with Herbs

Author: Dawn J Ranck

Deliciously Easy Recipes with Herbs is a series of eight books, each offering savory and scrumptious recipes, each with directions you can trust.

All the recipes give amounts for both fresh and dried herbs.

Gathered from the top herb shops in the country, the recipes are favorites of the shopkeepers and their customers-- tried, trusted, and wondrously tasty!

Olive or Rose Elliots Pasta Pocketbook

Olive: Tree of Civilization

Author: John Train

The Olive Tree of Civilisationhas a rich and varied history. The gnarled tree and its fruits has been extolled by bards from Ovid and Homer to Kipling, Tennyson and Nerua. What other fruit provides light, is a fundamental ingredient in perfume and adds joy and flavour at the table? The ancients knew these virtues and olive oil became a key to their religious and political ceremonies, from the temples of Ra in Egypt where lamps burned olive oil, to the temple of Soloman, where kings were anointed with oil based ointments. Christ was offered a sip of oil on the cross; Hanukah is, at its origin, a festival to celebrate olive oil; the tree and its oil are found in the Koran. Today the oil is worshipped by chefs for its flavours and its colours. For decades, cooks and anthropologists have divided Europe along an olive oil/butter boundary; that line is vanishing as olive oil spreads around the globe. This book explores and brings to life the olives's glorious past, with chapters on the fruit's role in

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Rose Elliot's Pasta Pocketbook: 100 Fast, Fresh and Fabulous Suppers

Author: Rose Elliot

Pasta remains one of the UK's foremost staple foods. It is fast, healthy, and perfect for quick and easy suppers. With 100 recipes, each recipe is designed to take no longer than 20 minutes and most will take 15. Organized by type of sauce—tomato, cream, pesto, etc.—all the recipes make the most of modern, fresh, Mediterranean-style ingredients. Pop it into your handbag or pocket, then go supermarket shopping!

Table of Contents:

	Pasta basics	6
	Pasta sauces	12
1	Creamy pasta	21
2	Garlicky pasta	45
3	Mushroomy pasta	87
4	Tomatoey pasta	113
5	Veggie pasta	157
	Index	220

Native Indian Wild Game Fish and Wild Foods Cookbook or Breaking Bread Nourishing Connections

Native Indian Wild Game, Fish, and Wild Foods Cookbook: 340 Mouthwatering Recipes from Native Cooks

Author: Lovesick Lake Native Womens Assocation

Celebrate the culinary heritage of America's native people in this cookbook filled with fascinating cultural facts and tidbits. Over 340 recipes for wild edibles, fruits, fish and seafood, venison, small and big game. Gathered from Zuni, Pueblo, Cherokee, Tlingit, Ojibway and other tribes across North America and updated for the modern cook.

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Breaking Bread, Nourishing Connections: People with and without Disabilities Together at Mealtime

Author: Karin Melberg Schwier

Mealtimes are about much more than eating. When we share a meal, we're enjoying the company of others, participating in a meaningful social ritual, and nourishing human connections. But sometimes, people with disabilities miss out on these essential aspects of dining-and that's where this warm, engaging guidebook comes in.

Developed by authors with extensive personal and professional mealtime experiences with people with and without disabilities-and incorporating the input of a nutritionist, human services professionals, educators, and people with disabilities and their families-this practical handbook helps you ensure pleasurable, fully inclusive mealtimes. Whether you're a parent, a friend, or a human services professional, you'll gain new insight on what dining can mean and learn how to support people with disabilities as they make the most of each mealtime's social opportunities with family, friends, and neighbors, make their own informed decisions about what, where, when, and how to eat, communicate choices and needs, prepare meals, with the help of simple recipes (some fully illustrated) complete with nutritional information provided by a licensed nutritionist.

With this easy-to-use book, enhanced with personal stories and photographs from individuals and families around the world, you'll enjoy meaningful and inclusive mealtimes with people who have disabilities.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword : an appetizer
	Introduction : searching for sustenance
Sect. I	Just for starters
Ch. 1	Food for thought	3
Ch. 2	Feeding or dining?	15
Ch. 3	Mealtime in purgatory	35
Sect. II	A balanced diet
Ch. 4	Mealtime as a chance to refocus	41
Ch. 5	Connecting with Catherine	61
Ch. 6	The hunger for choice and control	69
Ch. 7	The experience of disability and dining	87
Ch. 8	Mallory and the circle girls : good food, good friends, good gossip	93
Sect. III	An intimate a-fare
Ch. 9	Comfort food, comfort context	99
Ch. 10	Celebrating the sacred in shared meals : grace and blessing	113
Ch. 11	The social implications of mealtime	119
Ch. 12	Giving and receiving hospitality	131
Ch. 13	BYOB	151
Ch. 14	Check the pantry	155
Sect. IV	Best served warm
Ch. 15	Memorable meals	175