The Gallery of Regrettable Food

The Gallery of Regrettable Food PDF Author: James Lileks
Publisher: Crown
ISBN:
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Book Description
Recipes and food photography from the 1940s, '50s, and '60s assembled with humorous commentary.

The Gallery of Regrettable Food

The Gallery of Regrettable Food PDF Author: James Lileks
Publisher: Crown
ISBN:
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Book Description
Recipes and food photography from the 1940s, '50s, and '60s assembled with humorous commentary.

Gastroanomalies

Gastroanomalies PDF Author: James Lileks
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
ISBN: 0307383075
Category : Cookbooks
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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Book Description
Presents photographs, illustrations, food ads, recipes, and culinary miscellany from the 1950s and 1960s with commentary on an array of the "best of the worst" dishes from the period.

The New Art of Cooking

The New Art of Cooking PDF Author: Frankie Unsworth
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408886723
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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Book Description
For food that's as beautiful as any photograph - and tastes every bit as good as it looks. 'A great book, full of unsurprisingly wonderful photographs... even the most lumbering home cooks can create beautiful dishes' The Sunday Times Magazine 'This ravishing book is a tribute to the passion, flair and creativity with which Frankie transforms my piles of recipes, bringing their 3D tapestry to life so brilliantly and palpably in my books. Revealing her tricks and tips, with delicious, achievable recipes, her book is as beautifully written as it is to behold' Michel Roux, O.B.E. It's true that 'we eat with our eyes'. This beautiful, clever book provides a fantastic toolkit straight from the world of professional food styling, and it promises to change the way you cook for ever. The recipes in The New Art of Cooking include all the little preparation, cooking and serving details that make a difference to the end result: without even trying you'll pick up tips that can be applied to the rest of your repertoire. Recipes include beetroot soup with cream clouds; sticky baked feta with radicchio cups; bittersweet salad with whipped goat's cheese; pork belly roast with shaken rhubarb; fancy puff-pastry fish pie; chocolate mousse with crushed praline; salted caramel wedding cake; and strawberries and cream ice lollies. From simple workday suppers to indulgent feasts for friends and family, this is an approach that will make your cooking look better than ever and taste wonderful too.

Perfection Salad

Perfection Salad PDF Author: Laura Shapiro
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520257382
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Book Description
This social history tells the story of America's transformation from a nation of honest appetites into an obedient market for instant mashed potatoes. The author investigates a women reformers at the turn of the twentieth century--including Fannie Farmer of the Boston Cooking School--who were determined to modernize the American diet through a "scientific" approach to cooking. It reveals why we think the way we do about food today.--Publisher's description.

Mommy Knows Worst

Mommy Knows Worst PDF Author: James Lileks
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 9781400082285
Category : Parenting
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
From satirist Lileks comes a hilarious collection of questionable childcare tips from a bygone era.

Retro Food Fiascos

Retro Food Fiascos PDF Author:
Publisher: Collectors Press, Inc.
ISBN: 9781888054880
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Book Description
Banana Meatloaf Tomato Soup Cake, and Spam Smoothies -- borderline tummy-turners to downright doubtful -- Retro Food Fiascos is a showcase of culinary curiosities from some of America's favorite magazines, cookbooks, and food companies. Actual recipes and images of some of the most claring dishes to ever leave the kitchen combine with commentary and quips to pay homage to those foods we'd rather forget. In the name of nutrition and creative cooking, the marketing and recipe writers of the 1950s cooked up some very suspicious combinations. Innovations in food processing and new products tempted everyone from the amateur cook to the professional chef to play with their food. And the results? We'll let you be the judge. Book jacket.

The Breath of a Wok

The Breath of a Wok PDF Author: Grace Young
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476740240
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Book Description
Award-winning author Grace Young celebrates and demystifies the art of wok cooking for the Western home cook. When Grace Young was a child, her father instilled in her a lasting appreciation of wok hay, the highly prized but elusive taste that food achieves when properly stir-fried in a wok. As an adult, Young aspired to create that taste in her own kitchen. Grace Young's quest to master wok cooking led her throughout the United States, Hong Kong, and mainland China. Along with award-winning photographer Alan Richardson, Young sought the advice of home cooks, professional chefs, and esteemed culinary teachers like Cecilia Chiang, Florence Lin, and Ken Hom. Their instructions, stories, and recipes, gathered in this richly designed and illustrated volume, offer not only expert lessons in the art of wok cooking, but also capture a beautiful and timeless way of life. With its emphasis on cooking with all the senses, The Breath of a Wok brings the techniques and flavors of old-world wok cooking into today's kitchen, enabling anyone to stir-fry with wok hay. IACP award-winner Young details the fundamentals of selecting, seasoning, and caring for a wok, as well as the range of the wok's uses; this surprisingly inexpensive utensil serves as the ultimate multipurpose kitchen tool. The 125 recipes are a testament to the versatility of the wok, with stir-fried, smoked, pan-fried, braised, boiled, poached, steamed, and deep-fried dishes that include not only the classics of wok cooking, like Kung Pao Chicken and Moo Shoo Pork, but also unusual dishes like Sizzling Pepper and Salt Shrimp, Three Teacup Chicken, and Scallion and Ginger Lo Mein. Young's elegant prose and Richardson's extraordinary photographs create a unique and unforgettable picture of artisan wok makers in mainland China, street markets in Hong Kong, and a "wok-a-thon" in which Young's family of aunties, uncles, and cousins cooks together in a lively exchange of recipes and stories. A visit with author Amy Tan also becomes a family event when Tan and her sisters prepare New Year's dumplings. Additionally, there are menus for family-style meals and for Chinese New Year festivities, an illustrated glossary, and a source guide to purchasing ingredients, woks, and accessories. Written with the intimacy of a memoir and the immediacy of a travelogue, this recipe-rich volume is a celebration of cultural and culinary delights.

Cabbage and Caviar

Cabbage and Caviar PDF Author: Alison K. Smith
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789143659
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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Book Description
When people think of Russian food, they generally think either of the opulent luxury of the tsarist aristocracy or of post-Soviet elites, signified above all by caviar, or on the other hand of poverty and hunger—of cabbage and potatoes and porridge. Both of these visions have a basis in reality, but both are incomplete. The history of food and drink in Russia includes fasts and feasts, scarcity and, for some, at least, abundance. It includes dishes that came out of the northern, forested regions and ones that incorporate foods from the wider Russian Empire and later from the Soviet Union. Cabbage and Caviar places Russian food and drink in the context of Russian history and shows off the incredible (and largely unknown) variety of Russian food.

Interior Desecrations

Interior Desecrations PDF Author: James Lileks
Publisher: Crown
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Book Description
Lileks delivers a jaw-dropping retrospective of the worst of the worst rec rooms, dens, bedrooms, and other interior spaces of homes in the years when shag rugs ruled. Everything here is straight out of the pages of 1970s interior design magazines, books, and other supposed arbiters of style and taste.176 pp.

Notes of a Nervous Man

Notes of a Nervous Man PDF Author: James Lileks
Publisher: Beyond Words/Atria Books
ISBN: 9780671737016
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Book Description
Fans of Garrison Keillor, Dave Barry and Tom Bodett will cheer for acclaimed syndicated columnist James Lileks, who expounds on everything from airplanes, bras and women to death, taxes and hangovers.