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Book Costanza and the Capocollo

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tony Casillo
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2017-03-03
  • ISBN : 9781536827804
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Costanza and the Capocollo written by Tony Casillo and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-03 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Costanza and the Capocollo takes its name from a provocative shopkeeper, Costanza, a brandished sausage, the capocollo, and an accursed shop counter that keeps interfering with life's accomplishments. It is an image of poor Southern Italy in the aftermath of the Second World War and the hard to imagine difficult conditions seen from the vantage of modern, prosperous Europe. It is a loving and often funny picture of family, friends, acquaintances and their foibles. grandparents, uncles, aunts and neighbors march through this memoir with the proviso that only the names have not been changed to protect the guilty. The struggle continues as the Casillo family emigrates to America working to bootstrap themselves up to the American dream through the legendary 1960's. Hard work, family support, and a little bit of luck ultimately bring success. Costanza and the Capocollo is an endearing, charming, bittersweet recounting of one family's encounter with adversity.

Book Encyclopedia of Pasta

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  • Author : Oretta Zanini De Vita
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2019-09-17
  • ISBN : 0520322754
  • Pages : 398 pages

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Pasta written by Oretta Zanini De Vita and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated throughout with original drawings by Luciana Marini, this will bethe standard reference on one of the world's favorite foods for many years tocome, engaging and delighting both general readers and food professionals.

Book The Epicurean

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  • Author : Charles Ranhofer
  • Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
  • Release : 2017-08-15
  • ISBN : 1606601059
  • Pages : 1204 pages

Download or read book The Epicurean written by Charles Ranhofer and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 1204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete culinary encyclopedia, with more than 3,500 recipes and nearly 800 black-and-white illustrations. This edition of the great classic is available in a splendid hardcover facsimile of the rare 1893 original.

Book 103 Other Adventures In and Around Rome

Download or read book 103 Other Adventures In and Around Rome written by Bill Richards and published by Rumble Books. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is intended for people who have been to Rome before and want to get to the next level of things to see and learn about, after they have enjoyed the most famous sites like the Vatican, the Colosseum, the Forum, the Pantheon, and Trevi Fountain. Of course, it has sections that explore historical adventures, including sections devoted to the Etruscans, ancient Rome, and the Middle Ages, and it also describes where to see modern art, where to go hiking in the woods, which hilltowns are most exciting to visit, and where to go swimming on a hot day.

Book Family on the Loose

Download or read book Family on the Loose written by Bill Richards and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pack your bags, hop a plane, and take a trip! Embarking on a journey with your kids can be a thrilling and rewarding adventure. Family travel is also a great way to expand your cultural horizons and help cultivate our next generation of global citizens. This book offers hundreds of easy-to-use ideas for:* Drumming up excitement for the journey ahead* Teaching your kids to pack themselves* Having fun at the airport and on the plane* Easing jetlag and schedule changes* Involving everyone in setting itineraries and expectations * Making museums and tourist stops engaging for everyone* Enriching your travel experience through journaling* Keeping the joy of the journey alive long after your return* Discovering cultural education in your own back yardThis book is intended for well-seasoned travelers and newbies alike who enjoy being with their children, want to enrich their education, and are excited to discover, as a family, the vast and unique experiences this world has to offer.

Book Garden Like a Nonno

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  • Author : Jaclyn Crupi
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-07-27
  • ISBN : 9781922419521
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Garden Like a Nonno written by Jaclyn Crupi and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Garden Like a Nonno, Jaclyn Crupi uncovers the secrets of the green-thumbed nonnos. Whether you have a tiny balcony or a sprawling backyard, you'll be growing your own fruit and veg in no time with a little guidance from the nonnos. Featuring gardening tips and tricks, recipes for preserving your produce, plus classic nonno sayings, Garden Like a Nonno will help you to get in touch with your inner Italian. La dolce vita awaits!"--Publisher's description.

Book Adelina s Kitchen

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  • Author : Adelina Pulford
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-10-31
  • ISBN : 9781922722850
  • Pages : 166 pages

Download or read book Adelina s Kitchen written by Adelina Pulford and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-31 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along came COVID-19. NO more cooking classes, lockdowns for months at a time. Well, I did what I loved doing and kept on cooking. I started writing recipes and photographing the dishes that I had made, often sharing with my elderly neighbours. It was very therapeutic, cooking kept me sane. Suddenly I found myself with a great selection of new recipes and some wonderful photographs and so, after many requests I have written my fifth book "Dolce e Salato - Sweet & Savoury Volume 2" My fifth book combines both modern and traditional sweet and savoury recipes from Italy and Australia. My fifth book differs from my previous books by including many more step-by-step photographs. To make room for the step-by-step photographs my recipes are in English only.

Book History of the Italian Agricultural Landscape

Download or read book History of the Italian Agricultural Landscape written by Emilio Sereni and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emilio Sereni's classic work is now available in an English language edition. History of the Italian Agricultural Landscape is a synthesis of the agricultural history of Italy in its economic, social, and ecological context, from antiquity to the mid-twentieth century. From his perspective in the Italian tradition of cultural Marxism, Sereni guides the reader through the millennial changes that have affected the agriculture and ecology of the regions of Italy, as well as through the successes and failures of farmers and technicians in antiquity, the middle ages, the Renaissance, and the Industrial Revolution. In this sweeping historical survey, he describes attempts by successive generations to adapt Italy's natural environment for the purposes of agriculture and to respond to its changing ecological problems. History of the Italian Agricultural Landscape first appeared in 1961. At the time of its publication it was a pathbreaking work, parallel in its importance for Italy to Marc Bloc's masterwork of 1931, The Original Characteristics of French Rural History. Sereni invented the concept of the historical "agricultural landscape": an interdisciplinary characterization of rural life involving economic and social history, linguistics, archeology, art history, and ecological studies. Originally published in 1997. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Book Dictionary of Italian Cuisine

Download or read book Dictionary of Italian Cuisine written by Maureen B. Fant and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the difference between "cappuccino and "cafe-latte? What is an "appoggiacoltello? How much is "q.b.? To find out the answers, look no further than "Dictionary of Italian Cuisine, the first comprehensive Italian-English dictionary of Italian food terminolgy. This handy reference tool provides authoritative Italian terms and English definitions for everything you'll find in Italian cookbooks and menus. Entries cover Italian foods and ingredients, cooking utencils and techniques, menu and wine terms, adjectives commonly found in Italian recipes, Italian place names, and dishes from each of Italy's twenty regions. This lexicon is an invaluable, easy-to-use reference for anyone who needs to understand or use Italian food terminolgy -- travelers, culinary professionals, and home cooks. Whether Italian food is your love, your life, or your passion, "Dictionary of Italian Cuisine is a must for your cookbook shelf.

Book Pasta

    Book Details:
  • Author : Silvano Serventi
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 0231124422
  • Pages : 465 pages

Download or read book Pasta written by Silvano Serventi and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging from the imperial palaces of ancient China and the bakeries of fourteenth-century Genoa and Naples all the way to the restaurant kitchens of today, Pasta tells a story that will forever change the way you look at your next plate of vermicelli. Pasta has become a ubiquitous food, present in regional diets around the world and available in a host of shapes, sizes, textures, and tastes. Yet, although it has become a mass-produced commodity, it remains uniquely adaptable to innumerable recipes and individual creativity. Pasta: The Story of a Universal Food shows that this enormously popular food has resulted from of a lengthy process of cultural construction and widely diverse knowledge, skills, and techniques. Many myths are intertwined with the history of pasta, particularly the idea that Marco Polo brought pasta back from China and introduced it to Europe. That story, concocted in the early twentieth century by the trade magazine Macaroni Journal, is just one of many fictions umasked here. The true homelands of pasta have been China and Italy. Each gave rise to different but complementary culinary traditions that have spread throughout the world. From China has come pasta made with soft wheat flour, often served in broth with fresh vegetables, finely sliced meat, or chunks of fish or shellfish. Pastasciutta, the Italian style of pasta, is generally made with durum wheat semolina and presented in thick, tomato-based sauces. The history of these traditions, told here in fascinating detail, is interwoven with the legacies of expanding and contracting empires, the growth of mercantilist guilds and mass industrialization, and the rise of food as an art form. Whether you are interested in the origins of lasagna, the strange genesis of the Chinese pasta bing or the mystique of the most magnificent pasta of all, the timballo, this is the book for you. So dig in!

Book Sauces   Shapes  Pasta the Italian Way

Download or read book Sauces Shapes Pasta the Italian Way written by Oretta Zanini De Vita and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the International Association of Culinary Association (IACP) Award The indispensable cookbook for genuine Italian sauces and the traditional pasta shapes that go with them. Pasta is so universally popular in the United States that it can justifiably be called an American food. This book makes the case for keeping it Italian with recipes for sauces and soups as cooked in Italian homes today. There are authentic versions of such favorites as carbonara, bolognese, marinara, and Alfredo, as well as plenty of unusual but no less traditional sauces, based on roasts, ribs, rabbit, clams, eggplant, arugula, and mushrooms, to name but a few. Anyone who cooks or eats pasta needs this book. The straightforward recipes are easy enough for the inexperienced, but even professional chefs will grasp the elegance of their simplicity. Cooking pasta the Italian way means: Keep your eye on the pot, not the clock. Respect tradition, but don’t be a slave to it. Choose a compatible pasta shape for your sauce or soup, but remember they aren’t matched by computer. (And that angel hair goes with broth, not sauce.) Use the best ingredients you can find—and you can find plenty on the Internet. Resist the urge to embellish, add, or substitute. But minor variations usually enhance a dish. How much salt? Don’t ask, taste! Serving and eating pasta the Italian way means: Use a spoon for soup, not for twirling spaghetti. Learn to twirl; never cut. Never add too much cheese, and often add none at all. Toss the cheese and pasta before adding the sauce. Warm the dishes.Serve pasta alone. The salad comes after. To be perfectly proper, use a plate, not a bowl. The authors are reluctant to compromise because they know how good well-made pasta can be. But they keep their sense of humor and are sympathetic to all well-intentioned readers.

Book Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture written by James S. Donnelly and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture' spans prehistoric times to the present, and treats both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland in detail. Entries represent an inclusive, cross-disciplinary approach, written by specialists in history,

Book Italian Modernism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mario Moroni
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2004-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780802086020
  • Pages : 492 pages

Download or read book Italian Modernism written by Mario Moroni and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italian Modernism was written in response to the need for an historiographic and theoretical reconsideration of the concepts of Decadentismo and the avant-garde within the Italian critical tradition. Focussing on the confrontation between these concepts and the broader notion of international modernism, the essays in this important collection seek to understand this complex phase of literary and artistic practices as a response to the epistemes of philosophical and scientific modernity at the end of the nineteenth century and in the first three decades of the twentieth. Intellectually provocative, this collection is the first attempt in the field of Italian Studies at a comprehensive account of Italian literary modernism. Each contributor documents how previous critical categories, employed to account for the literary, artistic, and cultural experiences of the period, have provided only partial and inadequate descriptions, preventing a fuller understanding of the complexities and the interrelations among the cultural phenomena of the time.

Book The Swallows of Monte Cassino

Download or read book The Swallows of Monte Cassino written by Frederika Randall and published by New Acdemia+ORM. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Strega Prize–winning author of The Girl with a Leica delivers a novel that hinges on one of the bloodiest World War II battles and those who fought it. In this highly original novel, Janeczek retells the four-month-long Battle of Monte Cassino from the point of view of the Maori, Gurkha, Polish, North African, small-town American and other Allied foot soldiers who fought and died under German fire near that 6th century Benedictine abbey. Twined through the battle is another story, a memory of the drowned and the saved in Janeczek’s own family in wartime Eastern Europe, where Jews who did not go to Nazi death camps went to Soviet gulag camps, and sometimes survived, and even went on to fight at Monte Cassino. A powerful reflection on all the ways that rights can be taken from us. “Helena Janeczek’s novel is this: a tattoo etched on the skin, and not painlessly. A vast design that brings together threads from all the various lives that converged in that legendary battle. The beauty of her tale lies in its structure, the way opposites converge: the chaos of battle and the silence of the defeated, ordinariness and the heroism of the powerless, carefully guarded memory and impetuous youth, the past perpetually intertwined with the present.” —Roberto Saviano, author of Gomorrah

Book Kair  s

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  • Author : Giacomo Marramao
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2006-10
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 114 pages

Download or read book Kair s written by Giacomo Marramao and published by . This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Against Power

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  • Author : Giacomo Marramao
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2016-05-13
  • ISBN : 1611496209
  • Pages : 97 pages

Download or read book Against Power written by Giacomo Marramao and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his latest book in the study of power, Giacomo Marramao focuses on the work of two great Central European writers, Elias Canetti and Herta Müller, each of whom, in different periods and contexts, offered a philosophical genealogy of forms of domination and a radical diagnosis of power, command and law. To grasp the meaning of the transformations of power, it is necessary to go to the roots: to the archē that originated it as a factor common to all human cultures and all historical periods. Power cannot be suppressed: any attempt to ‘overcome’ it (by eliminating one or another form of its exercise) has done no more than strengthen it. Power must, however, be ‘uprooted’ or subverted in its logic of identity, which is activated in the boundless character of desire and the paranoid scene of fearand the death of the Other. In the midst of today’s global world, to trace a line of opposition to power means to free ourselves from the alibi of objectivity and to focus instead on subjects and their potential for metamorphosis/regeneration. This is possible only if we detach ourselves from the ground noise of actuality and recover the broken thread of solitary and extreme works.

Book The Chess Set in the Mirror

Download or read book The Chess Set in the Mirror written by Massimo Bontempelli and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy who is being punished finds himself transported to the strange world on the other side of a mirror, where he encounters living chess pieces, as well as everything and everyone that was ever reflected in the mirror.