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Book From Russia with Lunch

Download or read book From Russia with Lunch written by Bruce Hale and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detectives Chet Gecko and his partner Natalie Attired try to solve the mystery of why Emerson Hicky Elementary school students have suddenly started acting strangely.

Book From Russia With Lunch

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Smiedt
  • Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
  • Release : 2010-05-14
  • ISBN : 0702257559
  • Pages : 186 pages

Download or read book From Russia With Lunch written by David Smiedt and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2010-05-14 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighty-two years after Moses Dibobis escaped from the Lithuanian hamlet of Birzai with nothing but a packed lunch, his grandson David Smiedt journeys back to the former Soviet enclave looking for a link to his grandfather that extends beyond a receding hairline and shared sense of humour. What he finds there is that premium vodka is cheaper than water, spa treatments are more than a little invasive and that Stalin theme parks and eccentric museums are just the beginning of the charms of this beguiling nation. By the end of his journey, David finally has an answer to his mother-in-law’s question: ‘Who are your people?’ In From Russia With Lunch, David Smiedt takes all that is irreverent about Molvania and combines it with a love of history and the bizarre to reveal a land unknown by many. Better still, he eats pigs’ ears so you don’t have to.

Book The People of Russia and Their Food

Download or read book The People of Russia and Their Food written by Ann L. Burckhardt and published by Capstone. This book was released on 1996 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes food customs and preparation in Russia, along with regional dishes and cooking techniques. Includes recipes for a variety of Russian meals.

Book What s for Lunch

Download or read book What s for Lunch written by Andrea Curtis and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses what students eat for lunch around the world, including information on food culture and global issues surrounding food and nutrition.

Book What s Inside My Lunch Box

Download or read book What s Inside My Lunch Box written by Hannah Eliot and published by Little Simon. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover what lunchtime looks like around the world with this fun lift-the-flap book that’s shaped like a lunch box! What’s inside my lunch box? Go ahead and take a peek! We eat diverse foods around the world. So every lunch is unique! Shaped like a lunch box, with lift-the-flaps throughout, What’s Inside My Lunch Box? is the perfect introduction to what kids eat for lunch around the world! This sturdy novelty board book features lunchtime meals from eight different countries (USA, Brazil, China, France, South Korea, Russia, India, and Italy). From dal (lentil stew) in India to Ma-po tofu in China to cheese and jam in France, young foodies will love lifting the flaps to reveal tasty treats underneath!

Book Lunch with the FT

Download or read book Lunch with the FT written by Lionel Barber and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the very first mouthful, 'Lunch with the FT' was destined to become a permanent fixture in the Financial Times. One thousand lunches later, the FT's weekly interview has become an institution. From film stars to politicians, tycoons to writers, dissidents to lifestyle gurus, the list reads like an international Who's Who of our times. Lunch with the FT is a selection of the best: 52 classic interviews conducted in the unforgiving proximity of a restaurant table. From Angela Merkel to Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs, Martin Amis to one of the Arab world's most notorious sons, this book brings you right to the table to decide what you think of or world's most powerful players.

Book Dial M for Mongoose

Download or read book Dial M for Mongoose written by Bruce Hale and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2009-12-06 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chet Gecko’s investigations often show him the seamy underbelly of school life, but this case throws him for a loop. A deadly stink bomb is unleashed, a school building falls to rubble, money goes missing from the principal’s office, and that’s just a start. Chet’s endurance for trouble is tested, but so is his loyalty: Someone is trying to get his mongoose janitor pal Maureen DeBree fired. A true-blue P.I. doesn’t take that kind of monkey business lying down. Standing up, maybe. And stand up he will—to some very shifty school bullies. Chet keeps digging for the truth like a mole after an earthworm sandwich. Oh, foolish detective.

Book Hiss Me Deadly

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bruce Hale
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 0152054820
  • Pages : 125 pages

Download or read book Hiss Me Deadly written by Bruce Hale and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chet Gecko is hired by Principal Zero to investigate the disappearance of valuable items from Emerson Hicky Elementary--including Mama Gecko's pearls.

Book Food in Russian History and Culture

Download or read book Food in Russian History and Culture written by Musya Glants and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1997-08-22 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Collection of Original Essays gives surprising insights into what foodways reveal about Russia's history and culture from Kievan times to the present. A wide array of sources - including chronicles, diaries, letters, police records, poems, novels, folklore, paintings, and cookbooks - help to interpret the moral and spiritual role of food in Russian culture. Stovelore in Russian folklife, fasting in Russian peasant culture, food as power in Dostoevsky's fiction, Tolstoy and vegetarianism, restaurants in early Soviet Russia, Soviet cookery and cookbooks, and food as art in Soviet paintings are among the topics discussed in this appealing volume.

Book The Kingdom of Rye

    Book Details:
  • Author : Darra Goldstein
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2024-04-23
  • ISBN : 0520402073
  • Pages : 197 pages

Download or read book The Kingdom of Rye written by Darra Goldstein and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrated food scholar Darra Goldstein takes readers on a vivid tour of history and culture through Russian cuisine. The Kingdom of Rye unearths the foods and flavors of the Russian land. Preeminent food studies scholar Darra Goldstein offers readers a concise, engaging, and gorgeously crafted story of Russian cuisine and culture. This story demonstrates how national identity is revealed through food--and how people know who they are by what they eat together. The Kingdom of Rye examines the Russians' ingenuity in overcoming hunger, a difficult climate, and a history of political hardship while deciphering Russia's social structures from within. This is a domestic history of Russian food that serves up a deeper history, demonstrating that the wooden spoon is mightier than the scepter.

Book The Soviet Diet Cookbook  exploring life  culture and history     one recipe at a time

Download or read book The Soviet Diet Cookbook exploring life culture and history one recipe at a time written by Anna Kharzeeva and published by Litres. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Автор книги решила проверить, насколько актуальны рецепты из Книги о вкусной и здоровой пище. Для этого она приготовила больше 100 блюд из книги и попросила свою бабушку поделиться воспоминаниями о советском времени. Итогом стала книга, в которой записана устная история одной семьи через призму старых рецептов.

Book The Chameleon Wore Chartreuse

Download or read book The Chameleon Wore Chartreuse written by Bruce Hale and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chet Gecko loves a good mystery. Almost more than he loves his fee—stinkbug pie. So when fellow fourth grader Shirley Chameleon asks him to find her missing brother, Billy, Chet expects the case to be as easy a pie. But Billy's disappearance is part of a larger plot, one that involves the Rat Sisters, a riddling junkyard dog, and a vicious Gila monster named Herman. If Chet doesn't solve the case fast, the entire school could be humiliated. Worst of all, Chet might not get his fee. And Chet's hungry. . . .

Book High Society Dinners

    Book Details:
  • Author : Юрий Михайлович Лотман
  • Publisher : Prospect Books (UK)
  • Release : 2014
  • ISBN : 9781903018989
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book High Society Dinners written by Юрий Михайлович Лотман and published by Prospect Books (UK). This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The domestic arrangements of the Russian aristocracy, the menus served in St Petersburg to the guests of Petr Durnovo (1835-1918).

Book The Russian Job

    Book Details:
  • Author : Douglas Smith
  • Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
  • Release : 2019-11-05
  • ISBN : 0374718385
  • Pages : 201 pages

Download or read book The Russian Job written by Douglas Smith and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing, little-known story of an American effort to save the newly formed Soviet Union from disaster After decades of the Cold War and renewed tensions, in the wake of Russian meddling in the 2016 election, cooperation between the United States and Russia seems impossible to imagine—and yet, as Douglas Smith reveals, it has a forgotten but astonishing historical precedent. In 1921, facing one of the worst famines in history, the new Soviet government under Vladimir Lenin invited the American Relief Administration, Herbert Hoover’s brainchild, to save communist Russia from ruin. For two years, a small, daring band of Americans fed more than ten million men, women, and children across a million square miles of territory. It was the largest humanitarian operation in history—preventing the loss of countless lives, social unrest on a massive scale, and, quite possibly, the collapse of the communist state. Now, almost a hundred years later, few in either America or Russia have heard of the ARA. The Soviet government quickly began to erase the memory of American charity. In America, fanatical anti-communism would eclipse this historic cooperation with the Soviet Union. Smith resurrects the American relief mission from obscurity, taking the reader on an unforgettable journey from the heights of human altruism to the depths of human depravity. The story of the ARA is filled with political intrigue, espionage, the clash of ideologies, violence, adventure, and romance, and features some of the great historical figures of the twentieth century. In a time of cynicism and despair about the world’s ability to confront international crises, The Russian Job is a riveting account of a cooperative effort unmatched before or since.

Book Beyond the North Wind

    Book Details:
  • Author : Darra Goldstein
  • Publisher : Ten Speed Press
  • Release : 2020-02-04
  • ISBN : 0399580395
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book Beyond the North Wind written by Darra Goldstein and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 traditional yet surprisingly modern recipes from the far northern corners of Russia, featuring ingredients and dishes that young Russians are rediscovering as part of their heritage. IACP AWARD FINALIST • LONGLISTED FOR THE ART OF EATING PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND FORBES “A necessary resource for food writers and for eaters, a fascinating read and good excuse to make fermented oatmeal.”—Bon Appétit Russian cookbooks tend to focus on the food that was imported from France in the nineteenth century or the impoverished food of the Soviet era. Beyond the North Wind explores the true heart of Russian food, a cuisine that celebrates whole grains, preserved and fermented foods, and straightforward but robust flavors. Recipes for a dazzling array of pickles and preserves, infused vodkas, homemade dairy products such as farmers cheese and cultured butter, puff pastry hand pies stuffed with mushrooms and fish, and seasonal vegetable soups showcase Russian foods that are organic and honest--many of them old dishes that feel new again in their elegant minimalism. Despite the country's harsh climate, this surprisingly sophisticated cuisine has an incredible depth of flavor to offer in dishes like Braised Cod with Horseradish, Roast Lamb with Kasha, Black Currant Cheesecake, and so many more. This home-style cookbook with a strong sense of place and evocative storytelling brings to life a rarely seen portrait of Russia, its people, and its palate—with 100 recipes, gorgeous photography, and essays on the little-known culinary history of this fascinating and wild part of the world.

Book Meals in Russia

    Book Details:
  • Author : R. J. Bailey
  • Publisher : Bullfrog Books
  • Release : 2016-06-15
  • ISBN : 9781620314944
  • Pages : 24 pages

Download or read book Meals in Russia written by R. J. Bailey and published by Bullfrog Books. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Meals in Russia, young readers will learn learn about the foods and cultural practices that make up mealtime in Russia. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text engage beginning readers as they discover the fascinating culinary traditions of Russia. A labeled diagram highlights common Russian ingredients, while a picture glossary reinforces new vocabulary. Children can learn more about meals in Russia online using our safe search engine that provides relevant, age-appropriate websites. Meals in Russia also features reading tips for teachers and parents, a table of contents, and an index. Meals in Russia is part of Jump!'s Meals Around the World series.

Book I m Coming to Take You to Lunch

Download or read book I m Coming to Take You to Lunch written by Simon Napier-Bell and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-13 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A veteran manager of groups like the Yardbirds, Napier-Bell was just about ready to retire when Wham! fell into his lap...those interested in what goes on backstage and behind the scenes will find Napier-Bell's stories worthwhile and entertaining.” —Publishers Weekly A gossipy, rollicking music memoir about bringing Wham! to communist China in the ‘80’s—now, in paperback London, 1983. Pop impresario Simon Napier-Bell has had enough. Tired of managing groups, and sick of the constant grief at home, with his two ex-boyfriends bickering and bleeding him dry, he’s ready to give up the music business for good. But before he gets the chance, he falls in love with a new passion: a dynamic young duo, George and Andrew, jointly called Wham!. Soon, he finds himself offering to arrange for Wham! to be the first-ever Western pop group to play in communist China – a masterstroke of publicity which, in one swift move, would make them one of the biggest groups on the planet. What follows is an exciting and unpredictable globe-trotting adventure in the company of a cast of petulant pop stars, shady businessmen and a confusion of spies, students and officials, as Napier-Bell edges closer to inadvertently becoming one of the first Westerners to break down the walls of communist China. As one reviewer put it, “some of it reads like a big, gay Bond thriller.”