Download or read book Kaikai Aniani written by Ronald James May and published by E.J. Brill/Robert Brown. This book was released on 1984 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Consuming the Inedible written by Jeremy M. MacClancy and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyday, millions of people eat earth, clay, nasal mucus, and similar substances. Yet food practices like these are strikingly understudied in a sustained, interdisciplinary manner. This book aims to correct this neglect. Contributors, utilizing anthropological, nutritional, biochemical, psychological and health-related perspectives, examine in a rigorously comparative manner the consumption of foods conventionally regarded as inedible by most Westerners. This book is both timely and significant because nutritionists and health care professionals are seldom aware of anthropological information on these food practices, and vice versa. Ranging across diversity of disciplines Consuming the Inedible surveys scientific and local views about the consequences - biological, mineral, social or spiritual - of these food practices, and probes to what extent we can generalize about them.

Download or read book The Culinary Herpetologist written by and published by Bibliomania. This book was released on 2005 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a compilation of nearly 1000 recipes for amphibians and reptiles. Although all of these recipes have been used by people at one time or another this book is meant primarily to document these recipes. A unique and unusual collection of culinary history.

Download or read book Tropical Fruit Cookbook written by Marilyn Rittenhouse Harris and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects recipes for tropical fruits, including avacados, coconuts, pomegranates, and more exotic fruits such as jackfruit, sapote, and logan

Download or read book One Thousand One Papua New Guinean Nights Tales from 1986 1997 indices glossary references and maps written by Thomas H. Slone and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A two-volume collection of folktales that were published in Papua New Guinea's Wantok newspaper. The two-volume collection presents the complete set of 1047 folktales that were originally published from 1972 through 1997 in Tok Pisin.

Download or read book Managing Animals in New Guinea written by Paul Sillitoe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-02 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing Animals in New Guinea analyzes the place of animals in the lives of New Guinea Highlanders. Looking at issues of zoological classification, hunting of wild animals and management of domesticated ones, notably pigs, it asks how natural parameters affect people's livelihood strategies and their relations with animals and the wider environment.

Download or read book Oxford Symposium on Food Cookery 1989 written by Harlan Walker and published by Oxford Symposium. This book was released on 1990 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of staples such as potato, rice, root vegetables in early modern England, wheat and other cereals.

Download or read book Tropical Cuisine written by Clare Richards and published by Tropical Cuisine Pty Ltd. This book was released on 2010-09-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tropical Cuisine: Cooking in Clare's Kitchen is the world's first comprehensive reference cookbook for the tropics and for tropical produce. It includes over 250 interesting and simple recipes using both common and unusual tropical ingredients. Winner Best Innovative Cookbook in Australia 2010, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. ‘This excellent book fills a significant gap in the reference shelves of any cook...’ quote from the foreword by Stephanie Alexander Tropical Cuisine: Cooking in Clare’s Kitchen also contains an encyclopaedia of tropical fruits, vegetables, herbs and spices, detailing how to select, store, prepare and cook these ingredients. Open up a whole new world of culinary possibilities! Tropical Cuisine: Cooking in Clare’s Kitchen features produce originating from all the tropical zones of the world, and draws on the culinary traditions of all tropical food cultures. All of the featured produce is available commercially or grows abundantly in home gardens of the sub-tropical and tropical regions of the world. Clare lets us in on the secrets of paradise in Tropical Cuisine: Cooking in Clare’s Kitchen, helping us become acquainted with and confident in the use of tropical produce. A valuable reference for chefs, passionate home cooks, growers, food businesses, kitchen garden programs, community gardens, schools, and cooking and hospitality programs.

Download or read book Food Culture in the Pacific Islands written by Roger Haden and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-08-10 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The food culture of the Pacific Islands has been determined by isolation from the rest of the world. Original immigrants from Asia brought their foods, animals, and culinary skills with them, then for several thousand years, they were largely uninfluenced by outsiders. The tropical climate of much of the region, unique island geology and environmental factors also played a role in the evolution of islander cuisine, which is based on unique ingredients. The staples of breadfruit, yams, taro, coconut, sweet potato, and cassava are incorporated into a cuisine that uses cooking and preservation techniques unique to Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia. Today, food culture in the Pacific is largely one of extremes. Although traditional foods and cookery survive and are highly valued, Westernization has meant that the overall diet of islanders has been negatively transformed and that islands are net importers of unhealthful foods. Ironically, the tourism industry has re-engaged islander people in food production and boosted their sense of identity. Students, food mavens, and travellers will find this to be a stellar introduction to the current culture of the Pacific Islands, with discussion of Hawaii, Australia, and New Zealand included. Chapter 1, Historical Overview, offers a fascinating chronicle of the evolution of a food culture of extremes, of isolation, climate, environment, and Western influences. Chapter 2, Major Foods and Ingredients, introduces a host of traditional tropical manna as well as imported products. The Cooking chapter discusses the truly unique cooking styles of the islands, such as steam-baking in the ground in an umu (oven). Chapter 4, Typical Meals, largely explores the emphasis on the ubiquitous processed foods. A Regional Specialties chapter reveals both pan-regional dishes and the noted local dishes. Chapter 6's Eating Out discussion shows the new acceptance of the individualist, recreational ritual of eating away from the community. The typical life-cycle food rituals are covered in the Special Occasions chapter. A final chapter on Diet and Health highlights the increase in Western diseases arising from diet and lifestyle changes and discusses timely food security issues as well. Recipes are interspersed throughout, and a timeline, glossary, selected bibliography, and photos round out the coverage.

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Download or read book Too Many Bird Books written by Geoffrey Dabb and published by Australian Self Publishing Group. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a chronicle of encounters with a lot of bird books, in fact a lifetime of such encounters. The world of bird books is vast and varied, defying coherent description. The author’s qualification for making this attempt to describe it is that he owns several hundred of them, gathered over more than 70 years. To help make sense of this obsession, the describing of the books is linked to a life in which traditional birdwatching (and book hunting) went on, in different places, and in between other things.

Download or read book State and Society in Papua New Guinea written by Ronald James May and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2004-05-01 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a number of papers written by the author between 1971 and 2001 which address issues of political and economic development and social change in Papua New Guinea.

Download or read book Edible Insects of the World written by Jun Mitsuhashi and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book on entomophagy written in this manner, Edible Insects of the World is an enumeration of 2,141 species of edible insects. For the reader’s convenience, insect names are arranged much like a dictionary, first by taxonomic group and then by country. In addition to taxonomic and location information, entries contain applicable details about the history of entomophagy, collecting, cooking, and medicinal uses.

Download or read book A New Bislama Dictionary written by Terry Crowley and published by [email protected]. This book was released on 2003 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A new Bislama dictionary is a substantially updated version of the first edition, which reflects the ever-changing vocabulary of Bislama, the national language of Vanuatu."--Back cover.

Download or read book Cultural and Spiritual Values of Biodiversity written by United Nations Environment Programme and published by Intermediate Technology Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving together philosophical, historical, legal, scientific and personal viewpoints, this book gives a rich sample of the vast web which makes up our cultural, spiritual and social diversity. The volume highlights the central importance of cultural and spiritual values in the appreciation and preservation of all life and argues that these values give us a true reflection of worth. It demonstrates how many cultures see Nature as an extension of society, and how sensitive stewardship is an integral part of existence. The book covers: language and how cognition and speech encode indigenous knowledge systems are critical for preservation of diversity; the complex issue of indigenous people and the problems of preserving their relationships both with and within their societies; voices of the world - expressions of concern and disquiet over the declining world diversity; holistic health practices where environment and diet are integrated into indigenous medical health systems; the importance of developing effective intellectual property rights and territorial and land rights to enhance and maintain local control. This book arose out of the Global Biodiversity Assessment (GBA), a massive review of current knowledge in the broad field of biological diversity, commissioned by United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP)

Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Food written by Alan Davidson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-09-21 with total page 1944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Companion to Food by Alan Davidson, first published in 1999, became, almost overnight, an immense success, winning prizes and accolades around the world. Its combination of serious food history, culinary expertise, and entertaining serendipity, with each page offering an infinity of perspectives, was recognized as unique. The study of food and food history is a new discipline, but one that has developed exponentially in the last twenty years. There are now university departments, international societies, learned journals, and a wide-ranging literature exploring the meaning of food in the daily lives of people around the world, and seeking to introduce food and the process of nourishment into our understanding of almost every compartment of human life, whether politics, high culture, street life, agriculture, or life and death issues such as conflict and war. The great quality of this Companion is the way it includes both an exhaustive catalogue of the foods that nourish humankind - whether they be fruit from tropical forests, mosses scraped from adamantine granite in Siberian wastes, or body parts such as eyeballs and testicles - and a richly allusive commentary on the culture of food, whether expressed in literature and cookery books, or as dishes peculiar to a country or community. The new edition has not sought to dim the brilliance of Davidson's prose. Rather, it has updated to keep ahead of a fast-moving area, and has taken the opportunity to alert readers to new avenues in food studies.

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