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Book Off the Menu

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stacey Ballis
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2012-07-03
  • ISBN : 1101581093
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book Off the Menu written by Stacey Ballis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the executive culinary assistant to celebrity Chicago chef Patrick Conlon, Alana Ostermann works behind the scenes—and that’s just the way she likes it. But with developing recipes for Patrick’s cookbooks, training his sous chefs, picking out the perfect birthday gifts for his ex-mother-in-law, and dealing with the fallout from his romantic escapades, she barely has a personal life, much less time to spend with her combo platter of a mutt, Dumpling. Then a fluke online connection brings her RJ, a transplant from Tennessee, who adds some Southern spice to her life. Suddenly Alana’s priorities shift, and Patrick—and Dumpling—find themselves facing a rival for her time and affection. With RJ in the mix, and some serious decisions to make about her personal and professional future, Alana must discover the perfect balance of work and play, money and meaning, to bring it all to the table—one delicious dish at a time… INCLUDES RECIPES

Book Our Changing Menu

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael P. Hoffmann
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2021-04-15
  • ISBN : 1501754637
  • Pages : 173 pages

Download or read book Our Changing Menu written by Michael P. Hoffmann and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Changing Menu unpacks the increasingly complex relationships between food and climate change. Whether you're a chef, baker, distiller, restaurateur, or someone who simply enjoys a good pizza or drink, it's time to come to terms with how climate change is affecting our diverse and interwoven food system. Michael P. Hoffmann, Carrie Koplinka-Loehr, and Danielle L. Eiseman offer an eye-opening journey through a complete menu of before-dinner drinks and salads; main courses and sides; and coffee and dessert. Along the way they examine the escalating changes occurring to the flavors of spices and teas, the yields of wheat, the vitamins in rice, and the price of vanilla. Their story is rounded out with a primer on the global food system, the causes and impacts of climate change, and what we can all do. Our Changing Menu is a celebration of food and a call to action—encouraging readers to join with others from the common ground of food to help tackle the greatest challenge of our time.

Book The Menu

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steven Manchester
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-11-03
  • ISBN : 9780984184255
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Menu written by Steven Manchester and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blessed with a high emotional IQ, Phinn Reed enters the world with the promise of finding his soul mate. With heaven's memories erased, his romantic quest teaches him that the heart often sees clearer than the eyes-and that not everyone has ordered the same items from The Menu. This inspirational love story is heartfelt evidence that love stories come in many different forms.

Book Freedom on the Menu

Download or read book Freedom on the Menu written by Carole Boston Weatherford and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-12-27 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There were signs all throughout town telling eight-year-old Connie where she could and could not go. But when Connie sees four young men take a stand for equal rights at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, she realizes that things may soon change. This event sparks a movement throughout her town and region. And while Connie is too young to march or give a speech, she helps her brother and sister make signs for the cause. Changes are coming to Connie’s town, but Connie just wants to sit at the lunch counter and eat a banana split like everyone else.

Book On the Menu

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  • Author : Nicholas Lander
  • Publisher : Unbound Publishing
  • Release : 2016-11-03
  • ISBN : 1783522437
  • Pages : 407 pages

Download or read book On the Menu written by Nicholas Lander and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Financial Times's long-standing restaurant critic Nicholas Lander comes this celebration of the history, design and evolution of the world's favourite piece of paper: the menu. On the Menu is a stunning collection of menus, from those at the cutting edge of contemporary culinary innovation, like Copenhagen's Noma, to those that are relics from another time: a 1970s menu from L’Escargot on which all main courses cost less than one pound; the last menu from The French House Dining Room before Fergus Henderson departed for St John; a Christmas feast of zoo animals served during the Siege of Paris in 1870; and three of the world’s original restaurant menus—now hanging proudly in London’s Le Gavroche. Throughout, Lander examines the principles of menu design and layout; the different rules that govern separate menus for breakfast, afternoon tea and dessert; the evolution of wine and cocktail lists; and how menus can act as records of the past. He reveals insights from interviews with Michael Anthony, Heston Blumenthal, Massimo Bottura, René Redzepi, Ruth Rogers and many more of the most renowned contemporary chefs of our time, who explain how they decide what to serve and what inspires them to create and design their menus. These are truly pages to drool over.

Book The Menu

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  • Author : Eve Marleau
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 9780712353007
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Menu written by Eve Marleau and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating and entertaining, the menu, as a record of the food we eat, tells us much about who we were and how we lived. From the historically significant to the unexpected, discover what was eaten at the first Nobel Prize dinner; what Barack Obama chose for his inauguration meal; what the Tsar and Tsarina ate at their infamous society balls; why the first pre-made sandwich was so significant; and what sort of inflight grub was served up at supersonic speeds on Concorde. Step in time to dinner dances at the Blackpool Tower Ballroom; delight in Elvis and Priscilla's wedding breakfast; marvel at the Titanic's last sitting and raise a glass to El Bulli's closing service.

Book The Cornish Wedding Murder  A Nosey Parker Cozy Mystery  Book 1

Download or read book The Cornish Wedding Murder A Nosey Parker Cozy Mystery Book 1 written by Fiona Leitch and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘A sparklingly delicious confection to satisfy the mystery reader’s appetite’ Helena Dixon, bestselling author of the Miss Underhay Mysteries

Book The Language of Food  A Linguist Reads the Menu

Download or read book The Language of Food A Linguist Reads the Menu written by Dan Jurafsky and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2015 James Beard Award Finalist: "Eye-opening, insightful, and huge fun to read." —Bee Wilson, author of Consider the Fork Why do we eat toast for breakfast, and then toast to good health at dinner? What does the turkey we eat on Thanksgiving have to do with the country on the eastern Mediterranean? Can you figure out how much your dinner will cost by counting the words on the menu? In The Language of Food, Stanford University professor and MacArthur Fellow Dan Jurafsky peels away the mysteries from the foods we think we know. Thirteen chapters evoke the joy and discovery of reading a menu dotted with the sharp-eyed annotations of a linguist. Jurafsky points out the subtle meanings hidden in filler words like "rich" and "crispy," zeroes in on the metaphors and storytelling tropes we rely on in restaurant reviews, and charts a microuniverse of marketing language on the back of a bag of potato chips. The fascinating journey through The Language of Food uncovers a global atlas of culinary influences. With Jurafsky's insight, words like ketchup, macaron, and even salad become living fossils that contain the patterns of early global exploration that predate our modern fusion-filled world. From ancient recipes preserved in Sumerian song lyrics to colonial shipping routes that first connected East and West, Jurafsky paints a vibrant portrait of how our foods developed. A surprising history of culinary exchange—a sharing of ideas and culture as much as ingredients and flavors—lies just beneath the surface of our daily snacks, soups, and suppers. Engaging and informed, Jurafsky's unique study illuminates an extraordinary network of language, history, and food. The menu is yours to enjoy.

Book Menu Math  The Hamburger Hut

Download or read book Menu Math The Hamburger Hut written by Barbara Johnson, Kitty Scharf and published by Remedia Publications. This book was released on 2021-11-27 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grade Level: 3-6 Make learning fun while boosting basic skills with this unique book of practical application math activities. The ebook includes a colorful menu to which students must refer to figure costs when spending money at a restaurant! From hamburgers to french fries, your students will get their fill as they work through hundreds of computation and real-life word problems. Students figure food costs, tax, total restaurant checks, make change, and more!

Book Cheese  Wine  and Bread

    Book Details:
  • Author : Katie Quinn
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2021-04-27
  • ISBN : 0062984543
  • Pages : 775 pages

Download or read book Cheese Wine and Bread written by Katie Quinn and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 775 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Open-hearted and buoyant, the book weaves together her hands-on experiences in Europe and introduces us to a rich cast of people who make, sell and care about these traditions.” —Jenny Linford, author of The Missing Ingredient In this delightful, full-color tour of France, England, and Italy, YouTube star Katie Quinn shares the stories and science behind everyone's fermented favorites—cheese, wine, and bread—along with classic recipes. Delicious staples of a great meal, bread, cheese, and wine develop their complex flavors through a process known as fermentation. Katie Quinn spent months as an apprentice with some of Europe’s most acclaimed experts to study the art and science of fermentation. Visiting grain fields, vineyards, and dairies, Katie brings the stories and science of these foods to the table, explains the process of each craft, and introduces the people behind them. What will keep readers glued to the book like a suspense novel is Katie's personal journey as an expat discovering herself abroad; Katie's vulnerability will turn readers into fans, and they'll finish the book feeling like they're her best friends, trusted with her innermost revelations. In England, Katie becomes a cheesemonger at Neal's Yard Dairy, London’s preeminent cheese shop—the beginning of a journey that takes her from a goat farm in rural Somerset to a nationwide search for innovating dairy gurus. In Italy, Katie offers an inside look at Italian winemaking with the Comellis at their family-owned vineyard in Northeast Italy and witnesses the diversity of vintners as she makes her way around Italy. In France, Katie meets the reigning queen of bread, Apollonia Poilâne of Paris' famed Poilâne Bakery, apprentices at boulangeries in Paris learning the ins and outs of sourdough, and travels the country to uncover the present and future of French bread. Part artisanal survey, part travelogue, and part cookbook, featuring watercolor illustrations and gorgeous photographs, Cheese, Wine, and Bread is an outstanding gastronomic tour for foodies, cooks, artisans, and armchair travelers alike.

Book Steal the Menu

Download or read book Steal the Menu written by Raymond Sokolov and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four decades of memories from a gastronome who witnessed the food revolution from the (well-provisioned) trenches—a delicious tour through contemporary food history. When Raymond Sokolov became food editor of The New York Times in 1971, he began a long, memorable career as restaurant critic, food historian, and author. Here he traces the food scene he reported on in America and abroad, from his pathbreaking dispatches on nouvelle cuisine chefs like Paul Bocuse and Michel Guérard in France to the rise of contemporary American food stars like Thomas Keller and Grant Achatz, and the fruitful collision of science and cooking in the kitchens of El Bulli in Spain, the Fat Duck outside London, and Copenhagen’s gnarly Noma. Sokolov invites readers to join him as a privileged observer of the most transformative period in the history of cuisine with this personal narrative of the sensual education of an accidental gourmet. We dine out with him at temples of haute cuisine like New York’s Lutèce but also at a pioneering outpost of Sichuan food in a gas station in New Jersey, at a raunchy Texas chili cookoff, and at a backwoods barbecue shack in Alabama, as well as at three-star restaurants from Paris to Las Vegas. Steal the Menu is, above all, an entertaining and engaging account of a tumultuous period of globalizing food ideas and frontier-crossing ingredients that produced the unprecedentedly rich and diverse way of eating we enjoy today.

Book How to Read the Menu

Download or read book How to Read the Menu written by Herb Lester and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set of Italian, Spanish, French phrase books.

Book Murder On The Menu

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nancy Skopin
  • Publisher : Independently Published
  • Release : 2015-04-20
  • ISBN : 9781791776633
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Murder On The Menu written by Nancy Skopin and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sexy sleuth, a silenced stripper, and a sociopathic serial killer ...Murder on the Menu is the debut novel of award winning author, Nancy Skopin. The first in a series of mysteries featuring Private Investigator Nicoli "Nikki" Hunter, the only child of a Cossack and a former nun. Nikki is a smart, tenacious thirty-five-year-old, who lives aboard her sailboat in the San Francisco Bay Area and runs her PI business out of a ground floor office in the marina where she lives.In Murder on the Menu, Nikki has lost enthusiasm for the mundane surveillance jobs that pay the bills but no longer challenge her. When the brutal murder of socialite, and exotic dancer, Laura Howard, lands on her desk, she finally encounters a foe worthy of her unique skills.

Book Sociology on the Menu

Download or read book Sociology on the Menu written by Alan Beardsworth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sociology on the Menu is an accessible introduction to the sociology of food. Highlighting the social and cultural dimensions of the human food system, from production to consumption, it encourages us to consider new ways of thinking about the apparently mundane, everyday act of eating. The main areas covered include: * The origins of human subsistence and the development of the modern food system * Food, the family and eating out * Diet, health and the body image * The meanings of meat and vegetarianism. Sociology on the Menu provides a comprehensive overview of the literature, particularly helpful in this interdisciplinary field. It focuses on key texts and studies to help students identify major concerns and themes for further study. It urges us to re-appraise the taken for granted and familiar experiences of selecting, preparing and sharing food and to see our own habits and choices, preferences and aversions in their broader cultural context.

Book The Actor s Menu

Download or read book The Actor s Menu written by Bill Howey and published by Compass Publishing. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether new to the business or a seasoned professional, this handbook provides actors with a personal, active approach to discovering and developing their talent. Beginning with appetizers and ending with desserts, actors learn how to prepare a character in the same way that a master chef chooses the most complementary dishes for a feast. From typecasting to reinventing a character's story, actors discover the key ingredients that will enable them to use their own unique qualities and emotions to develop strong, believable characters that people are interested in watching. How to identify and resolve problems such as hidden agendas that can disable an actor's work; distinguish between perception, feeling, and emotions; and find lasting sources of inspiration are among the issues explored. The importance of imagination, words, and story as well as the difference between intellectual and visceral choices (and the impact of each) are also discussed.

Book May We Suggest

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alison Pearlman
  • Publisher : Agate Publishing
  • Release : 2018-10-16
  • ISBN : 1572848227
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book May We Suggest written by Alison Pearlman and published by Agate Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An art expert takes a critical look at restaurant menus—from style and layout to content, pricing and more—to reveal the hidden influence of menu design. We’ve all ordered from a restaurant menu. But have you ever wondered to what extent the menu is ordering you? In May We Suggest, art historian and gastronome Alison Pearlman focuses her discerning eye on the humble menu to reveal a captivating tale of persuasion and profit. Studying restaurant menus through the lenses of art history, experience design and behavioral economics, Pearlman reveals how they are intended to influence our dining experiences and choices. Then she goes on a mission to find out if, when, and how a menu might sway her decisions at more than sixty restaurants across the greater Los Angeles area. What emerges is a captivating, thought-provoking study of one of the most often read but rarely analyzed narrative works around.

Book Thoughts for Food

Download or read book Thoughts for Food written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: