The Egyptian hermit Onuphrios was said to have lived entirely on dates, and perhaps the most famous of all hermits, John the Baptist, on locusts and wild honey. Was it really possible to sustain life on so little food? The history of monasticism is defined by the fierce and passionate abandonment of the ordinary comforts of life, the most striking being food and drink. A Hermit's Cookbook opens with stories and pen-portraits of the Desert Fathers of early Christianity and their followers who wer...
This new cookbook features original or favourite recipes from every presidency and provides a glimpse into both the glamorous and the austere administrations.
Smokehouse Ham, Spoon Bread & Scuppernong Wine: The Folklore and Art of Southern Appalachian Cooking
by Joseph Dabney
A captivating chronicle of a fast-disappearing fish--and of the people whose lives and livelihoods depend on it. Since the days of the Persian Empire, caviar has meant status, wealth, prestige, and sex appeal. Today it sells for up to $100 an ounce, and aficionados will go to extraordinary lengths to get their fill of it. That's just the problem. Here, Carey immerses himself in the world of sturgeon, the fish that lays these golden eggs. Ancient, shrouded in mystery, inexplicable in several of...
The Whole Duty of a Woman, Or, an Infallible Guide to the Fair Sex
by Anonymous
RECIPES from our Home to your Home
by Kenneth Ray Allen and St Mary's Home-School Assn
Composition Notebook (Cute Notebooks for School Girls and Boys, #38)
by Majestical Notebook
