From Tea Cakes to Tamales (Clayton Wheat Williams Texas Life)
by Nola McKey
Join Nola McKey, former editor at Texas Highways, on a journey through Texas history-through food! In this collection of morethan one hundred recipes, Texans share the dishes they inheritedfrom their ancestors and the family stories and traditionsthat accompany them. With a strong focus on Texas' culturaldiversity-featuring Polish cheese pie, Czech sauerkraut, Chinesefried rice, Mexican caldo, Italian pizzelle, African American purple hull peas, and German egg noodles-McKey documents theculinary...
While some cities owe their existence to lumber or oil, turpentine or steel, Kansas City owes its existence to food. From its earliest days, Kansas City was in the business of provisioning pioneers and traders headed west, and later with provisioning the nation with meat and wheat. Throughout its history, thousands of Kansas Citians have also made their living providing meals and hospitality to travelers passing through on their way elsewhere, be it by way of a steamboat, Conestoga wagon, train,...
One of the greatest leaders in Romanian history, Mircea the Old comes to life in this new book. Although his grandson, Vlad the Impaler, has acquired much greater international fame, Mircea the Old was the most significant ruler to sit on the throne of the small principality of Wallachia during the Middle Ages. To understand the historical Dracula, it is essential to comprehend the life and times of Mircea the Old, who, during his long reign from 1386 to 1418, consolidated the political and admi...
From the earliest evidence of fermented grapes in 5000 BC, to the popping of corks at the start of the year 2000, wine in its various forms has always been more than just a drink. Throughout its heady and volatile history it has aroused extraordinary passions: as a gift from God or a curse from Satan; as a marker of social sophistication or drunken revelry; in religious ritual and in sexual seduction; as a healthy tonic and something that can kill. Rod phillips distills the rich, often fruity st...
Making Craft Beer at Home (Shire Library USA, #811)
by Gretchen Schmidhausler
Craft beer has in recent years seen an unprecedented surge in popularity across the United States and Canada. Tired of mass-produced beers, drinkers have gravitated toward handcrafted, small-batch and often local beers and many devotees have even begun to brew their own. This comprehensive book, written by an experienced craft brewer, provides background, discusses the ingredients employed, explains what equipment is required and details the step-by-step "how-to" of the brewing process. A perfec...
Little House on the Prairie Museum's Prairie Recipes and Kitchen Antiques
by Kristin Schodorf
Chef! 20 Great British Chefs, 100 Great British Recipes
by James Winter and James Bulmer
With 100 recipes from 20 of the the best British chefs at work today, James Winter has assembled a landmark cookery book. The rich diversity of talent from all over Great Britain includes many household names as well as a few less familiar to the public at large, though brilliant none the less. Featured chefs amongst the stellar group include Michael Caines, Mark Hix, Marcus Wearing, Fergus Henderson, Atul Kochhar, Theo Randall, Rowley Leigh, Matt Tebbutt and Nathan Outlaw.