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Cabbage : A Global History by Meg Muckenhoupt
$24.99 AUD
Category: Food & Cooking | Series: Edible Ser.
Cabbage has as many faces as it does leafy furbelows. How could a vegetable be so beloved, so universal, and at the same time so disdained? One of the oldest crops in the world, cabbage has for millennia provided European and Asian peoples with vitamins A and C . . . and babies--a belief lent credence b ...Show more
Cake : A Global History by Nicola Humble
$24.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Edible
What birthday, wedding, bar mitzvah or children's party would be complete without a cake? In nutritional terms cake is completely unnecessary, and yet it plays a crucial role in celebrations and rituals within the majority of cultures around the world. Despite being such a popular foodstuff, however, ca ...Show more
Caviar : A Global History by Nichola Fletcher
$24.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Edible | Reading Level: General Adult
Caviar: piquant, luxurious, and decadent, it is renowned the world over as an iconic delicacy. "Caviar: A Global History" looks back to the food's indulgent heyday, as well as relating its effect on the lives of the people who pursue, trade, and consume it today. Renowned food writer and critic Nichola ...Show more
Cheese : A Global History by Andrew Dalby
$24.95 AUD
Category: Food & Cooking | Series: Edible
If you ever wondered how cheese was invented - and where, and when, and even why - then "Cheese" is the book for you. If you ever guessed that Roquefort, Cheshire and Gorgonzola might not be quite as ancient as their publicists claim, this book will confirm your guess. Until now there has been no global ...Show more
Chillies : A Global History by Heather Arndt Anderson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Food & Cooking | Series: Edible
Despite their fearsome reputation, chillies have helped to shape the identities of innumerable world cuisines. Chillies traces the culinary journey of the spice and uncovers cultural and spiritual links between chillies and humans, from their use as an aphrodisiac, to the recent discovery that chilli he ...Show more
Coconut - A Global History by Constance L. Kirker; Mary Newman
$27.99 AUD
Category: Food & Cooking | Series: Edible Ser.
From curries to creamy piña coladas, a delectable global history of the many culinary incarnations of the coconut. The flavor and image of the coconut are universally recognizable, conjuring up sweet, exotic pleasures. Called the "Swiss army knife" of the plant world, the versatile coconut can be an ...Show more
Cod - A Global History by Elisabeth Townsend
$27.99 AUD
Category: Food & Cooking | Series: Edible Ser.
From Viking fisheries to Portuguese bacalao and beyond, a delectable and informative journey through cod fact, cuisine, and lore. This is the first culinary history of a truly remarkable fish. Elisabeth Townsend follows cod around the globe, showing how its pursuit began with the Vikings, and explorin ...Show more
Curry : A Global History by Colleen Taylor Sen
$24.95 AUD
Category: Food & Cooking | Series: Edible
'Curry' is one of the most widely used - and misused - terms in the culinary lexicon. Rarely used by Indians to describe their food, the word has become a catchall for any Indian dish, or Indian food in general. "Curry: A Global History" answers the elusive question 'What is curry?' by giving a lively h ...Show more
Doughnut: A Global History by Heather DeLancey Hunwick
$24.99 AUD
Category: Food & Cooking | Series: Edible
Doughnuts, those deep-fried pieces of dough, have powerful associations with nostalgia, irreverence and playfulness. Treasured around the world, they are known by many names including loukoumades, ponchiki, beignets and oliebollen. Doughnut: A Global History takes the reader on a fast-paced journey thro ...Show more
Edible Insects: A Global History by Gina Louise Hunter
$27.99 AUD
Category: Food & Cooking | Series: Edible Ser.
From grasshoppers to grubs, an eye-opening look at insect cuisine around the world. An estimated two billion people worldwide regularly consume insects, yet bugs are rarely eaten in the West. Why are some disgusted at the thought of eating insects while others find them delicious? Edible Insects: A ...Show more
Fats : A Global History by Phillipov, Michelle
$24.99 AUD
Category: Food & Cooking | Series: Edible Ser.
Description: No other food is as nutritionally crucial, symbolically important or controversial as fat. Butter, oil, tallow, lard, schmaltz - culinary fats have not only shaped world cuisines, they are themselves steeped in cultural and symbolic meanings. From Paleolithic times to contemporary popular c ...Show more
Gin: A Global History by Lesley Jacobs Solmonson
$27.00 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: Edible
Mother's Milk or Blue Ruin, Dutch Courage or Cuckold's Comfort - the fanciful nicknames that gin has acquired only hint at its colourful story. The story begins with the aromatic juniper berry originally used by the Dutch to flavour the whisky-like genever. The drink then made its way to Britain, where ...Show more