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Jewish Studies
Kosher Baker Over 160 Dairy-free Recipes from Traditional to Trendy
Shoyer Paula
ISBN: HB: 9781584658351, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, August 2010
348 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Producing flavorful and appealing kosher desserts has been a challenge in Jewish households throughout the ages. Without access to butter, cream, milk, cheese, yogurt, or other dairy products, creating a tasty and memorable dessert for family and fri...
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Cultural Studies
Italian Way Food and Social Life
Harper Douglas, Faccioli Patrizia
ISBN: HB: 9780226317243, University of Chicago Press, February 2010
320 pp., 25.4x18.5 cm, 160 halftones
Outside of Italy, the country's culture and its food appear to be essentially synonymous. And indeed, as "The Italian Way" makes clear, preparing, cooking, and eating food play a central role in the daily activities of Italians from all walks of life...
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Cultural Studies
Citrus A History
Laszlo Pierre
ISBN: PB: 9780226470283, ISBN: HB: 9780226470269, University of Chicago Press, October 2008
262 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 colour illus.
Walk into your local grocery store and down the produce aisle, and you'll find a dazzling array of citrus, from navel oranges and clementines to grapefruit and key limes – and sometimes even more exotic fare like the Japanese yuzu or the baboon lemon...
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Cultural Studies
Pasta and Pizza
La Cecla Franco
ISBN: PB: 9780979405716, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, November 2007
120 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm
Pasta and pizza, in all their infinitely delicious and universally appealing varieties, are inextricably connected to Italian identity. These familiar foods not only represent Italy's culinary traditions, according to anthropologist Franco La Cecla,...
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Cultural Studies
Accounting for Taste The Triumph of French Cuisine
Parkhurst Ferguson Priscilla
ISBN: PB: 9780226243245, ISBN: HB: 9780226243238, University of Chicago Press, December 2006
262 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones, 13 line illus.
French cuisine is such a staple in our understanding of fine food that we forget the accidents of history that led to its creation".Accounting for Taste" brings these "accidents" to the surface, illuminating the magic of French cuisine and the myster...
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Cultural Studies
Fashionable Food Seven Decades of Food Fads
Lovegren Sylvia
ISBN: PB: 9780226494074, University of Chicago Press, June 2005
464 pp., 22.8x18 cm, 35 halftones, 7 line illus.
Though the Roaring Twenties call to mind images of flappers dancing the Charleston and gangsters dispensing moonshine in back rooms, Sylvia Lovegren here playfully reminds us what these characters ate for dinner: Banana and Popcorn Salad. Like fashio...
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Cultural Studies
Eater's Guide to Chinese Characters
McCawley James D.
ISBN: PB: 9780226555928, University of Chicago Press, May 2004
254 pp., 20.3x13 cm, 23 menus in Chinese
Lauded by Calvin Trillin as a man who "does not have to make to with translations like 'Shredded Three Kinds' in Chinese restaurants", in "The Eater's Guide to Chinese Characters", James D. McCawley offers everyone a guide to deciphering the mysterie...
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Cultural Studies
Medieval Kitchen Recipes from France and Italy
Redon Odile, Sabban Francoise, Serventi Silvano
ISBN: PB: 9780226706856, University of Chicago Press, April 2000
304 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 12 colour plates, numerous line illus.
"The Medieval Kitchen" is a delightful work in which historians Odile Redon, Francoise Sabban, and Silvano Serventi rescue from dark obscurity the glorious cuisine of the Middle Ages. Medieval gastronomy turns out to have been superb – a wonderful me...
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