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.The Silver Spoon
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by: Various

October 14, 2005
My step father was an Italian restauranteur and had a copy of this same book in Italian throughout his career. He even had it rebound a few years back. During his life he ran a hotel in Rome and cooked for cardinals that came there from the vatican using recipes from the Silver spoon.

I was therefore thrilled when this came out in English and so far have bought 3 copies so that both my daughters have them for their homes. They use them daily. Not only is this the authentic cookery book for Italian food lovers it is amazingly economical, utilising seasonal fresh foods and not that many ingredients unlike so many newer recipes.

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.The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine
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by: Benjamin Wallace

August 29, 2008
Mr. Wallace has produced a great read that is interesting from a historical prospective while it harpoons the very wealthy whose pursuit of money is no longer satisfying. Nope, these folks have to pursue a type of collectable that they cannot have any provenance for, which experts in the field can only hope to guess at what the bottle contains. Wine that is a century younger than the bottle on the book cover might at best be "recognizable as wine", unless of course it has become an ingredient for salad dressing.

The central charlatan in this tale is a master at exploiting the wishes of collectors and even the experts that should know better. Or perhaps that do know better and just let their own egos persuade them that in spite of zero evidence the ... Read More:
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.Eating For Victory: Healthy Home Front Cooking on War Rations (Official Wwii Info Reproductns)
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by: Foreword by Jill Norman

September 06, 2007
If you are interested in domestic life during World War Two, this is the book for you. It is a fascinating collection of Ministry of Food "Food Facts" and recipes: including how to render fat and bottle tomatoes. A must for anyone who wants to try "Eating for Victory".


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.The American Diner Cookbook: More Than 450 Recipes and Nostalgia Galore
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by: Linda Everett, Elizabeth McKeon

2003-02
This is probably the best cookbook in my collection. I love food, especially American food, and everything that I've wanted to sample and never got the chance to, is in this book waiting for me to cook. I can't wait.
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.Kitchen Mysteries: Revealing the Science of Food (Arts & Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)
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by: Herve This

November 01, 2007
This is probably the best cookbook in my collection. I love food, especially American food, and everything that I've wanted to sample and never got the chance to, is in this book waiting for me to cook. I can't wait.
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.Wartime Recipes (Cookery) (Cookery)
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by: David Notley

October 26, 1998
A great recipe book if you are looking for recipes from a bygone age then i would recommend this book.When you make the recipes it gives you a true idea of what they really had to endure. Buy the book and make some of the recipes and I believe you wont be disappointed.
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.Sweet Memories
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by: Robert Opie

April 01, 2008
I first came across this book whilst browsing in my local library,and as soon as i looked into it, i just had to purchase my own copy!
Mr.Opie in his introduction tells us how a sweet wrapper that he was about to throw away when he was young shaped his life''s work and ambition resulting in the well known authority he is on advertising and packaging down through the years.
This book is useful as a history of various companies, some still going strong today, others just distant memories, as well as the usual full colour visual pictures of sweets, packaging, advertising, etc. from the past.
If one can truly say a book will delight both young and old , then this is it!
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.Honey from a Weed: Fasting and Feasting in Tuscany, Catalonia, the Cyclades and Apulia
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by: Patience Gray

December 20, 2001
This edition is the updated version with foreword from John Thorne and is interspersed with charming black and white illustrations, from Corinna Sargood.

And since Rick Stein mentioned it on his latest TV series, `Mediterranean Escapes', the few copies that were still available have flown out of Amazon and off the shelves of the second-hand bookshops!
Now it is getting rather hard to find!


`Patience Gray, known for her 1950's classic, `Plats du Jour', has written a passionate autobiographical cookery book, Mediterranean through and through, and as compelling as a first-class novel.
Sharing her life with a sculptor it was his appetite for marble and sedimentary rocks which took them to Tuscany, Catalonia, Naxos and Apulia. ... Read More:
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.The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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by: Michael Pollan

April 24, 2007
An elegantly and thoughtfully written book on the modern food industry that feeds us. Pollan demonstrates a refreshing openness, sharing how his journey through mass produced, organic, and hunter-gatherer food systems affects him without ever sinking into sentimentality - even when shooting a wild pig his insight into what it means to be a hunter is superb.

Without doubt one of the best books on food that I have ever read and one that will withstand the test of time, if for no other reason than the issues he covers of where our food comes from, how it is produced and what that might mean are as relevant today as they ever have been.
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.Spicing Up Britain: The Multicultural History of British Food: 0
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by: Panikos Panayi

March 01, 2008
An elegantly and thoughtfully written book on the modern food industry that feeds us. Pollan demonstrates a refreshing openness, sharing how his journey through mass produced, organic, and hunter-gatherer food systems affects him without ever sinking into sentimentality - even when shooting a wild pig his insight into what it means to be a hunter is superb.

Without doubt one of the best books on food that I have ever read and one that will withstand the test of time, if for no other reason than the issues he covers of where our food comes from, how it is produced and what that might mean are as relevant today as they ever have been.
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