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.Taste of Australia: New Ideas and Recipes from an Australian Restaurant
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by: Victoria Alexander, Genevieve Harris

November 21, 1995
Despite being in dark, rainy England, I use the Bathers book from time to time. Worth having on the shelf. If you want something newer, get Neil Perry's 'The Food I Love' and if you have lots of cash, get both!
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.La Varenne's Cookery: The French Cook, the French Pastry Chef, the French Confectioner
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by: Francois Pierre de la Varenne

February 22, 2006
Despite being in dark, rainy England, I use the Bathers book from time to time. Worth having on the shelf. If you want something newer, get Neil Perry's 'The Food I Love' and if you have lots of cash, get both!
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.The True History of Chocolate
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by: Sophie D. Coe, Michael D. Coe

2003-05
After a flashy title and promising prologue, the book is not at all as scientific as the author pretends. It is too anti-spanish biased and often misses the point. It is not a book that gives a clear and cronologically correct picture of the real history of chocolate.It lacks many historical facts and fails to portrait how Cacao really got to Africa, Cortes' involvement in the early trade, it gives a very shallow picture of dirnking chocolate in Spain, makes some unbeliavable statements when it comes to etimology, etc. He spends too many lines developing his hatred against the spanish and also forgets about the portuguese and the industry they developed around cacao.

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.Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front, 1939-45
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by: Raynes Minns

November 04, 1999
I'm delighted with this book. Well written. Would recommend it to anyone interested in this period of Britain's history or womens history/studies. Other books often skim the surface but this has so much more detail and depth.
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.Beans: A History
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by: Ken Albala

September 01, 2007
I'm delighted with this book. Well written. Would recommend it to anyone interested in this period of Britain's history or womens history/studies. Other books often skim the surface but this has so much more detail and depth.
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.Port and the Douro (Mitchell Beazley Classic Wine Library)
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by: Richard Mayson

November 18, 2004
Well written and enjoyable to read. A very thorough guide to the history of region, the styles of Port and the producers. If you want to know about Port, this is the book to read.
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.The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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by: Michael Pollan

August 28, 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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.The Wolfgang Puck Cookbook: Recipes from Spago, Chinois, and Points East and West
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by: Wolfgang Puck

1995-10
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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.Medieval Arab Cookery
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by: Maxime Rodinson, A.J. Arberry, Charles Perry

December 01, 1998
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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.Food and Feast in Medieval England (Food & Feasts) (Food & Feasts)
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by: P.W. Hammond

March 24, 2005
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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