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In the city where dining is a sport, a gourmand swears off restaurants (even takeout!) for two years, rediscovering the economical, gastronomical joy of home cooking Gourmand-ista Cathy Erway's timely memoir of quitting restaurants cold turkey speaks to a new era of conscientious eating. An underpaid, twenty-something executive assistant in New York City, she was struggling to make ends meet when she decided to embark on a Walden- esque retreat from the high-priced eateries that drained her wallet. Though she was living in the nation's culinary capital, she decided to swear off all restaurant food. The Art of Eating In chronicles the delectable results of her twenty-four-month experiment, wi...
Using National Trust resources and information, this book provides a social history of food, from medieval times to the 20th century - what food was available, where it came from, how it was prepared, served and taken. It contains 90 historical recipes and their modern adaptations.
Malaguzzi's work describes the significance of food and feasts through the ages and discusses how artists have created allegories of gluttony and odes to the sense of taste, using, for example, artfully positioned fruits and vegetables in the still-life genre in painting.
The Taste of Art offers a sample of scholarly essays that examine the role of food in Western contemporary art practices. The contributors are scholars from a range of disciplines, including art history, philosophy, film studies, and history. As a whole, the volume illustrates how artists engage with food as matter and process in order to explore alternative aesthetic strategies and indicate countercultural shifts in society. The collection opens by exploring the theoretical intersections of art and food, food art’s historical root in Futurism, and the ways in which food carries gendered meaning in popular film. Subsequent sections analyze the ways in which artists challenge mainstream ide...
This contains the author's five most popular books - "Consider the Oyster", "The Gastronomical Me", "Serve it Forth", "How to Cook a Wolf", and "An Alphabet for Gourmets". The volume contains an array of thoughts, memories and recipes.
A collection of 100 vegetarian recipes for the home cook that celebrates the communal spirit of cooking from the kitchen of internationally renowned artist Olafur Eliasson - who gathers his studio together every day for lunch to fuel the creative process. Beyond inspiration for shared meals, this book offers a glimpse into the work of his studio kitchen and its many visitors over the years. This is a wonderful book to sit with, page through, and be inspired by. It is also a book that chronicles the very real culinary experiences that take place in Olafur's studio on a daily basis. It is full of approachable recipes to make delicious, local, and seasonal food - whether for yourself, your family, a school, or even a ninety-person studio. Olafur implores us all do so, helping us to come back to our senses. Alice Waters.
Drawing on extensive research and recently discovered sources, this ambitious biography of Salvador Dali traces the infamous artist's life from childhood to death, revealing his outlandish personality, paranoia, and sexual torment.
The bestselling cookbook from Hemsley + Hemsley, including recipes from Jasmine and Melissa's Channel 4 series Eating Well with Hemsley + Hemsley. The Art of Eating Well is a revolutionary cookbook that will help anyone who wishes to feel better, lose weight or have more energy. Jasmine and Melissa Hemsley teach their principles of life-long healthy eating with exciting and inventive recipes that are so delicious you forget the purpose is good health and nourishment. Jasmine and Melissaâe(tm)s philosophy is simple: a healthy gut leads to a healthy body and mind, and a better, happier you; that changing the way you eat doesnâe(tm)t have to involve deprivation, but can be enjoyed everyday - ...
It's true that 'we eat with our eyes'. This book provides a toolkit straight from the world of professional food styling, and it promises to change the way you cook for ever. The recipes in The New Art of Cooking include all the little preparation, cooking, arranging and serving details that make a difference to the end result: you'll pick up tips that can be applied to the rest of your repertoire. Recipes include beetroot soup with hazelnut cream; red pepper gazpacho; shredded slaw with turmeric and tahini dressing; bittersweet seasonal salad; pork with shaken rhubarb; fancy puff-pastry fish pie; raspberry chocolate mousse with honeycomb crunch; brioche and custard pudding; and strawberries and cream ice lollies. From simple workday suppers to indulgent feasts for friends and family, this is an approach that satisfies all the senses. Not only will your cooking look better than ever, it will taste wonderful too"--Provided by publisher
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