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The ultimate reference book for home cooks, seasoned chefs, and everyone in between, The Encyclopedia of Kitchen Tools guides readers through the history, practical uses, design features, and storage and maintenance requirements of each of the tools living in their kitchen cabinets. Whether you're a home cook pondering the difference between a cookie sheet and a baking pan (one of life's great questions), or a professional chef wondering whether you should sharpen your knives with a whetstone, a honing rod, or an electric sharpener, The Encyclopedia of Kitchen Tools has the answers you're looking for. Ranging from knives and spatulas, ladles and tongs, to Dutch ovens and crock pots, citrus r...
Guild of Food Writer’s Awards, Highly Commended in ‘First Book’ category (2022) Tools For Food explores the history of 250 of our most-loved and intriguing kitchen items and how they've changed the way we live. From 12th century Mongolian fire pots, to 17th century Chinese scissors, from beloved Tupperware food containers to the iconic Alessi lemon squeezer, this culinary journey covers well-loved items, as well as lesser known objects. From primitive tools to high-end objects conceived by brands such as Le Creuset, Joseph Joseph, IKEA, Tala, Rosti, Pyrex, Oxo Good Grips, Droog, Staub and many more, the reader will be taken on a journey around the globe, exploring how and what we cook has changed over the centuries, showing similarities and diversity across times and cultures. From basic necessities to design objects, each image is accompanied by a text detailing its origin, as well as interesting facts about its relationship between culture and cooking.
A fabulous book for all "foodies," this small and unusual gift book offers the histories of 375 American utensils. Presented by categories--serving dishes, fireplace tools, lighting, cooking utensils, cutlery, drinking vessels, and measures--each listing includes a concise narrative of the utensils' origins, migrations to America, names, spellings, and uses from the early middle ages to the late 19th century. Filled with illustrations and amusing vignettes, Kitchen Utensils is a must-have for every food-history lover's bookshelf.
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Keep your spirits up—and on hand! Whether it's an evening out or a party in, keep it classy everywhere you go with this stainless steel flask, perfect for all your favorite spirits and boozy concoctions. Includes a funnel for easy filling. • 8 oz./240 ml stainless steel flask with satin gold finish and screw-off lid + stainless steel funnel • Elegant calligraphy and humorous profanity makes this flask perfect for anyone who loves curse words, fancy handwriting, and/or novelty drinkware. • Buy it for a friend or family member who has a habit of swearing; also makes a distinctive gift for friend groups, groomsmen, or bridesmaids. Linus Boman is the London-based graphic designer behind Calligraphuck. Calligraphuck started as a crowd-funded passion project that combined Linus's lifelong love of elegant letterforms and salty language. The line ranges from notecards and journals to coasters and tea towels for any sweary occasion.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors wish to thank all those manufaeturers and designers who answered queries and I:MACHINES AND searehed through thei r areh ives, the supportive and professional APPLIANCES 23 staff at Conran Octopus and Si r Terence Conran for his personal interest and guidance. NOTE TO READER Names of objects and designers pnnted in roman or bald type denote that a photograph of the 2:UTENSllS AND obJeet or a biography of the designer can be found elsewhere in the book. GADGETS 35 3:POTS AND PANS 47 4:KETTlES AND COFFEEPOTS 57 BIOGRAPHIES 72 INDEX 80 6 KITCHENWARE THE SPECIALIZED WORLD OF THE KITCHEN Ever since orchoeologists found 0 frYlng pan amid the ruins of Pompeii, the utensi...
Presenting Japanese cooking utensils that are functional and artistic, this book treats them as both works of art and items of practical interest. The text, by a long-time columnist on Tokyo dining and entertaining, presents the history, the usage, and the people behind these tools, in brief entries. Japanese cuisine is flourishing among the food-conscious all over the world, as are the cookbooks featuring recipes from a wide variety of styles. Now, Cool Tools' goes deep inside the kitchen, into the cupboards and the drawers, to the stove tops and wall hangers where a variety of'