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  • The Breakfast Book

    by Andrew Dalby ...
    The most important meal of the day is also one of the most diverse. Breakfast varies greatly from family to family and region to region, even while individuals tend to eat the same thing every day. While Americans traditionally like to start the day with eggs, cereal and doughnuts, the Japanese eat rice and miso soup, and the Yoruba enjoy maize porridge and beans. But while we know that you drink ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Eleftherios Venizelos

    Greece

    by Andrew Dalby ...
    Series series Makers of the Modern World
    The Greek Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos (1864–1936) was one of the stars of the Paris Peace Conference, impressing many of the Western delegates, already possessed of a romantic view of 'the grandeur that was Greece', with his charm and oratorical style. He won support for his country's territorial ambitions in Asia Minor, the 'Great Idea' of a revived Hellenic empire controlling the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Cheese

    A Global History

    by Andrew Dalby ...
    Series Book 7 - Edible
    Cheese is one of the most ancient of civilized foods and one of the most nourishing. Despite its many uses and variations, there has never been a global history of cheese, but here at last is a succinct, authoritative account, revealing how cheese was invented and where, when and even why.In bite-sized chapters well-known food historian Andrew Dalby tells the true and savoury story of cheese, from ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Prince Charoon et al

    South East Asia

    by Andrew Dalby ...
    Series series Makers of the Modern World
    Southeast Asia needs to be dealt with as a whole, because, although the one national delegation from the region (Siam) took a minor part, nationalist movements in several Southeast Asian countries reached an early climax - significant though inconclusive - in the years 1919-1920. The planned Peace Conference, Wilson's Fourteen Points, and the victory of Communism in Russia, all contributed to this ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Gifts of the Gods

    A History of Food in Greece

    by Andrew Dalby, Rachel Dalby ...
    Series series Foods and Nations
    What do we think about when we think of Greek food? For many, it is the meze and traditional plates of a typical Greek island taverna from summer holidays or from Greek restaurants at home. This book takes us into and beyond the taverna to offer us a unique, comprehensive history of the foods of Greece.Andrew and Rachel Dalby discuss how the land was first settled, what was grown, and how certain ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • A Cultural History of Plants in the Early Modern Era

    Edited by Andrew Dalby, Annette Giesecke ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    A Cultural History of Plants in the Early Modern Era covers the period from 1400 to 1650, a time of discovery and rediscovery, of experiment and innovation. Renaissance learning brought ancient knowledge to modern European consciousness whilst exploration placed all the continents in contact with one another. The dissemination of knowledge was further speeded by the spread of printing. New staples ... Read more

    $81.79 USD

  • Cato on Farming

    De Agriculture

    by Marcus Cato ...
    Translated by Andrew Dalby ...
    The first recipes to have survived in Latin, from the 2nd century BC, it is a particularly important resource. Cato wrote the earliest surviving complete work of Latin prose literature. It was this treatise: a book of instruction about the cultivation of vines, olives and fruit, the management of slaves and contract labour, the rituals consequent on ownership and even cookery for humans and the ... Read more

    $15.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Book of Tea

    Beauty, Simplicity and the Zen Aesthetic

    by Okakura Kakuzo ...
    "Transcending the narrow confines of its title, presents a unified concept of life, art and nature. Along the way exploring topics related to tea appreciation, including Zen, flower arranging and Taoism. An early cultural activist, Okakura's mission was to preserve Japanese art and aesthetic practices from an extinction that seemed imminent." —The Japan TimesNow in paperback with a new foreword ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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    A History in Recipes and Photos

    by Robb Walsh ...
    Join Texas food writer Robb Walsh on a grand tour complete with larger-than-life characters, colorful yarns, rare archival photographs, and a savory assortment of more than 100 recipes for crispy, crunchy Tex-Mex foods.From the Mexican pioneers of the sixteenth century, who first brought horses and cattle to Texas, to the Spanish mission era when cumin and garlic were introduced, to the 1890s when ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Zen Culture

    by Thomas Hoover ...
    Anyone who examines the Zen arts is immediately struck by how modern they seem. The ceramics of 16th-century Zen artists could be interchanged with the rugged pots of our own contemporary crafts movement; ancient calligraphies suggest the monochromes of Franz Kline or Willem de Kooning; the apparent nonsense and illogic of Zen parables (and No theater and Haiku poetry) established the limitations ... Read more

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  • Essays in Idleness

    and Hojoki

    Translated by Meredith McKinney ...
    by Kamo no Chomei, Kenko ...
    These two works on life's fleeting pleasures are by Buddhist monks from medieval Japan, but each shows a different world-view. In the short memoir Hôjôki, Chômei recounts his decision to withdraw from worldly affairs and live as a hermit in a tiny hut in the mountains, contemplating the impermanence of human existence. Kenko, however, displays a fascination with more earthy matters in his ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Life Of Buddha And Its Lessons (Mobi Classics)

    by Henry Steel Olcott ...
    This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, Nook, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including eReaders, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus