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  • At My Father's Knee: Chronicles of a Buckhorn Pioneer Family

    "The author has imbued this book with magic charms, making it an adventuresome voyage through a sometimes entertaining, sometimes alarming, always fascinating, unfamiliar lost world, almost too fantastic to be real, and peopled with as many interesting characters as Alice in Wonderland." ~ Bob Anthony, author of Novus Mirabilis"This book was born from the stories my father told me and my adventure ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pie

    A Global History

    Series Book 5 - Edible
    The pie, to quote one Victorian writer, is ‘a great human discovery which has universal estimation among all civilized eaters’. Pie explores the development of this most esteemed article of food, from the ancient pie, its crust inedible and used for preserving the contents, to its elevation as the highest expression of culinary art. The pie symbolizes family, celebration and ritual, and appears in ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Food History Almanac: Over 1,300 Years of World Culinary History, Culture, and Social Influence

    2 Volumes

    Series series
    The Food History Almanac covers 365 days of the year, with information and anecdotes relating to food history from around the world from medieval times to the present. The daily entries include such topics as celebrations; significant food-related moments in history from the fields of science and technology, exploration and discovery, travel, literature, hotel and restaurant history, and military ... Read more

    $275.99 USD

  • Soup

    A Global History

    Series Book 14 - Edible
    From the restorative powers of chicken soup on a sick day to the warmth of a bowl of chowder on a wintry night, there is no food quite as comforting and emblematic of home as soup. Soup, as Janet Clarkson tells us, is the first true culinary creation of humanity, and it has made a long journey from the prehistoric cave to the kitchen table and the white linens of Michelin-starred restaurants ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Raymond Collishaw and the Black Flight

    by Roger Gunn ...
    Ever wondered what it would be like to fly a biplane or triplane in the First World War? Raymond Collishaw and the Black Flight takes you to the Western Front during the Great War. Experience the risks of combat and the many close calls Collishaw had as a pilot, flight commander, and squadron leader. Understand the courage Collishaw and his fellow flyers faced every day they took to the air in ... Read more

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  • The American Way of Eating

    Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table

    The New York Times bestselling work of undercover journalism in the tradition of Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed that fully investigates our food system to explain what keeps Americans from eating well—and what we can do about it.When award-winning (and working-class) journalist Tracie McMillan saw foodies swooning over $9 organic tomatoes, she couldn’t help but wonder: What about the rest ... Read more

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  • The Meat Racket

    The Secret Takeover of America's Food Business

    An investigative journalist takes you inside the corporate meat industry—a shocking, in-depth report every American should read.How much do you know about the meat on your dinner plate? Journalist Christopher Leonard spent more than a decade covering the country’s biggest meat companies, including four years as the national agribusiness reporter for the Associated Press. Now he delivers the first ... Read more

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  • The Tea Enthusiast's Handbook

    A Guide to the World's Best Teas

    AROUND THE WORLD IN A TEACUPDid you know that tea is the most widely consumed beverage on the planet after water? Or that all of the world’s tea originates from only three varieties of a single plant? While a cup of tea may be a simple pleasure for most of us, there are a dizzying number of tastes from which to choose. And every tea, whether a delicately sweet green tea from Japan or a bracing, ... Read more

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  • Flowers in the Blood

    The Story of Opium

    by Jeff Goldberg ...
    The ultimate book on the incredible, and complex history of opium throughout the world.Flowers in the Blood lifts the veil of mystery that has surrounded opium down through the ages. Inside, discover:Why a three-thousand-year-old statue of a Greek goddess was crowned with poppiesThe formulas for Hippocrates’s ancient opium remediesWhy the Islamic councils of the wise vilified hashish but venerated ... Read more

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  • Fat-Back & Molasses

    Fat-back & Molasses is a collection of favourite old recipes from Newfoundland & Labrador. In addition to the homespun recipes, this book contains sketches and stories that also give a deep insight into the culture and life of a people very much in communion with nature and the joy of life. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Sunlight On The Garden

    A Family In Love, War And Madness

    In 1880, Ada Curtis bore Gerald Howard the first of several illegitimate children. Ada was a housemaid, the daughter of a Lincolnshire butcher. Gerald was her employer and the son of a once-grand family now obsessed with its own threadbare nobility. They thereby sent their descendants tumbling chaotically into the twentieth century. More than a century later, inspired by the stories, reinventions ... Read more

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