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What do beer, cheese, yogurt, bacon, sauerkraut, miso and jam have in common? They are all preserved foods, and come from a culinary need as old as human civilization itself: the problem of alternating food scarcity and seasonal overabundance. Can It! celebrates the miracle of preservation, which has done so much to create the diversity ...
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The Geographic South Pole is a place of paradox. It is a point around which the Earth, quite literally, pivots; yet it has a habit of falling off the edge of our maps. An invisible spot on a high, featureless ice plateau, the Pole has no obvious material value, but is nonetheless a much sought-after ...
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Phillips, Michael W., Jr. / Zorach, Rebecca
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ISBN 978-1-78023-578-3
EAN 9781780235783
Ernest Hemingway has enjoyed a rich legacy as the progenitor of modern fiction, as an outsized character in literary lore who wrote some of the most honest and moving accounts of the twentieth century, set against such grand backdrops as the bullrings of Spain, the savannahs of Africa, and the rivers and lakes of the ...
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ISBN 978-1-78023-586-8
EAN 9781780235868
This elegantly written book describes the evolving perception and experience of the night in three great European cities: Paris, Berlin, and London. As Joachim Schlör shows, the lighting up of the European city by gas and electricity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries brought about a new relationship with the night for both those ...
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A Philosophy of Tragedy explores the tragic condition of man in modernity. Nietzsche knew it, but so have countless characters in literature: that the modern age places us squarely before the reflection of our own tragic condition, our existence characterized by utmost contingency, homelessness, instability, unredeemed suffering, and broken morality.Christopher Hamilton examines the works of ...
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ISBN 978-1-78023-598-1
EAN 9781780235981
As with the compass needle, so people have always been most powerfully attracted northwards; everyone carries within them their own concept of north. "The Idea of North" is a study, ranging widely in time and place, of some of the ways in which these ideas have found expression. Peter Davidson explores the topography of north ...
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ISBN 978-1-78023-574-5
EAN 9781780235745
Fast food is the most pervasive culinary trend of our time. It is an industry that has changed the way the world eats, as the model works virtually everywhere. At its heart are large multinational chains, running an estimated one million outlets in virtually every corner of the world, serving hundreds of millions of people ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 37,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78023-174-7
EAN 9781780231747
Food has always been a favourite subject of the world's artists, from still-lifes by Matisse and Picasso to the works of Claes Oldenberg and Andy Warhol. But how do artists eat? The Modern Art Cookbook provides a window into how both great and lesser-known modern artists, writers and poets ate, cooked, depicted and wrote about ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-86189-924-8
EAN 9781861899248
Mother's Milk or Blue Ruin, Dutch Courage or Cuckold's Comfort - the fanciful nicknames that gin has acquired only hint at its colourful story. The story begins with the aromatic juniper berry originally used by the Dutch to flavour the whisky-like genever. The drink then made its way to Britain, where cheap imitations laced with ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-86189-926-2
EAN 9781861899262
What did Charles Dickens savour in punch, Thomas Jefferson eat in omelettes, Queen Victoria sip in navy grog, and the Kamehameha Kings of Hawaii drink straight? What helped spark the American Revolution, was used as currency in Australia, was targeted by the Temperance Movement, and is still a sacramental offering among voodoo worshippers? The answer ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-86189-929-3
EAN 9781861899293
A tasteless, odourless and colourless liquid, vodka is the most versatile of spirits. It can be transformed into a classic cocktail; turned into a refreshing drink when combined with fruit juice, tonic water, or ginger beer; or is a powerful beverage in its own right, taken neat and swallowed in one gulp, Russian style. Vodka ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 160 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-86189-854-8
EAN 9781861898548
What food is more basic, more essential and more universal than bread? Common to the diets of both rich and poor, bread is one of our oldest foods. Loaves and rolls have been found in ancient Egyptian tombs, and excavated from ovens in Pompeii that were buried when Vesuvius erupted in AD 79. From the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 136 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-86189-857-9
EAN 9781861898579
From the smash of a bottle on the side of a new ship to the pop of a cork at a party, champagne signals celebration, fun and camaraderie. Bubbly, as we affectionately call sparkling wine, is a symbol of luxury and decadence and the preferred drink for any important toast. Champagne reveals the history of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-86189-868-5
EAN 9781861898685
Olives are at once a mythical food - bringing to mind scenes from Ancient Rome and the Bible - and an everyday one, given the ubiquity of olive oil in contemporary diets. In this original, succinct and engaging history Fabrizia Lanza traces the olive's roots from antiquity, when olive oil was exalted for ritual purposes ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 19,45 €
ISBN 978-1-86189-831-9
EAN 9781861898319
In A History of Diplomacy, historian Jeremy Black challenges the conventional account of the development of diplomacy, devoting more attention to non-Western traditions and to the medieval West than is usually the case. By the nineteenth century a system of diplomacy was increasingly formalized. Black charts the course and evolution of diplomacy' in all its ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-86189-799-2
EAN 9781861897992
From its obscure Pre-Columbian beginnings in South America to its global popularity today, the story of the potato is one of rags to riches. In Potato, esteemed culinary historian Andrew F. Smith reveals the captivating story of a once lowly vegetable that has changed - and continues to change - the world.First domesticated by prehistoric ...
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