A Decent Meal

A Decent Meal

Author: Michael Carolan

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2021-10-26

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1503629546

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A poignant look at empathetic encounters between staunch ideological rivals, all centered around our common need for food. While America's new reality appears to be a deeply divided body politic, many are wondering how we can or should move forward from here. Can political or social divisiveness be healed? Is empathy among people with very little ideological common ground possible? In A Decent Meal, Michael Carolan finds answers to these fundamental questions in a series of unexpected places: around our dinner tables, along the aisles of our supermarkets, and in the fields growing our fruits and vegetables. What is more common, after all, than the simple fact that we all need to eat? This book is the result of Carolan's career-long efforts to create simulations in which food could be used to build empathy, among even the staunchest of rivals. Though most people assume that presenting facts will sway the way the public behaves, time and again this assumption is proven wrong as we all selectively accept the facts that support our beliefs. Drawing on the data he has collected, Carolan argues that we must, instead, find places and practices where incivility—or worse, hate—is suspended and leverage those opportunities into tools for building social cohesion. Each chapter follows the individuals who participated in a given experiment, ranging from strawberry-picking, attempting to subsist on SNAP benefits, or attending a dinner of wild game. By engaging with participants before, during, and after, Carolan is able to document their remarkable shifts in attitude and opinion. Though this book is framed around food, it is really about the spaces opened up by our need for food, in our communities, in our homes, and, ultimately, in our minds.


A Good Meal Is Hard to Find

A Good Meal Is Hard to Find

Author: Amy C. Evans

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2020-04-28

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 1452175934

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A Good Meal Is Hard to Find is more than just a cookbook: it's a love letter to the women and food of the Deep South. With charming narratives, visual storytelling, and delectable recipes, A Good Meal Is Hard to Find is everything you've ever wanted in a Southern cookbook. Inside are 60 go-to recipes organized into five chapters—Morning's Glories, Lingering Lunches, Dinner Dates & Late-Night Takes, Afternoon Pick-Me-Ups, and Anytime Sweets. Written by award-winning cookbook author and Southern food expert Martha Hall Foose. • Each of the 60 recipes opens with a short vignette about a story about a unique Southern character. • Divided into five chapters from breakfast to dinner, with cocktails and desserts in between • Recipes paired with gorgeous, vintage-inspired oil paintings by Amy C. Evans Inspired by generations of storytelling and Southern comfort food, this genre-bending cookbook is a must-have for cookbook lovers, vintage collectors, and Southern cooking enthusiasts alike. Recipes include Francine's Strawberry-Glazed Doughnuts, Camille's Bridge Club Egg Salad, The Suzy B's Spinach and Mushroom Frito Pie, Stella's Harissa Gold Chicken, and Estelle's Butterscotch Pound Cake.• Master the art of traditional Southern cooking and soul food. • Perfect for fans of Poole's: Recipes and Stores from a Modern Diner by Ashley Christensen, Magnolia Table by Joanna Gaines, and Heritage by Sean Brock • A great cookbook for readers of Southern Living and Garden & Gun


What the F*@# Should I Make for Dinner?

What the F*@# Should I Make for Dinner?

Author: Zach Golden

Publisher: Running Press Adult

Published: 2011-09-27

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 0762441771

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Don’t know what to make for dinner? Is every evening an occasion for duress and deliberation? No more! What the F*@# Should I Make For Dinner? gets everyone off their a**es and in the kitchen. Derived from the incredibly popular website, whatthefuckshouldimakefordinner.com, the book functions like a "Choose your own adventure” cookbook, with options on each page for another f*@#ing idea for dinner. With 50 recipes to choose from, guided by affrontingly creative navigational prompts, both meat-eaters and vegetarians can get cooking and leave their indecisive selves behind.


A Man, A Can, A Plan

A Man, A Can, A Plan

Author: David Joachim

Publisher: Rodale Books

Published: 2002-06-17

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 1623360781

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A Man, A Can, A Plan, inspired by an article in the most popular mens magazine, Men's Health, is a cookbook that presents 50 simple, inexpensive recipes featuring ingredients guys have right in their cupboards--canned food. Great and healthy food can be had for a low price and minimum effort, and A Man, A Can, A Plan lays it all out, in pictorial, easy-to-follow steps, for the culinary-challenged. It features special sections on cooking for her and cooking for the morning after for dudes with a lady on their minds. Author David Joachim received the 1999 James Beard Award for Steven Raichlen's Healthy Latin Cooking, so he knows his stuff and makes it accessible to beginners and experienced guys as well. Get your can openers ready to rumble!


The Ultimate Meal-Prep Cookbook

The Ultimate Meal-Prep Cookbook

Author: America's Test Kitchen

Publisher: America's Test Kitchen

Published: 2021-03-02

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1948703580

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Turn meal prep aspirations into dinnertime reality 1 short shopping list gets you 5 weeknight meals Meal prep no longer means filling your freezer with boring casseroles, dipping into the same pot of beans every day for a week, or spending all day Sunday cooking. Instead, use these smart meal plans to customize fast, fresh dinners that fit your ever-changing schedule. We've done the work of building 25 weekly plans that minimize shopping and kitchen time and guide you through prep-ahead options, make-ahead options, and ingredient substitutions. So now you can reap the benefits to make your life easier, your grocery bill lower, and your dinners better. ATK's meal plan strategies are easy to put into practice: * Prep your vegetables and grains for the week in a weekend "power hour." * Prep bulk pantry ingredients ahead in a "pantry power hour" so they're ready to go in a flash. * Cross-utilize fresh ingredients creatively to prevent food waste and dinner boredom. * Make, store, and reheat full meals with no loss of flavor. * Double meals or meal components to freeze half for later. Let's-get-real features streamline your cooking: * Weekly grocery lists max out at a dozen items. * Active cooking time for recipes maxes out at 45 minutes. * Loads of pantry substitution suggestions let you adapt recipes according to what you have on hand. * To make planning even more flexible, we've added a chapter with 30 pantry meals that don't add anything to your weekly shopping list, making them perfect to prepare any night. With a grocery list of just 11 items and some on-hand pantry staples, you can enjoy a week of Crispy Chicken with Carrot, Orange, and Chickpea Salad; Meatballs and Lemon Orzo with Mint and Dill; Teriyaki Stir-Fried Beef with Green Beans; Herb-Poached Salmon with Cucumber-Dill Salad; and Sun-Dried Tomato and White Bean Soup with Parmesan Crisps. A thorough introduction explains how to build a strong, diverse pantry (and make the most of it), how to store prepped ingredients to keep them fresh, how to store cooked food safely, the smartest ways to reheat food, essential meal-prep equipment, and more.


Good Bite Weeknight Meals

Good Bite Weeknight Meals

Author: Good Bite

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2013-03-07

Total Pages: 453

ISBN-13: 0544186621

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Easy everyday recipes from America's favorite food bloggers One of the country's fastest growing cooking websites, Good Bite has a simple mission—to bring together the Internet's best food bloggers and give them a platform to showcase their favorite everyday recipes in short, entertaining videos. Now, Good Bite Weeknight Meals compiles 120 recipes for quick and delicious family dinners from the site's most popular contributors: Andrea’s Recipes – Andrea Meyers Weelicious – Catherine McCord Southern Plate – Christy Jordan White on Rice Couple – Diane Cu and Todd Porter Simply Recipes – Elise Bauer Steamy Kitchen – Jaden Hair Picky Palate – Jenny Flake Dinner with Julie – Julie Van Rosendaal Kath Eats – Kath Younger Our Best Bites – Kate Jones and Sara Wells Laura’s Best Recipes – Laura Levy Recipe Girl – Lori Lange No Recipes – Marc Matsumoto Coconut & Lime – Rachel Rappaport Gluten-Free Girl – Shauna James Ahern and Daniel Ahern Matt Bites – Matt Armendariz With mouthwatering full-color photographs from Matt Armendariz of Matt Bites and fully taste-tested recipes for any and every night, Good Bite Weeknight Meals offers inspiration and cooking wisdom to turn any dinner into a special occasion. One of the most popular food and cooking blogs on the Internet, Good Bite receives between 2 and 3 million visitors each month Includes contributions from the voices behind such popular blogs as Gluten-Free Girl, Picky Palate, Steamy Kitchen, and Simply Recipes Features 120 easy and delicious recipes


The Table Comes First

The Table Comes First

Author: Adam Gopnik

Publisher: Knopf Canada

Published: 2011-10-25

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 0307399036

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Transplanted Canadian, New Yorker writer and author of Paris to the Moon, Gopnik is publishing this major new work of narrative non-fiction alongside his 2011 Massey Lecture. An illuminating, beguiling tour of the morals and manners of our present food manias, in search of eating's deeper truths, asking "Where do we go from here?" Never before have so many North Americans cared so much about food. But much of our attention to it tends towards grim calculation (what protein is best? how much?); social preening ("I can always score the last reservation at xxxxx"); or graphic machismo ("watch me eat this now"). Gopnik shows we are not the first food fetishists but we are losing sight of a timeless truth, "the table comes first": what goes on around the table matters as much to life as what we put on the table: families come together (or break apart) over the table, conversations across the simplest or grandest board can change the world, pain and romance unfold around it--all this is more essential to our lives than the provenance of any zucchini or the road it travelled to reach us. Whatever dilemmas we may face as omnivores, how not what we eat ultimately defines our society. Gathering people and places drawn from a quarter century's reporting in North America and France, The Table Comes First marks the beginning a new conversation about the way we eat now.


The Domestic Geek's Meals Made Easy

The Domestic Geek's Meals Made Easy

Author: Sara Lynn Cauchon

Publisher: Harvest Publications

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1328525775

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The first cookbook from YouTube cooking show superstar Sara Lynn Cauchon, aka The Domestic Geek


The American Way of Eating

The American Way of Eating

Author: Tracie McMillan

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-02-21

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1439171955

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A journalist traces her 2009 immersion into the national food system to explore how working-class Americans can afford to eat as they should, describing how she worked as a farm laborer, Wal-Mart grocery clerk, and Applebee's expediter while living within the means of each job.


The Perfect Meal

The Perfect Meal

Author: Charles Spence

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2014-09-22

Total Pages: 453

ISBN-13: 1118490827

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The authors of The Perfect Meal examine all of the elements that contribute to the diners experience of a meal (primarily at a restaurant) and investigate how each of the diners senses contributes to their overall multisensory experience. The principal focus of the book is not on flavor perception, but on all of the non-food and beverage factors that have been shown to influence the diners overall experience. Examples are: the colour of the plate (visual) the shape of the glass (visual/tactile) the names used to describe the dishes (cognitive) the background music playing inside the restaurant (aural) Novel approaches to understanding the diners experience in the restaurant setting are explored from the perspectives of decision neuroscience, marketing, design, and psychology. 2015 Popular Science Prose Award Winner.