Pickled, Potted, and Canned
Author: Sue Shephard
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2006-07-03
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 0743255534
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplains how the development of food preservation techniques changed world history.
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Pickled, Potted and Canned
Author: Sue Shephard
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780747262077
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeeds of Fortune
Author: Sue Shephard
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2012-11-05
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 1408837749
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor over a century, and across five generations, the Veitch family pioneered the introduction of hundreds of new plants into gardens, conservatories and houses and were amongst the foremost European cultivators and hybridisers of their day. The story begins in 1768 when a Scotsman called John Veitch came to England to find his fortune, starting out as a gardener for the aristocracy. Realising that horticultural mania had begun to spread throughout the social classes, John's son, James, opened a nursery in Exeter and began to send some of the first commercial plant collectors into the Americas, Australia, India, Japan, China and the South Seas. By the beginning of the twentieth century, the Veitch's had become key figures within the gardening establishment, involved with the Royal Horticultural Society from its beginnings and the great Chelsea Flower Show. Combining an historian's eye for detail with a flair for storytelling, Shephard charts the fortunes of one family and through them tells the fascinating story of the modern English garden.
Canned
Author: Anna Zeide
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2018-03-06
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 0520964756
DOWNLOAD EBOOK2019 James Beard Foundation Book Award winner: Reference, History, and Scholarship A century and a half ago, when the food industry was first taking root, few consumers trusted packaged foods. Americans had just begun to shift away from eating foods that they grew themselves or purchased from neighbors. With the advent of canning, consumers were introduced to foods produced by unknown hands and packed in corrodible metal that seemed to defy the laws of nature by resisting decay. Since that unpromising beginning, the American food supply has undergone a revolution, moving away from a system based on fresh, locally grown goods to one dominated by packaged foods. How did this come to be? How did we learn to trust that food preserved within an opaque can was safe and desirable to eat? Anna Zeide reveals the answers through the story of the canning industry, taking us on a journey to understand how food industry leaders leveraged the powers of science, marketing, and politics to win over a reluctant public, even as consumers resisted at every turn.
Leftovers
Author: Eleanor Barnett
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2024-03-14
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 1803281553
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA topical and richly entertaining history of food preservation and food waste in Britain from the sixteenth-century kitchen to the present day. In Leftovers, Eleanor Barnett explores the many ingenious ways in which our ancestors sought to extend the life of food through preservation, the culinary reuse of leftovers and the recycling of food scraps. Embracing a broad historical lens, the book spans Tudor household management; the world-changing inventions in food preservation of the Industrial Revolution from the tin can to artificial refrigeration; the growth of public health initiatives and organised food waste collection in the Victorian era; state promotion of thrifty eating during the two World Wars; and the politics of food and packaging waste in the modern era of sustainability. Opening a window on the everyday experiences of ordinary people in the past, Leftovers reveals how factors such as religious belief, class identities and gender have historically shaped attitudes towards food waste. At a time when a third of the food we produce globally is wasted, Leftovers links its central historical focus to humanitarian and environmental issues of urgent contemporary interest - including climate change, globalisation, scientific advancement, poverty and inequality.
The Rise of Western Power
Author: Jonathan Daly
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2013-12-19
Total Pages: 665
ISBN-13: 1441118519
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe West's history is one of extraordinary success; no other region, empire, culture, or civilization has left so powerful a mark upon the world. The Rise of Western Power charts the West's achievements-representative government, the free enterprise system, modern science, and the rule of law-as well as its misdeeds-two frighteningly destructive World Wars, the Holocaust, imperialistic domination, and the Atlantic slave trade. Adopting a global perspective, Jonathan Daly explores the contributions of other cultures and civilizations to the West's emergence. Historical, geographical, and cultural factors all unfold in the narrative. Adopting a thematic structure, the book traces the rise of Western power through a series of revolutions-social, political, technological, military, commercial, and industrial, among others. The result is a clear and engaging introduction to the history of Western civilization.
The Joy of Pickling
Author: Linda Ziedrich
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
Published: 2016-08-15
Total Pages: 483
ISBN-13: 155832870X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscover the tools and techniques you need for pickling success, with 300 recipes from kimchi to sauerkraut and even a peck of pickled peppers! Putting up pickles is a time-honored technique for preserving the harvest and getting the most out of fresh produce, whether you grow it yourself or purchase it at your local market. But pickling isn’t just about preserving: It’s a way to create mouthwatering condiments and side dishes that add endless variety and vibrant flavors to the table. Making these salty, sour, sweet, and tangy treats isn’t hard, as long as you have this authoritative and user-friendly volume to guide you. This new edition includes 50 brand-new recipes, many focused on the latest trend in pickling: fermentation. It also includes: An international range of pickles from American favorites to adventuresome ideas from Asia, the Middle East, and Europe Recipes for canned and put-up pickles as well as quick pickles for the fridge or freezer New techniques for preventing yeast and mold growths on fermented pickles Recipes for using pickled produce in chutneys, salsas, relishes, and more Expert safety guidance and tips From Lower East Side Full-Sour Dills to Cabbage and Radish Kimchi, Pickled Whole Watermelons to Quick Pickled Baby Corn, the 300 recipes in The Joy of Pickling make the harvest last, deliciously and freshly, all year round.
Germs in the English Workplace, c.1880–1945
Author: Laura Newman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-02-15
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 0429769180
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book looks at how the workplace was transformed through a greater awareness of the roles that germs played in English working lives from c.1880 to 1945. Cutting across a diverse array of occupational settings – such as the domestic kitchen, the milking shed, the factory, and the Post Office – it offers new perspectives on the history of the germ sciences. It brings to light the ways in which germ scientists sought to transform English working lives through new types of technical and educational interventions that sought to both eradicate and instrumentalise germs. It then asks how we can measure and judge the success of such interventions by tracing how workers responded to the potential applications of the germ sciences through their participation in friendly societies, trade unions, colleges, and volunteer organisations. Throughout the book, close attention is paid to reconstructing vernacular traditions of working with invisible life in order to better understand both the successes and failures of the germ sciences to transform the working practices and material conditions of different workplaces. The result is a more diverse history of the peoples, politics, and practices that went into shaping the germ sciences in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century England.
Food and World Culture [2 volumes]
Author: Linda S. Watts
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2022-08-23
Total Pages: 810
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book uses food as a lens through which to explore important matters of society and culture. In exploring why and how people eat around the globe, the text focuses on issues of health, conflict, struggle, contest, inequality, and power. Whether because of its necessity, pleasure, or ubiquity, the world of food (and its lore) proves endlessly fascinating to most people. The story of food is a narrative filled with both human striving and human suffering. However, many of today's diners are only dimly aware of the human price exacted for that comforting distance from the lived-world realities of food justice struggles. With attention to food issues ranging from local farming practices to global supply chains, this book examines how food’s history and geography remain inextricably linked to sociopolitical experiences of trauma connected with globalization, such as colonization, conquest, enslavement, and oppression. The main text is structured alphabetically around a set of 70 ingredients, from almonds to yeast. Each ingredient's story is accompanied by recipes. Along with the food profiles, the encyclopedia features sidebars. These are short discussions of topics of interest related to food, including automats, diners, victory gardens, and food at world’s fairs. This project also brings a social justice perspective to its content—weighing debates concerning food access, equity, insecurity, and politics.
Service as Mandate
Author: Alan I Marcus
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2015-12-31
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 0817318887
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCompleting a comprehensive history of America's land-grant universities begun in Science as Service, the thirteen original essays in Service as Mandate examine how these great institutions both changed and were changed by the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
