A South You Never Ate
A South You Never Ate

Author: Bernard L. Herman

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2019-08-20

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 1469653486

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Nestled between the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, and stretching from Hampton Roads to Assateague Island, Virginia's Eastern Shore is a distinctly southern place with an exceptionally southern taste. In this inviting narrative, Bernard L. Herman welcomes readers into the communities, stories, and flavors that season a land where the distance from tide to tide is often less than five miles. Blending personal observation, history, memories of harvests and feasts, and recipes, Herman tells of life along the Eastern Shore through the eyes of its growers, watermen, oyster and clam farmers, foragers, church cooks, restaurant owners, and everyday residents. Four centuries of encounter, imagination, and invention continue to shape the foodways of the Eastern Shore of Virginia, melding influences from Indigenous peoples, European migrants, enslaved and free West Africans, and more recent newcomers. Herman reveals how local ingredients and the cooks who have prepared them for the table have developed a distinctly American terroir--the flavors of a place experienced through its culinary and storytelling traditions. This terroir flourishes even as it confronts challenges from climate change, declining fish populations, and farming monoculture. Herman reveals this resilience through the recipes and celebrations that hold meaning, not just for those who live there but for all those folks who sit at their tables--and other tables near and far.

The Taste Of Happiness: Recipes of Biryani/ Pulao, Memories & More...
The Taste Of Happiness: Recipes of Biryani/ Pulao, Memories & More...

Author: Aysha Sheikh

Publisher: Clever Fox Publishing

Published:

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13:

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Embark on a journey through the diverse flavors of biryanis, intricately woven with the threads of my nostalgic childhood memories. Within the pages, you will also discover a glimpse of my native land, Goa, through personally captured photography, adding a vivid and personal touch to the culinary and cultural narrative.

The Memory Stays
The Memory Stays

Author: Alexander Pullar

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2021-09-02

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1984593900

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With the passing of time, family history can become a vague distant memory, disconnected to present-day affairs. If passed by word of mouth through the generations, family matters will ultimately erode and disappear, or at best, become blurred in favour of the current bias teller. Hence, the true past will fade into obscurity and be lost forever. This book is an attempt to preserve the authentic history of two Dundee families through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the “Pullar’s of the Hilltown” and the McElroy’s of Dallfield Walk. Hence, preventing their loss to the abrasive passage of time. However, this is not simply a glimpse into their everyday lives. It is set against a profile of local, national, and international affairs, and, in so doing attempts to clarify the significant effects of such events on the lives of simple working people. Not only is it a biography of both my parents and their respective families, but it reflects the consequences of such events that many similar poverty ridden families had to endure, during a period of Britain’s supreme industrial might and prosperity. Therefore, it echoes a bygone age in the history of this ancient city, which tells of a time when life was hard and often short. But it also tells of an age when people had time for each other, time to stop, time to speak, and time to listen.

The Land Has Memory
The Land Has Memory

Author: Duane Blue Spruce

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2009-02-01

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 0807889784

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In the heart of Washington, D.C., a centuries-old landscape has come alive in the twenty-first century through a re-creation of the natural environment as the region's original peoples might have known it. Unlike most landscapes that surround other museums on the National Mall, the natural environment around the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) is itself a living exhibit, carefully created to reflect indigenous ways of thinking about the land and its uses. Abundantly illustrated, The Land Has Memory offers beautiful images of the museum's natural environment in every season as well as the uniquely designed building itself. Essays by Smithsonian staff and others involved in the museum's creation provide an examination of indigenous peoples' long and varied relationship to the land in the Americas, an account of the museum designers' efforts to reflect traditional knowledge in the creation of individual landscape elements, detailed descriptions of the 150 native plant species used, and an exploration of how the landscape changes seasonally. The Land Has Memory serves not only as an attractive and informative keepsake for museum visitors, but also as a thoughtful representation of how traditional indigenous ways of knowing can be put into practice.

The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails
The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails

Author: David Wondrich

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2021-10-20

Total Pages: 881

ISBN-13: 0199311137

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The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails presents an in-depth exploration of the world of spirits and cocktails in a ground-breaking synthesis. The Companion covers drinks, processes, and techniques around the world as well as those in the US and Europe. It provides clear explanations of the different ways that spirits are produced, including fermentation, distillation and ageing, alongside a wealth of new detail on the emergence of cocktails and cocktails bars, including entries on key cocktails and influential mixologists and cocktail bars.

Marvelous Recipes from the French Heartland
Marvelous Recipes from the French Heartland

Author: Regis Marcon

Publisher: Ici LA Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 9781931605083

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Régis Marcon grew up in Saint-Bonnet-le-Froid, in the Auvergne region of France. His hotel restaurant, like the village, puts on no airs ("peu protocolaire," as Marcon describes it). It is one of those rare places that, in spite of its star status, has not forgotten that it started out life as the village café run by Marcon's mother. Marcon started the Auberge des Cimes as a modest local eatery in 1982. Over the years, he and his wife Michèle have gradually upgraded their small establishment to a two star Michelin restaurant with a twelve room hotel connected to the restaurant by a tunnel. The rooms in the hotel are spacious and modern with stunning views of the forested slopes surrounding the hilltop town. The restaurant has a similar feel with colorful lamps, waiters wearing mushroom pins, and interesting knickknacks. He is very proud that he and his wife were able to take over the family business and make it what it is today. Marcon's cuisine relies on the elements unique to his region, including a dazzling array of mushrooms, cheeses, and local herbs. Marcon combines all those ingredients in a personal style that emphasizes brilliant flavors in new ways. In addition to presenting his recipes, he offers a firsthand look at, and tells the stories of, his countrymen-farmers, foragers, fishermen, and purveyors. Born from traditional French cuisine, the recipes take on a new dimension in the simplicity and modernity of Marcon's approach. Organized by season, the recipes take you from "Trout with Auvergne Blue Cheese Sauce" for Spring to "Winter Luxury Squash Crêpes." His reputation has spread all over Europe, and his restaurant is a landmark and a destination for an ever increasing number of gastronomes.