Tomato Rhapsody
Tomato Rhapsody

Author: Adam Schell

Publisher: Delacorte Press

Published: 2009-06-23

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 0440338611

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A village in Tuscany is the setting for this joyous debut—a novel that defies all our expectations as it puts a fresh, clever, captivating spin on the age-old tale of forbidden love. Rich in literary delights, filled with spectacular wordplay, and rife with the bawdy humor of Shakespeare’s comedies, Tomato Rhapsody is the almost-true tale of how the tomato came to Italy—at once a brilliantly inventive fable of love, lust, and longing, and a dazzling feast for the imagination. This is a story born from love—a forbidden love—between Davido, an Ebreo tomato farmer, and Mari, a beautiful Catholic girl.…But it’s not only Davido and Mari who have secrets of the heart. Everyone around them yearns for something—from Davido’s grandfather, who tenderly cultivates the tomato plant he stole on his voyages with Columbus, to Mari’s villainous stepfather, whose eye is trained on his stepdaughter’s virginity and his neighbor’s land. Caught in the midst of these passions and machinations is a village full of eccentrics who speak in rhyme, celebrate the Feast of the Drunken Saint, and live a life untouched by the passage of time. The schemes and dreams of these men and women are about to change as what is forbidden becomes too delicious to resist. Tradition, religion, and good taste collide unforgettably in a story about the courage to pursue love and tomato sauce at all costs.

Rhapsody of flavors
Rhapsody of flavors

Author: Raquel Askenazi de Harari

Publisher: RAQUEL ASKENAZI DE HARARI

Published: 2022-03-31

Total Pages: 648

ISBN-13: 6072925324

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Eating Healthily Who says healthy food isn't tasty? Eating healthily is not a synonym for unsavory or boring eating. Based on this premise, the recipes in this book have been adapted to today's preferences and generational shifts, offering a new approach whereby you can cook intelligently without compromising flavor. People used to say: "Eat anything you want and put on weight without guilt." Nowadays, however, people are much more educated when it comes to healthy eating habits; hence, there is an increasing awareness of the need for a diet lower in fat, sugar and calories. Variations One of the main appeals of this book is what the author calls "Variations." Beginning with a basic recipe, a variety of dishes can be created by simply changing a few ingredients, thus opening up a broad range of possibilities to set your imagination soaring for customizing the recipes to suit your own personal taste. The same principle applies when creating non-dairy, vegetarian and gluten-free dishes. Proven Recipes Rhapsody of Flavors contains 395 recipes and 433 "Variations," all tested and proven to be within the skills level of beginners and experts alike, all with clear, complete, step-by-step instructions. The book also explains the What(s)?, the How(s)? and the Why(s)?, as well as providing a complete glossary, tips and equivalence charts. Interactive Menus For those who lack the time to plan a new menu on a daily basis, the book offers 49 meat and 28 dairy menus, as well as options for Shabbat, holidays, barbecues, breakfasts and brunches; it also explains the essential techniques regarding the washing and cleaning of fruits, vegetables, and poultry, along with how to preserve and freeze all types of food, how to equip a kitchen, plus tips on how set up your own buffet.

Food Lit
Food Lit

Author: Melissa Brackney Stoeger

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2013-01-08

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 1610693760

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An essential tool for assisting leisure readers interested in topics surrounding food, this unique book contains annotations and read-alikes for hundreds of nonfiction titles about the joys of comestibles and cooking. Food Lit: A Reader's Guide to Epicurean Nonfiction provides a much-needed resource for librarians assisting adult readers interested in the topic of food—a group that is continuing to grow rapidly. Containing annotations of hundreds of nonfiction titles about food that are arranged into genre and subject interest categories for easy reference, the book addresses a diversity of reading experiences by covering everything from foodie memoirs and histories of food to extreme cuisine and food exposés. Author Melissa Stoeger has organized and described hundreds of nonfiction titles centered on the themes of food and eating, including life stories, history, science, and investigative nonfiction. The work emphasizes titles published in the past decade without overlooking significant benchmark and classic titles. It also provides lists of suggested read-alikes for those titles, and includes several helpful appendices of fiction titles featuring food, food magazines, and food blogs.

Tuscany and Umbria: The Collected Traveler
Tuscany and Umbria: The Collected Traveler

Author: Barrie Kerper

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2011-07-12

Total Pages: 623

ISBN-13: 0307476731

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This unique guide to one of today’s hottest tourist destinations combines fascinating articles by a wide variety of writers, woven throughout with the editor’s own indispensable advice and opinions—providing in one package an unparalleled experience of an extraordinary place. This edition on Tuscany and Umbria features: ● Articles, interviews, recipes, and quotes from writers, visitors, residents, and experts on the region, including Frances Mayes, Mario Batali, Erica Jong, Barbara Ohrbach, Faith Willinger, and David Leavitt. ● In-depth pieces about Florence and the hill towns of Tuscany and Umbria that illuminate the simple pleasures of local cuisine, the dazzling art treasures of the Uffizi, the civilized wilderness of Tuscan back roads, the many varieties of olive oil, the endearing quirks of the Italian character, and much more. ● Enticing recommendations for further reading, including novels, histories, memoirs, coookbooks, and guidebooks. ● An A–Z Miscellany of concise and entertaining information on everything from biscotti to Super-Tuscan wine, from the history of the Medicis to traveling with children. ● Spotlights on unusual shops, restaurants, hotels, and experiences not to be missed. ● More than a hundred black-and-white photographs and illustrations.

Nematology in South Africa: A View from the 21st Century
Nematology in South Africa: A View from the 21st Century

Author: Hendrika Fourie

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-02-28

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13: 3319442104

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This unique book contains not only a comprehensive up-to-date summary of the achievements made in all areas of Nematology in South Africa over more than half a century, but it also combines this rather technical part with an insiders narrative of how Nematology started and developed. It also demonstrates how the South African community of nematologists gradually adapted to major changes in agriculture. These were due to a major political shift followed by socio-economic changes and this in an often challenging natural environment. At the same time this book is conceived as a useful source for young scientists to provide them with practical knowledge and critical insight in the field of Nematology. The information given is based primarily on research conducted by nematologists in South Africa. Most of this research was aimed at finding workable solutions for nematological problems confronted by both large-scale commercial producers and smallholding farmers. During a period when funding for scientific research is becoming increasingly scarce, the future demand and quest for practical solutions by applied research will only increase.

Health-Promoting Properties of Fruits and Vegetables
Health-Promoting Properties of Fruits and Vegetables

Author: Leon Terry

Publisher: CABI

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9781845935290

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Fruits and vegetables are one of the richest sources of ascorbic acid, other antioxidants and produce-specific bioactive compounds. A general consensus from health experts has confirmed that an increased dietary intake of antioxidant compounds found in most fresh produce types may protect against oxidative damage caused by free radicals and reduce the incidence of certain cancers and chronic diseases. Currently there is no book available which collectively discusses and reviews empirical data on health-promoting properties of all fresh produce types. This book will provide detailed information on identity, nature, bioavailablity, chemopreventative effects, and postharvest stability of specific chemical classes with known bioactive properties. In addition, chapters discuss the various methodologies for extraction, isolation, characterization and quantification of bioactive compounds and the in-vitro and in-vivo anticancer assays. It will be an essential resource for researchers and students in food science, nutrition and fruit and vegetable production.

RESEARCH ADVANCES IN VEGETABLE SCIENCE
RESEARCH ADVANCES IN VEGETABLE SCIENCE

Author: Humberto González Rodríguez

Publisher: American Academic Press

Published: 2018-11-01

Total Pages: 542

ISBN-13: 1631819712

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The book Research Advances in Vegetable Science is an outstanding contribution of the authors in the field of advancement of the vegetable researches all over the World. The book entitles from the seed germination and its necessity of establishment in the new environment where physiological responses are influenced by both biotic and abiotic factors. Priming is a simple technique that not only helps in proper germination but aid in seedling establishment. Phonotypical and physiological responses of different vegetable crops are of significant importance in relation to factors like nutrients, salinity, disease-pest attacks. Physiological and biochemical basis of tolerance to salinity is very important that may help in the evaluation and selection of pipeline hybrids and parents lines using a novel technique. Biotic factors are major constraints in crop production, so proper management strategies and control measures must be taken for potential outcome. In this book, a special emphasis was given on food value and food chemistry of different vegetable crops. Major aspects like nutritional value of fresh vegetable as well as food value, post-harvest physiology and processing, storage and food quality, medicinal values, food chemistry and food biotechnology have been discussed in lucid manner.

Uncommon Therapy
Uncommon Therapy

Author: Jay Haley

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1993-05-04

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9780393310313

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Long known as the world's leading medical hypnotist, Milton H. Erikson developed a strategic approach - for individuals, couples and families - that uses hypnotic-therapy skills in observing and motivating people. His ideas and procedures have been widely used to sharpen the techniques of therapists of many different schools. Jay Haley provides a look at Dr. Erickson's theories in practice, through description and excerpts from Erickson's case studies.--From back cover.

Fruit and Vegetable Phytochemicals
Fruit and Vegetable Phytochemicals

Author: Elhadi M. Yahia

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2017-08-25

Total Pages: 1488

ISBN-13: 1119157978

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Now in two volumes and containing more than seventy chapters, the second edition of Fruit and Vegetable Phytochemicals: Chemistry, Nutritional Value and Stability has been greatly revised and expanded. Written by hundreds of experts from across the world, the chapters cover diverse aspects of chemistry and biological functions, the influence of postharvest technologies, analysis methods and important phytochemicals in more than thirty fruits and vegetables. Providing readers with a comprehensive and cutting-edge description of the metabolism and molecular mechanisms associated with the beneficial effects of phytochemicals for human health, this is the perfect resource not only for students and teachers but also researchers, physicians and the public in general.