There are now 48 extra pages, including 17 new color illustrations, 20 new maps, and-for the first time ever-double page spreads and full-page photos in the atlas section for maximum visual impact. New World coverage has been extended for both Australia and South America; some New World regions even have their own entries for the first time, including Rutherford, Oakville, and Stag's Leap from California; Mendoza (Argentina); Limestone Coast (Australia); Central Otago and Martinborough (New Zealand); and Constantia (South Africa). And Old World coverage has grown too, with the addition of Toro (Spain), the Peleponnese (Greece), and Georgia. It's a truly incomparable book, and an essential addition to every wine lover's or professional's library."

    In addition to recipes for soups, breads, main courses, sides, and desserts, Price offers fascinating food-related historical tidbits. For this expanded edition, his daughter, Victoria, has contributed culinary-themed journal entries from her father's international travels as well as personal reminiscences of his favorite foods and home cooking. Numerous color photographs appear throughout this handsome hardcover collectible.

    

    At least for most of us. Food has the tact to disappear, leaving room and opportunity for masterpieces to come. The mistakes don’t hang on the walls or stand on the shelves to reproach you forever.”—from Jane Grigson’s introduction. Originally published in 1971, Good Things is now available in a Bison Books edition for all those who appreciate good food and Jane Grigson’s witty and stylish way of writing about it. Including recipes for fish, meat, game, fresh fruits, vegetables, and a few splendid desserts, Good Things is a celebration of delicious everyday fare and its loving preparation.

    The illustrations depict the gardens of the author and illustrator. The book compiles everything you will need to know to create your own kitchen garden to enhance your meals with delicious vegetables and herbs.

    To ask why is to ask why fire burns. His credo may be stated thus: he has sworn an oath to keep his mushroom patches secret and to find and to poach on the patches of other hunters. When mushrooms are the prize, the scope of all his aspirations is narrowed to these two goals. Though in all else he may be as Saintly as St. Francis, in the pursuit of these ends he is more Satanic than Satan. He will betray his nearest and dearest without the slightest twitch of flesh or spirit. He is amoral."--Definition of a mushroom hunter by Angelo PellegriniThis classic field guide answers the amateur mycologist's two most important questions: "What is it?" and "Is it good to eat?" Color photographs illustrate 199 species of mushrooms ranging from boletes to puffballs, chantrelles to truffles. Full descriptions clearly identify the edible or poisonous qualities of each.

    The author recommends stimulating your mind and body through both proper nutrition and positive thoughts to achieve mental soundness and character.

    Widely acclaimed for its authenticity, it contains over 200 definitive recipes accompanied by delightful culinary lore from the author's ancestral homeland. Traditional Grecian cuisine is truly mythological in origin and is very much tied to the land and the surrounding sea.

    F. K. Fisher begins her recollections in Albion, Michigan, but they soon lead her to Whittier, California, where her family moved in 1912, when she was four. The "Friends" of the title range from the hobos who could count on food at the family’s back door to the businessmen who advertised in Father’s paper—but above all they are the Quakers who were the prominent group in Whittier. Mary Frances Kennedy found them unusual friends indeed, in the more than forty years that she lived in Whittier she was never invited inside a Friend’s house.Her portraits of her father, Rex—her mentor, himself the editor of the local newspaper—her mother, Edith, and the other members of her family are memorable and moving. Originally published in 1970, Among Friends provides a fascinating glimpse into the background and development of one of our most delightful and best-loved writers, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher.

    Offers a complete course in the four basic traditions of French cooking--la haute cuisine, la cuisine bourgeoise, la cuisine r gionale, and la cuisine impromptue--along with more than two thousand recipes, six hundred easy-to-follow cooking techniques and tips, and a lexicon of French cooking terms.

    This book holds the key to sourdough bread, hot and crusty with melting butter sourdough whole wheat muffins dripping with honey sourdough pancakes to really sink your teeth into sourdough cookies and cakes, cornbread and biscuits and dumplings and so much more.

    With the new emphasis on environmentalism in the 1990's, Lappe stresses how her philosophy remains valid, and how food remains the central issue through which to understand world politics.

    The Making of a Cook [Paperback]

    

    Here are over 700 recipes—ranging from appetizers, to desserts, to food for the baby—selected for their good taste as food (not fad)... for the ecologically concerned... and for those who want to eliminate highly refined, super-processed, additive-filled foods from their diet.

    

    Compiled by Douglas and his friends during their twilight years, it was intended for private use among those who were 'anxious to preserve for as long as may be possible the vitality of their youth and middle age'. Now, Venus in the Kitchen is available to all of us who crave an extra dose of vigor in our diets.A whimsical marriage of the utilitarian and the absurd, this collection of over a hundred annotated recipes runs the gamut from the simple and delicious (almond soup) to the dangerously effective (hysterical water) to the downright ridiculous (sparrows' brains, crane). Complete with beautiful vintage illustrations, introductions by Graham Greene and Stephen Fry, and an unforgettable frontispiece by D.H. Lawrence (whom Douglas quipped 'certainly looked as if his own health would have been improved by a course of such recipes as I had gathered together'), Douglas' irreverent cookbook is a gift you can either slip discreetly under your lover's pillow, or keep for yourself.

    Confessions of a Sneaky Organic Cook (Or, How to Make Your Family Healthy When They're Not Looking!) [Hardcover]

    A cookbook of frugal but tasty recipes by Time-Life author William Brown and underground cartoonist Gilbert Sheldon.