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A collection of more than 140 recipes from twenty-five years of "The Art of Eating" magazine, each with a note on its relevant cultural history or the particular cooking technique it uses.
"Keahey's exploration of this misunderstood island offers a much-needed look at a much-maligned land."—Paul Paolicelli, author of Under the Southern Sun Sicily is the Mediterranean's largest and most mysterious island. Its people, for three thousand years under the thumb of one invader after another, hold tightly onto a culture so unique that they remain emotionally and culturally distinct, viewing themselves first as Sicilians, not Italians. Many of these islanders, carrying considerable DNA from Arab and Muslim ancestors who ruled for 250 years and integrated vast numbers of settlers from the continent just ninety miles to the south, say proudly that Sicily is located north of Africa, no...
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Providing a true connoisseur's overview of wines, Hugh Johnson describes more than 5,000 wines from all over the world, with information on every wine-producing country, chateau, and wine type. He evaluates the vintages and offers sound advice on selecting the best and most appropriate wine for any occasion. Includes regional maps.
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Publisher description -- The contributors of Wines of the World have looked both at classic wines of long standing and at exciting newcomers to the top class. They recognize that wine-drinkers today want to know how their wines are made and from what grape varieties, the tastes they are likely to find and the styles of wine emerging from different soils and climates. Laws have changed, and some wines with them. Drinkers are less conservative, and this book also aims to point to lesser-known wines which are emerging from purely local appreciation.
In this original cookbook, the author explores Italian food and festivals describing how such celebrations came to be, carefully tracing the converging pagan and Christian traditions and presents (over 175) the exuberant recipes made on each feast day respectively.