In 1929, a newly married M.F.K. Fisher said goodbye to a milquetoast American culinary upbringing and sailed with her husband to Dijon, where she tasted real French cooking for the first time. "The Gastronomical Me" is a chronicle of her passionate embrace of a whole new way of eating, drinking, and celebrating the senses. As she recounts memorable meals shared with an assortment of eccentric and fascinating characters, set against a backdrop of mounting pre-war tensions, we witness the formation not only of her taste but of her character and her prodigious talent.

Food is magical, not just because of the amazing tastes, flavours and aromas but also for the magical properties it holds. The magic starts with the choice of food to use, be added in whilst you are preparing and cooking then the magic unfolds as people enjoy your food. Dishes can be created for specific intents, moon phases, and rituals, to celebrate sabbats or just to bring the magic into your family meal. Many food ingredients can also be used very successfully in magical workings in the form of offerings, medicine pouches, witches bottles and poppets. Let's work magic into your cooking...

50 stunning postcards featuring Wendy MacNaughton’s beloved illustrations from Samin Nosrat’s New York Times bestselling phenomenon Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, the inspiration for the hit Netflix series—perfect for sending, collecting, decorating your home or office, or using as gift tags

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat was an instant New York Times bestseller, launching Samin Nosrat to culinary superstardom and introducing illustrator Wendy MacNaughton to a smitten national audience.

Now fans can share Samin and Wendy’s vibrant, warm, and whimsical work with friends or simply enjoy curating and displaying them at home or in the office. Housed in a keepsake box reminiscent of a recipe box, these dazzling postcards are arranged in four tabbed sections: salt, fat, acid, and heat.

A ground-breaking book by the world-leading expert in sensory science: Freakonomics for food 'Popular science at its best' - Daniel Levitin Why do we consume 35% more food when eating with one more person, and 75% more when with three? Why are 27% of drinks bought on aeroplanes tomato juice? How are chefs and companies planning to transform our dining experiences, and what can we learn from their cutting-edge insights to make memorable meals at home? These are just some of the ingredients of Gastrophysics, in which the pioneering Oxford professor Charles Spence shows how our senses link up in the most extraordinary ways, and reveals the importance of all the 'off-the-plate' elements of a meal: the weight of cutlery, the placing on the plate, the background music and much more. Whether dining alone or at a dinner party, on a plane or in front of the TV, he reveals how to understand what we're tasting and influence what others experience. Mealtimes will genuinely never be the same again. 'Truly accessible, entertaining and informative. On every page there are ideas to set you thinking and widen your horizons' - Heston Blumenthal, OBE 'His delight in weird food facts is infectious...fascinating' - James McConnachie, Sunday Times 'Gastrophysics is packed with such tasty factual morsels that could be served up at dinner parties. If Spence can percolate all these factual morsels to the mainstream, the benefits to all of us would be obvious' - Nick Curtis, Daily Telegraph 'Spence allows people to appreciate the multisensory experience of eating' - New Yorker 'The scientist changing the way we eat' - Guardian

The future is sausage-shaped! The sausage is one of mankind's first-ever designed food items. A paragon of efficient butchery, it was designed to make the most of animal protein in times of scarcity, and dates back as far as 3300 BC. Today, the sausage remains a cornerstone of our food culture. England alone has over 470 different types of breakfast sausages. Now, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), we are facing a serious shortage of protein-rich food. Meat, in particular, will be scarce. One reason for this is over-consumption: in today's world, we simply consume too many animal products. So can we look to the sausage to provide a solution once again, in order to reduce the consumption of meat? Can the use of new ingredients replace the meat and increase the diversity of our diets? To answer these questions, a chef of molecular gastronomy, a master butcher and a designer have teamed up to look into sausage production techniques and potential new ingredients--like insects, nuts and legumes--to create the "future sausage." This book takes the reader on a journey through all the building blocks of a sausage and presents lesser-known ingredients, carefully selected for their "future potential."

These essays were presented at the seventeenth Leeds Symposium on Food History, of which this is the fourteenth volume in the series 'Food and Society.' Their common theme is the way in which we cooked our food from the medieval to the modern eras, most especially, how we roasted meats. The authors are distinguished food historians, mostly from the north of England. David Eveleigh discusses the rise of the kitchen range, from the 19th-century coal-fired monsters to the electric and gas cookers of the early 20th century. Ivan Day, in two essays, talks about techniques of roasting. In the first he tells of the ox roast - the open-air celebration with the cooking done on a blazing campfire. In the second he traces the history of the clockwork spit, the final, most domestic version of the open-hearth device that had been driven by dogs or scullions in earlier centuries. Peter Brears gives us the fruits of many years' involvement in the reconstruction of the kitchens at Hampton Court and other Royal Palaces in his account of roasting, specifically the 'baron of beef', in these important locales. The final two chapters discuss aspects of baking rather than roasting. Laura Mason tells of the English reliance on yeast as a raising agent - in the earliest times deriving it from brewing ale, and Susan McClellan Plaisted gives an account of running a masonry wood-fired oven in living-history museums in America, discussing the transmission of cooking techniques from the Old to the New World, and the problems encountered in baking a satisfactory loaf. The book is very generously illustrated, both by photographs of artefacts and reproductions of early prints and engravings that elucidate their purpose and function.

In einer Zeit., da die Wissenschaft als unmittelbare Produktivkraft immer mehr her- vortritt, sind nicht mehr Einzelerkenntnisse, so glanzvoll sie auch sein moegen, sondern ein hohes wissenschaftlich-technisches Niveau der gesamten Produktion das wich- tigste. Die wissenschaftlich-technische Revolution bewirkte eine grundlegende Um- gestaltung der technischen Basis der Produktion. Vor den Werktatigen aller Zweige, darunter auch denen der Lebensmittelproduktion, steht eine Aufgabe von historischer Bedeutung, die Errungenschaften der wissenschaftlich-technischen Revolution mit den Vorzugen des Sozialismus organisch zu verbinden. Zur Loesung dieser Aufgabe ist die Intensivierung der technologischen Prozesse, die Schaffung vollkommenerer Konstruktionen, die volle Mechanisierung und Automati- sierung der Produktionsprozesse unerlasslich. Diesem Anliegen ist das vorliegende Werk gewidmet. 1.1. Stellung des Lehrgebietes in der Ausbildung Das Studium des Lehrgebietes setzt Grundkenntnisse auf dem Gebiet der theore- tischen und der augewandten Mechanik, der Stroemungsmechanik, der Thermodyna- mik und der physikochemischen Grundlagen voraus. Das Lehrgebiet ist eine we- sentliche Basis zum Studium der speziellen Verfahren und Ausrustungen der Le- bensmittelproduktion. Es enthalt die theoretischen Grundlagen der Prozesse sowie die grundlegenden Be- rechnungsmethoden von Ausrustungen. Auf diese Weise vertieft das Buch die ver- fahrenstechnische Bildung von Ingenieuren der Lebensmitteltechnik.