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Featuring the collection of airplanes, art, photographs, and
memorabilia of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force at
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, this
magnificently illustrated book tells the story of the beginnings of
flight, through the creation of the U.S. Air Force as a separate
branch of the military, to the unbelievable technological
achievements of what is the preeminent air power in the world
today. Here are combat aces, Medal of Honor recipients, crusty
generals, and average citizens who served in the Air Force. There
are philosophers, airplane designers, test pilots, rocket
scientists, armorers, and grease monkeys. More than 250 color and
150 black-and-white illustrations and photos and insightful text
present the story of the U.S. Air Force of yesterday, today, and
tomorrow, published on the occasion of the seventy-fifth
anniversary of the United States Air Force.
'An absorbing self-portrait of an exceptional cook.' Harold McGee
Daniel Patterson is the head chef /owner of Coi (pronounced "Kwa"),
a two-Michelin-starred restaurant in San Francisco. At Coi,
Patterson mixes modern culinary techniques with local, wild and
cultivated ingredients to create original dishes that speak of
place, memory, and emotion. It's an approach that has earned him a
worldwide reputation for pioneering a new kind of Californian
cuisine. Patterson is also known for his original food writing, and
he has been published in recent years in The New York Times, Bon
Appetit and Lucky Peach. Now, in his highly anticipated new book,
Coi: Stories and Recipes, Patterson writes a personal account of
the restaurant, its dishes and his own unique philosophy about food
and cooking. Beginning with a look at California - how Patterson
arrived from the East Coast and how he became to feel more at home
as the years progressed - the book takes the reader into the Coi
kitchen, and through 70 of the restaurant's original dishes such as
Chilled Spiced Ratatouille Soup; Carrots Roasted in Coffee Beans,
Monterey Bay Abalone with Nettle-Dandelion Salsa Verde; Inverted
Cherry Tomato Tart and Lime Marshmallow with Coal-Toasted Meringue.
The dishes are explained through a series of personal essays and
narrative recipes, offering insight into Patterson's life, family,
and inspirations. Coi: Stories and Recipes includes 150 color
photographs showing the finished dishes as well as atmospheric
images of the restaurant, the California landscape, and portraits
of Coi's staff and suppliers. The book features forewords by Peter
Meehan and Harold McGee. It is sure to be one of the most talked
about cookbooks of the year.
Daniel Patterson and Eric Russell present a groundbreaking case for
considering John James Audubon's and John Bachman's quadruped
essays as worthy of literary analysis and redefine the role of
Bachman, the perpetually overlooked coauthor of the essays. After
completing The Birds of America (1826-38), Audubon began developing
his work on the mammals. The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America
volumes show an antebellum view of nature as fundamentally dynamic
and simultaneously grotesque and awe-inspiring. The quadruped
essays are rich with good stories about these mammals and the
humans who observe, pursue, and admire them. For help with the
science and the essays, Audubon enlisted the Reverend John Bachman
of Charleston, South Carolina. While he has been acknowledged as
coauthor of the essays, Bachman has received little attention as an
American nature writer. While almost all works that describe the
history of American nature writing include Audubon, Bachman shows
up only in a subordinate clause or two. Tenacious of Life strives
to restore Bachman's status as an important American nature writer.
Patterson and Russell analyze the coauthorial dance between the
voices of Audubon, an experienced naturalist telling adventurous
hunting stories tinged often by sentiment, romanticism, and
bombast, and of Bachman, the courteous gentleman naturalist,
scientific detective, moralist, sometimes cruel experimenter, and
humorist. Drawing on all the primary and secondary evidence,
Patterson and Russell tell the story of the coauthors' fascinating,
conflicted relationship. This collection offers windows onto the
early United States and much forgotten lore, often in the form of
travel writing, natural history, and unique anecdotes, all told in
the compelling voices of Antebellum America's two leading
naturalists.
'Mandy Aftel's latest work with Daniel Patterson is a masterpiece
on the science of cooking from an olfactory and culinary
perspective through the same lens. This book is a must for any chef
or cook looking to find new inspirations and a deeper understanding
of the way flavours work together.' Pratap Chahal
(@thathungrychef), Flavour Bastard, Soho, London 'Am counting down
the days till your book arrives!' Nigella Lawson Daniel Patterson,
a chef, and Mandy Aftel, a perfumer, present a revolutionary new
approach to creating delicious, original food. Aftel and Patterson
are rock stars in their respective fields: Patterson has won two
Michelin stars for his San Francisco restaurant Coi and numerous
James Beard and other food awards, and his new path-breaking
co-venture Loco'l is attracting national interest; Aftel has been
profiled in the New York Times T Magazine and other publications
and is constantly featured and quoted in magazines and blogs. In a
world awash with cooking shows, food blogs and recipes, the art of
flavour has been surprisingly neglected. The multibillion-dollar
flavour industry practises its dark arts by manipulating synthetic
ingredients, and home cooks are taught to wield the same blunt
instruments: salt, acid, sugar, heat. But foods in their natural
states are infinitely more nuanced than the laboratory can
replicate - and offer far greater possibilities for deliciousness.
Chef Daniel Patterson and natural perfumer Mandy Aftel are experts
at orchestrating ingredients, and here they teach readers how to
make the most of nature's palette. The Art of Flavour proceeds not
by rote formula but via a series of mind-opening and
palate-expanding tools and concepts: using a flavour 'compass' to
find the way to transformative combinations of aromatic
ingredients; pairing ingredients to make them 'bury' (control) one
another and 'lock' (achieve an alchemy that transcends the sum of
the parts); learning to deploy cooking methods for maximum effect;
and the seven 'dials' that allow a cook to fine-tune a dish. With
more than sixty recipes that allow the cook to grasp each concept
and put it into practice, The Art of Flavour is food for the
imagination that will help cooks at any level to become flavour
virtuosos in their own right. From The Flavour Bible on, flavour
has been a particular focus of recent interest, but no one has
Patterson's and Aftel's unique perspective on it, their combined
expertise, or their winning blend of ideas, information, recipes
and cooking and perfuming lore. The Art of Flavour is a thinking
person's cookbook that uses recipes to instil principles for
creating delicious food at home, larded with fascinating
information on the history and science of flavour that make it a
great armchair read as well.
John James Audubon's journal of 1826 details the months leading up
to his creation of The Birds of America, one of the greatest works
of natural history and art of the nineteenth century. The first
accurate transcription of Audubon's 1826 journal, this edition
corrects many of the errors, both intentional and unintentional,
found in previous editions. Such errors have obscured the figure of
Audubon as a man struggling to realize his professional and
artistic dreams.
Historians, biographers, and scholars of John James Audubon and
natural history have long been mystified by Audubon's 1843 Missouri
River expedition, for his journals of the trip were thought to have
been destroyed by his granddaughter Maria Rebecca Audubon. Daniel
Patterson is the first scholar to locate and assemble three
important fragments of the 1843 Missouri River journals, and here
he offers a stunning transcription and critical edition of
Audubon's last journey through the American West. Patterson's new
edition of the journals-unknown to Audubon scholars and fans-offers
a significantly different understanding of the very core of
Audubon's life and work. Readers will be introduced to a more
authentic Audubon, one who was concerned about the disappearance of
America's wild animal species and yet also loved to hunt and
display his prowess in the wilderness. This edition reveals that
Audubon's famous late conversion to conservationism on this
expedition was, in fact, a literary fiction. Maria Rebecca Audubon
created this myth when she rewrote her grandfather's journals for
publication to make him into a visionary conservationist. In
reality the journals detail almost gratuitous hunting predations
throughout the course of Audubon's last expedition. The Missouri
River Journals of John James Audubon is the definitive presentation
of America's most famous naturalist on his last expedition and
assesses Audubon's actual environmental ethic amid his conflicted
relationship with the natural world he so admired and depicted in
his iconic works.
Susan Fenimore Cooper (1813-1894), though often overshadowed by her
celebrity father, James Fenimore Cooper, has recently become
recognized as both a pioneer of American nature writing and an
early advocate for ecological sustainability. Editors Rochelle
Johnson and Daniel Patterson have assembled here a collection of
ten pieces by Cooper that represent her most accomplished nature
writing and the fullest articulation of her environmental
principles. With one exception, these essays have not been
available in print since their original appearance in Cooper's
lifetime.
A portrait of her thoughts on nature and how we should live and
think in relation to it, this collection both contextualizes
Cooper's magnum opus, "Rural Hours" (1850), and demonstrates how
she perceived her work as a nature writer. Frequently her essays
are models of how to catch and keep the interest of a reader when
writing about plants, animals, and our relationship to the physical
environment. By lamenting the decline of bird populations, original
forests, and overall biodiversity, she champions preservation and
invokes a collective environmental conscience that would not begin
to awaken until the end of her life and century.
The selections include independent essays, miscellaneous
introductions and prefaces, and the first three installments from
Cooper's work of literary ornithology, "Otsego Leaves," arguably
her most mature and fully realized contribution to American
environmental writing. In addition to a foreword by John Elder, one
of the nation's leading environmental educators, an introduction
analyzes each essay in various cultural contexts. Brief but handy
textual notes supplement the essays. Perfect for nature-writing
aficionados, environmental historians, and environmental activists,
this collection will radically expand Cooper's importance to the
history of American environmental thought.
Susan Fenimore Cooper, the daughter of James Fenimore Cooper, was a
philanthropist who helped young girls and boys through an orphanage
in Cooperstown, New York. While she worked with these disadvantage
children, she wrote one of American's earliest examples of naturist
writing. Forgotten for many years, recent discoveries have made her
book, Rural Hours, a forgotten gem of classic nature writing.
John James Audubon, an early American naturalist and painter,
produced one of the greatest works of natural history and art of
the nineteenth century, The Birds of America. As the record of the
interior story of the making of this monumental work, his journal
of 1826 is one of the richest documents in the history of American
culture.  The first accurate transcription of Audubon’s
1826 journal, this edition corrects many of the errors, both
intentional and unintentional, found in previous editions. Such
errors have obscured the figure of Audubon as a man struggling to
realize his professional and artistic dreams. When Audubon embarked
for Liverpool from New Orleans in 1826, he carried with him more
than 250 of his watercolor drawings in a heavy case, a packet of
letters of introduction, and many a good reason to believe that he
was a fool to be gambling his family’s fortunes on so risky and
grandiose a venture. These journal entries, conveying with energy
and emotion Audubon’s experience of risking everything on a
dream—“Oh, America, Wife, Children and acquaintances,
Farewell!”—document an American icon’s transformation from a
beleaguered backwoods artist and naturalist to the man who would
become America’s premier ornithologist, illustrator of birds, and
nature essayist.
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