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Despite their fearsome reputation, chillies have helped to shape
the identities of innumerable world cuisines. Chillies traces the
culinary journey of the spice and uncovers cultural and spiritual
links between chillies and humans, from their use as an
aphrodisiac, to the recent discovery that chilli heat shows promise
as a treatment for neuropathic pain, prostate cancer and leukaemia.
It also makes a compelling link between the history of global trade
and conflict and the spread of spicy cuisine worldwide. Peppered
with lively anecdotes and details of chilli taxonomy and ecology,
this entertaining history is sure to spice up your bookshelf.
The infant city called The Clearing was a bald patch amid a
stuttering wood. The Clearing was no booming metropolis; no
destination for gastrotourists; no career-changer for ardent chefs
- just awkward, palsied steps toward Victorian gentility. In the
decades before the remaining trees were scraped from the landscape,
Portland's wood was still a verdant breadbasket, overflowing with
huckleberries and chanterelles, venison leaping on cloven hoof.
Today, Portland is seen as a quaint village populated by trust fund
wunderkinds who run food carts each serving something more precious
than the last. But Portland's culinary history actually tells a
different story: the tales of the salmon-people, the pioneers and
immigrants, each struggling to make this strange but inviting land
between the Pacific and the Cascades feel like home. The foods that
many people associate with Portland are derived from and defined by
its history: salmon, berries, hazelnuts and beer. But Portland is
more than its ingredients. Portland is an eater's paradise and a
cook's playground. Portland is a gustatory wonderland. Full of wry
humor and captivating anecdotes, Portland: A Food Biography
chronicles the Rose City's rise from a muddy Wild West village full
of fur traders, lumberjacks and ne'er-do-wells, to a progressive,
bustling town of merchants, brewers and oyster parlors, to the
critical darling of the national food scene. Heather Arndt Anderson
brings to life in lively prose the culinary landscape of Portland,
then and now.
From corn flakes to pancakes, Breakfast: A History explores this
"most important meal of the day" as a social and gastronomic
phenomenon. It explains how and why the meal emerged, what is eaten
commonly in this meal across the globe, why certain foods are
considered indispensable, and how it has been depicted in art and
media. Heather Arndt Anderson's detail-rich, culturally revealing,
and entertaining narrative thoroughly satisfies.
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