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Taste of the East
An Invitation to Italian Cooking (Great Cooks S.)
An Orkney Feast: A Collection of Orkney Recipes
70 Classic Tomato Recipes
Mastering the Art of French Cooking: Vol 1
500 Greatest-ever Chicken Recipes
Teany Book: Stories, Food, Romance, Cartoons, And, of Course, Tea
Flavours: Magical Flavours and Tastes to Transform Your Cooking
Tapas
The Book of Claypot Cooking
Eat Your Greens
Healing Foods: 55 Nutritious Foods That Create Health, Balance Energy and Prevent Disease
Chef Sato's All-natural Desserts: Delicious Cakes, Pies, Pastries, and Other Irresistible Sweets
Ken Hom Cooks Chinese (TV Cooks S.)
Perfect Preserves
Kefir Rediscovered!: The Nutritional Benefits of an Ancient Healing Food (Klaus Kaufmann's Fermented Food Series)
The Petit Appetit Cookbook: Easy, Organic Recipes to Nurture Your Baby and Toddler
Cook Malaysian
Eat for Immunity
Amber Waves of Grain
Singapore Recipes Nyonya Spec
Cucina Italiana/Cook Fluent Italian
Noodles the New Way
Chinese Cooking-Quick Easy-Cha
Fire and Spice: Parsi Cookery

Madhur Jaffrey's Taste Of The Far East, A

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A class of it's own.

Madhur Jaffrey's Taste Of The Far East, A
Madhur Jaffrey
Manufacturer: Clarkson Potter
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0517595486
Release Date: 1993-11-02

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Best-selling cookbook author Madhur Jaffrey offers her favorite dishes from the Far East in the most diverse and beautiful cookbook ever published on this cuisine. A Taste of the Far East captures the sensual essence of the region with more than 100 color photographs and 150 authentic recipes offer an amazingly wide spectrum of foods and flavors that reflect local customs, history, and produce. Full-color photographs.

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A class of it's own........2000-10-17

This book has plenty recipes from all over and the few that I have tried are indeed DELICIOUS. I do recommend this book highly but for those who have the basics of cooking already. If you have some basics in cooking you will find this book very helpful and rate it as 5 stars.

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A Taste of the Far East
Madhur Jaffrey
Manufacturer: Trafalgar Square Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0563360607

A Taste of Thyme: Culinary Cultures of the Middle East

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Insight into Middle Eastern Culture

A Taste of Thyme: Culinary Cultures of the Middle East
Richard Tapper , and Sami Zubaida
Manufacturer: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Delights from the Garden of Eden: A Cookbook and a History of the Iraqi Cuisine
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A Mediterranean Feast: The Story of the Birth of the Celebrated Cuisines of the Mediterranean from the Merchants of Venice to the Barbary Corsairs, with More than 500 Recipes
A Drizzle of Honey: The Life and Recipes of Spain's Secret Jews
Food Is Culture (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)

ASIN: 1860646034

Book Description

This pioneering book considers the culinary cultures of the Middle East in a variety of contexts. The contributors discuss various aspects of historical and contemporary processes, including likely origins and diffusions on ingredients and dishes, changes in food production and eating habits, contemporary revivals of traditional cooking, literary representations of food and drink, and the class, gender, and communal dimensions to food. Written by scholars from different disciplines, it covers a wide geographical area, from Central Asia to Morocco.

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Insight into Middle Eastern Culture.......2003-07-27

This book is an academic sociological study on the cultures of the Middle East using food studies as its medium. Although it does not contain any recipies, the essays provide facinating insight into the attitudes and customs involving food. This book would be enjoyed by anthropologists, archaeologists, extreme foodies, and those interested in a deeper understanding of social and cultural aspects of food production and consumption.

A Taste of the East: 200 Step-By-Step Recipes With over 1,000 Photographs

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ABSOLUTE GORGEOUS BOOK AND MOST AMAZING RECIPES DELICOUS!!!!
Outstanding Asian cookbook

A Taste of the East: 200 Step-By-Step Recipes With over 1,000 Photographs
Deh-Ta Hsiung , Rafi Fernandez , and Steven Wheeler
Manufacturer: Smithmark Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ABSOLUTE GORGEOUS BOOK AND MOST AMAZING RECIPES DELICOUS!!!!.......2002-05-03

IF YOU LOVE ASIAN, INDIAN, AND CHINESE FOODS YOU WILL ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS BOOK! THE RECIPES ARE EASY TO FOLLOW. EACH RECIPE HAS ABOUT 4 STEPS AT THE MOST SHOWING YOU AT EACH STEP HOW TO DO IT. VERY SIMPLE TO FOLLOW FOR THESE TYPES OF FOODS! I HAVE TRIED MANY AND THEY ARE DELICOUSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!! IF YOU LOVE TO COOK OR WANT TO MAKE A SPECIAL MEAL THAT IS DIFFERENT FOR A CHANGE, THIS IS DEFINETLY THE BOOK FOR YOU! TRY IT YOU'LL LOVE IT! TRUST ME...

Outstanding Asian cookbook.......1999-05-20

The step by step pictorial can easily make a middle of the road cook into a Asian Chef in a matter of moments. The receipts are authentic and easy to prepare. The auther has done a great job of relaying information. Ingredients are present so various cultures can benifit from this wonderfull book. Ingredients are items you can find at the store and a bunch of exotic items you can never find. All in all this is a book everyone who likes Asian foods should have in their kitchen; the Zapper knows.

Damascus Taste of a City: Taste of a City (Armchair Traveller)

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Damascus Taste of a City: Taste of a City (Armchair Traveller)
Rafik Schami
Manufacturer: Haus Publishers Ltd.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1904950302

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Seeing, feeling, tasting, smelling and hearing - if you join Rafiq Shami and his sister Marie Fadel on a stroll through their native Damascus, you will discover this Queen of the Orient with all your senses. Rafiq Shami, award-winning writer and master storyteller, describes the colorful scenes of the old town and relays the stories of its inhabitants overheard in the coffee houses. Reading his prose one seems to be able to smell the cardamom and the coriander sold in the spice market and hear the cries of street traders. Inspired by his stories, one can follow his sister Marie Fadel's recipes and recreate the tastes of the Orient.

Taste of Eritrea: Recipes from One of East Africa's Most Interesting Little Countries (New Hippocrene Original Cookbooks)

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This isn't the way to do it............
Taste of Eritrea Disappoints
Eritrean Food?
A splendid introduction to Eritrean cuisine!

Taste of Eritrea: Recipes from One of East Africa's Most Interesting Little Countries (New Hippocrene Original Cookbooks)
Olivia Warren
Manufacturer: Hippocrene Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Exotic Ethiopian Cooking : Sociey, Culture, Hospitality, and Traditions. Revised Extended Edition. 178 Tested Recipes. With Food Composition Tables.
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ASIN: 0781807646

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Taste of Eritrea provides 100 recipes and a substantial amount of background on this little-known country on the eastern coast of Africa. The cooking of Eritrea shows strong influences from such diverse regions as neighboring Ethiopia, former ruler Italy, Turkey, and England. From Ethiopia comes the use of berberé, a fiery blend of red chilies, garlic, ginger and other aromatic spices; ghee, a kind of clarified butter seasoned with ginger and a distinctive blend of other ingredients, including celery seed and fenugreek; and ingera, a sourdough flatbread made from wheat flour or teff, a local grain. This dish of towel-size, spongy bread is used as both plate and eating utensil by Eritreans. Like the Ethiopians, they eat with their hands, tearing off pieces of this moist bread and using it to convey every bite of food to their mouth.

It may seem odd to find pizza and lasagna in an African cookbook, but while few Italians remain in their country, Eritreans still eat spaghetti, drink espresso, and love Macedonia di Frutta, a mixed fruit salad served everywhere. Easy dishes likely to please include Alicha, a mixed vegetable curry; spiced Eritrean Doughnuts; and Doro Zigni, a spicy chicken stew akin to the incendiary wats of Ethiopia. Author Olivia Warren opens Taste of Eritrea with a good description of the country, its history, and culture. Anyone planning a trip there will also find it somewhat useful as a travel guide. --Dana Jacobi

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This isn't the way to do it...................2004-07-09

Okay, I've lived in Eritrea, and I can assure y'all: what this book is presenting is NOT authentic Eritrean cuisine!!! The recipes are very simplified and a lot of spices and ingredients are missing. The cooking technique isn't properly described, either. And half the book is full of Italian recipes..... so, if you're really interested in Eritrean cooking, buy "Exotic Ethiopian Cooking" by Daniel Jote Mesfin instead. Eritrean and Ethiopian cooking is almost the same (Ethiopian is even more versatile).
I give this book 1 star, because the author at least tried.... and the way she writes about the Eritrean culture in the introduction showes that she got a lot of love for the country.

Taste of Eritrea Disappoints.......2003-10-19

My title says it all. Of the 100 or so recipes in this book, most are of Italian vintage. The remainder are fairly humdrum versions of traditional Ethiopian dishes, better recipes for which are widely available (The Africa News Cookbook; Dorinda Hafner's Taste of Africa, etc.). Further, the author's Ethiopian ingredients are limited to berbere, onions, and tomato paste, guaranteeing that each new dish the reader prepares is going to taste a good deal like the last one.

Either the author is herself an inexperienced cook, or she is writing down to those who are. For example, she gives extensive instructions for boning a chicken breast on the assertion that "you cannot buy this cut of chicken," contrary to the evidence available at any North American supermarket.

Warren's affection for Eritrea is evident in her introduction and the anecdotes that accompany some of the recipes. But spending a little time in a country doesn't usually qualify a traveller to write a cookbook when she gets home.

Eritrean Food?.......2000-07-15

It seemed puzzling that Eritrean food consisted of Ethiopian Spices and Italian recipies. Is there nothing original in this cook book. If I wanted Italian Food or Ethiopian Food then I would buy those cook books. The book is an excellent introduction of Eritrea.

A splendid introduction to Eritrean cuisine!.......2000-03-04

Eritrea is one of Africa's most beautiful, interesting countries, and offers a unique cuisine drawn from a culinary tradition influenced by Italians, Turks, British, Egyptians, and Ethiopians. From Eritrean Papaya Juice, Dense Dinner Rolls, and Spiced Barley Squares, to Piquant Fish Stew, Roast Pigeon, and Custard with Caramelized Sugar, Taste Of Eritrea offers mover than 100 easy-to-follow recipes, each adapted for the Western kitchen. Taste Of Eritrea is further enhanced with an insightful and informative introduction, along with Olivia Warren's own reminiscences about her time in the country along with fascinating glimpses of the history, culture and traditions of Eritrea.

A Vegan Taste of the Middle East (Vegan Cookbooks)

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A Vegan Taste of the Middle East (Vegan Cookbooks)
Linda Majzlik
Manufacturer: Jon Carpenter Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1897766777

Book Description

This collection of cookbooks interprets the savory flavors of international cuisines for the animal-free, vegan diet. Each region's most famed dishes are detailed or redesigned to be meat- and dairy-free. With recipes for appetizers, breads, salads, main courses, desserts, and drinks, each cookbook covers the entire culinary palate.

The authentic taste of Middle Eastern food is reproduced in this collection of vegan recipes. Instructions for more than 100 recipes are detailed, including such flavorful dishes as hummus, falafel, pita bread, Persian naan, and orange rice pudding.

A Taste of Ohio History: A Guide to Historic Eateries and Their Recipes (Taste of History)

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Essential addition to every OH kitchen!

A Taste of Ohio History: A Guide to Historic Eateries and Their Recipes (Taste of History)
Debbie Nunely , and Karen Jane Elliott
Manufacturer: John F. Blair Publisher
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A Taste of Pennsylvania History: A Guide to Historic Eateries and Their Recipes (Taste of History)
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A Taste of Maryland History: A Guide To Historic Eateries And Their Recipes (Taste of History)

ASIN: 0895873419

Book Description

The authors culled a list of 500 restaurants to come up with over 100 noteworthy establishments profiled here. Most are housed in buildings over 100 years old. Of equal interest are the two or three recipes from each restaurant. Restaurants in old train stations, churches, schools, jails, frontier cabins, farmhouses—whatever your preferred ambiance, you'll find it here.

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Essential addition to every OH kitchen!.......2005-08-31

Having loved "A Taste of Pennslyvania History", I was so excited to get this book. Taste of Ohio History is just as wonderful as the authors' first book. Plan on getting every book in the series--I look forward to all 50 books (just ordered Virginia and anxiously await Maryland). The writing is wonderful and the descriptions of the restaurants and the recipes are such a great addition to my kitchen bookshelf.

Secret Chicago: The Unique guidebook to Chicago's Hidden Sites, Sounds & Tastes

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secret chicago
Good, but not as detailed as I'd like
In-depth and non-traditional
Travel With a Twist!
Tourist's Opinion...

Secret Chicago: The Unique guidebook to Chicago's Hidden Sites, Sounds & Tastes
Sam Weller
Manufacturer: ECW Press
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Binding: Paperback

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Alternative Chicago: Unique Destinations Beyond the Magnificent Mile
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ASIN: 155022493X

Book Description

New visitors and longtime residents alike will find unique locales in this guide to the Second City's hidden treasures. Far beyond the predictable tourist routes, these listings reveal the arcane, cool, and hush-hush hotspots of Chicago. From white sand beaches that include urban skylines and smoky jazz clubs where it's always midnight to piercing palaces and tasty taquerias, Chicago's diverse destinations are described in detail for travelers willing to step off the beaten path.

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secret chicago.......2002-07-01

a bit of a disapointment- nothing really too secret here. relatively good descriptions but don't expect a book of any great beauty or insight. i'd save my money for another.

Good, but not as detailed as I'd like.......2001-11-02

This is a great idea, and I wish it had been expanded just a bit, to get more of a flavor of the places Weller writes about. There are places in this book which, even as a Chicagoan born and bred, I never knew about. He even has a short chapter about prostitution in the city! You don't get much more secret than that, methinks. But the information amounts to little more than a few lines about each site, and leaves you wanting a bit more.

I also have to wonder how some of the places in the book were chosen. How secret is the Chicago El (elevated) system after all? And why, for example, with literally thousands of little fast food joints in the city, were there only three listed? And how were they chosen? I recognize that there was a space limit on this book, and that Weller covers a great deal of ground here, but as I read I'm occasionally bemused by both inclusions and exclusions. Still, it doesn't pretend to be comprehensive and Weller does do a good job of giving the reader an overview of some of the roads less traveled in a city this size

This is a fun book. Keep one in your glove compartment for impromptu road trips, or give a copy to your Chicago-loving friends. They'll get a kick out of finding new reasons to love this city.

In-depth and non-traditional.......2000-10-25

Mr. Weller is a former reporter and must have done a very good job in reporting. This book is not for the typical tourist but for the individual interested in an in-depth look at the city of Chicago. He digs to get the best out of every subject he covers and in very descriptive text and references, gives even the most experienced Chicago visitor and even resident a taste for almost 100 subjects. Listed alphabetically, are a myriad of aspects of the city from architecture and astrology, to almost any subject you can imagine. This is not a typical tour book but one which will entice you to investigate areas of interest and the city that you may not have imagined exist. The author is opinionated and frank, which makes the book even more useful.

Travel With a Twist!.......2000-08-14

I bought this guidebook on a whim and was not disappointed! "Secret Chicago" goes where few travel guides go. . . it's informative while highly entertaining. It's also really funny! As a new transplant to the Windy City, this book has been a great help. Weller's recommendations for restaurants are superb. I have visited several spots named in the book and they were all great. And since moving here (from Kansas City), I have seen Weller's name in the Chicago Tribune and New City often. Most guides are written by some unknowm. . . not this one! I'd love to meet this writer! He's really funny and knows Chicago like nobody's business.

I highly recommend this book.

Tourist's Opinion..........2000-07-05

This was a very helpful book for our one-week vacation in the Windy City. Weller has a witty style of writing and isn't afraid to share his opinion. My husband and I found him to be right on the mark, especially for the food. The book is a quick read, organized into categories as chapters so you can skip past topics that don't interest you. Weller gave helpful information you won't find in most tourist books like where to use the restroom when shopping on Michigan Avenue (not many public potties!). My husband would have liked to see Secret Automotive (for car shows and unique dealerships) as a category but outside of that we felt the book was pretty complete. It mentioned all the major attractions but it is more focused on the secret sites. I could see this book being helpful to a newer resident of Chicago as well.

A Taste of Culture - Foods of Iran (A Taste of Culture)

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A Taste of Culture - Foods of Iran (A Taste of Culture)
Barbara Sheen
Manufacturer: KidHaven Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Board book

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ASIN: 0737734531

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Come and visit this ancient country. Learn how its beautiful and fragrant cuisine influenced the rest of the world. Find out how Iranian cooking unites us all. At the same time, have fun mixing geography, history, religion, and folktales with a hands-on cooking experience.

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