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Do you want an edible experience? Would you like some culinary guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Eat Like a Local book is for you. Eat Like a Local - Gothenburg by Christina De Paris offers the inside scoop on food in Gothenburg Sweden. Culinary tourism is an import aspect of any travel experience. Food has the ability to tell you a story of a destination, its landscapes, and culture on a single plate. Most food guides tell you how to eat like a tourist.

Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want an edible experience? Would you like some culinary guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Eat Like a Local audiobook is for you. Eat Like a Local: Netherlands gives you the inside scoop on Netherlands food. In these sections, you will discover advice on having a unique edible experience. This audiobook will not tell you exact addresses or hours but instead will give you excitement and knowledge of food and drinks from a local that you may not find in other travel food guides.

This book will show you everything you ever wanted to know about beer from its history to how to find the perfect beer for any meal. It will introduce you to new beers and help you explore beers beyond the common big commercial light beers. With this guide you will become a beer expert and always know the perfect beer for any occasion. You will discover the best ways to store and serve beer so that you get a tasty refreshing beverage every time.

The distinctive beverage of the Western world, bourbon is Kentucky's illustrious gift to the world of spirits. Although the story of American whiskey is recorded in countless lively pages of our nation's history, the place of bourbon in the American cultural record has long awaited detailed and objective presentation. Not a recipe audiobook or a barman's guide, but a fascinating and informative contribution to Americana, The Social History of Bourbon reflects an aspect of our national cultural identity that many have long suppressed or overlooked.

Are you tired of eating the same poorly cooked meals over and over again? If you are interested in this audiobook, you’re probably someone who is tired of eating the same thing over and over again and never having it taste very good. In this audiobook, I’ll introduce you to the concepts behind Sous Vide cooking and what makes it so successful. I’ll walk you through the history and then tips and tricks to help you start implementing Sous Vide cooking in your own life.

April 14, 1912. It was an unforgettable night. In the last hours before the Titanic struck the iceberg, passengers in all classes were enjoying unprecedented luxuries. Innovations in food, drink, and décor made this voyage the apogee of Edwardian elegance. Veronica Hinke’s painstaking research and deft touch bring the Titanic’s tragic but eternally glamorous maiden voyage back to life. In addition to stirring accounts of individual tragedy and survival, The Last Night on the Titanic offers tried-and-true recipes, newly invented styles, and classic cocktails.

Kelley Fanto Deetz draws upon archaeological evidence, cookbooks, plantation records, and folklore to present a nuanced study of the lives of enslaved plantation cooks from colonial times through emancipation and beyond. She reveals how these men and women were literally "bound to the fire" as they lived and worked in the sweltering, and often fetid, conditions of plantation house kitchens.

Charles E. Hires and the Drink That Wowed a Nation chronicles the humble origin and meteoric business success of this extraordinary entrepreneur. Author Bill Double uses published interviews, correspondence, newspaper reports, magazine articles, financial data, and a small family archive to tell this story of native ingenuity. Here, the rough-hewn capitalism of the gilded age, the evolution of the neighborhood drugstore, the rise of advertising in creating mass markets, and the emerging temperance movement all come together in a biography that fizzes with entrepreneurial spirit.

Is it hard to manage your carbohydrate intake? Do you have trouble with diets that cut out carbs entirely? Would you like to find a better way to slim down and avoid binging? If so, Carb Cycling: The 7-Day Carb Cycle Transformation is the book you’ve been waiting for! It explains how this powerful method helps you lose weight, increase your sports performance, and build up your muscle mass.

La chiesa cattolica è stata messa a dura prova con la discesa di Napoleone in Italia. Ferdinando di Borbone e il Cardinale Ruffo si ritrovano sulla nave dell'ammiraglio Nelson per riscattare l'Italia dagli invasori francesi. Con loro l'artista grigionese Angelika Kaufmann. Molti pasticcieri svizzeri furono cacciati da Venezia, la loro arte si diffuse così in tutta Europa. Mazzini, amante delle torte e gran cuoco, unì l'Italia anche grazie alle ricette dei dolci svizzeri, sapendo abilmente mischiare ingredienti del Sud e del Nord.

From his bid to become Eudora Welty's lawn boy to the time George Plimpton offered to punch him in the nose, lineage has always been important to Rick Bass. Now at a turning point - in his midfifties, with his long marriage dissolved and his grown daughters out of the house - Bass strikes out on a journey of thanksgiving. His aim: to make a memorable meal for each of his mentors, to express his gratitude for the way they have shaped not only his writing but his life.

La chiesa cattolica è stata messa a dura prova con la discesa di Napoleone in Italia. Ferdinando di Borbone e il Cardinale Ruffo si ritrovano sulla nave dell'ammiraglio Nelson per riscattare l'Italia dagli invasori francesi. Con loro l'artista grigionese Angelika Kaufmann.

Molti pasticcieri svizzeri furono cacciati da Venezia, la loro arte si diffuse così in tutta Europa. Mazzini, amante delle torte e gran cuoco, unì l'Italia anche grazie alle ricette dei dolci svizzeri, sapendo abilmente mischiare ingredienti del Sud e del Nord.

Goethe, prima di scrivere il suo Faust, intraprese un viaggio in italia. Il famoso poeta, tra le tante avventure al Sud, rubò anche il cuore ad Angelika Kaufmann. Con lui in viaggio il grigionese Carl Ulysses von Salis-Marschlins. Insieme i due scalano il Vesuvio.

Tra il 1700 e il 1850 le maggior parte delle monarchie europee disponevano nei loro eserciti di mercenari svizzeri. Soltanto a Napoli, al servizio dei Borboni, vivevano ben 40.000 soldati confederati. Con la rivoluzione napoletana del 1848 termina il servizio mercenario svizzero.

A gripping examination of the dark side of an iconic American product and a moving portrait of the women who lived in the shadow of its fractured fortune, JELL-O Girls is a family history, a feminist history, and a story of motherhood, love, and loss. In crystalline prose, Rowbottom considers the roots of trauma not only in her own family, but in the American psyche as well, ultimately weaving a story that is deeply personal, as well as deeply connected to the collective female experience.

By 2030, experts predict two-thirds of people living on this planet will not have enough water, a situation expected to result in the deaths of millions and an unprecedented rise in military conflicts. Can we as individuals hope to reverse these dire predictions? Award-winning author and water activist Florencia Ramirez believes we can if our conservation efforts focus on the 70 percent of freshwater flowing to the fields and ranches that grow our food. Eat Less Water takes the listener on a journey to meet America's food producers growing food with less water.

In this remarkable culinary biography, Rae Katherine Eighmey presents Benjamin Franklin's experimentation with food throughout his life. At age 16, he began dabbling in vegetarianism. In his early 20s, citing the health benefits of water over alcohol, he convinced his printing press colleagues to abandon their traditional breakfast of beer and bread for "water gruel", a kind of porridge he enjoyed. Franklin is known for his scientific discoveries, including electricity and the lightning rod, and his curiosity and logical mind extended to the kitchen.

Born in Pula, on the Istrian peninsula, Lidia grew up surrounded by love and security, learning the art of Italian cooking from her beloved grandmother. But when Istria was annexed by a communist regime, Lidia’s family fled to Trieste, where they spent two years in a refugee camp waiting for visas to enter the United States. When she finally arrived in New York, Lidia soon began working in restaurants, the first step on a path that led to her becoming one of the most revered chefs and businesswomen in the country.

Why do we call mixed alcohol drinks "cocktails"? How do they get their exotic names — names like the Singapore Sling, Screw Driver, the Alamagoozlum, the Angel’s Kiss, the Hanky Panky, the Harvey Wallbanger, Sex on the Beach, the Monkey Gland, the Brass Monkey, the Margarita, the Japalac, the Lion’s Tail, and many, many more?