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Author
Publisher
Ice Cube Press, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Poetic, beautiful, meditative, and informative. Through short writings and photographs, Cindy Crosby and Thomas Dean enter a conversation to inspire new understandings of the Midwestern tallgrass prairie through word and image. Tallgrass Converations encourages looking and listening to the prairie through the heart and mind as well as eyes, ears, and other senses, advancing both conservationa and creative efforts on behalf of the tallgrass prairie....
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The pleasures of food lie mostly in the mind, not in the mouth. Get that straight and you can start to understand what really makes food enjoyable, stimulating, and, most important, memorable. Spence reveals in amusing detail the importance of all the "off the plate" elements of a meal: the weight of cutlery, the color of the plate, the background music, and much more. Whether we're dining alone or at a dinner party, on a plane or in front of the...
Author
Publisher
al-Markaz al-Thaqāfī al-ʻArabī
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Arabic
Description
Germany, 1943: Twenty-six-year-old Rosa Sauer's parents are gone, and her husband Gregor is far away, fighting on the front lines of World War II. Impoverished and alone, she makes the fateful decision to leave war-torn Berlin to live with her in-laws in the countryside, thinking she'll find refuge there. But one morning, the SS come to tell her she has been conscripted to be one of Hitler's tasters: three times a day, she and nine other women go...
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Whether it's a meaningful meal or a favorite nostalgic road trip snack, we know what we like to eat. But even when it comes to the most vivid and memorable dishes it's tough to say what exactly makes them so delicious. Now award-winning expert, certified food and beverage taster and lifestyle journalist Mandy Naglich reveals how to hone your tasting superpowers like a pro. Take a seat beside highly-trained cheese analysts, world-class sommeliers,...
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