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Elizabeth David's Christmas by Elizabeth David
Category: Food & Wine | Series: .
A glorious way to celebrate Christmas' Throughout her distinguished career, eminent food writer Elizabeth David published many articles on Christmas cooking and countless seasonal recipes. Elizabeth David's Christmas brings these together into a beautiful and timeless festive volume to treasure and ret ...Show more
English Bread and Yeast Cookery by Elizabeth David
Category: Food & Wine
First published in 1977, and winning its author the coveted Glenfiddich Writer of the Year Award, this universally acclaimed book is regarded by many as simply the best book ever written about the making of bread. It covers all aspects of flour-milling, yeast, bread ovens and the different types of brea ...Show more
Fight of the Century - Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases by Michael Chabon (Editor); Geraldine Brooks; Yaa Gyasi; Sergio De La Pava; Dave Eggers; Timothy Egan; Li Yiyun; Meg Wolitzer; Ann Patchett; Héctor Tobar; Aleksandar Hemon; Elizabeth Strout; Ayelet Waldman (Editor); Rabih Alameddine; Moriel Rothman-Zecher; Jonathan Lethem; Salman Rushdie; Lauren Groff; Jennifer Egan; Scott Turow; Morgan Parker; Victor Lavalle; Michael Cunningham; Dave Cole (Foreword by); Neil Gaiman; Jesmyn Ward; Moses Sumney; George Saunders; Marlon James; William Finnegan; Anthony Doerr; C. J. Anders; Brenda J. Childs; Andrew Sean Greer; Viet Thanh Nguyen; Louise Erdrich; Adrian Nicole LeBlanc; Jacqueline woodson; Brit Bennett; Steven Okazaki; David Handler
Category: Non-Fiction
The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this "forceful, beautifully written" (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. O ...Show more
French Country Cooking by Elizabeth David
Category: Food & Wine
First published sixty years ago while food rationing was still in force, Elizabeth David used this book to introduce to the nation's bland palate, ingredients and recipes previously undiscovered in post-war Britain. Many people of that era had never experienced anything other than British cooking - meat ...Show more
French Provincial Cooking by Elizabeth David
Category: Food & Wine | Series: Penguin Cookery Library
"French Provincial Cooking" is Elizabeth David's classic work on French regional cuisine. Providing simple recipes like omelettes, souffles, soups and salads, it also offers more complex fare such as pates, cassoulets, roasts and puddings. First published in 1960, it is readable, inspiring and entertain ...Show more
French Provincial Cooking by Elizabeth David
Category: Food & Wine
Elizabeth David's books belong in the libraries of everyone who loves to read and prepare food and this one is generally regarded as her best; her passion and knowledge comes through on every page. She was one of the foremost writers on food in the latter half of the 20th century and this book has her m ...Show more
Is There a Nutmeg in the House? by Elizabeth David
Category: Food & Wine
This anthology of Elizabeth David's work, originally published in hardback in 2000, is a direct sequel to An Omelette and a Glass of Wine. It again contains a selection of her journalistic and occasional work from four decades. Much of it she had chosen herself for reprinting in this more accessible for ...Show more
Italian Food by Elizabeth David
Category: Food & Wine
Jane Grigson wrote of Italian Food 'Basil was no more than the name of bachelor uncles, courgette was printed in italics as an alien word, and few of us knew how to eat spaghetti or pick a globe artichoke to pieces. ... Then came Elizabeth David like sunshine, writing with brief elegance about good food ...Show more
Italian Food by Elizabeth David
Category: Food & Wine
In "Italian Food", Elizabeth David was the first to help us understand the real country cooking of Italy. "Italian Food" was an inspiration to British cooks when it was first published in 1954 - and it remains so to this day. Embracing the variety, richness and vibrancy of Italian cooking, with particul ...Show more
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 2 by Elizabeth Toren (TRN); Kawasaki David (TRN); Smith Hayao (ILT); Lewis Hayao; Miyazaki Miyazaki
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
In a long-ago war, humankind set off a devastating ecological disaster. Thriving industrial societies disappeared. The earth is slowly submerging beneath the expanding Sea of Corruption, an enormous toxic forest that creates mutant insects and releases a miasma of poisonous spores into the air. At the p ...Show more
Spices, Salt and Aromatics in the English Kitchen by Elizabeth David
Category: Food & Wine
In this book, Elizabeth David presents English recipes notable for their use of spices, salt and aromatics. As is usual in her writing she mixes instruction with information, explaining the origins and uses of ingredients such as nutmeg, cardamom and juniper. She stresses the influence of centuries of o ...Show more
Summer Cooking by Elizabeth David
Category: Food & Wine
For Elizabeth David, summer fare meant fresh, seasonal food-recipes that could be prepared quickly and savoured slowly, from Gnocchi alla Genovese ('simply an excuse for eating pesto') to La Poule au Pot to Gooseberry Fool. Her 1955 classic work, now reissued in a handsome, attractively priced hardback ...Show more