Food: Facts and Principles
This book about the love of food is served up with stories, surprises, conversations, and laughter. You will find a kitchen filling up with smoke, experiments that flop, a strawberry fight, and food served with advice.
The book concludes with an examination of two very different future scenarios for feeding the world's population: the technological fix, which looks to science to provide the solution to our future food needs; and the anthropological fix, ...
The volume dispels myths such as the tale that Marco Polo brought pasta to Europe from China, that the original recipe for chocolate contained chili instead of sugar, and more.
You may be the perfect candidate for a career with food! This book features a variety of jobs that involve food, from cheesemaker and chocolatier to restaurant owner and food critic.
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Collects such vegetarian recipes as balsamic roasted shallot salad, mushroom and leek lasagna, deluxe egg salad, and coconut rice pudding with chocolate sauce.
Describes many aspects of food including: nutrition, allergies, digestion, preservation, cultural signigicance, production, and more.