Food Of The Gods

Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher : Hesperus Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780941974

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The Food of the Gods by H. G. Wells Pdf

Published in 1904, this forgotten classic is sci-fi and dystopia at its best, written by the creator and master of the genre Following extensive research in the field of "growth," Mr. Bensington and Professor Redwood light upon a new mysterious element, a food that causes greatly accelerated development. Initially christening their discovery "The Food of the Gods," the two scientists are overwhelmed by the possible ramifications of their creation. Needing room for experiments, Mr. Besington chooses a farm that offers him the chance to test on chickens, which duly grow monstrous, six or seven times their usual size. With the farmer, Mr. Skinner, failing to contain the spread of the Food, chaos soon reigns as reports come in of local encounters with monstrous wasps, earwigs, and rats. The chickens escape, leaving carnage in their wake. The Skinners and Redwoods have both been feeding their children the compound illicitly—their eventual offspring will constitute a new age of giants. Public opinion rapidly turns against the scientists and society rebels against the world's new flora and fauna. Daily life has changed shockingly and now politicians are involved, trying to stamp out the Food of the Gods and the giant race. Comic and at times surprisingly touching and tragic, Wells' story is a cautionary tale warning against the rampant advances of science but also of the dangers of greed, political infighting, and shameless vote-seeking.

Author : Terence McKenna
Publisher : Random House
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Drug abuse
ISBN : 9780712670388

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Food of the Gods by Terence McKenna Pdf

Reissued because of the current interest in Ecstasy, this is McKenna's extraordinary quest to discover the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. He wonders why we are so fascinated by altered states of consciousness, do they reveal something about our origins as human beings and our place in nature?

Author : Terence McKenna
Publisher : Random House
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781407061283

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Food Of The Gods by Terence McKenna Pdf

‘The single most influential spokesperson for organic psychedelics’ The Independent What can altered states of consciousness reveal about our origins and our place in nature? In this landmark piece of psychedelic literature renowned ethnobotanist and psychonaut Terence McKenna explores our ancient relationship with organic psychedelics and opens a doorway to a higher state of being for us all. An odyssey of mind, body and spirit, Food of the Gods is one of the most fascinating and surprising histories of consciousness ever written. A daring work of scholarship and exploration, it offers an inspiring vision for individual fulfilment and a humane basis for our interaction with each other and the natural world. 'The modern classic on mind-altering drugs and hallucinogens' The Washington Post

Author : Karen Dudley
Publisher : Ravenstone Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Mythology, Greek
ISBN : 0888014015

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Food for the Gods by Karen Dudley Pdf

Pelops' troubles began when his father chopped him into stewing meat and served him to the gods for tea. Although he's been remade, and gifted with a talent for the culinary arts, there are downsides--namely a missing shoulder and sea god with an infatuation. Poseidon's nice enough, but he just doesn't take no for an answer. Not only that, a wealthy, but mysterious patron has been causing Pelops'clients to cancel their engagements. Meanwhile, a rival chef is doing his best to destroy Pelops' reputation, the woman Pelops loves appears oblivious to his feelings, and just before Athens' most important festival begins, Pelops finds himself suddenly without olive oil--a serious concern for a chef. But things get worse when a courtesan is murdered at a dinner Pelops prepares--drowned in his newly-acquired olive oil. Seeking vengeance, the Furies arrive in Athens, and the rival chef blames their attacks on Pelops. Clients cancel in droves, and even Pelops' friends are affected by his rival's machinations. Pelops asks the gods for help, but when they turn him down, he realizes he alone must find the woman's killer to salvage his reputation.

Author : Andrew Dalby,Rachel Dalby
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781780238630

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Gifts of the Gods by Andrew Dalby,Rachel Dalby Pdf

What do we think about when we think about Greek food? For many, it is the meze and the traditional plates of a Greek island taverna at the height of summer. In Gifts of the Gods, Andrew and Rachel Dalby take us into and beyond the taverna in our minds to offer us a unique and comprehensive history of the foods of Greece. Greek food is brimming with thousands of years of history, lore, and culture. The country has one of the most varied landscapes of Europe, where steep mountains, low-lying plains, rocky islands, and crystal-blue seas jostle one another and produce food and wine of immense quality and distinctive taste. The book discusses how the land was settled, what was grown in different regions, and how certain fruits, herbs, and vegetables became a part of local cuisines. Moving through history—from classical to modern—the book explores the country’s regional food identities as well as the export of Greek food to communities all over the world. The book culminates with a look at one of the most distinctive features of Greece’s food tradition—the country’s world renown hospitality. Illustrated throughout and featuring traditional recipes that blend historical and modern flavors, Gifts of the Gods is a mouth-watering account of a rich and ancient cuisine.

Author : Cassandra Khaw
Publisher : Abaddon Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781786180667

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Food of the Gods by Cassandra Khaw Pdf

GODS. GORE. GOOD FOOD. By day, Rupert Wong—sorcerer, chef, former triad—prepares delicious meals of human flesh for a dynasty of ghouls in Kuala Lumpur; by night, he’s an administrator for the Ten Chinese Hells. It’s a living, of sorts. When the Dragon of the South demands that Rupert investigate the murders of his daughter and her mortal husband, Rupert is caught in a war between gods that’s as bewildering as it is bloody. If he’s going to survive, he’ll need to stay sharp, stay lucky, and always read the fine print… This volume collects the novellas Rupert Wong, Cannibal Chef and Rupert Wong and the Ends of the Earth.

Author : H. G. Wells
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-02
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth by H. G. Wells Pdf

"The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth" is a science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells. Published in 1904, the novel explores the unintended consequences of scientific experimentation and the potential dangers of tampering with the natural order.

Author : Gary Westfahl,George Edgar Slusser,Eric S. Rabkin
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820317470

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Foods of the Gods by Gary Westfahl,George Edgar Slusser,Eric S. Rabkin Pdf

Gluttony and starvation, pleasure and pain, growth and decay. These and other extremes of our condition related to food, though all but banned from the "civilized" tables of mainstream fiction, are ideal topics for the "undomesticated," free-roaming modes of fantasy. As acts and ideas, food and eating are fundamental to all that makes us human and dominate our symbolic realms of art, literature, and cuisine. These essays show us the power of speculative modes of fiction to help us look anew at prehistorical and psychomythical attitudes toward food and eating; historical Western-cultural attitudes toward the material fact of food and the necessity of eating; and the relationship between attitudes toward food and how, how much, when, and where we eat. The contributors come from a variety of backgrounds, including anthropology, film, and French, Russian, English, and medieval literature. Ranging in their focus from shamans to cannibals, utopias to social Darwinism, muscle magazines to supermarket tabloids, the contributors discuss the theory and practice of science fictional eating; the dialectic, at the level of eating, between individual needs and collective norms; and the ways that eating habits and the availability and choice of food serve to contextualize and demarcate modern fictional genres. In addition to discussing such writers as C. S. Lewis, Stephen King, Octavia Butler, Jonathan Swift, and Anne Rice, the contributors also consider such films as Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast.

Author : Rynn Berry
Publisher : Ethical Living
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0962616923

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Food for the Gods by Rynn Berry Pdf

Investigation into the world's great religions, interviews with religious thinkers who are also vegetarians, & recipes for dishes that have come from these different cultures.

Author : Cassandra Khaw
Publisher : Abaddon Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849979764

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Rupert Wong, Cannibal Chef by Cassandra Khaw Pdf

It's not unusual to work two jobs in this day and age, but sorcerer and former triad soldier Rupert Wong's life is more complicated than most. By day, he makes human hors d'oeuvres for a dynasty of ghouls; by night, he pushes pencils for the Ten Chinese Hells. Of course, it never seems to be enough to buy him a new car—or his restless, flesh-eating-ghost girlfriend passage from the reincarnation cycle—until opportunity comes smashing through his window. In Kuala Lumpur, where deities from a handful of major faiths tip-toe around each other and damned souls number in the millions, it's important to tread carefully. Now the Dragon King of the South wants to throw Rupert right in it. The ocean god's daughter and her once-mortal husband have been murdered, leaving a single clue: bloodied feathers from the Greek furies. It's a clue that could start a war between pantheons, and Rupert's stuck in the middle. Success promises wealth, power and freedom, and failure... doesn't.

Author : Geneen Roth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780857201416

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Women Food and God by Geneen Roth Pdf

Millions of us are locked into an unwinnable weight game, as our self-worth is shredded with every diet failure. Combine the utter inefficacy of dieting with the lack of spiritual nourishment and we have generations of mad, ravenous self-loathing women. So says Geneen Roth, in her life-changing new book, Women, Food and God. Since her 1991 bestseller, When Food Is Love, was published, Roth has taken the sum total of her experience and combined it with spirituality and psychology to explain women's true hunger. Roth's approach to eating is that it is the same as any addiction - an activity to avoid feeling emotions. From the first page, readers will be struck by the author's intelligence, humour and sensitivity, as she traces the path of overeating from its subtle beginnings through to its logical end. Whether the drug is booze or brownies, the problem is the same: opting out of life. She powerfully urges readers to pay attention to what they truly need - which cannot be found in a supermarket. She provides seven basic guidelines for eating (the most important is to never diet) and shares reassuring, practical advice that has helped thousands of women who have attended her highly successful seminars. Truly a thinking woman's guide to eating - and an anti-diet book - women everywhere will find insights and revelations on every page.

Author : Varud Gupta,Devang Singh
Publisher : Ebury Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Cooking, Indic
ISBN : 014344462X

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Bhagwaan Ke Pakwaan by Varud Gupta,Devang Singh Pdf

The rice beer bellies of a Christian village in Meghalaya; food fed to departed Zoroastrian souls; a Kolkata-based Jewish community in decline; Tibetan monks who first serve Preta, the hungry ghost; and fifty-six-course feasts of the Jagannath temple-these are the stories in Bhagwan Ke Pakwaan (or, food of the gods), a cookbook-cum-travelogue exploring the connection between food and faith through the communities of India. There are legends and lore, angsty perspectives, tangential anecdotes, a couple of life lessons and a whole lot of food.

Author : Larry Dossey
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1989-11
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : UVA:X004414828

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Recovering the Soul by Larry Dossey Pdf

Provides an alternative view of human consciousness--a theory of mind and being independent of matter, time and space.

Author : Alex Szogyi
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1997-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313305061

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Chocolate by Alex Szogyi Pdf

Chocolate has been one of mankind's obsessions for centuries. The history of cacao and chocolate-making leads from Mexico to Spain and then France, Austria, Switzerland, and Belgium, while its consumption is universal. This collection examines chocolate's history as well as its use in literature, art, music, and folklore, as a subject for psychology and childrearing, and as an important product for business. In addition, recipes for novel and tasty uses of chocolate are provided. While chocolate may be seen as food of the gods, it is consumed around the world by all ages and classes. This is an intriguing book for scholars in many fields and for those interested in the history of food and their favorite sweet.

Author : Rosita Arvigo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Cooking, Belizean
ISBN : 9768161337

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Food of the Gods by Rosita Arvigo Pdf