In Defence Of English Cooking

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123573938

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In Defence of English Cooking by George Orwell Pdf

In May 2005 Penguin will publish 70 unique titles to celebrate the company's 70th birthday. The titles in the Pocket Penguins series are emblematic of the renowned breadth of quality of the Penguin list and will hark back to Penguin founder Allen Lane's vision of good books for all'. political thinkers of the twentieth century, he is also the author of the bestselling Penguin title of all time: Animal Farm first published in Penguin in 1951. These heartfelt essays demonstrate Orwell's wide-ranging appeal, and range from political manifesto to affectionate consideration of what being English truly means.

Author : Pete Brown
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781846149603

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Pie Fidelity by Pete Brown Pdf

In Britain, we have always had an awkward relationship with food. We've been told for so long that we are terrible cooks and yet according to a 2012 YouGov survey, our traditional food and drink are more important to us than the monarchy and at least as significant as our landscape and national monuments in defining a collective notion of who we are. Taking nine archetypically British dishes - Pie and Peas, A Cheese Sandwich, Fish and Chips, Spag Bol, Devonshire Cream Tea, Curry, The Full English, The Sunday Roast and a Crumble with Custard - and examining them in their perfect context, Pete Brown reveals just how fundamental food is to Britain's sense of identity, perhaps even our sense of pride, and the ways in which we understand our place in the world.

Author : Michael Pollan
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-31
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780141908519

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In Defence of Food by Michael Pollan Pdf

'A must-read ... satisfying, rich ... loaded with flavour' Sunday Telegraph This book is a celebration of food. By food, Michael Pollan means real, proper, simple food - not the kind that comes in a packet, or has lists of unpronounceable ingredients, or that makes nutritional claims about how healthy it is. More like the kind of food your great-grandmother would recognize. In Defence of Food is a simple invitation to junk the science, ditch the diet and instead rediscover the joys of eating well. By following a few pieces of advice (Eat at a table - a desk doesn't count. Don't buy food where you'd buy your petrol!), you will enrich your life and your palate, and enlarge your sense of what it means to be healthy and happy. It's time to fall in love with food again. For the past twenty years, Michael Pollan has been writing about the places where the human and natural worlds intersect: food, agriculture, gardens, drugs, and architecture. His most recent book, about the ethics and ecology of eating, is The Omnivore's Dilemma, named one of the ten best books of 2006 by the New York Times and the Washington Post. He is also the author of The Botany of Desire, A Place of My Own and Second Nature.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : HMH
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780547417769

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Facing Unpleasant Facts by George Orwell Pdf

Essays by the author of 1984 on topics from “remembrances of working in a bookshop [to] recollections of fighting in the Spanish Civil War” (Publishers Weekly). George Orwell was first and foremost an essayist, producing throughout his life an extraordinary array of short nonfiction that reflected—and illuminated—the fraught times in which he lived. “As soon as he began to write something,” comments George Packer in his foreword, “it was as natural for Orwell to propose, generalize, qualify, argue, judge—in short, to think—as it was for Yeats to versify or Dickens to invent.” Facing Unpleasant Facts charts Orwell’s development as a master of the narrative-essay form and unites such classics as “Shooting an Elephant” with lesser-known journalism and passages from his wartime diary. Whether detailing the horrors of Orwell’s boyhood in an English boarding school or bringing to life the sights, sounds, and smells of the Spanish Civil War, these essays weave together the personal and the political in an unmistakable style that is at once plainspoken and brilliantly complex. “Best known for his late-career classics Animal Farm and 1984, George Orwell—who used his given name, Eric Blair, in the earliest pieces of this collection aimed at the aficionado as well as the general reader—was above all a polemicist of the first rank. Organized chronologically, from 1931 through the late 1940s, these in-your-face writings showcase the power of this literary form.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

Author : Pen Vogler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1786496496

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Scoff by Pen Vogler Pdf

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1421108701

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A Nice Cup of Tea by George Orwell Pdf

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1567921353

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George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1946 by George Orwell Pdf

George Orwell is a major figure in twentieth-century literature. The author of Down and Out in Paris and London, Nineteen Eighty-four, and Animal Farm, he published ten books and two collections of essays during his lifetime - but in terms of actual words, produced much more than seems possible for someone who died at the age of forty-six and was often struggling against poverty and ill health. His essays, letters, and journalism are among the most memorable, lucid, and intelligent ever written, the work of a master craftsman and a brilliant mind. Taken as a whole they form an essential collection, and read in toto and sequentially, they provide a remarkably literary self-portrait of an engaged, and consistently engaging, writer. Here, in four volumes, is the best selection of his nonfiction writing now available, a trove of letters, essays, reviews, and journalism that is breathtaking in its scope and eclectic passions.

Author : Arabella Boxer
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781905490998

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Arabella Boxer's Book of English Food by Arabella Boxer Pdf

Arabella Boxer's Book of English Food describes the delicious dishes - and the social conditions in which they were prepared, cooked and eaten - in the short span between the two world wars when English cooking suddenly blossomed. The food in these wonderful recipes comes from the great country houses, where little had changed since Victorian times, the large houses in London and the south, where fashionable hostesses vied with each other to entertain the most distinguished guests at their tables, and less grand establishments, like those in Bloomsbury where the painters and writers of the day contrived to lead cultured and civilised lives on little money. Containing 200 recipes, drawn from cookery books, magazines of the period, family sources or from talking to survivors who still remember those days, Arabella Boxer's Book of English Food is a fascinating glimpse into another world, and a celebration of English cooking at its finest.

Author : Alena Friedrich
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783638643481

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English Food by Alena Friedrich Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,3 (A), University of Leipzig (Culture Studies GB), course: Looking Into England. The English Question, 12 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, die Urspr nge und Traditionen der englischen K che zu untersuchen und eventuelle Beziehungen zur Ern hrung der Engl nder heutzutage aufzuzeigen. Dabei wird die Historie des englischen Essens bis in r mische Zeiten zur ckverfolgt und ihre Entwicklung dann bis in die heutige Zeit untersucht. Stereotypische Konzepte wie die Vorliebe der Engl nder f r wei es Brot, Fleisch und der oftmals kritisierte 'fade Geschmack' englischen Essens sollen ebenfalls untersucht werden. Am Ende der Arbeit soll diskutiert werden, ob es so etwas wie 'typisch' englische K che berhaupt gibt und, wenn ja, worin sich diese widerspiegelt und von, beispielsweise, der schottischen oder walisischen K che unterscheidet.

Author : Michael Pollan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1594201455

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In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan Pdf

#1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of How to Change Your Mind, The Omnivore's Dilemma, and Food Rules Food. There's plenty of it around, and we all love to eat it. So why should anyone need to defend it? Because in the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion--most of what we’re consuming today is longer the product of nature but of food science. The result is what Michael Pollan calls the American Paradox: The more we worry about nutrition, the less healthy we see to become. With In Defense of Food, Pollan proposes a new (and very old) answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." Pollan’s bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we can start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives, enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy, and bring pleasure back to eating.

Author : Noëlle Janaczewska
Publisher : Apollo Books
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1742588042

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The Book of Thistles by Noëlle Janaczewska Pdf

"From the winner of the 2014 Windham Campbell Prize"--Cover.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781913724863

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Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell Pdf

George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. Shooting an Elephant, the fifth in the Orwell’s Essays series, tells the story of a police officer in Burma who is called upon to shoot an aggressive elephant. Thought to be loosely based on Orwell’s own experiences in Burma, the tightly written essay weaves together fact and fiction indistinguishably, and leaves the reader contemplating the heavy topic of colonialism, with the words ‘when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys’ echoing from the page. 'A remarkable piece.' (Jeremy Paxman) 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' (Irish Times)

Author : Tom Parker Bowles
Publisher : Random House
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781448146888

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Full English by Tom Parker Bowles Pdf

From West Country cider brewers to Yorkshire tripe dressers, Tom meets the punters and producers at the heart of our food traditions. He samples the very best of real English food: Bury black pudding, home-cured Wiltshire bacon and the planet's finest cheddar. But Full English is no paean to an imagined land where yokels sip ale together while chomping on pork pies. Tom's quest delves beneath the surface to unearth the real story behind our eating habits, and what the food of today says about us: organic heaven or mass-produced hell? Peppered with mouth-watering recipes and recommendations, Tom's pilgrimage maps out England's defining dishes: Fish & Chips in the North, Balti in the midlands, Snail Porridge at the Fat Duck. But it is the colourful characters we meet along the way who truly bring Full English to life.

Author : Carwyn Graves
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-26
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781915279026

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Welsh Food Stories by Carwyn Graves Pdf

Welsh Food Stories explores more than two thousand years of history to discover the rich but forgotten heritage of Welsh foods – from oysters to cider, salted butter to salt-marsh lamb. Despite centuries of industry, ancient traditions have survived in pockets across the country among farmers, bakers, fisherfolk, brewers and growers who are taking Welsh food back to its roots, and trailblazing truly sustainable foods as they do so. In this important book, author Carwyn Graves travels Wales to uncover the country’s traditional foods and meet the people making them today. There are the owners of a local Carmarthenshire chip shop who never forget a customer, the couple behind Anglesey’s world-renowned salt company Halen Môn, and everyone else in between – all of them have unique and compelling stories to tell about how they contribute to the past, present and future of Welsh food. This is an evocative and insightful exploration of an often overlooked national cuisine, shining a spotlight on the importance – environmentally and socially – of keeping local food production alive.

Author : Delia Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1997-10
Category : Low budget cookery
ISBN : 0340712945

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Frugal Food by Delia Smith Pdf

This updated edition shows how to combine economy with elegance. With 170 recipes from soups to main courses and desserts, this book aims to show how to make the most of your cooking, and that budget buying and cooking can be fun.