Food Place

In this book, Rob Arnold reveals how innovative whiskey producers are recapturing a sense of place to create distinctive, nuanced flavors. He takes listeners on a world tour of whiskey and the science of flavor, stopping along the way at distilleries in Kentucky, New York, Texas, Ireland, and Scotland. Arnold puts the spotlight on a new generation of distillers, plant breeders, and local farmers who are bringing back long-forgotten grain flavors and creating new ones in pursuit of terroir.

Discover tantalizing recipes, spine-tingling stories, and historic photos from the most notoriously haunted locations across America in this fun and fascinating cookbook. Paranormal investigator and Kindred Spirits co-host Amy Bruni leads you through eerie hotels, haunted homes, hellish hospitals, and spooky ghost towns, giving you stories and a recipe from each place.

A mouthwatering testament to the healing power of food, My Place at the Table is a moving coming-of-age story of how a gay man emerges from a wounding childhood, discovers himself, and finds love. Published here for the first time is Lobrano’s “little black book,” an insider’s guide to his thirty all-time-favorite Paris restaurants.

In this eye-opening study, Sidney W. Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar and reveals how closely interwoven sugar's origins are as a "slave" crop grown in Europe's tropical colonies, with its use first as an extravagant luxury for the aristocracy, then as a staple of the diet of the new industrial proletariat.

When Besha Rodell moved from Australia to the United States with her mother at fourteen, she was a foreigner in a new land, missing her friends, her father, and the food she grew up eating. In the years that followed, Rodell began waitressing and discovered the buzz of the restaurant world, immersing herself in the lifestyle and community while struggling with the industry’s shortcomings. As she built a family, Rodell realized her dream, though only a handful of women before her had done it: to make a career as a restaurant critic.

Want to stock your pantry with delicious homemade preserves, even if you’ve never picked up a canning jar in your life? Are you overwhelmed by the idea of water bath canning, unsure where to begin. Does the thought of preserving fail-safe homemade jams or sauces intrigue you, but you worry about safety and shelf life? Do you yearn to embrace self-sufficiency and enjoy the rewarding art of canning that turns your homegrown produce into delightful gifts?

Burn the Place is a galvanizing culinary memoir that chronicles Iliana Regan's journey from foraging on the family farm to opening her Michelin-starred restaurant. Her story is alive with startling imagery, raw like that first bite of wild onion, and told with uncommon emotional power. Regan grew up the youngest of four headstrong girls on a small farm in Indiana. Regan often felt that she "wasn't made for this world." She was a little girl who longed to be a boy, gay in an intolerant community, an alcoholic before she turned 20, a woman in an industry dominated by men.

Are you thinking about opening a restaurant, bar or nightclub? This is a complex business with a big learning curve. You can either learn by trial and error spending hundreds of thousands of dollars or you can lean from those that have already done it successfully. Chris Seferyn has survived and thrived for 20+ years in the hospitality business. He has literally seen it all when it comes to serving people food and beverages. This book is the distillation of everything he has learned by making all the mistakes that you would make. How do you pick a concept? How do you choose a location? How ...

Two expert guides. One complete canning library. If you’ve ever dreamed of filling your pantry with homemade jams, pickles, sauces, or salsas—but didn’t know where to start—this all-in-one bundle was made for you.

Taking the locavore movement to heart, best-selling coauthor and social innovator Vicki Robin pledged for one month to eat only food sourced within a ten-mile radius of her home on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound, Washington. Her sustainable diet not only brings to light society's unhealthy dependency on mass-produced, prepackaged foods but also helps her reconnect with her body and her environment.

It's a familiar trope: angry men berating each other in kitchens as pots furiously boil, sauces burn and a giant slab of beef rests in the background. The dominant view of a professional kitchen is one of chaos and pent-up fury - a gladiatorial contest of male ego. Why then do we also hear the misogynistic refrain that women 'belong in the kitchen' if, in a professional context, they're all but erased from them?

Want to explore Portugal but not sure where to begin? This guide has everything you need to plan the best trip of your life, whether you’re heading to Portugal for a week or two. Portugal Travel Guide 2025 is packed with simple tips and amazing places you can’t miss. From walking through Lisbon’s colorful streets to relaxing on secret beaches or tasting delicious food in small local towns, this guide makes it super easy to plan your adventure. Here’s what you’ll find inside: Easy-to-follow itineraries for trips of 7, 14, or more days. Hidden spots most tourists never find, like ...

Our farmers' market is a busy place! Lots of community helpers work at the farmers' market. Listeners will learn about who works at a farmers' market, what the workers do, and what makes a farmers' market special. Simple, at-level text helps listeners learn all about farmers' markets in the community.

Planning to Traveling to Chiang Mai Thailand? This book is designed to help you with your travels around this great city. Chiang Mai is known for its beauty and diverse culture. We include such things as: Recommended Restaurants Activities Lodging Night Life ShoppingChiang Mai offers visitors countless things to do, see and eat. This condensed book has been designed to be user friendly with top rated places to eat, visit, stay, as well as addresses to help you find your way. It also indicates some of the recommended exceptional standouts in each category. These are highly suggested to be ...

Is God asking you to cultivate hope in a hard place? Is the cry of your heart to restore things long broken? Do you have a passion for seeing the goodness of God blossom here on earth as it does in heaven? Join us on a journey to a desperate community - Ngombe Compound, Lusaka, Zambia and learn how a life-changing ministry started and is flourishing. See how James 1:27, which says, "true religion that God our Father accepts is this - to look after orphans and widows in their distress..." is being lived out in practical ways. Run by local teens passionate about serving the widows in their ...

Since the first book things have progressively and rather rapidly got worse. That book was about living cheap so you can have a better life, now it seems you have to live cheap just to survive. Things have changed and not for the better. The virus that kind of invaded our space and the government's reaction to it has doubled down, so now we have to live cheap just to survive. Before living cheap was a lifestyle choice now it seemed it is more of a necessity just to keep your head above water. The government's reaction to the virus is a concern, but the government reaction to climate change ...

This insider’s guide to Paris acts as an essential starting point for those looking to create their own magical experience in a glittering city known for all that is exceptional and exquisite. Whether your heart beats in time with the artists of the past, your pen flows with Parisian inspiration, or you’re simply looking for that "je ne sais quoi" the city can offer, there’s something here for every traveler who possesses the spirit of exploration.

Night after night chefs and their crews are able to multitask and produce in a way that puts deskbound workers to shame. In Work Clean, Dan Charnas uncovers their secret: mise-en-place - the organizational system that transforms the lives of its practitioners through focus and self-discipline.

This photo based tour of the Philippines includes a mini-guide to animals, food, shopping, and scenic shots from around the Philippines and tourist locations (such as the Banaue rice terraces.) This mini-guide won't cover Manila and mainly focuses on the north (Baguio, La Union, and Pangasinan.) I've included a few Tagalog words (with their English equivalents) and over 75 photos with brief descriptions.

A Woman's Place Is in the Brewhouse celebrates the contributions of female brewers and explores the forces that have erased them from the brewing world. It's a history that's simultaneously inspiring and demeaning. As women continue to work hard for equal treatment and recognition in the industry, author Tara Nurin shows that women have been - and are once again becoming - relevant in the brewing world.