"Dangerous Tastes offers a fresh perspective on these exotic substances and the roles they have played over the centuries. The author shows how each region became part of a worldwide network of trade - with local consequences ranging from disaster to triumph."--BOOK JACKET.

In today′s fast-paced world, the family dinner can easily get swallowed up by work, errands, and kids′ activities. But sitting down to a healthy home-cooked meal doesn't have to be a thing of the past. In Make Ahead Paleo, Tammy Credicott shows you how to eat well at home and on the run, without sacrificing flavor or good nutrition. Tammy offers up more than 100 flavorful recipes that are ready when you are, wherever you are, each one beautifully illustrated with a photo that will inspire you to start shopping and chopping: dishes such as Garlic Topped Flank Steak Roulade, Apricot Orange Pork Chops, Mushroom Meatballs, Apple Cider Chicken Thighs, Paleo English Muffins, Chocolate Chip Tahini Blondies with Toasted Coconut, and even Pumpkin Cardamom Pancakes. You'll be amazed at how easily, economically, and efficiently you can feed your family grain- and gluten-free meals using fresh, natural, whole-food ingredients. In Make Ahead Paleo, you'll find: • Recipes and tips for whipping up freezable meals • Inventory sheets to help you keep track of your frozen creations • Delicious timesaving recipes for your slow cooker • A busy work-week menu with full grocery list • Recipes to take on the road • One-pan meals you can make in your hotel room • Sweet indulgences that freeze and travel well Make Ahead Paleo is the perfect guide for cooks who don't have time to spend all day working at a hot stove but still want their meals to taste as if they did. Wherever your hectic life takes you, make it nutritious, make it flavorful, and make it ahead!

Spice It Up Recipes with a Sensual Twist By: LaJuan Preston You will learn how to cook a delicious dish or meal – keeping the spice not only in the kitchen but in your relationship. Enhance the excitement by cooking and making LOVE to your partner both mentally and physically. This book includes helpful tips on cooking in and out of the kitchen. It will help you put and keep chemistry and spice in your relationship.

Tracing the intertwined roles of food, ethnicity, and regionalism in the construction of American identity, this textbook examines the central role food plays in our lives. Drawing on a range of disciplines_including sociology, anthropology, folklore, geography, history, and nutrition_the editors have selected a group of engaging essays to help students explore the idea of food as a window into American culture. The editors' general introductory essay offers an overview of current scholarship, and part introductions contextualize the readings within each section. This lively reader will be a valuable supplement for courses on American culture across the social sciences.

Cheese, wine, honey and olive oil - four of Greece's best known contributions to culinary culture - were already well known four thousand years ago. Remains of honeycombs and of cheeses have been found under the volcanic ash of the Santorini eruption of 1627 BC. Over the millennia, Greek food diversified and absorbed neighbouring traditions, yet retained its own distinctive character. In Siren Feasts, Andrew Dalby provides the first serious social history of Greek food. He begins with the tunny fishers of the neolithic age, and traces the story through the repertoire of classical Greece, the reputations of Lydia for luxury and of Sicily and South Italy for sybaritism, to the Imperial synthesis of varying traditions, with a look forward to the Byzantine cuisine and the development of the modern Greek menu. The apples of the Hesperides turn out to be lemons, and great favour attaches to Byzantine biscuits. Fully documented and comprehensively illustrated, scholarly yet immensely readable, Siren Feasts demonstrates the social construction placed upon different types of food at different periods (was fish a luxury item in classical Athens, though disdained by Homeric heroes?). It places diet in an economic and agricultural context; and it provides a history of mentalities in relation to a subject which no human being can ignore.

A sweet tooth is a powerful thing. Babies everywhere seem to smile when tasting sweetness for the first time, a trait inherited, perhaps, from our ancestors who foraged for sweet foods that were generally safer to eat than their bitter counterparts. But the "science of sweet" is only the beginning of a fascinating story, because it is not basic human need or simple biological impulse that prompts us to decorate elaborate wedding cakes, scoop ice cream into a cone, or drop sugar cubes into coffee. These are matters of culture and aesthetics, of history and society, and we might ask many other questions. Why do sweets feature so prominently in children's literature? When was sugar called a spice? And how did chocolate evolve from an ancient drink to a modern candy bar? The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets explores these questions and more through the collective knowledge of 265 expert contributors, from food historians to chemists, restaurateurs to cookbook writers, neuroscientists to pastry chefs. The Companion takes readers around the globe and throughout time, affording glimpses deep into the brain as well as stratospheric flights into the world of sugar-crafted fantasies. More than just a compendium of pastries, candies, ices, preserves, and confections, this reference work reveals how the human proclivity for sweet has brought richness to our language, our art, and, of course, our gastronomy. In nearly 600 entries, beginning with "à la mode" and ending with the Italian trifle known as "zuppa inglese," the Companion traces sugar's journey from a rare luxury to a ubiquitous commodity. In between, readers will learn about numerous sweeteners (as well-known as agave nectar and as obscure as castoreum, or beaver extract), the evolution of the dessert course, the production of chocolate, and the neurological, psychological, and cultural responses to sweetness. The Companion also delves into the darker side of sugar, from its ties to colonialism and slavery to its addictive qualities. Celebrating sugar while acknowledging its complex history, The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets is the definitive guide to one of humankind's greatest sources of pleasure. Like kids in a candy shop, fans of sugar (and aren't we all?) will enjoy perusing the wondrous variety to be found in this volume.

Spice Up The topics covered in this second volume of Short Bedtime Stories titled Spice Up are illustrated by themes such as: Ignoring a hurting body, being in fashion, super human machines, parent love, perfect synchronization of music and crime schedules, martial arts surprise, consumer trust at restaurants, weapons in the civilian world, power of an Alcoholic Anonymous agent, family trees, the paranoia of reputable scientists, Fermis Paradox, automobile insurance abuses, testing of care products on animals, where anti-Semitism has one of many roots, in addition some other themes in Spice Up by Rachel A. Frias are an obsession with obesity, not fitting in as a tourist, schools administrations despair to meet standards, chat misunderstandings, desperate for tax money and also, missing part of childhood. Stories in Spice Up may be summarized into categories ranging through any of these: Male vanity, stress at work, parents love, automotive crime, sports, hostelry, robbery, AA, progeny, scientific curiosities, anti-Semitism, foreign obesity, administration plans, taxes to students home life. Provide Proof: By including a bit of actuality and surrounding these bare bone issues with a plush environment, the author of Spice Up, Rachel A. Frias, brings fiction to life through story and conversation. Each of the 21 stories in Spice Up is unique and contains at least one element of surprise as one reads the daring writers composition take for instance the short story titled, Noahs Cell- where the interpretation of Noahs old wooden boat tale, is taken to the extravagant clarification of being a human cell, which carries the genetic code to form all animals on Earth, if the process of development is stopped at different times. Fermis Paradox relays the unattainable space odyssey that of leaving Earth to survive in a different part of the Universe. Be original: To illustrate further the novelty of these 21 short stories in Spice Up by Rachel A. Frias, check that such a modern topic as Tax fraud by Mr. Merredith a retired teacher and tax advisor- takes advantage of Bernie, who innocently, spreads the word on how to become fraudulent. Counter Objections: Spice Up is a work of fiction not meant for children because some topics are censored to minors. These short stories address situations that can occur in a community and are a mild recall in awareness that what could happen can be prevented and avoided as what could happen in The Jews where a personality exchange scares Grace away from Jewish men, forcing her to hate them. 2. What inspired you to write these books? Inspired by dream, fantasy, and common or mysterious situations developed into fiction, created these collections of short stories. Controversial topics are presented, inviting the readers possible curtailed stimulation to be uplifted, and provoke thoughts otherwise committed to the discretion of others. 3. Where do these books take place? Mainly NY, the USA and Europe. I thought of writing a short story on Eskimos. 4. Who are the main characters, what are their relationships, and why are they important to the story? The characters are diverse, well defined, random types who are victims or aggressors making important decisions on current, controversial issues, based on their life styles and upbringing. 5. Why do you think that these books will appeal to the readers? I offered a dare and wrote Straight Up including stories to offer the public entertainment, a few thoughts to be discussed such as stem cell research, abortion, queers, self-sacrifice, just to mention a few. I suggested some provocation in my second book Spice Up with thoughts to be discussed such as AA, health, perfectionism and automotive insurance abuse, just to mention a few. As the author to Straight Up and Spice Up I hope reading these short story collections, make these worthwhile books through inspiration, and future, well thought-out decision making on the readers part. 6. Target Audience: Scientists, technicians, engineers, college students, teachers and any bibliophile who likes cognitive picking. 1. Who are the characters in your books stories? Can you provide any specific examples? In Straight Up Ambrosio is a mechanic with a dark side to his life. Helena is an office worker who faces the deterioration of her body while others profit from it. Bernie is a Town Clerk who is ripped-off while filing taxes. Nathaniel is an obstinate technician who gets himself into an odd situation. Professor Taylore takes advantage of Julia, while he is under the influence of self-made and self-administered medication. Mary Crevitch is witness to the playback of a live animal and a plant as well as some of her own actions. There are many other characters. In Spice Up Herman, recently retired, finds out most of his physical problems originate from a bad back. Fiona and Silvan experience a trip into a culinary nightmare to ascertain the cleanliness of a restaurant. Sabina plays Little Red Riding Hood while the Big Bad Wolf loves her conversations. Catalina, The Seors maid, finds out how paranoid her benefactor is when she cleans the house. Doctor Marga Azack abuses automobile insurance to her benefit, through lies and vandalism. There are many other characters. 2. Is this your first book? If not, please list other books that you have written These are my first two books, Straight Up and Spice Up Who is Rachel A. Frias? The author of Straight Up and Spice Up is offering no advice, doesnt sell a potion or magic lotion, however would like to offer entertainment. A discussion is an investment into better living and these short stories reflect an awareness of human behavior, that Rachel A. Frias, having been a teacher, can write about to enjoy in a fictitious presentation in each of these short stories. I was brought up in Spain, Europe. At an early age, my American mother, Sarah an English teacher, would pull me away from the childrens playground to read and do written exercises in English from an American childs magazine Highlights to which we subscribed at the time. You can imagine the pain I felt having to leave the playground sweaty and red from playing- to just read and do the English homework, which other Spanish children did not have. At the age of fourteen, I attended Oakwood School, in NY. There I attended a Black English teachers class, whom I thought the world of because his English was so prim, and proper. At Clarkson University, one English professor allotted me an A for a short story, in which, the philosophical discussion of property and destruction I made, was within a western setting. After working for many years, I suffered a back injury which prevented my normal activities. I laid down most of the time writing these short stories keeping in mind basic human psychology and philosophy from a technical perspective -being an engineer and scientist.