epub |eng | 2013-03-27 | Author:Kelsey Timmerman

All of these bananas were the same type: the Cavendish. Not only that, but they are all genetic clones of one another. My grandparents ate what EARTH's banana expert Luis ...

epub |eng | 2009-07-17 | Author:Gail A. Eisnitz [Eisnitz, Gail A.]

"Streamlined Inspection didn't formally affect line speeds," said GAP's Tom Devine. "Rather, at these plants inspectors were stripped of their ability to detect conditions that would justify stopping the line." ...

epub |eng | 2006-04-15 | Author:Mark Bailey & Edward Hemingway [Bailey, Mark & Hemingway, Edward]

BELLINI The Bellini was invented at Harry’s Bar in Venice, a regular watering hole for Lewis when he was traveling abroad. Famous barman Giuseppe Cipriani came up with the cocktail ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:Marion Nestle

THE POLITICS OF RISKS AND BENEFITS When dealing with questions about the risks of genetically modified foods, industry leaders are fond of saying that nobody has died yet from eating ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-06-02 | Author:Jane Ziegelman

The immigrants’ dining room at Ellis Island, date unknown. National Archives Like the baggage-handlers and money-changers, the Ellis Island food purveyors were private contractors granted the privilege of doing business ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-05-05 | Author:Martha Stewart Living Magazine

1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil 1. Preheat the oven to 400°F, with the rack in the top third. Place the bell pepper halves, cut sides up, in a baking dish. ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2007-08-28 | Author:Michael Pollan

That day, my second on the farm, as Joel introduced me to each of his intricately layered enterprises, I began to understand just how radically different this sort of farming ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-04-11 | Author:Michael Pollan

OF COURSE the simplest, most traditional measure of a farm’s efficiency is how much food it produces per unit of land; by this yardstick too Polyface is impressively efficient. I ...

mobi |eng | 2010-08-01 | Author:Hervé This; Jody Gladding

Sauces CREAMY, SATINY, FLAVORFUL Neither a Juice nor a Purée Before they sang of Trojan heroes or the adventures of Ulysses, the Greek poets invoked the Muses, who were supposed ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-09-15 | Author:Bee Wilson

My mortar and pestle comes from Thailand and is fashioned from craggy black granite. I like it far better than those restrained white-china mortars, whose rough insides set my teeth ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-08-12 | Author:Mark Kurlansky

Through the centuries, fishing vessels and gear changed little in Iceland. Above: A detail from a late-sixteenth-century illuminated manuscript, one of the Law Books, codifying regulations. This page was on ...

mobi, epub, pdf |ru | 2004-12-28 | Author:Patricia Solley

IRAN (PERSIA) NOODLE SOUP SH-E RESHTEH Now the New Year reviving old Desires, The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires, Where the white hand of Moses on the bough Puts out, ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Tom Standage

THE FUELS OF INDUSTRY The shift to using coal rather than wood as a fuel was a second trend that contributed to Britain’s industrialization. People much preferred burning wood rather ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2004-11-16 | Author:Harold McGee

Fennel Seed and Pollen Fennel seed has the same anise-like aroma and sweet taste as the stalk and leaves of the plant that bears it, Foeniculum vulgare. Its dominant volatile ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2008-03-15 | Author:Michael Pollan

Of all the changes to our food system that go under the heading “The Western Diet,” the shift from a food chain with green plants at its base to one ...