Stories
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The cook who became a pariah
New York, 1907. Mary Mallon spreads infection, unaware that her name will one day become synonymous with typhoid.
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The family food of a kebab van man
Melek Erdal celebrates the physical and mental resilience of her father Yusuf, forged by isolation and dislocation, and reinforced by the distinctive cuisine of his home country, Turkey.
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The shifting shape of language
Author Jessica Andrews explores how her brother’s deafness has influenced her relationship with words and the world.
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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
Catalogue
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Cooking with ganja / by Eric.
Eric, 1966-Date: 1997- Books
Food and cooking in 18th century Britain : history and recipes / by Jennifer Stead ; illustrations by Peter Brears.
Stead, Jennifer.Date: 1985- Books
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The Queens closet opened : Comprehending several hundreds of experienced receipts, and incomparable secrets in physick, chyrurgery, preserving, candying, cooking, &c. which were presented to the Queen, by the most eminent doctors in physick, chyrurgions, oculists and divers persons of honour, whose names are all fixed to their receipts, many whereof were had in esteem, when she pleased to descend to private recreations. Containing I. The Queens physical cabbinet, or excellent receipts in physick, chyrurgery, &c. II. The Queens delight,; or the art of preserving, conserving, candying; as also, a right knowledge of making perfumes and distilling the most excellent waters. III. The compleat cook; or, directions for dressing all sorts of flesh, fowl and fish, ordering of sauces, and making of pastry, according to the English, French, Spanish and Italian mode.
Date: 1684- Books
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Homely hints on food and cooking, digestion and indigestion : with over one hundred and forty simple, economical and practical recipes (English, French and American).
Date: 1902- Books
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Homely hints on food and cooking, digestion and indigestion : with over one hundred and forty simple, economical and practical recipes (English, French and American) / [by Monsieur Alfonse].
Alfonse.Date: [1902]