The World Cookbook [4 volumes]: The Greatest Recipes from around the Globe, 2nd Edition

This is the only world cookbook in print that explores the foods of every nation-state across the globe, providing information on special ingredients, cooking methods, and commonalities that link certain dishes across different geographical areas.Increasing globalization, modern communication, and economic development have impacted every aspect of daily life, including the manner by which food is produced and distributed. While these trends have increased the likelihood and expansion of food influences, variations of the same popular dishes have been found in regions all over the world long before now. This book is an ecological, historical, and cultural examination of why certain foods are eaten, and how these foods are prepared by different social groups within the same—and different—geographical region. The authors cover more than 200 countries and cultural groups, featuring each nation's food culture and traditions, and providing overviews on foodstuffs, typical dishes, and styles of eating. This revised edition features in excess of 400 new recipes, several new countries, and additional sidebars with fun facts explaining unique foods and unfamiliar ingredients. More than 1,600 recipes for popular appetizers, main courses, desserts, snack foods, and celebration dishes are provided, allowing readers to construct full menus from every country of the world.

heralded As “a Modern Day Jane Austen” By Usa Today, National Book Award Finalist And new York Times Bestselling Author Allegra Goodman Has Compelled And Delighted Hundreds Of Thousands Of Readers. Now, In Her Most Ambitious Work Yet, Goodman Weaves Together The Worlds Of Silicon Valley And Rare Book Collecting In A Delicious Novel About Appetite, Temptation, And Fulfillment.

emily And Jessamine Bach Are Opposites In Every Way: Twenty-eight-year-old Emily Is The Ceo Of Veritech, Twenty-three-year-old Jess Is An Environmental Activist And Graduate Student In Philosophy. Pragmatic Emily Is Making A Fortune In Silicon Valley, Romantic Jess Works In An Antiquarian Bookstore. Emily Is Rational And Driven, While Jess Is Dreamy And Whimsical. Emily’s Boyfriend, Jonathan, Is Fantastically Successful. Jess’s Boyfriends, Not So Much—as Her Employer George Points Out In What He Hopes Is A Completely Disinterested Way.

bicoastal, Surprising, Rich In Ideas And Characters, The Cookbook Collector Is A Novel About Getting And Spending, And About The Substitutions We Make When We Can’t Find What We’re Looking For: Reading Cookbooks Instead Of Cooking, Speculating Instead Of Creating, Collecting Instead Of Living. But Above All It Is About Holding On To What Is Real In A Virtual World: Love That Stays.

the Barnes & Noble Review

looking For A Delicious Read? Allegra Goodman Has Whipped Up A Delectable Mix Of Intelligence, Relevance, Wit, Romance, Moral Complexity, Bibliophilia, Dot-com Startups, And Family Secrets In Her Luscious Fourth Novel, the Cookbook Collector. Seriously, If Charm Weren't Such A Maligned Sweetener, I'd Flag That Ingredient, Too.

the Cookbook Collector Brings Together The Spiritual And Secular Strands Of Goodman's Ongoing Inquiry Into The Multitude Of Ways One Can Live And Find Meaning. Her Characters Struggle With Questions About What's Really Valuable In An Often Baffling World In Which Rare Books Are More Highly Prized Than Giant Redwoods, And Stock Prices Soar And Crash In The Space Of Months. Goodman Has Referred To Her New Novel As A sense And Sensibility For The Digital Age. If You're Worried About Redundancy With Cathleen Schine's Delightfully Frothy the Three Weissmanns Of Westport, You Needn't Be: the Cookbook Collector, Although No Less Entertaining, Is A More Ambitious Book, With A Looser Connection To Jane Austen's Classic.

Heralded as a modern day Jane Austen by USA Today , National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Allegra Goodman has compelled and delighted hundreds of thousands of readers. Now, in her most ambitious work yet, Goodman weaves together the worlds of Silicon Valley and rare book collecting in a delicious novel about appetite, temptation, and fulfillment. Emily and Jessamine Bach are opposites in every way: twenty-eight-year-old Emily is the CEO of Veritech; twenty-three-year-old Jess is an environmental activist and graduate student in philosophy. Pragmatic Emily is making a fortune in Silicon Valley; romantic Jess works in an antiquarian bookstore. Emily is rational and driven, while Jess is dreamy and whimsical. Emilys boyfriend, Jonathan, is fantastically successful. Jesss boyfriends, not so muchas her employer George points out in what he hopes is a completely disinterested way. Bicoastal, surprising, rich in ideas and characters, The Cookbook Collector is a novel about getting and spending, and about the substitutions we make when we cant find what were looking for: reading cookbooks instead of cooking, speculating instead of creating, collecting instead of living. But above all it is about holding on to what is real in a virtual world: love that stays. Increasing globalization, modern communication, and economic development have impacted every aspect of daily life, including the manner by which food is produced and distributed. While these trends have increased the likelihood and expansion of food influences, variations of the same popular dishes have been found in regions all over the world long before now. This book is an ecological, historical, and cultural examination of why certain foods are eaten, and how these foods are prepared by different social groups within the same and different geographical region. The authors cover more than 200 countries and cultural groups, featuring each nation's food culture and traditions, and providing overviews on foodstuffs, typical dishes, and styles of eating. This revised edition features in excess of 400 new recipes, several new countries, and additional sidebars with fun facts explaining unique foods and unfamiliar ingredients. More than 1,600 recipes for popular appetizers, main courses, desserts, snack foods, and celebration dishes are provided, allowing readers to construct full menus from every country of the world." Emily and Jessamine Bach are opposites in every way: Twenty-eight-year-old Emily is the CEO of Veritech, twenty-three-year-old Jess is an environmental activist and graduate student in philosophy. Pragmatic Emily is making a fortune in Silicon Valley, romantic Jess works in an antiquarian bookstore. Emily is rational and driven, while Jess is dreamy and whimsical. Emily's boyfriend, Jonathan, is fantastically successful. Jess's boyfriends, not so much - as her employer George points out in what he hopes is a completely disinterested way. Bicoastal, surprising, rich in ideas and characters, The Cookbook Collector is a novel about getting and spending, and about the substitutions we make when we can't find what we're looking for: reading cookbooks instead of cooking, speculating instead of creating, collecting instead of living. But above all it is about holding on to what is real in a virtual world: love that stays. NATIONAL BESTSELLEREmily and Jessamine Bach are opposites in every way: Twenty-eight-year-old Emily is the CEO of Veritech, twenty-three-year-old Jess is an environmental activist and graduate student in philosophy. Pragmatic Emily is making a fortune in Silicon Valley, romantic Jess works in an antiquarian bookstore. Emily is rational and driven, while Jess is dreamy and whimsical. Emily's boyfriend, Jonathan, is fantastically successful. Jess's boyfriends, not so much.National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Allegra Goodman has written a delicious novel about appetite, temptation, and holding on to what is real in a virtual world: love that stays. This book is an ecological, historical, and cultural examination of why certain foods are eaten, and how these foods are prepared by different social groups within various geographical regions. It covers more than 200 countries and cultural groups, featuring each nation's food culture and traditions. The book also provides overviews on foodstuffs, typical dishes, styles of eating, and over 1,600 recipes Emily Bach is the CEO of Veritech, a Web-based data-storage startup and her boyfriend is charismatic Jonathan Tighman, is in a race to catch up at his data-security company ISIS. When Emily confides her company's new secret project to Jonathan as proof of her love, the stage is set for issues of loyalty, greed and the allure of power. While executive Emily questions her choices about her career and a long-distance relationship with a successful man, her environmental activist sister, Jessamine, struggles with her own doubts about her beliefs and love affair.