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  • Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew by Twitty, Michael W.
    Michael W. Twitty

    Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew

    "Twitty makes the case that Blackness and Judaism coexist in beautiful harmony, and this is manifested in the foods and traditions from both cultures that Black Jews incorporate into their daily lives...Twitty wishes to start a conversation where people celebrate their differences and embrace...
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  • Serendipity: From Truffles and Champagne to Corn Flakes and Coffee: Stories of Accidental Success by Farinetti, Oscar
    Oscar Farinetti

    Serendipity: From Truffles and Champagne to Corn Flakes and Coffee: Stories of Accidental Success

    Eataly founder Oscar Farinetti reveals the accidental, serendipitous discoveries that gave birth to some of the world's most well-known gastronomic delights.Did you know that your morning coffee could be thanks to a herd of energetic goats? Or that a forgotten ingredient is behind the...
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  • Recipes from the World of Tolkien: Inspired by the Legends by Anderson, Robert Tuesley
    Robert Tuesley Anderson

    Recipes from the World of Tolkien: Inspired by the Legends

    These Lord of the Rings-themed recipes are sure to satisfy Hobbits, Elves, Dwarves...and humans too! If you've ever wondered what a Hobbit, an Elf, or a Dwarf might eat in a day's meals, this cookbook is for you! Whip up some tasty fare with...
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  • Ontario Garlic: The Story from Farm to Festival by McClusky, Peter
    Peter McClusky

    Ontario Garlic: The Story from Farm to Festival

    The taste of Ontario garlic is as rich and varied as its history. Used mainly for medicinal purposes in the nineteenth century, people turned up their noses at the aromatic bulb as it became associated with new immigrants. The once acceptable ingredient became undesirable...
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  • Casseroles, Can Openers, and Jell-O: American Food and the Cold War, 1947-1959 by Aldrich, Elizabeth
    Elizabeth Aldrich

    Casseroles, Can Openers, and Jell-O: American Food and the Cold War, 1947-1959

    An "all-you-can-eat" tour of American life in the postwar period, told through the foods we loved.Author: Elizabeth AldrichISBN-10: 1438493061ISBN-13: 9781438493060Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2023Pages: 392Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.52lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88dReview Citation(s): Choice 11/01/2023
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  • Women's Work: How Culinary Cultures Shaped Modern Spain by Ingram, Rebecca
    Rebecca Ingram

    Women's Work: How Culinary Cultures Shaped Modern Spain

    Winner, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, 2023--Best Women of the World Book, Spain We are living in a moment in which famous chefs, Michelin stars, culinary techniques, and gastronomical accolades attract moneyed tourists to Spain from all over the world. This has prompted the Spanish...
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  • Women's Work: How Culinary Cultures Shaped Modern Spain by Ingram, Rebecca
    Rebecca Ingram

    Women's Work: How Culinary Cultures Shaped Modern Spain

    Winner, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, 2023--Best Women of the World Book, Spain We are living in a moment in which famous chefs, Michelin stars, culinary techniques, and gastronomical accolades attract moneyed tourists to Spain from all over the world. This has prompted the Spanish...
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  • Spices and Herbs: Lore and Cookery by Hayes, Elizabeth S.
    Elizabeth S. Hayes

    Spices and Herbs: Lore and Cookery

    This introductory guide to the romance of spices and herbs offers historical, geographical, literary, and culinary details. More than 85 familiar and exotic plants are illustrated and examined for legendary lore and current use. The book also includes 73 recipes, a spice chart, and...
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  • Agave Spirits: The Past, Present, and Future of Mezcals by Nabhan, Gary
    Gary Paul Nabhan

    Agave Spirits: The Past, Present, and Future of Mezcals

    All tequilas are mezcals; all mezcals are made from agaves; and every bottle of mezcal is the remarkable result of collaborations among agave entrepreneurs, botanists, distillers, beverage distributors, bartenders, and more. How these groups come together in this "spirits world" is the subject of...
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  • Egg: A Dozen Ovatures by Stark, Lizzie
    Lizzie Stark

    Egg: A Dozen Ovatures

    The egg is a paradox--both alive and not alive--and a symbol as old as culture itself. In this wide-ranging and delightful journey through its natural and cultural history, Lizzie Stark explores the egg's deep meanings, innumerable uses, and metabolic importance through a dozen dazzling...
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  • The Old El Paso Cookbook: 20-Minute-Prep Mexican-Style Meals by Old El Paso
    Old El Paso

    The Old El Paso Cookbook: 20-Minute-Prep Mexican-Style Meals

    From Old El Paso, inspiring modern Mexican-style meals at home, a cookbook of more than 125 quick and easy family favorite recipes. Family is at the heart of everything Old El Paso does, inspiring today's Mexican-style meals at home. Along with their globally beloved,...
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  • Smithsonian American Table: The Foods, People, and Innovations That Feed Us by Smithsonian Institution
    Smithsonian Institution

    Smithsonian American Table: The Foods, People, and Innovations That Feed Us

    In collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, a sweeping history of food and culture that summons everyone to the table for a fresh look at the people, ingredients, events, and movements that have shaped how and what we eat in the United StatesThis exploration of...
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  • Why Food Matters by Freedman, Paul
    Paul Freedman

    Why Food Matters

    From the author of Ten Restaurants That Changed America, an exploration of food's cultural importance and its crucial role throughout human history "A rich and fascinating narrative that reaches deep into the historical and cultural larder of societal experience, powerfully illustrating the myriad ways...
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  • Eating the Ocean: Seafood and Consumer Culture in Canada by Payne, Brian
    Brian Payne

    Eating the Ocean: Seafood and Consumer Culture in Canada Volume 2

    During the first half of the twentieth century, Canadian fisheries regularly produced more fish than markets could absorb, driving down profits and wages. To address this, both industry and government sought to stimulate domestic consumption via increased advertising. In Eating the Ocean Brian Payne...
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  • Feed the World - Celebrate World Food Day: Farm-Fresh, Free-Range, and Zero Leftover Waste Recipes! by Tosch, Christina
    Christina Tosch

    Feed the World - Celebrate World Food Day: Farm-Fresh, Free-Range, and Zero Leftover Waste Recipes!

    Certainly, World Food Day, on Friday, the 16th of October is an event set by the United Nations. It aims to raise global awareness and promote action for world hunger, food safety and healthy diets for all. Feed the World is a collection of...
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  • Heart and Tongue: Cooking in the Great Depression by Mitchell, Sarah E.
    Sarah E. Mitchell

    Heart and Tongue: Cooking in the Great Depression

    Author Patricia B. Mitchell collects food-related memories from those who lived through the Great Depression, along with recipes, quotes from primary sources, and letters from the era. Contains 59 recipes, 195 research notes, and 130 numbered pages including index. Published 2021. The many very...
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  • Climbing the Kitchen Stairs from Apprentice to feeding the Elite of the World: From Bag Gastein to New York City by Schmidt, Arno
    Arno Schmidt

    Climbing the Kitchen Stairs from Apprentice to feeding the Elite of the World: From Bag Gastein to New York City

    The story of kitchen life and learning on every step up in different countries until ready to take on the greatest challenge Executive Chef at The Waldorf -Astoria Hotel from 1969 to 1979 when the hotel was still the unofficial Palace of New York.Author:...
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  • Hello! 365 Holiday Candy Recipes: Best Holiday Candy Cookbook Ever For Beginners [Halloween Dessert Book, Dark Chocolate Book, Marshmallow Recipe, Har by Dessert
    Dessert

    Hello! 365 Holiday Candy Recipes: Best Holiday Candy Cookbook Ever For Beginners [Halloween Dessert Book, Dark Chocolate Book, Marshmallow Recipe, Har

    Any Dessert Easily Pumps Us Up ✩★✩ Read this book for FREE on the Kindle Unlimited NOW DOWNLOAD FREE eBook (PDF) included ILLUSTRATIONS of 365 Holiday Candy Recipes right after conclusion ✩★✩My idea of a perfect meal is made up of three parts, namely...
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  • Ten Tomatoes That Changed the World: A History by Alexander, William
    William Alexander

    Ten Tomatoes That Changed the World: A History

    A WASHINGTON STATE BOOK AWARD FINALIST New York Times bestselling author William Alexander provides "an entertaining, broad-ranging history of the tomato" (Mark Pendergrast) in this fascinating and erudite microhistory. The tomato gets no respect. Never has. Lost in the dustbin of history for centuries,...
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  • Chilies to Chocolate: Food the Americas Gave the World by Foster, Nelson
    Nelson Foster

    Chilies to Chocolate: Food the Americas Gave the World

    Columbus stumbled upon the New World while seeking the riches of the orient, yet native peoples of the Americas already held riches beyond his knowing. From maize to potatoes to native beans, a variety of crops unfamiliar to Europeans were cultivated by indigenous peoples...
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  • Italian Cuisine: A Cultural History by Capatti, Alberto
    Alberto Capatti

    Italian Cuisine: A Cultural History

    Italy, the country with a hundred cities and a thousand bell towers, is also the country with a hundred cuisines and a thousand recipes. Its great variety of culinary practices reflects a history long dominated by regionalism and political division, and has led to...
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  • Finding the Flavors We Lost: From Bread to Bourbon, How Artisans Reclaimed American Food by Kuh, Patric
    Patric Kuh

    Finding the Flavors We Lost: From Bread to Bourbon, How Artisans Reclaimed American Food

    The multiple-James Beard Award--winning restaurant critic for Los Angeles Magazine delivers an arresting exploration of our cultural demand for "artisanal" foods in a world dominated by corporate agribusiness.We hear the word "artisanal" all the time--attached to cheese, chocolate, coffee, even fast-food chain sandwiches--but what...
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  • Midwest Pie: Recipes That Shaped a Region by Pangrace, Meredith
    Meredith Pangrace

    Midwest Pie: Recipes That Shaped a Region

    A historical tour of midwestern pies that recalls when recipes were shared through faded note cards and junior league cookbooks.New England may say it's the "Great American Pie Belt," but pie has a rich and varied history in the American Midwest too. Stop by...
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  • Ottawa Food: A Hungry Capital by Lim
    Lim

    Ottawa Food: A Hungry Capital

    An illuminating examination of the history of food in Ottawa and the National Capital Region -- an area with a culinary culture that has developed significantly in the last two decades. During the past 20 years the food scene in Ottawa has changed from...
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  • White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation by Kwate, Naa Oyo a.
    Naa Oyo a. Kwate

    White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation

    The long and pernicious relationship between fast food restaurants and the African American community Today, fast food is disproportionately located in Black neighborhoods and marketed to Black Americans through targeted advertising. But throughout much of the twentieth century, fast food was developed specifically for...
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  • Food in Memory and Imagination: Space, Place And, Taste by Forrest, Beth
    Beth Forrest

    Food in Memory and Imagination: Space, Place And, Taste

    How do we engage with food through memory and imagination? This expansive volume spans time and space to illustrate how, through food, people have engaged with the past, the future, and their alternative presents.Beth M. Forrest and Greg de St. Maurice have brought together...
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  • Staging the Table in Europe: 1500-1800 by Krohn, Deborah L.
    Deborah L. Krohn

    Staging the Table in Europe: 1500-1800

    A first of its kind exploration of early modern European culinary history. Staging the Table in Europe represents the first book-length study of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century illustrated handbooks for cooking and dining that provided instruction for nearly every element of the dining experience, from...
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  • Whiskey Makers in Washington, D.C.: A Pre-Prohibition History by Hughes, Troy
    Troy Hughes

    Whiskey Makers in Washington, D.C.: A Pre-Prohibition History

    "Men are divided into three classes. There are men who love their liquor, men who sell liquor, and politicians who are on both sides of the question." Before Prohibition, a number of liquor merchants operated in the District of Columbia. This was a time...
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  • The Rise of Yeast: How the Sugar Fungus Shaped Civilization by Colacci, David
    David Colacci

    The Rise of Yeast: How the Sugar Fungus Shaped Civilization

    Author: David Colacci, Nicholas P. MoneyISBN-10: 166521726XISBN-13: 9781665217262Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/28/2018Format: CDWeight: 0.35lbs
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  • Brewing Arizona: A Century of Beer in the Grand Canyon State by Sipos, Ed
    Ed Sipos

    Brewing Arizona: A Century of Beer in the Grand Canyon State

    "Sergeant... there is a brewery here " shouted Private Lutje into the tent of his commanding officer. His regiment had just set up camp outside of Tucson. It was spring. The year was 1866. And the good private had reason to be shocked. How...
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  • Cooking with Plants in Ancient Europe and Beyond: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Archaeology of Plant Foods by Valamoti, Soultana Maria
    Soultana Maria Valamoti

    Cooking with Plants in Ancient Europe and Beyond: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Archaeology of Plant Foods

    Plants have constituted the basis of human subsistence. This volume focuses on plant food ingredients that were consumed by the members of past societies and on the ways these ingredients were transformed into food. The thirty chapters of this book unfold the story of...
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  • Food Culture in Medieval Scandinavia by Gyönki, Viktória
    Viktia Gyki

    Food Culture in Medieval Scandinavia

    The making, eating, and sharing of food throughout society represents an important and exciting area of study with the potential to advance the field of scholarship, particularly in the context of Scandinavian Studies. This book analyses the historical, legal, and literary sources of the...
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  • Tasting History: Explore the Past Through 4,000 Years of Recipes (a Cookbook) by Miller, Max
    Max Miller

    Tasting History: Explore the Past Through 4,000 Years of Recipes (a Cookbook)

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Begin your very own food journey through the centuries and around the world with the first cookbook from the beloved YouTube channel Tasting History with Max Miller. What began as a passion project when Max Miller was furloughed during Covid-19...
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  • Harry's Bar: The Life and Times of the Legendary Venice Landmark by Cipriani, Arrigo
    Arrigo Cipriani

    Harry's Bar: The Life and Times of the Legendary Venice Landmark

    Now in paperback, the inside story of one of the world's most renowned watering holes, legendary since the days of Hemingway. Harry's Bar in Venice has remained one of the world's most storied watering holes, as entrenched a fixture of the Venetian landscape as...
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  • The Oyster by Murray, Eustace Clare Grenville
    Eustace Clare Grenville Murray

    The Oyster

    OF the Millions who live to eat and eat to live in this wide world of ours, how few are there who do not, at proper times and seasons, enjoy a good oyster. It may not be an ungrateful task, therefore, if I endeavour...
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  • Peasant Food Recipes: Historiacal Serf Food by Hall, Trinity Osea
    Trinity Osea Hall

    Peasant Food Recipes: Historiacal Serf Food

    WHEN YOUR A MEDIEVAL SERF NOTHING IS BETTER THAN A HANDY COOK BOOK FOR PEASANTS FROM A FORMER PEASANT....) These are real medieval recipes that I have tested out and am sharing with you so you can have a taste of what a super...
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  • Jersey Shore Food History:: Victorian Feasts to Boardwalk Treats by Schnitzspahn, Karen L.
    Karen L. Schnitzspahn

    Jersey Shore Food History:: Victorian Feasts to Boardwalk Treats

    No trip to the Jersey Shore would be complete without indulging in the cuisine that helps make it famous.These foods we enjoy today are part of a long tradition beginning in the Victorian era, when big oceanfront hotels served elaborate meals. Diverse dishes and...
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  • L.A.'s Landmark Restaurants: Celebrating the Legendary Locations Where Angelenos Have Dined for Generations by Geary, George
    George Geary

    L.A.'s Landmark Restaurants: Celebrating the Legendary Locations Where Angelenos Have Dined for Generations

    L.A.'s Landmark Restaurants: Celebrating the Legendary Locations Where Angelenos Have Dined for Generations follows in the footsteps of George Geary's now classic and critically acclaimed book, L.A.'s Legendary Restaurants. L.A.'s Landmark Restaurants is an illustrated history of over 50 famous Los Angeles restaurants from...
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  • New Cooking from Old Mexico by Peyton, Jim
    Jim Peyton

    New Cooking from Old Mexico

    It's said that the history of Mexico is, in great measure, the history of its culture, and the history of its culture is, in great measure, the history of its cooking. Restaurant menus and store aisles north of the Mexican border are packed with...
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  • Death in the Pot: The Impact of Food Poisoning on History by Satin, Morton
    Morton Satin

    Death in the Pot: The Impact of Food Poisoning on History

    Did food poisoning play a role in the Salem witch trials, leading to the hanging of nineteen men and women? Which poison recently laced the food of Russian ex-KGB agent Viktor Litvinenko, and how did it kill him? In Death in the Pot, internationally...
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  • The Pantropheon: Or a History of Food and Its Preparation in Ancient Times by Soyer, Alexis
    Alexis Soyer

    The Pantropheon: Or a History of Food and Its Preparation in Ancient Times

    Reprint of the 1977 ed., originally published by Simpkin, Marshall, London in 1853.Author: Alexis SoyerISBN-10: 1589633598ISBN-13: 9781589633599Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL)Language: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2001Pages: 556Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.13lbsSize: 9.30h x 7.58w x 1.19d
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  • One Hundred Recipes for the Chafing Dish by Kinsley, H. M.
    H. M. Kinsley

    One Hundred Recipes for the Chafing Dish

    Author: H. M. KinsleyISBN-10: 1589630343ISBN-13: 9781589630345Publisher: Creative CookbooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2001Pages: 188Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 7.92h x 5.02w x 0.47d
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  • All about Coffee (Second Edition) by Ukers, William H.
    William H. Ukers

    All about Coffee (Second Edition)

    Reprint of the second edition (1935). The second and standard edition of this definitive work on the history and influence of coffee. Covers the historical, technical, scientific, commercial, social and artistic dimensions of coffee. A still unsurpassed work on the subject. Lavishly illustrated.Author: William...
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  • What We Talk about When We Talk about Dumplings by Lorinc, John
    John Lorinc

    What We Talk about When We Talk about Dumplings

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 TASTE CANADA AWARD FOR CULINARY NARRATIVESFeatured on "The Sunday Magazine" on CBC RadioNearly every culture has a variation on the dumpling: histories, treatises, family legends, and recipes about the world's favorite lump of carbs ​​​​If the world's cuisines share one...
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  • The Suffragette Cookbook by Williams, Kate
    Kate Williams

    The Suffragette Cookbook

    From kitchen table to protest marches, The Suffragette Cookbook is a history of female love and power. The history of feminism is a history of women coming together. Modern feminists and Suffragettes share much in common, the same core fight spread through centuries. But...
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  • Cooking Up a Revolution: Food Not Bombs, Homes Not Jails, and Resistance to Gentrification by Parson, Sean
    Sean Parson

    Cooking Up a Revolution: Food Not Bombs, Homes Not Jails, and Resistance to Gentrification

    During the late 1980s and early 1990s the city of San Francisco waged a war against the homeless. Over 1,000 arrests and citations where handed out by the police to activists for simply distributing free food in public parks. Why would a liberal city...
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  • 1800s Recipes More Than Cooking: A Variety of 'How To' by Kalten, D.
    D. Kalten

    1800s Recipes More Than Cooking: A Variety of 'How To'

    The pages in this book can actually be a small window into how your ancestors lived. You may find a few things to add to a family history work you may be working on. Consider these pages as a humorous look at the past...
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  • Julia Child Notecards by Princeton Architectural Press
    Princeton Architectural Press

    Julia Child Notecards

    Julia Child transformed American cooking, on television and in home kitchens across the country, with joy, passion, humor, and a deep commitment to her craft. This notecard set celebrates Julia Child's unique personality and sense of humor with four iconic quotes that are equal...
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  • The Belgian Cookbook by Luck, Brian
    Brian Luck

    The Belgian Cookbook

    Author: Brian LuckISBN-10: 164799635XISBN-13: 9781647996352Publisher: Bibliotech PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2020Pages: 130Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.37lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.33d
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  • Tiptoe Through The Turnips: History, Folklore, and Recipes by Pepperell, Keith
    Keith Pepperell

    Tiptoe Through The Turnips: History, Folklore, and Recipes

    History and recipes for turnip lovers everywhereAuthor: Keith PepperellISBN-10: 1544749635ISBN-13: 9781544749631Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/02/2017Pages: 84Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.20d
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