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| Symons, Michael: One Continuous Picnic: A History of Eating in Australia
Book Number: 45192
Penguin Books Australia Ltd November 1, 1984 8vo softcover 278pp near fine. One Continuous Picnic brings together for the first time the sory of Australia's agriculture, food businesses, cooking and restaurants by restaurateur Michael Symons.
Keywords: One Continuous Picnic A History of Eating in Australia Symons Michael
Price: $15.00 |
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| Hafner, Dorinda: I Was Never Here and This Never Happened: Tasty Bits & Spicy Tales from My Life
Book Number: 45234
Ten Speed Press February 1996 8vo softcover 182pp very good. This Ghanaian native uses a lighthearted manner to tackle serious subjects. She combines autobiography, recipes, folk stories, songs and photographs to make her points. As an African woman living in Australia, Hafner offers a rare viewpoint. She devotes chapters to both her father, who suffered through her earliest attempts at cooking on a toy stove, and to her stricter mother, who ran a maternity hospital where she tried to combat clitoridectomy. Tales of Hafner's education, first in the sixth grade, where she saw her teacher killed by a grenade, and then in boarding schools, where she was taught the fine arts of soup-sipping and handkerchief-dropping in etiquette class, are illuminating. But then so are her descriptions of the culture shock she experienced when she left Ghana to study ophthalmic nursing in England. With typical humor, she recalls traveling to the local Marks and Spencer one day to purchase the "flesh-colored underwear" she had seen advertised, only to be stumped by the bins of salmon-pink lingerie. After marrying a British doctor, Hafner moved to Australia with him, but found the expected behavior of doctors' wives in direct contrast to her matrilineal background. Never less than spunky, when Hafner was prodded to give a dinner party, she refused to fulfill expectations for an African meal and instead provided a seven-course French menu. And she is no less inspired and appealing when speaking out against racism. Although she concedes that ignorance "wears you down" she never shows signs of fatigue. nCopyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. nnFrom Library JournalnHafner's first book, A Taste of Africa (Ten Speed, 1993), was an unusual collection of traditional African recipes and other worldwide dishes derived from them. In this work, Hafner has put together an omnibus of stories based on her life growing up in Ghana, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Each story is peppered with recipes that the author grew up with and still uses today. Written in a lighthearted fashion that makes it easy to read, her book is not autobiographical but only representative of her life. The stories at the end try to convey Hafner's conviction that race made living outside of Ghana difficult; yet if this were the true purpose of her book it would have been better clarified from the beginning, allowing Hafner to use the stories more advantageously. Nonetheless, this is a delightful book with wonderful recipes. Recommended for public libraries.?Andrea C. McElrath, St. John's Univ., Staten Island, N.Y.nCopyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Keywords: I Was Never Here and This Never Happened Tasty Bits Spicy Tales from My Life Hafner Dorinda
Price: $16.00 |
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| Huang Su Huei - Wei Chuan Cooking School: Chinese Cuisine - Wei-Chuan Cooking Book
Book Number: 45252
Dept. Home Economics Wei Chuan Foods Corp 8vo. Hardcover in d/w. with ribbon marker. General Chinese home cooking. Recipes in english only. Each recipe is illustrated with a colour photograph. Very easy to follow recipes, where some ingredients are marked together i.e. 1, 2 and 3. for preparation eg. cook meat, add 1, stir, serve. Recipe contents includes 7 Appertizers, 25 Poultry, 26 Pork and Beef, 43 Sea Food, 14 Bean Curd and Eggs, 20 Vegetables, 22 Soups, 24 Desserts.
Keywords: Genuine Chinese Cooking.
Price: $35.00 |
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| Arnold, Mary-Lou (Editor): Good Health Cook Book
Book Number: 45393
Angus & Robertson October 28, 1985 8vo softcover 96pp very good. Index. Illustrated with colour photo's and step-by-step photo's. Contents includes Breakfasts, Brunches and Snacks, Appetisers, Soups, Salads, Pulses and Cereals, Vegetables as a Main Meal, Meat and Fish, Breads, Biscuits Cakes and Treats, Desserts.
Keywords: Good Health Cook Book Arnold Mary Lou (Editor)
Price: $20.00 |
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| Editors, Gourmet Magazine: Gourmet's In Short Order: Recipes in 45 Minutes or Less and Easy Menus
Book Number: 45396
Random House August 17, 1993 8vo softcover 140pp very good. Are you cooking on-the-run these days? Some very special recipes can be prepared in 45 minutes or less, and Gourmet's In Short Order cookbook, filled with outstanding full-color photography, offers over 250 of them to prove it! More than 140 brand-new recipes, ten newly-created menus, and over 100 favorite recipes from Gourmet magazine's ever-popular quick food column can be made "in short order." Now, whether you are looking for easy hors d'oeuvres, speedy recipes that are really meals-in-one, delicious snacks, or entire menus boasting elegant yet simple fare, turn to the Collection that is full of color, flavorful ideas, and style -- Gourment's In Short Order.
Keywords: Gourmet's In Short Order Recipes in 45 Minutes or Less and Easy Menus Editors Gourmet Magazine
Price: $15.00 |
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| Heaslip, Christine: Complete Avocado Cookbook
Book Number: 45397
HarperCollins,Australia June 3, 1992 8vo softcover 96pp very good.
Keywords: Complete Avocado Heaslip Christine
Price: $15.00 |
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| Fulton, Margaret: Book of Preserves & Pickles
Book Number: 45439
Octopus Books Limited 1984 Thin 8vo laminated boards, hardcover 94pp index, colour illus. very good.
Keywords: Book of Preserves Pickles Fulton Margaret
Price: $35.00 |
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| Renshaw,John F. & Co. Ltd.: Marzipan
Book Number: 45491
Renshaw,John F. & Co. Ltd. N.D. circa 1950 Large 8vo. softcover. 49pp. index, colour illus. Very good.
Keywords: marziapn cooking confectionaries sweets sugar confectionary almond
Price: $35.00 |
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| Beardsell, Campbell and David: Clifton Pugh: A Year of Orchids
Book Number: 45802
Richard Griffin January 1, 1983 Folio, Hardcover in d/w. 208pp very good. Minor shelf wear along top edge of d/w. Limited to 1500 copies. Illustrated in colour and b&w drawings. Drawings by Dailan Pugh, Adriane Strampp and David Beardsell. The exceptional talents of three artists and two botanists which will stand alone as a orchid art folio and and authoriative dissertation on the biology of the orchids of the Yarra Valley in Victoria.
Keywords: Clifton Pugh A Year of Orchids Beardsell campbell and David
Price: $90.00 |
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| Hanneman, L. J.: Patisserie
Book Number: 45915
Heinemann 1971 8vo. Hardcover in lightly worn d/w. 349pp. Index. Illustrated with photos. Designed for students who will need to learn patisserie as part of courses in catering, domestic science and confectionery and as a reference to prctising chef and patissier and home cook. Includes precise instructions and method. Metric and Imperial measurements. Contents includes Patisserie Equipment, Ingredients and Hygiene, Short Pastries, Flans and Tarts, Puff Pastries, Sponge Goods, meringue Goods, Cakes, Chou Pastries, Torten and Gateaux, Petits Fours Secs, Petits Fours Glaces, Afternoon Tea Fancies, Savoury Goods, Fermented Goods, Sweet Sauces, Bavarois and Jelly Sweets, Fruit and other Sweets, Puddings, Chocolate Work, Almond and Other Pastes, Sugar Work, Preserves, Creams and Icings, Ices, glossary.
Keywords: Patisserie Equipment, Ingredients and Hygiene, Short Pastries, Flans and Tarts, Puff Pastries, Sponge Goods, meringue Goods, Cakes, Chou Pastries, Torten and Gateaux, Petits Fours Secs, Petits Fours Glaces, Afternoon Tea Fancies, Savoury Goods, Fermented
Price: $45.00 |
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