Lobscouse and Spotted Dog

Author: Chotzinoff Anne Grossman
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393320947
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
In this cookbook companion to Patrick O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin novels, readers get authentic and practical recipes for dishes that complement the pair's travels--such as Burgoo, Drowned Baby, Sea-Pie, Jam Roly-Poly, and Sucking pig.

Lobscouse and Spotted Dog

Author: Chotzinoff Anne Grossman
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0393320944
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"A scholarly (though often hilarious) triumph of culinary anthropology."—Washington Post Celebrate the joys of Patrick O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey/Maturin series with this delightful cookbook, full of the food and drink that so often complement Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin's travels. Collected here are authentic and practical recipes for such eighteenth- and early-nineteenth- century dishes as Burgoo, Drowned Baby, Sea-Pie, Solomongundy, Jam Roly-Poly, Toasted Cheese, Sucking Pig, Treacle-Dowdy, and, of course, Spotted Dog. Also included are historical notes on the origins of the dishes as well as sections on the preparing of roasts, puddings, and raised pies."[A] splendid cookbook...graced with erudite bits of naval and gastronomical history....Deftly researched and written in prose nearly as funny as O'Brian's own."—Publishers Weekly "A thoroughly readable cookbook, as well as a useful appendix to a great series of novels and a newly opened window into a time now nearly 200 years gone."—San Jose Mercury News

Lobscouse & Spotted Dog

Author: Anne Chotzinoff Grossman
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393045598
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
Provides recipes for early-nineteenth-century foods such as burgoo, ship's biscuit, jam roly-poly, portable soup, and spotted dog

Men-of-War: Life in Nelson’s Navy

Author: Patrick O’Brian
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0008356009
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description
Out of print for many years, this is a brand new edition of the definitive companion to the acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin series of novels, written by the author himself.

Victorian Book Illustration

Author: Geoffrey Wakeman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description

Wolf's Complete Book of Terror

Author: Leonard Wolf
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781557042149
Category : Horror
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This anthology of 41 gothic tales includes spine-tingling stories by Joyce Carol Oates, Ursula K. Le Guin, Roald Dahl, H.G. Wells, Jorge Luis Borges, Guy de Maupassant, Bram Stoker, Nathaniel Hawthorne, H.P. Lovecraft, and many others.

The Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics

Author: Paul Gravett
Publisher: Running Press Adult
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 510

Book Description
Mammoth Books: From history to manga, true crime to sci-fi, these anthologies feature top-name contributors and award-winning editors.

Lucy's Misadventures

Author: Anne Teesdale
Publisher: Sucker Creek Press
ISBN: 9781732419407
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
Lucy's Misadventures is a collection of life stories written from the perspective of a redbone coonhound with much personality and sass. Readers will commiserate with Anne and John as they try to manage Lucy and Trixie, a black Lab who also shares their home. Dog lovers will especially enjoy these tales; but truly anyone who likes pets will laugh and cry as Lucy lives her life-and reminds us how we should also live ours.

Geronimo

Author: Jessie Wall
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780993110900
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Geronimo's mom has so many puppies she doesn't know what to do. So when Geronimo decides to leave home for a better life, he enters a great, big, scary world where he doesn't know who he is . . . and has no idea what he is, either! This gentle, humorous story is accompanied by Emily Stanbury's charming black and white illustrations. Perfect for beginning readers and for reading aloud.

Unmentionable Cuisine

Author: Calvin W. Schwabe
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813911625
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 492

Book Description
Includes recipes for cooking horse meat, goats, dogs, cats, rats, rabbits, hares, squirrels, turtles, snakes, eels, sharks, frogs, and insects, among other unusual food sources.