The Joy of Coffee

Author: Corby Kummer
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618302406
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
In this revised and updated edition of the most authoritative guide to coffee, Corby Kummer travels the country and the world to give you all the latest information you need to make a great cup at home: * The best beans and how to buy and store them * The grinder that's essential for great coffee * Incisive reports on brewing and espresso-making equipment and tips on how to get the best from them, with photographs of current models * A complete, up-to-date list of sources for beans, equipment and Fair Trade organizations

Coffee

Author: Kenneth Davids
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coffee
Languages : en
Pages : 199

Book Description

Keys to Good Cooking

Author: Harold McGee
Publisher: Appetite by Random House
ISBN: 0449015998
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 379

Book Description
A requisite countertop companion for all home chefs, Keys to Good Cooking distils the modern scientific understanding of cooking and translates it into immediately useful information. The book provides simple statements of fact and advice, along with brief explanations that help cooks understand why, and apply that understanding to other situations. Not a cookbook, Keys to Good Cooking is, simply put, a book about how to cook well. A work of astounding scholarship and originality, this is a concise and authoritative guide designed to help home cooks navigate the ever-expanding universe of recipes and ingredients and appliances, and arrive at the promised land of a satisfying dish.

Athens

Author: Barrie Kerper
Publisher: Fodor's
ISBN: 1400050057
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 546

Book Description
Provides a collection of travel articles on the culture, cuisine, and everyday life of the Greek city, along with bibliographies and practical tips on transportation, culinary treasures, accommodations, and sights.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America

Author: Andrew Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 0199734968
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 2556

Book Description
Home cooks and gourmets, chefs and restaurateurs, epicures, and simple food lovers of all stripes will delight in this smorgasbord of the history and culture of food and drink. Professor of Culinary History Andrew Smith and nearly 200 authors bring together in 770 entries the scholarship on wide-ranging topics from airline and funeral food to fad diets and fast food; drinks like lemonade, Kool-Aid, and Tang; foodstuffs like Jell-O, Twinkies, and Spam; and Dagwood, hoagie, and Sloppy Joe sandwiches.

Green Coffee Bean Extract in Human Health

Author: Debasis Bagchi
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1498716385
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 255

Book Description
Provides a comprehensive overview of GCB, chlorogenic acid/caffeoylquinic acid, and related compounds found in green coffee beans. Discusses GCB in healthy weight management, hypertension, diabetes, and neuroprotection. Demonstrates ethnobotany as well as intricate aspects of medicinal chemistry, pharmacognosy, and pharmacology of GCB. Includes information on safety, toxicity, recommended dosage, and use of chlorogenic acid/caffeoylquinic acid, and GCB extract. Features literature on GCB extract as an antidiabetic as well as effects on blood pressure associated with metabolic syndrome. Includes detailed information on manufacturing technology of GCB.

Joe

Author: Jonathan Rubinstein
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762785837
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 161

Book Description
This fresh new release is a beautiful, hip guide to the world of coffee brought to you by New York City’s popular connoisseur coffee chain, Joe. Written from the point of view of owners (and siblings) Jonathan and Gabrielle Rubinstein, the reader is welcomed into the tight-knit international specialty coffee community of committed growers, buyers, roasters, entrepreneurs, baristas, and drinkers. Their mission: to source, purchase, roast, serve, and drink the world’s finest coffees.

Southwest France

Author:
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 1400050049
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 562

Book Description
Complemented by travel advice, maps, accommodation listings, and site descriptions, a collection of essays and articles on the region of southwestern France, by noted authors, travel writers, and journalists, is organized thematically under such headings as Current Events, Food and Drink, and Museums and Monuments. Original. 15,000 first printing.

Tampa Bay Magazine

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 138

Book Description
Tampa Bay Magazine is the area's lifestyle magazine. For over 25 years it has been featuring the places, people and pleasures of Tampa Bay Florida, that includes Tampa, Clearwater and St. Petersburg. You won't know Tampa Bay until you read Tampa Bay Magazine.

Principles and Practices of Bar and Beverage Management

Author: James Murphy
Publisher: Goodfellow Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 1908999594
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 372

Book Description
A comprehensive training guide and authoritative resource essential for all students, bartenders, sommeliers, mixologists, waiters and food and beverage practitioners the world over. It provides an in-depth knowledge of the products, plus the technical skills, practices and latest developments in the bar and beverage area.