Books and My Food: Literary Quotations and Original Recipes for Every Day in the Year
Author: Elisabeth Luther Cary
Beginning on January 1 with a recipe for traditional English wedding cake referenced to Jane Austen's Emma and continuing through December with a recipe for Christmas pudding attributed to a quote from Charles Dickens, Books and My Food provides readers the occasion to experience the gastronomic delights that inspired novelists, poets, and playwrights. Drawn almost entirely from British sources, the literary catalysts for these recipes include citations from Charlotte Bronte, William Shakespeare, William Makepeace Thackeray, Ben Jonson, George Eliot, Alfred Tennyson, and others. Recipes range across familiar British fare from mutton chops, leg of lamb, and meat pies to tea cakes, custards, puddings, porridge, and crumpets. Equally intriguing are the instructions for more obscure sustenance such as rum omelets, sago-cream pudding. Shrovetide pancakes, furmety, syllabub, dulcet creams, and an adaptation for curds and whey. Finally, for the literary buff whose tastes run bravely to the authentic dinners of old England, there are recipes for tongue and spinach, frog leg patties, fried eels, and stewed snipe.
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Malt Whisky File: The Connoisseur's Guide to Malt Whiskies and Distilleries
Author: John Lamond
A fully revised and expanded edition of the hugely successful book The Malt Whisky File, sales of which are now over 150,000. Organized alphabetically, it is the most comprehensive and user-friendly guide both to the famous and the little-known distilleries of Scotland, Ireland, New Zealand, and Japan, and to their malt whiskies. With over five hundred tasting notes, this is the indispensable reference work for malt whisky lovers around the world and the perfect accompaniment to a wee dram or two.
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