The Edible Series: Nuts: A Global History

Editor/Author Albala, Ken
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Reaktion Books

Single-User Purchase Price: $37.00
Unlimited-User Purchase Price: $55.50
ISBN: 978-1-78-023282-9
Category: Food, Drink, Nutrition
Image Count: 53
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents

The first book to tell the full story of how nuts came to be in almost everything, Nuts takes readers on a gastronomic, botanical and cultural tour of the world.

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Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • 1 What is a Nut?
  • 2 Nuts to Chew
  • 3 Nuts in Cooking
  • 4 Nuts Familiar and Exotic
  • 5 Nuts in Sweets, Snacks and Junk Food
  • 6 The Modern Industry
  • Recipes
  • About the Recipes
  • Cardinals on Horseback
  • Extravagant Couscous
  • Vegetarian Stuffed Cabbage
  • Sun-dried Tomato Quick Cashew Cheese
  • Spinach Cracker Bread
  • Pine Nut Soup
  • Acorn Crêpes
  • Spicy Pili-encrusted Crab Cakes
  • Chicken Nut Stew
  • Smoked Cured Pork Chops with Apples and Pecans
  • Rupert of Nola's Blancmange
  • Dukkah and Charoset
  • Hazelnut Torte
  • Mandorla Nog
  • Select Bibliography
  • Websites and Associations
  • Photo Acknowledgements