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"The Physiology of Taste" by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin is a must-read for anyone who loves the art of great food. Besides being famous for his lavish food parties and dinners, Brillat-Savarin was a French lawyer and politician during the French Revolution. He narrowly escaped France during the Reign of Terror, and the proceeded to travel around Europe and America before returning to his home and spending the rest of his days as a court judge....

The loss of an animal companion can be a painful, wrenching experience. In Goodbye, Friend, Gary Kowalski takes you on a journey of healing, offering warmth and sound advice on how to cope with the death of your pet. Filled with heartwarming stories and practical guidance on such matters as taking care of yourself while mourning, creating rituals to honor your pet's memory, and talking to children about death, Goodbye, Friend is a beautiful and comforting...

In the ever-evolving landscape of agripreneurship, honeybees have emerged as a remarkable niche, both for their invaluable role in ecology and their lucrative by-products. "Pet Breeding for Profits: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Growing Honeybees" takes the reader on a comprehensive journey into the world of beekeeping, emphasizing its profitability while championing sustainable and ethical practices.The guide starts with an enlightening introduction...

About the Book Beastmode/Mamma's Cooking Cookbook is about discovering your own passion for cooking. Chef Range doesn't want people to cook exactly like he does, but instead to adapt to the way they cook with the knowledge and experience he provides. Taste while you cook and you will know exactly what you need. He hopes to inspire people to start dabbling in the kitchen and if you love being there, you're a chef too! About the Author Chico Range has...

Collected articles from theweeklygardener.com - June through December 2011.For current articles visit The Weekly Gardener blog

Writer, environmentalist and gardener Des Kennedy has gathered together his best, most outrageous and most contemplative articles and essays of the past decade into a book full of playful wit and insight. Kennedy recounts one newspaper's April Fool's Day prank that had men across the UK buying heather in order to propagate a poor-man's Viagra, expands on his trials creating a sod sloped roof, admits he once wanted to write a stump-puller's guide to...

Award-winning food critic Steven A. Shaw (a.k.a. "The Fat Guy") can get a last-minute dinner reservation at the most popular hot spot in town. He knows how that flawless piece of fish reached your plate. He can read between the lines of a restaurant review, and he knows the secrets of why some restaurants succeed and others fail. Now he shares his insider's expertise with food lovers everywhere. But Turning the Tables is much more than an invaluable...

In this book of astonishing kitchen secrets, Joey Green explains inventive ways to avoid and salvage cooking disasters, store and prepare ingredients, keep appliances running smoothly, clean cookware, and prepare food-based folk remedies. These ingenious kitchen hacks may sound quirky and unusual at first, but they really do work-and you'll love putting them to the test. You'll learn how to revive hardened brown sugar with a slice of bread, slice...

Sous la direction de Georges-Henri Arenstein, André Benoit et Lucie Pétrin évoquent la relation entre l'humain et le cheval. Ils démontrent qu'il est possible de développer un lien unique entre ces deux êtres. Les auteurs veulent distinguer la relation cocréatrice d'une relation utilitaire ou d'une relation affective en spécifiant les éléments qui favorisent les relations harmonieuses entre les animaux et nous. Quant à Laurence Bruder-Sergent,...

Some of these extraordinary true stories will make you smile and others will bring tears to your eyes, but each one will open your heart to new revelations of love in its many forms and shapes. Dogs, cats, horses, ferrets, birds, rabbits, snakes, dolphins, llamas - the animals in this book reveal compassion, teach hope and forgiveness, or serve as a barometer to measure feelings. After reading just one of these stories, you will observe the animals...