Secrets Revealed of America's Greatest Cocktails: The Hottest Spirits, Coolest Drinks, and Freshest Places
Author: Robert Plotkin
This groundbreaking effort reveals our country's top bartenders' best efforts on creating and preparing America's greatest cocktails. With this unique combination of guide and website you'll find the coolest cocktails imaginable from exceptional bars across the country - each known for their mixology excellence. You'll be making drinks like the pros in no time. Whatever your drink favorites, with this book you'll be making a better version. It's loaded with insights and the website is continually updated so you will always have lots of bonus material to look through. If over 650 of the best drink recipes ever created aren't enough, you'll have access to even newer drink specialties and great spirits as they come to market whenever you visit the website. We provide all the inspiration and guidance you need to make the best drinks possible! Join Robert Plotkin on his quest to reveal the best drink recipes his unrivaled mixology chums could create, the hottest spirits available and his amazing expertise. You'll never again wonder why drinks made at home don't taste as good as those prepared at a great bar.
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Eating and Healing: Traditional Food as Medicine
Author: Andrea Pieroni
Discover neglected wild food sources that can also be used as medicine!
The long-standing notion of food as medicine, medicine as food, can be traced back to Hippocrates. Eating and Healing: Traditional Food As Medicine is a global overview of wild and semi-domesticated foods and their use as medicine in traditional societies. Important cultural information, along with extensive case studies, provides a clear, authoritative look at the many neglected food sources still being used around the world today. This book bridges the scientific disciplines of medicine, food science, human ecology, and environmental sciences with their ethno-scientific counterparts of ethnobotany, ethnoecology, and ethnomedicine to provide a valuable multidisciplinary resource for education and instruction. Eating and Healing: Traditional Food As Medicine presents respected researchers' in-depth case studies on foods different cultures use as medicines and as remedies for nutritional deficiencies in diet. Comparisons of living conditions in different geographic areas as well as differences in diet and medicines are thoroughly discussed and empirically evaluated to provide scientific evidence of the many uses of these traditional foods as medicine and as functional foods. The case studies focus on the uses of plants, seaweed, mushrooms, and fish within their cultural contexts while showing the dietary and medical importance of these foods. The book provides comprehensive tables, extensive references, useful photographs, and helpful illustrations to provide clear scientific support as well as opportunities for further thought and study. Eating and Healing: Traditional Food As Medicine explores the ethnobiology of:- Tibet antioxidants as mediators of high-altitude nutritional physiology
- Northeast Thailand wild food plant gathering
- Southern Italy the consumption of wild plants by Albanians and Italians
- Northern Spain medicinal digestive beverages
- United States medicinal herb quality
- Commonwealth of Dominica humoral medicine and food
- Cuba promoting health through medicinal foods
- Brazil medicinal uses of specific fishes
- Brazil plants from the Amazon and Atlantic Forest
- Bolivian Andes traditional food medicines
- New Patagonia gathering of wild plant foods with medicinal uses
- Western Kenya uses of traditional herbs among the Luo people
- South Cameroon ethnomycology in Africa
- Morocco food medicine and ethnopharmacology
Library Journal
In the specialized fields of ethnobotany, ethnopharmacology, and ethnomedicine, food and medicine have traditionally been considered separate realms of study. Recently, the two have begun to be studied in conjunction, as this book demonstrates. Editors Pieroni (pharmacognosy, Univ. of Bradford, U.K.) and Price (sociology of consumers and households, Wageningen Univ., the Netherlands) have compiled primary research from 26 contributors on wild and semidomesticated foods and their use as medicine in traditional or indigenous cultures in Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe, and the Caribbean (the South Pacific/Australia and Arctic regions are not represented). Each chapter is, in essence, a scientific paper documenting the overlap of medicine and food in one region (e.g., northern Spain, New Patagonia). Although the book's scope is broad, each paper is quite specific-readers should not anticipate an overview of the field. Pieroni and Price have produced what would be an excellent accompaniment to a course textbook in applicable university settings. Recommended for academic libraries.-Andy Wickens, King Cty. Lib. Syst., Seattle Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
What People Are Saying
Nina L. Etkin PhD
Nina L. Etkin, PhD, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii
THIS IMPORTANT VOLUME showcases the convergence of medicinal and culinary practices. Scholars as well as popular consumers of food knowledge will be nourished by the insights they gain from this book. Its publication coincides with a growing interest in the West regarding the healthful qualities of foods, among both the scientific and lay communities. The research findings of the contributors represent various disciplinary perspectives and illustrate the rich diversity of cultural constructions and social negotiations of foods and medicines in traditional populations from all continents. Several contributors cast their work in the frame of ethnopharmacology by linking medical ethnography to the biology of therapeutic action. Others emphasize the importance of wild food sin traditional pharmacopoeias and diets, and link the erosion of that knowledge to problems of diminished biodiversity in the modern era. A minor but important theme illustrates the gendered nature of botanical knowledge as reflected in asymmetrical use patterns of certain plants. Issues of globalization are apparent as well in discussions of sourcing for the contemporary, primarily Western, nutraceutical and herbal products industry.
Timothy Johns PhD
Timothy Johns, PhD, Professor of Human Nutrition, McGill University
In drawing on current research and methodologies at the interface between the biological and social sciences, THE AUTHORS OFFER EXCITING NEW INSIGHTS into an under-explored theme in the ethnobotanical literature, and provide a timely focus of theoretical and practical importance linking human health the conservation and use of biodiversity. The fact that traditional systems, once lost, are hard to recreate underlines the imperative for the kind of documentation, compilation, and dissemination of eroding knowledge of biocultural diversity represented by this book.
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