I have placed links to two of the great cookbooks of our era in the e-book group
Mastering the Art of French Cooking
Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking
Enjoy!
Bob
Read more…This is a set of special programs on food in fiction -- started in 1997 but never aired. Julia introduces classics "about eating, some cooking, and most of all about people." Stories are performed by actors or the authors themselves, and sometimes ch
Read more…Throwing open the door, she brings forth the veritable queen of all the souffles, that spreads its archangelic wings over the entire kitchen as it leaps upwards from the dish in which the force of gravity alone confines it.
The lighter side of Ange
Read more…The Great Chocolate Murders
John Fletcher
4 Mar 06
(John writes) a story of obsessive love, poison, bad drains, royalty, murder and chocolate, set in 19th-century Brighton and based on a true story. Christiana Edmunds, an eccentric, 40-something spinste
A few cookbooks to whet the appitite...
Up first: The 1918 Fanny Farmer Cookbook
format: pdf
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An abridged modern history of England's relationship with food since the war.
Written by Christopher Driver
Read by Tony Gardner
BBC 4
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InBiz: Keep it Local: 05 May 11
As pubs struggle to survive, Peter Day travels through villages in Yorkshire and Cumbria to talk to local activists and find out how easy it is to buy and successfully run one of the focal points for any community
BBC Radio 4 programme which investigates every aspect of the food we eat.
Hosted by Sheila Dillon.
Read more…The Poisoned Chocolates Case
Anthony Berkeley
14 January 1984
When Joan Bendix makes a bet with her husband for a box of chocolates, no one imagines that winning will cost her her life. The seven she eats poison her and the two her husband eats nearly k
A reading of a short story by Donna Leon about a woman's delicious plot to do away with her husband.
From BBC Afternoon Reading; Red Herrings series.
Read more…Haunted By More Cake
Steve Walker
22 March 1989
Lionel turns to his Uncle Ginger for help with the tea party in his stomach.
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We are in the territory of the very very odd... I am going to a concert, and I can hear a tea-party going on in my stomac
Thursday, October 21st, 2010
As you heard in our last post, you could, in 1938, send away to Dr. Caldwell to get a copy of a "Monticello Party Line" cookbook and a sample bottle of Syrup Pepsin.
Unfortuna
A brief segment from the NPR News programme All Things Considered.
Host Robert Siegal discusses the civilizing effect of beer with Tom Standage.
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Written by Okakura Kakuzo the Book of Tea was first published in 1906. Kakuzo discusses the impact of tea (and what he refers to as teaism) on Japanese culture especially the virtue of simplicity.
A Librivox recording.
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An Englishman In Search of a Tea Ceremony
Andrew Jefford
2000
Andrew Jefford presents a five-part exploration of the world of tea.
1) Tea as Commodity (17th January 2000)
Jefford examines the international tea trade - and prepares to experience his first
Hardeep Singh Kohli joins people as they meet and indulge in that very British ritual, a cup of tea and a biscuit.
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This is a most unusual bit of food history.
The Frozen Water Trade (BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week)
Gavin Weightman
2002
Gavin Weightman's book (published in 2002) tells the extraordinary story of Frederic Tudor,
the man behind the 19th-century trade in na
