This cookbook has been compiled from recipes used in the Pacific islands, for the purpose of promoting the use of local foods. The importance and value of local foods can be addressed from many different perspectives. It is our hope that this cookbook can play a role in maintaining and developing cultural strengths, economic self-sufficiency, and healthy populations in the region. Local or ethnic foods, like language, are corner-stones of culture and identity.
The Wines of Italy by Burton Anderson is book downloaded from Italianmade.com - Library. It's book about the every sort of wine that Italians are growing. They also have books about Italy wine and food. Going region by region, explaining everything what makes the wine characteristically and easily recognizable for experts like Burton Anderson.
The Middle East beckons you. With 8 key languages in this first ever phrasebook to the region, let no barriers - language or culture - get in your way. Find your way to the qahwa (cofee house) for a sheesha (water pipe), and have a chat with some of the world's most hospitable people. Immerse yourself in the culture section packed with fascinating and useful info on this unique region.
Language and Region: · provides an accessible guide to regional variation in English · covers topical issues including loss of regional diversity and attitudes to regional accents and dialects examines the use of dialect in media, advertising and the tourist industry · outlines the main linguistic characteristics of regional accents and dialects in terms of regional pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar · is accompanied by a supporting website
This, the most up-to-date survey of contemporary art in the Asia Pacific, richly illustrated with new and original works by some of the most dynamic art practitioners working today, brings together a range of scholars with international reputations, unique perspectives and unparalleled insight into their region of expertise. It's engaging, clearly written and informative survey essays introduce the reader to the influences on and state of contemporary art in the region, with the aim of mapping the dynamic developments in contemporary Asian and Pacific art. Art in the region has mirrored and reflected social and political events as they have occurred in the past decades, and the majority of the writers therefore address the issue of art and social change through specific local and regional perspectives. Includes essays on India, China, New Zealand, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Phillipines, Singapore, Vietnam, and Taiwan.
