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 Cooking with Chinese Herbs
Cooking with Chinese Herbs brings the rich and life-enhancing legacy of Chinese herbs to your table. Prized for thousands of years by the Chinese for their health-giving properties, these natural ingredients are at the centre of growing interest and research around the world today. The range of Chinese herbs extend beyond the putrid poultices used on festering sores and evil smelling brews from a culinary cauldron frothing with medicinal mixes that some of us are wont to believe. |
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What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist - the Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England
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| Added by: bukka | Karma: 785.36 | Non-Fiction, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias | 8 April 2009 |
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 a "delightful reader's companion that lights up the literary dark" (The New York Times)
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Filled with lively essays and a glossary of obscure terms, this unique reference--organized by subject--is a practical and entertaining compendium of information and insight on this time of debtor prisons, bedlam, and that wonderful disease of sense and sensibility, "putrid fever." Illustrations. |
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