Baker & Cook: The Story and Recipes Behind the Successful Artisan Bakery and Food Store
Baker & Cook started out as a single bakery store in a quiet suburban neighbourhood in Singapore. In a short span of five years, Baker & Cook is now a household name with 10 outlets in Singapore, including two sourdough pizzerias and a cooking school, and three outlets in the Philippines, with more to open in other locations …
“Arbitrary Stupid Goal is a completely riveting world―when I looked up from its pages regular life seemed boring and safe and modern like one big iPhone. This book captures not just a lost New York but a whole lost way of life.” ―Miranda JulyIn Arbitrary Stupid Goal, Tamara Shopsin takes the reader on a pointillist time-travel trip to …
A memoir that braids the evolution of one of America’s most iconic branding campaigns with the stirring tales of the women who lived behind its façade – told by the inheritor of their stories.In 1899, Allie Rowbottom’s great-great-great-uncle bought the patent to Jell-O from its inventor for $450. The sale would turn out to be one of the …
“I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.“ (President Abraham Lincoln, when confronted about General Ulysses Grant‘s excessive drinking) Blood, gunfire, and whiskey: they are the three things that defined Civil War battlefields. In this fascinating, booze-drenched history …
Why do we call mixed alcohol drinks “cocktails”? How do they get their exotic names – names like the Singapore Sling, Screw Driver, the Alamagoozlum, the Angel’s Kiss, the Hanky Panky, the Harvey Wallbanger, Sex on the Beach, the Monkey Gland, the Brass Monkey, the Margarita, the Japalac, the Lion’s Tail, and many, many more?
Who makes up these …
A new memoir by the celebrated essayist that explores her relationship with her father, a lover of wine In The Wine Lover’s Daughter, Anne Fadiman examines – with all her characteristic wit and feeling – her relationship with her father, Clifton Fadiman, a renowned literary critic, editor, and radio host whose greatest love was wine. An appreciation of …
Troylyn Ball and her husband, Charlie, an engineer and real estate investor, had spent their entire lives in Texas. But after a near fatal trip to the emergency room with their mute, wheelchair-bound son Coulton, they admitted the dust and the heat were too dangerous. To save their boys, the Balls cashed out, sold their beloved farm, and …
A Baker’s Life: 100 fantastic recipes, from childhood bakes to five-star excellence
Accompanying the Channel 4 series, A Baker’s Life contains 100 of Paul Hollywood’s very best baking recipes, which have been finessed over decades spent as a baker. Each chapter is filled with bakes that represent a different decade – learning the basics at his father’s bakery; honing his pastry skills in the finest hotels; discovering the bold flavours …
This deliciously frank memoir by high-profile business entrepreneur, Lawrence Wosskow, charts his personal history in tandem with the dramatic successes and challenges of his ground-breaking career in the food and leisure industries, including his attempt to rescue British icon, Little Chef, which was abruptly curtailed by a near-fatal heart attack.Heart of the Deal chronicles the adventures that brought …
Beer — it’s the world’s favorite alcoholic drink and its popularity is soaring. It has only four key ingredients but fearless brewers are adding countless others, from chocolate and coconut to beardgrown yeast, seaweed and stag semen. As Alice Galletly surveys the growing array in a supermarket, she makes a spur-of-the-moment decision: she will drink and blog about …