Caviar - A Global History

Informationen zum Autor Nichola Fletcher is a member of the Guild of Food Writers and has written six books on food history and cooking. She won the Gourmet Voice Silver award and was shortlisted for The Guild of Food Writers awards for her book about the history of feasting. In 2008 she won a Gourmand World Cookbook Award for best single-subject cookbook. Klappentext Caviar: piquant! luxurious and decadent! it is renowned the world over. A story of greed! indulgence! enterprise and hope! this book starts by looking back to its heyday in Tsarist Russia! America and Europe in the Roaring Twenties! before telling the story of production! trade and consumption today. Zusammenfassung Caviar: piquant! luxurious and decadent! it is renowned the world over. A story of greed! indulgence! enterprise and hope! this book starts by looking back to its heyday in Tsarist Russia! America and Europe in the Roaring Twenties! before telling the story of production! trade and consumption today. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Why Caviar? 1 Sturgeon: The Jurassic Fish 2 Ikra: The Soul of Russia 3 Chav-jar: Iran's Story 4 Caviales comes to Europe 5 An American Caviar Rush 6 Crisis in the Caspian 7 How to Make a Sturgeon 8 Roe on Roe: Alternative Eggs 9 Caveat Emptor: How to Buy it 10 How to Enjoy Caviar Recipes Appendix Select Bibliography Websites and Associations Acknowledgements Photo Acknowledgements Index

Product details

• Authors: Nichola Fletcher, Fletcher Nichola
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2010
• EAN: 9781861896506
• ISBN: 978-1-86189-650-6
• Series: Edible; The Edible Series
• Subjects: Guides > Food & drink > General, dictionaries, tables; HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Food & society, Social and cultural history, Cookery / food by ingredient: fish and seafood, Cooking with fish & seafood, Cultural studies: food and society, COOKING / Specific Ingredients / Fish & Seafood