Cooking Book Reviews Samples For Students

Anthony Bourdain: Kitchen Confidential

Anthony Bourdain’s memoires “Kitchen Confidential” is certainly a book like no other. It is an incredibly honest insight of several decades spent in the secret places of the cooking industry, the kitchens. Instead of fine restaurants, Bourdain spent a solid part of his career working in mid-range places. Of course, he is not at all ashamed by that fact. One of his passions is punk music, which he reveals often plays in the background of his kitchen while he works, so it is not unusual that its influence can be felt in his writing, which is raw, direct, definitely provocative, ...

Modern life of an ordinary member of human society is quite organized, predicted and planned in a certain way. Of course there are various unexpected situations and surprises from the future and destiny if you want to call it that way. I would say in the modern world, there is no place for magic and spontaneity, but everyday magic of sensation and simple pleasures of life used to make the world go round and make people happy, healthy and satisfied in the ancient times. Nowadays, our lives are planned from the rise to dawn and from birth to death. Being a ...

Introduction

Winner of Seven Book Awards; Cooking on the light side by Dr. Thienna Ho is sure to transform the lives and health of those willing to take a walk on the light side. The significance as well as the value of this culinary book to the reader, lies in the fact that, it is richly encompassed with a variety of content, dynamic and captivating images as well as apposite recipes including charts for a comprehensive dietary plan. In this book you will learn the cause, effects and remedies to your skin color.

Dr. Thienna, two Guinness World Records holder for athletic achievement, ...

Richard C. Morais’ 2010 novel The Hundred-Foot Journey chronicles the tensions and relationships between the owners and purveyors of an Indian restaurant and a classic French restaurant that reside one hundred feet from one another in the fictional city of Lumiere in France. While the surface-level story revolves around the reconciliation of two groups of restaurant owners and chefs, there are greater themes of cultural pluralism, acceptance and the unifying power of food to be found within the novel. Bridging the gap between the typically entrenched worlds of upper-class French food culture and the lower-class Southeast Asian food culture ...

Before the establishment of the food safety agencies the food industry was largely self regulated. This led to problems where some manufacturers did not provide the minimum safety leading to cases of food borne illness. After dealing with these problems, laws were enacted which led to the establishment of the food safety agencies. After the establishment of the agencies that monitor food safety, the situation on the ground has improved dramatically. The United States has one of the strictest food safety policies, which has resulted in very high standards of food safety. The United States is a global leader in ...

Book Review: “Women, Warfare and Armies in Early Modern Europe”

John Lynn in his book explores the participation of military women in the early modern Europe over a time span of roughly three centuries, from 1500 to 1815. The books highlights on the crucial roles that women played. The book targeted exploring the women’s lives and spotlight on their contributions as campaign militant. Lynn presents the fundamental assertion that the number of women in the campaign community of the military was large and at times even outnumbered that of the military soldiers. A number of different theses echo throughout the book. Lynn affirms that the camp women in the early ...

Introduction

Jane Ziegelman grew up in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. She currently lives with her husband and two kids at Brooklyn Heights. She studied History in college and worked in publishing before she enrolled in NYU for Urban Anthropology’s graduate program. She founded and directed Kids Cook! which is a cooking program for kids. She is also the director of Tenement Museum's culinary center and the co-author of Foie Gras: A Passion.

97 Orchard was published on October 2, 2001. Ziegelman’s inspiration for the book was the tenements itself . When she was still studying at NYU, she ...

Introduction:

America in the early post independence years was a country with huge potential yet there was not much to get a look in at the time either. Larkin’s narrative is exciting in the extreme as it paints an intriguing and satisfying picture of what was really going on at the time with inch perfect details of the clothes and customs worn by the population as well as other aspects of everyday life both rural and in the city. One has to acknowledge the fact that a lot of information about the United States’ past history is muddled in the extreme and ...