Tag: Kitchens

All the King’s Cooks The Tudor Kitchens of King Henry VIII at Hampton Court Palace


Free Download Peter Brears, Brears, "All the King’s Cooks : The Tudor Kitchens of King Henry VIII at Hampton Court Palace"
English | 2011 | pages: 191 | ISBN: 0285635336 | EPUB | 3,6 mb
Highlighting the world?s first professional kitchen, this volume showcases the massive galleys at Hampton Court Palace. Illustrating how kitchens originally built to supply the entire household of King Henry VIII were run, this guide dispells many of the misconceptions about the table manners, quality of cooking, and serving of meals in Tudor England. Authentic recipes-adapted for modern kitchens-from the period are featured, including Chicken Farced, Smothered Rabbit, and White Leach. Accentuated with striking visuals, this history revives the sights, sounds, and smells of the Tudor kitchen while conveying the daily life of the era?s rich and poor.

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Hidden Kitchens of Sri Lanka


Free Download Bree Hutchins, "Hidden Kitchens of Sri Lanka"
English | 2013 | pages: 272 | ISBN: 1743360487 | EPUB | 88,3 mb
Take an evocative journey into the heart of the real Sri Lanka with intrepid photographer and writer, Bree Hutchins. With a voracious appetite for all things culinary and an undaunting spirit of adventure, Bree ventures into areas where most foreigners don’t go, seeking out the hidden kitchens of Sri Lanka. On the reawakening Jaffna Peninsula, war widows cook crab curry and fry spicy snacks, while in a remote eastern village, Sumith stirs vats of smoky milk toffee over an open fire in a factory behind his home. Bamini cooks thosai for the Hindu temple feast, and old William boils up his Ceylon tea at Colombo’s dawn wholesale market, just as he’s done every day for sixty years. And at Monaragala Prison, in one of the poorest districts in Sri Lanka, the inmates prepare a fragrant fish curry with pol roti. Hidden Kitchens of Sri Lanka is far more than a collection of traditional recipes; stunningly vivid photographs, Bree interweaves recipes with heartfelt stories about the people who opened not only their kitchens but their homes and hearts to her, to create a moving yet hopeful picture of Sri Lanka today.

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