As you travel through the pages of this book you will visualize and experience the colorful history brought about by the many players who worked so very hard to bring about the life of Rustic Resor...

Accidental Chef is a sobering account of what it's really like to be a professional chef, not the glamorized, sugar-coated depictions we see on cable television. This book offers a glimpse of what ...

In this collection of thirteen provocative essays, Wendell Berry discusses the pleasures of eating. Gretel Ehrlich describes her struggle to produce clean, lean beef on her ranch in Wyoming. France...

A puzzling phone call shatters a writer's routine. An enigmatic female voice extends a dinner invitation, and it soon becomes clear that this is an invitation to take part in the documenta, the leg...

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This booklet accompanies a software package called SimQuick. SimQuick is a freely-distributed Excel spreadsheet (with macros) for building simulation models of processes: waiting lines, supply chai...

A patch of reds and violets in the living room, foliage that just warms up the room and vines that decorate the window... these are just some of the amazing visual effects indoor gardening can brin...

Over the past two centuries, global commodity chains and industrial food processing systems have been built on an infrastructure of critical but often-overlooked facilities and technologies used to...

Now more than ever, Americans are giving careful thought to where their food comes from. And farmers, formerly anonymous suppliers of bounty, are proving an inspiration to chefs everywhere. This bo...

Finding opportunities for innovation on the path between farmer and table.Even if we think we know a lot about good and healthy food--even if we buy organic, believe in slow food, and read Eater--w...

The highly anticipated first book on the Etxebarri restaurant, considered one of the best grills in the world.Bittor Arginzoniz has achieved world fame as a grill genius with his restaurant Etxebar...

Fish & Game restaurant in Hudson, New York, is a leader in the local foods movement. Its core approach--engaging intimately with nature both wild and domestic, building relationships with farmers, ...

How much do you know about the world that surrounds you-about the most common and basic knowledge needed to understand how others think, react, and communicate? How about foreigners-their ways of l...

Over the past two centuries, global commodity chains and industrial food processing systems have been built on an infrastructure of critical but often-overlooked facilities and technologies used to...