The Raw and the Cooked

by Jim Harrison
The Raw and the Cooked
Author: Jim Harrison
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2017-12-07
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1611859387
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A classic collection full of salty wisdom, from 'the Henry Miller of food writing' ( Wall Street Journal) and author of Legends of the Fall. Food is an extreme sport for Jim Harrison. As a seven-month old baby he was found chewing the leather binding of the family Bible with 'its slightly beefy flavour'; from then on, when he didn't have his nose in a book he could be found eating - everything. The Raw and the Cooked collects his musings on meat, marinades and a million other things besides, from the man who likes to wrestle his dinner to the ground then wash it down with a really good 1967 Latour.

Catching Fire

by Richard Wrangham
Catching Fire
Author: Richard Wrangham
Publisher: Profile Books
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2010-08-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1847652107
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In this stunningly original book, Richard Wrangham argues that it was cooking that caused the extraordinary transformation of our ancestors from apelike beings to Homo erectus. At the heart of Catching Fire lies an explosive new idea: the habit of eating cooked rather than raw food permitted the digestive tract to shrink and the human brain to grow, helped structure human society, and created the male-female division of labour. As our ancestors adapted to using fire, humans emerged as "the cooking apes". Covering everything from food-labelling and overweight pets to raw-food faddists, Catching Fire offers a startlingly original argument about how we came to be the social, intelligent, and sexual species we are today. "This notion is surprising, fresh and, in the hands of Richard Wrangham, utterly persuasive ... Big, new ideas do not come along often in evolution these days, but this is one." -Matt Ridley, author of Genome

Changing Mind

by Franco Orsucci
Changing Mind
Author: Franco Orsucci
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2002
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9812777288
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This book applies complexity theory to cognitive science, and the result is a transformation of this field. It proposes a biophysical theory of human relations, attempting to expand all its implications (for research and theory). It presents the potential clinical applications of this theory in neuroscience and clinical psychology OCo a general theory of mind change."

Raw & Simple

by Judita Wignall
Raw & Simple
Author: Judita Wignall
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2013-02-01
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1610588231
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Find Your Balance. Simply. Fresh, raw foods can nourish your body, calm your cravings, and energize you. And with raw food chef Judita Wignall's Raw & Simple, it's never been simpler to eat and live better. It's healthy, fun, and easy. Inside you'll find:No dehydrator necessary! Basic preparation techniques with easy-to-find ingredients100 delicious, simple recipes for breakfasts, soups, sides, starters, salads, main courses, snacks, and dessertsEasy fermented recipes to help improve your digestion and strengthen your immune systemNo processed foods, trans fats, refined sugars, artificial flavorings and colorings, or preservatives€”just real, wholesome foods, made simpleAll gluten-free recipes, with plenty of low-sugar optionsThe nutritional benefits to keeping foods as close to their natural state as possibleHow to get all of your essential nutrients from a raw dietTips and tricks for stocking your kitchen and living the raw lifestyleLifestyle and weight loss strategies to help you achieve vibrant healthMaking smart, delicious food choices in a short amount of time is now easier than ever. Raw and Simple provides easy (and incredibly tasty!) recipes that will feed your body and spirit without requiring hours of prep work. Recipes include:Oatmeal Walnut Raisin Cookies, Apple Pie Smoothie, Winterland Salad, Cucumber Basil Soup, Creamy Kale Salad with Capers and Hazelnuts, Maple-Dijon Brussels Sprouts, Thai Veggie Noodles, Root Vegetable Slaw, Cherry-Hemp Muesli, Watermelon-Fennel-Mint Chiller, Strawberry Spinach Salad with Sweet Balsamic Vinaigrette, Colorful Cabbage Salad, Cauliflower Couscous, Carrot-Ginger Coconut Soup, Orange-Cranberry-Apple Relish, Herbed Pecan Pate, Orange-Almond TrufflesRaw food chef and instructor Judita Wignall fully integrates her raw food platform with holistic health and wellness. It's not just about food€”it's about feeding your whole body and fueling your life!

The Eaten Heart

by Giovanni Boccaccio
The Eaten Heart
Author: Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 99
Release: 2007-08-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0141964960
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Ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside from the Black Death and tell stories to pass the time. From the unfaithful wife who unwittingly eats her lover’s heart to the sly peasant plotting to seduce a whole nunnery, these are tales of lust, adventure and unexpected twists of fate. United by the theme of love, the writings in the Great Loves series span over two thousand years and vastly different worlds. Readers will be introduced to love’s endlessly fascinating possibilities and extremities: romantic love, platonic love, erotic love, gay love, virginal love, adulterous love, parental love, filial love, nostalgic love, unrequited love, illicit love, not to mention lost love, twisted and obsessional love....

The Naked Man

by Claude Lévi-Strauss
The Naked Man
Author: Claude Lévi-Strauss
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 754
Release: 1990-11-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780226474960
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"The Naked Man is the fourth and final volume [of Mythologiques], written by the most influential and probably the most controversial anthropologist of our time. . . . Myths from North and South America are set side by side to show their transformations: in passing from person to person and place to place, a myth can change its content and yet retain its structural principles. . . . Apart from the complicated transformations discovered and the fascinating constructions placed on these, the stories themselves provide a feast."—Betty Abel, Contemporary Review "Lévi-Strauss uses the structural method he developed to analyze and 'decode' the mythology of native North Americans, focusing on the area west of the Rockies. . . . [The author] takes the opportunity to refute arguments against his method; his chapter 'Finale' is a defense of structural analysis as well as the closing statement of this four-volume opus which started with an 'Ouverture' in The Raw and the Cooked."—Library Journal "The culmination of one of the major intellectual feats of our time."—Paul Stuewe, Quill and Quire

Rawmazing

by Susan Powers
Rawmazing
Author: Susan Powers
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2012-07-01
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1620874628
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When Susan Powers started eating at least 80 percent raw, she suddenly had more energy, a healthy glow, mental clarity, and was miraculously rid of pesky irritants like acid reflux. Now anyone can enjoy healthy raw food with the hundreds of amazing, quick-to-create recipes in Rawmazing. You’ll soon realize how easy it is to incorporate raw food into your diet regularly in order to improve your inner health and outer beauty. Even your skeptic friends and family will be converted by the tasty, easily prepared recipes. Powers focuses on the basics of storing raw food, soaking nuts, and how best to utilize frozen vegetables and fruit. Inside you’ll find everything you need to add raw meals and snacks to your diet: - The necessary kitchen equipment to make prepping delicious raw meals fun and easy - Helpful hints that break down how to dehydrate food and what produce to buy seasonally - Instructions for creating your own go-to raw foods pantry - Main ingredient and substitution lists for easy shopping - Recipes for everything from drinks, breakfast, and appetizers, to main dishes, desserts, and more! If cooking destroys the vital and essential nutrients that our bodies need, then raw food provides the maximum amount of nutrients per meal. Get on track to a healthier, more attractive, longer-living you with Rawmazing!

A Really Big Lunch

by Jim Harrison
A Really Big Lunch
Author: Jim Harrison
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2017-03-24
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 080218944X
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An essay collection from “the Henry Miller of food writing” and New York Times–bestselling author of The Raw and the Cooked (The Wall Street Journal). Jim Harrison was beloved for his untamed prose and larger-than-life appetite. Collecting many of his most entertaining and inspired food pieces for the first time, A Really Big Lunch “brings him roaring to the page again in all his unapologetic immoderacy, with spicy bon mots and salty language augmented by family photographs” (NPR). From the titular New Yorker article about a French lunch that went to thirty-seven courses, to essays on the relationship between hunter and prey, or the obscure language of wine reviews, A Really Big Lunch is shot through with Harrison’s aperçus and delight in the pleasures of the senses. Between the lines the pieces give glimpses of Harrison’s life over the last three decades. Including articles that first appeared in Brick, Playboy, Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant, and more, as well as an introduction by Mario Batali, A Really Big Lunch offers “sage and succulent essays” for the literary gourmand (Shelf Awareness, starred review).

We Are All Cannibals

by Claude Lévi-Strauss
We Are All Cannibals
Author: Claude Lévi-Strauss
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2016-03-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0231541260
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On Christmas Eve 1951, Santa Claus was hanged and then publicly burned outside of the Cathedral of Dijon in France. That same decade, ethnologists began to study the indigenous cultures of central New Guinea, and found men and women affectionately consuming the flesh of the ones they loved. "Everyone calls what is not their own custom barbarism," said Montaigne. In these essays, Claude Lévi-Strauss shows us behavior that is bizarre, shocking, and even revolting to outsiders but consistent with a people's culture and context. These essays relate meat eating to cannibalism, female circumcision to medically assisted reproduction, and mythic thought to scientific thought. They explore practices of incest and patriarchy, nature worship versus man-made material obsessions, the perceived threat of art in various cultures, and the innovations and limitations of secular thought. Lévi-Strauss measures the short distance between "complex" and "primitive" societies and finds a shared madness in the ways we enact myth, ritual, and custom. Yet he also locates a pure and persistent ethics that connects the center of Western civilization to far-flung societies and forces a reckoning with outmoded ideas of morality and reason.