Wilson, Bee.

Summary: Traces the history of cooking through a series of engaging cultural anecdotes while demonstrating how technological innovations ranging from the mortar and pestle to the microwave have shaped how and what humans eat.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 643.3 WIL

Wilson, Bee

Summary: "In just two generations, the world has undergone a massive shift from traditional, limited diets to more globalized ways of eating-- from bubble tea to quinoa, Soylent to meal kits. Paradoxically, our diets are getting healthier and less healthy at the same time. For some, there has never been a happier food era than today: a time of unusual herbs, farmers' markets, and internet recipe swaps....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.01 WIL

Wilson, Bee

Summary: The secret of better home cooking is not the gadgets, chefs' tricks, or hidden ingredients. The secret is the person who cooks, the human standing at the stove bringing the words of the recipe to life. You carry into the kitchen your own particular tastes and values, passions and blind spots, and motivations for cooking-- or cutting corners. Wilson shows you how to make cooking less of a drag...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.512 WIL

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food Cook Wilson

Summary: ""In almost any culture, at any time, you can find food writing," writes guest editor Mark Bittman in his introduction. "Food means growing and hardship, and health and medicine, and work and holiday. In its abundance it is a gift and a joy, and in its absence a curse and a tragedy. If a culture has writing, that culture has food writing." The stories in this year's Best American Food Writing...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 BES

Contents: disc 1. You upset me baby (B.B. King) -- Midnight in the Barrel House (Johnny Otis feat. Pete "Guitar" Lewis) -- First time I met the blues (Buddy Guy) -- Cotton crop blues (James Cotton feat. Pat Hare) -- Lookin' for my baby (Little Milton) -- Rock me (Muddy Waters) -- The stumble (Freddy King) -- All your love (I miss loving) (Otis Rush) -- Chicken-hearted woman (Clarence Samuels feat. Johnny...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Fantastic Voyage/Future Noise Music 2012

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES SCR

Summary: Based on Tim Winton's award-winning and international bestselling novel set in mid-70s coastal Australia. Two teenage boys, hungry for discovery, form an unlikely friendship with a mysterious older adventurer who pushes them to take risks that will have a lasting and profound impact on their lives.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BRE

Contents: Disc 1. Some Commodore highlights: Love is just around the corner Eddie Condon (3:03) -- Strange fruit Billie Holiday (3:10) -- A good man is hard to find pt. 1 (jam session) (4:25) -- (You're some) Pretty doll Fats Waller (with Eddie Condon) (2:49) -- (Back home in) Indiana Don Byas, Slam Stewart (5:13) -- At a Georgia camp meeting Sidney Bechet (3:13) -- A handful of stars: Way down yonder in...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: GRP Records 1997

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ COM