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Brooks, Karen; Bosker, Gideon; Darmon, Reed. Atomic Cocktails : Mixed Drinks for Modern Times. San Francisco, Ca.: Chronicle Books LLC, 1998.
Brand Newin Fine DJ; Spankin clean Fine/Fine fresher later prtg Gift qual. Usually mail within 12 hours. What cocktails do you think people enjoyed in the Polish Middle Ages? You don't know, do you? Neither does anyone else. That's because no one bothered to write such things down. But if you had to write about American culture from, say, Prohibition to the current fin de siecle, you would be hard pressed to leave out the cocktail. So hats off to Karen Brooks, Gideon Bosker, and Reed Darmon, who have taken it upon themselves to gather up the arcana while it is still fresh and available and save it between covers for this generation and many more to come. Design, recipes, and writing all stand out in this cocktail lovefest that courts kitsch while all but taking itself seriously. You'd certainly have trouble doing much better for a collection of cocktail recipes than those provided herein. The design gathers all that was hip and cool in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, by about which time the cocktail was fading in the face of wine on the one hand and party drugs on the other. This book is a nice sharp stick in the eye of the New Puritanism--as the authors point out, the mighty American industry that rose up in the 1950s was built on the three-martini lunch. We can, of course, only hope that decisions affecting a wider population--who's going to drive, for example, or where to dump that toxic waste--are no longer being made after three martinis, no matter what the time of day. And speaking of martinis, while the authors make good with tasty drink recipes such as the Stardust Martini and the Cognac Zoom, sadly missing is the Cajun Martini made popular by chef Paul Prudhomme. Now that's a cocktail to tangle with. --Schuyler Ingle; 0.62 x 7.28 x 7.32; 96 pages; Ingram From a glittering Stardust Martini to a Cognac Zoom, "Atomic Cocktails" blasts into the ether with more than 50 Space Age cocktails, revealing the secrets that ardent swingers have spent years discovering, including the fundamentals of mixology and how to master all the classics. 60+ color illustrations. Let's go Retro... Jan 13, 2001 Reviewer: iBoozer^com from Ontario, Canada Remember when swing was king, '57 Chevies ate up the road, and I Love Lucy premiered on the tube? ? Why just remember the 50"s, when you can relive them? Reading Atomic Cocktails: Mixed Drinks for Modern Times, is like peeking through a looking glass into the Atomic age. With drinks like Neon Watermelon Margarita and Rocket Man surrounded by vintage ads and paraphernalia, you can't help but go retro. So cue up Old Blue Eyes, and turn up the night with this collection of classic cocktails.. 0811819264.

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CARDANO, Girolamo (Hieronymus CARDANUS). Opus Novum, cunctis de Sanitate Tuenda, ac vita producenda studiosis apprime necessarium: in quatuor libros digestum. A Rodulpho Sylvestrio ... recens in lucem editum. Cum ... rerum notatu dignissimarum copiosissimo.Basel, Sebastian Henricpetri, (colophon:) March 1582.WITH: ALEXANDRINUS, Julius (Giulio ALESSANDRINI). Salubrium sive De Sanitate Tuenda, libri trigintatres.Cologne, Grevinus Calenius, heirs of Joannes Quentel, 1575. Folio. 2 works in 1 volume (31.5 x 20 cm). The Cardano with a woodcut portrait of the author in an elaborate scrollwork frame on the title-page, 5 woodcut illustrations in the text (mostly diagrams), a small diagram (printed from brass rules?) in the margin, the publisher's woodcut device on the last page, and 6 large (54 & 43 mm, including 1 repeat) and perhaps 200 smaller decorated woodcut initial letters. The Alexandrinus with the arms of the Emperor Maximillian II (in the later version inherited by his son Rudolph II), 1 line diagram in the text, an arabesque tailpiece, and hundreds of decorated woodcut initials (mostly 49 & 32 mm). Both works set in roman type with incidental italic and Greek. From the Weißenau Monastery near Ravensburg, with their contemporary inscription on the first title-page and later stamps of Swiss libraries on the title-page and paste-down. Contemporary limp vellum with an arabesque centrepiece in black with touches of gold.
Medicine,Gastronomy,Early Printing [16th Century]

(20), 383, (1); (28), 791 pp. <I>Adams A-716, C-667; BMC STC German, pp. 20, 182; Durling 164, 859; Wellcome 216 (Alexandrinus; cf. 1310: 1580 Rome ed. of Cardano); cf. Aguttes & Vassy, Les Fastes de Bacchus et de Comus, 429 (1580 Rome ed. of Cardano); not in Garrison & Morton; Honeyman; Osler; Waller; for Cardano: DSB III, pp. 64-67; for Alexandrinus: Vitterino Fellin, Giulio Alessandrini (www.vivoscuola.it/us/media-civezzano/allessandrini.htm).</I> Second edition (published at Basel two years after the first edition at Rome) of a classic posthumous work on hygiene, healthy cooking & eating, conception & birth, and geriatrics, by the colourful and querulous Renaissance mathematician and physician Girolamo Cardano. Bound with it is the first edition of Alexandrinus's slightly earlier work covering nutrition & diet, physical exercise & rest, moderation in drinking wine, hygiene and medication. Both works follow in the tradition of Galenus's <I>De Sanitate Tuenda</I> , but Cardano's is the most original and influential. His discussion of the benefits of cooking with herbs, grains, fruits and vegetables speaks to the modern reader, his advice on hygiene was innovative in his day, and his account of conception, fetal development, birth and early childhood provide a fascinating picture of a sharp and imaginative mind grappling with questions that could not yet be answered.Cardano (1501-1576), now best known for his important mathematical treatises, practiced medicine in Milan and gained a status second only to Vesalius among the physicians of all Europe. His success spawned jealousy among colleagues and his eccentric personality, querulous nature and "childlike credulity" (he was imprisoned for casting Christ's horoscope, and published a work on horoscopes based on facial features) led to disputes that dogged him throughout his life. He nevertheless taught at the Universities of Pavia and Bologna. A true Renaissance man, he published in many fields, but the present work on medicine and hygiene only appeared four years after his death. Alexandrinus (1506-1590), physician to the Emperors Ferdinand I, Maximilian II and Rudolf II as well as a poet and translator, never ventured as far from Galenus or exerted as much influence as Cardano, but neither was he subject to Cardano's flights of fancy. His present book therefore gives a better picture of accepted views of health, medicine and hygiene in the sixteenth century. The two books together give a multifarious view of the subject at the dawn of modern science.The inscription on the title-page (covered with a slip) reads "Monasterii Augiae Minoris" referring to the twelfth-century Weißenau Monastery near Ravensberg, dissolved in the first half of the nineteenth century. With a wormhole in the first four leaves, slightly affecting one initial letter, but otherwise in very good condition, with only some tiny marginal worm holes in the last few leaves. An important pair of works on Renaissance medicine and hygiene, Cardano's brilliant eccentricity contrasting with Alexandrinus's more conservative approach.

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Kalpakian, Laura: American Cookery: a Novel, St. Martin's Press 2006 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover; sig.; 1. Ed. ISBN: 0312348118
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Signed by Author. EAN: 9780312348113. 419 pp. Flawless copy. Signed by Ms. Kalpakian to the title page. Animated as a family reunion, intimate as a lovers' picnic, American Cookery serves up tradition and innovation in a family novel based on the joy of cooking. The story is complete with twenty-seven recipes from the life and tumultuous times of Eden Douglass. A big-cast book, American Cookery fulfills the wide embrace of its title. The novel chronicles the stories behind family recipes and the lives that touch Eden'saEUR"lives of horse thieves, ranchers, railroad men, developers, dreamers, migrants, immigrants, natives, Latter-Day Saints, sinners, silent-film stars, sidekicks, and stunt people. The good, the bad, the ugly and the beautiful emerge in these pages as American Cookery serves up the whole gorgeous banquet of life. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction Classic & Modern Signed by Author. ISBN: 0312348118 Inventory No: 010536. Signed by Author(s) First Edition Fine Hard Cover; First Edition

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Huson, Paul -Text & Illus. Mastering Herbalism; a Practical Guide. Briorcliff Manor, New York U. S. A.: Stein & Day Pub, 1974.
Marfree, acidfree perfect-bound in earthen boards w/ shiny gilt sig on F & titles on spine, full color green zodiac illus by author (minor nick on R) -- Gift Qual; glossary, sources, biblio & index; no names, not marked-in, underscored, clearance or discard. Mails from NYC usually within 12 hours. ; 371 pages; \n"Great Magickal Herbal, Feb 23, 2007 \nBy Sosiphanes "The Thinking Witch" (United Kingdom) -\nThis book was one of the first I bought to learn more about the use of herbs in Witchcraft and Magick. My copy is much love and I adore it. I have since then bought a pile of books on magickal herbalism, they have been stacked up in the hope that one day I will find a book that takes the work done by Paul Huson in this volume to the next level. There are books on my pile by most of the modern writers on Witchcraft, but none of them come close to rivalling this book. They all fail to grab my interest and to be honest most seem to me, to be a rewrite of this classic work. \n\nThe correspondences are given in tables which are clear and easy to use. The lovely old illustrations throughout gives the book an extra level of charm. The recipes and charms are magickal and they work. \n\nA great no-fluff, practical, useful and great guide to magickal herbalism - which should be on the bookshelves of all self-respecting witches, wiccans, magickians and pagans who work with herbs. Those who don't have it yet and who are not yet in love with it, should get a copy now - otherwise you will continue to miss out big time. \n Still a delight, Nov 7, 2005 \nBy Mel (BKLYN, NY) - \nI found this book in my home years ago, among the dusty tomes we had collected. As a child, I found this book helpful for the simple things such as what are the best herbs to use when I'm cooking chicken, as well as what tea I should drink when I have an upset stomach. Now that I am an adult, I recognize that it is much more useful than I ever recognized. This book is like an encyclopedia of herbs, book of remedies, a recipe book, a gardener's manual and a witchcraft book all rolled into one.. 0812816633.

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