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Featuring recipes from twenty countries around the world, this tasty sampler presents brief descriptions of where, what time of year, and why certain desserts are prepared. With recipes for Moroccan date cake, Sacher Torte from Austria, Venezuelan flan, Lebanese stuffed pancakes, and much more, Desserts around the World presents delicious desserts for every occasion.
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Featuring foods, cultures, and holidays from around the world, go on a tour of international kitchens as cooks prepare traditional holiday dishes. With easy-to-follow recipes from many different countries, readers are given a sampling of the celebrations held in each featured country.
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With savory vegetarian recipes from around the world, this versatile cookbook provides a wealth of dishes that are exciting, easy-to-prepare, and delicious. Take a taste-filled trip to countries like Egypt, Greece, Australia, France, and India to discover a sampling of tempting meatless cooking.
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Focusing on the cuisine of several West African countries--including Nigeria, Cote D'Ivoire, Sierra Leone, and Ghana--this book describes why most meals cooked in West Africa are either soups or stews. With each recipe, you will get to know the traditions and cultures of these unique and intriguing countries.
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Bordering the Mediterranean, the Middle East, Europe, and Asia, Turkey draws on the cuisine traditions of each different area. The resulting combination of fruits, savory spices, meats, and vegetables is uniquely Turkish. Featuring ingredients such as lamb, pida, olives, and eggplant, Turkish dishes are rich and savory. With recipes for Gözleme, kebabs, baklava, and Lokum, sample the tastes of Turkey.
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The world's largest archipelago, Indonesia is made up of over seventeen thousand islands. Located along the lines of ancient trade routes, Indonesian culture has been saturated by the cultures of many different countries from around the world. With staples such as rice, saté, and gado-gado salad, Indonesian menus feature tropical fruits and vegetables grown throughout the islands and savory spices such as cumin and turmeric.
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Over the years, the hearty flavors and rich textures of Polish cooking have been influenced by a strong farming tradition, available food resources, and contact with other cultures. With menus that feature fish, grains, and vegetables, Polish people express their great love of national culture.
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Mexico is a large, rich, and culturally diverse country. Over the years, a combination of ancient native foods combined with European customs to produce the authentic, delicious dishes that are associated with Mexico. Discover the beauty and flavor of this country through its traditional meals and ingredients--such as corn, peppers, chocolate, and beans.
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Before modern transportation methods, the people of Italy were isolated into regions that each developed its own customs--especially when it came to cooking. For this reason, Italians have created very distinctive cooking styles and recipes.
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Isolation, landscape, climate, and availability of ingredients all contributed to the development of the many distinctive styles of cooking in Spain. To use the freshest possible ingredients, Spanish cooks often shop daily for their foods. With delicious recipes and enticing photographs, discover Spain through its history, culture, and food.
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Southern Africa is a diverse land. It is home to many groups of native Africans, each with its own traditions, culture, and foods, as well as European and Asian settlers that arrived in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. The various cultures have combined to make eating in Southern Africa a delightful adventure.
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Norwegian cooking has been shaped by its climate, many natural resources, and landscape, with long coastline surrounding over two-thirds of the country and hundreds of fjords jutting inland. Fish is an important staple of the Norwegian diet. Although Norway is a modern, technologically advanced country, its people, holidays, and dishes are deeply rooted in the past and reflect the cycles of nature.
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The oldest continuing civilization in the world, China is not much larger in area than the United States. However, its population is over four times as large. With only 13 percent of its land available for growing, food is highly valued. Discover the importance that culture, landscape, and tradition play in Chinese cooking.
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Over the centuries, Austria was settled by many different groups and became the center of a large empire. Each group brought its own customs and cuisine, eventually mixing to create the rich heritage of food and culture now found in Asutria. Discover some of Austria's most delicious dishes, such as Wiener Schnitzel, Nockerln, Lebkuchen, and more.
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The countries of North Africa--Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt--feature delicious cuisine, rich in colorful spices. A variety of different peoples brought a mosaic of customs, religions, and foods to the area, but the Arabs had the greatest impact. A stopping point on the spice trade route between Europe and the Far East, North African cooks adopted many spices into their cuisine. With tasty dishes such as couscous, falafel, and hummus,...
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Vietnam's warm climate allows for an abundance of rice, fresh fruits, and vegetables that are the mainstays of Vietnamese meals. Its seas yield the fish that produce the fish sauce that is a trademark of Vietnamese cooking. Discover the distinctive flavors of Vietnam and its dishes.
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The area around the Mediterranean Sea is rich with natural beauty and has a fascinating history and culture. With its mild climate and fertile soil, this region produces a wealth of fresh grains, fruits and vegetables, while its coastline offers plenty of fresh seafood. Each of the more the 15 countries in this area offer their own unique dishes and traditions, resulting in a varied and delightful cuisine.
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An introduction to the cooking of India featuring such traditional recipes as lamb kebabs, yogurt chicken, pumpkin curry, and apple chutney. Also includes information on the geography, customs, and people of India.
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