Hoosh : roast penguin, scurvy day, and other stories of Antarctic cuisine /
Antarctica, the last place on Earth, is not famous for its cuisine. Yet it is famous for stories of heroic expeditions in which hunger was the one spice everyone carried. At the dawn of Antarctic cuisine, cooks improvised under inconceivable hardships, castaways ate seal blubber and penguin breasts...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2012]
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Series: | At table series.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- All thinking and talking of food
- The secret society of unconventional cooks
- Slaughter and scurvy
- Meat and melted snow
- How to keep a fat explorer in prime condition
- Into the deep freeze
- Prisoner-of-war syndrome
- The syrup of American comfort
- A cookie and a story
- Sleeping with vegetables
- A tale of two stations