Fire Islands: Recipes from Indonesia

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Ford, Eleanor

Regional & International

MURDOCH BOOKS

Over hundreds of years, various ethnic groups have passed through Samarkand, sharing and influencing each other's cuisine and leaving their culinary stamp. This book is a love letter to Central Asia and the Caucasus, containing personal travel essays and recipes little known in the West that have been expertly adapted for the home cook. An array of delicious dishes introduce the region and its different ethnic groups-Uzbek, Tajik, Russian, Turkish, Korean, Caucasian, and Jewish-along with a detailed introduction to the Silk Road and a useful store cupboard of essential ingredients. Chapters are divided into A Shared Table, Soups, Roast Meats &amp; Kebabs, Warming Food for Long Winters, Plovs &amp; Pilafs, Accompaniments, Breads &amp; Doughs, Drinks, and Desserts &amp; Sweetmeats. One hundred recipes are showcased, including Apricot &amp; Red Lentil Soup, Chapli Kebabs, Rosh Hashanah Plov with Barberries, Pomegranate, &amp; Quince, Kefir Pancakes with Blackberry Syrup, and the all-important regional breads. And with evocative travel features such as Lunch on the Road to Samarkand, A Banquet on the Caspian Sea, and Shopping under Kyrgyzstan's Sacred Mountain, you will be charmed and enticed by this relatively untouched region and its cuisine.

Samarkand: Recipes & Stories from Central Asia & The Caucasus

Eden, Caroline

Kyle Books

About the Author\nEleanor Ford is the creative mind behind the craft mecca Mini Mad Things. Mini Mad Things is an online crafting destination that showcases how to upcycle materials around your home to create costumes, craft, vehicles, cubby houses and so much more!\nA spaceship? A pair of butterfly wings or even a dinosaur? Anything’s possible with cardboard! 
Unleash your family's imagination and enjoy endless hours of creative fun with the wonderful craft projects that all start with the humble cardboard box. Adventures in Cardboard features 16 upcycled craft projects for the entire family to create and play! 
In a world of finite resources and growing consumption, we want to encourage the creative use of simple, recycled materials, like the humble cardboard box, to create play. Encouraging our little ones to re-purpose what they already have is not only great for our planet, it also requires creative thinking to see new possibilities beyond the original purpose, helping our children become the resourceful inventors of the future. 
WHAT'S INSIDE THE BOOK? 16 PROJECT IDEAS to make, using cardboard boxes, including rockets, a huge marble run, cubby houses, dress-up costumes, a city, cars and lots more. Inspiration for making a creative space at home for your little ones. A list of basic craft supplies to build your craft cupboard. Ideas for using household RECYCLING and SUSTAINABLE crafting tips. Simple building technique ideas for creating with cardboard. The activity ideas in the book can be adapted to suit different age children from 3yrs to 9yrs.

Adventures in Cardboard: Amazing DIY Cardboard Projects for the Whole Family!

Children's Books

Arts, Music & Photography

Five Mile

From acclaimed food writer and world traveler Eleanor Ford comes a vibrant collection of 100 mouthwatering recipes for Indonesian cuisine—from the refined cooking of Java to the spicy heart of Sumatra and the festival foods of Bali.
Indonesian food is the hidden treasure of South East Asian cookery, waiting to be uncovered, and this wondrous cookbook opens an unexplored culinary region to food lovers and travellers. It is an unprecedented culinary celebration of Indonesia, the world’s largest archipelago—a land rich with tropical rainforests, smoking volcanoes, and silver sand beaches that was also the beating heart of the spice trade. Today its unforgettable dishes are a celebration of rice and spice—homegrown clove and nutmeg, ginger and chilly, coconut, turmeric, peanuts, and more.
Through delightful, easy-to-follow text and instructions, Fire Islands reveals how to set up an Indonesian kitchen and how to create one hundred authentic Indonesian recipes—everything from crunchy snacks and street food to sweet and sticky rice dishes, spicy noodles, fragrant sauces, tangy broths, rich drinks, and much more. This bright, beautifully designed package has mouthwatering photographs of the dishes throughout coupled with original images from the lush, food paradise.

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Apollo Publishers

"What a deep dive this is into the world of spice. . . . And then the recipes! Recipes which allow the reader to travel from Asia to the Middle East along the spice route, taking in so much flavor and so much context on the way." --Yotam Ottolenghi Through 80 spice-infused recipes, spectacular images, and a mouthwatering culinary journey along the ancient spice trail, award-winning author Eleanor Ford's luscious new volume reveals how centuries of spice trading and cultural diffusion changed the world's cuisine and how to best stock and enjoy spices in your own home. From humankind's earliest travels, people have followed and sought out the spice routes. These maritime trading trails acted as the central nervous system of the world, enabling the flow of goods and ideas. In this richly illustrated volume, Eleanor Ford uses recipes as maps as she takes readers on a culinary journey that weaves through history and around the world. She explores both the flavor profiles and the spread of spices--from cardamom to cinnamon, ginger to sumac--and provides fascinating insights such as how nutmeg unites the spice blends Indian garam masala, Lebanese seven spice, French quatre epices, Moroccan ras el hanout, and Middle Eastern baharat, lending its bittersweet, fragrant warmth to them all. This unparalleled volume provides 80 flavorful recipes for entrees, appetizers, sides dishes, and more, enabling you to make a divine garlic clove vegetable curry, jasmine tea-smoked chicken, Indonesian seafood gulai, as well as staple spice pastes and mixtures to have on-hand. The result will enable you to stock up and to have a home kitchen rich in international flavor and fragrance.

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