An irreverent journey through the culinary world of the exotic, the bizarre, and the truly extraordinary, Gastronaut is equal parts cookbook and quest book. For your bedside or your stoveside, this hilarious and captivating journey through some of the strangest food experiences, past and present, is divided into three levels of escalating difficulty. Whether you're ready to gild your breakfast sausages with gold, re-create the Last Supper, or cook a whole pig in an underground fire pit, this book takes it all on with gusto and little regard for what one might call decency. Gastronaut answers questions like: • what foods make us fart? • how do you make your own moonshine? • is it possible to teach grandmas to suck eggs? • how would you stage a bacchanalian orgy in the comfort of your own home? Here is the perfect book for people who are fascinated by the wilder side of food and who, every now and then, want to show off their penchant for the extreme. THE GASTRONAUT'S CREED Food will consume 16 percent of my life. That life is too precious to waste; therefore: • I resolve, whenever possible, to transform food from fuel into love, power, adventure, poetry, sex, or drama. • I will never turn down the opportunity to taste or cook something new. • I will never forget: canapés are evil. • I will remember that culinary disaster does not necessarily equal failure. • I will always keep a jar of pesto to hand in case of the latter.

Gastronaut: Adventures in Food for the Romantic, the Foolhardy, and the Brave

Biographies & Memoirs

Gates, Stefan

Professionals & Academics

Harvest

Discover the incredible, edible science that happens every time you cook, bake, or eat with this children's book that is part-cookbook, part-science reference. This children's book explores the science of food by asking the questions that you're hungry to know the answers to and providing you with the chance to test them out through fun experiments. Science You Can Eat will transform your kitchen into a lab through 20 fun food experiments. Cooking is chemistry, and all of the fun science experiments inside this book are edible! This exciting kid's book tackles all those tasty science questions you have about food, plus plenty more that you hadn't thought of. Once you understand science, you understand food - so find out why popcorn go "pop" as you test it out for yourself; explore how taste is affected by smell; and discover the secret to making a perfect cookie. With a close look at everyday ingredients as well as a peek into the future of food, Science You Can Eat helps you understand what's happening with our food and why. Each page is guaranteed to leave kids hungry for more.

Science You Can Eat: 20 Activities that Put Food Under the Microscope

Children's Books

Science, Nature & How It Works

DK Children

Ever been tempted by the thought of trying juicy deep fried mealworms, protein-rich cricket flower, or swapping your snacks for salt and vinegar flavored grasshoppers? If so then you are not alone! Over 2 billion people regularly eat insects as part of their diet, and the world is home to around 1,900 edible insect species. For adventurous foodies and daring dieters comes the newest way to save the planet, eat more protein, and tickle taste buds. But this isn’t an insect cookbook. Instead it’s an informative field guide: exploring the origins of insect eating, offering tips on finding edible bugs and serving up a few delicious ideas of how to eat them once you’ve tracked them down! It includes a comprehensive list on edible insects and where to find them, how to prepare them, their versatile usage and nutritional value as well as a few recipes. A bug-eating checklist covering all known edible bugs so readers can mark off the ones they’ve eaten and seek out new delicacies concludes the book.

Insects: An Edible Field Guide

Humor & Entertainment

Ebury Press

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher*
Life-changing food adventures around the world.
From bat on the island of Fais to chicken on a Russian train to barbecue in the American heartland, from mutton in Mongolia to couscous in Morocco to tacos in Tijuana - on the road, food nourishes us not only physically, but intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually too. It can be a gift that enables a traveller to survive, a doorway into the heart of a tribe, or a thread that weaves an indelible tie; it can be awful or ambrosial - and sometimes both at the same time. Celebrate the riches and revelations of food with this 38-course feast of true tales set around the world.
Features stories by Anthony Bourdain, Andrew Zimmern, Mark Kurlansky, Matt Preston, Simon Winchester, Stefan Gates, David Lebovitz, Matthew Fort, Tim Cahill, Jan Morris and Pico Iyer. Edited by Don George.
About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places where they travel.
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A Moveable Feast (Lonely Planet Travel Literature)

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Planet, Lonely

Kurlansky, Mark

Bourdain, Anthony

Zimmern, Andrew

George, Don

Lebovitz, David

Fort, Matthew

Preston, Matt

Cooking Education & Reference

Lonely Planet

Catology explores the bizarre and very funny world of feline science. Vital questions answered include: * Why do cats have a secret second nose? * Why don't cats fart (but dogs do)? * Do cats feel guilt, love, happiness or jealousy? * Why are cats' tongues covered in microscopic hooks? * Do cats always land on their feet? * Why are cats so scared of cucumbers? * Why do cats purr both when happy and when distressed? * How do you interpret cat language? Packed with fascinating facts, quirky scientific revelations and weird stories about our furry friends, Catology offers a secret glimpse inside the feline body and mind.

Catology: The Weird and Wonderful Science of Cats

Humor

Quadrille

Dogology explores the bizarre and very funny world of canine science. Vital questions answered include: * Why do dogs fart (but cats don't)? * Do dogs feel guilt, love, happiness or jealousy? * What does it mean when a dog wags its tail more to the right or the left? * Why do dogs poo with their bodies aligned north-to-south? * Do dogs dream? If so, what about? * How do dogs smell epilepsy, cancer and human sadness? * How many hairs are there on your dog? * What does your dog hear when you talk? Packed with fascinating facts, quirky scientific revelations and weird stories about our furry friends, Dogology offers a secret glimpse inside the canine body and mind.

Dogology: The Weird and Wonderful Science of Dogs

Scientist and presenter Stefan Gates is back, answering the questions that everyone is too shy to ask! Rude Science follows in the flatulent footsteps of Fartology, taking on those unmentionable body substances with which we're all so familiar, but rarely talk about in polite company. Stefan tackles eternal questions such as: * How much snot can a person produce in one day? * Why do men have nipples * What's ear wax for? * What is toe cheese? It's packed with weird and wonderful facts about our bodies and the disgusting gloops and gunks we ooze every single day. Reclaim your bodily functions with fun and scientific facts that will fascinate kids and adults alike.

Rude Science: Everything You Want to Know About the Science No One Ever Talks About

Puzzles & Games

Quadrille Publishing

What is a fart? Do all creatures fart? Why do farts smell? Why do we find them so embarrassing ... and so darned funny?! Broadcaster and obsessive fartologist Stefan Gates tackles these pressing issues in Fartology, the first ever book to take a comprehensive, scientific look at the body's extraordinary methane-making abilities. Stefan looks at the journey from food to fart; the weird science behind intestinal gas; the sounds, smells and all things in between. With farty recipes, musings on the greatest farters in history, farts in literature, and fart euphemisms, Fartology offers mind-blowing, trouser-exploding fun for all the family.

Fartology: The Extraordinary Science behind the Humble Fart

An exhilarating and practical cookbook for food with extra sparkle, full of bold, delectable-and sometimes surprising-recipes to create unforgettable meals. Stefan combines unusual-sounding dishes that he has invented or discovered on his culinary travels with simple classics that offer something magical. Chapters include snacks and starters for communal dipping, spectacular main courses to get messy with, and extra challenging interactive meals for the brave guest and ambitious cook.

The Extraordinary Cookbook: How to Make Meals Your Friends Will Never Forget

Cooking Methods

Kyle Books

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