Gastronaut: Adventures in Food for the Romantic, the Foolhardy, and the BraveHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006 - 257 pages 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: |
Table des matières
Let Them Eat Gold | 3 |
Teaching Grandmothers To Suck Eggs | 9 |
How To Make Your Own Moonshine Almost | 13 |
How To Make Your Own Biltong | 15 |
How To Make Your Own Cheese | 18 |
How To Make Your Own Margarine | 21 |
A Biscuittin Smokery | 25 |
Adventures In Dining | 27 |
Toffee Fondue | 144 |
Frumenty | 146 |
Adventures for the Bold and the Brave | 147 |
Sea Urchin Gonads | 148 |
Cowheel Soup | 149 |
Pigeon Pie | 151 |
Mock Turtle Soup | 152 |
Fish Sperm on Toast | 157 |
The Last Supper and Other Memorable Meals | 29 |
How To Stage a Bacchanalian Orgy | 38 |
Why Not Eat Insects? | 47 |
How Britain Lost Its Culinary Edge | 50 |
Food and the Body | 53 |
Our Secret Cannibal Desires | 55 |
A Personal Journey Into Cannibalism | 58 |
Cannibal Recipes | 61 |
The Human Harvest | 65 |
Aphrodisiacs | 73 |
Flatulence | 79 |
A Personal Journey Into Extreme Flatulence | 84 |
Physiological Fun | 87 |
Exhibitionism for the Romantic | 93 |
Cooking with Aftershave | 95 |
Fanny Sandwich | 98 |
Red and White Soup | 101 |
Mumbled Mushrooms | 103 |
Homemade Gravlax | 105 |
Smug Homemaker Iced Pea and Lemon Grass Soup | 106 |
King Edwards Chippenham Cheese Savory | 108 |
Chickenfoot Stew | 109 |
Laver Bread | 111 |
Mackerel Tartare | 113 |
Heartbreaker | 116 |
Lumpydick | 117 |
Buckinghamshire Bacon Badger | 118 |
Nettle Soup and Nettle Haggis | 120 |
Rabbit Pie | 123 |
Gruel | 125 |
Monkey Gland Steak | 127 |
Carpetbagger Steaks | 129 |
Clapshot | 130 |
Picassos Poussin | 133 |
Interactive Pizza Engineering | 135 |
Andy Warhols Chocolate Balls | 138 |
Hasty Pudding | 139 |
Flummery | 141 |
Deepfried Mars Bar | 143 |
The Worlds Oldest Recipes | 158 |
Cooking with Insects | 160 |
Frogs Legs | 163 |
Testicles | 166 |
Rhinoceros Soup | 167 |
Drisheen | 170 |
Ears | 171 |
Reindeer Stew | 174 |
Stargazey Pie | 176 |
Stuffed Fish Heads | 179 |
Stone Stepladder and Bucket Cream | 181 |
Fourteenthcentury Blancmange | 182 |
Grands Projets for Men and Women of Destiny | 185 |
Headcheese | 187 |
Suckling Pig | 194 |
Turducken | 199 |
Imu | 203 |
BrillatSavarins Truffled Turkey | 215 |
Guinea Pig | 219 |
Leftovers | 223 |
A Beginners Guide to Gastronautics | 225 |
Beef Carpaccio | 226 |
Calfs Liver | 227 |
Seasonal Oddments | 228 |
Pickled Eggs | 229 |
Carrot Jam | 230 |
Elderberry Flower Cordial | 231 |
Herring Sperm on Horseback | 232 |
Pickled Walnuts | 233 |
Dandelion Coffee | 234 |
Mushroom Ketchup | 235 |
A Brief History of Washingup | 237 |
Useful Web Sites and Suppliers | 241 |
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The Gastronautical Survey | 248 |
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Acknowledgments | |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Gastronaut: Adventures in Food for the Romantic, the Foolhardy, and the Brave Stefan Gates Aucun aperçu disponible - 2005 |