A new edition of the classic cookbook for groups of six to fifty guestsWhen Cooking for Crowds was first published in 1974, home cooks in America were just waking up to the great foods the rest of the world was eating, from pesto and curries to Ukrainian pork and baklava. Now Merry White's indispensable classic is back in print for a new generation of readers to savor, and her international recipes are as crowd-pleasing as ever—whether you are hosting a la...

Un faux couple, une tempête de neige, et une seule certitude : même les cœurs les plus résistants peuvent fondre à Noël.Romy déteste Noël. Les repas interminables, les sourires de façade, les traditions imposées... Très peu pour elle. Cette année, pour éviter les questions qui fâchent, elle a tout prévu : elle va revenir au village avec Maxime. Jeune avocat charmant, c'est le petit ami idéal à présenter à ses proches.Mais Maxime annule à la dernière minute.

What we learn when an anthropologist and a historian talk about food.From the origins of agriculture to contemporary debates over culinary authenticity, Ways of Eating introduces readers to world food history and food anthropology. Through engaging stories and historical deep dives, Benjamin A. Wurgaft and Merry I. White offer new ways to understand food in relation to its natural and cultural histories and the social rules that shape our meals.Wur...

UNA INVITACIÓN A SENTIR CURIOSIDAD POR LA COMIDA Y, SOBRE TODO, A PENSAR EN ELLA DE NUEVAS MANERAS.Desde los orígenes de la agricultura hasta los debates actuales sobre qué es más auténtico en cocina, Modos de comer se lleva al lector a recorrer el planeta y explorar la historia y las raíces antropológicas de lo que ponemos en el plato. Viajaremos a distintos momentos del pasado en una sucesión de relatos fascinantes que nos permitirán conocer los ...

This fascinating book—part ethnography, part memoir—traces Japan’s vibrant café society over one hundred and thirty years. Merry White traces Japan’s coffee craze from the turn of the twentieth century, when Japan helped to launch the Brazilian coffee industry, to the present day, as uniquely Japanese ways with coffee surface in Europe and America. White’s book takes up themes as diverse as gender, privacy, perfectionism, and urbanism. She shows how coffee and coffee spaces have been centr...

Pandemics bring the world to a standstill. All economies are based on confidence, yet during and after a pandemic, uncertainty and fear abound. The entire professional services sector the world over - which includes law firms, accounting firms, brokerages, consulting firms, etc. - are cash-based, people-centric, and relationship-driven businesses. The rapid changes to relationships - both professional and personal - caused by a pandemic are structural and deep. The definition of "business ...

First published in 1986, this book proposes and illustrates a new approach to the comparative analysis of educational policy, based on anthropological and historical inquiry. It reviews the transitions of Western countries, Japan, and the People’s Republic of China and in doing so investigates cultural ideas of human potential and how they inform social and economic goals of education. An analysis of the problems and emerging patterns in developing countries reveals how and why the meaning...

The contemporary legal landscape is no longer a rigid hierarchy composed of limited and complacent behemoths, but rather an ecosystem, filled with a wide variety of players that facilitate disruption and revolution and jostle for clients' attention with agility and innovation. This includes - but is certainly not limited to - entities such as technology companies, consultants, alternative legal service providers, and paraprofessionals. Law firms are not the only ones in this environment th...

A story about the early days of country music in the Knoxville area, including milestone shows such as WNOX's "Mid-Day Merry-Go-Round" and the TN Barn Dance, and the stars who shone bright and those who later moved on to stardom in Nashville.

What we learn when an anthropologist and a historian talk about food.From the origins of agriculture to contemporary debates over culinary authenticity, Ways of Eating introduces listeners to world food history and food anthropology. Through engaging stories and historical deep dives, Benjamin A. Wurgaft and Merry I. White offer new ways to understand food in relation to its natural and cultural histories and the social rules that shape our meals.W...

This book is made up of two different plays. The Author has brought before the public the two dominant characteristics of the ideal Christmas season, kindness, expressed by "good will toward men" and the inward joy wrought by kind acts, and suggested by peace on earth. As Christmas time draws near we like to think of the swell of Christmas feeling, kindness, peace and good will, which rise like a mighty tide over the world, filling it with the fresh, clean joys.Some of the plays ar...

One's steady. Another one's fire. She can't resist either, and this Christmas she doesn't need to choose. Three days. Two hockey players. One snowed-in Christmas.Top-ten tennis star YANA LIPNITSKAJA isn't looking for romance when she escapes to a cabin in Tahoe. But when a blizzard traps her with LOGAN REID and CAMDEN HAYES, best friends and professional hockey players, sparks fly like fireworks on New Year's.Logan is stead...