Tea or Literary Feast

Tea: Bioactivity and Therapeutic Potential

Author: Yong Su Zhen

Tea, Camellia Sinensis, is of particular importance to humans. Tea consumption has a long history of over 2000 years. Currently, tea is one of the most popular beverages all over the world. The subject of tea and health has attracted a great deal of attention. In addition to the use in traditional medicine, modern biomedical research, particularly in the two decades, has shown the potential application of tea and tea products to disease prevention and therapy.
The goal of this book is to cover all relevant aspects including botanical identification, processing and major categories of tea, composition and the chemistry of constituents, biological activities, physiological and pharmacological effects, and experimental therapeutic effects. The therapeutic applications of tea based on traditional Chinese medicine are also included. The contributors are renowned experts from botanical, agricultural, chemical, biochemical, pharmacological and medical circles. This book will be an invaluable refe

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Literary Feast: Recipes and Writings by American Women Authors from History

Author: Yvonne Schofer

There was sweet, crisp lettuce and tender radishes in scarlet coats, there were green peas, and beans, and beets, and onions, and potatoes, with dessert of wild gooseberries and plums, which latter were furnished gratis by the gracious mother in the woods nearby. Appetizing food is not the sole foundation of human happiness and progress, but it is surely one of the pillars thereof. The Squatter Sovereign (1883), Mary A. Humphrey

From Louisa May Alcott to Kate Douglas Wiggin, early American writers found time to describe and prepare sumptuous dishes still cook-worthy today. Beginning with Bouillon for Parties and Germans (a dance reel, not a people!) and ending Sauce aux Marrons, a Creole chestnut sauce served over broiled turkey chicks, A Literary Feast presents the soup-to-nuts of eating in America more than a century ago.

This unique cookbook provides an abundance of recipes from the nineteenth century, along with excerpts from American literature written by women, who were, after all, the primary cooks of the time, illustrating how food and eating fit into domestic life. Together they provide an unusual-and entertaining-snapshot into the world of an earlier era.

Wisconsin State Journal

"A lively mixture of food and cooking descriptions from old books, sprinkled with recipes from the period. "

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

"Take a delicious step back in time right now ..."

Isthmus

An entertaining and revealing best-of-both-worlds book.

Wisconsin State Journal

A lively mixture of food and cooking descriptions from old books, sprinkled with recipes from the period.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Take a delicious step back in time right now.

Madison Magazine

Prepare for a dash of adventure in every dish.

Wisconsin Academy Review

A tantalizing glimpse into life in a different age.

What People Are Saying

Monique Jamet Hooker
What a great pleasure it is to trace culinary dishes to their source and place in history. (Monique Jamet Hooker, author, Cooking with Seasons: A Year in My Kitchen)

Barbara Haber
Not only a delightful cookbook with charming observations about food, A Literary Feast is a valuable contribution to both women's history and food studies. The book entertains as well as offers evidence of the important connections between women and food. Until recently, that relationship has been trivialized and misunderstood, but with growing numbers of books on the subject appearing, a new period of understanding has finally arrived. A Literary Feast will be a joy to cooks with an interest in history and literature and great resource for researchers who continue this investigation. (author of From Hardtack to Home Fries: An Uncommon History of American Cooks and Meals)

Terese Allen
For people who read cookbooks like novels, A Literary Feast offers the best of both worlds-food and fiction from the 19th century. I can't think of a more enjoyable way to learn about the culture of a by-gone era than by juxtaposing its literary lives with period recipes. (author of Wisconsin Hometown Flavors)

Monique Jamet Hooker
What a great pleasure it is to trace culinary dishes to their source and place in history. Anyone wondering where those dishes we learned from Grandmother came from or curious about the origin of some of their favorite recipes will love this unique cookbook. (author of Cooking with Seasons, A Year in My Kitchen)

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	vii
	Acknowledgments	xiii
	A Note about the Recipes	xv
	Soups, Chowders, and Stews	1
	Fish and Shellfish	17
	Meats	23
	Poultry and Game	35
	Vegetables	43
	Pies	61
	Fruit	73
	Puddings and Ices	83
	Cakes	101
	Cookies and Candy	115
	Breads, Rolls, Doughnuts, and Flapjacks	127
	Preserves, Jellies, Marmalades, and Pickles	143
	Festive Occasions and Holidays	157
	Bibliography	183
	Index	189