Jacques Meerman Knihy

A kitchen classic for nearly 35 years, this book has been hailed as "a minor masterpiece" by Time magazine since its 1984 debut. It serves as the essential resource for food lovers and professional chefs seeking to understand the origins, compositions, and transformative processes of food. For its twentieth anniversary, Harold McGee released a fully revised edition, rewriting the text almost entirely, expanding it by two-thirds, and adding over 100 new illustrations. This new edition remains engaging and readable, offering countless insights into food preparation and enjoyment. It pioneered the translation of technical food science into accessible kitchen science and played a key role in the rise of "molecular gastronomy." While other kitchen science books exist, this one stands out for its unmatched accuracy, clarity, and thoroughness, blending scientific explanations with the historical evolution of foods and cooking techniques. Key themes include traditional and modern food production methods, diverse preparation techniques across cultures, tips for selecting and preparing ingredients, the substances that contribute to flavor, and evolving knowledge about food health benefits and risks. This monumental compendium is invaluable for anyone who has ever cooked, savored, or been curious about food.

Na začiatku dochádza k zlyhaniu ľudského faktora, na konci zem posievajú mŕtvoly. Nedostatky v zabezpečení laboratória na vývoj biologických zbraní a príliš starostlivý otec mladej rodiny spôsobia únik smrtiaceho vírusu superchrípky. Nezastaviteľná choroba v priebehu niekoľkých týždňov vyhladí viac ako deväťdesiatdeväť percent svetovej populácie, zvyšky sa brodia v troskách civilizácie. Tí, čo prežili, sa vydajú na cestu – tajuplné sny ich ako magnet priťahujú do Las Vegas, kde sa usídlil muž s mnohými menami a podobami, alebo k domčeku uprostred kukuričných polí. Ten obýva staručká Matka Abagail, ktorej Boh dožičil dlhý život, aby mu pomohla naplniť Plán. Svet sa ešte len spamätáva z katastrofy a na šachovnici dobra a zla sa už rozohráva partia, v ktorej sa komunita na strane svetla musí postaviť na odpor temnote. Zvíťazí temný muž, ktorý ovláda mágiu, alebo starena, ktorá si aj v úctyhodnom veku stoosem rokov sama pečie koláče? V románe Odpor Stephen King na veľkej ploche majstrovsky vykresľuje uveriteľný postapokalyptický svet, ale aj oveľa desivejšie zákutia ľudskej duše.

Tijdens de roerige jaren aan het inde van de zestiende eeuw wankelt het Japanse imperium. Rivaliserende heersers vechten op leven en dood om de alleenheerschappij. Een gruwelijke machtsstrijd die zijn tol eist: geplunderde dorpen, verwoeste steden en platgebrande akkers. Te midden van alle verschrikkingen dromen drie mannen van hereniging van het Japanse rijk. Zo is er de brutale maar charismatische Noboenaga wiens hoop op een beter Japan bij zijn eerste pogingen ijdel blijkt . Anderzijds is er de koele, berekenende Iëjasoe, een wijs en moedig man. Maar de imposantste van de drie is Hidejosji die uiteindelijk Taiko zal worden, heerser in naam van de keizer, met absolute macht. Taiko is een meeslepend epos vol strijd, actie, intrige en hartstocht waarin vele historische gebeurtenissen en personages zijn verweven. Het biedt een caleidoscopische blik op het feodale Japan van de zestiende eeuw. Taiko is een magistrale roman waarin Japan, zijn bloedige geschiedenis en zijn ondefinieerbare mysteriën op onovertroffen wijze worden geportretteerd.

Derry nie je obyčajné malomesto. Pod jeho povrchom spí prastaré zlo. Vždy keď sa prebudí, na niekoľko rokov rozpúta v Derry a okolí smršť neopísateľných hrôz. Strašná sila, ktorú možno nazvať len To, ovláda obyvateľov, vraždí nevinné deti a zdá sa, že ju neuspokojí nič okrem najvyššej obete. Kto ju prinesie tentoraz? Skupinka priateľov, ktorí v Derry vyrástli, dnes žije roztrúsená vo všetkých kútoch sveta. Sú bohatí, úspešní aj slávni, ale nie sú šťastní. A najmä im chýba veľká časť spomienok na desivé udalosti z detstva. Kto im vymazal pamäť? Ak to chcú zistiť, musia sa opäť stretnúť s pradávnym zlom. Kedysi sa mu dokázali vzoprieť a prežiť. Ale dnes už nie sú deťmi a niečo podstatné, čo im kedysi pomohlo zahnať To, im chýba.

To his mother, Joey seems an ordinary six-year-old boy - special to her, but to no one else. To the Servants of Twilight, however, he is an evil presence who must be destroyed - an Anti-Christ who must die. The terrifying ordeal for Joey and his mother begins in the supermarket car park where an old woman accosts them and pursues them with her terrible threats. Christine's world is turned into a nightmare of terror. Only her love for her child, and the support of the one man who believes her, gives her the chance to survive the Servants of Twilight... This book was originally published under the pseudonym Leigh Nichols.

Na začiatku bol Eragon... Na konci je Inheritance. Nie je to tak dávno, čo bol Dračí jazdec Eragon obyčajným chudobným farmárskym chlapcom a jeho dračica Zafira obyčajným modrým kameňom v lese. Teraz však práve od nich závisí osud celej civilizácie. Jazdec a jeho drak došli ďalej, než sa odvážil ktokoľvek iný. Podarí sa im poraziť samotného kráľa zla a obnoviť v Alagaëzii spravodlivosť? A ak áno, za akú cenu? Dlho očakávaný štvrtý diel bestselleru Odkaz Dračích jazdcov!

Suitable for sceptics, art lovers, and the millions of us who visit art galleries every year - and are confused, this book is a history of Modern Art, from Impressionism to the present day.

A pocket-size edition of the megabestselling classic, hand-annotated throughout by Anthony Bourdain himself. Bourdain's deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade lays out more than a quarter century of drugs, sex, and haute cuisine.

The year is 1311, in the highest tower of Cloud of Sparrows Castle, a beautiful woman watches from the window as the city is set alight and a mob runs riot destroying everything they can lay their hands on. She begins to write down the events unfolding around her and the secret history of the Okumichi Clan. Six centuries later the lost scrolls fall into the hands of American missionary Emily Gibson, a new arrival at Edo Harbour and racing from her tragic past. Emily quickly finds herself translating the text, caught up in the gripping tale of ancestry, heroism and forbidden love. At the same time Emily is desperately trying to unravel the complexities in her own life as two men fight for her love. As Emily sifts through the fragile scrolls, she begins to see threads of her own life woven into the ancient writings. As past and present collide, a hidden history comes to life, and with it a secret prophecy that has been shrouded for centuries and may now finally be revealed.

Het jaar is 4368 v. Chr. Marrah trekt met haar vriend Stavan ten strijde tegen het kwaad dat de sterke en oorlogszuchtige krijgers van de nomadische stam der Hansi belichamen. Haar hechte vriendschap met Stavan, zelf een Hansi, wordt door vriend en vijand met argwaan bekeken, maar wanneer Marrah moeder wordt van een tweeling is hun band door niets en niemand meer te verbreken. In het onherbergzame oosten van Europa, aan de oevers van een onbekende zee, worden Marrah en Stavan opnieuw geconfronteerd met de agressieve stam die zich woest en wild te paard verplaatst. Stavan wordt zelfs gevangen genomen. Marrah blijft achter, bedroefd maar niet bang, want haar geestkracht en haar energie, geërfd van vele vrouwelijke voorouders, geven haar moed.....

Two tours of Iraq under his belt, Sergeant Dave Henley has seen something of how modern battles are fought. But nothing can prepare him for the posting to Forward Operating Base Senzhiri, Helmand Province, Afghanistan. This is a warzone like even he's never seen before.

March 1930: Silent movie actress Betty Winter is killed on set after a lighting system falls on her. Talkies are destroying the careers of producers, cinema owners and stars in a world that is already bubbling with studio wars and sexual politics. Inspector Gereon Rath suspects sabotage, possibly worse. Meanwhile, the murder of a Nazi named Horst Wessel leads to street riots and Rath's relationship with Charlotte Ritter is on the rocks. Then another actress is found dead, this time with her vocal cords removed

De 12-jarige Vidamia Farrell, half Puerto-Ricaans, half Iers, gaat op zoek naar haar biologische vader, een jazzpianist die in Vietnam gewond is geraakt waardoor hij niet meer kan spelen.

Marco Sandano is een jonge, succesvolle bankier bij een Zwitserse investeringsbank. Wanneer hij zonder autorisatie aandelen koopt in Astorian, een autofabriek uit München, en het aandeel vervolgens hard onderuit gaat, verandert Sandano's leven in een hel. Als rogue trader slaat hij op de vlucht, zijn werkgever op de rand van een bankroet achterlatend. Maar hoe heeft dit kunnen gebeuren? Astorian was een zekere investering. Samen met de mooie Alexandra Seiler reist Sandano af naar Zuid - Amerika, op zoek naar de waarheid. In 1943 vlucht een groep nazi's naar Zuid - Amerika met een grote hoeveelheid goud en gestolen kunstschatten. Via geheime offshorekeningen bouwen zij na de oorlog een legitiem zakenimperium op. De winst wordt met behulp van een netwerk van vertrouwelingen in de Duitse economie geïnvesteerd. Politici worden onder druk gezet, ambtenaren omgekocht, en langzaam maar zeker komen verscheidene West - en Oost Duitse bedrijven in de macht van het nazinetwerk. Een daarvan is Astorian...

When an accident takes the life of his daughter, Emma, ATF agent Jack McClure blames himself, numbing the pain by submerging himself in work. Then he receives a call from an old friend whose daughter has been kidnapped.

Autobiografisch verhaal over de man die van 1977 tot aan de val van de Muur in 1989 leiding gaf aan het West-Duitse Elitecommando Ost die de opdracht had overlopers uit Oost-Duitsland naar het Westen te brengen.

Closer...They found the first body hideously swollen and still warm. Then they found two severed hands. Then two staring heads in wall ovens. 150 were grotesquely dead and it had hardly begun in the tiny mountain town of Snowfield, California.and closer...At first they thought it was a maniac. Then they thought it was an obscene new disease. Then they thought it was the Russians.and closer...Then they found out the truth. And they saw it in the flesh. And it was worse than anything any of them had ever imagined...

Naozaj poznáte vlastné deti? Tia a Mike Bayovci nechceli svoje deti špehovať. No ich šestnásťročný syn Adam sa znepokojujúco zmenil – a keďže jeho najlepší kamarát Spencer Hill nedávno spáchal samovraždu, nemôžu potlačiť strach. Tak dajú synovi na počítač nainštalovať monitorovací program, aby vedeli, aké stránky navštevuje, s akými ľuďmi sa kontaktuje a o čom si s nimi píše. Nedozvedia sa všetko – ale čo odhalia, vyzerá ako potvrdenie ich najhorších obáv. Betsy Hillová náhodou zistí, že posledná noc jej syna Spencera nebola taká, ako si myslela. Odrazu sa vynárajú otázky. Kto môže za smrť Spencera Hilla? A prečo z rodičovského domu náhle zmizol Adam Baye? Odpovede vedú len k ďalším záhadám. Zúfalí rodičia sa vrhajú do pátrania na vlastnú päsť, zatiaľ čo v ich okolí vyčíňa sadistický vrah.

The thirteenth mystery for Richard Jury finds the detective investigating the murder of two women in the Lincolnshire fens. Both victims are connected to the wealthy owner of the Fengate estate: one a kitchen maid, and the other, the owner's ex-wife. But Jury has more at stake than just catching a killer, as the prime suspect is a woman who's presence in his life is becoming meaningful in a way he can't explain....

Think Like an Artist by BBC Arts editor Will Gompertz - wisdom and smart thinking from Da Vinci to Ai Weiwei Why do some people seem to find it easy to come up with fresh, brilliant ideas? And how do they turn them into something worthwhile? After spending years getting up close and personal with some of the world's greatest creative thinkers, the BBC's Arts Editor Will Gompertz has discovered a handful of traits that are common to them all. Basic practices and processes that allow their talents to flourish, and which we can adopt - no matter what we do - to help us achieve extraordinary things too. It's time to Think Like An Artist and ... Become Seriously Curious (Caravaggio's discovery of optical lenses changed art for ever.) Think Big Picture and Fine Detail (Turner transformed a masterpiece with a tiny dab of red paint.) And realize ... It's Nearly Always Plan B (Mondrian spent years painting trees before becoming a master of abstraction.) 'Will Gompertz is the best teacher you never had' Guardian

Baba Lavelle is a stranger in New York. A stranger with a mission to break the Mafia stranglehold on the city's drug traffic, and take it over himself. He has no guns, no army of hoods, no friends in high places. But he has the Power - magical, ancient, and terrifyingly brutal. The power that thrives in darkness.

A day-by-day account of Aron Ralston's unforgettable survival story. In April 2003, whilst hiking in the Utah canyons, he was trapped by the hand for six days by an 800-pound boulder. Finally, he faced a terrible decision: he had cut off his hand or face death.

Rosa, reprinted with a revised cover, is the author's third novel after The Overseer and The Book of Q and is the first in the Berlin Trilogy. Shadow and Light was the second and The Second Son the third.

For centuries, a secret splinter sect of the Franciscans, the Gnostic Observatines, has guarded secrets that could transform the world. Now the safety of those secrets depends on one man--and a woman he barely knows. Braverman "Bravo" Shaw always knew his father had secrets. But not until Dexter Shaw dies mysteriously does Bravo discover the enormity of his father's hidden life as a high-ranking member of the Order of Gnostic Observatines. For more than eight hundred years, the Order has preserved an ancient cache of documents that could shake Christianity to its foundations. Another secret society, the Knights of St. Clement, will stop at nothing to obtain the treasure, and now Bravo must follow his father's esoteric clues to find the hidden documents before the Knights. Bravo is now a target and a pawn in an ongoing war far larger and more deadly than any he could have imagined. His companion in this quest is Jenny Logan, a Guardian assigned to Bravo by the Order. But Bravo soon learns that he can trust no one where the Testament is concerned, perhaps not even Jenny. . . . From New York City to Washington, D.C., to Paris, to Venice, and beyond, the race is on for the quintessential prize . . . the Testament.

Forced to kill in the line of duty, police detective Harry Lyon finds his rational world transformed into a place of bizarre surprises and unimaginable dangers. 400,000 first printing. $175,000 ad/promo. Lit Guild & Doubleday Main. Mystery Guild Alt.

Part memoir and part education, this book chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious quest to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z. To address the gaps in his Ivy League education, Jacobs embarks on the daunting task of reading all thirty-two volumes. His wife, Julie, thinks it's a waste of time, friends question his sanity, and his father, who once attempted the same feat, is supportive yet skeptical. With self-deprecating humor and candor, Jacobs details the unexpected and comical disruptions this project brings to his life, affecting his new marriage, his relationship with his father, and his job as an editor at Esquire. This endeavor tests his stamina and prompts him to explore the true meaning of intelligence as he aims to join Mensa, compete on Jeopardy!, and absorb 33,000 pages of knowledge. Along the way, he discovers strange, funny, and profound facts about various topics while grappling with fatigue, ridicule, and the anxiety of impending fatherhood. This memoir is a captivating exploration of one man's intellectual journey, neuroses, and obsessions, highlighting the tension between the pursuit of knowledge and the value of hard-won wisdom.

Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN 9781569472422 Qiu Xiaolong's Anthony Award-winning debut introduces Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police. A young “national model worker,” renowned for her adherence to the principles of the Communist Party, turns up dead in a Shanghai canal. As Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Special Cases Bureau struggles to trace the hidden threads of her past, he finds himself challenging the very political forces that have guided his life since birth. Chen must tiptoe around his superiors if he wants to get to the bottom of this crime, and risk his career—perhaps even his life—to see justice done.

The author of "Olives" takes readers on a tour of the French countryside and Paris, where he looks at the way the French live through how they cook, eat, and market their cuisine.

V špinavom, zatuchnutom byte, kdesi v zapadnutej štvrti Washingtonu, zomiera mladík. Ďalšia obeť bieleho prášku zvaného kokaín.Už nič nevníma, je v predsmrtnej agónii a asi by ho nevzrušilo ani to, keby vedel, že kvôli jeho smrti vypukne celosvetová vojna. Vojna proti drogovým kartelom. Ten mladík je totiž vnuk slúžky v Bielom dome a keď sa o tom dozvie prezident, rozhodne sa zakročiť. Prezident preto povolá bývalého tajného agenta Paula Devereuxa prezývaného Kobra. Ten sa spojí s hrdinom vietnamskej vojny Calom Dexterom, dostanú dve milardy dolárov a rok na to, aby zničili drogový kartel. Dá sa však vôbec kokaínový priemysel zničiť?

Princeton, Veľký piatok 1999. Záhadný renesančný rukopis Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, ktorý bol po stáročia nerozlúštiteľnou hádankou pre mnohých učencov, začína odhaľovať svoje tajomstvá dvom študentom Tomovi Sullivanovi a Paulovi Harrisovi. Aj Tomov otec bol posadnutý touto päťstoročnou knihou s fascinujúcou mocou nad tými, čo ju skúmajú. Paulova budúcnosť od nej vo veľkej miere závisí. Blíži sa termín odovzdania diplomovej práce študentov, no ich výskum sa nečakane spomalí. Vzápätí sa objaví starobylý denník a v ňom sa skrýva šokujúca informácia: v záhadnom renesančnom rukopise je zašifrovaná poloha tajomnej krypty. Táto stopa privádza priateľov do bizarného sveta Hypnerotomachie – sveta dávno zabudnutej učenosti, čudesných sexuálnych chúťok a neskutočného násilia. Pomaly si začínajú uvedomovať rozsah svojho objavu, keď sa v areáli univerzity nájde zastrelený študent, čo už dlhší čas skúmal starý rukopis. Tom a Paul sa tak ocitnú vo víre udalostí rozpútaných knihou, ktorej moc a význam dlhé storočia nik nepochopil.

Herinneringen van een Amerikaanse pyschotherapeute aan haar ervaringen als half-joods meisje in Berlijn tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog.

Paula Wolfert brengt het zuidwesten van Frankrijk, de inwoners en het voedsel in kaart in een verzameling van recepten, bestaande uit een inventarisatie van gerechten van (groot)- moeders en de kookkunst van regionale chef-koks. Door de jaren heen werden de traditionele gerechten verfijnd tot wat nu het hart is van een delicate streekkeuken. Ze proefde verschillende versies van een gerecht alvorens ze te omgeven door de literatuur en mondeling overgeleverde verhalen en er haar eigen methoden en technieken op toe te passen die ze van verschillende koks leerde. Dit is een boek voor iedereen die een regionaal maal prefereert boven de haute cuisine en zich wil laten verleiden door de volle smaken van het land.

ruim 700 Slow Food-gerechten uit de Italiaanse keuken

Een Engelsman koopt een afgelegen boerderij op een idyllisch plekje in Andalusië en probeert daar samen met zijn vrouw een bestaan op te bouwen.