Search results for ""Author Janet Macdonald""
Grub Street Publishing The Basic Basics How to Cook from A-Z
This is the handbook for the starter cook ingredients and techniques are listed alphabetically for quick and easy reference everything from Apples to Zesting. Want to know how to make croutons? Want to know how to poach an egg? Never remember how to cook corn on the cob? Youll find it here. With over 150 entries, this book does what no recipe book does, it gives you the basic methods and techniques for preparing vegetables, fruits, meat, fish, poultry, grains, legumes, pulses, breads, pasta, - with advice on how to clean, store, prepare and cook each ingredient. There are many line drawings clearly showing techniques such as dicing, slicing, coring fruit, rubbing in fat. Where appropriate there are very simple recipes which will use the skills you will develop from reading the book. Not only is this unique book essential for the beginner, it is also perfect for the experienced cook as well, in providing all those basics that most of todays sophisticated, complicated chef-orientated cookbooks never have in them.
£8.99
Boydell & Brewer Ltd The British Navy's Victualling Board, 1793-1815: Management Competence and Incompetence
An examination of the Royal Navy's Victualling Board, the body responsible for supplying the fleet. During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the Royal Navy increased its manpower from fewer than 20,000 to more than 147,000 men, with a concomitant increase in the quantities of food and drink required to sustain them.The organisation responsible for this, the Victualling Board, performed its tasks using techniques and systems which it had developed over the previous 110 years. In terms of actually delivering supplies to warships, troopships and army garrisons abroad, the Victualling Board performed well given the constraints of long-distance communications and intermittent difficulties in obtaining supplies. However, its other areas of responsibility showed poor performance, as evidenced by the reports of several Parliamentary enquiries. This book examines in detail the processes by which the Victualling Board performed its core and non-core tasks, identifying the areas of competence and incompetence, and establishing the underlying causes of the incompetencies. JANET MACDONALD, author of the highly acclaimed Feeding Nelson's Navy (Chatham, 2004), has recently completed a thesis at King's College London. After a business career, and running an equestrian organisation, she spent ten years as a freelance writer, publishing more than thirty books.
£80.00
