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Just Kids-Patti Smith
This wonderful book takes you through New York in the 1970’s and through the eyes of Patti Smith who writes poetically about her relationship with Robert Mappelthorpe and takes you to meet people and go places that she shared during this flourishing cultural moment.
Posted by Ren on luglio 21st, 2010 under Books to read on cooking and not | Comment now »The River Cottage cookbook
What is River Cottage?
1998 when Hugh moved into the original River Cottage in Dorset, to start growing and rearing some of his own food. ‘River Cottage’ continue to stand for the same principles: self-sufficiency, food integrity, and the consumption of local, seasonal produce.
Today, River Cottage consists of several different projects…
Marlon Brando & Peter Ustinov
Lucky to find two second hand books to read at The Open Door Bookshop.Always enjoy reading biographies!
‘Songs my mother taught me’, written with Robert Lindsey.The book is not so much a collection of described chronological events as it is a medium for Brando’s thoughts and beliefs, all voiced through a diverse array of topics. Particularly [...]
Posted by Ren on maggio 27th, 2010 under Books to read on cooking and not | Comment now »The Ongong Moment by Geoff Dyer
a photographic journey
Posted by Ren on aprile 26th, 2010 under Books to read on cooking and not | Comment now »Food for Free by Richard Mabey
Includes recipes and ideas for how to use natural ingredients gathered from woods, fields and seashore.
Posted by Ren on aprile 26th, 2010 under Books to read on cooking and not | Comment now »A Turkish Tapestry by Shirin Devrim
“A Turkish Tapestry” is “the story of he Shakirs of Istanbul during the last years of the crumbling 500-year-old Ottoman Empire and the tumultuous lives in the 70 years of the new Turkey which rose like a Phoenix from its ashes. During the empire her ancestors were scholars, soldiers and administrators. Her parents’ and [...]
Posted by Ren on aprile 26th, 2010 under Books to read on cooking and not | Comment now »Arte per Massaie,Art for Housewives
ARTE PER MASSAIE (art for housewives) is a 21 x 29 cm paperback (159 pages) printed on recycled paper. The handwritten [...]
Posted by Ren on aprile 21st, 2010 under Books to read on cooking and not | Comment now »Italian Country
Lovely illustrated book on Italian Country Living. If you look inside you will see our house in Maremma too!
Posted by Ren on marzo 11th, 2010 under Books to read on cooking and not | Comment now »Alchemy Arts-Recycling is Chic
‘Alchemy Arts: Recycling is Chic’, Kate MacKay and Di Jennings combine tales of mythical creatures and ancient customs with up-to-date tips for ethical fashion in a craft book that seeks to inspire rather than simply instruct. Inviting collaborations from across the globe and with illustrations to accompany each project, their [...]
Posted by Ren on marzo 6th, 2010 under Books to read on cooking and not | Comment now »The food handbook
ChezPim,
“queen of the food bloggers,”
A homemade life by Molly Wizenberg
A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg. Another blogger turned writer! at Orangette.com
Posted by Ren on febbraio 24th, 2010 under Books to read on cooking and not | Comment now »Super Natural Cooking
Great book from Heidi Swanson, one of the first food bloggers
alias 101 CookBook,
In Late Winter we ate Pears
In Late Winter We Ate Pears
A Year of Hunger and Love
Caleb Barber, chef and writer Deirdre Heekin share their love affair with a culture and way of life in a year spent in Italy. Lovely recipes.
Italy Bed & Breakfasts by Nicole Franchini
Nicole Franchini, a long-term resident of Italy, who has personally travelled far afield all over Italy to search and find out all the treasures in this book, upholding the Karen Brown standards of quality, welcome, and charm in her choices of places to stay.
Posted by Ren on gennaio 28th, 2010 under Books to read on cooking and not | Comment now »In defence of Food by Michael Pollan
1-Eat food: food defined
don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food
avoid food products containing ingredients that are unfamiliar, unpronounceable, more than five in number or that include high-fructose corn syrup
avoid food products that make health claims
shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle
get out of the supermarket whenever possible
2 Mostly [...]
books for Christmas
Bad Thoughts – A Guide to Clear Thinking
A book for people who like argument. Witty, contentious, and passionate, it exposes the methods with which we [...]
The Blogger Aid Cook Book
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Recipes from bloggers around the world making a difference
By BloggerAid-CFF, Rhonda Renee, Mark Haak, Peter Georgakopoulos, Deeba Rajpal
Food does not simply nourish the body; food also celebrates what makes the world diverse, as well as, what unites us. The BloggerAid Cook Book is a collection of international recipes illustrating [...]
Issey Miyake by Taschen
I found this beautiful Issey Miyake by Taschen for my daughter at the Open Door bookshop in Trastevere. At
one fifth of the price! My guru.
Sonnets,Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli by Mike Stocks
My husband, an Italian and lover of Belli was so excited to see that these have been so excellently translated in Italian.Everyone who has been to Rome would enjoy these.
Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli (1791-1863) composed well over two thousand clandestine Romanesco sonnets for many years while leading an aparent conformist life of letters.
The classic cuisine of the Italian Jews
‘Vesti da Turco e mangia da Ebreo’, a well known ancient Italian adage with advises one to ‘dress like a Turk and eat like a Jew’. This wonderful books starts just like that. I found it at the Open Door bookshop in Trastevere, a second hand copy.
Written by Edda Servi Machlin who was born in [...]
Pomegranate molasses
My friend from the Open Door bookshop gave me a present of Pomegranate Molasses
and lent me a book of recipes
The Cooking of the Eastern Mediterranean by Paula Wolfert.
The sour and sweet syrupy molasses can be added to a salad of green beans, is good for marinades with fish and chicken, lamb and pork.Add to [...]
Posted by Ren on ottobre 6th, 2009 under Books to read on cooking and not, Recipes | Comment now »The Amateur Gourmet by Adam Roberts
Take a law student getting by on fast food and becoming a passionate cook and you have Adam Roberts. Great inspiration to see that there is an alternative to blue collar lifestyle and litigation! Wonderful and really makes you understand that cooking is FUN.
Posted by Ren on agosto 26th, 2009 under Books to read on cooking and not | Comment now »summer reading in Tuscany
Some of the books I picked up at the OPEN DOOR BOOKSHOP in Trastevere for summer reading.Some new and some old!
Chronicles the public careers and private lives of the men who wielded absolute power over Rome.
In this novel the author highlights not only the contrast between Japan and the Western World, but the barriers that [...]
Posted by Ren on agosto 25th, 2009 under Books to read on cooking and not | Comment now »A fortune Teller Told me by Tiziano Terzani
If you can’t travel right now and are stuck in the heat of Rome,this is a lovely book to read.It takes you across Asia and you can travel right next to Tiziano!
Terzani’s odyssey across Asia is full of revelations and reflections on the dramatic changes underway in Asia. Having spent two decades on the continent, [...]
English books in Rome
THE OPEN DOOR BOOKSHOP has operated in Rome, Italy for more than twenty years. Its name, as well as trying to express a cordial welcome to all book lovers, intends to testify to an open mind and a consuming curiosity for ideas of all kinds. Thus we do not specialize. Although a preponderance of our [...]
Posted by Ren on luglio 23rd, 2009 under Books to read on cooking and not | Comment now »Summer Drinks by Ray Foley
Posted by Ren on luglio 19th, 2009 under Books to read on cooking and not | Comment now »Waste by Tristram Stuart
Eco-activist Tristram Stuart writes about Uncovering the Global Food Scandal created by Supermarkets
Posted by Ren on luglio 19th, 2009 under Books to read on cooking and not | Comment now »
Carmen Via-Journey in the Songlines of Italy
Carmen Via – Journey in the Songlines of Italy by Bernard Anson Silj
With photographs by Rolfe Horne. CARMEN VIA is a journey into the songlines of memory and imagination, a look at the unique views of a Westerner on his heritage and what it might hold for us in this age of communication overload, conflict [...]
The Biology of Belief by Bruce Lipton
A book about unleashing the power of consciousness, matter and miracles.
Lipton, speaks of instinctive behaviours being passed on to offspring ‘in the form of genetic-based instincts’ – yet there is no serious evidence that DNA encodes habits. He regards the mind as ‘immaterial energy’ seated in the prefrontal cortex of the brain, and does not [...]
The transition Handbook by Rob Hopkins
This book happily describes the British grassroots “Transition Towns” movement. Meant to be a guide and motivator, the handbook discusses how several U.K. towns are preparing for the twin threats of climate change and peak oil. Hopkins, a teacher of permaculture and natural building and a cofounder of the Transition Network, urges a community response—local [...]
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