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"I've struck it!" Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. "And I will give it awayto you. You will never ... more ›
The Persians of antiquity were renowned for their lavish cuisine and their never-ceasing fascination with the exotic. These ... more ›
Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues that ... more ›
Known as the greatest traveler of premodern times, Abu Abdallah ibn Battuta was born in Morocco in 1304 and educated in Islamic ... more ›
Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A ... more ›
Few works in world literature have inspired so vast an audience, in nations with radically different languages and cultures, as ... more ›
The best wine and food pairings create harmony with unexpected flavors. Chardonnay, Riesling, and Merlot are classic pairing ... more ›
Marion Nestle writes passionately about the negative effects the food industry has had on the health of consumers. She contends ... more ›
ISBN-13: 9780520243408 ISBN-10: 0520243404 Title: Silk Road Two Thousand Years in the Heart of Asia. Author: Frances Wood. ... more ›
In THE TEACHINGS OF DON JUAN, Carlos Castaneda, an anthropologist with an interest in peyote and psychedelics, introduces Don ... more ›
