Rapsodia De Sabores

Alimentación sana ¿Quién dice que la comida sana no es sabrosa? Comer sano no es sinónimo de comer desabrido y aburrido. A partir de esta premisa, las recetas de este libro han sido adaptadas a las preferencias y cambios generacionales actuales, ofreciendo un enfoque nuevo en el cual, sin sacrificar el sabor, se cocina en forma inteligente, creando el punto exacto entre lo rico y lo sano. Antes decían: “Coma de todo y engorde sin culpa”. En estos tiempos, hay una nueva educación de hábitos y existe mayor conciencia sobre una alimentación con menos grasa, azúcar y calorías. Variaciones Uno de los atractivos de este libro radica en lo que la autora denomina variaciones. A partir de una receta básica, al sustituir unos ingredientes por otros, se logrará crear una gran variedad de platillos, abriendo un abanico de posibilidades para dejar volar la imaginación y elaborar las recetas según las preferencias personales. El mismo principio se aplica para obtener platillos no lácteos, vegetarianos y sin gluten. Recetas confiables y seguras Rapsodia de Sabores contiene 395 recetas y 433 variaciones probadas y aprobadas, para ser preparadas por expertos o principiantes, con indicaciones completas, paso a paso, de manera breve y clara. Incluye el qué, el cómo y el por qué. Además, contiene un amplio glosario, prácticos consejos y tablas de equivalencias. Menús interactivos Quienes no tienen tiempo para planear los menús de cada día, dispondrán de 49 menús de carne y 28 lácteos, menús para Shabát, festividades, parrilladas, taquizas, desayunos y brunches. Además contiene técnicas esenciales para lavar y desinfectar frutas, verduras y aves, para conservar y congelar todo tipo de alimentos, para equipar una cocina o armar un bufet.

ALIMENTACIÓN SANA ¿Quién dice que los postres no pueden ser sabrosos si se preparan con un mínimo de azúcar, grasa y calorías? Comer sano no es sinónimo de comer desabrido y aburrido. A partir de esta premisa, las recetas de este libro han sido adaptadas a las preferencias y cambios generacionales actuales, ofreciendo un enfoque nuevo en el cual, sin sacrificar el sabor, se cocina en forma inteligente, creando el punto exacto entre rico y sano. Antes decían: “Coma de todo y engorde sin culpa”. En estos tiempos, hay una nueva educación y hábitos, existe mayor conciencia sobre una alimentación con menos grasa, azúcar y calorías. VARIACIONES Uno de los atractivos de este libro radica en lo que la autora denomina variaciones. A partir de una receta básica, al sustituir unos ingredientes por otros, se logrará crear una gran variedad de postres, abriendo un abanico de posibilidades para dejar volar la imaginación y elaborar las recetas según las preferencias personales. El mismo principio se aplica para obtener postres no lácteos y sin gluten. RECETAS CONFIABLES Y SEGURAS Rapsodia de postres contiene 150 recetas y 214 variaciones probadas y aprobadas, para ser preparadas por expertos o principiantes, con indicaciones completas, paso a paso, de manera breve y clara. Incluye el qué, el cómo y el por qué. Además, contiene un amplio glosario, prácticos consejos y tablas de equivalencias.

En el corazón de París, Pierre Arthens, el crítico de gastronomía más célebre del mundo, está a punto de morir. Admirado por algunos y odiado por muchos, Monsieur Arthens lleva años decidiendo el destino de los chefs más prestigiosos, destruyendo y construyendo reputaciones a su antojo. Ahora, en sus últimas horas de vida, su pensamiento se posa sobre algo mucho más sencillo: busca desesperadamente un sabor único, el sabor que un día le hizo feliz. Empieza así un viaje en el que Monsieur Arthens se pasea por los entresijos de su memoria gustativa, se sumerge en los paraísos de la infancia y rememora todo tipo de delicias culinarias. Junto a la voz del propio Arthens escuchamos la de aquellos que han vivido junto a él: familiares, vecinos, amantes, protegidos... e incluso su gato.

The Other/Argentina looks at literature, film, and the visual arts to examine the threads of Jewishness that create patterns of meaning within the fabric of Argentine self-representation. A multiethnic yet deeply Roman Catholic country, Argentina has worked mightily to fashion itself as a modern nation. In so doing, it has grappled with the paradox of Jewishness, emblematic both of modernity and of the lingering traces of the premodern. By the same token, Jewishness is woven into, but also other to, Argentineity. Consequently, books, movies, and art that reflect on Jewishness play a significant role in shaping Argentina's cultural landscape. In the process they necessarily inscribe, and sometimes confound, norms of gender and sexuality. Just as Jewishness seeps into Argentina, Argentina's history, politics, and culture mark Jewishness and alter its meaning. The feminized body of the Jewish male, for example, is deeply rooted in Western tradition; but the stigmatized body of the Jewish prostitute and the lacerated body of the Jewish torture victim acquire particular significance in Argentina. Furthermore, Argentina's iconic Jewish figures include not only the peddler and the scholar, but also the Jewish gaucho and the urban mobster, troubling conventional readings of Jewish masculinity. As it searches for threads of Jewishness, richly imbued with the complexities of gender and sexuality, The Other/Argentina explores the patterns those threads weave, however overtly or subtly, into the fabric of Argentine national meaning, especially at such critical moments in Argentine history as the period of massive state-sponsored immigration, the rise of labor and anarchist movements, the Perón era, and the 1976–83 dictatorship. In arguing that Jewishness is an essential element of Argentina's self-fashioning as a modern nation, the book shifts the focus in Latin American Jewish studies from Jewish identity to the meaning of Jewishness for the nation. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships Open Book Program—a limited competition designed to make outstanding humanities books available to a wide audience. Learn more at the Fellowships Open Book Program website at: https://www.neh.gov/grants/odh/FOBP, and access the book online at the SUNY Open Access Repository at http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/1711.

A French food critic faces his mortality in an “entertaining [and] witty” novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Newsday). In the heart of Paris, in the same posh building made famous in The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Pierre Arthens, the greatest food critic in the world, is dying. Revered by some and reviled by many, Monsieur Arthens has been lording it over the world’s most esteemed chefs for years, passing judgment on their creations, deciding their fates with a stroke of his pen, destroying and building reputations on a whim. But now, during his final hours, his mind has turned to simpler things. He is desperately searching for that singular flavor, that sublime something once sampled, never forgotten, the flavor par excellence. Indeed, this flamboyant and self-absorbed man desires only one thing before he dies: one last taste. Thus begins a charming voyage that traces the career of Monsieur Arthens from childhood to maturity across a celebration of all manner of culinary delights. Alternating with the voice of the supercilious Arthens is a chorus belonging to his acquaintances and familiars—relatives, lovers, a would-be protégé, even a cat. Each will have his or her say about M. Arthens, a man who has inspired only extreme emotions in people. Here, as in The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery’s story celebrates life’s simple pleasures and sublime moments while condemning the arrogance and vulgarity of power. “Lush and satisfying prose.” —Publishers Weekly

Sensing that her new classmate, Jarrod, has supernatural powers similar to her own, Kate Warren tries to inform Jarrod of the gift he possesses, but he does not believe her until his power reaches a dangerous level.

The phenomenal New York Times bestseller that “explores the upstairs-downstairs goings-on of a posh Parisian apartment building” (Publishers Weekly). In an elegant hôtel particulier in Paris, Renée, the concierge, is all but invisible—short, plump, middle-aged, with bunions on her feet and an addiction to television soaps. Her only genuine attachment is to her cat, Leo. In short, she’s everything society expects from a concierge at a bourgeois building in an upscale neighborhood. But Renée has a secret: She furtively, ferociously devours art, philosophy, music, and Japanese culture. With biting humor, she scrutinizes the lives of the tenants—her inferiors in every way except that of material wealth. Paloma is a twelve-year-old who lives on the fifth floor. Talented and precocious, she’s come to terms with life’s seeming futility and decided to end her own on her thirteenth birthday. Until then, she will continue hiding her extraordinary intelligence behind a mask of mediocrity, acting the part of an average pre-teen high on pop culture, a good but not outstanding student, an obedient if obstinate daughter. Paloma and Renée hide their true talents and finest qualities from a world they believe cannot or will not appreciate them. But after a wealthy Japanese man named Ozu arrives in the building, they will begin to recognize each other as kindred souls, in a novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us, and “teaches philosophical lessons by shrewdly exposing rich secret lives hidden beneath conventional exteriors” (Kirkus Reviews). “The narrators’ kinetic minds and engaging voices (in Alison Anderson’s fluent translation) propel us ahead.” —The New York Times Book Review “Barbery’s sly wit . . . bestows lightness on the most ponderous cogitations.” —The New Yorker