This book is not about sickly sweet soft drinks. It's about tasty alternatives with the perfect balance between acidity, sweetness and bitterness. Pop, Bubble & Fizz has a sparkling selection of easy-to-follow recipes for all your favourite drinks including home brewed sodas, iced teas and coffees, ice cream sodas and more. Learn how to make delicious homemade soda syrups from beautiful natural ingredients, how to mix the ultimate lemonade, how to make fun and fruity bubble tea, and discover the brewing secrets behind the kombucha trend that's taken the USA by storm. Plus, you can accompany your refreshing drinks with an array of irresistible salty and sweet snacks, from flavoured popcorn to crispy onion rings, and gourmet crisps to indulgent churros. Complemented by gorgeous photography throughout, it's never been easier to enjoy a round of thirst-quenching drinks.

The book deals with the various facets of the Tea Party movement. The book shows the irony in the Tea Party claims that it is a nativist movement drawing on fundamental principles from the Constitution. In fact, most of the ideological base of the movement comes from the writings of Russian born Ayn Rand, Austrian economists Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek, and the French economic journalist Claude-Frederic Bastiat. None of these people had anything to do with the American Revolution.

This reference work covers the cuisine and foodways of India in all their diversity and complexity, including regions, personalities, street foods, communities and topics that have been often neglected. The book starts with an overview essay situating the Great Indian Table in relation to its geography, history and agriculture, followed by alphabetically organized entries. The entries, which are between 150 and 1,500 words long, combine facts with history, anecdotes, and legends. They are supplemented by longer entries on key topics such as regional cuisines, spice mixtures, food and medicine, rites of passages, cooking methods, rice, sweets, tea, drinks (alcoholic and soft) and the Indian diaspora. This comprehensive volume illuminates contemporary Indian cooking and cuisine in tradition and practice.

Bee Berrie of Bee's Bakery is on a mission to bring unique biscuits and cookies into everyone's life. She believes the secret to great baking is to give your bakes a personal edge. Her biscuits are original, colourful, flavourful and so much fun - she has a flair for bringing classic recipes bang up to date and her recipes are easily adaptable. Whether you want a sophisticated digestive to dunk in your tea, a personalized jammie dodger to give as a gift, cookies iced with crystallized edible flowers or an inky tattooed sea salt and brown butter cookie, you'll find the recipe in this exciting book. A page of tear-out templates adds to the fun. All achievable for the home cook - with some aimed at children - and using easily sourceable ingredients, the 80 recipes will increase any baker's repertoire. Bee makes the most unique biscuits around, raising eyebrows and smiles, all in one bite.

Soups is a compilation of 60 exciting recipes that will inspire cooking enthusiasts to whip up and enjoy soups of various tastes and textures for every occasion. Whether hot or chilled, smooth or chunky, creamy or clear, the recipes featured in this book are guaranteed to delight! These include classics like Seafood Chowder and Winter Melon Soup with Ham as well as creative soups like Parsnip Soup with Amaretti and Hakka-inspired Thunder Tea Soup. Also included is a section on sweet soups such as Spiced Cherry Soup, Avocado Soup with Whisky Cream and Pineapple-basil Soup with Strawberry Sorbet

In this fully illustrated book, Chef Chan reveals his secrets to making these delicious bite-sized delights. Old and forgotten recipes such as Twin Sausage Rolls (Lap Cheong Qun) and Soup Dumplings (Kun Tong Bao) are recalled, when unique new creations such as Sugar Cane Jelly and Green Tea Glutinous Rice Balls are also introduced. Chef Chan's creative and daring approach to dim sum also sees him as reinventing traditional favourites and giving them new textures and tastes. Here, Steamed Roast Pork Buns (Char Siew Bao) have been given a twist with the addition of preserved vegetables, and Egg

"In this inquiry, originally published in 1989 and now updated for the twenty-first century, Warren J. Belasco considers the rise of the "countercuisine" in the 1960s, the subsequent success of mainstream businesses in turning granola, herbal tea, and other "revolutionary" foodstuffs into profitable products; the popularity of vegetarian and vegan diets; and the increasing availability of organic foods."--BOOK JACKET.

"The diversity of food cultures within the former Soviet Union, with more than 100 distinct nationalities, is overwhelming, but Food Culture in Russia and Central Asia distills the main elements of contemporary cuisine and food-related customs for students and food enthusiasts. Vibrant descriptions of the legacy of the Silk Road; the classic foods such as kasha, pirogi, naan (flatbread), pickles, and shashlyk (shish kebab); the over-the-top Moscow theme restaurants; and meals at the dacha and tea time are just some of the highlights."--BOOK JACKET.

Responds to the major changes affecting counselling - national and European legislation, drive for greater professionalism, accountability, competency and multiculturalism. Considers implications of accreditation and NVQs.