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The Complete Irish Pub Cookbook by Love Food

Myrtle Allen's Cooking at Ballymaloe House by Allen Myrtle

Rachel’s Irish Family Food by Rachel Allen

Best Irish Cookbooks

26 books — 1 voter

Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Herbs by Rodale Press

The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy by Valerie Ann Worwood

Culpeper's Complete Herbal by Nicholas Culpeper

The New Holistic Herbal by David Hoffmann

Herbs & Herbals

153 books — 47 voters

Paul Hollywood's Pies and Puds by Paul Hollywood

Best British Cookbooks

140 books — 8 voters

Australia's Creative Native Cuisine by Andrew Fielke

Baking Day by The Australian Women's Weekly

The Great Australian Cookbook by Helen Greenwood

Best Australian Cookbooks

58 books — 5 voters

Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child

Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book by Better Homes and Gardens

The New Best Recipe by Cook's Illustrated

Best Cookbooks

1,485 books — 1,173 voters

Mindful Eating with delicious raw vegan recipes by Nataša Pantović

How to Cook Everything Vegetarian by Mark Bittman

Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone by Deborah Madison

Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian by Madhur Jaffrey

Best Vegetarian Recipe Books

196 books — 52 voters

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“ Cookery means the knowledge of Medea and of Circe and of Helen and of the Queen of Sheba. It means the knowledge of all herbs and fruits and balms and spices, and all that is healing and sweet in the fields and groves and savory in meats. It means carefulness and inventiveness and willingness and readiness of appliances. It means the economy of your grandmothers and the science of the modern chemist; it means much testing and no wasting; it means English thoroughness and French art and Arabian h ...more ”
― John Ruskin as quoted in the Boston Cooking School Cookbook 1918

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“ So far from a political ideology being the quasi-divine parent of political activity, it turns out to be its earthly stepchild. Instead of an independently premeditated scheme of ends to be pursued, it is a system of ideas abstracted from the manner in which people have been accustomed to go about the business of attending to the arrangements of their societies. The pedigree of every political ideology shows it to be the creature, not of premeditation in advance of political activity, but of med So far from a political ideology being the quasi-divine parent of political activity, it turns out to be its earthly stepchild. Instead of an independently premeditated scheme of ends to be pursued, it is a system of ideas abstracted from the manner in which people have been accustomed to go about the business of attending to the arrangements of their societies. The pedigree of every political ideology shows it to be the creature, not of premeditation in advance of political activity, but of meditation upon a manner of politics. In short, political activity comes first and a political ideology follows after; and the understanding of politics we are investigating has the disadvantage of being, in the strict sense, preposterous. Let us consider the matter first in relation to scientific hypothesis, which I have taken to play a role in scientific activity in some respects similar to that of an ideology in politics. If a scientific hypothesis were a self-generated bright idea which owed nothing to scientific activity, then empiricism governed by hypothesis could be considered to compose a self-contained manner of activity; but this certainly is not its character. The truth is that only a man who is already a scientist can formulate a scientific hypothesis; that is, an hypothesis is not an independent invention capable of guiding scientific inquiry, but a dependent supposition which arises as an abstraction from within already existing scientific activity. Moreover, even when the specific hypothesis has in this manner been formulated, it is inoperative as a guide to research without constant reference to the traditions of scientific inquiry from which it was abstracted. The concrete situation does not appear until the specific hypothesis, which is the occasion of empiricism being set to work, is recognized as itself the creature of owing how to conduct a scientific inquiry. Or consider the example of cookery. It might be supposed that an ignorant man, some edible materials, and a cookery book compose together the necessities of a self-moved (or concrete) activity called cooking. But nothing is further from the truth. The cookery book is not an independently generated beginning from which cooking can spring; it is nothing more than an abstract of somebody's knowledge of how to cook: it is the stepchild, not the parent of the activity. The book, in its tum, may help to set a man on to dressing a dinner, but if it were his sole guide he could never, in fact, begin: the book speaks only to those who know already the kind of thing to expect from it and consequently bow to interpret it. Now, just as a cookery book presupposes somebody who knows how to cook, and its use presupposes somebody who already knows how to use it, and just as a scientific hypothesis springs from a knowledge of how to conduct a scientific investigation and separated from that knowledge is powerless to set empiricism profitably to work, so a political ideology must be understood, not as an independently premeditated beginning for political activity, but as knowledge (abstract and generalized) of a concrete manner of attending to the arrangements of a society. The catechism which sets out the purposes to be pursued merely abridges a concrete manner of behaviour in which those purposes are already hidden. It does not exist in advance of political activity, and by itself it is always an insufficient guide. Political enterprises, the ends to be pursued, the arrangements to be established (all the normal ingredients of a political ideology), cannot be premeditated in advance of a manner of attending to the arrangements of a society; what we do, and moreover what we want to do, is the creature of how we are accustomed to conduct our affairs. Indeed, it often reflects no more than a discovered ability to do something which is then translated into an authority to do it. ...more ”
― Michael Joseph Oakeshott, Rationalism in Politics and other essays

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