New York: Artisan, 2018. Paperback original. 214 pages. 24 x 16.5 cm. Forward by René Redzepi. Nineteen thoughtful and engaging essays and stories make the case that we should think about cuisine as a collective human effort. "An awful lot of attention is paid to the differences and distinctions between..... More
London: Darton, Harvey, & Co., 1816. Hardcover. 265 pages. 23 x 14.5 cm. An in-depth look at the friction between state governments and the gypsy population. Hoyland, a (lapsed?) Quaker, was particularly concerned with the problem of educating gypsy children. Some speculate that Hoyland fell in love with a "black-eyed..... More
![JAPAN] [RELIGION] Glimpses. Women's Work Committee of the Japan Lutheran Mission](/pictures/thumb/2152.jpg?v=1587672326)
Kumamoto, Japan: Women's Work Committee of the Japan Lutheran Mission, 1934. Sewn binding. 31 pages. 18.5 x 13 cm. Decorative translucent booklet regarding the Janice James School, built at the foot of Mt. Tatsuda in Kumamoto City on land purchased in 1921. Describing the history of mission work in Japan..... More
London: Casell, Petter, Galpin & Co., c. 1881. Hardcover. vii, 184 pp. Author of British Popular Customs, and English Folk-lore, Thiselton-Dyer notes in the Preface the importance of studying "Folk-Lore" as no easy task, "as school boards and railways are fast sweeping away every vestige of the old beliefs and..... More