Thomas Mcnamee: 4 books
The Inner Life of Cats
The Science and Secrets of Our Mysterious Feline Companions
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Our feline companions are much-loved but often mysterious. In The Inner Life of Cats, Thomas McNamee blends scientific reportage with engaging, illustrative anecdotes about his own beloved cat, Augusta, to explore and illuminate the secrets and enigmas of her kind.
As it begins, The Inner Life...
The Man Who Changed the Way We Eat
Craig Claiborne and the American Food Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
In the 1950s, America was a land of overdone roast beef and canned green beans—a gastronomic wasteland. Most restaurants relied on frozen, second-rate ingredients and served bogus “Continental” cuisine. Authentic French, Italian, and Chinese foods were virtually unknown. There was no such thing...
The Killing of Wolf Number Ten
The True Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
A killer. A manhunt. The triumph of justice and of the wolf.
The greatest event in Yellowstone history.
Greater Yellowstone was the last great truly intact ecosystem in the temperate zones of the earth-until, in the 1920s, U.S. government agents exterminated its top predator, the gray wolf....
Alice Waters and Chez Panisse
The Romantic, Impractical, Often Eccentric, Ultimately Brilliant Making of a Food Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2007
The first authorized biography of "the mother of American cooking" (The New York Times)
This adventurous book charts the origins of the local "market cooking" culture that we all savor today. When Francophile Alice Waters opened Chez Panisse in Berkeley in 1971, few Americans were familiar...