Food Animal category: 255 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
What is the major muscle of a rib eye steak? What is the landmark for separation of the forequarter from the hindquarter? What is the "packinghouse" term for the diaphragm? If you cannot answer these questions now, you will be able to when you have completed this subcourse, and you will...
The Whole Goat Handbook
Recipes, Cheese, Soap, Crafts & More
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Goats are the hottest animal today to raise for hobby farmers, commercial farmers, and members of both 4-H and FFA. But using the producst from a goat requires special skills, handling, and recipes. Here’s The Whole Goat Handbook, chock full of recipes, crafting projects, advice, and more.
Cooking...
Basic Butchering of Livestock & Game
Beef, Veal, Pork, Lamb, Poultry, Rabbit, Venison
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 1986
This guide takes the mystery out of butchering, covering everything you need to know to produce your own expert cuts of beef, venison, pork, lamb, poultry, and small game. John J. Mettler Jr. provides easy-to-follow instructions that walk you through every step of the slaughtering and butchering process,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Grain legumes, including common-bean, chickpea, pigeonpea, pea, cowpea, lentil and others, form important constituents of global diets, both vegetarian and non-vegetarian. Despite this significant role, global production has increased only marginally in the past 50 years. The slow production growth,...
Pumpkin
The Curious History of an American Icon
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Why do so many Americans drive for miles each autumn to buy a vegetable that they are unlikely to eat? While most people around the world eat pumpkin throughout the year, North Americans reserve it for holiday pies and other desserts that celebrate the harvest season and the rural past. They decorate...
The Joy of Foraging
Gary Lincoff's Illustrated Guide to Finding, Harvesting, and Enjoying a World of Wild Food
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Discover the edible riches in your backyard, local parks, woods, and even roadside! In The Joy of Foraging, Gary Lincoff shows you how to find fiddlehead ferns, rose hips, beach plums, bee balm, and more, whether you are foraging in the urban jungle or the wild, wild woods. You will also learn about...
Butchering Poultry, Rabbit, Lamb, Goat, and Pork
The Comprehensive Photographic Guide to Humane Slaughtering and Butchering
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Slaughter and butcher your own animals safely and humanely with this award-winning guide. Providing detailed photography of every step of the process, Adam Danforth shows you everything you need to know to butcher poultry, rabbit, lamb, goat, and pork. Learn how to create the proper slaughtering conditions,...
Homegrown Pork
Humane, Healthful Techniques for Raising a Pig for Food
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Raising a pig for meat is easy to do, even in a small space like a suburban backyard. In just five months, a 30-pound shoat will become a 250-pound hog and provide you with more than 100 pounds of pork, including tenderloin, ham, ribs, bacon, sausage, and more. Homegrown Pork covers everything you...
La Betterave à sucre
Les Sucreries et distilleries agricoles de la France
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
“ ...Olivier de Serres nous apprend que la betterave rouge fut importée de l’Italie dans l’Europe du nord vers la fin du XVIe siècle, et cultivée dans les jardins comme plante alimentaire pour l’homme. C’est en Allemagne que cette culture prit d’abord de grandes proportions ; elle ne...
Hoptopia
A World of Agriculture and Beer in Oregon's Willamette Valley
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
The contents of your pint glass have a much richer history than you could have imagined. Through the story of the hop, Hoptopia connects twenty-first century beer drinkers to lands and histories that have been forgotten in an era of industrial food production. The craft beer revolution of the late...
Butchering Beef
The Comprehensive Photographic Guide to Humane Slaughtering and Butchering
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Learn how to humanely slaughter cattle and butcher your own beef. In this straightforward guide, Adam Danforth provides clear instructions and step-by-step photography of the entire butchering process, from creating the right preslaughter conditions through killing, skinning, keeping cold, breaking...
by Stacy Slinkard
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
This full-color book opens with an introduction to wine--including what it is, how it's made, and the various types of grapes and wines available--and then clearly shows the reader how to read a wine label and how to taste wine. The author guides the reader through a wine list and how order wine in...
by William V. Cruess
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
This volume contains a detailed treatise on the pickling of green olives produced by the University of California, with information on acid formation, deterioration, washing, brining, lye treatment, and much, much more. Written in clear, simple language and full of practicable information and interesting...
Foundations of Natural Farming
Understanding Core Concepts of Ecological Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Join longtime ecological farming author/researcher Harold Willis as he explains the foundation concepts of natural farming and issues the call for cleaner forms of food and fiber production. In this single volume, the author details the interconnections between soil chemistry, microbial life, plants...