Jacques Meerman Books

A kitchen classic for nearly 35 years, this book has been hailed as "a minor masterpiece" by Time magazine since its 1984 debut. It serves as the essential resource for food lovers and professional chefs seeking to understand the origins, compositions, and transformative processes of food. For its twentieth anniversary, Harold McGee released a fully revised edition, rewriting the text almost entirely, expanding it by two-thirds, and adding over 100 new illustrations. This new edition remains engaging and readable, offering countless insights into food preparation and enjoyment. It pioneered the translation of technical food science into accessible kitchen science and played a key role in the rise of "molecular gastronomy." While other kitchen science books exist, this one stands out for its unmatched accuracy, clarity, and thoroughness, blending scientific explanations with the historical evolution of foods and cooking techniques. Key themes include traditional and modern food production methods, diverse preparation techniques across cultures, tips for selecting and preparing ingredients, the substances that contribute to flavor, and evolving knowledge about food health benefits and risks. This monumental compendium is invaluable for anyone who has ever cooked, savored, or been curious about food.

#1 BESTSELLER • NOW A PARAMOUNT+ LIMITED SERIES • Stephen King’s apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and tangled in an elemental struggle between good and evil remains as riveting—and eerily plausible—as when it was first published. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years! This edition includes all of the new and restored material first published in The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition. A patient escapes from a biological testing facility, unknowingly carrying a deadly weapon: a mutated strain of super-flu that will wipe out 99 percent of the world’s population within a few weeks. Those who remain are scared, bewildered, and in need of a leader. Two emerge—Mother Abagail, the benevolent 108-year-old woman who urges them to build a peaceful community in Boulder, Colorado; and Randall Flagg, the nefarious “Dark Man,” who delights in chaos and violence. As the dark man and the peaceful woman gather power, the survivors will have to choose between them—and ultimately decide the fate of all humanity. "A master storyteller."—Los Angeles Times

To his mother, Joey seems an ordinary six-year-old boy - special to her, but to no one else. To the Servants of Twilight, however, he is an evil presence who must be destroyed - an Anti-Christ who must die. The terrifying ordeal for Joey and his mother begins in the supermarket car park where an old woman accosts them and pursues them with her terrible threats. Christine's world is turned into a nightmare of terror. Only her love for her child, and the support of the one man who believes her, gives her the chance to survive the Servants of Twilight... This book was originally published under the pseudonym Leigh Nichols.

The young Dragon Rider Eragon must finally confront the evil king Galbatorix to free Alagaesia from his rule once and for all.

Suitable for sceptics, art lovers, and the millions of us who visit art galleries every year - and are confused, this book is a history of Modern Art, from Impressionism to the present day.

A pocket-size edition of the megabestselling classic, hand-annotated throughout by Anthony Bourdain himself. Bourdain's deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade lays out more than a quarter century of drugs, sex, and haute cuisine.

The year is 1311. In the highest tower of Cloud of Sparrows castle, a beautiful woman watches as enemies gather below. As she calmly awaits her fate, she begins to write the secret history of the Okumichi clan, of the gift of prophecy they share and the extraordinary destiny that awaits them. Six centuries later these remarkable writings are discovered by an American missionary, Emily Gibson, who has fled to Japan to escape a tragic past. Soon an extraordinary man will enter her life: Lord Genji of the Okumichi clan, a nobleman with a gift of prophecy who must defend his embattled family-and confront forbidden feelings for an outsider in his midst. Courted by two Western diplomats, Emily discovers that her heart belongs to the one man she cannot have. But she has found a mission: translating Genji's ancestral history, losing herself in an epic tale of heroism and forbidden love, including the story of Lady Shizuka, the beautiful witch-princess who has enchanted Okumichi men for generations. As Emily unravels the magical stories, she begins to see threads of her own life woven into the ancient writings. And as past and present collide, a hidden history comes to life, and with it a secret prophecy that has been shrouded for centuries, and may finally be revealed.

Het jaar is 4368 v. Chr. Marrah trekt met haar vriend Stavan ten strijde tegen het kwaad dat de sterke en oorlogszuchtige krijgers van de nomadische stam der Hansi belichamen. Haar hechte vriendschap met Stavan, zelf een Hansi, wordt door vriend en vijand met argwaan bekeken, maar wanneer Marrah moeder wordt van een tweeling is hun band door niets en niemand meer te verbreken. In het onherbergzame oosten van Europa, aan de oevers van een onbekende zee, worden Marrah en Stavan opnieuw geconfronteerd met de agressieve stam die zich woest en wild te paard verplaatst. Stavan wordt zelfs gevangen genomen. Marrah blijft achter, bedroefd maar niet bang, want haar geestkracht en haar energie, geërfd van vele vrouwelijke voorouders, geven haar moed.....

Two tours of Iraq under his belt, Sergeant Dave Henley has seen something of how modern battles are fought. But nothing can prepare him for the posting to Forward Operating Base Senzhiri, Helmand Province, Afghanistan. This is a warzone like even he's never seen before.

De 12-jarige Vidamia Farrell, half Puerto-Ricaans, half Iers, gaat op zoek naar haar biologische vader, een jazzpianist die in Vietnam gewond is geraakt waardoor hij niet meer kan spelen.

Marco Sandano is een jonge, succesvolle bankier bij een Zwitserse investeringsbank. Wanneer hij zonder autorisatie aandelen koopt in Astorian, een autofabriek uit München, en het aandeel vervolgens hard onderuit gaat, verandert Sandano's leven in een hel. Als rogue trader slaat hij op de vlucht, zijn werkgever op de rand van een bankroet achterlatend. Maar hoe heeft dit kunnen gebeuren? Astorian was een zekere investering. Samen met de mooie Alexandra Seiler reist Sandano af naar Zuid - Amerika, op zoek naar de waarheid. In 1943 vlucht een groep nazi's naar Zuid - Amerika met een grote hoeveelheid goud en gestolen kunstschatten. Via geheime offshorekeningen bouwen zij na de oorlog een legitiem zakenimperium op. De winst wordt met behulp van een netwerk van vertrouwelingen in de Duitse economie geïnvesteerd. Politici worden onder druk gezet, ambtenaren omgekocht, en langzaam maar zeker komen verscheidene West - en Oost Duitse bedrijven in de macht van het nazinetwerk. Een daarvan is Astorian...

When an accident takes the life of his daughter, Emma, ATF agent Jack McClure blames himself, numbing the pain by submerging himself in work. Then he receives a call from an old friend whose daughter has been kidnapped.

At 20, Matt Hunter made a mistake that led to a four-year prison sentence, instilling in him a determination to avoid incarceration at all costs. Now, with his life back on track—holding a good job, a pregnant wife he loves, and a dream home on the horizon—everything seems perfect. However, his world is upended when he receives anonymous photos suggesting his wife is involved with a mysterious black-haired stranger. Before he can investigate, he finds himself on the run, particularly from a childhood friend turned cop and a young detective entangled in an FBI probe linked to a dead nun with unexpected ties to Matt and Olivia Hunter. The plot thickens with elements like a missing stripper, a dead gangster, and an incriminating videotape, all while Matt grapples with his faith in Olivia amid her murky past and uncertain future. Coben intricately weaves a narrative that challenges the notion of justice and innocence, as Matt, a quintessential middle-class New Jersey boy, confronts the moral complexities of his past. This tightly constructed thriller promises to captivate readers and secure its place on the bestseller list.

Baba Lavelle is a stranger in New York. A stranger with a mission to break the Mafia stranglehold on the city's drug traffic, and take it over himself. He has no guns, no army of hoods, no friends in high places. But he has the Power - magical, ancient, and terrifyingly brutal. The power that thrives in darkness.

Rosa, reprinted with a revised cover, is the author's third novel after The Overseer and The Book of Q and is the first in the Berlin Trilogy. Shadow and Light was the second and The Second Son the third.

For centuries, a secret splinter sect of the Franciscans, the Gnostic Observatines, has guarded secrets that could transform the world. Now the safety of those secrets depends on one man--and a woman he barely knows. Braverman "Bravo" Shaw always knew his father had secrets. But not until Dexter Shaw dies mysteriously does Bravo discover the enormity of his father's hidden life as a high-ranking member of the Order of Gnostic Observatines. For more than eight hundred years, the Order has preserved an ancient cache of documents that could shake Christianity to its foundations. Another secret society, the Knights of St. Clement, will stop at nothing to obtain the treasure, and now Bravo must follow his father's esoteric clues to find the hidden documents before the Knights. Bravo is now a target and a pawn in an ongoing war far larger and more deadly than any he could have imagined. His companion in this quest is Jenny Logan, a Guardian assigned to Bravo by the Order. But Bravo soon learns that he can trust no one where the Testament is concerned, perhaps not even Jenny. . . . From New York City to Washington, D.C., to Paris, to Venice, and beyond, the race is on for the quintessential prize . . . the Testament.

In picturesque Moonlight Cove, California, inexplicable deaths occur, and growing numbers of residents harbor a secret so dark it is sure to cost even more lives

On leaving school or university, you feel pretty pleased with yourself. You've learnt a lot, your'e well-read and you know a whole bunch of obscure facts guaranteed at some point to appear in the questions on Mastermind or University Challenge. Then you get a job, and ten years later youre more eloquent and eager to argue about Britney and Big Brother than Beckett and the Brontes. Sound familiar? Well it happened to AJ Jacobs too. As an editor at Esquire, Jacobs had built up a rather impressive knowledge of celebrity trivia - and the cure was going to take a long time. While others might take to reading a broadsheet at the weekend, Jacobs chose to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica. All 33,000 pages of it. Bill Bryson meets Schott's Original Miscellany meets Woody Allen. Part assemblage of fascinating trivia, part journey through adulthood, all laugh-out-loud funny.

Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN 9781569472422 Qiu Xiaolong's Anthony Award-winning debut introduces Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police. A young “national model worker,” renowned for her adherence to the principles of the Communist Party, turns up dead in a Shanghai canal. As Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Special Cases Bureau struggles to trace the hidden threads of her past, he finds himself challenging the very political forces that have guided his life since birth. Chen must tiptoe around his superiors if he wants to get to the bottom of this crime, and risk his career—perhaps even his life—to see justice done.

The author of "Olives" takes readers on a tour of the French countryside and Paris, where he looks at the way the French live through how they cook, eat, and market their cuisine.

Includes excerpt from: The Afghan (p. [407]-413).

Tom Sullivan is about to graduate from Princeton. He's intelligent and popular, but haunted by the violent death several years earlier of his father, an academic who devoted his life to studying one of the rarest, most complex and most valuable books in t

Herinneringen van een Amerikaanse pyschotherapeute aan haar ervaringen als half-joods meisje in Berlijn tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog.

Paula Wolfert brengt het zuidwesten van Frankrijk, de inwoners en het voedsel in kaart in een verzameling van recepten, bestaande uit een inventarisatie van gerechten van (groot)- moeders en de kookkunst van regionale chef-koks. Door de jaren heen werden de traditionele gerechten verfijnd tot wat nu het hart is van een delicate streekkeuken. Ze proefde verschillende versies van een gerecht alvorens ze te omgeven door de literatuur en mondeling overgeleverde verhalen en er haar eigen methoden en technieken op toe te passen die ze van verschillende koks leerde. Dit is een boek voor iedereen die een regionaal maal prefereert boven de haute cuisine en zich wil laten verleiden door de volle smaken van het land.

ruim 700 Slow Food-gerechten uit de Italiaanse keuken

Een Engelsman koopt een afgelegen boerderij op een idyllisch plekje in Andalusië en probeert daar samen met zijn vrouw een bestaan op te bouwen.