* Un sabroso y práctico recetario para preparar cada día platos diferentes capaces de alegrar la vista y satisfacer el paladar con miles de colores, aromas y sabores * Sugerencias y consejos para preparar cada día platos de diferente gusto y sabor, sin improvisaciones de última hora * Numerosos platos para preparar una comida o una cena informal con amigos o para una ocasión especial, seleccionados por una gran gastrónoma que durante años ha...

This unique reference book strives to define words and phrases that the average person often encounters but which may not be immediately familiar. Batten, kiosk, proctor, coup de grace, alliteration, parsec, corona, renal, joystick, decant, citadel. Broken down into over fifty categories-from cultural essentials like art, history, and sports to modern obsessions like text messaging and hip hop slang-this book is a word lover's dream and a useful handbook...

From Bob Burton - a former member of both the civilian and military intelligence communities and America's most feared bounty hunter - comes the complete lexicon of over 800 terms and meanings used in international and covert espionage. Dictionary of Espionage and Intelligence includes the most up-to-date terminology of special operations from A to Z, including: • Breaktime: The time it takes to break down he resistance level of a subject in an...

Members of America's armed forces have their own distinctive language: milspeak. Especially since WWII, soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines have invented and adapted their own slang vocabularies, creating a colorful insider's lingo of bureaucratic buzzwords, acronyms, mock jargon, dark humor, and outright profanity. Milspeak gives a unique and touching insight into military life from basic training to the trenches; from the flightdeck to the cockpit....

Play Better Scrabble is, written by National Scrabble Championship winner and the first victor on Channel 4's Countdown, Michael Goldman. The book contains strategies, hints and techniques for all stages of the game, as well as instructional game examples, how to best use the S and the blank, anagrams and useful word lists. Play Better Scrabble will allow anyone to learn the Open Board Method, used by the elite players today to win games. The Open...

Eat Your Words is a gloriously gluttonous glossary of all things grub and gastronomy: It's a true treat for anyone who loves language as much as they love food. With witty and fun definitions of everything from aeroponics to zoosaprophagy, this compilation offers definitions of six thousand unusual and unfamiliar terms across twenty-one fact-packed courses. For bon viveurs and verbivores alike: Are you a gourmet who knows the difference between Maldon...

Extrait : "En Angleterre, les grandes maisons o l'on aime le luxe de la table ont toutes un cuisinier français. Des émoluments de douze et quinze mille francs attestent le talent de ces artistes culinaires. Cela prouve aussi le bon goût des Anglais, qui date de loin, en cette importante matière." À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARAN : Les éditions LIGARAN proposent des versions numériques de grands classiques de la littérature ainsi que des...

Taxi rank...toad in the hole...dustman...fancy dress...American visitors to London (or viewers of British TV shows) might be confused by these terms. But, most Britons would be equally puzzled by words like caboose, bleachers, and busboy. In Divided by a Common Language, Christopher Davies explains these expressions and discusses the many differences in pronunciation, spelling, and vocabulary between British and American English. He compares the...