Stew: An Illustrated Step-by-Step Guide to Beef, Lamb, Pork, Chicken Book

Very, very dry in tone but apparently one of the key titles in this area, so I guess I can forgive the tweediness of this tome. I find this kind of subject matter totally interesting, so I really would have appreciated a less academic and more dishy treatment, but what can you do? In truth, I did skip over a lot of the individual vegetables and fruits as I was tiring of the uber-academia, but the discussions about almost everything else (meats, spices, sweeteners, beer, wine, chocolate, tea, coffee, etc) was intriguing. And I did learn one of my new favorite words, coprolite (ancient poo).