Product Description: Hollywood actor Michael Sheen reads one of the most famous poems in the English language, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, in this collection, which is part of the Naxos AudioBooks The Great Poets series. Radical and daring, Coleridge worked with Wordsworth to transform poetry and bring it closer to the people...read more

Culls 175 authentic recipes from fourteen regions of France, tracing the influences that have shaped home-cooked favorites, in a volume based on the author's travels that is complemented by lavish food photography and atmospheric paintings.

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Product Description: Nowhere has there ever been a city more famous for its bazaars than Constantinople (now Istanbul), Turkey. Standing at the gateway from Europe to the East, the once-fabled Byzantine capital became the center of the vast Ottoman Empire, which at the height of its glory spread East-West from Baghdad to Tripoli and North-South from Budapest to Cairo...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: When, over a thousand years ago, the Moors of North Africa conquered the lands around the Mediterranean, they brought with them foods which were to influence Western cooking for years to come. Spices from the caravan trade, rice from India, citrus fruit, eggplants, spinach, and sugar cane were all introduced to Spain, Portugal, Sicily, and Provence by the Arab invaders, and they still dominate the table today...read more

Product Description: This is a performed selection of some of the great English narrative poems. The readings are supplemented by music from Schumann, Brahms, Raff and Cui.

A complete guide to the cuisine of the Mediterranean celebrates the flavors of Egypt, Greece, Spain, Italy, and other nations, and key preparation techniques are demonstrated in 230 step-by-step photographs. (view table of contents)