Paul Peacock: 20 books

Chickens are the best choice for the first time livestock owner. And you can keep them even if you live in a town or have only a small amount of land. Keeping chickens is a fun and absorbing hobby, and there is nothing more rewarding than collecting and eating your own fresh eggs. This concise e-guide...

Beginning with the history, the significance and the flavours of the great British Banger this book goes on to explain how to make sausages at home, with step-by-step instructions and mouthwatering recipes from all over the UK. It is ideal for those beginners who just want to make a couple of pounds...

This book describes the various ways you can cure and preserve meats at home that are really tasty, safe to eat, and a whole lot healthier than equivalent shop-bought products. You and only you will have control of what goes into your meat, and of how salty it will be. Based on traditional...

This book will give you the knowledge and confidence to choose, prepare, cook and enjoy fresh food and seafood. It explains simply how to gut, clean and fillet fish and how to deal with shellfish and crustaceans such as crab and lobster, and what knives and tools you'll need for the job. The...

This collection presents, for the first time, a much-needed synthesis of the major research themes and findings that characterize the Woodland Period in the southeastern United States. The Woodland Period (ca. 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1000) has been the subject of a great deal of archaeological research...

The most pressing problems facing humanity today — over-population, energy shortages, climate change, soil erosion, species extinctions, the risk of epidemic disease, the threat of warfare that could destroy all the hard-won gains of civilization, and even the recent fibrillations of the stock market...