Explore the culinary universe of The Legend of Zelda with over 50 delicious recipes from across the Kingdom of Hyrule! This immersive and sumptuous cookbook samples the culinary delights of all your favorite Legend of Zelda games. Designed as a travel notebook, it tells the journey of a new character: the Gourmet, and delivers numerous recipes inspired from games like Breath of the Wild, Ocarina of Time, Twilight Princess, Wind Waker, and more. Following the previous Gastronogeek books, the Zelda Cookbook offers in-depth recipes, techniques and cooking tips, all explained and made accessible to professionals as well as complete beginners, to help readers discover or rediscover the culinary universe of The Legend of Zelda. Chef and pop-culture expert Thibaud Villanova has been creating recipes inspired by major films, television series, manga, fantasy literature and video games since 2014. As the Gastronogeek, he has published
A fascinating history of China s relations with the West―told through the lives of two eighteenth-century translators. The 1793 British embassy to China, which led to Lord George Macartney s fraught encounter with the Qianlong emperor, has often been viewed as a clash of cultures fueled by the East s lack of interest in the West. In The Perils of Interpreting , Henrietta Harrison presents a more nuanced picture, ingeniously shifting the historical lens to focus on Macartney s two interpreters at that meeting―Li Zibiao and George Thomas Staunton. Who were these two men? How did they intervene in the exchanges that they mediated? And what did these exchanges mean for them? From Galway to Chengde, and from political intrigues to personal encounters, Harrison reassesses a pivotal moment in relations between China and Britain. She shows that there were Chinese who were familiar with the West, but growing tensions endangered those who embraced both cultures and would eventually culminate in the O