walter museum pickled imaginary

books:

Bali: The Imaginary Museum: The Photographs of Walter Spies and Beryl de Zoete

1 review
Michael Hitchcock, Lucy i L. Norris

Oxford University Press, USA, 1996

Beautiful book
I am Balinese and live in Ubud. Walter Spies lived here in the Thirties, just opposite where my restaurant now is. My mother worked for him. I was therefore delighted when this book came out. The text is clear and well-written and interesting on many counts. It sets out the history of early tourism to Bali when many famous people visited the island and they all met Walter Spies. Many of the ...

Pickled

6 reviews
Lucy Norris

Stewart, Tabori and Chang, 2003

Eye-Opening and Palate-Tickling
I think this book is fabulous. So cool that someone finally did a really nice book on this subject. The pictures are gorgeous and you can read it like a novel with all the little stories of different people and their backgrounds and recipes -- or you can get right into the pickling process and end up with stuff that you sort of never really thought you could make. I tried the mustard pickles and ...