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Farquhar, John Nicol (6 April 1861) Reference library
Ivan Satyavrata
The Oxford Encyclopaedia of South Asian Christianity
...He was a significant figure in the international missionary movement and a leading pioneer of an irenic nineteenth century Christian approach to other religions, which had the theological concept of fulfilment as its cornerstone. ivan satyavrata Cracknell, K. (1995), Justice, Courtesy and Love , London: Epworth Press. Macnicol, N. (1937), ‘ Farquhar, John Nicol ’ in Dictionary of National Biography 1922–1930 , London: Oxford University Press. Sharpe, E.J. (1979), ‘ The Legacy of J.N. Farquhar ’ in Occasional Bulletin of Missionary Research , 3 (2),...
Slater, Thomas E. (10 April 1840) Reference library
Ivan Satyavrata
The Oxford Encyclopaedia of South Asian Christianity
...or fragments of the truth, but the coming of Christ gathered up these fragments and fulfilled the expectations within them. He felt that all other religions wait for their fulfilment in Christianity, the absolute religion. ivan satyavrata Cracknell, K. (1995), Justice, Courtesy and Love: Theologians and Missionaries Encountering World Religions (1846–1914) , London: Epworth. Maw, M. (1990), Visions of India: Fulfilment Theology, the Aryan Race Theory, and the Work of British Protestant Missionaries in Victorian India , Frankfurt: Verlag Peter...
Lucas, Bernard (1860) Reference library
Ivan Satyavrata
The Oxford Encyclopaedia of South Asian Christianity
...hence the Church's mission is not to deny or destroy the religious aspirations of India, but to fulfil them. He thus advocated the way of cooperation with all that was best in Hinduism in the building up of Christianity in India. ivan satyavrata Cracknell, K. (1995), Justice, Courtesy and Love: Theologians and Missionaries Encountering World Religions (1846–1914) , London: Epworth. Maw, M. (1990), Visions of India: Fulfilment Theology, the Aryan Race Theory, and the Work of British Protestant Missionaries in Victorian India , Frankfurt: Verlag Peter...
Claiborne, Craig Reference library
Helen H. Studley
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America (2 ed.)
...ground by landing the position of food editor at The New York Times , a post traditionally held by women. He was the first restaurant critic with a solid background in food preparation, rating a restaurant rigorously on its food. Known for his gentlemanly Craig Claiborne. Courtesy of the Culinary Arts Museum at Johnson & Wales University authoritarian manner, he showed a hitherto unfamiliar respect for chefs and restaurateurs. He hated pretension and sloppy or overbearing service, and his eye for detail could make even tough restaurateurs wince. In 1972 ...
Mencius (385–303) Reference library
James D. SELLMANN
Berkshire Encyclopedia of China
...is the starting point of benevolence ( ren ). The heart-mind of shame gives a person a sense of duty ( yi ). The heart-mind of courtesy and modesty inspires ritual observances ( li ). The heart-mind of right and wrong is the beginning of moral wisdom ( zhi ). Mencius was rediscovered in the Song dynasty ( 960–1279 ) by the neo-Confucians, especially Zhu Xi ( 1130–1200 ). Zhu Xi codified the Book of Mencius as one of the Four Books, which served as a major part of the curriculum for the civil service examinations. As neo-Confucianism spread across East Asia,...
Vienna Sausage Reference library
Bruce Kraig
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America (2 ed.)
...international cuisines through U.S. military bases. The sausages are used in Filipino pancits , and there is even a popular Cuban dish consisting of Viennas cooked with rice and flavored with Cuban spices, no doubt courtesy of Guantánamo Bay. [ See also Sausage .] Bibliography Kraig, Bruce . Hot Dog; a Global History . London: Reaktion Books, 2009. Loebel, Leon , and Stanley Loebel . All about Meat . New York: Harcourt, 1975. Bruce...
Farmer, Fannie (1857–1915) Reference library
Laura Shapiro
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America (2 ed.)
...cookery” to a cuisine of sweetness and affluence. She was born in Boston on 23 March 1857 to the bookish family of a struggling printer. A bout of childhood polio cut short her education and left her with a limp, making her an unlikely candidate for Fannie Farmer. Courtesy of the Culinary Arts Museum at Johnson & Wales University either marriage or a career. At age thirty-one she decided to attend the Boston Cooking School, whose graduates were busy across the country teaching in public schools, settlement houses, and other institutions dedicated...
St. Patrick's Day Reference library
Gary Allen
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America (2 ed.)
...a major holiday. St. Patrick's Day evolved from being a feast as in “religious celebration” to being a feast as in “secular celebration, party.” Traditional Irish symbols—such as the harp and St. Patrick's Day. An advertisement for Guinness Cake. Photograph by Teri Lyn Fisher, courtesy of Immaculate Confections Celtic cross—were replaced by clichés, like leprechauns and shillelaghs—often promoted by non–Irish Americans, making it easy for all Americans to participate in what a century before had been a parochial event. The Irish adapted their traditional...
Rorer, Sarah Tyson Reference library
Bonnie J. Slotnick
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America (2 ed.)
...Rorer devoted herself to the classes, becoming the star pupil. When the Sarah Tyson Rorer. “There is nothing in a cake to give you brain and muscle unless you get the latter from beating the cake,” proclaimed Rorer, widely recognized as the first American dietitian. Courtesy of the Culinary Arts Museum at Johnson & Wales University instructor resigned, Rorer took over teaching duties, which included lecturing at the Woman's Medical College. Apprehensive about her qualifications, Rorer devoured nutrition texts and became convinced of the importance...
Etiquette Books Reference library
Carol A. Greenberg
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America (2 ed.)
...reflect the basic priorities of our society. [ See also Child, Lydia Maria ; Dining Rooms and Meal Service ; Leslie, Eliza ; Rombauer, Irma .] Bibliography Aresty, Esther B. The Best Behavior: The Course of Good Manners—from Antiquity to the Present—as Seen through Courtesy and Etiquette Books . New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970. Garrett, Elisabeth Donaghy . At Home: The American Family 1750–1870 . New York: Harold N. Abrams, 1990. Kasson, John F. Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America . New York: Hill and Wang, 1990. Lynes,...
LI Shizhen (1518–1593) Reference library
Carla NAPPI
Berkshire Encyclopedia of China
...treating local patients and traveling extensively in order to compile research for his medical works. Li moved back to Qizhou in 1561 . He lived in a garden house that he dubbed “a hermit’s dwelling” after a favorite line in the Classic of Poetry and took the zi (or courtesy name, a two-character pseudonym that replaced a given name, but was never used in conjunction with a family name, of an educated Chinese man) of “Binhu” (Near the Lake) to mark this new phase of his life. Li spent the remainder of his life writing such varied texts as a volume...
Akseki, Ahmet Hamdi Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World
...religious culture because books on Islam were not written in these letters, certain circles adamantly continued to read the Ottoman religious works. Akseki was one of those who wrote religious works in the Latin alphabet to fill the void. He wrote in plain language that was widely read and welcomed by the people of Anatolia. Approximately 1.5 million copies of his work called The Islamic Religion were printed and it became one of the most widely sold books on religion during the republican era. A careful review of the list of books written in Turkish by ...
Xú Guāngqǐ (1562–1633) Reference library
LEE Cheuk Yin
The Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography
...Guāngqǐ 徐光启 1562–1633 — Scholar-official and scientist ; early convert to Christianity Alternate names: courtesy name: Zǐxiān 子先 ; style name: Xuánhù 玄扈 Summary Xu Guangqi, a colleague of the Jesuit Matteo Ricci, was a scholar-official, agricultural scientist, astronomer, and mathematician who made Western mathematics available to the Chinese through his translations. He was the most renowned Chinese convert to Christianity until the twentieth century. Xu authored one of the first treatises on agriculture; led the reform of the Chinese calendar...
Lǐ Shízhēn (1518–1593) Reference library
HE Yanran
The Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography
...— Pharmacist and physician ; compiler of medical encyclopedia Alternate name: courtesy name: Dōngbì 东璧 Summary Li Shizhen was a sixteenth-century physician, natural scientist, and pharmacist who made his mark during the late Ming dynasty with the towering Compendium of Materia Medica . Based on firsthand knowledge of herbal and local remedies that he gathered while travelling around several provinces, as well as research into some eight hundred medical books, it took more than thirty years to complete and was regarded as China’s foremost medical...
Hot Dogs Reference library
Bruce Kraig
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America (2 ed.)
...and mixers that could handle large amounts of meat. Mechanically operated smokers simplified and increased production. So popular had sausages become that, in the late Hot Dog Stand. Nathan's hot dog emporium, on Coney Island, has been selling its famous hot dogs since 1916. Courtesy of the Culinary Arts Museum at Johnson & Wales University 1880s, companies such as John Morrell in Cincinnati sent hog casing to Chicago to be processed and then returned for stuffing. Chicago and New York sausage companies began importing large amounts of sheep casings in...
McDonald's Reference library
Andrew F. Smith
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America (2 ed.)
...he had settled on selling Lily paper cups. After seventeen years of selling cups successfully, he launched the Prince Castle Sales Corporation. Its main product was the Multimixer McDonald's. A McDonald's drive-in, sometime after 1958, when 100 million burgers had been sold. Courtesy of the Culinary Arts Museum at Johnson & Wales University for soda fountains and restaurants. He also sold Multimixers to many fast food franchisees, including Dairy Queen and Tastee Freez. These customers had given Kroc a deeper understanding of the fast food business and some...
Liú Xiàng (79–8 bce) Reference library
Bret HINSCH
The Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography
... 刘向 79–8 bce —Editor, author, and father of Chinese bibliography Alternate names: birth name: Gèngshēng 更生 ; courtesy name: Zǐzhèng 子政 Summary Liu Xiang was one of the most important intellectual figures of the Former (Western) Han dynasty. He oversaw a team that edited (and saved from destruction) many of the most important books of antiquity, editing a muddled mountain of bamboo strips into a series of consistent, reliable books that are still in use today. He also compiled several collections of narratives describing moral exemplars, thereby...
Cookbooks Reference library
Janice Bluestein Longone, Janice Bluestein Longone, Anne Mendelson, Becky Mercuri, Carol Mighton Haddix, Alice Ross, Anne L. Bower, Andrew F. Smith, Margaret Puskar-Pasewicz, and Virginia K. Bartlett
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America (2 ed.)
...Branches, Adapted as Well for the Largest Establishments as for the Use of Private Families , and Louis-Eustache Audot 's French Domestic Cookery . In 1850 The House Servant's Directory. Title page of the 1827 edition. Courtesy of the Culinary Arts Museum at Johnson & Wales University Soyer's The Modern Housewife was added to the books on the classic French repertoire easily available to the American public. German cookbooks, both in English and in translation, continued to be published in the Pennsylvania Dutch community. Recipes for the housewife also...
Boston Reference library
Ilona Baughman
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America (2 ed.)
...completing the triangle. All three produced great wealth for the region and its principal city. By the turn of the nineteenth century, the city had developed into a cosmopolitan center and the Boston. A postcard produced by A. Israelson & Co. advertises Boston beans, c. 1920. Courtesy of the Trustees of the Boston Public Library, Print Department political, educational, religious, and commercial hub of New England. The Puritan diet was austere, characterized by dishes native to the eastern part of England from which the colonists came. Popular cooking methods...
Child, Julia (1912–2004) Reference library
Lynne Sampson
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America (2 ed.)
...Julia Julia Child ( 1912–2004 ) became the most celebrated American cook and an important cultural figure in a public career spanning more than Julia Child. Courtesy of the Culinary Arts Museum at Johnson & Wales University forty years. Her appealing blend of education and entertainment in the groundbreaking television series The French Chef introduced classical cooking techniques, exotic ingredients, and specialty equipment to mainstream America in the 1960s and 1970s. As a popular television personality, cookbook author, and mentor, Child elevated...
