Bottom of the Barrel

Bottom of the Barrel
Author: Ian Gary
Publisher: Catholic Relief Services
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1614920311

The new African oil boomcentered on the oil-rich Atlantic waters of the Gulf of Guinea, from Nigeria to Angolais a moment of great opportunity and great peril for countries beset by wide-scale poverty.

We Want Plates

We Want Plates
Author: Ross McGinnes
Publisher: Prestel
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Food presentation
ISBN: 9783791384283

Fed up with being served food on planks of wood and pieces of slate, or drinks in jars? How about beef Wellington on barbed wire, a cooked breakfast on a shovel or sausages in a dog bowl? In recent years, the culinary world has been gripped by an epidemic of restaurants and chefs "getting creative" with food presentation--and Ross McGinnes has had enough. In 2015 he founded the Twitter account @WeWantPlates to push back against this trend and document serving travesties, building up more than 130,000 followers and receiving thousands of submissions.

Scraping the Barrel:The Military Use of Sub-Standard Manpower

Scraping the Barrel:The Military Use of Sub-Standard Manpower
Author: Sanders Marble
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2012-07-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 0823239772

From the dawn of organized conflict, sub-standard men--the inverse of the elites that get the lion's share of our attention-- have served their countries. This is their untold history.