A History of the World in Twelve Beans (Joël Broekaert) Ireland Summers Under the Tamarind Tree APPLIANCES Summers Under the Tamarind Tree is a contemporary Pakistani cookbook celebrating the varied Luigi Biasetto knows well that the task of the craftsman is also to share his art and every good new idea: in this book he presents 40 cakes that tell about him crossed the Atlantic as part of the “Columbian exchange” of new foods—along with devastating diseases that decimated Indigenous populations Beans have been long dismissed as the “common person’s food”—a cheap and nutritious form of protein that replaces expensive meat—and are often the butt of jokes about flatulence (enough to make some Greek philosophers forbid their followers from eating them)