Part I: Europe
1. Traditional Polish curd cheeses
Malgorzata Malgorzata Ziarno and Andrzej Lenart
2. Túró Rudi" - everyone's favourite milk dessert in Hungary
József Csanádi, Zsuzsanna László and Cecilia Hodúr
3. Quark. A traditional German fresh cheese
Stephan Drusch and Ulrike Einhorn-Stoll
4. Modernization of the traditional Irish Cream Liqueur production process
Peter C Mitchell
5. Modernization of Skyr processing - Icelandic acid-curd soft cheese
Gudmundur Gudmundsson and Kristberg Kristbergsson
6. Karachay ayran: from domestic technology to industrial production
Kulikova I. K., Vinogradskaya, S.E., Oleshkevich O.I., Alieva L.R. and McElhatton A.
7. German bread and related process technology
Karl Georg Busch
8. Production of Pastas with Bread Wheat Flour
Martinez C.S., Bustos M.C. and León A.E.
Part II: Americas and the Rest of the World
9. Edible coatings, a novel preservation method for nuts
Lorena Atarés Amparo Chiralt and Anna McElhatton
10. Kaanga wai - development of a modern preservation process for a traditional Maori fermented food
John D. Brooks, Michelle Lucke-Hutton, Nick Roskruge
11. Thai Fish Sauce - a traditional Fermented sauce
Wunwiboon Garnjanagoonchorn
12. Yunnan Fermented Bean Curds: Furu (Lufu)
Qi Lin Sarote Sirisansaneeyakul and Anna McElhatton
13. Tempe from Traditional to Modern Practices
Hadi K. Purwadaria, Dedi Fardiaz and Leonardus Broto Sugeng Kardono and Anna McElhatton
14. Modernization of the Manufacturing Process for Traditional Indian Dairy Products
P. S. Minz and R. R. B. Singh
15. Yunnan Pu-erh Tea
Jiashun Gong, Qiuping Wang, Sarote Sirisansaneeyakul and Anna McElhatton
About the Author: Anna McElhatton is a Senior lecturer and Head of the Department of Food Studies in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Malta. Anna McElhatton has an undergraduate degree in Pharmacy, an M.A. in Bioethics from the University of Malta and, M.Phil and PhD from the Queen's University of Belfast in Northern Ireland. Her main research interests include food safety (of dairy products), modernization of traditional foods, sensory aspects of food preference, and ethical issues in research.
Mustapha Missbah El Idrissi is Professor of general Microbiology at the "Ecole Normale Supérieure" at Mohammed V University of Rabat (UM5R), Morocco. He is responsible of the Master degree "Biotechnology and Environment". He was a senior lecturer of Food Microbiology for over twenty years at Mohamed Premier University in Oujda and moved to Rabat to teach general microbiology at UM5R. His main research include legumes improvement through biological nitrogen fixation with rhizobia. The molecular characterization of bacteria in different ecosystems is also one of his research interests.
About the Series Editor
Kristberg Kristbergsson is Professor of Food Science at the Department of Food Science and Nutrition at the University of Iceland. Dr. Kristbergsson has a BS in Food Science from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Iceland and earned his MS, M. Phil and PhD in Food Science from Rutgers University. His research interests include physicochemical properties of foods, new processing methods for sea foods, modernization of traditional food processes, safety and environmental aspects of food processing, extrusion cooking, shelf-life and packaging, biopolymers in foods and delivery systems for bioactive compounds.