Grilling Books

Sushi or 500 Low Fat Fruit and Vegetable Recipes

2009-12-05T14:32:00.000-08:00

Sushi

Author: Marlisa Szwillus

40 new recipies and a revised format make this book a much anticipated addition to the popular Quick & Easy series. Master the basics of making sushi at home.... roll up the sleeves, bring out the rice and fresh fish....you'll be an expert in no time!

500 Low-Fat Fruit and Vegetable Recipes: The One-Stop Source for Heathful, Great-Tasting Meals

Author: Sarah Schlesinger

An apple a day may keep the doctor away, but the government's minimum daily requirement of five to nine servings may actually help prevent cancer, heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, osteoporosis, and obesity. Schlesinger shows the home cook how to prepare both familiar and exotic produce in exciting new ways.

Clasicos de carne or New Celtic Cooking

2009-12-04T10:51:00.000-08:00

Clasicos de carne: De un toque especial a sus platos de carne con sugestivas y deliciosas ideas

Author: Edimat Libros

For chefs and novices alike, this handy series makes cooking a delight and eating a pleasure. Featuring cuisines from around the world, each recipe is depicted with clear instructions and illustrated sequences. The versatility and use of everyday ingredients to enhance and enrich meals is explored in each book.

La cocina dejará de ser un secreto con esta colección de 40 títulos con las recetas más exquisitas de la cocina nacional e internacional. Si comer es un placer, cocinar puede ser un deleite. Todas las recetas incluyen claras instrucciones que se completan con ilustraciones. Estos libros le harán descubrir la versatilidad de los ingredientes más cotidianos así como estos trucos que enriquecerán sus comidas.

New Celtic Cooking

Author: Kathleen Sloan McIntosh

At a time when soul-stirring Celtic dance, song and ritual are firing spirits anew, the food and drink of the diverse yet similar family of Celtic nations--Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, Galicia, Isle of Man and Canada's Cape Breton--has come into its own.

The Wilderness Chef or Joy of Eating

2009-12-03T07:10:00.000-08:00

The Wilderness Chef: Gourmet Recipes for the Great Outdoors

Author: Claudine Martin

"Forget the slopes and pass the pepper," advises People magazine in its glowing review of The Wilderness Chef. Restaurateur and outfitter Claudine Martin brings tasty cuisine to backpackers, skiers, kayakers, and campers, stressing food that is both delicious and healthy. Martin offers menus for seven distinct wilderness trips, but the recipes are valuable for all outdoors fans. Here are over 100 recipes, from soup to nuts, for everything from turkey jerky to sun-dried tomato salad to Moroccan lamb tagine. In addition, Martin includes information on dehydrating foods, nutrition for optimal performance, and equipment for transporting food and cooking it outdoors. She provides step-by-step detail on how to pack and cook backcountry meals, showing that outdoor adventure and great eating can go hand in hand.

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Joy of Eating: The Virago Book of Food

Author: Jill Foulston

Beatrix Potter wove one of her most malicious tales around the roly-poly pudding. Colette counted the nuts she would pick before falling asleep in the French countryside. Dorothy Wordsworth noted her pie-making sessions in her diary and Anne Frank observed the eating habits of her companions in hiding. Food is a constant in our lives, and it has always been a basic ingredient of women's writing—in household books, cookbooks, diaries, letters, and fiction. In this anthology concentrating on international food writing by women, indulge your appetite with such diverse writers as Edwidge Danticat, Barbara Pym, and J. K. Rowling. Try making Elisabeth Luard's Afghan Betrothal Custard, Martha Washington's marzipan birds, or Nigella Lawson's favorite comfort food. And why not sneak into the literary kitchens of Banana Yoshimoto, Emily Brontë, and Angela Carter?

Baking Cookies or Importance of Food and Mealtimes in Dementia Care

2009-12-02T03:29:00.000-08:00

Baking Cookies (Quamut)

Author: Quamut

Quamut is the fastest, most convenient way to learn how to do almost anything. From tasting wine to managing your retirement accounts, Quamut gives you reliable information in a concise chart format that you can take anywhere. Quamut charts are:

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Precise: Quamut charts include detailed text, photos, and illustrations to show you exactly how to do just about anything.
Portable: Your know-how goes with you wherever your projects lead.

Dust off that rolling pin.

Are you a sucker for freshly baked cookies? Then give premade dough the heave-ho and whip up delectable treats–from chewy brownies to crispy chocolate-chip cookies–from scratch. So roll up your sleeves and dig into:

The tools and ingredients you need to make great cookies
Techniques for making dough, baking, and troubleshooting your recipes
Recipes for a baker’s dozen of the most popular types of cookies

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Importance of Food and Mealtimes in Dementia Care: The Table Is Set

Author: Grethe Berg

Mealtimes are about much more than just re-fuelling, and the importance of mealtimes in the care of people with dementia cannot be overestimated. Using her extensive experience of working with older people with dementia, Grethe Berg explains how mealtimes can be used as natural opportunities for meaningful interaction, socialising and reminiscing, and useful forums for taking part in familiar tasks. The book considers the social significance of mealtimes and their role in maintaining patients' feelings of social attachment and well-being as well as the impact of the symptoms of dementia on food and mealtimes. It also explores different types of residential care and how they can make mealtimes a focus of activity for patients.

The Country Gourmet or Carnal Appetite

2009-11-30T23:48:00.000-08:00

The Country Gourmet: Easy Country Recipes and Memories of Mama

Author: Margie S Robertson Toon

Mama was born in Tupelo, Mississippi and grew up in East Texas and Southern Louisiana. Later, living in places like Memphis, Tennessee and Austin, Texas, she developed a style of cooking all her own. A true Southerner at heart, she was The Country Gourmet, cooking up good ol’ country food for her family and friends. Her recipes were simple to prepare and delightful to dine upon. The author, following in her late mother’s footsteps, has an appreciation of country cuisine. Similarly, with inspiration from her late mother’s memory, she has created this book of Easy Country Recipes & Memories of Mama and country life for you to enjoy.

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Carnal Appetite: Food Sex Identities

Author: Elspeth Probyn

Why is there a new explosion of interest in authentic ethnic foods and exotic cooking shows, where macho chefs promote sensual adventures in the kitchen? Why do we watch TV ads that promise more sex if we serve the right breakfast cereal? Why is the hunger strike such a potent political tool? Food inevitably engages questions of sensuality and power, of our connections to our bodies and to our world.

Carnal Appetites brilliantly uses the lens of food and eating to ask how we eat into culture, eat into identities, indeed eat into ourselves. Drawing on interviews, theory, and her own war with anorexia, Probyn argues that food is replacing sex in our imagination and experience of bodily pleasure. Our culinary cravings and habits express the turmoil in gender roles, in families, and even in the world economy, where famine coexists with plenty. Probyn explores these dark interconnections to forge a new visceral ethics rooted in the language of hunger and satiety, disgust and pleasure, gluttonyand restraint.

From the fat pride movement and diet fads to genetically altered grain and colonial cannibalism, Carnal Appetites looks at what we eat to tell us who we are.

The Diet Code or Pizza

2009-11-29T20:07:00.000-08:00

The Diet Code: Revolutionary Weight Loss Secrets from Da Vinci and the Golden Ratio

Author: Stephen Lanzalotta

As a master baker, painter, and woodworker, Stephen Lanzalotta has used the mathematical principles of The Golden Ratio (an integral plot element in The Da Vinci Code) for more than 30 years. His realization that this seemingly magic formula, once used by Da Vinci, held the secret to optimal health and weight loss led him to apply it to his menu at his popular bakery/cafe. Thus was born THE DIET CODE, a revolutionary Mediterranean-style program that makes each meal as easy as 1-2-3 (1 part grain, 2 parts protein, 3 parts vegetable/fruit), to boost metabolism and spark weight loss. The plan reveals Renaissance foods that promote weight control and includes unique tips for diet success, including: * Eat bread--but not without fat or protein * Cook pasta al dente to boost fat loss * Balance your plate by The Golden Ratio of carbs, protein, and fat. Combining menu plans and recipes, as well as Renaissance lore and Italian tips on healthy eating, this is a unique diet plan from the ages for the ages.

Author Biography: STEPHEN LANZALOTTA lives in Portland, Maine.

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Pizza!: Deliciosas recetas para hacer basos y cubiertas para los amantes de la pizza

Author: Pippa Cuthbert

Originating in the south of Italy, pizzas are now an internationally popular meal. Making pizza at home not only saves money but allows the baker to create individual toppings to suit any taste. This collection of recipes for one of America’s favorite foods uses the freshest and tastiest ingredients to make crowd-pleasing pies. Detailed instructions and mouth-watering color illustrations guide the reader through the preparation of a wide variety of pizzas. For purists, a chapter on classics presents traditional favorites. For dessert lovers, a chapter on sweets includes delightful novelties that incorporate bananas, chocolate, and pecans. For younger pizza fans, there’s a chapter on pizza fingers. In addition to toppings, authors Pippa Cuthbert and Lindsay Cameron Wilson cover bases, breads, and sauces, and include a useful section at the end on all the basics of turning dough and almost anything imaginable into a culinary delight.

Great Soup Empty Bowls or Classic and Contemporary Christmas Cakes

2009-11-28T16:26:00.000-08:00

Great Soup Empty Bowls: Recipes from the Empty Bowls Fundraiser

Author: Jamie Kennedy

Empty Bowls is an annual event held at the Gardiner Museum in Toronto to raise money to help homeless people get off the streets with the help of the Anishnawbe Street Patrol. This cookbook marks the 10th anniversary of this successful event that combines the talents of Toronto's finest chefs and the artistic vision of Ontario's finest potters to offer a dinner comprised of soups served in original works of art. Here, for the fist time, such renowned chefs as Keith Froggertt, Susur Lee, and Michael Stadlander share some of their sumptuous original recipes.

All royalties from the book will be donated to the Anishnawbe Street Patrol.

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Classic and Contemporary Christmas Cakes

Author: Nadene Hurst

Re-creating the desserts in Classic & Contemporary Christmas Cakes may take some time, but the results are gorgeous." --Bon Appetit

Food and Cookery for the Sick and Convalescent or A Handbook of Invalid Cooking

2009-11-27T12:45:00.000-08:00

Food and Cookery for the Sick and Convalescent

Author: Fannie Merritt Merritt Farmer

Food and Cookery for the Sick and Convalescent was originally published in 1904 to meet the demands of the numberless classes of trained nurses in cookery school.

The opening chapters are equally valuable to those who care for the sick and those who see in correct feeding the way of preventing much of the illness about us. Emphasis has been laid on the importance of diet from in fancy to old age. The classification, composition, nutritive value, and digestibility of foods have been carefully considered with the same constant purpose of being a help to those who arrange dietaries. Considerable matter has been introduced with reference to diet in various diseases, and the recipes for the diabetic have involved much thought and labor.

I.	Food and its Relation to the Body	1
II.	Estimates of Food Values	7
III.	Digestion	12
IV.	Food and Health vs. Drugs and Disease	18
V.	Infant Feeding	21
VI.	Child Feeding	30
VII.	Food for the Sick	36
VIII.	Cookery for the Sick	41
IX.	Water	46
X.	Milk	50
XI.	Alcohol	58
XII.	Beverages	62
XIII.	Gruels, Beef Extracts, and Beef Teas	82
XIV.	Bread	88
XV.	Breakfast Cereals	100
XVI.	Eggs	106
XVII.	Soups, Broths, and Stews	118
XVIII.	Fish	125
XIX.	Meat	134
XX.	Vegetables	151
XXI.	Potatoes	159
XXII.	Salads and Sandwiches	163
XXIII.	Hot Puddings and Pudding Sauces	172
XXIV.	Jellies	179
XXV.	Cold Desserts	187
XXVI.	Frozen Desserts	196
XXVII.	Fruits and how to Serve them	203
XXVIII.	Wafers and Cakes	211
XXIX.	Diabetes	217
XXX.	Diet in Special Diseases	246
	Indexes
	Technical and Descriptive	265
	Recipes	277

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A Handbook of Invalid Cooking

Author: Mary Boland

Mary Boland's 1898 handbook is a practical guide for nurses and all others who care for the sick, providing instruction in the proper feeding to promote health and well-being.

Cultures of Taste Theories of Appetite or Lorenzas Italian Seasons

2009-11-26T09:04:00.000-08:00

Cultures of Taste/Theories of Appetite: Eating Romanticism

Author: Timothy Morton

Cultures of Taste/Theories of Appetite brims with fresh material: from fish and chips to the first curry house in Britain, from mother's milk to Marx, from Kant on dinner parties to Mary Wollstonecraft on toilets. It examines a wide variety of Romantic writers: Hegel, Coleridge, Charlotte Smith, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley and Keats, and lesser-known writers such as William Henry Ireland and Charles Piggot. It includes a look at some legacies of Romanticism in the twentieth century, such as the work of Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre and Philip Larkin.

Cultures of Taste/Theories of Appetite is a volume of interdisciplinary essays that brings together a wide range of scholarship in diet studies, a growing field that investigates connections between food, drink and culture, including literature, philosophy and history. The collection considers the full range of social, cultural, political and philosophical phenomena associated with food in the Romantic period, reconsidering issues of race, class and gender, as well as those of colonialism, imperialism, and science. Cultures of Taste/Theories of Appetite brings two major critical impulses within the field of Romanticism to bear upon an important and growing field of research: appetite and its related discourses of taste and consumption. As consumption--in all its metaphorical variety--comes to displace the body as a theoretical site for challenging the distinction between inside and outside, food itself has attracted as a device to interrogate the rhetoric and politics of Romanticism. In brief, the volume initiates a dialogue between the cultural politics of food and eating, and the philosophicalimplications of ingestion, digestion, and excretion.

	List of Illustrations
	Acknowledgments
	Notes on Contributors
	Preface
	Introduction: Consumption as Performance: The Emergence of the Consumer in the Romantic Period	1
Ch. 1	William Henry Ireland: From Forgery to Fish 'n' Chips	21
Ch. 2	The Taste of Paradise: The Fruits of Romanticism in the Empire	41
Ch. 3	The Politics of the Platter: Charlotte Smith and the "Science of Eating"	59
Ch. 4	Sustaining the Romantic and Racial Self: Eating People in the "South Seas"	77
Ch. 5	Eating Romantic England: The Foot and Mouth Epidemic and Its Consequences	97
Ch. 6	Hegel, Eating: Schelling and the Carnivorous Virility of Philosophy	115
Ch. 7	Byron's World of Zest	141
Ch. 8	Beyond the Inconsumable: The Catastrophic Sublime and the Destruction of Literature in Keat's The Fall of Hyperion and Shelley's The Triumph of life	161
Ch. 9	The Endgame of Taste: Keats, Sartre, Beckett	183
Ch. 10	A "Friendship of Taste": The Aesthetics of Eating Well in Kant's Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View	203
Ch. 11	(In)digestible Material: Illness and Dialectic in Hegel's The Philosophy of Nature	217
Ch. 12	Romantic Dietetics! Or, Eating Your Way to a New You	237
	Afterword: Let Them Eat Romanticism: Materialism, Ideology, and Diet Studies	257
	Index	277

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Lorenza's Italian Seasons: 200 Recipes for Family and Friends

Author: Lorenza de Medici

The four seasons -- or le quattro stagioni -- have always had the most profound effect on the way we cook, inspiring us to improvise with the finest and freshest produce nature has to offer. In Lorenza's Italian Seasons, Lorenza de'Medici presents her favourite classic and contemporary recipes which reflect the Italian year.

With the expertise that permeates her famous cookery school in Tuscany, Lorenza teaches us to savour the best seasonal ingredients. Sweet, tender broad beans from the spring garden are used in a simple salad with pecorino, olive oil and parsley; softly scented, warm-skinned apricots from summer orchards are transformed into a fragrant yoghurt and apricot mousse; musky wild mushrooms from the autumn woods become the basis of an elegant dish of roast partridge; and dark-leaved cavolo nero from the frosty winter soil is an essential ingredient for authentic ribollita, the thick bean and vegetable soup of Tuscany. Recipes such as Cinghiale ai Mirtilli Rossi (Wild Boar with Cranberries), Pan coi Santi (All Saints' Day Bread), and Torta di Pinoli al Limone (Lemon and Pine Nut Tart) tell of the changing landscape and weather, of religious festivals celebrated and observed, of harvests, blossoming orchards and sleeping winter fields.

In Lorenza's introductions to each season, food is described in context to each seasonal celebration which bring joy to cooking and eating -- a torch-lit supper in the Renaissance garden of the family estate, Badia a Coltibuono, as well as simpler feasts, such as family picnics with her eight grandchildren, for which she prepares fresh wholegrain bread, a pasta salad with fresh cherry tomatoes, mozzarella cheese, basil and extra virgin olive oil and a creamy panna cotta with fresh summer berries. Feast menus for every season -- Easter, Midsummer, Autumn and Christmas -- accompany each chapter, while a store cupboard section provides recipes and tips for preserving and storing produce for other occasions.

River Cottage Cookbook or Curious Cook at Home

2009-11-25T05:23:00.000-08:00

River Cottage Cookbook

Author: Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall

Published to tie in with the third series of the acclaimed Channel 4 River Cottage , this book draws on Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's experiences at his home in Dorset.
Hugh writes:"There are two reasons why you may want to buy this book. The first is more or less selfish, because the main aim here is simply to help you enjoy your life more - your life with food, that is. One of the most satisfying things about my life at River Cottage is that I've hardly ever had a bad meal here. Of course I've burned things and messed up once in a while. But I rarely have that experience that used to seem all too common, where I find myself thinking "why am I eating this rubbish?"
The second reason is more political. This book is written with a strong awareness that our current food production system leaves a great deal to be desired. Most of the meat we eat comes from industrially farmed animals who lead miserable lives and are fed on inappropriate diets. It is neither as tasty nor as healthy as it should be. Much of the fruit and vegetables we eat is the product of intensive agriculture that pollutes the land we live on and leaves unnecessary residues on and in the produce. I don't like that, and I know more and more people who feel the same way.
How much of this book you incorporate into your life is up to you. But if all you do is grow a few herbs in a window box, make nettle soup once a year, and try a free range goose for Christmas instead of a frozen turkey, you will already, I hope, be enjoying your life more."
With over 100 recipes, and Simon Wheeler's acclaimed photography, "The River Cottage Cookbook" should appeal to all downshifters and to all those who prefer their food tobe full-blooded and wholesome.

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Curious Cook at Home

Author: Dee Hobsbawn Smith

In her new cookbook, highly acclaimed Calgary chef and Calgary Herald Food Writer dee Hobsbawn-Smith invites readers to take an intimate look into her kitchen, and shares her favourite family recipes. This sparkling collection guides you through the week: on Mondays, indulge in delicious greens and beans variations, mid-week try meaty mains, and surprise your family and friends with sumptuous Sunday birds. From Classic Smoked Salmon on Wild Rice to Roasted Pepper Salsa, Asparagus and Orange Salad, to succulent Oven Squash, there is sure to be something that pleases everyone. dee writes and cooks with flare and gusto. With fact-filled sidebars, delicious variations on traditional dishes, and insider tips on preparation, these recipes are as fun to read as they are to prepare and eat.

Al Dente or Little Cafe Cakes

2009-02-19T10:01:00.000-08:00

Al Dente: The Adventures of a Gastronome in Italy

Author: William Black

Bill Bryson meets Elizabeth David in this witty gastronomic tour of Italy.

William Black is serious about Italian food. Except when he’s joking, which is often. And he will stop at nothing to discover the whys and wherefores of la dolce vita. In Al Dente, our intrepid gastronome eats whatever gets in his way. He travels the length and breadth of Italy in his quest for the most authentic cooking and the very finest ingredients: one minute he’s chasing after rabbits in Ischia, the next he’s scoffing eel brodetto and waxing lyrical about frog risotto. Although he prefers roadside establishments and local trattorie to high–end cibo nuovo, whatever he’s eating is a revelation. A joy from cover to cover, this is a must for anyone who thinks they know about Italian food. William Black, with his partner Sophie Grigson, is the author of several best–selling books, including Fish and Organic.

Kirkus Reviews

Lighthearted travels through Italy that get tightly focused when it's mealtime. "I drove on, deviated, climbed inland and stopped for lunch." So it goes as British food writer Black (Fish, 1999, etc.) makes his way about Italy, cobbling together this gustatory portrait of the country from regular fortnightly doses of cheap travel. There are politics in these pages, from short regional histories to the seriousness with which Italians take their gelati; there is some pursuit of genealogy, of the Rossellis on Black's mother's side; and these chapters can easily be deployed as travel guides, organized as they are by specific areas, happy to give directions. ("If you head straight down to the Tiber from here you should get to the ghetto. . . .") And there are those deviations, such as time to "reflect a little on tales of exploitation and lust among the rice fields of Vercelli." But ultimately, this is about eating well—and often: of apricots and capers from Stromboli, of casu marzo (rotten cheese) that "is quite difficult for anyone but a Sard to eat," of Neapolitan pizza and the importance of frogs in brodo. It is about the iconic cacciucco ("the cooking of piscatorial detritus, a dish eaten to keep fishermen's hunger at bay") and the role played by the town of Comacchio in "the sacred act of eel jigginess." It is also gratifyingly opinionated: "Her house began to stink, so she said, like a Greek fisherman's crotch [from the smell of stewing octopus]. This is wimpish talk, frankly. I am of the opinion that octopus is quite one of the most exquisite things to come from the sea." And it is full of good advice: "Now, a word about panissa," he will state, as befits the son-in-law of foodhistorian Jane Grigson; or, "Let me offer you a few hints, a few truffle do's and don'ts." A garden mix of personal history, political history, and food all'Italia.

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Little Cafe Cakes

Author: Julie Le Clerc

There is something very appealing about a small, individual cake. Enticing and charming, the versatility of the little cake means it can double as the perfect dessert. It's not suprising that smart little cakes are featured on café menus all around the world. And it is not suprising that Julie Le Clerc is the creative genius behind these fabulous recipes with seriously good flavours.

Al Dente or Little Cafe Cakes

2009-02-19T10:00:00.000-08:00

Al Dente: The Adventures of a Gastronome in Italy

Author: William Black

Bill Bryson meets Elizabeth David in this witty gastronomic tour of Italy.

Kirkus Reviews

Book about: El Edificio de Inteligencia Cultural (CQ):Nueve Megahabilidades

Little Cafe Cakes

Author: Julie Le Clerc

Visual Vegetables or Salad Perfection with DVD

2009-02-18T06:18:00.000-08:00

Visual Vegetables: Appetizing Images and Recipes for Cooks

Author: Susan Simon

This delightfully eccentric book is the perfect gift for cooks. Simon has not only written recipes for vegetables, but also pasta, rice, fish, fruit, etc. Each recipe is vibrantly illustrated & accompanied by a story about life & entertaining & what food can — & should be. Simon has written & illustrated a book that is meant to be enjoyed & shared. Reveals the extraordinary talents of Susan Simon as cook, storyteller & artist. The intriguing recipes celebrate the bounties of both land & sea & are as easy as they are enticing. Chockful of lush illustrations & tasty recipes, it not only helps solve the dinner problem but transports Italy to your kitchen.

Salad Perfection with DVD

Author: Belinda Jeffery

This new series of books will help you get back into the kitchen and experience the fun of creating sensational mouth-watering meals through the simplicity of easy-to-read, step-by-step instructions. Stunning photography and recipes by accomplished chefs will make you want to collect every single title.

The Peach Sampler or Taste of Thyme

2009-02-17T02:37:00.000-08:00

The Peach Sampler

Author: Eliza Horton

More than 300 delectable recipes using the delicious fuzzy fruit. How to select use cook and preserve them.

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Taste of Thyme: Culinary Cultures of the Middle East

Author: Richard Tapper

This pioneering book considers the culinary cultures of the Middle East in a variety of contexts. The contributors discuss various aspects of historical and contemporary processes, including likely origins and diffusions on ingredients and dishes, changes in food production and eating habits, contemporary revivals of traditional cooking, literary representations of food and drink, and the class, gender, and communal dimensions to food. Written by scholars from different disciplines, it covers a wide geographical area, from Central Asia to Morocco.

Feast of Words or Just Wed Cook Book

2009-02-15T22:55:00.000-08:00

Feast of Words: Banquets and Table Talk in the Renaissance

Author: Michael Jeanneret

The banquet gives rise to a special moment when thought and the senses—words and food—enhance each other. Throughout history, the ideal of the symposium has reconciled the angel and the beast in the human, renewing the interdependence between the mouth that speaks and the mouth that eats. Michel Jeanneret's lively book explores the paradigm of the banquet as a guide to significant tendencies in Renaissance Humanist culture and shows how this culture in turn illuminates the tensions between physical and mental pleasures. Ranging widely over French, Italian, German, and Latin texts, Jeanneret not only investigates the meal as a narrative artefact but enquires as well into aspects of sixteenth-century anthropology and aesthetics.

Booknews

Jenneret (French literature, U. of Geneva) explores the paradigm of the banquet as a guide to significant tendencies in Renaissance Humanist culture and shows how this culture in turn illuminates the tensions between physical and mental pleasures--between the mouth that speaks and the mouth that eats. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Introduction
Part I - Pleasure and the norm
1. Humanism on holiday
The feast of the gods
The al fresco meal
Conviviality
The head and the stomach
2. Ceremonies and manners
Civility
Manners and Mannerism
The pomp of princes
Officers of the mouth
3. Rules for the appetite
An archaeology of the table
Diet
Medicine v. cookery
Part II - When the fable comes to table
4. Table talk
Convivial speech
A mouth full of words
Philologists or logophiles?
5. Eating the text
Storytelling while eating
'Our after-dinner entertainers'
'My salad and my Muse'
The marrow bone
Metaphors of bibliophagy
6. Classical banquets
Philosophy at meal time
Satire and its cooking
Greedy grammarians
7. Something for every taste
The copious and the varied
Erasmus: feasting on words
Guillaume Bouchet: stuffings
Giordano Bruno: the failed banquet
8. Dog Latin and macronic poetry
Dog Latin, cooks' talk and gibberish
Folengo and the ars macaronica
Muses with greasy hands
'My country is a pumpkin'
9. 'The centre of all books'
'Monarch of ecumenical symposia'
'You only talk about sex'
'Edible syllables and letters'
'I've never seen people talk so much'
Conclusion
Imitatio/Mimesis
Writing and nature
Paradoxical metaphors
Naturalizing the narrative?
Writing in action
Bibliography
Index

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Just-Wed Cook Book

Author: E Kiessling

The recipes in this 1917 volume were compiled by E.F. Kiessling and sponsored by the advertisers presented therein.

Diet Chefs Low Calorie Gourmet Cookbook or 12 Seasonsunder the Florida Sun

2009-02-14T19:14:00.000-08:00

Diet Chef's Low-Calorie Gourmet Cookbook

Author: Myles Omel

Now you don't have to sacrifice taste for calories! Here in a single book are the fascinating, easy-to-understand secrets for preparing delicious gourmet dishes that are nonfattening as well. Following diet chef Myles Omel's instructions, you can eat almost anything you want-including six-course meals, potatoes, and desserts-and still lose weight! Omel shows how, by changing cooking methods and eliminating a few basic ingredients, you can serve elegant meals your family and friends will never realize are low-calorie. You'll even be able to enjoy treats as Stuffed Crepe's Florentine, Mexican-Style Baked Chicken, and Cinnamon Baked Apples without having to feel guilty about calories. The Diet Chef's Low-Calorie Gourmet Cookbook offers flexibility and variety that will enable you to enjoy culinary pleasures you thought you'd never taste again!

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12 SeasonsUnder the Florida Sun

Author: Doug Janousek

Twelve Seasons Under the Florida Sun is as much about the chefs who contributed to it as it is the food they cook.

Formal dinners, summer picnics, holiday buffets - the meals here run the gamut and every reader is sure to find something that appeals to their taste buds. Whether an experienced restaurant chef, a school-trained culinarian, a career-changer or just a life-long cook, the chefs in this book give you a glimpse into what drives them and what inspires them, as well as tips and clear instructions on how to re-create their dishes in your own kitchen or if you prefer, a way to reach them to allow them to do it for you.

Fresh, high quality ingredients combined with experience and the proper technique, served to you with style and personality by eight different personal chefs who have very individual approaches to their menus.

Seasonal cooking is about using what's good and fresh and available right now. Not frozen, not canned, not grown somewhere else and shipped in. This really isn't a new concept; home cooks with gardens have cooked with what was available for generations. Cooks without a home garden can find high-quality ingredients at the supermarket and if they are willing to drive a tiny bit farther and find one of those roadside produce markets, they can cook with local flavor without any of the weeding.

Personal chefing is, well, personal and it varies from chef to chef as well as from client to client. This book and these recipes within give you a glimpse into the inner workings of the chefs as they build a meal for you.

See you in the kitchen!

Eating Your Words or Real Cheese Companion

2009-02-13T15:32:00.000-08:00

Eating Your Words: 2000 Words To Tease Your Taste Buds

Author: William Grimes

Here is a feast of words that will whet the appetite of food and word lovers everywhere. William Grimes, former restaurant critic for The New York Times, covers everything from bird's nest soup to Trockenbeerenauslese in this wonderfully informative food lexicon.
Eating Your Words is a veritable cornucopia--a thousand-and-one entries on candies and desserts, fruits and vegetables, meats, seafood, spices, herbs, wines, cheeses, liqueurs, cocktails, sauces, dressings, and pastas. The book includes terms from around the world (basmati, kimchi, haggis, callaloo) and from around the block (meatloaf, slim jims, Philly cheesesteak). Grimes describes utensils (from tandoor and wok to slotted spoon and zester), cooking styles (a bonne femme, over easy), cuts of meat (crown roast, prime rib), and much more. Each definition includes a pronunciation guide and many entries indicate the origin of the word. Thus we learn that olla podrida is Spanish for 'rotten pot' and mulligatawny comes from the Tamil words milaku-tanni, meaning 'pepper water.' Grimes includes helpful tips on usage, such as when to write whiskey and when to write whisky. In addition, there are more than a dozen special sidebars on food and food word topics--everything from diner slang to bad fad diets--plus a time line of food trends by decade and a list of the best regional snack foods.
Even if you don't know a summer sausage from a spring chicken, you will find Eating Your Words a delectable treat. And for everyone who loves to cook, this superb volume is an essential resource--and the perfect gift.

The New York Times - Tobin Harshaw

Making for an even richer feast is Grimes's introduction, a cogent account of how we've gone from being a people who once carelessly categorized all pastas as ''macaroni'' to a nation that knows its rigatoni from its rotelli. In the main text, Grimes includes a generous helping of shorter reflections, including a lexicon of diner slang and a consideration of the hot dog.

	Eating your words	1
	A hoagie by any other name	24
	Let us now praise famous bars	70
	Mock foods	101
	Ten signs of a bad restaurant	119
	Hot or dog? : that's the question	163
	Slang with bite : an eatimology	208
	Ten fruits your haven't tasted but should	228
	More food for thought	239
	Cooking weights and measures	240
	Food fads timeline	242
	Fad diets timeline	249
	Food web sites	252

Interesting textbook: Finanzbuchhaltung: Grundsätze und Anwendungen

Real Cheese Companion: A Guide to Best Handmade Cheeses of Britain and Ireland

Author: Sarah Freeman

The craft of cheesemaking is currently experiencing an exciting revival. A new generation of artisan cheesemakers is now producing not only the hard cows' milk and blue cheeses usually associated with Britain, but also soft cheeses of the Brie and Camembert type, hard sheep's cheeses, which can be used in the same way as Parmesan and pecorino, both hard and soft goats' cheeses, and a small but growing number of organic and buffalo cheeses. Cheese enthusiast Sarah Freeman visited farmhouse cheesemakers throughout Britain and Ireland in the belief that knowing the cheeses and understanding how they are made can only enhance the enjoyment of them. She watched the cheeses being made - from raw milk through to maturing - asked questions and tasted extensively. In The Real Cheese Companion she reviews over 150 of these handmade cheeses, describes the individual cheesemaking process, and provides the cheese connoisseur with a unique collection of recipes and serving suggestions.

Food Alert or Bowlfood Cookbook

2009-02-12T13:23:00.000-08:00

Food Alert!

Author: Morton Satin

In Food Alert! food-safety expert Morton Satin explains the history and science of food contamination and preservation; the causes, dangers and types of food-borne diseases; and, most important, everything consumers need to know to understand the risk of food-borne illness and to protect themselves from it.

Bowlfood Cookbook: Over 200 Dazzling and Eclectic Recipes from the Restaurant Lola Bowla

Author: Lynne Aronson

Bowl food is Asian tangy and Mediterranean fresh. And as much fun as eating a whole meal with a spoon or chopsticks. Creating a delicious matrix of flavors, cultures, and imagination-all meting in the bottom of the bowl-chefs Lynne Aronson and Elizabeth Simon offer over 200 easy, sophisticated recipes for deep, nourishing bowls of soups and stews, wide, saucy bowls of noodles and rice, salad bowls-of course!-and bowlfood desserts. Because everything tastes better in a bowl.

Library Journal

Aronson is the chef of Manhattan's popular restaurant Lola and its more casual offspring, Lola Bowla, where "bowlfood"--big or small bowls of soups and stews, noodle and pasta dishes, salads, and the like--is the specialty. Here she and former colleague Simon present 200 recipes for their lively food, influenced by Asian, Mediterranean, and Latin cuisines and characterized by bold, lusty flavors. There are also "Dumplings and Doodads," accompaniments to be served in or along with the "bowls"; "Fire and Spice," condiments, seasonings, and so forth; a brief dessert chapter; and an abundance of boxes and sidebars on all sorts of culinary topics. For most collections.

What People Are Saying

Sheila Lukins
Dive right in! Steaming up from these bowls is a whole new world of flavor, aroma, texture, and happiness.
— Sheila Lukins, Author of USA Cookbook and co-author of The Silver Palate Cookbooks and the New Basic Cookbook

Rio Riches or Classic Japanese

2009-02-11T08:36:00.000-08:00

Rio Riches: Recipes Celebrating The Rich Natural Diversity Of The Rio Grande Valley

Author: Staff of The Junior Of Harlingen Incorporated

The best recipes from a region where Mexican and American cultures share a tradition of hospitality. Try the "Border Favorites" from both sides of the Rio Grande or the "Game and Grilling" specialties for moonlight dining. Quick and easy and lighter fare recipes are noted. Delicate portraits of South Texas birds by F.P. Bennett highlight this rich treasure!

Look this: Innovations in Computerized Assessment or Postsocialist Pathways

Classic Japanese

Author: Yasuko Fukuoka

Seven chapters present over 90 of the most exquisite and authentic Japanese dishes.

Take Three or Delia Smith

2009-02-10T04:54:00.000-08:00

Take Three

Author: Jenny Whit

A fun, innovative approach to cooking that is perfect for modern living.

Interesting book: Crime and Local Television News or Power Production and Social Reproduction

Delia Smith: The Biography

Author: Alison Bowyer

Delia Smith is more than just a cook—she has become a national icon with a loyal following of fans and a business empire worth millions. She single-handedly brought about The Great Cranberry Crisis of 1995 when her fans cleared supermarket shelves of the fruit, and a previously small-time saucepan manufacturer saw its turnover soar with a mention of their omelette pan. This book tells the extraordinary story of this woman's life, from leaving school without a single qualification to becoming the undisputed queen of the kitchen. Drawing upon interviews with friends and colleagues, this biography shows that life has not always been easy for Delia, but reveals how her iron will ensures that she remains one step ahead of her rivals.

Kirkus Reviews

Earnestly admiring biography of the British cooking icon. Alternating between breathless commentary and tough quotes from critics (serious foodies are not so smitten as the general public), British journalist Bowyer follows Smith from her lower-class childhood in a London suburb to her illustrious present. Tony Blair offered her a life peerage, the Queen honored her, and she is reputed to be worth over Ј24 million. Not bad for a woman who left school in 1957, at age 16, to work as a hairdresser in London. There, Smith began making interesting friends, learned how to dress, and in 1962 met a mentor: Leo Evans, a metallurgy professor by day and a chef by night who transformed her life. Working evenings at a popular restaurant for which Evans cooked, she soon moved up from washing dishes to preparing dishes under his tuition. Other cooking jobs followed, and she gave up hairdressing. Bowyer records Smith's beginnings as a columnist for a London daily; her detailed but simple recipes soon made her a household name. She wrote books and had her own shows on the BBC; one series became The Complete Cookery Course, which on video has sold more than a million copies. A profitable association with a magazine connected to a major grocery chain has also helped make her very rich. Smith, a convert to Catholicism, has written religious books and donated generously to charity. To demonstrate how influential Smith's cooking shows are, Bowyers points to her praise of a particular omelet pan—the manufacturer had to hire 15 additional workers to deal with the demand—and her use in a recipe of the unfamiliar-to-Brits shallot, whose sales subsequently increased by 2,000 percent. No one claims Smith is aninnovative chef; Bowyer thinks much of her success is due to her ability to explain cooking in terms everyone can understand. Dutifully assembles all the ingredients, but the result is a literary pudding without theme.

Food and Cultural Studies or Cooking in America 1840 1945

2009-02-09T01:12:00.000-08:00

Food and Cultural Studies

Author: Bob Ashley

What and how we eat are two of the most persistent choices we face in everyday life. Whatever we decide on though, and however mundane our decisions may seem, they will be inscribed with information both about ourselves and about our positions in the world around us. Yet, food has only recently become a significant and coherent area of inquiry for cultural studies and the social sciences.

Food and Cultural Studies re-examines the interdisciplinary history of food studies from a cultural studies framework, from the semiotics of Barthes and the anthropology of Levi-Strauss to Elias' historical analysis and Bourdieu's work on the relationship between food, consumption and cultural identity. The authors then go on to explore subjects as diverse as food and nation, the gendering of eating in, the phenomenon of TV chefs, the ethics of vegetarianism and food, risk and moral panics.

This book is fascinating reading for students and academics studying both consumption and cultural studies morebroadly.

Cooking in America, 1840-1945

Author: Alice L McLean

This cookbook covers the years 1840 through 1945, a time during which American cookery underwent a full-scale revolution. Gas and electric stoves replaced hearth cookery. Milk products came from commercial dairy farms rather than the family cow. Daily meals were no longer bound by seasons and regions, as canned, bottled, and eventually frozen products flooded the market and trains began to transport produce and meat from one end of the country to the other. During two World Wars and the Great Depression women entered the work force in unprecedented numbers and household servants abandoned low-paying domestic jobs to work in factories. As a result of these monumental changes, American home cooking became irrevocably simplified and cookery skills geared more toward juggling time to comb grocery store shelves for the best and most economical products than toward butchering and preserving an entire animal carcass or pickling fruits and vegetables.

Pauline Baughman - Library Journal

In this fascinating book, McLean (honors postdoctoral fellow at Sweet Briar Coll.) examines cookbooks as a primary source, showing the enormous changes that occurred on the tables of Americans from the preindustrial period to the onset of World War II. Divided into three chronological sections, the book kicks off with a brief overview of the cooking and preservation methods, major foodstuffs, cooking equipment, cultural influences, and dining customs of the time. The first section includes recipes from three early American cookbooks; the second section demonstrates the rise in popularity of community cookbooks and includes recipes from the first known cookbooks written by an African American and a Hispanic; and the third section shows the rise of male-authored cookbooks and reflects the changes in cooking habits as a result of two world wars and the Great Depression. Each section also includes popular recipes—over 300 in all—taken from cookbooks of the time, ladies' magazines, newspapers, and family collections.

Marilyn FairbanksCopyright 2006 Reed Business Information. - School Library Journal

Gr 9 Up
These well-organized titles provide historical overviews, discussing changes in recipes brought about by changes in ways of life, e.g., agrarian to industrialized economy, the Depression, and limitation of ingredients due to wars. Both books include commentary and recipes. However, neither book states amounts of ingredients, the exception being the third chapter in America, but, even then, not all of the recipes include measurements. Many of the recipes make large batches of a particular dish without stating the number of servings. Text boxes range from "14th-Century Advice to a Young Bride" (Europe ) to "To Dress a Chicken" (America ), and glossaries explain terms not commonly in use today. The black-and-white illustrations of equipment and foods are excellent. Back matter includes extensive bibliographies of cookbooks and good indexes. The series foreword states that the recipes are meant to appeal to "novice" cooks. However, only very experienced or adventurous cooks would try to re-create these dishes.

Gin Gin Drinks or Handbook of Frozen Foods

2009-02-07T21:31:00.000-08:00

Gin & Gin Drinks (Quamut)

Author: Quamut

Authoritative: Written by experts in their field so you have the most reliable information available.
Clear: Our explanations take you step-by-step through everything from performing CPR to threading a needle.
Concise: You’ll learn just what you need to know—no more, no less.
Precise: Quamut charts include detailed text, photos, and illustrations to show you exactly how to do just about anything.
Portable: Your know-how goes with you wherever your projects lead.

Dry and mighty.

From the Queen Mother to Snoop Dogg, gin has legions of devotees the world over. Now you too can find the right gin for any drink and learn to mix it into terrific, classic cocktails. Become a gin guru by learning:

A brief history of gin and the basics of how gin is made
A rundown of different types of gin, so you’ll know what you’re buying
Gin cocktail recipes from the Four Seasons restaurant

Book about: Das Treten Weg die Leiter (Weltwirtschaftreihe): Entwicklungsstrategie in der Historischen Perspektive

Handbook of Frozen Foods

Author: Isabel Guerrero Legaretta

Collecting an impressive amount of professional expertise on frozen food science, technology, and engineering, this reference describes the manufacture, processing, inspection, and safety of frozen foods -- surveying a wide range of topics in frozen food packaging, quality, and shelf-life from more than 50 of the most respected leaders in the field. Outlining basic procedures before and after freezing that enhance and optimize the quality and texture of frozen foods, the Handbook contains more than 1700 current references for further exploration of the topic...tables and examples illustrating the effect of various chemical and biochemical reactions on the quality of frozen food systems...methods to select the most appropriate packaging materials for frozen foods...practical guidelines to ensure the safety of frozen food products...and strategies to reduce the deterioration rate of frozen foods.

	Preface	iii
	Contributors	ix
Part I.	Freezing Principles
1.	Freezing Processes: Physical Aspects	1
2.	Principles of Freeze-Concentration and Freeze-Drying	13
3.	Principles of Frozen Storage	25
4.	Frozen Food Packaging	55
Part II.	Frozen Food Characteristics
5.	Frozen Food Components and Chemical Reactions	67
6.	Flavor of Frozen Foods	83
7.	Food Sensory Attributes	93
8.	Texture in Frozen Foods	149
Part III.	Frozen Meat and Poultry
9.	Frozen Muscle Foods: Principles, Quality, and Shelf Life	169
10.	Operational Processes for Frozen Red Meat	177
11.	Frozen Meat: Processing Equipment	193
12.	Frozen Meat: Quality and Shelf Life	201
13.	Chemical and Physical Aspects of Color in Frozen Muscle-Based Foods	215
14.	Frozen Meat: Packaging and Quality Control	227
15.	Frozen Poultry: Process Flow, Equipment, Quality, and Packaging	239
Part IV.	Frozen Seafoods
16.	Freezing Seafood and Seafood Products Principles and Applications	245
17.	Freezing Finfish	295
18.	Freezing Shellfish	309
19.	Freezing Secondary Seafood Products	325
20.	Frozen Seafood Safety and HACCP	339
21.	Frozen Seafood: Product Descriptions	365
Part V.	Frozen Vegetables
22.	Frozen Vegetables: Product Descriptions	395
23.	Quality Control in Frozen Vegetables	405
24.	Production, Freezing, and Storage of Tomato Sauces and Slices	415
25.	Frozen French Fried Potatoes and Quality Assurance	433
26.	Frozen Peas: Standard and Grade	449
Part VI.	Frozen Fruits and Fruit Products
27.	Frozen Fruits and Fruit Juices: Product Description	461
28.	Frozen Guava and Papaya Products	473
29.	Frozen Citrus Juices	483
Part VII.	Frozen Desserts, Frozen Dough, and Microwavable Frozen Foods
30.	Ice Cream and Frozen Desserts	499
31.	Effect of Freezing on Dough Ingredients	571
32.	Microwavable Frozen Food or Meals	581
Part VIII.	Frozen Foods Safety Considerations
33.	Safety of Frozen Foods	595
34.	Frozen Food Plants: Safety and Inspection	619
35.	Frozen Dessert Processing: Quality, Safety, and Risk Analysis	641
36.	Frozen Foods and Enforcement Activities	665
Appendix A	FDA Standard for Frozen Vegetables: 21 CFR 158. Definitions: 21 CFR 158.3; FDA Standard for Frozen Vegetables: 21 CFR 158. Frozen Peas: 21 CFR 158.170	681
Appendix B	Frozen Dessert Processing: Quality, Safety, and Risk Analysis. Special Operations	687
	Index	719

Simple Pleasures from Our Maritime Kitchens or Standard Paper Bag Cookery

2009-02-06T17:50:00.000-08:00

Simple Pleasures from Our Maritime Kitchens: Anecdotes, History, and Recipes

Author: Julie Watson

Organized with a chapter for each month, this book takes the reader through a year in the life of the Maritime kitchen. The region's colorful history comes to life with excerpts from authentic regional 19th-century cookbooks. Emphasizing old-fashioned home cooking for every occasion, recipes include Clam Fritters, Creamy Lobster Filling, and Sugarplum Bread. This celebration of the rich culinary heritage of the Maritimes is illustrated throughout.

Go to: Entwicklung, Erdkunde, und Wirtschaftstheorie

Standard Paper Bag Cookery

Author: Emma Paddock Telford

Published originally in 1912, this volume aims to provide housewives with an economic and labor-saving manner for creating delicious family meals. Simplicity and frugality are emphasized throughout. An early forerunner of today's popularity of food cooked in parchment, many of the recipes can be easily reproduced today, and would make interesting meals for time- and budget-crunched families. The included seasonal menus look positively modern and not that different from menus that can be found in current cookbooks.

Love on the Rocks or Holiday Eggs

2009-02-05T14:08:00.000-08:00

Love on the Rocks: Men, Women, and Alcohol in Post-World War II America

Author: Lori Rotskoff

In this fascinating history of alcohol in postwar American culture, Lori Rotskoff draws on short stories, advertisements, medical writings, and Hollywood films to investigate how gender norms and ideologies of marriage intersected with scientific and popular ideas about drinking and alcoholism.

After the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, recreational drinking became increasingly accepted among white, suburban, middle-class men and women. But excessive or habitual drinking plagued many families. How did people view the "problem drinkers" in their midst? How did husbands and wives learn to cope within an "alcoholic marriage?" And how was drinking linked to broader social concerns during the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War era?

By the 1950s, Rotskoff explains, mental health experts, movie producers, and members of self-help groups like Alcoholics Anonymous and Al-Anon helped bring about a shift in the public perception of alcoholism from "sin" to "sickness." Yet alcoholism was also viewed as a family problem that expressed gender-role failure for both women and men. On the silver screen (in movies such as The Lost Weekend and The Best Years of Our Lives) and on the printed page (in stories by writers such as John Cheever), in hospitals and at Twelve Step meetings, chronic drunkenness became one of the most pressing public health issues of the day.

John W. Crowley

Lori Rotskoff, who writes wonderfully well, has filled a blank in the (gendered social history of American drinking and sobriety from Prohibition through the fifties: a subtle, engaging, and now indispensable study.

What People Are Saying

John W. Crowley
Lori Rotskoff, who writes wonderfully well, has filled a blank in the (gendered) social history of American drinking and sobriety from Prohibition through the fifties: a subtle, engaging, and now indispensable study. (John W. Crowley, author of The White Logic: Alcoholism and Gender in Modernist American Fiction)

Books about: Moderne Wertpapierbestand-Theorie und Investitionsanalyse

Holiday Eggs: A Collection of Inspired Recipes, Gifts, and Decorations

Author: Georgeanne Brennan

The holidays of spring-Easter, Passover, Mother's Day, and even bridal and baby showers-are times to celebrate new beginnings with family and friends. In HOLIDAY EGGS, food and garden writer Georgeanne Brennan combines her areas of expertise to create a breathtaking collection of recipes and decorating ideas honoring the humble egg, symbol of birth and rebirth. More than 30 sweet and savory recipes take a starring role in traditional holiday feasts and impromptu springtime gatherings. Simple egg-dyeing and Easter-basket projects for kids as well as more sophisticated decorations like dyed Ukrainian eggs, eggshell candles, egg napkin rings, and a live flowering Easter basket centerpiece guarantee that your holiday table will look as beautiful as the food you serve.

About the Author: Georgeanne Brennan, winner of both Julia Child and James Beard cookbook awards, has written over a dozen books on cooking and gardening. A writer and columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and regular contributor to numerous other publications, she divides her time between her Northern California farm and her home in the Provence region of France.

1 introduction
All About Eggs
Egg Cooking Techniques
Egg Decorating Techniques
2 whole eggs
recipes	14
Frisée Salad with Lardons and Poached Eggs
Oeufs Mimosa
Scotch Eggs
Huevos Rancheros
Eggs Benedict with Roasted Balsamic Asparagus
Quail Eggs with Caviar
Eggs in Tarragon and White-Wine Aspic
Eggs Pickled with Tea and Star Anise
Lemon-Butter Easter Egg Cookies with Royal Icing
3 tabletop eggs
crafts	30
Egg Napkin Rings
Flowering Easter Basket Centerpiece
Eggshell Vases
Egg and Nest Centerpiece
4 egg scrambles & sauces
recipes	40
Artichoke Frittata
Egg Curds with Sautéed Mushrooms
Egg Foo Yong
Brouillade with Truffles
Pad Thai
Sautéed Peppers and Onions Wrapped in Spanish Tortillas
Folded Omelette with Basil and Tomato
Folded Dessert Omelette with Orange Marmalade
Pain Perdu
Creamed Eggs, Ham, and Mushrooms on Toast
Asparagus and Potatoes with Avgolemono Sauce
5 eggs for kids
crafts	58
Crepe Paper Flower Baskets
Paper Lattice-Covered Baskets
Paper Cone Easter Baskets
Mexican Cascarones
Sticker and Wax Crayon Decorated Eggs
Tie-Dyed Eggs
6 fillings, wraps & custards
recipes	72
Spring-Onion Egg Salad with Edible Blossoms
Seafood and Saffron Quiche
Roasted Tomatoes Filled with Herbed Eggs
Wild Mushroom Crepes
Beef- and Egg-Filled Piroshki in a Puff-Pastry Crust
Old-Fashioned Custard Pie
Pôts de Crème
Spanish Flan
7 decorative eggs
crafts	88
Eggshell Candles
Egg Gift Boxes
Easter-Egg Cookie Tree
Ukrainian Eggs
8 airy eggs
recipes	98
Oeufs à la Neige
Raspberry Sabayon
Salzburger Nockerln
Cheese Soufflé
Individual Orange Souffles
Meringues with Blackberries
Index
List of Recipes
List of Crafts

Rustic Table or Resource Guide for Food Writers

2009-02-04T10:27:00.000-08:00

Rustic Table: Simple Fare from the World's Kitchens

Author: Constance Snow

Countries all over the world have their own kind of"rustic" food -- simple, thrifty, hearty, unpretentious, and full of flavor. Earthy and tantalizing, rustic is the kind of food that memories are made of, passed down through generations of grandmothers and aunts to daughters and sons. In The Rustic Table, IACP Award-winning author Constance Snow re-creates flavors from more than twenty-five different countries with more than 200 recipes for starters, sides, entrées, and desserts.

For breakfast, try West African Spice Doughnuts, Vietnamese "Happy Pancakes," or Swiss Fruit and Mixed-Grain Porridge. Lunch and dinner possibilities include light entrées like Asian-Style Noodle Salad with Spicy Sesame Dressing and French Vegetable Soup with Basil and Garlic, as well as hearty dishes such as Korean Grilled Beef, Native American Planked Salmon, and Greek Lamb and Bulgur Meatballs with Cucumber Yogurt Dip. And there's no dessert like a truly rustic one: Creole Praline Bread Pudding with Warm Whiskey Sauce, Thai Sticky Coconut Rice with Mango and Mint, or Shaker Lemon Pie.

The Rustic Table is a real taste of really easy rustic food. This is a cookbook for home cooks who enjoy using ingredients as close to nature as possible and who want to prepare food with ingredients that are easy to find and recipes that involve just a few quick steps.

Resource Guide for Food Writers

Author: Gary Allen

A feast for all food writers, The Resource Guide for Food Writers is a comprehensive guide to finding everything there is to know about food, how to write about it and how to get published. An educator at the Culinary Institute of America, Gary Allen has compiled an amazing handbook for anyone who wants to learn more about food and share that knowledge with others.

Including a foreword by Mr. Tim Ryan, Senior Vice President of the Culinary Institute of America, this multifaceted guide teaches readers how to:

* find appropriate libraries

* use catalogs, directories, bibliographies and periodicals

*and locate specialty booksellers.

Chapters on the writing process provide real guidance on:

*how to write

*what resources are helpful

*and how to combat writer's block In the final section, the intimidating task of getting published is tackled with specific help in drafting proposals and finding the appropriate publisher.

An impressive menu of resources, this authoritative reference is essential for every epicurean, from the food service professional to the ambitious home gourmet.

Booknews

Allen, an educational technologist at the Culinary Institute of America, has compiled information for writers, students, and anyone interested in gastronomy, designed to help them learn more about food. He covers the basics for finding information, such as library sources, buying books, and electronic sources, as well as tips for writing, ideas for distributing written works, and how to incorporate stock photography. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Healthy Chinese Cookbook or Christmas

2009-02-03T06:45:00.000-08:00

Healthy Chinese Cookbook

Author: Maggie Pannell

With over 500 colour photographs in total, encyclopedic information about materials, techniques and ingredients, and a classic collection of specially developed and tested recipes, this is the ultimate book for all lovers of Chinese food who want to indul

New interesting book: In 60 Ways or Ice Cream

Christmas: Decorations, Feasts, Gifts, Traditions

Author: David Baird

Packed full of great ideas to make your Christmas Day go with a swing. Proverbs, myths, advice, recipes, projects and facts combine to make this little volume a delightful and extremely useful Christmas book.

Beautifully designed using foils, metallic inks and imaginative illustrations -- these books have a chic, modern and sophisticated appeal.

he ideal event planning companion.

Cookout USA or Full Bodied And Peppery

2009-02-02T03:02:00.000-08:00

Cookout USA: Grilling Favorites Coast to Coast

Author: Georgia Orcutt

For those in the United States, when the sun is out, the grill is on because everyone loves to get outdoors and eat. Whether it's a picnic, backyard barbecue, party by the pool, tailgate, clam bake, or wienie roast, people will find any excuse they can to chow down on summer favorites with friends and family. From South Carolina's BBQ Pork with Mustard Sauce to Spicy Grilled Chili-Lime Halibut from Alaska to Utah's sweet Cherry Cobbler cooked outside in a Dutch oven over the campfire, Cookout USA offers a classic recipe from each state of the union. Serve them with great sides like Mom's Potato Salad, New England Baked Beans, Perfect Picnic Cupcakes, and Citrus Iced Tea for the ultimate cross-country culinary adventure. Whether folks are grilling from the mountains to the prairies to the oceans, white with foam, this wholly enjoyable cookbook illustrated with vintage travel brochures and nostalgic postcards has covered all the territory. Grilling away across the good ol' USA has never tasted so good.

Book about: HACCP Food Safety Manual or Best Couples Shower Party Game Book

Full-Bodied And Peppery: Chronicles Of A Western Colorado Wine Wench

Author: Christine Feller

Life, as seen through the eyes of a western Colorado “wine wench.”

At a crossroads in her life, Gemma finds herself living again with her parents, on their western Colorado ranch. A gypsy by nature, she decides to stay put for a while. In the process, she discovers adventures of the heart, embracing delicious and sometimes painful life lessons.

While setting down roots, Gemma cultivates a crop of incredible women friends who work in Colorado’s wine industry. The men in her life come and go, but her sparkling, imperfect, loyal girlfriends endure. This is everyday life, set amid the orchards and vineyards, ski slopes and desert. Gemma relishes her maturation process, celebrating it with the area’s viniferous libations.

These stand-alone chronicles may be read as short stories or strung together as a progressive tale of one woman’s life in western Colorado. Enjoy a nibble or a feast. But don’t forget to pour yourself a glass of wine!

Food in Russian History and Culture or Cooking with the Food Chat Family

2009-01-31T23:21:00.000-08:00

Food in Russian History and Culture

Author: Musya Glants

This Collection of Original Essays gives surprising insights into what foodways reveal about Russia's history and culture from Kievan times to the present. A wide array of sources - including chronicles, diaries, letters, police records, poems, novels, folklore, paintings, and cookbooks - help to interpret the moral and spiritual role of food in Russian culture. Stovelore in Russian folklife, fasting in Russian peasant culture, food as power in Dostoevsky's fiction, Tolstoy and vegetarianism, restaurants in early Soviet Russia, Soviet cookery and cookbooks, and food as art in Soviet paintings are among the topics discussed in this appealing volume.

Library Journal

Fourteen scholars have contributed 13 essays, each impeccably documented with endnotes, on the place of food ("foodways") in Russian history and culture. Edited by Glants, a specialist on 19th- and 20th-century Russian painting, and Toomre, a Slavicist and culinary historian, the book spans over ten centuries, from Kievan Rus to the present. Relying on sources as diverse as personal journals, police records, paintings, poems, and cookbooks, the writers examine changing attitudes about foodmoral, ideological, and spiritualthrough the eyes of peasants as well as tyrants. Recent works have dealt with the relationship between food and power (Sidney Mintz, Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom, LJ 8/96), but certainly the specificity and breadth of this one makes it unique. Although lively reading, it is particularly recommended for academic collections with a strong focus in Russian history.Wendy Miller, Lexington P.L., Ky.

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
1	Stovelore in Russian Folklife	1
2	Food in the Rus' Primary Chronicle	15
3	Food in Catherinian St. Petersburg	31
4	Forced Hunger and Rational Restraint in the Russian Peasant Diet: One Populist's Vision	49
5	The Practice and Significance of Fasting in Russian Peasant Culture at the Turn of the Century	67
6	Tolstoy's Way of No Flesh: Abstinence, Vegetarianism, and Christian Physiology	81
7	Is Hay Only for Horses? Highlights of Russian Vegetarianism at the Turn of the Century	103
8	An Appetite for Power: Predators, Carnivores, and Cannibals in Dostoevsky's Fiction	124
9	Strawberries and Chocolate: Tsvetaeva, Mandelstam, and the Plight of the Hungry Poet	146
10	Communal Dining and State Cafeterias in Moscow and Petrograd, 1917-1921	162
11	The Beginnings of Soviet Culinary Arts	177
12	Food and National Identity in Soviet Armenia	195
13	Food as Art: Painting in Late Soviet Russia	215
	Contributors	239
	Index	243

Cooking with the Food Chat Family

Author: Dawn Marie Schrandt

From all over the world food chatters have come together and selected their finest recipes for the benefit of people suffering from Cystic Fibrosis. All the recipes in this book are from the kitchens of all the food chat friends and consist of their families' favorite recipes. We hope that you all enjoy using this book and feel good knowing that all proceeds go to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation in hopes that a cure will be found in the not too distant future.

Barbecues or Accounting for Taste

2009-01-30T19:40:00.000-08:00

Barbecues: Skewered Prawns to Hot Beef Satays

Author: Clare Ferguson

Thirty tasty dishes for barbecues and other outdoor feasts. Here are recipes for all stages of a barbecue, from the marinade, and soups and salads, to main courses, desserts, and drinks. To begin, there's guacamole, salsas, and beignets, while Chicken Fajitas and Skewered Prawns feature among the grilled main courses. To end your barbecue on a sweet note, there's Raspberry Fool and Chocolate Cream Pots, and to wash it all down, try one of the refreshing drinks.

Accounting for Taste: The Triumph of French Cuisine

Author: Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson

French cuisine is such a staple in our understanding of fine food that we forget the accidents of history that led to its creation. Accounting for Taste brings these "accidents" to the surface, illuminating the magic of French cuisine and the mystery behind its historical development. Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson explains how the food of France became French cuisine.

This momentous culinary journey begins with Ancien Régime cookbooks and ends with twenty-first-century cooking programs. It takes us from Carême, the "inventor" of modern French cuisine in the early nineteenth century, to top chefs today, such as Daniel Boulud and Jacques Pépin. Not a history of French cuisine, Accounting for Taste focuses on the people, places, and institutions that have made this cuisine what it is today: a privileged vehicle for national identity, a model of cultural ascendancy, and a pivotal site where practice and performance intersect. With sources as various as the novels of Balzac and Proust, interviews with contemporary chefs such as David Bouley and Charlie Trotter, and the film Babette's Feast, Ferguson maps the cultural field that structures culinary affairs in France and then exports its crucial ingredients. What's more, well beyond food, the intricate connections between cuisine and country, between local practice and national identity, illuminate the concept of culture itself.

To Brillat-Savarin's famous dictum—"Animals fill themselves, people eat, intelligent people alone know how to eat"—Priscilla Ferguson adds, and Accounting for Taste shows, how the truly intelligent also know why they eat the way they do.

“Parkhurst Ferguson has her nose in the right place, and an infectious lust for her subject that makes this trawl through the history and cultural significance of French food—from French Revolution to Babette’s Feast via Balzac’s suppers and Proust’s madeleines—a satisfying meal of varied courses.”—Ian Kelly, Times (UK)

Apple Orchard Cookbook or Down the Bayou

2009-01-29T15:58:00.000-08:00

Apple Orchard Cookbook

Author: Janet M Christensen

Everyone loves apples, and now there are over 100 apple recipes for every course of the meal. The book also offers handy tips about the varieties of apples and how to use them. Janet Christensen is a food writer and home economist. Betty Bergman is an author and founder of Re:Sources, a communications company.

Books about: South Wind through the Kitchen or Every Day Soup

Down the Bayou: A Collection of Favorite Cajun Recipes

Author: Bayou Civic Club

Take a trip Down the Bayou to Southern Louisiana and Cajun Country! More than jambalaya and gumbo, Down the Bayou showcases true Cajun recipes and stories of the Cajun way of life. Taste the bountiful goodness with world-famous Cajun recipes mixed together with local delicacies such as Alligator Sauce Piquante, Oysters Larose, Crawfish Pie or Dip White Pralines and Primos Bread Pudding with Brandy Sauce. Experience the legend, romance and lifestyle of Down the Bayou.

70 Classic Mexican Recipes or A in Cooking

2009-01-28T12:17:00.000-08:00

70 Classic Mexican Recipes

Author: Elisabeth Lambert Ortiz

A unique fusion of native Indian tradition and European influence from the Spanish conquistadors, Mexican cuisine is taking the world by storm. An introductory section outlines the fascinating history of Mexican cuisine and provides a useful glossary of

A+ in Cooking

Author: Cleone Colvin

A collection of diverse recipes collected by Cleone Colvin from families and pupils she taught over the past 44 years. Makes a great teacher's gift.

Karaoke Nights or Great American Supper Swap

2009-01-27T08:36:00.000-08:00

Karaoke Nights: An Ethnographic Rhapsody

Author: Rob Drew

Karaoke. The word conjures all kinds of visions - possible stardom, abject performance terror, or just head shaking bewilderment. Ten years ago when the Japanese craze had only recently arrived in the U.S., Rob Drew was drawn to the phenomenon as subject of research. What he discovered will fascinate and surprise you, whether you're a student of popular culture or just curious what's going to happen next Saturday when you get up to sing your first song at the corner bar. "Karaoke Nights" is both a keen observation on the external behavior of deejays, performers, and audience and an intimate portrait of the emotional roller coaster that is the internal life of a karaoke singer. Drew lets you feel just what it's like to be the performer - agonizing over the song, feeling the nervous anticipation, analyzing your performance. At the same time he provides a probing analysis of the varied roles karaoke plays in popular culture and how it can guide an understanding of "local music" and the relationship of ordinary people to stardom.

Book review: Comptabilité des Meilleures Pratiques

Great American Supper Swap: Solving the Busy Woman's Family Dinnertime Dilemma

Author: Trish Berg

Most families blast through mealtimes en route to the next activity. But The Great American Supper Swap offers today's women an alternative that not only makes mealtimes more fun, but also much more meaningful.
Once a week you prepare a meal large enough for your family and another family. In turn, on another day you'll receive a meal from someone else and will have more time to spend with the kids.

It's a great way for families to save time and share the joy of family, fellowship, and community!

Acknowledgments     11
Foreword   Barbara Smith     13
Introduction     15
What's for Dinner?
Food Follies: Let Supper Swapping Simplify Your Life     23
The Disappearing Dinner: The Deterioration of the Family Meal     29
The Suppertime Surprise: The Importance of the Family Meal     38
You Need More Chefs in Your Kitchen
The Great Adventure: How Supper Swapping Works     51
From Frazzled to Dazzled: My Supper-Swapping Story     59
Right from the Start: How to Start Your Own Supper-Swapping Group     72
Cashing in at the Checkout: How Supper Swapping Saves You Money     80
From the Sidelines: What Dads and Kids Say about Supper Swapping     92
Troubleshooting in the Community Kitchen
Supersizing Your Meals: One Portion Size Does Not Fit All     105
The Lighter Side: Surviving Supper-Swapping Mishaps with Your Sanity Intact     118
Honestly Speaking: Sharing Your Opinions without Hurting Feelings     125
The Good-bye Girl: Moving Forward After Someone Leaves Your Group     131
The Ministry of Meal Making
Ministering through Meals: How to Use Supper Swapping as a Ministry     143
Growing a Garden of Friends: Building Deeper Friendships through Supper Swapping     151
Supper-Swapping Inspiration:Scriptures, Sayings, and Quotes to Swap Along with Your Meal     162
Garnishes for Your Supper-Swapping Kitchen
Q&As: Answers to All Your Supper-Swapping Questions     175
Raving Recipes: Proven Supper-Swapping Recipes to Get You Started     186
Mealtime Prayers for the Whole Family     235
Cooking Tables and Information     238
All the Supper-Swapping Resources You Will Need     241
Bibliography     243
About the Author     245
Recipe Index     246
Talk with Trish about Supper Swapping     249
My Supper-Swapping Recipes!: Add Your Supper-Swapping Recipes to Share with Others     251

Grow Organic Cook Organic or Introduction to Foodservice

2009-01-26T04:54:00.000-08:00

Grow Organic, Cook Organic

Author: Ysanne Spevack

A gardener's guide to growing food the natural way, with a plant-by-plant directory and hundreds of practical tips. A food-lover's guide to cooking organic produce to get the best of taste.

New interesting textbook: Princípios básicos de Prestar contas de Organizações Governamentais e Sem lucro

Introduction to Foodservice

Author: June Payne Palacio

Introduction to Foodservice, Tenth Edition is a practice-based textbook designed specifically for students studying foodservice management in four-year degree programs or technical colleges. The material is appropriate for higher education programs in dietetics, foodservice administration, and hospitality management. The text includes the essential information to understand and manage any type of foodservice operation in both the commercial and noncommercial sectors of the foodservice industry.

The book is organized into five parts. Part 1 provides an informative, historical overview of the foodservice industry and a review of foodservice as a system. Part 2 presents the fundamentals of foodservice that form the foundation of any operation. Included are chapters on food safety and menu planning. Part 3 serves as the heart of the text by providing a description of each functional operation of a foodservice operation in relation to the systems model. Part 4 emphasizes the physical plant and covers facility design, equipment, and environmental management. The book concludes with Part 5, which is a presentation of the linking processes used to manage foodservice operations. Included here are chapters on leadership, performance improvement, and marketing.

Unique features of this book include:

Integration of the systems model into each chapter
The latest information on food safety and HACCP
A progressive case study with critical thinking questions for practical application of chapter contents
A list of review questions at the end of each chapter
A runningglossary for easy access to word definitions
A 16-page four color insert

Booknews

A text on all aspects of both noncommercial and commercial foodservice, for introductory courses in food service management. Coverage encompasses foodservice organizations, quantity food production and service, physical facilities, and organization and administration. Learning features include detailed key concepts, summaries, and review questions, plus a glossary, b&w photos, and appendices on cooking methods and equipment. This eighth edition contains new material on food safety, facilities management, and quality management, and comes with a new instructor's manual. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

1	Foodservice Organizations	1
1	The Foodservice Industry	3
2	Types of Foodservice Operations	28
2	Quantity Food Production and Service	47
3	Food Safety	49
4	The Menu: The Focal Point of the Foodservice Operation	87
5	Purchasing, Receiving, and Storage	115
6	Production Management	166
7	Assembly, Distribution, and Service	199
3	Physical Facilities	227
8	Cleaning, Sanitation, and Facility Safety	229
9	Environmental Management	266
10	Facilities Planning and Design	279
11	Equipment and Furnishings	332
4	Organization and Administration	363
12	Designing and Managing the Organization	365
13	Staffing and Managing Human Resources	391
14	Administrative Leadership	433
15	Work Improvement and Productivity	457
16	Financial Management	485
17	Marketing and Promotions in Foodservice Organizations	521
Appendix A	Principles of Basic Cooking	543
Appendix B	Foodservice Equipment	556

Vegetarianism or Ancient Wine

2009-01-25T01:13:00.000-08:00

Vegetarianism: A History

Author: Colin Spencer

Colin Spencer provides an in-depth account of vegetarianism. From prehistory to the present, he discusses those who came to vegetarianism by choice, from the religions who preach it such as Hinduism and Seventh-Day Adventism, to the individuals who practice it, including Leonardo da Vinci and, ironically, Adolf Hitler. Throughout history, vegetarians have been maligned and persecuted by their meat-eating brethren. Spencer looks at the psychology of abstention, the ideas behind a meat-free diet, as well as the environmental effects of meat production and the implications of genetic engineering. Although the vegetarian movement dates back to 600 B.C., it is only now becoming a practice valued by many who previously would have wondered, "Where's the beef?"

	Foreword for 2nd Edition
	Foreword
	Acknowledgements
1	In the Beginning	1
2	Pythagoras and His Inheritance	38
3	India	70
4	Plato to Porphyry	85
5	Early Christianity	107
6	Gnostic Sects and the Manicheans	126
7	The Bogomils, the Cathars and the Orthodox Church	142
8	The Renaissance	169
9	The Clockwork Universe	187
10	The Rise of Humanism	213
11	Docks and Dandelions	238
12	Sunlight and Sandals	275
13	Sentient or Machine?	296
	Afterword	331
App. 1	The Later History of Buddhism	336
App. 2	Manicheanism in China	339
App. 3	Modern Hinduism	342
	App. 4: The Rise of the Vegetarian Cookery Book	344
	Notes	346
	A Select Bibliography	367
	Index	372

Book about: Il libro della Preventivo-Costruzione per Nonprofits: Una guida graduale per i responsabili ed i bordi

Ancient Wine: The Search for the Origins of Viniculture

Author: Patrick E McGovern

The history of civilization is, in many ways, the history of wine. This book is the first comprehensive and up-to-date account of the earliest stages of vinicultural history and prehistory, which extends back into the Neolithic period and beyond. Elegantly written and richly illustrated, Ancient Wine opens up whole new chapters in the fascinating story of wine and the vine by drawing upon recent archaeological discoveries, molecular and DNA sleuthing, and the texts and art of long-forgotten peoples.

Patrick McGovern takes us on a personal odyssey back to the beginnings of this consequential beverage when early hominids probably enjoyed a wild grape wine. We follow the course of human ingenuity in domesticating the Eurasian vine and learning how to make and preserve wine some 7,000 years ago. Early winemakers must have marveled at the seemingly miraculous process of fermentation. From success to success, viniculture stretched out its tentacles and entwined itself with one culture after another (whether Egyptian, Iranian, Israelite, or Greek) and laid the foundation for civilization itself. As medicine, social lubricant, mind-altering substance, and highly valued commodity, wine became the focus of religious cults, pharmacopoeias, cuisines, economies, and society. As an evocative symbol of blood, it was used in temple ceremonies and occupies the heart of the Eucharist. Kings celebrated their victories with wine and made certain that they had plenty for the afterlife. (Among the colorful examples in the book is McGovern's famous chemical reconstruction of the funerary feast--and mixed beverage--of "King Midas.") Some peoples truly became "wine cultures."

When we sip aglass of wine today, we recapitulate this dynamic history in which a single grape species was harnessed to yield an almost infinite range of tastes and bouquets. Ancient Wine is a book that wine lovers and archaeological sleuths alike will raise their glasses to.

J. Madeleine Nash - Time Magazine

No one is better qualified to sift through the widely scattered clues [to the origins of winemaking] than McGovern, a skilled scientific sleuth who wields the most powerful tools of modern chemistry in his search for the roots of ancient wines.

Remembrance of Things Paris or Sober Celebrations

2009-01-23T21:32:00.000-08:00

Remembrance of Things Paris: Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet

Author: Gourmet Magazine Editors

For sixty years the best food writers have been sending dispatches from Paris to Gourmet. Collected here for the first time, their essays create a unique and timeless portrait of the world capital of love and food. It is all here: the old-time bourgeois dinners, the tastemakers of the fashion world, the hero-chefs, and, of course, Paris in all its snobbery and refinement, its inimitable pursuit of the art of fine living. Beautifully written, these dispatches from the past are intimate and immediate, allowing us to watch the month-by-month changes in the world's most wonderful city. Remembrance of Things Paris is a book for anyone who wants to return to a Paris where a buttery madeleine is waiting around every corner.

	Introduction
	Paris in the Twenties	3
	After the War	11
	Chicken Demi-Deuil	18
	Cuisine Parisienne	23
	Paris One Step at a Time	33
	The Old Flower Market	39
	All that Glitters	43
	Haute Couture	49
	Sold!	59
	Bibliotheque du Gourmet	65
	A Night at Les Halles	71
	Les Halles: A Last Look	78
	La Vie Moderne	87
	Cold Comfort	93
	The President of Pastry	98
	Paris's Haute Chocolaterie	101
	La Vie en Rose	119
	Home Away from Home	125
	Bistros	133
	Allard	139
	Le Bistrot de Paris	144
	La Tour d'Argent	151
	Prunier	154
	Lucas-Carton	159
	A Secret Club	167
	Maxim's	171
	Maxim's	177
	When Michelin Comes Knocking	191
	La Grande Cuisine Francaise	194
	Jacques Maniere's Human Factor	198
	Young Chefs of Paris	202
	When I Was Green	217
	A Memory of Alice B. Toklas	227
	Noel a Paris	234
	A Little Black Magic	244
	An Insincere Cassoulet	246
	She Did Not Look Like an Actress to Me	259
	The Christening	269
	High and Dry	286
	Parisian Police	290
	A Nose	295
	The Seventh Art	298
	The Most Intimate Room	302
	Grand Masters	313
	The New Face of Paris	327
	The Three Musketeers	333
	It's What's For Dinner	340
	Notes on Contributors	343

Book review: Valeur de Client Supérieure dans la Nouvelle Économie :les Concepts et les Cas, Vol.0

Sober Celebrations: Lively Entertaining Without the Spirits

Author: Liz Scott

On the heels of her ground-breaking, award-winning 'Sober Kitchen' cookbook, Chef Liz Scott serves up this "must-have" innovative guide to holiday and special occasion entertaining for anyone who chooses to celebrate alcohol-free. With 25 diverse menus and 150 delicious recipes, Chef Liz proves that festivity and fun can be effortlessly achieved without a drop of alcohol. Included are creative, sober ingredient substitutions for use in classic holiday dishes, alcohol-free beverage pairings for every course, and abundant tips and suggestions for simple and imaginative party hosting that will guarantee an atmosphere of liveliness and "high spirits." Beautifully photographed throughout, this is a unique and dazzling cookbook that addresses the needs of a health-conscious audience. An invaluable tool for the host who may need to accomodate, either entirely or in part, for specific needs, tastes, and preferences of guests who avoid alcohol in their diet permanently or temporarily.

Library Journal

Expanding on her earlier cookbook, The Sober Kitchen, Scott has filled an important niche. The requirements of recovering alcoholics are often overlooked at party time, but this cookbook exemplifies how to party without alcoholic beverages or ingredients. With 25 menus focusing on birthdays and weddings as well as major holidays like New Year's Eve, Christmas, and Hanukkah, Scott has created a celebratory atmosphere without alcohol. Each menu includes tips for purchasing ingredients, with cautions for avoiding hidden alcoholic additives. The menus incorporate festive beverages to accompany the luscious food courses. A renowned chef, Scott has developed interesting dishes and even adjusted old favorites like Irish coffee, Concord grape fizzes, and English trifle. The recipes vary from comfort food such as Fortuna Lentils with Italian Chicken Sausage to light fare such as Cool Cucumber Soup with Mint and Cumin. Each of the 150 recipes would stimulate the appetite of any gourmand, recovering alcoholic or not. Recommended for all public libraries. (Photographs and index not seen.)-Ann Weber, Bellarmine Coll. Preparatory Lib., San Jose, CA Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Analyzing and Controlling Foodservice Costs or Merry Christmas from Kentucky

2009-01-22T17:51:00.000-08:00

Analyzing and Controlling Foodservice Costs: A Managerial and Technology Approach

Author: James Keiser

A great resource and reference book, the authors provide balanced treatment of both commercial and institutional operations in both profit and non-profit arenas.

This book explores the role of computer applications, management information systems, and new developments in management through numerous examples that realistically portray the field. Provides valuable insight regarding the food industry with segments written by leaders in the field.

Food Service personnel.

Merry Christmas from Kentucky

Author: Michelle Ston

Celebrate the holidays with quick, easy, elegant dishes to serve family and friends. From appetizers, soups and salads, entrées and sides, to melt-in-your-mouth desserts, breads and "gift giving goodies," the recipes are perfect for Christmas entertaining.

Hamptons Diet Cookbook or Best Places Northwest Desserts Cookbook

2009-01-21T14:09:00.000-08:00

Hamptons Diet Cookbook: Enjoying the Hamptons Lifestyle Wherever You Live

Author: Fred Pescatore MD

Cooking and Entertaining Secrets of the Rich, Famous—and Thin!

How do the rich and famous who congregate each summer in the Hamptons stay so thin, healthy, and gorgeous? In The Hamptons Diet Cookbook, you'll discover that enjoying exquisitely satisfying taste sensations doesn't have to result in your becoming overweight. You'll learn how to get thin, stay svelte, and be healthier than ever before while indulging yourself in such seemingly sinful pleasures as:

• Ham Roll-Ups with Poached Egg and Mornay Sauce

• Tropical Key Lime Chicken Salad

• Simmered Shrimp with Shiitake Mushroom and Scallions

• Cheese and Jalapeño Quesadillas

• Creamy Chickpea and Farro Soup

• Sausage, Bacon, and Bean Casserole

• Stuffed Pork Chops with Spinach, Cheese, and Pine Nuts

• And hundreds more temptingly delicious recipes

Praise for The Hamptons Diet

"Dr. Pescatore's diet is delicious and sound and represents one of the best options."
—Ann Louise Gittleman, author of The New York Times bestselling The Fat Flush Plan

"Dr. Pescatore's The Hamptons Diet takes the Diet Revolution to the next level—a healthy, sensible diet and lifestyle plan that will make us all thinner, happier, and healthier."
—Fran Gare, N.D. Southampton, author of Anti-Aging Diet Evolution

Foreword by Art Smith.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

1 The Hamptons Diet Principles.

2 A Healthy Kitchen Equals Healthy Food.

3 Hamptons Diet Breakfast Recipes.

4 Hamptons Diet Lunch Recipes.

5 Hamptons Diet Dinner Recipes.

6 Hamptons Diet Side Dishes and Salads.

7 Entertaining the Hamptons Diet Way.

8 Hamptons Diet Desserts.

Appendix: Resource Guide and Contact Information.

Recipe Index.

Index.

Interesting book: Economía

Best Places Northwest Desserts Cookbook

Author: Cynthia C Nims

Strawberry and White Chocolate Sponge Cake, Wild Blue Huckleberry Créme Brûlé, Rustic Pear Tart with Hazelnuts, Chocolate Raspberry Cake with Raspberry Swirl Ice Cream . . . let the decadence begin. From the familiar to the innovative, this tempting new entry in the popular series of Best Places cookbooks - and the only one to focus on desserts - taps into the boundless talent of the northwest's top pastry chefs and bakers. Gathering 80 recipes from more than 50 of the best restaurants and inns in the region, - including the Dahlia Lounge and Palace Kitchen in Seattle, Wildwood and Caprial's in Portland, and Aqua Riva in Vancouver - the book is divided into seven chapters: Cakes; Cookies and Bars; Custards, Mousses, and Puddings; Frozen Desserts; Fruits and Nuts; Pies and Tarts; and Special Occasions. The Best Places Northwest Desserts Cookbook is an easy-to-use resource for anyone who wants to create memorable desserts at home.

Restaurant Recipes of the Ozarks Missouri or Make Mine Vodka

2009-01-20T10:28:00.000-08:00

Restaurant Recipes of the Ozarks, Missouri

Author: JE Cornwell

This is the first of a three-cookbook series, Arkansas & Oklahoma Ozarks to follow later this year.

You can now prepare and enjoy the colorful tastes of the Missouri Ozarks in your own kitchen. Featuring over 200 of the best recipes from over 100 of the areas favorite restaurants. Enjoy!

Make Mine Vodka: 250 Classic Cocktails and Cutting-Edge Infusions

Author: Susan Waggoner

It's like the difference between Pravda and Prada. Vodka-once the liquor favored by beet-faced Soviet bureaucrats-has undergone a complete makeover, becoming the spirit of choice for fashion-forward cocktail aficionados worldwide. With more than 200 different vodkas now on the market-including a burgeoning, international array of top-shelf and flavored varieties-it's high time for a book devoted solely to vodka's distinctive, sometimes sublime pleasures.

Susan Waggoner and Robert Markel-the authors of two of STC's most popular mixology guides, Vintage Cocktails and Cocktail Hour-have teamed up again to create a book especially for the contemporary vodka drinker. In Make Mine Vodka, the authors evaluate a wide range of today's vodkas, comparing them by origin, key ingredients, and available flavors. Designed in a beautiful retro style and illustrated with vintage art, the book offers 250 vodka-based recipes, from irresistible classics to today's cutting-edge cocktails, and advises readers on making their own flavored vodkas, including coffee, honey, peach, and key lime infusions. Tips on expert drink-making-when to shake and when to stir, how to create stunning garnishes-abound, as do suggestions for vodka-friendly dips, canapes, and other cocktail party fare.

Green Tea or The Dessert Bible

2009-01-18T01:42:00.000-08:00

Green Tea: 50 Hot Drinks, Cool Quenchers, and Sweet and Savory Treats

Author: Mary Lou Heiss

This gorgeous, four-color gift book showcases just why green tea is so popular in American culture today. The opening chapter covers the basic health benefits of drinking green tea, its history, and how to select, store, and brew it. With beautiful color photos throughout, and 50 delicious recipes for hot and cold teas, smoothies and cocktails, and even savory and sweet foods, this is the perfect gift for anyone who enjoys green tea.

Interesting book: Change Your Food Change Your Mood or 100 Questions Answers About Sleep and Sleep Disorders

The Dessert Bible

Author: Christopher Kimball

Master chef and Cook's Illustrated founder and editor Chris Kimball presents the best and easiest way to make more than 300 of America's favorite desserts.The Dessert Bible is the definitive dessert cookbook for the American home cook. Chris Kimball reviews equipment from mixers to rolling pins, and discusses which are the best ingredients regarding types of flour, sugar, baking chocolate, and more. He explains basic techniques like beating and folding in egg whites, working with pie dough, and folding flour into batters. The recipes include layer cakes, pies, tarts, cookies, brownies, puddings, mousses, ice cream, sorbets, fruit desserts, sauces, and frostings. In addition, Kimball offers a section on favorite restaurant desserts from around the country that can be made at home.

Publishers Weekly

Devil's Food Cake is a classic American dessert that every serious baker should know, but it is also one of the most challenging recipes to authenticate. In his new book, Kimball (The Cook's Bible) thoroughly demystifies this timeless treat and many others, with an occasional history lesson and a food-lover's commitment to quality gastronomy. Those familiar with Cook's Illustrated magazine (of which Kimball is founder, editor and publisher) will recognize his meticulous approach. Test charts neatly display the results of empirical equipment and ingredients tests. Techniques are described in great detail and illustrated masterfully with simple yet precise drawings. The recipes include humble basics like bars and cookies, standards like pies and cakes, and more difficult items such as souffl s, custards and even famous restaurant-style desserts. Kimball begins by defining the essence of a particular dessert, often citing recipes from other well-known baking authorities. He then carefully deconstructs each of the basic elements, explains alterations and still manages to respect different tastes. The final master recipe combines great teaching skill and a fresh, unpretentious style to deliver a truly authentic pleasure. Seasoned bakers will appreciate his zeal to learn "what makes desserts work, what makes them fail, and why." The detailed knowledge base and solid master recipes in this valuable instructional compendium will inspire many. (Oct.) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

The latest book from Cook's Illustrated founder and publisher Kimball, the follow-up to his Cook's Bible (LJ 10/15/96), offers 300-plus recipes for traditional American desserts such as Peanut Butter Cookies and Boston Cream Pie, along with other classics like Trifle and Cr me Caramel. As in the magazine, Kimball has tested each recipe countless times, playing with proportions of ingredients, oven temperatures, and other variables. Sometimes these seem to be experiments for the sake of experiment (why bother to bake a cake on the bottom of the oven, where it is sure to burn ?). And Kimball is a man of strong individual tastes, prone to pronouncements such as, "Julia Child's recipe [for g noise, on which she is surely an expert] was good, although not sweet enough." However, there is a lot of information here and many good basic recipes, and Kimball, who has a new PBS cooking series this fall, and his magazine have a large audience. For most collections. Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

Field Guide to Cocktails or Williams Sonoma Baking

2009-01-17T15:01:00.000-08:00

Field Guide to Cocktails: How to Identify and Prepare Virtually Every Drink at the Bar

Author: Rob Chirico

Quirk's popular Field Guide series has taught readers how to identify stains, gestures, fruits and vegetables, meats, and even power tools. Now it's time to kick back and relax—with Field Guide to Cocktails. Here are recipes for more than 200 libations, from tried-and-true classics like the Tom Collins and the Fuzzy Navel to contemporary favorites like the Caipirinha and the Añejo Highball. In addition to recipes and suggested food pairings (try extra-sharp cheddar cheese with that Gin and Tonic!), you'll also learn the fascinating histories of your favorite cocktails (the Bellini, for instance, was created at the legendary Harry's Bar in Venice). Of course, no field guide would be complete without photographs—this one has more than 200 gorgeous full-color images. So whether you're trying to identify a trendy new drink or planning a cocktail party, Field Guide to Cocktails is the only mixology book you'll ever need. Drink up!

Author Biography: Writer and bartender Rob Chirico lives in Greenfield, Massachusetts.

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Williams-Sonoma Baking

Author: Williams Sonoma

Baking presents over 200 recipes, both classic and contemporary, from the award-winning Williams-Sonoma Kitchen Library series. Find delicious preparations for muffins, breads, pizzas, cookies, cakes, pies, and fruit desserts. The basic recipes and techniques section includes an illustrated glossary. Also available: Desserts; Holiday Favorites; Italian Favorites; Meats & Poultry; Soups, Salads & Starters; and Vegetarian.

Features: Each recipe is kitchen-tested and accompanied by a full-color photograph of the finished dish, as well as suggestions for planning, serving, garnishing, and storing
Step-by-step photographs illustrate instructions and tips for kneading and shaping bread dough, baking and decorating beautiful cakes, and ideas for topping a variety of baked goods

Indian Vegetarian Cooking from an American Kitchen or Savoring the Past

2009-01-17T04:19:00.000-08:00

Indian Vegetarian Cooking from an American Kitchen

Author: Vasantha Prasad

Recipes include:
¸ Cucumber Pirogue
¸ Spicy Potato Soup
¸ Fruit Salad with Yogurt Cheese Dressing
¸ Sautéed Eggplant and Bell Pepper Curry
¸ Spinach with Homemade Cheese (Saag Paneer)
¸ Mixed Vegetable Korma (Navarathna Korma)
¸ Rice Pilaf with Cashews, Black Pepper,
and Coconut
¸ Vegetable Biryani
¸ Basic Toovar Dal
¸ Spicy Black-eyed Pea Curry
¸ Chapatis (Whole Wheat Flat Breads)
¸ Parathas (Whole Wheat Flaky
Griddle Breads)
¸ Aloo Parathas (Potato-stuffed Breads)
¸ Masala Dosa
¸ Rava Idli
¸ Minty Yogurt Drink
¸ Sweet Vermicelli Pudding
¸ Almond Milk Fudge

Library Journal

Sahni (Savoring Spices and Herbs, LJ 4/15/96) has already written the introduction to Indian cooking, her authoritative Classic Indian Cooking (1980). In her new book, however, which might be considered the "light" version of the earlier one, she presents simpler, more casual dishes in an effort to make Indian food seem unintimidating even to the novice cook. The recipes are uncomplicated--most have only three steps--and the headnotes are informative but very user-friendly. Recommended for most libraries Prasad's book, on the other hand, written with more or less the same goal in mind--to make Indian vegetarian cooking accessible to busy family cooks--is rather disappointing. Some of the dishes don't seem particularly Indian, while many of the others can be found in any basic Indian cookbook, and the bland, "generic" headnotes don't add much ("Black pepper lends a special flavor to this okra dish"). Neelan Batra's The Indian Vegetarian (LJ 6/15/94) does a far more interesting job of combining Indian and American tastes and flavors.

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Savoring the Past: The French Kitchen and Table from 1300 To 1789

Author: Barbara Ketcham Wheaton

In this masterful and charming book, food historian Barbara Ketcham Wheaton takes the reader on a cultural and gastronomical tour of France, from its medieval to the pre-Revolutionary era. Using a delightful combination of personal correspondence, historical anecdotes, and journal entries, Wheaton effortlessly brings to life the history of the French kitchen and table.

Publishers Weekly

A history of the culinary arts in France, discussing such topics as the development of haute cuisine and the growth of cooking as a profession. (Mar.)

Library Journal

Few nationalities are as immediately associated with food as the French. According to LJ's reviewer, "This well-researched volume covers haute cuisine and cuisine bourgeoise from the Middle Ages to the French Revolution." Along with a detailed history of cooking and utensils, the volume includes upwards of 40 classic recipes. "It will be valuable not only to those interested in the development of French cuisine, but also to students of French social history" (LJ 5/1/83).

Island Lighthouse Inn or Olive Oil

2009-01-16T16:38:00.000-08:00

Island Lighthouse Inn: A Chronicle

Author: Jeffrey Burk

After years of Berkeley activism in the 1960s and '70s, Jeff and Judi Burke threw up their hands and drove east. They eventually restored an old inn on Isle au Haut, a harsh, barely inhabitable outcrop seven miles off the Maine coast, setting out to do what they could not do in California: create their own utopia. For the past ten years the Burkes have led a life of simple pleasures - of nature, cool sea spray, warm fires on howling nights, good food shared with small groups of guests around a single table, hiking trails - where the only link to civilization is the daily (and sometimes unreliable) mail boat. Island Lighthouse Inn is a collection of entertaining stories of their everyday adventures - of fixing the vintage Servel refrigerator in the B&B kitchen, of buying a dinner bell from a crotchety local antique dealer, of figuring out how to run the inn's septic tank without electrical power, of painting the 796 windows in the lighthouse and outbuildings - as well as tales of the often colorful people who have stayed at the inn and others they have met on and off the island. Island Lighthouse Inn includes recipes for twenty-one tantalizing dishes served at the inn, from Downeast Blueberry Muffins to Ida's Sea Clam Pie, as well as engravings by Maine artist Siri Beckman.

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Olive Oil: Minor Constituents and Health

Author: Dimitrios Boskou

Epidemiological studies indicate that the consumption of natural antioxidants from such plant-derived sources as olive oil produces beneficial health effects. Olive Oil: Minor Constituents and Health provides a balanced understanding of the pharmacological properties of phenols and other bioactive ingredients in the composition of olive oil. It discusses recent technological developments to retain optimal levels of bioactive ingredients s well as methodologies for the future study of olive oil's biological effects. The text covers research on the bioavailability of olive oil phenols and addresses the role of olive oil in the prevention of cardiovascular disease and certain types of cancer.

Italian or Feta and Related Cheeses

2009-01-16T07:57:00.000-08:00

Italian (Smartcook Collection Series)

Author: Delia Smith

An exciting new DK cookbook series - showcasing classic, foolproof recipes, each book demonstrates how the home cook can easily master the art of preparing delicious meals using fresh, seasonal ingredients, good sense and a dash of creativity.

Easily accessible library of favorite recipes, grouped by subject
Contains only the best and most popular recipes
Easy-to-follow instructions are ideal for the busy cooks
Includes mouthwatering photography

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Feta and Related Cheeses

Author: A Y Tamim
Feta cheese has become popular in recent years as part of a broad consumer demand for ethnic foods which are perceived to be natural, wholesome, and tasty. Today Feta cheese is readily available in the cheese section of most food retailers. This book provides a detailed guide to Feta and other white brined cheese: raw materials, processes, manufacture, equipment, and packaging. Both traditional and modern industrial methods are covered. Specifications, chemistry, microbiology and sensory considerations are also examined. The book is well illustrated with flow charts, diagrams, photographs and microphotographs. Extensive technical reference data is provided in the many tables. The authors are all specialists in cheese and other dairy products. This is a basic guide and reference for dairy product and other food product personnel involved in product development and processing. Copies are now available for prompt delivery. An order form follows the detailed table of contents on the reverse. From the Preface White brined cheeses are the main varieties of cheese consumed in the Middle East and along the shores of the Mediterranean, and yet the literature describing the manufacture and/or properties of the major types is extremely sparse. The aim of this book is to provide a detailed guide to the cheeses in this category, and to review the available information relating to their production, their maturation and their distribution to the consumer. In most cases, the cheese are still produced on a small scale, and only one variety, Feta, has achieved real popularity outside its land of origin. One of the reasons for this single success is the degree of mechanization that can now beemployed in the manufacture of Feta, including the latest technological developments such as ultra-filtration.

Pass the Sweet Potatoes Please or Delia Collection

2009-01-15T21:16:00.000-08:00

Pass the Sweet Potatoes Please!

Author: Velonda Thompson

An educational cookbook featuring sweet potatoes.

Pass the Sweet Potatoes, Please! is an easy to follow educational cookbook. The reader will delight in the variety of recipes for the all-American favorite—sweet potato. It's not just for Thanksgiving anymore. Short preparation times will motivate even the novice chef. Up-to-date research information on cancer and nutrition is also included.

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Delia Collection: Chocolate

Author: Delia Smith

This luscious collection is a must for chocolate lovers, with recipes for cakes, cookies, brownies, and other desserts, including Chocolate Blancmange with Cappuccino Sauce, Chocolate Mascarpone Cheesecake, Florentines, Melting Chocolate Risotto, and Hot Chocolate Rum Soufflé with Chocolate Sauce.

Delia Smith is Britain's reigning queen of cooking, with more than 18 million copies of her cookbooks now in print. In The Delia Collection, she has chosen and compiled, by featured ingredient, her most popular recipes--updating the classics and adding some that are brand new. These are books aimed at experienced cooks as well as kitchen novices, who will be guided by a trusted hand through superb, no-fail recipes.

Author Comments: In compiling these collections, I have chosen what I think are the best and most popular recipes and, at the same time, have added some that are completely new. It is my hope that those who have not previously tried my recipes will now have smaller collections to sample, and that those dedicated followers will appreciate an ordered library to provide easy access and a reminder of what has gone before and may have been forgotten.

Food in Early Modern England or First Catch Your Hare

2009-01-15T11:35:00.000-08:00

Food in Early Modern England: Phases, Fads and Fashions

Author: Joan Thirsk

What did ordinary people eat and drink five hundred years ago? How much did they talk about food? Did their eating habits change much? Our documents are mostly silent on such commonplace routines, but this book digs deep and finds surprising answers to these questions. Food fads and fashions resembled those of our own day. Commercial, scientific and intellectual movements were closely entwined with changing attitudes and dealings about food. In short, food holds a mirror to a lively world of cultural change stretching from the Renaissance to the industrial Revolution. This book also strongly challenges the notion that ordinary folk ate dull and monotonous meals.

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First Catch Your Hare: The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy (1747)

Author: Hannah Glass

"This book is, quite simply, the most important English cookery book of the eighteenth century, defining for many the food and dining customs of the Georgian era. This is a facsimile edition, for the first time in paperback. The facsimile is of the first (1747) edition and preserves its large format." "This edition also contains considerable information about Hannah Glasse in a biographical introduction, as well as two essays on the degree to which Glasse was indebted to other authors for her recipes. These essays (by Jennifer Stead and Priscilla Bain) were important milestones in our understanding of the techniques of early cookbook compilation. There is also a detailed and informative glossary, with illustrations where necessary, which help the reader interpret the recipes and the ingredients referred to." Hannah Glasse was a remarkable woman. She was not a professional cook; rather her expertise was in dressmaking and mercery. Even if her recipes are often filched from other people's books, she certainly puts her own gloss on many of them, and there is a definite authorial voice to the text as a whole. The book is particularly significant both in its attitudes to the influence of French cookery on the English middle classes, and in its reflection of the roles of mistress and servant in the running of an urban household. Its recipes are often successful and still capable of reproduction. The first curry recipe printed in England appears here.

German Wine Guide or Wine Spectators Ultimate Wine Tasting Kit

2009-01-15T02:54:00.000-08:00

German Wine Guide

Author: Armin Diel

For years this has been, as the largest newspaper in Germany said, "the definitive guide to German wine." Now available for the first time in English, the German Wine Guide presents nearly 400 of the country's best producers and reviews almost 3,000 wines.

At the beginning of this century German Rieslings were the most expensive wines in the world, commanding higher prices than the top growths of Bordeaux. Today, in their incomparably light and elegant style, they offer value for money unmatched by any other wine-producing country. During the past decade, German producers have been paying more attention to quality of their wines, reducing yields but enhancing their reputations. The wine world has noticed, and the consumer is beginning to as well, meaning that there are more and better German wines in our stores all the times.

The German Wine Guide provides a region-by-region critique of individual vineyards and wines, including tasting notes and a price guide. The scope, while selective, is vast, taking in both the known estates of the Mosel and little-known vineyards crafting fine wines. The authors are considered the two most influential wine writers in Germany. As German wines continue to attract more attention, this will be the resource both for aficionados and amateurs.

Other Details: 500 illustrations and maps 520 pages 5 1/2 x 5 1/2" Published 1999

relations gimmick. As the German Wine Institute has stated for years, it's the quality of the wine in the glass that counts!

With our best wishes and "Prost!"

Booknews

German wine and food critic Diel owns one of the country's leading wine estates. Payne is an American wine critic living in Germany. They team up to describe the red and white wines of Germany, providing information by which readers can evaluate which will suit their own taste and budget. They include directions and other information for visiting wineries. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Preface	4
	About This Book and How to Use It	6
	The Growing Regions	8
	Germany's Wine Terminology	10
	The Wine Label	11
	It's All in the Grapes	12
	What Is the "Pradikat?"	13
	Wine Styles	14
	Vintage Chart	15
	The Classification Debate	16
	Stars of the German Wine World	18
	Our Rating System	24
	Germany's Best Estates	26
	The Authors' Favorites	28
	Wines of the Year - 1995, 1996, 1997
	Best Dry Red Wines	30
	Best Dry White Burgundies	32
	Best Dry Rieslings	34
	Best Off-Dry Rieslings	36
	Best Riesling Spatlese Wines	38
	Best Riesling Auslese Wines	40
	Best Noble Late Harvest Rieslings	42
	Wines for Bargain Hunters	44
	The Regions, the Producers, the Wines
	Ahr	46
	Baden	60
	Franken (Franconia)	117
	Hessische Bergstra[s ligature]e	152
	Mittelrhein	158
	Mosel-Saar-Ruwer	182
	Nahe	258
	Pfalz (Palatinate)	294
	Rheingau	348
	Rheinhessen	397
	Saale-Unstrut	438
	Sachsen (Saxony)	442
	Wurttemberg	447
	The Best Sparkling Wines	475
	The Best Marc and Fine	484
	Information Bureaus	495
	The Right Glasses	496
	Index of the Estates	498
	Index of Individuals	505
	Copyright	516

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Wine Spectator's Ultimate Wine Tasting Kit

Author: Wine Spectator Magazine Staff

The editors at the distinguished Wine Spectator, America’s definitive publication on wine, reveal the secrets to tasting wine like the experts do, utilizing the magazine’s well-established 100-point system. This Ultimate Wine Tasting Kit contains everything necessary to conduct more than 25 different tastings, in addition to fundamental information about buying, storing, and serving wine. The comprehensive book-plus kit, designed for holding at-home blind tastings of wine for up to six participants, contains Harvey Steiman’s Essentials of Wine, Wine Spectator’s Pocket Guide to Wine and Quick Guide to Wine Tasting, bottle bags, tasting checklists, stemware tags, and bottle tags. It’s an impressive package, and there’s nothing else this complete in bookstores anywhere. With new, more efficient, and buyer-friendly packaging, we are bringing this exceptional kit back into our frontlist and have the opportunity to emphasize the high quality of its combined elements.

Miracle Foods Cookbook or Quantity

2009-01-14T15:12:00.000-08:00

Miracle Foods Cookbook: Easy, Low-Cost Recipes and Menus with Antioxidant-Rich Vegetables and Fruits That Help You Lose Weight, Enhance Your Immune System, Fight Disease, and Slow the Aging Process

Author: M J Smith

Antioxidant Recipes for a Long, Healthy Life Here’s the definitive compendium of the healthiest and most delicious recipes ever. Each recipe is naturally high in antioxidants (vitamins A, C, and E, and beta carotene), which help slow the aging process, deter cancer, heart disease, stroke, and a long list of other diseases—as well as enhance your immune system and help you lose weight. In accordance with the guidelines set by the National Institutes of Health, the National Cancer Institute, and the new food pyramid, this cookbook clearly and creatively shows how to incorporate five servings of fruits and vegetables (the best and most natural source of antioxidants) in your daily diet. Not a vegetarian cookbook, The Miracle Foods Cookbook offers a tantalizing collection of sumptuous, heart-healthy appetizers, snacks, main meals, side dishes, drinks, and desserts, plus dishes just for kids. Each recipe takes under 30 minutes to prepare and uses low-cost ingredients found in just about any grocery store, with most meals costing less than $10. Complete with shopping and entertaining tips, this exciting cookbook offers helpful meal plans and over 200 mouthwatering creations that are high in fiber, vitamins, and minerals and low in sodium, sugar, and fat. Each recipe includes an expanded nutrition analysis that lists antioxidants, calories, carbohydrates, protein, fat, fiber, sodium, and food exchanges. "A delightful collection of healthy recipes in a straightforward, easy-to-read format." Jeanne Jones, "Cook-it-Light" Syndicate "She’s done it again. M.J.Smith has come up with another collection of eminently useful recipes." Ann Burckhardt,Minneapolis Star Tribune

Quantity: Food Production, Planning, and Management

Author: John Barton Knight

A major revision of a classic text-how to be an effective foodservice manager.

When it comes to handling the demands of the foodservice industry, there is no single approach. Quantity Food Production, Planning, and Management goes beyond the mere teaching of technical skills to address the multitude of situations and challenges facing operators today.

Now in a new edition, this classic hospitality management text continues to set the standard for planning production, executing culinary technique, and understanding food and beverage management. Chapters are logically organized, and each one discusses a separate element of successful hospitality operations management. With 80 percent of the material revised to address current trends, the Third Edition features new sections on:
* Employee productivity
* Total Quality Management
* Innovative cooking methods and trends
* Cultural diversity
* Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP)
* Industry growth
* Career opportunities

Featuring 50 photographs and new chapter review questions, case studies, vocabulary terms, and references, Quantity Food Production, Planning, and Management, Third Edition is an indispensable resource.

Booknews

This book presents all phases of food service operation, from health and nutrition standards, to menu planning, operating a facility, and the basics of purchasing and receiving. Knight (director, hospitality management, Indiana U.) and Kotschevar (emeritus, Florida International U.) have updated their text to incorporate new trends in food service, such as cultural diversity, the heart-healthy environment, genetic engineering, innovative cooking methods and cooking trends, and dining etiquette. Eleven appendices cover issues such as troubleshooting bread failures and herb, spice and seasoning data, as well as provide portion and conversion information. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

QUANTITY FOOD PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT.
Raising the Standard.
Understanding Trends in Nutrition and Health.
Producing a Menu.
Implementing Equipment.
Controls.
Service and Dining Etiquette.
Human Resources.
Products and Profits.
Property and Promotion.
QUANTITY FOOD PRODUCTION AND MANAGEMENT.
Cooking Principles, Methods, and Trends.
Sanitation and Safety.
Pantry Products.
Stocks, Soups, and Sauces.
Fruits, Vegetables, and Cereals.
Meats, Poultry, and Seafood.
Bakeshop Production.
Dairy Products and Eggs.
Appendices.
Index.

Casseroles Revised or CocktailSmarts

2009-01-14T05:30:00.000-08:00

Casseroles, Revised

Author: Christie Katona

In this book -- old favorites, new ideas, international fare and lots of ways to cut the fat and calories

tips about containers, garnishing, storage, reducing fat
hearty meat casseroles
chicken and seafood casseroles
international favorites
side dishes and vegetables
"soup-er easy" casseroles use soups for sauces
" can-do" dishes from off-the-shelf ingredients are great for camping, boating
breakfast and brunch ideas

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CocktailSmarts: The Question and Answer Cards That Make Learning about Cocktails Easy and Fun

Author: Stepahnie V Lucianovic

What's in a Cosmo? Why would you want your martini dirty? Which country did gin come from? Test your cocktail connoisseurship with CocktailSmarts the game with 60 questions on alcohols, history, lingo and other intoxicating facts that will make you as much of a pro in front of the bar as the guy or gal behind it.

This sleek tin includes:
60 cards in four categories
In My Glass popular drinks
Trade Tools bar tools
Lingo cocktail terminology
Wild Card history, trivia and more
12 coasters featuring intoxicating drink recipes
CocktailTips companion guide
Score pad

Opportunities in Culinary Careers or Essence of Herbal and Floral Teas

2009-01-13T18:49:00.000-08:00

Opportunities in Culinary Careers

Author: Mary Donovan

OPPORTUNITIES IN . . . SERIES PROVIDES VALUABLE CAREER INSIGHT TO STUDENTS AND JOB SEEKERS!

The most comprehensive career book series available, Opportunities in . . . explores a vast range of professions.

Each book offers:

The latest information on a field of interest
Training and education requirements for each career
Salary statistics for different positions within each field
Up-to-date professional and Internet resources
And much more

Mary Donovan is an editor and author and has been active in the field of culinary arts for the past twenty-two years.

Essence of Herbal and Floral Teas

Author: Mary El Baz

Enjoy gourmet tea shop flavors made in your own kitchen! Bring together the aroma of the sweetest flowers, as well as the tastes and health benefits of herbs in your everyday cuisine when you use the brewing and flavoring tips in The Essence of Herbal and Floral Teas. Discover the exquisite taste of herbs and edible flowers used in brewing refreshing, stimulating, or calming beverages and delectable desserts. Delight in the herbaceous and sweet floral aromas featured in the delicious recipes for sweeteners, lemonades and spritzers, ices and frozen treats, sangrias and party punches, herbal and floral tisane blends, flavored tea blends, and confections. The Essence of Herbal and Floral Teas includes tips on cultivating herbs and edible flowers in your garden and preserving for future use year-round.

Author Mary El-Baz offers delightful recipes for aromatic and healthful herbal and floral teas, tisanes, beverages, and desserts including Lemon Mint Cooler, Nitey-Nite Tisane Blend, Chamomile Pear Cider, Jasmine Limeade, Fruity Mint Punch, Raspberry-Hibiscus Sorbet, Easy Lemon-Peppermint Ice, Candied Rose Hips, Raspberry and Violet Tartlets.

Seasons in Thyme or Ancient Herbs

2009-01-13T08:07:00.000-08:00

Seasons in Thyme

Author: Jr League Birmingham

Four seasonal menu sections await you, featuring the best of Michigan traditions, tastes, and flavors. Offering both simple recipes and gourmet fare, this elegant book offers something for every cook - winter, spring, summer, and fall. Some of metro-Detroit's best-known chefs share gourmet recipes in the special chef chapter.

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Ancient Herbs

Author: Marina Heilmeyer

The forty plants in this book present both herbs and other plants that were important for culinary, medicinal, and cult purposes in classical antiquity. Thus olive and pomegranate, myrtle and rose join coriander and marjoram, garlic and thyme. In the introduction, the author draws on her extensive knowledge of ancient practices to paint an intriguing image of the uses of and myths about plants from Greek and particularly Roman kitchen gardens. Quotes from classical authors testify to ancient practices, some curious, some still standard today.
The delightful illustrations reproduce drawings from early nineteenth-century botanical publications, which often show the plants at various stages of growth, from seeds through ripe fruits.

Introduction     1
Ancient Herbs
Absinthe: Artemisia absinthium     18
Anise: Pimpinella anisum     20
Asaferida: Ferula assa-foetida     22
Basil: Ocimum basilicum     24
Bay Laurel: Laurus nobilis     26
Bee Balm: Melissa officinalis     28
Caraway: Carum carvi     30
Celery: Apium graveolens     32
Chamomile: Chamaemelum nobile = Anthemis nobilis     34
Chicory: Cichorium intybus     36
Clover: Melilotus officinalis     38
Coriander: Coriandrum sativum     40
Cretan Dittany: Origanum dictamnus     42
Cumin: Cuminum cyminum     44
Dill and Fennel: Anethum graveolens and Foeniculum vulgare     46
Elecampane: Inula helenium     48
Fenugreek: Trigonella foenum-graecum     50
Garlic and Onion: Allium sativum and Allium cepa     52
Hollyhock: Alcea rosea     54
Horehound: Marrubium vulgare     56
Hyssop: Hysoppus officinalis     58
Iris: Iris x germanica var. florentina     60
Juniper: Juniperus communis     62
Lovage: Levisticum officinale     64
Marjoram: Origanum majorana     66
Mugwort: Artemisia vulgaris     68
Mustard: Sinapis alba     70
Myrtle: Myrtus communis     72
Olive: Olea europaea     74
Parsley: Petrosdinum crispum     76
Pennyroyal: Mentha pulegium     78
Pomegranate: Punica granatum     80
Poppy: Papaver somniferum     82
Rose: Rosa gallica     84
Rosemary: Rosmarinus officinalis     86
Rue: Ruta graveolens     88
Sage: Salvia officinalis     90
Spearmint: Mentha spicata     92
St.-John's-wort: Hypericum perforatum     94
Thyme: Thymus vulgaris and Thymus serpyllum     96
Acknowledgments     98
A Note on Illustrations     99
Suggestions for Further Reading     100

Home Book of Smoke Cooking or Apricots on the Nile

2009-01-12T20:26:00.000-08:00

Home Book of Smoke-Cooking: Meat, Fish & Game

Author: Jack Sleight

Get more flavor from pork, cheese, fish, wild game, shellfish, and poultry. Add the unusual home-cured, smoke-cooked taste sensation to foods like these -

smoked cheese
tangy smoked oysters
smoked garlic bread
quick smoked beef jerky
summer sausage
smoked fish and cheese dip
hot smoked shrimp
smoked liver paste
smoked fish
smoked blueberries

plus smoked beef, turkey, ham - any recipe yopu like! - and home-built smoking skills for making brines, storing salt, dry curing, menus, canning and storing smoked foods.

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Apricots on the Nile: A Memoir with Recipes

Author: Colette Rossant

Cairo, 1937: French-born Colette Rossant is waiting out World War II among her father's Egyptian-Jewish relatives. From the moment she arrives at her grandparents' belle époque mansion by the Nile, the five-year-old Colette finds companionship and comfort among the other "outsiders" in her home away from home -- the cooks and servants in the kitchen. The chef, Ahmet, lets Colette taste the ful; she learns how to make sambusaks for her new friends; and she shops for semits and other treats in the Khan-al-Khalili market. Colette is beginning to understand how her family's culture is linked to the kitchen...and soon she will claim Egypt's food, landscape, and people as her own.

Apricots on the Nile is a loving testament to Colette's adopted homeland. With dozens of original recipes and family photographs, Colette's coming-of-age memoir is a splendid exploration of old Cairo in all its flavor, variety, and wide-eyed wonder.

Wisconsins Hometown Flavors or Viva Vodka

2009-01-12T11:44:00.000-08:00

Wisconsin's Hometown Flavors

Author: Terese Allen

Wisconsin's rich and diverse ethnic heritage is expressed most robustly in its food traditions. Here, Terese Allen takes us on a sumptuous tour, visiting family-run bakeries, country meat markets, prizewinning cheese factories, and beloved confection shops. We meet the people behind the foods, hear their interesting stories, and come away with some of their favorite recipes. For people who love to eat, cook and travel, this book is the ultimate companion for both kitchen and car.

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Viva Vodka: Colorful Cocktails with a Kick

Author: W Park Kerr

From the author of Viva Margarita come 50 recipes for elegant vodka-based cocktails, down-and-dirty shooters, refreshing patio coolers, frozen and creamy indulgences, and an array of dazzling new flavor combinations. Sure, the recipe for a classic martini is in here, but that's just the beginning. Get a Caipirovska, the Russian equivalent of Brazil's famous Caipirihna (just trade out the cacha a for cold, refreshing vodka, sit back, and enjoy). Or try the Arrivederci Capri, a sunny little drink with citrusy lemoncello. And for the truly hardcore, the In-a-Vodka-Da-Vida section is filled with knockout recipes for shooters and shots. Viva Vodka there's a whole lotta shakin' goin' on.

Best of the Best or Viva Margarita

2009-01-12T01:02:00.000-08:00

Best of the Best: The Best Recipes from the 25 Best Cookbooks of the Year, Vol. 9

Author: Food Wine Magazin

Almost one million subscribers heartily agree: Food & Wine is the unrivaled leader in the field, and every year their editors search tirelessly for the most delectable dishes from the crème de la crème of cookbooks. Here are their selections, along with an extra treat: some special and previously unpublished recipes. It comes to more than 100 fully kitchen-tested, temptingly photographed dishes in all. And the food doesn’t come better than this: From Grilling for Life, Bobby Flay presents Smoky and Fiery Skirt Steak with Avocado-Oregano Relish. Paula Deen serves up some of her Southern-style Shrimp and Grits (Paula Deen & Friends), while Marc Meyer prepares Brunch (Baked Eggs Rancheros).

Library Journal

The editors at Food & Wine started with 250 cookbooks published last year from which they selected 25 titles. Then the best recipes from those particular cookbooks were chosen for the Best of the Best. Among the titles included in this ninth collection are Paula Wolfert's splendid The Cooking of Southwest France, Judith Sutton's delicious Sweet Gratitude, and Marc Meyer and Peter Meehan's captivating Brunch-a selection that results in an excellent balance between international and American cooking, as well as a practical assortment of both sweet and savory recipes. At least four different recipes from each cookbook are incorporated, and many of the contributing cookbook authors were also persuaded to provide a "never-before-published recipe." This work shares a similar focus with Frances Monson McCullough and Molly Stevens's The Best American Recipe Series, but by concentrating on individual cookbooks, the Food & Wine editors are able to offer readers a terrific taste of the distinctive flavor of each title that made the cut. Recommended for most public libraries.-John Charles, Scottsdale P.L., AZ Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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Viva Margarita: Fabulous Fiestas in a Glass, Munchies, and More

Author: W Park Kerr

Frozen or on the rocks is for amateurs, now that W. Park Kerr is on the scene. Kerr, a ninth-generation Texan with agave in his blood, really knows his way around a margarita -- as he reveals here with more than 60 recipes for his favorite tequila-kissed concoctions. Patio party or swanky soiree, the opportunities to cha-cha with Senorita Margarita are many. There is, of course, the classic, the timeless, Ultimate Margarita. Witness also the tropical Frozen Mandarina Margarita and Citrus Cantina Cooler, where unexpected fruit flavors make a splash. With rowdy gelatin shooters, potent punches, tasty tequila-friendly snacks, including an outrageous flan cake, Viva Margarita will make the most demure hostess belt out an uninhibited " Viva!"

M774 Blue Plate Specials or Workin More Kitchen Sessions with Charlie Trotter

2009-01-11T15:21:00.000-08:00

M774 Blue Plate Specials: Recipes Your Family and Friends Will Love the Most, Inspired by Diners Coast-to-Coast

Author: Gooseberry Patch

Here's what's on the menu...stick-to-your-ribs recipes inspired by diners across the USA. Blue Plate Specials Cookbook includes regional recipe favorites like finger-lickin' chicken wings, Cape Cod chowder, jalapeno cornbread and, the diner standard, savory meatloaf. There are plenty of desserts from the pie case to round out the meal too. Our tips and quotes were also inspired by diners and the open road. You'll love 'em!

Workin' More Kitchen Sessions with Charlie Trotter

Author: Charlie Trotter

CHARLIE TROTTER started cooking professionally in 1982 and opened his Chicago restaurant in 1987. Now one of the world's premier dining destinations, Charlie Trotter's was recently named one of the most influential restaurants of the 20th century by Bon Appetit. Chef Trotter has authored 11 books and has won 8 James Beard Awards.
* The companion volume to the new PBS cooking show The Kitchen Sessions with Charlie Trotter, airing nationally beginning in April 2004.
* The first Kitchen Sessions with Charlie Trotter won the James Beard Award in 2000 for Best National T.V. Cooking Show, and the companion volume (60,000 copies sold) was named James Beard book of the year in the Chefs & Restaurants category.
* Illustrated with more than 40 full-color food photographs and extensive location photography.

Library Journal

Trotter's PBS series the "Kitchen Sessions" was inspired by the idea of jazz improvisation, specifically the Workin' albums from the Miles Davis Quintet. This new companion volume (the first was published in 1999) offers more culinary riffs on favorite ingredients, from artichokes to tomatoes, with a separate dessert chapter. Each section includes five recipes, and while the dishes in the earlier book were somewhat less complicated than those in the prolific chef's numerous other cookbooks, these are quite involved, with many steps and separate components, e.g., Roasted Duck with Prosciutto-Wrapped Fennel Bulb and Balsamic-Cherry Reduction. There are snapshots throughout of Trotter in the kitchen (usually looking intense or worried) as well as full-page color photographs of the dishes. For collections where his other books are popular. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Chili Madness or Fondue

2009-01-11T06:39:00.000-08:00

Chili Madness: A Passionate Cookbook

Author: Jane Butel

Beloved chili. Passionate chili. Hot chili . . . and not just because of the chiles. Chili, the star of cook-offs, the obsession of societies, and the subject of endless debate over its proper preparation. Has there ever been a better time to be a chili head? A well-stocked supermarket today carries a variety of fresh and dried chiles, fresh cilantro, myriad dried and canned beans, chipotle powder, and all the makings for sides and salsas, from tortillas in the refrigerator case to organic avocados. Jane Butel's Chili Madness has been praised as "an elegant celebration" (Travel + Leisure) that "chile lovers will love" (New York Post), it's the spicy bestseller with over 330,000 copies in print.

Extensively revised, updated, and expanded, the book will fire up a whole new generation of chili fanatics. Of the 160-plus recipes, more than 130 are brand-new. Here are classics, including Reno Red and Navajo Green and Buzzard’s Breath Chili, as well as newfangled bowls like Moroccan Chili and White Lobster Chili. To accompany the main event are savory breads (Bacon Crumble Cornbread); tempting sidekicks (Hot ’n’ Spicy Okra, Red Hot Sweet Potato Lace); fire-taming salads (Crispy Cilantro Coleslaw); and margaritas, of course. (Six kinds!) Luscious desserts such as Double Chocolate Farmer’s Cakes provide the perfect sweet ending, while chili leftovers are reinvented in crowd-pleasers like Texas-Style Burritos.

Fondue

Author: Robert Carmack

Serious lovers of food know that fondue is not about goopy cheese sauces or soupy mixes of chocolate. Fondue is an extremely adaptable and inventivecuisine in its own right, a style of cooking that appears around the world in many different forms, offering dozens of fascinating fondue recipes for the adventuresome home chefs.Whether for a romantic dinner or a child's birthday party, for cocktail hour or a summer picnic, here are recipes for sophisticated, perfectly executed European cheese fondues, Bacchus fondues, Asian hot pots and a variety of delicious and fascinating deserts. With a complete guide to fondue pots and other equipment, this book has all the information readers need to get started-and to go beyond the basics with new fondue innovations of their own.

Author Biography: Robert Carmack, an American residing in Sydney, is a highly acclaimed television food stylist and writer, and holds the coveted Grand Diplome from La Varenne in France. Carmack has worked closely with James Beard in New York and Anne Willan in Paris, and on Time-Life's celebrated The Good Cook Series. A former food editor who has worked on several magazines, Robert travels the world for material to put on his popular website.

Antipasti Made Easy or Everything Diabetes Cookbook

2009-01-10T18:58:00.000-08:00

Antipasti Made Easy

Author: Abigail Brown

Not everybody is lucky enough to be born a good cook—but anyone can master the secrets of Italian cooking. And since every proper Italian meal begins with an antipasti, both prospective and expert chefs will rejoice at this mouthwatering selection of possibilities: A cold antipasti can be as simple as a plate of sliced smoked meats and cheeses or as lavish as an array of salads, seafood, bruschetta, and other delights. A hot antipasti may include soups, stuffed clams, deep-fried zucchini flowers, grilled vegetables, and other tempting delicacies. It can also be a meal in itself, and of course, nothing beats antipasto as a party spread. All the recipes are simple and easy to follow, and the results are so lusciously authentic, the guests will shout bravissimo!

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Everything Diabetes Cookbook

Author: Pamela Rice Hahn

The Everything Diabetes Cookbook puts the fun back into cooking for diabetics, providing you with more than 300 recipes to choose from to make a wide variety of tasty, nutritious meals.

Compleat Crabber or Make Out

2009-01-10T09:17:00.000-08:00

Compleat Crabber

Author: Christopher R Reask

Complete how-to for catching blue crabs, plus natural history, lore, and recipes.

Make Out: 60 Recipes for Getting' It On

Author: Tonia Georg

A vibrant cookbook designed in a compact format with a user-friendly plastic wipe off cover. Master the art of flirtatious foreplay by cooking up some late night nibbles, feast on divine desserts, and share a seductive supper with your lover. These risque recipes are certain to tease and tantalize.

Growing Using Chives or Cooking out of This World

2009-01-09T22:36:00.000-08:00

Growing & Using Chives: A Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin

Author: Storey Books Staff

Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.

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Cooking out of This World: A Science Fiction Cookbook

Author: Anne McCaffrey

Anne McCaffrey's cookbook, featuring real (you can cook them) recipes created by science fiction and fantasy writers such as Harlan Ellison, Ursula K. Le Guin, Avram Davidson and of course Anne McCaffrey herself. Mixed in with the recipes are stories and anecdotes about how they were created—some longer than the recipes!

High Fibre Cooking or Vegan Taste of Italy

2009-01-09T11:54:00.000-08:00

High Fibre Cooking: Eating for Health

Author: Anne Sheasby

With over 50 delicious and wholesome dishes that are high in fiber and taste, you will find many quick and effortless ways to increase the amount of fiber in your diet.

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Vegan Taste of Italy

Author: Linda Majzlik

Including soups, sauces, risottos, stuffed vegetables, pizza, pasta, vegetables, salads, and desserts, this book provides more than 120 original recipes, all free of animal products, as well as advice on maintaining an Italian pantry. This is the fifth in a series of cookbooks for the increasing number of people who follow a meat-free and dairy-free diet.

Linda Majzlik is the author of a series of vegan and vegetarian cookbooks: Party Food for Vegetarians, Vegan Dinner Parties, and Vegan Barbecues.

Good Housekeeping 100 Best Chicken Recipes or Salads

2009-01-09T00:13:00.000-08:00

Good Housekeeping 100 Best Chicken Recipes

Author: Ellen Levin

The newest cookbook in Good Housekeeping's best-selling "100 Best" series focuses on a favorite food: versatile, low-calorie chicken. These easy-to-prepare, triple-tested dishes--from Lemon-Rosemary Roast Chicken to Arroz con Pollo to New Chicken Cordon Bleu--will please even the most discerning palate.

The editors at Good Housekeeping keep the delectable recipes coming with their fifth entry in their popular "100 Best" series. This time, chicken--always a favorite--is the star ingredient, and the magazine's tastiest recipes come complete with more than 35 color photographs. The diverse menu encompasses soups, stews, sautés, stir-fries, grills, roasts, salads, sandwiches, and much more. As with all Good Housekeeping cookbooks, the directions are well laid out, easy to follow, and designed to help home cooks get great results every time. An informative introduction provides the essentials on purchasing chicken, safe preparation, and clever cooking techniques.

Salads

Author: Cornelia Adam

Fresh, light, and easy-to-prepare salads -- from the basic tossed green variety to internationally inspired potato, poultry, and seafood versions.

Los Angeles Times Cookbook or Lifes a Fish and Then You Fry

2009-01-08T15:31:00.000-08:00

Los Angeles Times Cookbook

Author: Applewood Books

From 1902 to 1917, the Los Angeles Times sponsored cooking contests. As a result, they published a series of winning recipes. The recipes were local to Southern California, including "Old-Time California, Spanish and Mexican Dishes...Recipes of Famous Pioneer Spanish Settlers." With Hispanic influences, the book contains reciptes such as: Alligator Pear Salad, Chili Con Carne, Enchiladas, Spanish Rice, Frijoles, Albondigas, Chiles Rellenos and Tamale Pie. Much of the ingredients come from California. Listed as on of the one hundred best books on California cooking.

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Life's a Fish and Then You Fry

Author: Randy Bayliss

"Life's a Fish and Then You Fry" takes a romp through the culinary curiosities of coastal Alaska. With snappy cooking tips from Randy Bayliss, and the weird and wonderful art of Ray Troll, this is not your mother's cookbook.

Food Is Culture or American Dietetic Association Cooking Healthy Across America

2009-01-08T04:50:00.000-08:00

Food Is Culture

Author: Massimo Montanari

Elegantly written by a distinguished culinary historian, Food Is Culture explores the innovative premise that everything having to do with food—its capture, cultivation, preparation, and consumption—represents a cultural act. Even the "choices" made by primitive hunters and gatherers were determined by a culture of economics (availability) and medicine (digestibility and nutrition) that led to the development of specific social structures and traditions.

Massimo Montanari begins with the "invention" of cooking which allowed humans to transform natural, edible objects into cuisine. Cooking led to the creation of the kitchen, the adaptation of raw materials into utensils, and the birth of written and oral guidelines to formalize cooking techniques like roasting, broiling, and frying.

The transmission of recipes allowed food to acquire its own language and grow into a complex cultural product shaped by climate, geography, the pursuit of pleasure, and later, the desire for health. In his history, Montanari touches on the spice trade, the first agrarian societies, Renaissance dishes that synthesized different tastes, and the analytical attitude of the Enlightenment, which insisted on the separation of flavors. Brilliantly researched and analyzed, he shows how food, once a practical necessity, evolved into an indicator of social standing and religious and political identity.

Whether he is musing on the origins of the fork, the symbolic power of meat, cultural attitudes toward hot and cold foods, the connection between cuisine and class, the symbolic significance of certain foods, or the economical consequences of religious holidays, Montanari's concise yetintellectually rich reflections add another dimension to the history of human civilization. Entertaining and surprising, Food Is Culture is a fascinating look at how food is the ultimate embodiment of our continuing attempts to tame, transform, and reinterpret nature.

Rosemarie Lewis Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information - Library Journal

Montanari is professor of medieval history and the history of food at the University of Bologna, Italy, and a well-respected scholar, having studied food for nearly 30 years. Best known in the United States for his award-winning Food: A Culinary History, Montanari here has provided students of anthropology with a wonderful text to approach the study of food and its transformative power over people and culture. He strives to be as inclusive as possible, and though there is a slight bias toward European history, he touches on important events in many cultures, including the way each region had its key cultivar: wheat in western Europe, rice in Asia, corn in the Americas, and sorghum in Africa. From the way cookbooks reflect the oral cooking traditions of the past to the way the mind influences taste, each short chapter analyzes a different facet of how food and culture evolved together. In the end, the author proffers a metaphor: food is a root, from which the history and spread of culture is visible as a flourishing plant. Recommended for larger academic libraries.

American Dietetic Association Cooking Healthy Across America

Author: The American Dietetic Association

"A taste of culinary history that celebrates the delicious melting pot of American cooking while leaving the guilt behind."

–Jill Cordes

host of The Best Of on the Food Network

"This book shows how easy it is to prepare and enjoy the wonderful variety of ingredients and recipes that make American cuisine unique, flavorful, and healthful."

–Roberta L. Duyff, MS, RD, FADA, CFCS

author of American Dietetic Association Complete Food and Nutrition Guide

"A wonderful edible survey of American regional classics that blends authenticity with good nutrition. This is an important book."

–Graham Kerr

author of Charting a Course to Wellness and My Personal Path to Wellness

Set the table for good nutrition–and savor the regional flavors of delicious American food

American Dietetic Association Cooking Healthy across America presents over 300 healthful, mouthwatering recipes that draw on the flavors and traditions of various cuisines around the country. You’ll find stories from the kitchens of ADA’s culinary professionals–their special family recipes, cooking secrets, and innovative food prep tips and insights–showing you just how easy it is to prepare healthy versions of these American favorites:

Philly Cheesesteak • Bread Pudding with Bourbon Sauce •Maryland Crab Cakes • Tropical Breeze Smoothie • Gazpacho • West Texas Chipotle Chicken Salad • Smoky Holler Fried Chicken •Southwest Black Bean Dip • Baked Halibut Bristol Bay • Lemon Ice Box Pie • Cajun Jambalaya • Stovetop GlazedHam • Vineyard Stuffed Quahogs • Mom’s Baked Beans • Triple Chocolate Cake • And much more

	Preface	v
	Acknowledgments	vii
	Introduction	1
Part 1	Cooking Healthy Every Day	5
1	New England: Simple, Sturdy Foods	7
2	Mid-Atlantic States: Maryland Crab Feasts to Philly Cheesesteaks	63
3	Southern Cuisine: Smooth Soul Food to Hot 'n' Spicy Cajun Creations	105
4	The Floribbean: Big, Bold Tropical Flair	175
5	The Midwest: America's Breadbasket and Cultural Crossroads	209
6	Tex-Mex: Fusing Mexican-Texan and Mexican Cultures	321
7	Southwestern Cuisine: Meso-American Roots Fuse with Trendy Cuisine	347
8	From the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Northwest	367
9	Fusion Defined: The Cuisines of California and Hawaii	421
Part 2	Eating Healthy for Life	477
10	Nutrition Basics: The Reasons for Our Luscious Food	479
11	Portion Savvy: Less Is More!	511
12	Creating the Kitchen Dedicated to Flavor and Good Health	517
13	Everyday Solutions for Enjoying More Vegetables and Fruits	529
14	Whole Grains: Catching the Golden Wave of Flavor and Nutrition	565
15	Luscious Legumes: Beans, Peas, and Lentils	579
16	Fish: A Guide to Buying, Storing, and Cooking	591
17	The Ultimate Meat and Poultry Buying and Usage Guide	601
18	Milk and Other Dairy: Building Strong Bones and More	611
19	Help in the Kitchen: Substitutions and Equivalents	619
	Recipe Index	628
	Index	637

Luscious Chocolate Desserts or Savannah Style

2009-01-07T19:08:00.000-08:00

Luscious Chocolate Desserts

Author: Lori Longbotham

Sexy, rich, and good in bed—chocolate is the ultimate indulgence. And Luscious Chocolate Desserts is the ultimate chocolate cookbook. Lori Longbotham, author of the best-selling Luscious Lemon Desserts, delivers more than 70 of the best recipes for tantalizing cakes, sumptuous tarts and pies, velvety puddings and souffles, plus melt-in-your-mouth cookies, ice cream, and candy—all with enough chocolate to satisfy even the deepest craving. Recipes run from simple-to-prepare chocolate pound cake and chocolate mousse pie to more elaborate desserts such as chocolate profiteroles with chocolate ice cream and chocolate sauce and the decadent mocha tiramisu. For those who don't know their cocoa from their cacao, this compendium for chocoholics educates readers from bean to bar, including how to choose from the many forms of chocolate available in today's markets, plus the basics of storing, chopping, melting, and—the best part—tasting them. Luscious Chocolate Desserts is pure chocolate satisfaction for proud chocolate lovers everywhere.

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Savannah Style

Author: Staff of Junior League of Savannah

An elegant cover is supported by gracious interior content. Tried, true, and triple-tested recipes combine with bits of Savannah's past to present a true education in good eating and entertaining... Savannah Style!

Fresh and Fast Vegan Pleasures or More Diabetic Meals in 30 Minutes or Less

2009-01-07T10:26:00.000-08:00

Fresh and Fast Vegan Pleasures: More Than 140 Delicious, Creative Recipes to Nourish Aspiring and Devoted Vegans

Author: Amanda Grant

With the latest headlines concerning the hidden dangers of many foods, a vegan diet—one that avoids all meat, fish, poultry, dairy products, and animal by-products—provides a safe and healthy alternative. In Fresh and Fast Vegan Pleasures, Amanda Grant uses a wonderful variety of vegetables, fruits, nuts, grains, fresh herbs, sea vegetables, and exotic spices to create delectable dishes that will delight everyone already eating a vegetarian diet and tempt those who have heretofore resisted exploring vegan cooking. Divided into five sections, the 145 flavorful and easy-to-prepare recipes cover appetizers, salads, main dishes, desserts, and much more, including Vegetable Crisps, Fresh Ginger and Basil Pasta, Four-Onion Croustades, Spanish Potato Gratin, Tomato and Basil Risotto, Homemade Pizza, Chocolate Raspberry Hazelnut Cake, and Orange and Passionfruit Sorbet. Cook's tips are featured throughout the book, along with basic cupboard ingredients.

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More Diabetic Meals in 30 Minutesїor Less!: More than 150 Brand-New, Lightning-Quick Recipes

Author: Robyn Webb

Preparing great-tasting meals that fit into a healthy meal plan is difficult enough. Preparing them in 30 minutes or less is even more of a challenge. Diabetes cookbook author Robyn Webb introduces an all-new collection of more than 200 new quick-and-easy recipes. Readers can choose from a healthy variety of appetizers, desserts, soups, salads, or entrees.

Robyn Webb is the 1995 Virginia recipient of the National Healthy American Fitness Leader Award by the President's Council on Fitness and Exercise. She is also the author of A Pinch of Thyme: Easy Lessons for a Leaner Life, Diabetic Meals in 30 Minutes--Or Less!, Flavorful Seasons Cookbook, and Memorable Menus Made Easy.

Neighboring on the Air or Classic Russian Cooking

2009-01-06T22:45:00.000-08:00

Neighboring on the Air: Cooking with the KMA Radio Homemakers

Author: Evelyn M Birkby

In Neighboring an the Air, Evelyn Birkby tells the story of a group of female radio pioneers who offered rural families inspiration, companionship, news, and all manner of domestic counsel over the airwaves.

Publishers Weekly

Much of this nostalgic and occasionally saccharine account of 65 years of broadcasting in Shenandoah, Iowa, will entertain only KMA listeners, particularly those old enough to remember most of the ``homemakers'' profiled here. However, elements of the narrative by Birkby ( The Festival Cookie Book ), who herself became a ``radio homemaker'' in 1950, may interest those exploring popular culture or women's history. Birkby easily falls in with KMA's euphemistic lingo, terming the broadcasting work of these women ``daily visits'' to their ``radio friends.'' They would discuss their families and the details of their daily lives as well as offer suggestions for ``making the home a more pleasant, worthwhile place to live.'' Birkby notes that fans would follow the doings of favorite homemakers for years, tuning in each day the same way they'd listen to episodes of radio soap operas. Of course recipes figured prominently, and many are reproduced here, lackluster dishes like cheese lima bean casserole, pork chop corn bake, sauerbraten with gingersnap gravy, and cherry loaf cake (``a Bachelor's Delight''). Illustrated. (June)

Booknews

A scrapbook of recipes, biographies, and household advice associated with the women who have hosted the daily radio programs on KMA Radio-960 in Shenandoah, Iowa from 1925 to the present. Includes many b&w photographs. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Classic Russian Cooking: Elena Molokhovets' A Gift to Young Housewives

Author: Elena Molokhovets

Joyce Toomre has translated over 1,000 of Molokhovets' recipes. A thorough and fascinating introduction by Toomre discusses the history of Russian cuisine and summarizes Molokhovets' advice on meals and menus, table settings and service, stoves and ovens, cold storage techniques, containers and utensils, servants, health, markets and ingredients, and cooking techniques.

Publishers Weekly

Banned in Molokhovets's native country since the Russian Revolution, this gastronomic standard for pre-Revolutionary upper- and middle-class Russian households has been impressively translated and edited by food historian and Harvard research associate Toomre. Translations of more than 1000 recipes recall foods central to Russian life: cabbage with butter and crumbs, potato pudding, Beef Stroganov, babas , piroq , pashka . Toomre's substantive introduction presents ``not a history of Russian cooking per se, but rather an impressionistic reconstruction of household conditions.'' She charts a range of elements, from the purpose of each of the four or five daily meals and the sleeping conditions of servants to the once privileged status of the potato. Toomre also assesses the influences of foreign peoples, such as the techniques of the French and the foods of Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well as modern approximations for arcane measurements. Much more than a re-creation of a lost time or a rumination on changing culinary tastes, this book is an important contribution to Russian history. Illustrations not seen by PW. (Nov.)

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Classic Russian Cooking is a book that I highly recommend. Joyce Toomre has done a marvelous job of translating this valuable and fascinating source book. It's the Fanny Farmer and Isabella Beeton of Russia's 19th century.

Get With the Program Guide to Good Eating or Dinner at Buckingham Palace

2009-01-06T13:03:00.000-08:00

Get With the Program! Guide to Good Eating: Great Food for Good Health

Author: Bob Green

Bob Greene's bestselling Get With the Program! showed hundreds of thousands of people how to make a habit of healthy living and fitness. Now, in The Get With the Program! Guide to Good Eating, Greene presents a blueprint for a lifetime of healthful eating, with detailed, easy-to-follow guidelines and 85 delicious recipes.

Greene knows that you're not going to stick to an eating plan if you're bored or feeling deprived, so he's developed a program based on balance, moderation, flexibility, and variety. After you make the commitment to Get With the Program!, you'll discover the keys to boosting your metabolism. Next you'll take the four steps to healthy eating, making one change at a time: eating a nutritious breakfast, setting an eating cut-off time, redistributing your calories, and making healthful food choices. Greene shows you how to determine the perfect way to eat for your unique needs, how to stock a healthy kitchen, how to dine out enjoyably, and how to "cheat" without guilt.

Finally, there are 85 easy-to-prepare recipes that are as full of flavor as they are good for you. Try a Peaches and "Cream" Fresh Fruit Smoothie or some Buttermilk Blueberry Pancakes for breakfast. Salmon Burgers or Tomatoes Stuffed with Couscous, Cucumber, and Mint make a satisfying lunch, and how about Spinach Penne with Spicy Roasted Pepper Sauce or Baked Lemon Herb Halibut for dinner? Hungry for more? Satisfying soups, tasty side dishes (including luscious Mashed Potatoes), and tempting desserts, like airy Pavlova with Raspberry Sauce or Chocolate Almond Angel Food Cake, make healthful eating a pleasure.

The Get With the Program! Guide to Good Eating is aneffective and enjoyable approach to good health, good eating, and weight loss that you can trust.

Publishers Weekly

Oprah's longtime personal trainer expands his "Get with the Program" product line with this calm, supportive guide to healthy eating. Greene reaffirms the tenets of last year's Get With the Program!: Getting Real About Your Weight, Health, and Emotional Well-Being-stay hydrated, exercise aerobically, strength-train and eliminate "emotional eating"-before turning his attention to good food habits. Eating breakfast is essential, he says, as is establishing a cutoff time at night (try not to eat 3 hours before sleep); numerous small meals and smart food choices round out his four main steps to healthy eating. Greene's recipes, which take up the latter half of the book, are easy and pleasing: Broccoli and Swiss Chard Cannelloni is full of the beta carotene he espouses in an earlier chapter, and Buttermilk Blueberry Pancakes provide "a healthy shot of antioxidants." He also presents deceptively healthy recipes for Paella, Wild Mushroom Grits and a delicious Eggplant and Zucchini Poor Boy Sandwich. Greene's tone remains encouraging throughout, and his cool dismissal of fad diets and quick fixes should soothe those who have hyperventilated for diet revolutions in the past: "Powerful change occurs...by taking small steps...each day of your life." (Jan.) Copyright 2003 Cahners Business Information.

Dinner at Buckingham Palace

Author: Charles Oliver

Dinner at Buckingham Palace is a treasure trove of recipes, menus, photos, and stories drawn from the diaries, recollections, and personal mementos of Charles Oliver, royal servant from the time of Victoria through the reign of the present queen.

Vegi Mex or Cooking with Honey

2009-01-06T02:22:00.000-08:00

Vegi-Mex

Author: Shayne Fischer

Many Mexican foods traditionally are animal-free, and most of the others can be adapted, as you will see, in this book dedicated to good health and good eating.

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Cooking with Honey

Author: Joanne Barrett

Linda McCartneys Home Cooking or More Back Country Cooking

2009-01-05T15:41:00.000-08:00

Linda McCartney's Home Cooking: Quick, Easy, And Economical Vegetarian Dishes for Today

Author: Linda McCartney

Cooking with a conscience is the motivating force behind this wonderfully appealing vegetarian cookbook. McCartney offers more than 200 easy, clear and delicious recipes for a meatless and healthful cuisine. Among the recipes are Beefless Stroganoff, Moussaka without Lamb, Shepherd's Pie, Schnitzel Scaloppini, and many more.

More Back-Country Cooking: Moveable Feasts from the Experts

Author: Dorcas S Miller

In More Backcountry Cooking, Dorcas S. Miller presents new, trail-tested recipes for backpackers, paddlers, and other outdoor enthusiasts. You'll get advice on how to shop, prep meals at home, pack efficiently, and cook creatively on trail. These recipes involve little time or effort, but they provide a gourmet meal experience. Make mealtime easier -- and more fun -- with this must-have cookbook.

	Introduction	7
Part 1	Meal by Meal
Chapter 1	Breakfast	10
	Cold Breakfast	11
	Hot Cereals	13
	From the Frying Pan	20
	Bakes	31
Chapter 2	Lunch and Snacks	34
	Bars	39
	Jerky	42
	Salads	46
	Gorp	48
	Fruit and Vegetable Leathers	52
	Bakes	54
Chapter 3	Soups and Chowders	57
	Instant Soup	58
	Soup	64
	Chowder	71
Chapter 4	Dinner	73
	Grains	74
	Beans and Corn	90
	Pasta	97
	Noodles	114
	Potatoes	117
	Salad Side Dishes	121
	Wraps and Sandwiches	129
	Beans and Corn	90
	Fish	134
	Dumplings and Bakes	136
Chapter 5	Dessert	139
	Pudding	140
	No-Bake Treats	144
	Bakes	147
	Sweet and Fruity	153
	Liquid Refreshments	157
Part 2	Hot Topics
Hot Topic 1	What Kind of Backcountry Eater Are You?	159
	Kitchen Craft
Hot Topic 2	How To	161
Hot Topic 3	Carrying Your Kitchen in a Pack	165
Hot Topic 4	Choosing the Right Stove	171
Hot Topic 5	Holding Everything	174
Hot Topic 6	Leaving No Trace	176
Hot Topic 7	Critterproofing Your Camp	178
Hot Topic 8	Drying Food for the Trail	180
Hot Topic 9	Converting Recipes from Home to Trail	189
Hot Topic 10	Cooking with Fresh Food	192
Hot Topic 11	Baking in the Backcountry	197
Hot Topic 12	Making Camp Coffee	200
Hot Topic 13	Planning a Long Trip	202
	Nutrition and Dietary Needs
Hot Topic 14	Calories and Flow to Get Them	209
Hot Topic 15	For Vegetarians	214
Hot Topic 16	For People with Diabetes	217
Hot Topic 17	For People with Food Allergies or Food Intolerance	219
	Appendices
Appendix A	Conversion Tables	221
Appendix B	Nutritive Values	226
Appendix C	Ingredients	236
Appendix D	Sources of Ingredients	247
	Index	252

Herb Mixtures Spicy Blends or Microbrewed Adventures

2009-01-05T04:00:00.000-08:00

Herb Mixtures & Spicy Blends: Ethnic Flavorings, No-Salt Blends, Marinades/Dressings, Butters/Spreads, Dessert Mixtures, Teas/Mulling Spices

Author: Maggie Osterii

Seasonings that you can make at home -- More than 100 recipes from herb shops and herb farms across North America!

From herbal teas to popcorn seasoning, from no-salt blends to spicy ethnic mixes, Herb Mixtures & Spicy Blends offers easy recipes for delicious, healthful eating.

Why not add Kate's Savory Seasoning, Taos Lightning Chili Powder, and Fanny Couch's Pungent Curry Powder to the oregano and basil already on your herbal spice rack? Jazz up your family's favorite soups, salads, meats and vegetables, and desserts with one of these homemade blends developed by specialty herb shops.

-- Recipes that add flavor, not salt or fat, to your favorite dishes

-- Ethnic blends, including Mexican, Cajun, Thai, Indian, and Italian

-- Homemade customized seasonings for seafood, wild game, chicken, and beef

-- Recipes for using blends in appetizers, vegetable dishes, main courses, desserts, snacks and teas

-- Instructions for drying and storing herbs, bottling and labeling mixtures

-- Suggestions for creating gift baskets

Microbrewed Adventures: A Lupulin Filled Journey to the Heart and Flavor of the World's Great Craft Beers

Author: Charles Papazian

From trading recipes with the bad boys of American beer to drinking Czech-Mex cerveza in Tijuana and hanging out in the beer gardens of Africa, Charlie Papazian has seen, and tasted, it all.

Microbrewed Adventures is your shotgun seat to unique, eccentric and pioneering craft-brews and the fascinating people who create them. Travel with Charlie as he crisscrosses America and circles the globe in search of the most flavor-packed beers. Along with discovering the master brews of Bavaria, secret recipes for mead and the traditional beers of Zimbabwe, you will find lessons on proper beer tasting and read interviews with American master brewers including those of Dogfish Head, Magic Hat, Rogue Ales, Stone Brewing and Brooklyn Brewery. Charlie also includes special homebrew recipes inspired by the innovative brewers who are making some the best beer in the world.

Something from the Oven or Fertility and Pregnancy Cooking

2009-01-04T19:18:00.000-08:00

Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950's America

Author: Laura Shapiro

In this captivating blend of culinary history and popular culture, the award-winning author ofPerfection Salad shows us what happened when the food industry elbowed its way into the kitchen after World War II, brandishing canned hamburgers, frozen baked beans, and instant piecrusts. Big Business waged an all-out campaign to win the allegiance of American housewives, but most women were suspicious of the new foods—and the make-believe cooking they entailed. With sharp insight and good humor, Laura Shapiro shows how the ensuing battle helped shape the way we eat today, and how the clash in the kitchen reverberated elsewhere in the house as women struggled with marriage, work, and domesticity. This unconventional history overturns our notions about the '50s and offers new thinking on some of its fascinating figures, including Poppy Cannon, Shirley Jackson, Julia Child, and Betty Friedan.

Author Biography: Laura Shapiro was an award-winning writer at Newsweek for more than fifteen years, and has written for many publications, including The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Granta, and Gourmet.

The New York Times

Shapiro apologizes that her book ''focuses almost exclusively on middle-class women,'' but there's no need for guilt -- the hegemony of Nescafe, Bisquick and Jell-O extended almost immediately to the blue-collar kitchen, and the reaction against it has benefited all classes of society. Shapiro's tale of how America gradually turned from eating TV dinners to using the television to learn how to cook real food cheers up immensely when she leaves behind the Cheez Whiz and sherry (added to pep up broccoli) and, in a chapter called ''Don't Check Your Brains at the Kitchen Door,'' introduces Poppy Cannon, the first of the many engaging heroines of this deliciously readable book. — Paul Levy

The New Yorker

In the fifties, we’re always told, the food industry barged into the American kitchen, waving TV dinners, and destroyed home cooking. Not so fast, Shapiro says. As she reveals, women refused many of the new convenience foods. Fish sticks they accepted, but not ham sticks. Canned peaches, yes; canned hamburgers, no. The industry people hired psychologists to help them combat such resistance; the women’s magazines, fond of their advertisers, told readers how, by splashing some sherry over the frozen peas, they could still make dinner look as though they had cooked it. The book is very funny, and also subtle. The most interesting character is Poppy Cannon, the foremost food columnist of the period, who, though she started her mint-jelly recipe with lime jello, was a serious feminist and had a long affair with—and eventually married—the head of the N.A.A.C.P. After American cooking passed her by, Cannon threw herself off the balcony of her apartment. This chapter reads like a Russian novel.

Library Journal

Shapiro (Perfection Salad) offers a well-researched history of the relationship between the American woman's domestic role as family cook and the American food industry. The book documents the food industry's attempt to reinvent cooking during the 1950s. Its marketing strategy centered on convincing women that purchasing unappetizing packaged food products would free them from the unpleasant chore of cooking. However, to the chagrin of food manufacturers, most American women saw house cleaning as the dreaded chore but enjoyed providing food for their family. Simultaneously, another trend was vying for the attention of the sophisticated homemaker. Julia Child emerged and encouraged women to "take charge of their own world and to cook something very good from scratch." Shapiro argues that this second trend was indicative of women's search for greater independence not only from the food industry but from society's constrained gender roles. Even as someone who sides with the "cooking is a chore" camp, this reviewer found Shapiro's book highly readable. Recommended for public libraries.-Cathy Carpenter, Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

Following Perfection Salad (2001), a report on how science, industry, and media changed the American kitchen and women's roles in the first part of the 20th century, Shapiro explores aspects of the same phenomenon in subsequent decades. In her wandering storyline, "1950s America" lasts from the end of WWII until the mid-'60s. The period began with the food industry trying to convince American housewives to embrace new products developed for troops fighting in Europe. Frozen orange juice and fish sticks worked; frozen whale steaks ("Papal approved" for Fridays) did not. Tapping the hope and frustration expressed in contemporary trade journals and letters to local newspapers, the first section serves up tangy social history, flavored by the quirky recipes promoted by industry PR: peanut butter in sweet potatoes, ketchup meringue, oatmeal with a candy bar in it. In later chapters, Shapiro takes a different tack, presenting mini-biographies of women involved in food media: Poppy Cannon, whose breezy food columns get less attention than her controversial marriage to an NAACP leader; Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, coauthor of Cheaper by the Dozen; Peg Bracken, whose I Hate to Cook Book anchored the humorous housewifery genre; M.F.K. Fisher, still our best food writer; and Julia Child, who brought French cooking into the mainstream. This portion of the text presents a deeply felt polemic, but conflicting dialectics make it hard to discern the precise nature of the author's argument. At first, she shows bland, sugary, and bizarre new products assailing the honest foods and integrity of the traditional housewife, but then she depicts that integrity as stolidity in the face of French cuisine.Throughout, Shapiro presents statistical and anecdotal evidence that the picture presented in The Feminine Mystique of housewives trapped and frustrated by their domestic fate was neither an original nor an accurate observation: women were in the workplace all along. Entertaining and well researched, but disjointed. Despite common themes, the parts don't cohere into a consistent whole. Agent: Amanda Urban/ICM

Fertility and Pregnancy Cooking

Author: Katherine Burk

Practical advice for anyone thinking of starting a family, including tips on improving general health and achieving optimum fertilty.

The Art of Cakes or Alice Lets Eat

2009-01-04T08:36:00.000-08:00

The Art of Cakes

Author: Noga Hitron

Celebrate The Art of Cakes! Having a really beautiful cake—one that you bake in your very own kitchen—can make a special occasion extraordinary. That’s the inspiration behind this guide: to create vibrant, colorful, and unique cakes that will bring a smile to everyone’s face. Inside, you’ll find basic recipes for three types of cakes, buttercream, and royal icing—which is used for piping letters, dots, and other decorations. You’ll also learn advanced techniques for rolling fondant and preparing modeling paste. The irresistibly photographed cake designs look good enough to eat, and they range from the delicate and sweet Beautiful Baby Birthday to Sally Says “Surprise,” and an unforgettable way to say “Congratulations!” or “Best Wishes!”

New interesting book: Concise Handbook of Management or Global Sourcing Logistics

Alice, Let's Eat: Further Adventures of a Happy Eater

Author: Calvin Trillin

“Trillin is our funniest food writer. He writes with charm, freedom, and a rare respect for language.”
–New York magazine

In this delightful and delicious book, Calvin Trillin, guided by an insatiable appetite, embarks on a hilarious odyssey in search of “something decent to eat.” Across time zones and cultures, and often with his wife, Alice, at his side, Trillin shares his triumphs in the art of culinary discovery, including Dungeness crabs in California, barbecued mutton in Kentucky, potato latkes in London, blaff d’oursins in Martinique, and a $33 picnic on a no-frills flight to Miami. His eating companions include Fats Goldberg, the New York pizza baron and reformed blimp; William Edgett Smith, the man with the Naughahyde palate; and his six-year-old daughter, Sarah, who refuses to enter a Chinese restaurant unless she is carrying a bagel (“just in case”). And though Alice “has a weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a day,” on the road she proves to be a serious eater–despite “seemingly uncontrollable attacks of moderation.” Alice, Let Eat amply demonstrates why The New Republic called Calvin Trillin “a classic American humorist.”

“One of the most brilliant humorists of our times . . . Trillin is guaranteed good reading.”
–Charleston Post and Courier

“Read Trillin and laugh out loud.”
–Time

Vodka Cookbook or Lipton Recipe Secrets Classic Recipes

2009-01-03T22:55:00.000-08:00

Vodka Cookbook: In Association with Smirnoff

Author: John Ros

Vodka does wonderful things to food-in marinades, it tenderized meat, it is great for the de-glazing pans, and adding flavor, while in cream sauces, it lowers the boiling point and so helps prevent curdling. John Rose has assembled over 100 unique recipes for foods, desserts, drinks, and infusions.

Book review: Food and Wine Pairing or The Illustrated Guide to Edible Wild Plants

Lipton Recipe Secrets Classic Recipes

Author: Publications International

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American Macrobiotic Cuisine or Guia Completa de Las Tecnicas Culinarias

2009-01-03T14:13:00.000-08:00

American Macrobiotic Cuisine: A Macrobiotic Celebration of America's Ethnic Cooking

Author: Meredith McCarty

Here is a unique cookbook that blends the traditional cultural wisdom of the East with the culinary influences of the French, Greeks, Chinese, Mexicans, Native Americans, Japanese, and more. Expert chef and cooking instructor Meredith McCarty has created over one hundred kitchen-tested vegetarian recipes that are low in fat, yet rich in flavor - dishes that require no eggs, dairy food, or refined sugar or flour. And she has designed each recipe to be quick and easy to prepare. American Macrobiotic Cuisine begins with a clear explanation of what macrobiotic cooking is, the principles it is based upon, and the foods it encompasses. The chapters that follow then provide a wide variety of tantalizing recipes, from breakfast to beverages, soups to desserts. With an accent on health, Meredith shows what cooking magic can be performed using whole grains, beans, and soy-based foods, as well as land and sea vegetables. You'll learn how to make a wide assortment of savory dishes, from Minestrone Soup to Sesame Aspic to Green Corn Tamale Bake. In addition, the author offers easy-to-understand explanations of cooking techniques, presentation suggestions, and practical menu planning tips. She also includes a full week's worth of vegetarian menus for breakfasts, lunches, and festive international dinners. So whether you are making the transition to a vegetarian diet, are already a practicing vegetarian, or just want to add a little healthy variety to your everyday meals, you'll find American Macrobiotic Cuisine a welcome addition to your cookbook collection.

Guia Completa de Las Tecnicas Culinarias: Postres: Con Mas de 150 Deliciosas Recetas de la Escuela de Cocina Mas Famosa Del Mundo (Cordon Bleu)

Author: Le Cordon Bleu

From ice cream and gateaux to fruit and petits fours, this cookbook provides techniques and over 150 recipes for creating delicious and impressive desserts for every occasion. Inside are ideas for imaginative garnishes and stunning presentations that exhibit the culinary flair of Le Cordon Bleu. Illustrated with step-by-step sequences, it shows how to master every technique from the basic to the most advanced.

Desde helados hasta pasteles, pasando por frutas y decoraciones, este libro con más de 150 recetas de buen gusto, que caracterizan a Le Cordon Bleu, le guiará en la creación de postres deliciosos para cualquier ocasión. Proporciona ideas para guarniciones imaginativas y presentaciones sorprendentes. Es ilustrado con secuencias paso a paso que le enseñarán a dominar cualquier técnica y receta desde las básicas hasta las más avanzadas.

Bartending or Lipton Recipe Secrets Classic Recipes

2009-01-03T02:32:00.000-08:00

Bartending (Quamut)

Author: Quamut

Authoritative: Written by experts in their field so you have the most reliable information available.
Clear: Our explanations take you step-by-step through everything from performing CPR to threading a needle.
Concise: You’ll learn just what you need to know—no more, no less.
Precise: Quamut charts include detailed text, photos, and illustrations to show you exactly how to do just about anything.
Portable: Your know-how goes with you wherever your projects lead.

Stir up your own signature cocktail.

Whether you’re hosting a party, aiming for a bartending job, or just conjuring a cocktail for your own enjoyment, mixing drinks is a fun and worthwhile craft. Become the toast of the town by learning to:

Stock your bar with essential alcohol, mixers, tools, and glassware
Master techniques from stirring to shaking to cutting lemon twists
Mix more than 60 of the most popular cocktail recipes

Go to: Chocolate on Trial or Cooking the Italian Way

Lipton Recipe Secrets Classic Recipes

Author: Publications International

Lipton, a name you've trusted for decades, brings you this wonderful cookbook filled with time-tested recipes for dips, appetizers, casseroles, entrйes and side dishes. Includes more than 100 flavorful, versatile and easy recipes made with convenient Recipe Soup Mixes that transform ordinary foods into extraordinary fare.

750 Cocktails and Mixed Drinks or Cooking Club Cookbook

2009-01-02T16:51:00.000-08:00

750 Cocktails and Mixed Drinks: Everything a home bartender needs to know with 750 classic drinks and hot new combinations: The ultimate guide to classic mixes, coolers, breezers, blended drinks, smoothies and juices, with 1400 color photographs

Author: Stuart Walton

Aimed at the professional bartender, experienceced entertainer and enthusiastic home drinks mixer, this authoritative reference book is a comprehensive guide to all the classic, famous and popular drinks and how to measure, make and serve them.

Introduction     6
Bartending Techniques     12
Professional bartending     14
Planning a party     16
Alcohol and health     17
Bartending equipment     18
Glasses     26
Garnishes     28
Tricks and techniques of the trade     32
Classic Cocktails     36
Introduction     38
Types of Drinks     40
Spirits     42
Gin     44
Vodka     46
Rum     48
Whisky     50
Tequila     54
Brandy     55
Bitters     58
Calvados     59
Eau de vie     60
Kirsch     61
Slivovitz     61
Marc     62
Arak     62
Aquavit     63
Mescal     63
Liqueurs     64
Cointreau     66
Grand Marnier     67
Curacao     68
Mandarine Napoleon     69
Van der Hum     69
Aurum     69
Liqueur brandies     70
Creme liqueurs     71
Maraschino     72
Poire William     72
Sloe gin     72
Midori     73
Pisang Ambon     73
Southern Comfort     74
Sambuca     74
Ratafia     75
Amaretto     76
Malibu     77
Nut liqueurs     78
Tia Maria     79
Kahlua     79
Creme de cacao     80
Sabra     80
Tuaca     80
Cream liqueurs     81
Advocaat     82
Absinthe and Pastis     83
Anis     84
Chartreuse     85
Benedictine     86
Drambuie     87
Glayva     87
Goldwasser     88
Galliano     88
Kummel     89
Strega     89
Parfait Amour     90
Punsch     90
Pimm's     91
Suze     91
Cuarenta y Tres     92
Cynar     92
Kikor     93
Poncino Livornese     93
Monasterium     93
Wine, Champagne and Fortified Wines     94
White, red and rose wines     96
Champagne and sparkling wines     98
Port     100
Sherry     102
Madeira     103
Marsala     104
Muscat and Moscatel     105
Vermouth     106
Beer     108
Cider     121
Non-alcoholic Mixers     122
Water     123
Fruit juices     124
Sparkling beverages     126
Syrups     128
Coffee     130
Chocolate     132
Making Cocktails     134
Gin     136
Vodka     152
Rum     166
Whisky     180
Tequila     190
Brandy     196
Other spirits     210
Liqueurs     214
Wine and champagne     240
Fortified wines     246
Beer and cider     256
Non-alcoholic drinks     258
Juices and Smoothies     272
Introduction     274
Ingredients and Techniques     276
Buying produce     278
Citrus fruit      280
Orchard and stone fruit     282
Berries and currants     286
Exotic and other fruits     290
Root and tuber vegetables     294
Leafy and brassica vegetables     296
Vegetable fruits     298
Squash vegetables     299
Pod, shoot and bulb vegetables     300
Natural flavourings and health supplements     302
Nuts and seeds     306
Dairy and dairy alternatives     308
Sweeteners and other flavourings     310
Juicing and blending in a healthy diet     312
Vitamins and minerals     316
Juicing and blending techniques     318
Serving and storing juices, smoothies and blends     322
Making Juices and Smoothies     324
Super healthy juices     326
Vital veggie blends     340
Fresh and fruity     352
Extra exotic coolers     364
Easy breakfast blends     378
Smooth and simple     396
Cool creamy shakes     412
Drinks for kids     430
Crushes and slushes     446
Tempting dessert drinks     458
Real boozy blends     474
Perfect party drinks     490
Glossary     502
Index     504
Acknowledgements     512

Cooking Club Cookbook: Six Friends Show You How to Bake, Broil, and Bond

Author: Katherine Fausset

The Cooking Club Cookbook is the story of how six friends learned to cook, the meals they created, and the fun they had along the way. Filled with tales of broken broccoli Christmas trees and seduce-me steaks, this book is at once an easy-to-follow guide to starting a cooking club, a collection of menu suggestions, and an inspiration for anyone who’s ever wanted to feel really at home in the kitchen.

Having created hundreds of dishes, the members of the Cooking Club now offer tips for re-creating their culinary triumphs and avoiding their embarrassing mishaps. Chapters include “Stealing Home: We Raid Mom’s Recipes in Search of Cozy Cooking,” “Chow Bella: Like True Renaissance Women, We Master Six Regional Dishes,” and “Low-Fat Tuesday: The Lighter Side of Creole Cuisine.” The recipes range from the easy (Mini-Me Mac and Cheese) to the exotic (Cellophane Noodle Salad with Shrimp) to the downright elegant (Mussels in White Wine and Saffron Sauce). The Cooking Club Cookbook is an invaluable resource for a new generation of cooks, told in the voice of a best friend.

Recipe for a Cooking Club

Ingredients

• Six or so members, to taste
• One day a month, for meeting
• Tinfoil, for carting dishes between kitchens
• Sense of humor, plus extra for garnish
• The Cooking Club Cookbook—strongly recommended

1. Choose your members. A go-get-’em attitude is our only prerequisite, although you get extra points for having a dishwasher.

2. Plan a theme, such as Spanish, sexy foods, or Mardi Gras. Discuss menus in advance so you don’t endup with six desserts. (On second thought, that’s not such a bad idea . . . )

3. Cook at home and then bring your dish to the host’s house. You should be able to experiment with all foods, just no force-feeding. (Don’t think we haven’t tried.)

4. Eat. Drink. Compliment everyone’s dish. Have fun. It’s what will get you and the gang back into the kitchen month after month.

Traditions or Latin Chic

2009-01-01T01:45:00.000-08:00

Traditions

Author: Inc The Junior League of Little Rock

Originally published in 1983, Traditions has been re-released to a new generation of cooks and cookbook collectors. It contains 737 triple-tested recipes that are family favorites on many tables throughout the country. Treat yourself, your family, and your friends to this time-honored classic, and add the prized and much-loved recipes to your culinary collection.

New interesting book: New McDougall Cookbook or Busy Peoples Fun Fast Festive Christmas Cookbook

Latin Chic: Entertaining with Style and Sass

Author: Isabel Gonzalez

Hostesses Carolina Buia and Isabel González have been throwing parties with their signature Latin twists for years, not realizing that this phenomenon was taking hold across the nation. So the duo packed their bags and decided to share ten of their parties near and far, in places like New York, Miami, and Los Angeles, as well as Puerto Rico and Mexico.

With gatherings that range from casual and intimate to full-blown and formal, Latin Chic gives true inspiration to party hosts everywhere, no matter what the occasion. Turn a pool party into a sexy tapas affair featuring shaken Coconut Martinis and recipes for Asparagus Spears with Aïoli Caviar Dip and Peruvian Tuna Ceviche.

For fresh, healthful fare, look to "Latina Ladies Who Lunch." Try the Avocado Butter served on Cuban crackers, Cilantro Soup garnished with almonds, and Guava Coolers and Virgin Mojitos. And for a truly unforgettable night, you can't beat a Carnival-themed dance party, complete with Caipirinhas, Pisco Sours, Brazilian Moqueca, and Passion Fruit Mousse.

But there's more to Latin Chic than just fabulous food. Carolina and Isabel offer up dozens of tips on decorating, music, attire, and more. Learn the significance behind many Latin traditions, from gaucho attire to cigar etiquette.

Hundreds of full-color photographs capture the lush, vibrant spirit of the Latin world, transporting you to polo match in the Argentine pampa or a romantic seaside dinner in the Dominican Republic. Each chapter features the fashions of renowned Latin designers, including Carolina Herrera to Narciso Rodriguez.

Let the parties begin with Latin Chic, and let Carolina Buia andIsabel González be your hostesses.

What People Are Saying

Colin Cowie
Latin Chic is packed with sexy photographs in stunning locations. Its delicious recipes and gorgeous people offers us a window into a very elegant Latin lifestyle. These girls know how to live, party and have fun!

Carolina Herrera
I love the recipes of Latin Chic.... I love our creole food because it's full of flavors, sunshine, and Latin heat.

The Ultimate New York Body Plan or 300 Best Stir Fry Recipes

2008-12-31T16:03:00.000-08:00

The Ultimate New York Body Plan

Author: David Kirsch

“When I need to get in shape fast, I know that David’s the man . . .with David, I know I’ll get some real results.”
--Heidi Klum

“I work out with David Kirsch on a regular basis, but I really see his magic when I need to get in shape quickly for a film, event, or photo shoot. He puts me on a detailed but realistic program, that includes diet, supplements and exercise. Within two weeks I see huge results and feel stronger, healthier and 100 percent better inside and out.”
--Liv Tyler, actress

“When I first contacted David, I had five weeks to get in shape for my first movie role. His attitude and take-no-prisoners approach was not only inspiring, it was actually enjoyable! It was more than a workout; it was a lifestyle change.”
--Faith Hill

The ultimate body transformation--now with more tools and inspiration to help you get the envious body you want

Personal trainer and fitness guru to the stars David Kirsch has whipped into shape some of the most famous bodies in America. Supermodels Heidi Klum and Linda Evangelista, as well as celebrities such as Liv Tyler, have turned to David for his foolproof training regimen when they needed to get to their level of optimum fitness--fast. In The Ultimate New York Body Plan, David shows you how to burn fat and get fit in only two weeks—just in time for that class reunion or anniversary cruise.

300 Best Stir-Fry Recipes

Author: Nancie McDermott

The most complete book on stir-fries.

Stir-fries are an ideal way to prepare delicious, nutritious and internationally inspired meals quickly and easily. Novices and experienced cooks can create fantastic meals with just one wok, skillet or frying pan.

In 300 Best Stir-Fry Recipes, Nancie McDermott creates outstanding stir fries based on her extensive food and travel experiences. Here's just a sampling of recipes:

Chicken with honey-ginger sauce

Spicy beef in lettuce cups, Szechuan-style

Pork with fresh ginger and mushrooms

Ham with eggs, onions and peas

Shrimp with pineapple and peas

Catfish with turmeric and fresh dill

Shiitake mushrooms with Napa cabbage and peas

Sugar snap peas with garlic

Everyday fried rice, Thai-style

Egg noodles with barbecued pork and bokchoy

Lemongrass beef, Vietnamese-style

Sweet Chinese sausage with eggs, onions and peas.

In addition to thorough information on stir-frying traditions and techniques, there are recommendations for the best equipment. A comprehensive easy-to-follow pantry list and glossary enhance this quintessential stir-fry cookbook.

Acknowledgments     4
Introduction     5
History of Stir-Fry Cooking     6
Stir-Frying and the Modern Kitchen     6
Prep Work for Stir-Fry Cooking     7
Equipment Glossary     8
Ingredient Glossary     12
Chicken     21
Beef     55
Pork     87
Shrimp     121
Ham, Sausage, Lamb & Roasted Meats     149
Fish & Seafood     171
Meatless Mains     197
Vegetable Sides     225
Fried Rice     247
Noodles     277
Rice, Grains & Other Sides     313
Extras     331
Bibliography     345
Sources     346
Index     347

The Lowfat Jewish Vegetarian Cookbook or Gault Millau Guide to German Wines

2008-12-31T07:22:00.000-08:00

The Lowfat Jewish Vegetarian Cookbook: Healthy Traditions from Around the World, Vol. 1

Author: Debra Wasserman

Over 150 lowfat Jewish vegetarian recipes with an international flavor are profiled, including Rosh Hashanah dinner suggestions and 33 Passover dishes. One can feast on Romanian Apricot Dumplings, Polish Apple Blintzes, Czechoslovakian Noodles with Poppy Seeds, and Ukrainian Kasha Varnishkes. Celebrate with Eggless Challah, Purim Hamentashen, Chanukah Latkes, and more.

Gault Millau Guide to German Wines

Author: Joel Payn

In the last decade more and more German wines are again finding distribution in the U.S. The whites are light and elegant and offer great value; in particular the German Rieslings compete well with any other grape variety.

Divided by the major districts, the Gault Millau Guide to German Wines describes the individual regions, and their history and geography, commenting on well established growers and little-known, very often family-run vineyards.

This is an in-depth analysis and critique of the current German wine culture. It's layout is concise and clear, and the rating system is user-friendly. The range is vast and thorough, covering contact information for the producers, best estates, wines of the last three years, and a label primer. The Gault Millau Guide to German Wines embraces the whole spectrum of the world's most under-rated wine country and emphasizes the trend for elegant German Rieslings, Silvaner, and Muller Thurgau grapes, and the increasingly important Pinot Noirs.

Sweet Miniatures or Cooking with Marie

2008-12-30T19:41:00.000-08:00

Sweet Miniatures: The Art of Making Bite-Size Desserts

Author: Flo Braker

Award-winning author and acclaimed baking expert Flo Braker knows the best things come in small packages. Now this acclaimed author is back with a revised and expanded edition of her beloved Sweet Miniatures. Winner of the IACP Single-Subject Cookbook Award, Sweet Miniatures offers rich, all-new color photography, a whimsically appealing design, and step-by-step instructions for making all kinds of delectable desserts scaled down to an irresistible one-bite size. Miniature chewy Panforte di Siena, crispy Florentine Squares, and tangy Shreveshire Tarts will whisk family and friends away on an exciting mouthwatering journey. Little sweet somethings-Candied Almond Clusters, Golden Caramels, and Toffee Butter Crunch-make a thoughtful gift during the holidays. From cheerful Chocolate Hedgehogs to a set of Midas Cups for adding that golden touch to a festive soiree, Sweet Miniatures has all the right ingredients for creating the perfect bite-size morsel to suit any occasion. Michael Lamotte is a San Francisco-based photographer.

Go to: A Survival Guide for Restaurant Professionals or Public Relations Worktext

Cooking with Marie

Author: Marie Hejl

Focusing on healthy, easy-to-prepare dishes, this lavish cookbook contains 87 recipes for time-crunched cooks faced with the challenge of preparing meals for special occasions such as dinner parties, wedding showers, birthdays, or holiday lunches. Recipes are organized into seven chapters covering breakfast, lunch, appetizers, soups and salads, side dishes, main courses, and desserts. Detailed, step-by-step photographs show how to prepare each recipe and close-ups of the finished dishes are provided.

Austin Woman Magazine

Full of mouthwatering photographs that just seem to leap off the page

Big Book of Pasta or Fish Shellfish

2008-12-30T09:59:00.001-08:00

Big Book of Pasta: 365 Quick and Versatile Recipes

Author: Hilaire Walden

From smooth, creamy pappardelle with salmon and saffron sauce to tangy tagliatelle with chicken, lemon, and basil; from hearty, comforting pancetta and mushroom carbonara to fiery penne with anchovies, olives, and chili, these pasta dishes are absolutely intoxicating. Serving up both traditional and innovative recipes, this superb and expansive collection features 365 easy to make meals, all flavorful and with dozens of tempting variations. See how to whip up your own fresh pasta and an array of basic sauces, as well as pasta-based soups, meat, fish, and vegetarian feasts. There’s something wonderful to cover everyday lunches, snacks, and dinners, as well as more elaborate preparations for entertaining and special occasions.

Books about: A Handbook on the GATS Agreement or Native American Issues

Fish & Shellfish: The Definitive Cook's Companion

Author: James Peterson

Every few decades a chef or a teacher writes a cookbook that is so comprehensive and offers such depth of subject matter and cooking inspiration that it becomes a virtual bible for amateur and professional alike. Author James Peterson, who wrote the book Sauces, a James Beard Cookbook of the Year winner, and the incomparable Splendid Soups, once again demonstrates his connoisseurship with Fish & Shellfish, a monumental cookbook that will take its rightful place as the first and last word on seafood preparation and cooking.

Fish & Shellfish demonstrates every conceivable method for preparing sumptuous meals of fish and shellfish, from baking, braising, deep-frying, grilling and broiling to poaching, panfrying, marinating, curing and smoking, steaming, and microwaving. Whether your taste runs strictly to shellfish or to everything seafood, Fish & Shellfish offers the equivalent of a complete cookbook on each subject. Within the chapters on finfish you'll learn how to prepare enticing recipes remarkable for their ease of preparation, their versatility, and their originality Here Peterson offers such splendid flavors and textures as succulent Stuffed Striped Bass with Spinach, Shrimp, and Mushrooms; crunchy Halibut Fillets with Curry, Herbs, and Almond Crust; delicate Salmon Fillets A la Nage with Julienned Vegetables; savory Braised Tuna with Vegetables; and fiery Thai-Style Swordfish Satay.

If it's shellfish you prefer, there are pages and pages of recipes for baking, frying, steaming, or serving raw everything in a shell, including mussels, clams, oysters, scallops, lobster, shrimp, crab, and crayfish. Peterson explains how to judge freshness andhow to prepare shellfish delights, including lemony-flavored Steamed Mussels with Thai Green Curry; aromatic Littleneck Clams in Black BeanScented Broth; a simple and comforting Linguine with Clam Sauce; elegant Hot Oysters with Leeks and White Wine Sauce; rich and savory Braised Scallops with Tomatoes and Fresh Basil; Steamed Lobster with Coconut Milk and Thai Spices; Shrimp with Tomato Sauce, Saffron Aioli, and Pesto; hit-the-spot Sautéed Crab Cakes; and Japanese Style Grilled Squid, to name but a few of the brilliant and vast array of wonderful seafood selections.Fish & Shellfishalso offers techniques for preparing raw, marinated, cured, and smoked fish.

As you exploreFish & Shellfish, you'll learn not only the essentials of seafood preparation but everything in between, including how to make a curry sauce, which red wines to cook with, how to fry parsley, and how to make Vietnamese dipping sauces. You'll learn the secrets of a variety of coatings, how to blacken fish, add stuffings, and deglaze the pan for sauces, as well as discover the delights of salsas, chutneys, relishes, mayonnaises, and butters.

Here is seafood in every incarnation, from soups, stews, and pastas to mousses, soufflés, and salads. Try everything from pureed Marseilles-Style Fish Soup and Moroccan Swordfish Tagine with Olives and Saffron to Homemade Cuttlefish-Ink Linguine, and Crayfish Stew with Tomatoes, Sorrel, and Vegetables.

Jim Peterson has traveled the world and brought back the best international seafood flavors, textures, and techniques. Now you can improvise on your own with Thai marinades, Indian spices and condiments, and Japanese grilling methods, all of which play off more familiar ingredients to produce memorable dishes.

At the end of Fish & Shellfish you'll find a complete Finfish Dictionary, where you'll learn all you need to know about more than sixty species of saltwater and freshwater fish. There's also a 32-page section of color photographs that pictures many of the mouthwatering recipes in the book. And the step-by-step pictorials in the color section will show you how to prepare fish and shellfish for cooking.

James Peterson's books have been hailed as the most companionable and dependable of cooking guides. Replete with tables, timing charts, advice about equipment, safety preparations, a glossary of foreign ingredients, and an exhaustive index, Fish & Shellfish will give you the power of flexibility and spontaneity as it transforms you into an accomplished seafood cook. Here is a fundamental cookbook that you will come to depend on every time you think seafood-and now you'll be thinking seafood all the time.

Publishers Weekly

Peterson (Sauces and Splendid Soups) has compiled a comprehensive, deftly organized guide to the preparation of seafood. The volume's four easily cross-referenced parts begin with cooking techniques and recipes in "Finfish" and "Shellfish." "Seafood in Other Guises" contains recipes for salads, soups, stews and such dishes as Ricotta and Sage Agnolini in Tomato Shrimp Broth and Salmon and Smoked Salmon Mousse Napoleons. "Finfish Dictionary" includes tips for identifying and cooking more than 200 species. The impressive range of Peterson's 150-plus recipes moves from the simple (Baked Mackerel with Mustard and Bread Crumbs) to the more challenging (Curry-Flavored Monkfish Croquettes with Pear Chutney) and includes the unusual (Arctic Char Baked in Salt; Indian-Style Sweet-and-Hot Seafood Chowder with Coconut Milk). Sidebars and boxes include tips for such things as taking the meat from lobster shells and buying scallops or seasoned vinegar for sushi. Charts for traditional ethnic dishes offer at-a-glance guides to ingredients, flavors, enrichers and garnishes. Peterson's authoritative, informal prose style blends well with the book's organization to make this volume a reference sure to please amateur and professional cooks. Also included are a glossary, source list and color photos. Homestyle Book Club selection.

BookList

There is an incredible amount of information presented here, in headnotes preceding each of the more than 150 recipes, in the sidebars, and in the step-by-step photographs. The dishes represent innovative approaches to old and new cuisines; information on necessary equipment and notes from Peterson's own experience round out this outstanding cookbook.

Big Book of Pasta or Fish Shellfish

2008-12-30T09:59:00.000-08:00

Big Book of Pasta: 365 Quick and Versatile Recipes

Author: Hilaire Walden

Books about: A Handbook on the GATS Agreement or Native American Issues

Fish & Shellfish: The Definitive Cook's Companion

Author: James Peterson

Publishers Weekly

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Ligurian Kitchen or Healthy Eating for Pregnancy

2008-12-29T23:18:00.000-08:00

Ligurian Kitchen: Recipes and Tales from the Italian Riviera

Author: Laura Giannatempo

Born and raised in Torino, Italy, Laura Giannatempo spent most summers growing up at her family's seaside house in Liguria, a narrow strip of beautiful coastal land in the northwest of Italy known as the Italian Riviera. Here she developed a passion for the region's vibrant food--refreshing and piquant, best known for its lavish use of fish as well as fresh herbs and produce. A Ligurian Kitchen is a sophisticated love story between the author and the land whose foods and people she vividly describes. It's a lively, pulsating account of the intermingling of life and cuisine in the best tradition of the cookbook memoir.
Quintessential regional specialties such as Trofie con Pesto alla Genovese, (Trofie Pasta with Pesto, Green Beans, and Potatoes) and focaccia fill the book's pages, along with original dishes like Maltagliati con Pesto Piccantino (Fresh Maltagliati with Spicy Purple Pesto) and Ciuppin con Crostoni di Paprika (Ligurian Seafood Bisque with Paprika Crostoni). You'll be tantalized by the delights of seafood lasagna and olive oil gelato--but breezy tales of lovable uncles and a lyrical account of making pasta in the midst of a thundering storm tempt just as much.
With 100 delicious recipes and a beautiful selection of color photographs, Giannatempo takes you on a spirited gastronomic journey through "that extraordinary marriage of land and sea that is Ligurian cuisine." The recipes are peppered by zestful portraits of artisanal bread bakers and wine makers, along with evocative reminiscences that are part memoir, part diary and travelogue with a dash of humor.

October 2006 - Fine Cooking Magazine

A highly engaging, charmingly personal cookbook packed with authentic Ligurian recipes that can be recreated deliciously with American ingredients.

Book review: Bush Tragedy or The Conscience of a Conservative

Healthy Eating for Pregnancy: The Complete Guide to a Healthy Diet Before, During and After Pregnancy

Author: Amanda Grant

For the sake of herself and her child, every mother-to-be—or new mother who is breast-feeding her infant—should know these strategies for eating well and staying healthy. Complete with more than 40 nourishing and delicious recipes—including vanilla-roasted fruits and sweet potato frittata—Healthy Eating for Pregnancy gives women clear and concise answers to all their nutritional questions. It addresses eating to enhance fertility, the elements that make up a good pregnancy diet, food safety during this vulnerable time, and what your needs are during the first few weeks of motherhood. Find out which foods you can eat during pregnancy and which to avoid, and precisely how much of each nutrient you require and where to get it.

Prairie Table Cookbook or Connoisseurs Guide to Sushi

2008-12-29T12:36:00.000-08:00

Prairie Table Cookbook

Author: Bill Kurtis

The Prairie Table Cookbook includes great tasting recipes with a fascinating look at life and food on the cattle trails of the 19th century.

Tallgrass Beef represents a return to "classic" ranching- grass-fed, grass-finished cattle that produce meat that consistently tastes better and is better for you than grain-fed modern methods realize. Statistics show that demand for organic and natural food is increasing 20 percent per year, and Tallgrass itself is growing 20 percent each month.

The Prairie Table Cookbook will immerse readers in the cowboy's world, with anecdotes, letters and photographs
from the heyday of the Kansas cattle trade. Historical recipes "from the trail" sit next to their modern equivalents, using Tallgrass Beef. Celebrity chefs, such as Charlie Trotter and Rick Bayless, supply their favorite recipes.

Includes 77 great-tasting recipes suitable for modern kitches, plus many more presented as historical artifacts or for the truly adventurous modern chef. Plus read Bill Kurtis's insights about the grass-fed beef movement and how he came to found Tallgrass Beef.

New interesting textbook: The Psychology of Entertainment Media or Law for Advertising Broadcasting Journalism and Public Relations A Comprehensive Text for Students and Practitioners

Connoisseur's Guide to Sushi: Everything You Need to Know about Sushi Varieties and Accompaniments, Etiquette and Dining Tips, and More

Author: Dave Lowry

Sushi is now more popular than ever. With detailed explanations of everything from maki to sake, Dave Lowry demystifies the language, lore, and food that diners may encounter. He offers an alphabetical exploration of both the mainstays of the sushi restaurant and the more adventurous offerings and toppings.

Publishers Weekly

Lowry, restaurant critic for St. Louis Magazine, offers an amenable guide to the little-known (to Westerners) world of sushi. A sort of sushi appreciation course, the book covers everything from the cuisine's history (it wasn't until 1834 that people started eating the kind of sushi we're used to) to the various kinds of sushi (hand-pressed, wrapped and rolled, etc.) and a reasonably comprehensive explanation of ingredients like aji (horse mackerel), kajiki (swordfish) and uni (sea urchin). Lowry's easygoing style can get a little grating-as he sidetracks into his umpteenth foray, some readers may want to scream "get to the point already!"-but you can't fault him for being approachable. Among his lessons: adding wasabe to a dish of soy sauce for dipping is a big no-no, as is dipping a piece of nigiri sushi (rice with a slice of fish on top) into a bowl of soy sauce rice-side-down (flip the piece upside down just long enough so the fish side is touched with soy sauce). For many people, sushi restaurants are intimidating places, and Lowry's handbook will serve them well as a friendly lifeline. (Oct.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

Sushi bars and restaurants offer a dizzying and often confusing array of choices for diners unfamiliar with the specialized techniques and ingredients. Lowry, the restaurant critic for St. Louis Magazine, helps readers make those decisions and, in effect, become what he calls "sushi snobs." Although potentially useful abroad, this book focuses on what's found in American sushi restaurants. The text is organized into three parts: a profile of the different types of rice and sushi preparation methods, including seasonal and regional variations; an A-to-Z listing of fish and other ingredients; and coverage of side dishes, rituals, utensils, and sushi chef training. The author deftly defines the many sushi terms and uses romanized English spelling for Japanese words similar to those found on menus. Readers looking for recipes and preparation tips will be disappointed, but those seeking to maximize their sushi dining experiences will be delighted. Recommended for special collections and public libraries where there is local interest.-Andrea Dietze, Orange Cty. P.L., Santa Ana, CA Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Cocktail Basics or Miracle Juices

2008-12-29T00:55:00.000-08:00

Cocktail Basics

Author: Bibiana Behrendt

Cocktails are colorful and tasty. But are they basic? Sure! Discover them in this ultimate Basics know-how book. Learn all the cocktail mixing techniques and dive into 200 recipes from classics, long drinks, smoothies, pick-me-ups and tropical drinks. Mix it up. Easy and basic.

Miracle Juices: Over 50 Juices for a Healthy Life

Author: Charmaine Yabsley

Wholesome and invigorating juices are the ultimate all-in-one health drink. Consuming just one glass a day can provide all the vitamins and minerals you need, and this hugely appealing recipe book has more than 50 nutritious suggestions. Quick and easy to prepare, each drink is guaranteed to boost health and vitality and combats specific ailments, such as asthma and high blood pressure. Nutritional analyses detail the vitamin, mineral, and calorie content of the beverages so you can be sure that each miracle juice is helping you to maintain a balanced and healthy diet.

Vinegar or 70 Classic Pasta Sauces

2008-12-28T16:14:00.000-08:00

Vinegar: Making and Enjoying Vinegar

Author: Lawrence J Diggs

Authoritative reference work on vinegar for beginners, hobbyists, and professionals.

Vinegar is one of the most common, yet unique and wonderful, substances known to mankind. Think for a moment. What other substance can you name that can be found on the shelves of kitchens all over the world and in small villages as well as large cities? What else can be used almost irrespective of cultural or religious belief, as food, medicine, beauty aid, cleaner, and preservative? And finally, what other substance with all its uses, complexities and varieties can be simply, safely, and economically made at home? I know of none except vinegar.

This book will attempt to cover the subject of vinegar well enough to live up to its title Vinegar, The User Friendly Standard Text Reference and Guide to Appreciating, Making, and Enjoying Vinegar.

To keep the book as exciting as vinegar itself, much of the scientific jargon has been distilled away. That which remains is quite necessary to truly understand vinegar. Many photos and diagrams have been included to make it even more enjoyable.

70 Classic Pasta Sauces: The authentic taste of Italy--traditional sauces shown step-by-step in 300 easy-to-follow photographs

Author: Linda Fraser

Pasta is quick and easy to cook, economical and very nourishing - but it is the sauce that makes the dish. This marvellous collection of over 75 recipes offers an extensive repertoire of sauces, from classics, such as Spaghetti alla Carbonara, to innovat

In the Sweet Kitchen or Yummy Potatoes

2008-12-28T05:33:00.000-08:00

In the Sweet Kitchen: The Definitive Baker's Companion

Author: Regan Daley

This professional-quality, 704-page reference was singled out by the International Association of Culinary Professionals as the best cookbook of the year in 2000, in addition to being chosen as the best book of its category (Bread, Other Baking and Sweets).

What makes a book that special and that deserving? It's the wealth of information, the experienced voice, the eagerness to share. Celebrated pastry chef Regan Daley unravels the mystery of the baking process, explaining the "how" and "why" behind the components that go into making the perfect dessert, and provides the tools and information home bakers need to create delicious recipes of their own--in their own sweet kitchens. Includes 140 of Regan's favorite recipes.

Gourmet Magazine

...is as chunky as the best chocolate chip cookie with information and good recipes.

Los Angeles Times

...you can see for yourself that the award (IACP best cookbook of the year) was deserved.

Publishers Weekly

It is easy to see why the International Association of Culinary Professionals named this title 2001's Cookbook of the Year (published last year in Canada). As a pastry chef at some of the finest eateries in Toronto, Daley became convinced that it was the choice of ingredients that "made the greatest difference between a nice dessert, and one that was explosively flavorful and truly memorable." Fittingly, then, much of her book is devoted to ingredients: shopping guides, storage tips, preparation instructions and an occasional chemistry lesson about what they do. A section on tools is organized according to type and purpose; symbols designate their likely cost range, and Daley advises whether expensive items are necessary. She provides lucid explanations of sifting, folding and creaming, as well as helpful charts listing such items as flavored liqueurs and spirits, ingredient substitutions and compatible flavors. Daley's 140 recipes showcase the best of modern gourmet sensibility by encouraging simplicity and harmony as well as adventure and innovation: she includes classics like Chocolate Raspberry Torte and Wild Blueberry Pie as well as such bold creations as the Poppyseed Angelfood Cake with Grapefruit Curd; Polenta-Almond Cakes with Golden Raspberries and Cr?me Fra?che; Port Wine Jellies with Melon and Fresh Figs; and the humorously decadent S'mores Roulade. First published by Random House Canada, this book is an inspiration to novice and expert alike. Beautiful color photos. Agent, Susan Lescher. (Sept.) ~ Forecast: The IACP award, pleasing visuals and authoritative tone will help sell this impressive work. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

Obviously a labor of love, this ambitious handbook provides a thorough guide to the ingredients, equipment, and techniques used in baking; the 150 or so delectable recipes that make up the second half of the book are an added bonus. Daley, who worked as a pastry chef in some of Toronto's top restaurants, has an engaging conversational style, and even the most inexperienced home cook will find her book as unintimidating as it is informative. Professionals, too, will find it a handy reference. The recipes include both old favorites like Chocolate Chunk Cookies and sophisticated creations like Roasted Clementine and Chocolate Tart, as well as desserts Daley describes as "unashamedly trashy," such as her S'more Roulade. This book won the 2001 Book of the Year Award from the International Association of Culinary Professionals this spring, before it had an American publisher. Recommended for all baking collections. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Book about: Knife Skills in the Kitchen or More Bread Machine Magic

Yummy Potatoes: 65 Downright Delicious Recipes

Author: Marlena Spieler

Baked, mashed, boiled, or fried, potatoes are always yummy. In this collection of recipes dedicated to the humble spud, 65 mouthwatering dishes range from classic gratins to pan-fried potato cakes to hearty stews. French fries go Vietnamese when tossed into a terrific stir-fry, and potatoes take center stage in entr es like Malaysian Stew and the Mushroom Forager's Cottage Pie. Check out the 20 different ways to make mashed potatoes and the 25 variations on potato salad. With a short history of the tater and a description of its many varieties, vegetarians and meat-eaters alike will be craving some Yummy Potatoes.

Introduction     11
Breakfast Potatoes     22
The Best Hash Browns/Home Fries     24
Huevos Estilo Andalucia: Eggs Poached in Potato-Pepper-Tomato Sauce     27
Papeta pur Eeda: Parsee Potatoes with Cumin, Chile, and Poached Egg     28
Car Breakdown on a Greek Island, Mechanic's Flat Potato and Feta Omelet     30
Leah's Potato and Cheese Scramble     33
Corned Beef Hash a la James Beard     34
Tapas, Meze & Antipasti     36
The Olive Presser's Tortilla     38
Cazilli     40
Patatas a la Riojana     42
Tikki Aloo: Indian Potato Fritters     43
Rosemary Roast Potatoes with Black Olive-Rosemary Aioli     44
Bibeleskaes     46
Patatas a la Importancia     47
Grilled Marinated Potato Slices with Whole Green Onions and Romesco Sauce     49
Chermoula Potatoes     51
Potato Soup     52
Minestra al Orzo: Italian Alpine Soup of Broccoli, Barley, and Potato     55
Potato and Leek Soup from the Highlands of Scotland     56
Potato-Cauliflower Soup     58
Polish Pickle Soup     60
South Indian Potato-Coconut Soup     61
Aqua Cotta: GarlickyPotato-Tomato Broth with Arugula from the Maremma in Tuscany     62
Potato Salad     64
Salade Tiede aux Pommes de Terre et aux Lardons     68
Bruce's Deli Potato Salad     70
Old Country Potato Salad with Dill and Purslane     71
Causa a la Limono: Peruvian Mashed Potato Salad with Lemon, Olive Oil, Olives, and Chiles     72
Chef Arlene Coco's and Avery Island's Cajun Potato Salad     73
Bollywood Batata Bowl     75
Salade Russe: Russian Potato Salad with Beets, Chopped Pickle, and Fresh Dill     77
Boiled, Stewed & Saucy Sides     78
Raclette     81
Kartoffel mit Frankfurter Gruen Sosse: Hot Buttered Potatoes with Frankfurt Green Sauce     84
Papas Chorreadas: Potatoes with Spicy, Tomatoey Cheese Sauce     86
Yellow-Fleshed Potatoes with Asparagus, Duck or Goose Fat, and Truffle Paste     89
Aloo Tamatar Bhaji: Gingered Tomato-Curry Potatoes     91
Creamy Swedish Potatoes     93
Mashed and Crushed, on Your Plate or in a Bowl     94
Mashed Potatoes     98
Crazy Rich, Creamy Double-Garlic Mashed Potatoes     101
Crushed Potatoes with Olive Oil     103
Irresistible Basil Mashed Potatoes to Make You Swoon     105
The Prince's Potatoes: Mexican Mash from Highgrove     106
Aligot: Mashed Potatoes Whipped into a Garlic Frenzy with Lots of Melty Cheese     109
Baked, Roasted & Gratineed: As a Sideshow or Main Event     110
Gratin Girl's Potatoes: Classic Potato Gratin     115
It's All about the Potatoes! Potatoey Gratin     118
Patatas me Limono: Greek Lemon-Garlic Potatoes     120
Edouard's Frankfurt Book Fair Gratin, also known as Pommes a la Vignerons     122
Auntie Stellie's Twice-Baked Thanksgiving Potatoes     124
Gratin Forestier: Mighty Wild Mushroom Potato Gratin     127
Kate's Hasselbacks with Bajan Spicing     128
Fried in a Pan: Alongside Anything!     130
French Fries     133
Charles Phan's Slanted Door Tomato-Beef Stir-Fry with French Fries!     135
Kathleen's Potatoes with Rosemary, Bacon, and Duck Fat     136
Rockin' Fried Potatoes with Wild Citrus Mojo Sauce     138
Thin Wafers of Fried Potato with Preserved Lemon, Garlic, and Saffron Aioli     140
Pommes de Terra a l'Ail: Pan-Browned Potatoes with Garlic and Parsley     143
Latkes: Eastern European Jewish Potato Pancakes     144
Persian Saffron-Dill Pilaf with a Crisp Potato Crust     147
Potatoes for Dinner!      150
Pasta con le Patate: Pasta with Potatoes, Tomatoes, and Cheese, from Old Napoli     153
Kim's Carnitas with Potatoes     154
The Mushroom Forager's Cottage Pie     155
Roesti: Swiss Buttery Shredded Potato Cake     158
Enchiladas de Patatas: Potato Enchiladas with Red Chile Sauce and Melty Cheese     160
Bacalao con Papas: Salt Cod and Potatoes Stewed with Chorizo and Tomatoes     162
Traditional Ligurian Gnocchi with Fragrant Basil Pesto     164
Yellow Curry of Potatoes and Chicken     168
Savory, Spicy Middle Eastern Pot of Tomatoey Potatoes and Meat     170
Greek Veal, Pork, or Turkey, Stuffed with Feta and Braised with Wine and Potatoes     173
Malaysian Stew of Black Mushrooms, Tofu, Miso, and Potatoes     174
Patata Pitta: Crisp Filo Pies of Mashed Potato, Cheese, and Olive Paste     176
Index     177
Table of Equivalents     180

Slow Cookers Go Wild or Redeeming the Season

2008-12-27T19:52:00.000-08:00

Slow Cookers Go Wild!: 100+ Recipes for Wild Game

Author: Teresa Marron

Preparing meals in a crockpot, slow cooker, or low-temperature oven is very popular. This unique book gives cooks recipes and tips for preparing wild game with ease and skill. The focus is on preparation of big game, small game, upland birds, and waterfowl (venison, bear, elk, moose, rabbit, squirrel, turkey, pheasant, duck, goose, and more).

Includes information on the advantages and disadvantages of equipment and appliances. Also, how to match the type of meat to the appropriate recipe, cooking method, and appliance. More than 100 recipes are grouped into these categories: breakfast/brunch, appetizer/party, soup/stew/chili, sandwich, side dish, entree. Includes index.

Among the delicious recipes are: Italian Venison Stew; Quail and Rice Soup; Wild Boar Sauerbraten; Moose Au Jus; Elk Swiss Steak; Duck Frittata; Teriyaki Pheasant; and Sweet & Sour Rabbit.

Book about: Espresso Coffee or Tween Kwisine

Redeeming the Season

Author: Kim Wier

Redeeming the Season offers families the hope of reclaiming the spiritual significance of Christmas. Coauthored by two mothers who were searching to bring more meaning to their own family celebrations, this book offers ideas that are sane, simple, and original! At times both hilarious and heartwarming, Redeeming the Season will inspire readers to establish traditions that are meaningful and memorable.

Publishers Weekly

Think of this book as an evangelical Christian version of Unplug the Christmas Machine, Jo Robinson and Jean Coppock Staeheli's classic how-to guide to slowing down and creating a more meaningful, less commercialized Christmas. "The heart of Christmas is in savoring the Savior Himself and understanding that the tiny Baby in the manger had an enormous, eternal purpose," explain Wier and McCune. Christmas, they say, presents unique opportunities for telling others about Christ, and they include suggestions for various activities to spread that message. The holiday also offers chances for families to experience an unusual amount of togetherness, and is a time to create new traditions, such as reaching out to friends or family members who are facing their first Christmas after the death of a loved one. There is both tenderness and humor here, and evangelical readers who want to learn new ways to help others understand how "Jesus is the reason for the season" will greatly appreciate this book. (Oct.) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

History in a Glass or Essentials of Roasting

2008-12-27T11:11:00.000-08:00

History in a Glass: Sixty Years of Wine Writing from Gourmet

Author: Ruth Reichl

When Gourmet magazine debuted in the 1940s, America’s wineries were still reeling from the lingering effects of Prohibition and the loss of wines from war-torn Europe. But for every closed door, there was an open bottle: The bleak postwar years were actually a prelude to today’s unprecedented and widespread appreciation for the grape. New York Times bestselling author Ruth Reichl reread sixty-five years of wine articles in Gourmet to select the best for History in a Glass. The result is a rollicking tale of great meals, great walks, and wonderful drinks as Americans discover the pleasures of wine.
These marvelous essays were written by men and women who were not only on hand to witness wine’s boom but, in many cases, helped to foster the environment that made it thrive. The early days after World War II provided a great opportunity for James Beard and Frank Schoonmaker to reacquaint oenophiles with the joys of European wines. Through tireless dispatches from the Continent, they inspired American vintners to produce world-class wines on their own rich soil.
In subsequent pieces, an impressive, surprisingly diverse roster of writers revel in the sensual and emotional pleasures of wine: the legendary Gerald Asher reflects on the many faces of Chianti; Hillaire Belloc dispenses bits of wisdom by the glass to his niece on her wedding day; the science fiction titan Ray Bradbury rhapsodizes about the earthy pleasures of dandelion wine; Kate Colman explores the moral quandary surrounding a friend’s unintentionally generous gift of a rare Bordeaux; Hugh Johnson reports on Hungarian varieties during the height of Cold War tensions in the early 1970s; evenGourmet’s current spirits editor, James Rodewald, reminisces on the first time he fell in love–with a bottle of Pinot Noir.
With an Introduction by Ruth Reichl, and covering more than six decades of epicurean delights, History in a Glass is an astonishing celebration of all things good and grape.

Publishers Weekly

Gourmet's editor-in-chief peers into the archives for an intriguing perspective on wine-making history since the magazine's 1941 founding. Reichl culls from a cornucopia of famous food writers-Gerald Asher, James Beard, Frank Schoonmaker-and bares an unabashed boosterism for American wines. As Schoonmaker notes in a series of shimmering early pieces, American vintners had a grand opportunity for growth during the war years, with eminent French chateaux under German control, and yet American viticulture was still reeling from the abuses of Prohibition. Moreover, American vintners resisted using indigenous grape varieties, ignoring "the greatest natural grape-growing area on the earth's surface." With time, the second "American Revolution" was achieved, as Hugh Johnson and Frederick S. Wildman Jr. note enthusiastically in articles from the 1960s and '70s. Meanwhile, Gourmet's bon vivants traveled from France's Bordeaux, Burgundy, C te d'Or and Rh ne regions to Germany's Rhineland, Hungary's elusive Tokay and Spain's Sherry capital, Jerez de la Frontera. Hugh Johnson's supercilious essay "The Wines of Italy" (1972) asks sneeringly, "What great wines, if any, are there in Italy?" thus demonstrating the occasional datedness of the pieces. Wines of Chile, Australia and New Mexico have also inspired these literary oenophiles, happily so. (On sale Mar. 7) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

This sampling of columns from the past 60 years in Gourmet magazine touches on many aspects of wine and winemaking. Arranged by topic rather than chronologically, the signed and dated columns are not particularly in-depth but offer enjoyable eyewitness snapshots from a particular time and place. Their authors range from Gourmet's own columnists to notables like Ray Bradbury and James Beard. The first chapter focuses on the devastating impact of Prohibition on American winemaking and its struggles to recover in the late 1930s. Subsequent chapters cover everything from winemaking around the world to the impact of California wines. Editor Reichl (Tender at the Bone), who is currently editor in chief of Gourmet, contributes an introduction (which was not included in the proofs). Public libraries with strong wine history collections should consider adding this book; for all others it is an optional purchase.-Andrea R. Dietze, Orange Cty. P.L., Santa Ana, CA Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Essentials of Roasting: Recipes and Techniques for Delicious Oven-Cooked Meals

Author: Williams Sonoma

Williams-Sonoma Essentials of Roasting includes everything you need to know to roast successfully, from how to season food before cooking to how to test when food is perfectly done. More than 130 delicious recipes for starters and small plates, a variety of meats and poultry, fish and shellfish, and vegetables and fruit, all with clear directions, encourage you to put your newfound knowledge to work. Beautifully photographed, this comprehensive teaching volume and recipe collection will be an "essential" addition to your cookbook shelf. A chestnut-brown turkey with garlic and herbs hidden beneath its crisp skin. A whole sea bass perfectly cooked inside a coarse-salt crust. Thick, Caribbean-inspired pork chops basted with a tropical blend of lime, brown sugar, and dark rum. Slender fingerling potatoes shiny with olive oil and flecked with fresh herbs. Warm, tart apples spiced with cinnamon and served with a silky creme anglaise. The secrets behind roasting these tantalizing dishes and dozens more can be found in Williams-Sonoma Essentials of Roasting.

This information-packed volume opens with a brief history of roasting and a discussion of the many ways that this technique transforms and enhances food. Comprehensive descriptions cover the types of roasting and explain every stage of the roasting process, from preparing the food to properly testing the food for optimum doneness, providing all the knowledge you need to roast even without a recipe. Detailed instructions and step-by-step photographs show how to make accompanying sauces and gravies. Roasting pans, thermometers, and other equipment and tools are clearly described and pictured. Five chapters, with more than 130 traditional and innovative recipes, offer a broad range of irresistible ideas for preparing starters and small plates and for roasting fish and shellfish, poultry, meats, and vegetables and fruits. The chapters begin with advice on buying and preparing their subjects, and the recipes, each handsomely photographed, balance everyday fare, such as winter squash soup, meat loaf, and spareribs, with special-occasion dishes, including Christmas goose and standing rib roast with Yorkshire pudding. Delicious recipes for seasonings, sauces, and both savory and sweet accompaniments to roasted foods; illustrations and descriptions of beef, pork, and lamb cuts; instructions on trussing and carving; and an informative glossary complete this indispensable volume, leaving you fully prepared to turn on the oven and start roasting.

Texas Cowboy Kitchen or 125 Best Vegan Recipes

2008-12-26T23:30:00.000-08:00

Texas Cowboy Kitchen

Author: June Naylor

Cowboy-turned-chef Grady Spears reinvents chuckwagon dishes from Barbecued Quail Tamales to Pork Tenderloin with Watermelon Salsa to Butterscotch Pie by elevating them to haute cowboy cuisine.Divided into 10 chapters ranging from "Campfire Cocktails" to "Things You Don't Rope" to "Chuckwagon Secrets," The Texas Cowboy Kitchen contains 100 original recipes perfected at Spears's renowned former restaurants, the Chisholm Club in Fort Worth, Texas, and the Nutt House Restaurant in Granbury, Texas—both of which satisfied wagonloads of hungry customers.

Foreword   Nolan Ryan     9
The Chisholm Trail   Douglas Harman     10
Cowboy Photographer   Barbara McCandless     12
Introduction     14
Just for Starters     17
Soups, Salads, and Sides     34
The Texas Chef's Corral     60
From the Butcher Shop     83
Things You Don't Rope     105
From the Pantry and Larder     127
From the Bakery     159
Before the Bedroll     176
Campfire Cocktails     197
Chuck-Wagon Secrets     214
Sources and Resources     221
Index     224
Acknowledgments     228

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125 Best Vegan Recipes

Author: Maxine Chuck

Delicious easy-to-prepare vegan recipes.

The vegan lifestyle is becoming more and more popular. There are many different reasons for not eating meat, milk, or eggs. Yet all vegans desire tantalizing dishes and meal ideas.

125 Best Vegan Recipes offers appealing recipes for everything from soups, salads and wraps, to pasta and grains, and desserts and baked goods. Many families have at least one adolescent vegan and need kid-friendly recipes the whole family will enjoy. Far from the mundane, these creative recipes have an international flair, are easy to execute, and guarantee delicious results every time.

Here's just a sampling:

Spicy Black Bean Dip

Hot and Sour Udon Noodle Soup

Corn Meal Waffles with Wild Blueberry Compote

Penne with Sautéd Mushroom Marsala and Caramelized Onion

Spaghetti and Soy Meatballs

Pistachio Biscotti

Cranberry Orange Scones.

Besides the outstanding recipes, there is also nutritional information helpful to the vegan lifestyle. To aid in meal planning and preparation, there is a useful vegan pantry list with freezer recommendations. For vegans or even those considering the vegan lifestyle, this cookbook is vital.

Indian Cooking or Michael Broadbents Pocket Vintage Wine Companion

2008-12-26T13:49:00.000-08:00

Indian Cooking

Author: Jan Purser

Indian Cooking presents a collection of over 60 authentic and yet simple dishes from across the regions of India, some of which are familiar and others of which are inspirational. From the basic spice mixes so important to Indian cooking, to the crisp and light dosai from southern India, to the creamy homemade ice cream called kulfi, the dishes within are superb on their own or when served in combination as a traditional thali-style meal.

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Michael Broadbent's Pocket Vintage Wine Companion: Over Fifty Years of Tasting Over Three Centuries of Wine

Author: Michael Broadbent

Michael Broadbent almost certainly knows more about fine wine than anyone else in the world. He recently celebrated the completion of half a century in the wine trade and the publication of Vintage Wine, his first major book for more than a decade and his most important work to date. Building on his earlier works but concentrating on the world's great classic wine regions, it was both the ultimate fine wine reference book and a remarkable record of a lifelong passion.
Pocket Vintage Wine is an updated pocket version of this classic and award-winning book and presents Michael Broadbent's tasting notes in a format you can carry with you, so that whether traveling, buying at auction, or dining out you can have his unrivaled expertise at your fingertips. Here are Michael's most important notes from Vintage Wine, along with hundreds of new notes on the finest wines Michael has tasted since Vintage Wine was published in 2002.

Guinness 1886 1939 or Vietnamese Cooking

2008-12-26T02:08:00.000-08:00

Guinness 1886-1939: From Incorporation to the Second World War

Author: Oliver McDonagh

For most of the period 1886-1939, Guinness was the largest and most successful brewery in the world. It was easily the leading international enterprise in what is now the Irish Republic, dominant in the home market, a key player in the British, and increasingly significant in the pre-war overseas trade. Its remarkable growth in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries owed much to its differences from other large breweries. Unlike them it concentrated on a single product - - stout --, and had no capital locked away in tied houses. It also gained from the lengthy, shrewd family management of the first Lord Iveagh and from investing early in scientific inquiry, barley and hop research, and the employment of scientists as its managerial caste.

The First World War produced a more hostile climate for the company, for many reasons but chiefly by changes in excise duty, as well as difficulties of maintaining sales as the post-war depression approached. The step that Iveagh had long resisted - -advertising - - had at last to be adopted. Characteristically Guinness leapt to the front immediately in this field too.

This is the story of the company's rise to high prosperity and subsequent struggle to hold its ground in an increasingly inimical environment. It is also the story of a company unique in its recruitment, welfare, and industrial relations systems, which insulated Guinness to a remarkable degree against the vicissitudes of Dublin life in the stormy years between the heyday of Home Rule and Hitler's precipitation of world conflict in 1939

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A history of the Guinness brewing company, told from the inside and based on internal records. This account reflects the company's detachment from both its own industrial context and the general course of outside events. Includes chapters on sales and profits, the development of scientific brewing, employees, and raw materials. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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	Preface
1	Partnership and Sole Proprietorship 1868-86	1
2	The Incorporation	16
3	Management, Sales, Costs and Profits 1886-1914	29
4	The Organisation and Problems of Trade 1886-1914	49
5	Foreign Trade 1886-1914	61
6	The Development of Scientific Brewing	77
7	Raw Materials: Barley, Malt and Hops 1886-1914	94
8	The Employees: Work and Welfare 1886-1914	115
9	Industrial Relations 1886-1914	134
10	The War Years 1914-18	149
11	The Decline in Sales 1920-7	160
12	Trade, Advertising and Profits 1928-39	176
13	Foreign Trade 1914-39	193
14	Raw Materials: Barley and Malt 1914-39	203
15	Raw Materials: Hops 1914-39	218
16	The Brewery's Employees: Industrial Relations and Welfare 1914-39	231
17	A Brewery in England	248
18	Conclusion	263
	Appendices	271
	Note on Sources	273
	Index	275

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Vietnamese Cooking: Over 60 Step-by-Step Recipes in 250 Stunning Photograph

Author: Ghillie Basan

With a whole host of mouth-watering dishes, from soups and noodles to vegetable dishes and sweet snacks, this book will help you explore the essence of Vietnamese culinary tradition.

Basque Table or Cooking Light Annual Recipes 2006

2008-12-25T16:27:00.000-08:00

Basque Table: Passionate Home Cooking from Spain's Most Celebrated Cuisine

Author: Teresa Barrenechea

Originally published in hardcover in 1998, The Basque Table is now available in paperback. Although popular in the '90s, Spanish food has since become one of the hottest trends in the culinary world! With Spanish tapas restaurants popping up all over, more and more people across the globe are learning to love the fresh and wholesome flavors that characterize Spanish, and especially Basque, cuisine. This book offers 130 authentic recipes for every course from an expert on Basque regional cooking.

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Cooking Light Annual Recipes 2006

Author: Cooking Light Editors

Hold on to your spatulas-it's the 10th anniversary edition of this always-popular collection. Now, more than ever, readers are flocking to Cooking Light, and this annual volume packs in all the healthy, easy-to-make recipes from every issue of Cooking Light for 2005.

Seasoned and novice cooks alike love this all-around resource for everything cooking-related: tips, techniques, planning, preparation, presentation-it's all here, and in the lighter versions we all crave.

Features: 10th Anniversary Collector's Edition; More than 1,000 kitchen-tested recipes-a year's worth of Cooking Light magazine
Great-tasting, good-for-you, easy-to-prepare recipes make eating smart a culinary delight
Get skinny versions of traditional favorites, international cuisine, and classic comfort foods
Triple-indexed so you can find what you need in a flash; Over 40 black & white technique/how-to photos

	Lobster Louie's	5
	Liberty's Diner	39
	Beefy Stu's	75
	Whistlin' Dixie Diner	113
	Cactus Slim's	149
	Salmon Patty's	187

1	About mealtimes and being together	15
2	Dementia	21
3	Mealtimes used as a purposeful activity	41
4	The relationship between ideal and practical reality	71

	Introduction	4
	Appetizers	10
	Entrees	24
	Side salads	42
	Buffet	58
	Glossary	74
	Conversions	76
	Index	78

	Introduction: Do Women Like to Cook?	xvii
1	The Housewife's Dream	1
2	Something from the Oven	41
3	Don't Check Your Brains at the Kitchen Door	85
4	I Hate to Cook	129
5	Is She Real?	169
6	Now and Forever	211
	Epilogue	249
	Notes	255
	Bibliography	285
	Permissions and Credits	295
	Index	297

	Introduction	1
	What is Macrobiotic Cooking?	3
	Breakfasts	15
	Soups, Broths, and Stews	19
	Whole Grains	25
	Table Seasonings	45
	Vegetables from Land and Sea	49
	Salads	61
	Beans and Soyfoods	71
	Sauces, Spreads, Dressings, Dips, and Gravies	79
	Pickles	83
	Desserts	87
	Beverages	95
	Index	103

	Preface	6
	Roasting, Past and Present	8
	Types of Roasting	11
	Equipment for Roasting	14
	Roasting Basics	18
	Starters and Small Plates	26
	Fish and Shellfish	60
	Poultry	94
	Meats	158
	Vegetables and Fruits	232
	Basic Recipes	278
	Basic Techniques	282
	Beef, Lamb, and Pork Cuts	288
	Glossary	294
	Index	298

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Sushi or 500 Low Fat Fruit and Vegetable Recipes

Sushi

500 Low-Fat Fruit and Vegetable Recipes: The One-Stop Source for Heathful, Great-Tasting Meals

Clasicos de carne or New Celtic Cooking

Clasicos de carne: De un toque especial a sus platos de carne con sugestivas y deliciosas ideas

New Celtic Cooking

The Wilderness Chef or Joy of Eating

The Wilderness Chef: Gourmet Recipes for the Great Outdoors

Joy of Eating: The Virago Book of Food

Baking Cookies or Importance of Food and Mealtimes in Dementia Care

Baking Cookies (Quamut)

Importance of Food and Mealtimes in Dementia Care: The Table Is Set

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The Country Gourmet or Carnal Appetite

The Country Gourmet: Easy Country Recipes and Memories of Mama

Carnal Appetite: Food Sex Identities

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The Diet Code or Pizza

The Diet Code: Revolutionary Weight Loss Secrets from Da Vinci and the Golden Ratio

Pizza!: Deliciosas recetas para hacer basos y cubiertas para los amantes de la pizza

Great Soup Empty Bowls or Classic and Contemporary Christmas Cakes

Great Soup Empty Bowls: Recipes from the Empty Bowls Fundraiser

Classic and Contemporary Christmas Cakes

Food and Cookery for the Sick and Convalescent or A Handbook of Invalid Cooking

Food and Cookery for the Sick and Convalescent

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A Handbook of Invalid Cooking

Cultures of Taste Theories of Appetite or Lorenzas Italian Seasons

Cultures of Taste/Theories of Appetite: Eating Romanticism

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Lorenza's Italian Seasons: 200 Recipes for Family and Friends

River Cottage Cookbook or Curious Cook at Home

River Cottage Cookbook

Curious Cook at Home

Al Dente or Little Cafe Cakes

Al Dente: The Adventures of a Gastronome in Italy

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Little Cafe Cakes

Al Dente or Little Cafe Cakes

Al Dente: The Adventures of a Gastronome in Italy

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Little Cafe Cakes

Visual Vegetables or Salad Perfection with DVD

Visual Vegetables: Appetizing Images and Recipes for Cooks

Salad Perfection with DVD

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The Peach Sampler or Taste of Thyme

The Peach Sampler

Taste of Thyme: Culinary Cultures of the Middle East

Feast of Words or Just Wed Cook Book

Feast of Words: Banquets and Table Talk in the Renaissance

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Just-Wed Cook Book

Diet Chefs Low Calorie Gourmet Cookbook or 12 Seasonsunder the Florida Sun

Diet Chef's Low-Calorie Gourmet Cookbook

12 SeasonsUnder the Florida Sun

Eating Your Words or Real Cheese Companion

Eating Your Words: 2000 Words To Tease Your Taste Buds

The New York Times - Tobin Harshaw

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Real Cheese Companion: A Guide to Best Handmade Cheeses of Britain and Ireland

Food Alert or Bowlfood Cookbook

Food Alert!

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Bowlfood Cookbook: Over 200 Dazzling and Eclectic Recipes from the Restaurant Lola Bowla

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Rio Riches or Classic Japanese

Rio Riches: Recipes Celebrating The Rich Natural Diversity Of The Rio Grande Valley

Classic Japanese

Take Three or Delia Smith

Take Three

Delia Smith: The Biography

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Food and Cultural Studies or Cooking in America 1840 1945

Food and Cultural Studies

Cooking in America, 1840-1945

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