Diet & Nutrition Books

After Work Cookbook or Country Cooking in Mendocino

2009-12-06T14:09:00.000-08:00

After Work Cookbook

Author: Chrissie Taylor

This new book shows how you can turn 'convenience foods' into mouthwatering dishes quickly and easily, without any previous expertise. Each recipe has been specially designed and tested to transform everyday low-cost ingredients into good restaurant style cuisine. With well-chosen herbs and garnishes to add that pleasing touch so often lacking in hasty snacks.

New interesting book: Claudette Colvin or Santa Mouse

Country Cooking in Mendocino: Recipes from Mendocino County's Renowned Caterer Jeanette Stroh

Author: Debbie Reardan

Jeanette Stroh launched her cooking career at the age of three when she enhanced her brother's prized butterfly collection by mixing it into a jar of peanut butter. Her passion for food led her to baking for local retailers, and finally to Jeanette's Country Cooking, the catering business she ran for over 20 years. Jeanette's reputation for hearty country cooking reached from Mendocino County, 150 miles south to San Francisco. Her barbecued tri-tip roasts, homemade pies, and tasty appetizers never failed to satisfy her customers. This compilation of 206 of Jeanette's best country recipes was assembled and tested by Jeanette's daughter, Debbie Reardan.

Rhubarb or Superfeast

2009-12-05T10:28:00.000-08:00

Rhubarb: More than Just Pies

Author: Sandi Vitt

Charming and surprisingly versatile, rhubarb is a vastly underappreciated delicacy. This welcome cookbook includes recipes that will transform the hearty garden staple into a myriad of culinary delights, from sumptuous main courses to delicious cobblers, crisps & puddings. Includes an informative introduction by expert gardener Lois Hole and a guide to further reading. All ingredients given in both imperial and metric measurements.

Book about: My Ear Hurts or The Atkins Essentials

Superfeast: Food and Juices for Health

Author: Michael Van Straten

The key to a long and healthy life is to understand exactly how to make the most of natural foods and to combine them in cunning and imaginative ways to achieve gorgeous flavours as well as maximum health and nutritional benefits. Superfeast is a one-stop shop of the hundred best super foods, super drinks and top recipes that allow you to create your own healthy feast. Armed with this knowledge, you can be good to yourself and feel much better while munching, crunching, sipping and slurping your way to food heaven. Eat, drink and enjoy...

Introduction     7
How to use this book     8
Shopping for good health     10
Organic food: is it worth it?     12
Taking the waters     14
Superfoods     21
Vitamins & minerals     108
Superfeasts     123
Vitality     124
Aphrodisiac     142
Protective     158
Pick-me-up     172
Calming     188
Low-carb     204
Cleansing     220
Supercures     237
Healthy heart     238
Healthy joints     244
Hypertension     246
Cancer prevention     250
Food allergies     258
Pregnancy     264
Children     270
Women     280
Healing foods     288
Index     299

Beef or Practical Cook Book

2009-12-04T06:46:00.000-08:00

Beef (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:

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.

Beef, explained.

Everything you need to know in order to buy and prepare perfect beef every
time, including:

The different grades and nutritional value of beef
What to look for when buying beef, and how to store it after you buy
A breakdown of all the different cuts of beef, and how to cook each type

Interesting book: America or Venice

Practical Cook Book

Author: Suzanne Tracy

Based upon her practical experience as a cookery teacher, Suzanne Tracy's 1908 Practical Cook Book puts into print many of the lessons and recipes she taught her students.

Once Upon A Recipe or Managing Frozen Foods

2009-12-03T03:05:00.000-08:00

Once Upon A Recipe: Favorite Recipes from Friends of the YMCA of Middle Tennessee

Author: YMCA of Middle Tennesse

Create magic in your kitchen, with balanced eating, while feeding the troops that surround you. Get the kids involved with the "Kids in the Kitchen" recipes. Send your favorite athletes on a winning streak with recipes from the Nashville Predators, the Tennessee Titans, the Nashville Kats, and Peyton Manning of the University of Tennessee and the Indianapolis Colts.

Go to: Hells Cartel or Legal Nurse Consulting

Managing Frozen Foods

Author: Chris Kennedy

Based on work with more than 30 industrial and academic organizations, including Nestle, Unilever, and Danone, this book provides a unique overview of the entire supply chain. Noting the key quality factors at each stage of production, distribution and retail sales of frozen food, this book will demonstrate why quality is a fundamental advantage in this multi-billion dollar industry. Frozen Foods are no longer the "step-child" of the food industry. Bland basic staples have given way to a new line of items containing high-quality ingredients that not only are tasty, but nutritious, too. Managing Frozen Foods traces the roots of frozen food from Clarence Birdseye to the present and explains what made tonight's dinner reality—and what will make tomorrow's even more safe and delicious. This book will serve as an invaluable resource for technicians and engineers within the frozen food industry, as well as a useful reference for students of food science and technology.

Cooking on Wheels or Delicious Heart Healthy Meals in No Time

2009-12-01T23:24:00.000-08:00

Cooking on Wheels: Trailer Folks Favorite Recipes

Author: Rver Anni

Do trailer folks like to cook? Yes & no! Favorite recipes usually means fastest, easiest & tastiest. This cookbook brings you your favorite recipes & they wont take away from your RVing fun. Covers: appetizers & soups; salads; breads; vegetables; eggs; main dishes; desserts & sweets; & trailer kids favorite recipes. Illustrated.

Book about: How to Grill or 366 Low Fat Brand Name Recipes in Minutes

Delicious Heart Healthy Meals in No Time

Author: Charlene Bolstad

If you think "heart-healthy" means bland, dry food, think again. Delicious Heart Healthy Meals In No Time is the heart-conscious person's "food bible." Full of recipes you can make quickly and easily, you can awake your bored taste-buds to a new world of mouth-watering, low-fat, low-cholesterol meals. By using easy-to-find ingredients and giving you tips on food substitutions, dietary menu planning and ways to cook ahead for the week, you will be eating healtheir, tastier meals in no time!

Introduction.
1. What's on the Menu for Breakfast?
Warm Strawberry Pizzas with Powdered Sugar.
Fresh Berry & Pecan Breakfast Parfaits.
Chocolate Banana Breakfast Freeze.
Venetian Artichoke & Tomato Frittata.
English Grilled Tomatoes with Havarti Dill Cheese.
Rosemary Roasted Potatoes with Eggs & Chives.
High-Powered Almond Smoothie.
Ginger & Pineapple Soaked Fresh Oranges.
Spanish Cowboy Ranch Toast.
Sunny Lemon Muffins.
Breakfast Blueberry Applesauce Muffins.
Golden Breakfast Waffles with Blueberry Syrup.
Spinach & Ricotta Cheese Quiche.
Green Chile Breakfast Burritos.
Frozen Peanut Butter & Honey Crunch.
Buckwheat Pancakes.
Pear Ginger Sizzle.
Banana Lemon Nut Bread.
Breakfast Raspberry Banana Trifle.
Roasted Asparagus Omelet.
Mediterranean Scramble.
Greek Salsa.
Southwestern Breakfast Sausage.
Artichoke, Egg, & Tomato Ramekins.
2. What's on the Menu for Lunch?
Fresh Fruit and Cheese Pita Sandwiches.
Tomato, Avocado, & Sautéed Red Onion Sandwiches with Almond Spread.
Almond Spread.
Smoked Turkey & Cranberry Sauce Whole Wheat Wraps.
Hearty Lentil & Bacon Soup.
Honey Mustard Chicken Salad.
Lemon Pepper Chicken Wraps.
Feta Cheese & Pear Tomato Focaccia.
Summer Avocado & Cucumber Soup.
Spicy Italian Calzone.
Artichoke & Chickpea Pita Sandwiches.
Turkey Breast, Red Potato, & Jicama Salad.
Hearty Minestrone Soup.
Chicken & Mexican Cheese Tostaditas.
Roasted Mediterranean Vegetable Sandwiches.
Cream of Roasted Red Pepper Soup.
Cold Buster Chicken Noodle Soup.
Garden FreshGazpacho.
New York Reuben.
Lowfat Thousand Island Dressing.
Savory Roast Beef Focaccia.
Joe's Diner Portobello Burger.
San Francisco Cobb Salad.
Lowfat Ranch Dressing.
Ceviche.
Italian Strata.
3. Is It Snacktime Yet?
Mix with a Kick.
Crispy Crunchy Chicken Nuggets.
Fresh Vegetable Avocado Dip.
Spicy Asian Meatballs.
Orange-Sesame Sauce.
Super-Quick Pizza.
Hummus.
Baked Pita Triangles.
Jumbo Shrimp Platter with Zesty Cocktail Sauce.
Jumbo Shrimp Platter.
Curried Turkey Lettuce Roll-ups.
Mango Salsa Fresca.
Caliente Corn Chips.
Belgian Endive Canapés.
California Quesadillas.
Hot Pepper Shooters.
4. What's on the Menu for Dinner?
Garden Vegetable & Brown Rice Skillet.
Sliced Pork Tenderloin Salad with Raspberry Vinaigrette Dressing.
Grilled Swordfish with Garlic & Roasted Tomato Salsa.
Red Onion & Scalloped Potato Bake.
Ginger & White Wine Salmon Steaks.
Sour Cream Mashed Potatoes with Basil Herb Gravy.
Italian Stuffed Meatloaf.
Chicken Piccata.
Chicken Baked in Sherry with Root Vegetables.
Portobello Lasagna.
Greek Stuffed Eggplant.
Sesame Sake Tofu.
Hearty Southwestern Chile.
Sausage with Peppers and Onions.
Flounder En Papillote.
Tuscan Rolled Flank Steak.
Tilapia with Orange-Tarragon Sauce.
Shrimp Fra Diavolo.
Seared Ahi on Baby Greens with Shiitake Dressing.
Mediterranean White Beans.
Roasted Winter Vegetables.
Stir-fried Broccoli.
Stuffed Artichokes.
Wild Rice & Spinach Bake.
5. What's on the Menu for Dessert?
Yogurt Cheese.
Yogurt Pumpkin Dream.
Pear Crumble with Vanilla Yogurt Topping.
Latticed Apple Pie.
Chocolate Walnut Brownies.
New York-Style Cheese Cake.
Oatmeal Raisin Cookies.
Brandied Baked Apples.
Angel Food Cake.
Berry Orange Sorbet.
6. What's on the Menu for Special Occasions & Entertaining?
Summer Family Fiesta.
Menu:
Tex-Mex Beef Fajitas.
Black Bean and Corn Salad.
Mixed-Grill Summer Vegetables.
Summer Fruit Kebabs.
Strawberry Mango Margaritas.
Cozy Little Dinner Party.
Menu:
White Bean Spread with Herbed Pita.
Apple-Stuffed Pork Chops.
String Beans with Walnut Oil.
Risotto with Petite Peas and Parmesan.
Baby Spinach Salad with Champagne Vinaigrette.
Christmas Morning Brunch.
Menu:
Classic Eggs Benedict.
Lowfat Hollandaise Sauce.
North-South Praline Scones.
Cinnamon Honey "Butter".
Baked Pears with Currents and Cranberries.
Mock Cappuccino Chiaro.
New Year's Eve Celebration.
Menu:
Baked Egg Rolls.
Far-East Dipping Sauce.
Crudités Platter.
Smoked Salmon Dip.
Confetti-Herbed Potatoes.
Southwestern Artichoke Dip.
Stuffed Mushroom Bites.
Wine Spritzers.
7. Heart-Healthy Planning & Heart-Healthy Eating…Any Time of Day.
FDA Definitions.
Fat.
Saturated Fat.
Cholesterol.
Claims for Meat and Poultry.
Healthy.
Fiber.
Portion Sizes.
Alcohol Recommendations.
The Kitchen Collection.
Herbs, Spices, Seasonings, & Extracts to Stock.
Grains, Pasta, & Mixes to Stock.
Frozen Foods to Stock.
Miscellaneous Items to Stock.
Refrigerated Items.
Index.

Food or My Favorite Cookbook

2009-11-30T19:42:00.000-08:00

Food: The Definitive Guide

Author: Jill Davies

Almost everyone has an opinion on the food they eat or don't eat. We acquire these opinions from a host of sources starting with what we ate as children. Later in life many other influences develop and change our point of view. The accuracy and nature of the information upon which our choices are based have become critical to the relationship between health and diet.

Booknews

Concentrates on food and diet from a scientific angle and focuses on choosing food, food components, and evaluation of food intake. Covers fats and oils, carbohydrates, proteins, minerals and vitamins, and non-nutrients such as preservatives and pesticide residues. Explains concepts such as rancidity and antioxidants, and water-soluble and fat-soluble vitamins. Discusses the relationship between religions and dietary issues. Scientific and readable. Lacks a bibliography. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

My Favorite Cookbook: A Collection of Recipes

Author: Theresa M Cross

Great cooking begins with a passion for great food! This cookbook is a "romance" novel for those who are passionate about the food they serve to those they love.

The meals are not complicated; however, the majority are somewhat exotic, flavorful, and delicious. The recipes are derived from the award-winning author's eclectic background in French, Moroccan, Italian, and Spanish cuisines.

Each of the 200 recipes is preceded by a short history or story of the recipe which entices the reader even further. Examples of recipes include: patй mousse with bacon, potato enchiladas with chipolte cream sauce, lamb tangine with prunes and almonds, pork tenderloin with rosemary cream sauce, cinnamon bread custard pudding, and three layer lemon pie, just to name a few. The book includes recipes for appetizers, beverages, soups, salads, meats, poultry, seafood, breads, rolls, pies, pastries, desserts, cakes and cookies. It also includes helpful hints, cooking tips, nutritional information, and much more.

My Favorite Cookbook is small and spiral bound, therefore, following recipes is convenient and simple. It is beautifully designed & illustrated and includes washable covers and section dividers.

Ensaladas y Alinos or Claytons Quaker Cook Book

2009-11-29T16:01:00.000-08:00

Ensaladas y Alinos: Recetas Contemporaneas, Deliciosas Y Atractivas

Author: Jennifer Joyc

Elevating salads to their rightful place as stylish, healthy, satisfying dishes, this how-to book offers more than 80 recipes exploring exciting textures and zingy flavors. As well as putting a fresh spin on classic salads, it brings together unusual salad dishes from around the world. Accompanying each recipe is advice on advance preparation and possible variations. Written with wit and enthusiasm, the author's passion for salad shines through and will inspire everyone with a taste for healthy food.

Elevando las ensaladas a su lugar apropiado en la mesa como platos saludables y sabrosos, este libro ilustrado contiene más de 80 recetas que exploran texturas interesantes y sabores robustos. Dándole una vuelta fresca a las ensaladas clásicas como la ensalada César, éste libro reune platos excepcionales de ensaladas de alrededor del mundo. Cada receta incluye consejos sobre la preparación y posibles variaciones. Escrito con agudeza y entusiasmo, la pasión de la autora es evidente e inspirará a todos con el gusto para el alimento sano.

New interesting textbook: AI for Game Developers or Ajax on Rails

Clayton's Quaker Cook-Book

Author: H Clayton

In his 1883 cookbook, H.J. Clayton shares the recipes and techniques he learned growing up in a farm kitchen.

The Wine Wars or Chocolate Companion

2009-11-28T12:20:00.000-08:00

The Wine Wars: The Mondavi Affair, Globalization and Terror

Author: Olivier Torres

The Wine Wars describes Californian-based wine producer Robert Mondavi's failure to set up business in a small, world-renowned wine-producing village in the south of France. The business venture was bought to an abrupt halt by an anti-globalization rebellion composed of ecologists, communists, neo-rurals and wild boar hunters. The 'Mondavi affair' illustrates the importance of culture, history, geography and economic and political systems in conditioning our spirit of enterprise and the way in which we do business.

1	Robert Mondavi : the pioneer of the Napa Valley	13
2	Languedoc : the biggest vineyard in the world	46
3	Aime Guibert : the 'Furia Francese'	65
4	Mondavi in Aniane : a promising, but difficult, start	74
5	Things hot up	90
6	Things get political	100
7	After Mondavi, Gerard Depardieu comes to town	112
8	Cultural differences at the heart of the failure	121
	Conclusion : the Corporatisme of place, the French Exception Culturelle	138

Interesting book: Should I Be Tested for Cancer or La receta del gran medico para bajar de peso

Chocolate Companion

Author: Cynthia Shade Rogers

If you know anyone who likes chocolate or perhaps you care to try some yourself, this book has it all. Rogers begins her prose by telling us about the history of chocolate, or how this New World taste traveled around the globe. From its origins as an early colonial commodity to chocolate bars for US soldiers during Operation Desert Storm, Rogers takes you and your taste buds through an array of aromatic delights. From Old-Fashioned Steamed Chocolate Pudding to Chocolate Covered Peanut Butter Balls (they melt in your mouth), everyone who has ever appreciated chocolate must have this book.

Food Canning Technology or Charlemagnes Tablecloth

2009-02-23T14:06:00.000-08:00

Food Canning Technology

Author: Jean Larouss

Food Canning Technology Edited By Jean Larousse Bruce E. Brown
* This book offers a comprehensive review of the various scientific, technological, and economic aspects of food product preservations.
* It examines the diverse problems which are associated with the stability of products such as meat, fish, vegetables, and fruit, and thoroughly covers the methods and processing steps necessary to maintain the quality of these foods.
* Food Canning Technology is aimed at food technologists, food scientists, and students in food chemistry and technology. It offers a better understanding of the nature of biochemical changes, and aids in the improvement of product quality and shelf-life.

Booknews

An English version of "La conserve appertis<'e>e, techniques et <'e>conomiques" published by Technique et Documentation - Lavoisier in Paris in 1991, condensed to reduce duplication among the contributors and remove the discussion of French economic factors. Essentially supplies the explanatory text for the Codex Alimentarius Recommended International Code of Hygienic Practice for Low-Acid and Acidified Low-Acid Canned Foods as revised in 1989. Discusses raw materials and their reception and preparation, thermal processing, and post-process handling and quality. For chemists and others in the food industry. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Interesting textbook: Poor Eaters or Aromaterapia Libro Practico

Charlemagne's Tablecloth: A Piquant History of Feasting

Author: Nichola Fletcher

Feasts, banquets, and grand dinners have always played a vital role in our lives. They oil the wheels of diplomacy, smooth the paths of the ambitious, and spread joy at family celebrations. They lift the spirits, involve all our senses and, at times, transport us to other fantastical worlds. Some feasts have give rise to hilarious misunderstandings, at others competitive elements take over. Some are purely for pleasure, some connect uncomfortably with death, but all are interesting. Nichola Fletcher has written a captivating history of feasts throughout the ages that includes the dramatic failures along with the dazzling successes. From a humble meal of potatoes provided by an angel, to the extravagance of the high medieval and Renaissance tables groaning with red deer and wild boar, to the exquisite refinement of the Japanese tea ceremony, Charlemagne’s Tablecloth covers them all. In her gustatory exploration of history’s great feasting tables, Fletcher also answers more than a few riddles such as “Why did Charlemagne use an asbestos tablecloth at his feasts?” and “Where did the current craze for the elegant Japanese Kaiseki meal begin? Fletcher answers these questions and many more while inviting readers to a feasting table that extends all the way from Charlemagne’s castle to her own millennium feast in Scotland. This is an eclectic collection of feasts from the flamboyant to the eccentric, the delicious to the disgusting, and sometimes just the touchingly ordinary. For anyone who has ever sat down at a banquet table and wondered, “Why?” Nichola Fletcher provides the delicious answer in a book that is a feast all its own.

Publishers Weekly

We all eat, but how many of us know how to feast? If Fletcher, a food writer and occasional feast designer, has her way, we'll all be reconsidering our party habits. True, we're not likely to offer cannibalistic banquets (she discusses those of Fiji, New Guinea, the Aztecs and others), or platters of cats with rats (a dish from the 1870 siege of Paris), or Kwakiutl-style blubber-eating competitions. Even the complex Ruskin feast that Fletcher herself catered (seviche of wood pigeon, wild greens, Coniston char, and roast venison with wild bramble sauce, all served on pollen-inspired ceramic platters, with readings from Wordsworth and Ruskin) for a scholarly set of foodies in the middle of a British forest at sunset seems best left to its designated guests. But as Fletcher describes Roman, medieval, Renaissance, Persian, Japanese and Chinese feasting traditions, some universal elements emerge. Feasts often celebrate key life events and feature symbolic foods like eggs (for birth and fertility) or candied almonds (bitter and sweet, like life). Nature is either evoked or revoked, but rarely ignored. Fletcher serves her culinary history buffet-style; thematic chapters on meat or fish are followed by palate-cleansing pauses to examine oddities like 18th-century French food writer Grimod's funeral banquets or Mr. Billings's horseback dinner in 1903, followed by chapters on Victorian banquets and modern Day of the Dead rituals. This is a veritable cook's tour of a mesmerizing social custom. Photos. Agent, Susan Howe. (Aug. 16) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

Fletcher, a food writer/demonstrator and artisan food producer, deftly handles her subject in this lively, witty, learned, and aptly titled book. Whether delving into the history of Japanese tea ceremonies, medieval feasting in Europe, Chinese banquets, or even Aztec cannibalism, she displays a skill in choosing her topics and incorporating her meticulous research. Many readers will likely wonder what was so special about Charlemagne's tablecloth-reportedly made of asbestos, it was tossed in the fire at the end of the meal, then retrieved unscorched to the amazement of guests. After conducting her own research, Fletcher discovered to her disappointment that the asbestos tablecloth is one of many fantastic myths swirling around the legend of Charlemagne; it is a wonderful story nonetheless. A veritable feast of storytelling, this won a Silver Trophy at the 2004 Gourmet Media World Festival in Cannes and is recommended for all academic and public libraries.-Courtney Greene, DePaul Univ. Lib., Chicago Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

A smorgasbord of informative and entertaining essays on feasts through the ages, from the sweet and spicy indulgences of ancient Persia to the Scottish celebration of Hogmanay at the turn of the second millennium. Scottish food writer Fletcher describes not just the dishes offered in feasts, but the rituals of preparing and presenting them and the ambience surrounding them. She also explores the myriad reasons for feasting and the occasionally dubious motives of the hosts. Many feasts-after the coronation of a monarch or the celebration of a wedding, for example-are held to mark rites of passage. Others give thanks for a good harvest or mark the end of a fast. Still others are staged in an effort to grasp or hold onto power. (The author's account of an aggressive feast held by a 19th-century chief of British Columbia's Kwakiutl people includes a stomach-churning description of competitive blubber swallowing.) The measures taken to impress guests can be astonishing: Fletcher cites a 16th-century Hungarian feast in which a quail was placed inside a capon inside a lamb inside a calf inside an ox. By way of contrast, she details a spiritual feast called cha-kaiseki, a frugal vegetarian meal served as part of a Japanese tea ceremony. One of the most interesting feasts described here is one prepared by the author herself for an international congress of deer experts; every dish contained some deer product, the finishing touches being an ice cream made of reindeer milk and a fiery liqueur containing extract of velvet antler. Fletcher's scope is broad. Her selections include an 1870 Christmas dinner during the siege of Paris at which the Restaurant Voisin served up creatures from the zoo, theAztecs' ritual cannibal feasts and the meager but memorable meal of bread and potatoes enjoyed by Primo Levi and his fellow prisoners at Auschwitz after the Germans abandoned it in 1945. This pleasurable treat can be consumed as presented or sampled in any order. (Three 8-page b&w photo inserts, not seen)

The Singular Beast or Coffee

2009-02-22T10:24:00.000-08:00

The Singular Beast: Jews, Christians, and the Pig (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)

Author: Claudine Fabre Vassas

Throughout history, the breeding, slaughter, and consumption of the pig has been the inspiration for both religious and secular rituals and taboos. In The Singular Beast, a daring and original account of the role of the pig and its relationship to Jews in European Christian culture, Claudine Fabre-Vassas argues that these practices defined the very boundaries between Christians and Jews. Chronicling the cultural and religious significance of a creature that occupies an ambiguous place in the families of those who raise it - as a member of the family and a potential meal - The Singular Beast reveals the continuing power of symbols to sustain or create ethnic identities. Fabre-Vassas details the folkloric beliefs and rituals that have been associated with the slaughter and consumption of pigs from the Middle Ages until today by both provincial and urban Europeans - such as the myth that Jews do not eat pork because their children had been transformed into pigs and the story that they crave the flesh of Christian children because they are deprived of pork. Ranging from early Christianity to the present, from Spain to Scandinavia, The Singular Beast is both a broad study of the extraordinary, complex role of the animal central to the diets and rituals of most European populations and a close historical analysis of anti-Semitism and the creation of real-life myths.

New Republic

[A] wide-ranging and stimulating book.

Times Literary Supplement

A stunning compendium of porcine and theological folklore. . . . With remarkable acuity, The Singular Beast shows how the pig, the Jew and the Christian have been locked in a fatal and macabre pas de trois for the past two millenniums.

David Gordon White

[A] masterful demonstration of the role of the pig as that animal which, because of its own natural and cultural anomalousness, came so powerfully to symbolize the dialectic of identity and difference obtaining between Christians and Jews.

New York Times

Fabre-Vassas argues that the cultural tension between those who did and those who did not eat pork helps set the stage for a murderous anti-Semitism. . . . Taking her cue from Claude Levi-Strauss, [she] studied the culinary habits of southern France, and the way in which the pig began to be associated with the Jew in the anti-Semitic imaginings of peasant culture, and by implication the rest of Europe.

Janet Liebman Jacobs

Fabre-Vassas's work in particular illuminates the fear of otherness that, as a dimension of human consciousness, underlies the relationship between those who are persecuted and those who persecute . . . The extensive and detailed research in The Singular Beast provides ample evidence of how Jewishness became imbued with all manner of hateful traits. . . . Through ethnography and text, Fabre-Vassas offers a rich and nuanced protrait of anti-Semitic beliefs and practices that remained deeply embedded in twentieth-century European society.

Booknews

From the author's introduction: "We know that the world's cultures readily designate others by what they eat; in Europe we call one another frogs, roast beefs, or macaroni eaters...a very rare exception should have aroused suspicion: Jews are called `pigs,' imagined to be bloodthirsty, identified precisely as what they forbid themselves." This study details the folkloric beliefs and rituals associated with the slaughter and consumption of pigs from the Middle Ages until today, and explores what they reveal about the cultural boundaries between Christians and Jews. Translated from the French (1994, <'E>ditions Gallimard). Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

One. An Anological Being
One. The Red Men
Two. Children's Stories
Three. The Circle of Metamorphoses
Two. From One Blood To the Next
Four. The Jew's Sow
Five. Red Easter
Six. Old Jews, Young Christians
Seven. The Little Jew
Three. Christian Flesh
Eight. The Return of the Pig
Nine. Blood and Soul
Ten. The Bone That Sings. The Time of Sacrifice

Books about: Thin for Good or Pr cticas hol sticas para la salud

Coffee: A Dark History

Author: Antony Wild

Reveals the shocking exploitation that has always lurked at the heart of the industry.

The Washington Post - Jonathan Yardley

Antony Wild isn't kidding. The history of coffee is indeed as "dark," as his subtitle puts it, as the cup of Colombian that sits on my desk as these words are written. Himself a coffee lover and an expert on the subject -- he worked for more than a decade as the buyer for a prestigious British specialty-coffee company -- Wild is nonetheless no sentimentalist when it comes to the human and natural toll the bean has extracted -- "poverty, violence, exploitation, environmental devastation, political oppression, and corruption" -- nor to the threats that caffeine poses to the health of those who consume it. As he writes, with the wry touch that makes his book a pleasure:

Publishers Weekly

While coffee historian Wild brings enthusiasm to this tome on the 500-year history of the caffeinated bean, it doesn't match the simple passion with which coffee lovers enjoy their morning java. (In fairness to the author, how could it?) Wild (The East India Company) traces the bean as it makes its way from Africa to the Middle East (it was once known as the "wine of Araby") to the West, and the rise in cafe culture across Europe and eventually the New World, where, thanks to the Boston Tea Party, coffee surpassed tea as the patriotic drink of choice for a fledging nation. But Wild repeatedly reminds readers that for all the pleasure a cup of coffee brings to its drinker, the history of this beguiling brew is indeed dark. As long as there has been coffee, Wild asserts, there have been colonial powers-and now corporations-to exploit the workers that grow it. While this is a fascinating story that combines history with anthropology, too often the writing is buried under the heartless statistics of economic formulations. However, the work does provide caffeine junkies with intriguing reading material next time they find themselves waiting in line to order their grande vanilla latte. Illus. (June) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

Wild (The East India Company) has been widely recognized for introducing specialty coffees to Great Britain. Here, he presents a 500-year history of the much-loved drink, drawing on science, politics, anthropology, and alchemy before concluding that today's large companies, with their demand for lower prices, have put coffee farmers out of business and thousands of workers out of jobs in Africa and Central America. Wild's explanation of how major corporations have taken over the coffee industry, supported by public information direct from the coffee distributors themselves, will inspire readers to comtemplate their contribution to this global situation. The only comparison would be Stewart Lee Allen's The Devil's Cup, which describes similar facts but from the first person. With its political and historical perspectives, this book reads more like a textbook. Recommended for academic libraries; an optional purchase for others.-Jennifer A. Wickes, Suite101.com, Pine Beach, NJ Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Cooked to Perfection or Wolf in Chefs Clothing

2009-02-21T06:42:00.000-08:00

Cooked to Perfection

Author: Phyllis P Corella

Andrew and Phyllis Corella were born in New York City in East Harlem and raised at a time when food was kept cold in an icebox. Their parents and grandparents shopped daily for items such as fresh fruits, vegetables and meats. The authors have attempted to present a variety of foods. They offer new twists on old family recipes. There are dishes that you may prepare once a year and dishes that will be part of your weekly menu. All of the dishes are easy to prepare.

The authors have attempted to present a variety of foods. They offer new twists on old family recipes. There are dishes that you may prepare once a year and dishes that will be part of your weekly menu.

All of the dishes are easy to prepare.

Wolf in Chef's Clothing: The Picture Cook and Drink Book for Men

Author: Richard H Loeb

Interest in lounge culture is nearly as high as during the golden age of the '50s and '60s. And even lounge lizards have to eat - and drink. This humorous guide to entertaining, first published in 1950, is a retro period piece that will satisfy the most discriminating tastes, no matter how pickled. Recipes are presented entirely in pictures, step by step, from conception to perfection - and all with deliciously dry wit. Easy-to-make breakfasts-for-two, canapes, barbecue suppers, picnic food, midnight repasts, and, of course, drinks - before-dinner drinks, drinks with dinner, after-dinner drinks, and drinks having nothing to do with meals - are ideal for men with kitchen "no"-how! "When a crowd descends upon you for an evening of bridge or poker, or just for conviviality at your expense, do you know what to serve? Or on a long, hot summer's afternoon, what to quaff? Or on a bleak, black winter's day, what to snift? Read on." - from the book

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First published in 1950, Robert H. Loeb, Jr.'s Wolf In Chef's Clothing is a unique "picturebook" approach for educating men on how to prepare basic recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, midnight snacks, and barbecues. From omelets to Shrimps Cobra, from canapes to Martini's, the step-by-step picture-based instructions are fool proof and will instruct even the most basic male novice to the mysteries of food and drink preparation. Whether a married man seeking to give his spouse a break in the kitchen, or a bachelor seeking to impress friends and family, Wolf In Chef's Clothing is sure to enhance any meal time or special celebration event.

Mastering Wine or Carving and Serving

2009-02-20T03:01:00.000-08:00

Mastering Wine: A Learner's Manual

Author: Tom Maresca

This completely new and updated edition of the 1985 classic Mastering Wine, winner of the Cliquot Prize for best wine book of the year, provides a complete course in tasting and understanding the virtues and flaws of wine of all kinds -- in your home and without bankrupting you. Tom Maresca's ingenious do-it-yourself guide to mastering wine is based on comparing two wines at a time; his one unyielding rule is that there is no wrong answer to the question 'Which wine did you like better?' Each pair leads you to the next, and your own taste charts the course. You may proceed through the carefully planned sequence of over 40 different pairs of reds, whites, roses, and sparkling wines, or follow the directions to the wines of a particular region or a particular class, such as Cabernets.

Whichever route you opt for, Mastering Wine can provide you with an acquaintance with the major kinds and classes of dry dinner wines, a painless introduction to wine terms, and practice in the art of tasting and analyzing wine -- of any kind. Anyone who would like an introduction to wine or a wider appreciation of the infinite variety of wines will find Mastering Wine the only practical, enjoyable, and affordable choice.

Edward Guiliano

The best choice for a broad and basic wine text. -- The Wine Spectator

New interesting textbook: Recovering Our Ancestors Gardens or The Apprentice

Carving and Serving

Author: Mary Johnson Lincoln

Published in 1891 by Mrs. D. A. Lincoln, author of "The Boston Cook Book," this volume concentrates on meat, providinig recipes and instructions for the proper prepartion, carving, and serving of all types of meat and meat products.

High Plains or Mrs Hills New Cook Book

2009-02-18T23:20:00.000-08:00

High Plains: The Joy of Alberta Cuisine

Author: Cinda Chavich

When Alberta cuisine is mentioned, beef is often the first and only thing to come to mind. In fact, however, Alberta has a wealth of local food products and its producers have won recognition and awards for cheeses, chocolate, corn, grains, oils, game birds and animals, and much more. From mountain to prairie, forest to river, this fertile province overflows with options for the creative cook

Journalist and food specialist Cinda Chavich has visited farms, dairies, bakeries, and delis looking for the very best Alberta has to offer. The result is a breathtaking book that combines delicious recipes, beautiful colour photographs, food sources, cooking and shopping tips, and local history.

Celebrate the taste and variety of regional cuisine with High Plains: The Joy of Alberta Cuisine. There is a world of flavour waiting for you in your own backyard.

Look this: Culture War or Archibald Cox

Mrs. Hill's New Cook Book, Vol. 1

Author: Annabella P Hill

Annabella P. Hill (1810-1878) was a socially prominent Georgia native whose encyclopedic treasury of 19th century recipes, cooking advice, and household hints was first published in 1867. This classic receipt book is considered one of the most influential books of the post-Civil War South A facsimile of the 1867 edition.

Nutrition and Food Services for Integrated Health Care or The Livebait Cookbook

2009-02-17T19:38:00.000-08:00

Nutrition and Food Services for Integrated Health Care: A Handbook for Leaders

Author: Rita Jackson

"Dietetics educators and practitioners will find much in these pages to challenge them. As integrated health care systems evolve, for better or for worse, dietitians need to develop the skills and attitudes that will facilitate not just survival but also expansion of the profession".——Journal of the American Dietetic Association

A "must have" resource for nutrition and food service administrators, providing vital information about trends in the industry, how others are meeting current demands with innovative programs that contain costs without compromising quality, the standards of care in more progressive settings and how innovative techniques and technological advancements can be implemented to control resources while upholding these standards. Optional methods for the delivery of food service and nutrition care are presented along with actual case studies illustrating innovative solutions to the common dilemmas confronting dietetic professionals today. Includes an Instructor's manual.

Marilyn R. Lawler

This book presents an overview of market forces influencing healthcare delivery in the U.S. today, and emphasizes the leadership and management skills food and nutrition professionals need to succeed as a restructured healthcare delivery system evolves. The book is designed as a guide for experienced food and nutrition professionals in preparing for expanded roles as they make the transition from traditional models to integrated healthcare delivery systems of the future. The target audience is managers and leaders in nutrition care and food service in the U.S., most of whom currently practice in institutional settings. Sixteen authors -- all well known in their respective topic areas -- have contributed chapters. The book has four parts. Part 1 describes the shift toward integrated healthcare, with chapters on industry trends, leadership, and management strategies. Part 2 focuses on nutrition care - management, outcome-based patient education, patients' rights and professional responsibility, and cost containment. Part 3, "Management of Food Service," presents trends in purchasing, alternative food production systems, and options in meal assembly, delivery, and service, current food safety issues, and revenue generating opportunities. Part 4 discusses a systems approach to productivity, quality improvement, the future and skills that will be needed. Each chapter has ample illustrations with useful tables, charts, and diagrams. References are current and pertinent. This book would be an excellent addition to the library of any nutrition care or food service director or manager. The information is timely, accurate, and practical. Users will find themselves referring to the bookover and over again. The book is written from the perspectives of leaders practicing in institutional or educational settings, and consultants. A useful addition would have been a chapter written by an expert from an ambulatory setting or community based organization where the majority of clients will be served in the future.

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Reviewer: Marilyn R. Lawler, PhD, RD (University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine)
Description: This book presents an overview of market forces influencing healthcare delivery in the U.S. today, and emphasizes the leadership and management skills food and nutrition professionals need to succeed as a restructured healthcare delivery system evolves.
Purpose: The book is designed as a guide for experienced food and nutrition professionals in preparing for expanded roles as they make the transition from traditional models to integrated healthcare delivery systems of the future.
Audience: The target audience is managers and leaders in nutrition care and food service in the U.S., most of whom currently practice in institutional settings.
Features: Sixteen authors:all well known in their respective topic areas:have contributed chapters. The book has four parts. Part 1 describes the shift toward integrated healthcare, with chapters on industry trends, leadership, and management strategies. Part 2 focuses on nutrition care - management, outcome-based patient education, patients' rights and professional responsibility, and cost containment. Part 3, "Management of Food Service," presents trends in purchasing, alternative food production systems, and options in meal assembly, delivery, and service, current food safety issues, and revenue generating opportunities. Part 4 discusses a systems approach to productivity, quality improvement, the future and skills that will be needed. Each chapter has ample illustrations with useful tables, charts, and diagrams. References are current and pertinent.
Assessment: This book would be an excellent addition to the library of any nutrition care or food service director or manager. The information is timely, accurate, and practical. Users will find themselves referring to the book over and over again. The book is written from the perspectives of leaders practicing in institutional or educational settings, and consultants. A useful addition would have been a chapter written by an expert from an ambulatory setting or community based organization where the majority of clients will be served in the future.

Booknews

Examines the trends and challenges for the role of dietetics in the dramatically changing U.S. health care system. Contributors in 15 chapters analyze a gamut of crucial hospital food service and nutrition issues including: leadership theories, quality management, patients' rights, continuing education, food production/safety, revenue- generating, and opportunities for new partnerships. Complementing the text are case studies; graphic models; statistics; and sample standards, employee lesson plans, menu tracking, and evaluation forms. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

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The Livebait Cookbook: Rambunctious Seafood Cooking

Author: Theodore Kyriakou

With the current variety of fresh seafood available, every restaurant has several options on its menu. The challenge for home cooks is replicating these exciting recipes in their own kitchens. This book shows how, with easy-to-follow tips for successful dishes, plus 175 great recipes. 70 color photos.

Great Chefs of Virginia Cookbook or Chocolate Strawberry and Vanilla

2009-02-16T15:57:00.000-08:00

Great Chefs of Virginia Cookbook

Author: Marcel Desaulniers

As demonstrated herein, Virginians throughout their history have a special knack for things culinary. The recipes in this book, all from contemporary Virginia chefs, reflect a similar eclecticism. As before, the chefs are characterized by a notable diversity of backgrounds, both cultural and professional. The chefs are bound by a passion for cooking. The Virginia Chefs Association felt compelled by the continually increasing interest of Virginians in the chefs' work to produce a volume of recipes embodying that passion. Included in this text is the most exciting fare from their restaurants' kitchens as well as some of the chefs' favoritesÑhome cooking in a truly Virginian sense. A technologically advanced world allows greater access to a plethora of possible ingredients. The essential tastes of Virginia and her rich culinary heritage, however, are still of primary importance.

Interesting book: Guilty Comfort Foods or Yours in Food

Chocolate, Strawberry, and Vanilla: A History of American Ice Cream

Author: Anne Cooper Funderburg

Chocolate, Strawberry, and Vanilla traces the evolution of ice cream from a rarity to an everyday indulgence. It covers the genesis of ice cream in America, the invention of the hand-cranked ice cream freezer, the natural ice industry, the beginnings of wholesale ice cream manufacturing, and the origins of the ice cream soda, sundae, cone, sandwich, and bar. It also recounts the histories of many brands, including Dairy Queen, Good Humor, Eskimo Pie, Ben and Jerry's, Baskin-Robbins, and Haagen-Dazs. In short, this history of ice cream describes how a borrowed European elite consumable evolved through entrepreneurialism and demand in America into a democratized treat for all classes. It simultaneously reflects and reveals changes in social customs, diet and nutrition, class distinctions, leisure activities, and everyday life.

Booknews

Perhaps the history of ice cream isn't crucial to the advancement of civilization, but it's one of humanity's sweeter inventions and that may make its study more significant than one would think at first glance. This is the "elite treat" of Europe that underwent an American transformation as stunning as Norma Jean to Marilyn Monroe. From hand cranked machines to Baked Alaska, Dairy Queen to Ben and Jerry's, the history of ice cream also becomes a history of American culture and tastes. Paper edition (unseen), $18.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Robert Rose Book of Classic Pasta or Fabulous Cookies

2009-02-13T08:26:00.000-08:00

Robert Rose Book of Classic Pasta

Author: Robert Ros

The ultimate book for pasta lovers.

The Robert Rose Book of Classic Pasta brings you over 100 exquisite pasta recipes, specially selected from the menus of top North American restaurants. Adapted for home cooking, they're as simple to make as they are delicious -- all ingredients are readily available and quick to prepare. This book will be a classic in your kitchen.

Interesting textbook: Penis Pain a Medical Dictionary Bibliography and Annotated Research Guide to Internet References or Women Confront Cancer

Fabulous Cookies: Classic Recipes for Delicious Home Baking

Author: Hilaire Walden

Infinitely varied and simple to make, homemade cookies fresh from the oven are always a delicious treat, and this superb volume brings together a wonderful and eclectic range of mouthwatering confections.

Anti Ageing Cookbook or Seventy Five Recipes for Pastry Cakes and Sweetmeats

2009-02-12T04:45:00.000-08:00

Anti-Ageing Cookbook: With over 70 Recipes

Author: Robyn Martin

This book gives us over 70 mouth-watering recipes, using ingredients that offer a multitude of anti-ageing benefits. From salmon puffs with chopped egg and avocado, and Indian chicken and mango stir fry to pear and apple nut crumble and berry smoothies, recipes are grouped so that you can see at a glance which ones are suitable for the brain, joints and mobility, skin, the heart, cholesterol, menopause and prostate health. No single food is the elixir of a long and healthy life. But, taken together, it is possible for foods to combine to give your body the maximum possible health and anti-ageing benefits.

New interesting book: Memory Trauma Treatment and the Law or Havens

Seventy-Five Recipes, for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats

Author: Eliza Lesli

An 1828 cookbook featuring recipes for delicious desserts, written so that a modern cook may follow them.

Betty Crocker Baking for Today or Introducing Chinese Casserole Cookery

2009-02-09T14:13:00.000-08:00

Betty Crocker Baking for Today: Always in Style, Always Gold Medal

Author: Betty Crocker Editors

Bake with the best!

Come celebrate the 125th anniversary of one of America's favorite kitchen ingredients—Gold Medal Flour, the award-winning flour that's been a kitchen staple for generations. In Baking for Today, Gold Medal Flour and Betty Crocker come together to create an irresistible collection of classic and contemporary recipes that are perfect for you and your family's busy schedule.

From easy cookies and pies to bread recipes that are the perfect way to de-stress after a hectic week, Baking for Today makes baking delicious and fun. It's the cookbook you'll turn to for years to come!

• 150 delectable recipes, from Apple Crisp, Gingerbread and other classics to fresh ideas
like Blue Cornmeal Muffins, Pear-Nut Scones and Garlic and Asiago Loaves

• Wide assortment of sweets and treats, including main courses, cookies, cakes and pies, breads and biscuits, regional favorites and more

• Kid-friendly dishes everyone will love, like Cheesy Pretzels, Pepperoni Spinners and Chocolate Teddy Bear Pops

• Award-winning desserts like White Chocolate Mousse–Raspberry Pie and Cinnamon Shortcakes with Warm Blueberry Sauce

• Tips and advice on equipment, ingredients, serving and storage, plus information on baking traditions and Gold Medal Flour's rich history and heritage

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Introducing Chinese Casserole Cookery

Author: Lilah Kan

Relaxed cooking.

Chinese Casserole Cookery is a book that has easy-to-follow recipes that can enable the aficionados of Chinese food to cook a dinner with less anxiety that a feast of several last-minute stir-fired dishes can bring on. Incorporating a few casserole dishes, which can be prepared in advance, will enable the cook to have a dinner party without a nervous breakdown.

Making Ice Cream or Pasta

2009-02-08T10:31:00.000-08:00

Making Ice Cream (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.

Churn, chill, enjoy.

Craving something cold and tasty? Break up with the ice cream man for good—homemade ice cream, gelato, sorbet, frozen yogurt, and other frozen desserts are fun to conjure up in your own kitchen. Get the scoop on:

Ice cream makers and the other tools and equipment you need
The best ingredients and mix-ins to use, from nuts to fruit to chocolate
Recipes for classic favorites—vanilla ice cream, raspberry sherbet, and more

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Pasta (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.

Pasta, explained.

Everything you need to know in order to buy and prepare perfect pasta every
time, including:

The history, different types, and nutritional value of pasta
A visual directory of the most popular types of pasta
Step-by-step instructions for making fresh fettucine from scratch

Postres bajos en calorias or Cooking with Trout

2009-02-07T06:49:00.000-08:00

Postres bajos en calorias

Author: Ediciones Nort

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.

Si comer es un placer, cocinar puede ser un deleite con esta colección de recetas mundiales, está pensado para cocineros y para los novatos. Todas las recetas incluyen claras instrucciones que se completan con ilustraciones. Estos libros revelan la versatilidad de los ingredientes más cotidianos así como estos trucos que enriquecen la comida.

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Cooking with Trout

Author: Jane Bamforth

Trout is one of the world's best-loved fish. What's more, it is low in fat and high in protein, minerals and vitamins. Opening with a practical look at the freshwater and sea varieties of trout available, this book presents valuable advice on how to choose the best fish, how to store, prepare and cook it, and the kitchen equipment that will help you achieve perfect results.

In 60 Ways or Real Food Cookbook

2009-02-06T03:06:00.000-08:00

In 60 Ways

Author: Marshall Cavendish Cuisin

Fix rice in 60 different ways with exciting & varied recipes from all over the world. Warm hearty meals such as Italian Braised Rice with Courgettes & Chinese Fish Soup with Rice, or tasty snacks like Rice Croquettes & Italian Stuffed Rice Balls (Suppli). Part of an exciting new cookbook series!

Real Food Cookbook: Buying and Using Ingredients from around the world

Author: Roz Denny

As we move toward the millenium most cooks are now emphasizing that it is not complexity and elaboration that make for great cuisine but quality of ingredients - sourcing the best produce at the right time of year, getting the best cut of meat and the freshest seafood, the finest oils, vinegars and spices. The difference between one variety of rice and another or one kind of olive oil and another can be making or breaking the dish. Also with the revolution in fusion cuisine and people's familiarity with foods and ingredients from around the world, supported by an increasingly broad range of our supermarkets, the modern everyday cook wants to know more about new ingredients and how to use them.
This title guides the reader through this area offering an A-Z of every staple ingredient you will find in the modern cook's pantry, where to buy, what to select and how to look after it and incorporate it into your cooking. And a guide to the many varieties of rice, chillies, flour, herbs, exotic and everyday vegatables, diary products, oils and vinegars, meat, fish, deli goods, Far Eastern condiments which together forms a valuable reference book for cooks. The book also offers recipes to get the reader started with new ingredients.

How to Do It or the Lively Art of Entertaining or Rose Reismans Permanent Weight Loss Solutions

2009-02-04T23:24:00.000-08:00

How to Do It or the Lively Art of Entertaining

Author: Elsa Maxwell

Whether it's time for high camp or high tea, celebrated dishes or celebrity dish, Miss Maxwell delivers tips on entertaining that are entertainment enough in this classic, camp period piece, as relevant today to hosts and hostesses as it was when it was originally published in 1956. The ultimate book on entertaining, How to Do It dishes on what to do about bachelors as guests, not inviting the family, uncomfortable greetings, "inebriates," and countless other factors that could potentially prevent your party from being This Year's Important Affair.

Want to give a party? Darling, the cocktail party is so over. Miss Maxwell shares her secrets to livening up your soiree, from scavenger hunts to tea parties in the afternoon. The party bible for hostesses who can't stand another humdrum fete: How to Do It includes recipes (among others, dishes such as "Andalusian Gazpacho à la Joan Fontaine" and "Cole Porter's Cherry Compote"), advice (Steer clear of bores. Really.), and trouble-shooting potential disasters (your guest is dominating the conversation—you'll need to stop him now!). Don't even contemplate entertaining without Miss Maxwell's help.

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Rose Reisman's Permanent Weight Loss Solutions: Delicious and Healthy Recipes for Success

Author: Rose Reisman

For the journey toward healthier living.

Losing weight can be a constant and frustrating struggle. Rose Reisman's Permanent Weight Loss Solutions creates a blueprint for lifelong weight control that doesn't exclude any foods.

Rose Reisman outlines nine successful weight loss strategies -- each easy to follow and maintain -- that will guide you to healthy eating. Important features of the book include:

an examination of current fad diets

exposés of diet myths, and why quick fix plans cannot provide permanent weight loss

background medical information

interviews with people who practice Reisman's nine habits for healthy eating

a simple and effective two-week start-up plan for initiating healthy long-term weight loss.

More than 150 delicious recipes are included, from appetizers, soups, salads, and main courses to desserts, all incorporating Reisman's weight loss strategies. Each has a nutritional analysis, including calories, fat, protein and carbohydrates.

As a mother of four, Reisman is aware of the need for recipes that are family-focused in content and quantity. Recipes include:

Frittata with Crab, Red Pepper and Coriander

Carrot Apple Cinnamon Loaf

Mushroom and Sundried Tomato Bruschetta

Shrimp, Avocado and Feta Salad Cooking/Health

Red and White Caramelized Onion Soup with Melted Cheese

Boneless Chicken Breast with Roasted Bell Peppers and Two Tomatoes

Mocha Cream Cheesecake.

Kentucky Housewife or Mennonite Recipes from the Shenandoah Valley

2009-02-03T19:42:00.000-08:00

Kentucky Housewife: Containing Nearly Thirteen Hundred Full Receipts

Author: Lettice Bryan

Originally published in 1839, this long-lost classic of Southern cooking includes more than 1,300 recipes, all cooked and seasoned in a hot climate. The foods and recipes featured in this kitchen classic are derived from American Indian, European, and African sources and reflect a merging of the three distinct cultures in the American South.

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Mennonite Recipes from the Shenandoah Valley

Author: Phyllis Pellman Good

Known for its piercing mountain ranges, its soft hilly pastures, and its Civil War secrets, Virginia's Shenandoah Valley is also home to thousands of Mennonites. Their foods are as lush and as whole as the land on which it is grown and prepared. Here are hundreds of those uncommonly tasty recipes, gathered from a comforting food tradition, rooted in the old South. Included are color photographs of the community and its people, and historic sketches of many of the Valley's small towns.

Perfect Pasta and Pizza or the Sourdough Bread Bowl Cookbook

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

Perfect Pasta and Pizza

Author: Carla Capalso

This book contains over 60 authentic Italian recipes for pizzas, breads, and pasta dishes, providing an irresistible collection for all lovers of Italian food.

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the Sourdough Bread Bowl Cookbook: For Parties, Holiday Celebrations, Family Gatherings, and Everyday Meals

Author: John Vrattos

For decades, tens of thousands of visitors to San Francisco's famed Fisherman's Wharf have enjoyed the sublime taste of crusty sourdough bread bowls filled with piping hot chowder. As the popularity of this culinary treat grew, so did the many creative uses of Sourdough Bread Bowls—from beautiful party centerpieces filled with luscious dips to chic edible settings for salads, appetizers, entrЋes, desserts, and so much more. To answer the question, "How do I get started?" gourmet chef John Vrattos and best-selling food writer Lisa Messinger have created an easy-to-follow, fun-to-use cookbook that provides all the answers.

John and Lisa first guide the reader through the process of carving out a bread bowl. Whether you're using sourdough or pumpernickel, and whether your loaf is out-of-the-oven fresh or store-bought, you'll learn the secret of making a bowl that is both beautiful and functional. From there, John and Lisa offer dozens and dozens of sumptuous kitchen-tested recipes, ranging from well-loved traditional dishes such as San Francisco's famed Clam Chowder to the innovative Warm 12-Layer Baja Shrimp Taco Dip. Included in each recipe chapter is a dish specially developed by one of San Francisco's top restaurant chefs. You'll enjoy the creations of Steven Scarabosio, executive chef of Fisherman's Wharf's legendary Scoma's; Jay Veregee of the prestigious Tadich Grill, San Francisco's oldest eatery; and many more talented individuals who have been inspired by Sourdough Bread Bowl cookery.

Whether you're hosting a Superbowl party, having the family over for dinner, or simply cooking up an intimate supper for two, make your event a little more special with The Sourdough Bread Bowl Cookbook.

About the Author:
John Vrattos is a gourmet cook who has been in the sourdough bread business for over twenty-five years, working for the world's top producers of sourdough breads. John is a recipient of the exclusive Antonin Careme culinary medal awarded by the San Francisco's Chef Association of the Pacific Coast. John and his family reside in San Francisco's Bay area.

Lisa Messenger is a popular syndicated cookbook columnist, longtime newspaper editor, and the best-selling author of four books on cooking and nutrition. Her writing has been honored for excellence by the Association of Food Journalists. Lisa and her husband live in the greater Los Angeles area.

Dinners with Famous Women or I Remember Mama

2009-02-01T12:18:00.000-08:00

Dinners with Famous Women: From Cleopatra to Indira Gandhi

Author: Eugenia R Van Vliet

Culinary history made fun. Let each famous woman describe the food of her generation. Make a dinner with Cleopatra, Annie Oakley, and Mata Hari.

This is a culinary history cookbook with a different twist—women from different centuries tell you about the meals of their time. You are provided with a menu and recipes for a succulent dinner inspired by the women featured in each chapter. You can learn about a meal that Anne Boleyn enjoyed at Hampton Court with Henry VIII, eat a meal with Emily Dickinson, and celebrate Passover with Emma Goldman.

Dinners With Famous Women was written in the hopes that culinary history will become an exciting part of your cooking experience.

Interesting book: The Privatization Process or Component Based Development for Enterprise Systems

I Remember Mama: A Collection of Recipes and Memories

Author: Elinor Geller

I Remember Mama is a collection of the recipes of three generations of "good eaters". It is about our family…brought together in the kitchen and around the holiday table. It is about tradition and celebrations…about abundance and love. It is about our past, our present and our optimism for the future. Most important of all, it is about the women who have shaped our palate and our lives. Their zest for living flavors every day and is why I Remember Mama.

Food and Beverage Control or The Bubba Gourmet

2009-01-31T08:36:00.000-08:00

Food and Beverage Control

Author: Douglas C Keister

Sophomore level course in Food Service Management. Major revision; New chapter on computers. Focus on Management of all aspects of food and beverage control form cash flow to cost formulas. Extra market with Food Service Managers.

Booknews

A textbook for management of food and/or beverage operations, covering cost-control methods, particularly record keeping and data analysis. Written in a simple and lively style. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Book about: Stew or Garden Vegetables

The Bubba Gourmet

Author: Stephen Lapan

Okay, these ain't your momma's collard greens...or black eyed peas...or potato salad. Inside these pages are a host of Southern recipes that will make you reconsider everything that you thought you knew about Southern cooking and Southern cuisine. In The Bubba Gourmet, classic Southern ingredients meet up with classical techniques and a whole travelogue of outside influences that take old family favorites to new heights. Whether you are hankering (Southern for craving) some Pinto beans with a little flair or some mouthwatering Oyster Stew with a Southern accent, you'll find it in the pages of The Bubba Gourmet along with plenty of other tasty and no-nonsense recipes. Along the way, you'll get a glimpse of what living (and eating) in the South is really like.

Dr Earl Mindells Unsafe at Any Meal or Andrea Robinsons 2007 Wine Buying Guide for Everyone

2009-01-30T04:54:00.000-08:00

Dr. Earl Mindell's Unsafe at Any Meal: How to Avoid Hidden Toxins in Your Food

Author: Earl Mindell

The ultimate health-defense guide for eating wisely and safely

Food manufacturers rely increasingly on the use of chemicals to produce larger crops and livestock and to extend the shelf lives of products. Foods once considered safe are being tagged as potential health hazards on a regular basis. Contaminated beef, orange juice carrying salmonella--the list continues to grow. The nearly 3,000 additives being concealed in food products can cause everything from asthma and headaches to heart problems, miscarriages, cancer, and more. Dr. Earl Mindell's Unsafe at Any Meal, a bestseller in its previous edition, is the consumer's best weapon against the hidden hazards in food, drink, herbs, and medicines.

Dr. Earl Mindell, one of America's leading nutrition experts, exposes the food industry's chemical cover-ups and provides crucial information on what to look out for when shopping, cooking, and taking medications. This thoroughly revised, updated edition includes coverage of genetically modified foods as well as foods designed to provide specific health benefits.

Earl L. Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D., has written extensively on health. A popular lecturer, he is an authority on nutrients, supplements, and natural health.

Hester Mundis is the author or coauthor of 26 books. She is a four-time Emmy nominee for outstanding achievement in writing.

	Acknowledgments
	Preface
	A Note to the Reader
1	The Lowdown on Labels	1
2	Those Unpronounceable Additives	25
3	Genetically Modified Food Fright	53
4	Is This Any Way to Start a Day?	65
5	Coffee, Tea, or Milk?	91
6	The Lunch Crunch	107
7	Scary Snacks	117
8	Think Before You Drink - Anything	141
9	For Whom the Dinner Bell Tools	157
10	The Hazards of "Health" and Healthy Foods	173
11	Cautions a la Carte	201
12	The Disease and Wellness Connection	229
13	May I Help You?	243
	Afterword	247
	Glossary	249
	Bibliography and Recommended Reading	261
	Index	265

Andrea Robinson's 2007 Wine Buying Guide for Everyone

Author: Andrea Robinson

Completely updated with information on more than 800 of the country's top-selling wines (100 more than were included in the 2006 edition), Andrea Robinson's buying guide is dedicated to the best-quality, most popular, and most readily available wines found in stores and restaurants. In addition to giving the lowdown on taste and value, this compact resource is packed with unique features such as:
·Candid "from the trenches" comments from consumers and wine pros alike
·Results of "kitchen survivor test," revealing how each wine fares as a leftover
·Robinson's Best Bets or solving every buying dilemma, from hip wines to impress a date to blue-chip choices
for a client
·Listing of the years' top-performing wines at every price level, from steal to splurge

Carbohydrate Counting Cookbook or Smart about Chocolate

2009-01-28T12:55:00.000-08:00

Carbohydrate Counting Cookbook

Author: Patti Bazel Geil

The Carbohydrate Counting Cookbook A cookbook you can count on. This innovative cookbook makes it easy to use the carbohydrate counting meal planning method and enjoy greater freedom in your food choices. Each delicious recipe includes the number of carbohydrate choices and grams of carbohydrate per serving, taking the guesswork out of portion sizes and carbohydrate amounts. You’ll also find sample menus that help you keep your carbohydrate intake consistent from day to day. The whole family will love the recipes for beverages, appetizers, breads, salads, entrees, side dishes, and desserts. Savory selections include:

• Pumpkin Spice Muffins
• Italian Artichoke Dip
• Western Style Chicken Pizza
• Dijon Basted Pork Tenderloin
• Brown Sugar Butternut Squash
• Cream Filled Chocolate Cupcakes

This book is specially bound to stay flat while using.

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Smart about Chocolate

Author: Sandra Markl

Our unique, kid-friendly Smart About series continues with something for your sweet tooth! Smart About Chocolate is "chock-full" of fun facts about the history of chocolate, from the Mayans to Milton Hershey! Kids will learn how chocolate comes from beans of the rain forest's cacao treesand how candymakers in England and Switzerland first produced the chocolate we know and love today. Includes recipes and recommendations of classic books about chocolate. READINGLEVEL: Ages 5-8

Author Biography: Sandra Markle lives in Atlanta, Georgia. IMPRINT: Grosset & Dunlap

Working Moms Fast and Easy Family Cookbook or Climbing the Mango Trees

2009-01-27T09:14:00.000-08:00

Working Mom's Fast and Easy Family Cookbook: Nearly 300 Delicious Recipes That Will Have Your Whole Family Begging for More

Author: Jeanne Besser

Working Mom's Fast & Easy Family Cookbook is two amazing books in one: Working Mom's Fast & Easy Kid-Friendly Meals and Working Mom's Fast & Easy One-Pot Cooking. Together they feature nearly 300 delicious (and healthy!) kid-approved meals, all using a minimum of cookware, and many that can be on the table in under thirty minutes. The family appetite will be tastily nourished and the clean-up squad will be pleased as well. And whoever's cooking will find the handy plan-ahead, organizing, and equipment tips invaluable to making every meal of the day a satisfying snap.

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Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India

Author: Madhur Jaffrey

Today’s most highly regarded writer on Indian food gives us an enchanting memoir of her childhood in Delhi in an age and a society that has since disappeared.

Madhur (meaning “sweet as honey”) Jaffrey grew up in a large family compound where her grandfather often presided over dinners at which forty or more members of his extended family would savor together the wonderfully flavorful dishes that were forever imprinted on Madhur’s palate.

Climbing mango trees in the orchard, armed with a mixture of salt, pepper, ground chilies, and roasted cumin; picnicking in the Himalayan foothills on meatballs stuffed with raisins and mint and tucked into freshly fried pooris; sampling the heady flavors in the lunch boxes of Muslim friends; sneaking tastes of exotic street fare—these are the food memories Madhur Jaffrey draws on as a way of telling her story. Independent, sensitive, and ever curious, as a young girl she loved uncovering her family’s many-layered history, and she was deeply affected by their personal trials and by the devastating consequences of Partition, which ripped their world apart.

Climbing the Mango Trees is both an enormously appealing account of an unusual childhood and a testament to the power of food to evoke memory. And, at the end, this treasure of a book contains a secret ingredient—more than thirty family recipes recovered from Madhur’s childhood, which she now shares with us.

The New York Times - Jan and Michael Stern

For those who now know her as a culinary authority, it's funny to learn that before leaving India she failed the cooking exam at school, where her formal kitchen education had concentrated on what she calls "British invalid foods from circa 1930." She finally did learn how to cook via letters from her mother, but the irresistible savor of this memoir proves that taste precedes technique.

Publishers Weekly

The celebrated actress and author of several books on Indian cooking turns her attention to her own childhood in Delhi and Kampur. Born in 1933 as one of six children of a prosperous businessman, Jaffrey grew up as part of a huge "joint family" of aunts, uncles and cousins-often 40 at dinner-under the benign but strict thumb of Babaji, her grandfather and imperious family patriarch. It was a privileged and cosmopolitan family, influenced by Hindu, Muslim and British traditions, and though these were not easy years in India, a British ally in WWII and soon to go though the agony of partition (the separation and formation of Muslim Pakistan), Jaffrey's graceful prose and sure powers of description paint a vivid landscape of an almost enchanted childhood. Her family and friends, the bittersweet sorrows of puberty, the sensual sounds and smells of the monsoon rain, all are remembered with love and care, but nowhere is her writing more evocative than when she details the food of her childhood, which she does often and at length. Upon finishing this splendid memoir, the reader will delight in the 30 "family-style" recipes included as lagniappe at the end. Photos. (Oct. 11) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

KLIATT

Jaffrey was born in India in the 1930s, and thus is the age of grandparents of today's adolescents. She has been praised for her books about Indian cooking, winning coveted awards. Her face is familiar because of her career as an actor in films. Climbing the Mango Trees tells of exotic family life in India, with the food prepared and eaten a central fact of that life. It's unusual that a memoir focuses so intently on food--the tastes of a family. At the end of the narrative are 50 pages of family recipes. Any young person who has grown up in an Indian family would have an immediate connection with Jaffrey's memoir because of the food, and perhaps it would help intergenerational understanding. Jaffrey grew up in a large, middle-class family, for many years sharing a home in Delhi with grandparents and uncles and aunts and cousins. In fact, the cousins did climb up onto the branches of the mango trees in the yard to eat the fruit, green or ripe. This was the time of colonial rule by the British, of course, and Madhur and her sisters attended private English-language schools, starting school not understanding a word of English. Especially of interest to Indian American readers, and to all who love Indian cuisine. Age Range: Ages 15 to adult. REVIEWER: Claire Rosser (Vol. 42, No. 1)

Library Journal

Readers will be surprised to learn in this culinary memoir that Jaffrey (An Invitation to Indian Cooking), one of the best-known writers on Indian cuisine, actually failed home economics. Although she later learned to prepare the traditional Indian food of her childhood, her early culinary education was primarily concerned with outdated recipes from British colonial days. What is not surprising is that Jaffrey, a descendant of a long line of record-keeping Kayastha Hindus, is a gifted and generous writer. She shares treasured recollections of how her close-knit family lived in Delhi, conveying the safety and warmth of the presence of many siblings and cousins, the love of food and learning, and the unease and disturbance of the partition of India and Pakistan. Thirty-seven photographs of the author and her family are scattered throughout. There are more than 30 family recipes, including Phulkas (a kind of Indian flatbread), Mung Bean Fritters, and Ground Lamb Samosas, all written in Jaffrey's easy style. Highly recommended for all public libraries. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 6/1/06.]-Rosemarie Lewis, Broward Cty. P.L., Ft. Lauderdale, FL Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

A beloved food writer recalls her youth through the lens of cuisine. Jaffrey (Market Days, 1995, etc.) grew up in India during the 1930s and '40s, the fifth child of two doting, well-heeled parents. Her family was Hindu, but embraced certain touches of Muslim culture: The women wore both the loose culottes favored by Muslims and long, traditional Hindu skirts; at school, Jaffrey studied alongside both Muslim and Hindu children. Her story has no clear narrative arc and no tension that requires resolution, but the meandering is pleasant. Almost every vignette includes a description of food. When she was born, her grandmother spelled out the word Om in honey on her tongue, and Jaffrey's first name translates to "Sweet as Honey." Summer afternoon thirsts were slaked with fresh lemonade or a mixture of fruit syrup and water. Monsoon season brought its own sweet treats of chilled mango juice and "pretzel-shaped jabelis" dipped in milk. A long bout of chicken pox was made bearable by her grandmother's chutney. Even Partition had culinary consequences: Hindus who headed into India from what became West Pakistan introduced Delhi to Punjabi food, including the terrific paneer dishes and tasty tandoori specialties that are now staples of Indian restaurants. Punjabis also loved dairy products; they made the richest yogurt, and the creamiest lassi, a cool yogurt beverage. As an adult, Jaffrey went to college and then moved to England to study drama. Not until she landed in London did she really begin to appreciate her mother's cooking. She wrote home, begging for instruction on preparing the delicacies of her youth, and soon airmail letters thick with recipes began to arrive. Fifty pages of thoserecipes round out the text. Readers will lap up this mouthwatering memoir and hungrily await a sequel. First printing of 40,000

Cooking with Chocolate and Coffee or Citrus Lovers Cook Book

2009-01-26T05:32:00.000-08:00

Cooking with Chocolate and Coffee: Over 250 Irresistible Recipes for Total Indulgence

Author: Catherine Atkinson

Everything there is to know about chocolate and coffee.

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Citrus Lovers Cook Book

Author: Golden West Publishers

More than 280 mouthwatering recipes for drinks, salads, breads, pies, cakes, desserts, sauces, preserves, marinades, salad dressings and more!

Searching for Watercress or By Special Request

2009-01-25T01:50:00.000-08:00

Searching for Watercress: A Memoir Cookbook

Author: Rose Marie Bratek

"I never cooked before I was married" begins the author's light-hearted account of 40 years of cooking and entertaining. As a young bride, she made mistakes, but had fun; faced challenges of living in Germany, coaxing her toddler to eat, recreating family recipes and hosting parties as a headmaster's wife. Every recipe is shown in color and includes theme parties such as Route 66, Motown, and Westerns.

By Special Request: Old Recipes for a New Generation

Author: Leu Wilder

The recipes in this book evoke memories of home and hearth. Acquired over a lifetime, they're a remembrance of growing up in the rural South, recorded with nostalgia and lovingly passed along.

Goulash and Picking Pickles or Sky Juice and Flying Fish

2009-01-23T22:08:00.000-08:00

Goulash and Picking Pickles: An almost boomer growing up in rural Wisconsin with recipes from Grandma and other Relatives

Author: Louise Mae Hoffmann

Goulash and Picking Pickles Read about life in the 1950's through Louise's eyes. Learn about siblings, four of them; Cousins, over 40 of them, and ice skating on the natural pond in her back yard. Louise ends each chapter by sharing recipes from her grandmother and other family and friends. Did JFK win the Wisconsin primary in 1961? And how did Senator Kennedy happen to visit Washington High School in New London, and thus change a young student's perception of politics? What's it like being the teacher's kid? Louise had her father as her teacher for all eight grades in a one-room school. Was more, or less, expected of her? And how does a teacher's kid earn money in the country? Picking pickles, strawberries, raspberries and in the winter selling roses. Those roses were waxed and made by her mother. Is country living more charming or boring than city life? Louise enjoyed walks in the woods and bicycle rides on country roads, but really longed to see big city lights. Having a chance to spend a summer in Chicago Louise was totally flabbergasted to find out that the family whose children she was babysitting were vacationing in rural Wisconsin! She couldn't imagine what they would find exciting about rural life.

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Sky Juice and Flying Fish: Tastes Of A Continent

Author: Jessica B Harris

Savor the food, flavor, rhythm, and romance of the Caribbean.

A truly authentic guide to down-home traditional Caribbean cooking, the kind you'd find at roadside stands, Sky Juice and Flying Fish captures the feel of the Islands, bringing the blue-green sea, the tropical breeze, and the exotic scents of the Caribbean into the American kitchen.

A culinary history of each of the Islands provides the perfect introduction to the 150 mouth-watering recipes for appetizers and soups, entrees, side dishes, and desserts, all featuring the distinctly exotic seasonings—ginger, garlic, chili, coconut, curries, and rum—of the Caribbean.

Begin your meal with plantain chips and a rum-spiked 'ti-punch. Go on to Bajan Fried Chicken from Barbados, complemented by a banana-ginger chutney and served with Jamaican Rice and Peas. Finish up with a sumptuous coconut pudding.

A glossary lists ingredients from achiote (small reddish berries) to z'yeux noirs (black-eyed peas), which can be found in grocery stores, Caribbean markets, or through the mail-order source list provided in the appendix.

Publishers Weekly

Harris ( Hot Stuff: A Cookbook in Praise of the Piquant ) offers an enthusiastic and enticing introduction to the lively array of cuisines found in the Caribbean islands. Combining research with observations from her own experiences, she explores the ``culinary quirks'' of different islands (turtle steak can be sampled in the Cayman Islands, and while peas and rice are ``laughingly referred to as the Jamaican coat of arms,'' curried goat is a local specialty) and supplies a useful glossary of ingredients and utensils. Dishes range from appetizers to desserts, and one can taste bacalaitos (codfish fritters) from Puerto Rico, fricasseed chicken from Saint Kitts or breadfruit stuffed with onion and tomato from Jamaica. Most of the recipes are simple enough to encourage readers to try unfamiliar dishes, although several contain at least one unusual, specialty-store ingredient, such as the Scotch bonnet-type chile in soupe aux pois rouges (kidney bean soup). Harris suggests substitutions for some uncommon items, such as Cascadura (a mudfish found near Trinidad); cooks who can't locate the fish can substitute shrimp to make a flavorful curry. (Feb.)

Library Journal

Harris is the author of Iron Pots and Wooden Spoons ( LJ 5/15/89), a collection of African-inspired New World dishes, and Hot Stuff: A Cookbook in Praise of the Piquant ( LJ 8/85); now she turns to the traditional dishes of the Caribbean islands. Her lively text is well written and informative, and she provides historical background and an excellent glossary as well as an assortment of recipes both simple and sophisticated. Once again, she includes many unusual dishes not found in other books on the topic, such as Dunstan Harris's Island Cooking ( LJ 12/1/88) and John DeMers's Caribbean Cooking ( LJ 3/ 15/89). Highly recommended.

Midwest Corn Fusion or Clean Your Plate

2009-01-22T18:26:00.000-08:00

Midwest Corn Fusion

Author: James McCaffrey

Humor and gastronomic delights. From the 1st chapter "Spicing up Norway" to the last "What Goes on in the Cornfield Stays in the Cornfield", chef/author Jim MC Caffrey provides laughter, inspiration and nourishment. A wide array of purposely crafted, easy to prepare recipes, makes cooking a breeze for even the most culinary challenged. Stir in some local color, add a little ethnic mirth, and sprinkle with a few Irish jokes. Now that's a cookbook!!

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Clean Your Plate: Dishes for Every Occasion: Recipes from the San Antonio Junior Forum

Author: The San Antonio Junior Forum

Delicious recipes coupled with photography of beautiful tables set with Spode China, special menus, and echoes of every mom's eternal truths make the San Antonio Junior Forum's newest cookbook, Clean Your Plate, a delightful addition to their award-winning Celebrate San Antonio. Makes for pleasurable reading and a successful cooking experience.

Wacky Cakes and Kooky Cookies or Only in California

2009-01-21T14:44:00.000-08:00

Wacky Cakes and Kooky Cookies

Author: Gerhard Jenn

You don't need much in the way of experience or talent to transform a simple cake into a creative masterpiece. According to virtuoso pastry chef Gerhard Jenne, "you just need a sense of humor and a steady hand."

Jenne is the creative force behind Konditor and Cook, London's leading pastry shop. In Wacky Cakes & Kooky Cookies, he virtually transforms cake decorating from a fusty old chore that many bakers have abandoned, into a pursuit that is both fun and a real outlet for creative expression. The results are gorgeous.

For all that, Jenne's approach is suprisingly simple. He provides master recipes for five basic frostings, six cookie doughs, and six cake batters. Armed with these materials and Jenne's meticulously written, clearly illustrated instructions, even novice bakers can stride into the kitchen and confidently take up the whisk.

And what creations! Delectable cookies whose bright, bold designs make them even more tempting, cakes that brim with flavor...and humor. Jenne's specialties include his enigmatic-looking chocolate velvet cake (his assessment: "groovy") and his own version of petit fours ("magic cakes," he calls them) which are best displayed as a confectionery mosaic. Capping the book is his recipe for the Konditor Cone, a delicious conical monument to joy.

Chef Jenne knows that individual expression is the soul of creativity and he encourages each baker to follow his or her own inspiration: "Use your imagination, and have fun!"

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Only in California: Recipes That Capture the Spirit and Lifestyle Which Make California so Unique

Author: Joyce Hyd

Only in this volume of carefully selected recipes could you mix traditional, ethnic, and nouvelle cuisine to create such a delightful collection. It features great menus and wine selections to impress your friends and family.

Sharing Mountain Recipes or Texas Old Time Restaurants and Cafes

2009-01-20T11:01:00.000-08:00

Sharing Mountain Recipes

Author: Randi Levin

A treasure of recipes, memorable tastes and tips for easily preparing scrumptious everyday foods at high, as well as low altitudes. These are the recipes that we grew up on, remember and crave to taste again.

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Texas Old Time Restaurants and Cafes

Author: Sheryl Smith Rodgers

There are hundreds of restaurants in our state that have been around for more than twenty years. Some boast lots of atmosphere and a few gimmicks, like the Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo. Others are more refined and elegant, like the Green Pastures Restaurant in Austin. Many double as a community watering hole, where locals gather to drink coffee and discuss what's happening around town. The Blue Bonnet in Marble Falls fits that bill. Large or small, fancy or plain, these restaurants share three things in common: long histories, established reputations, and loyal customers. Author Sheryl Smith-Rodgers scoured the state to find the best of these old-time restaurants and cafes, and then collected some of their tried-and-true Texas recipes, making this an excellent gift book, recipe source, and weekend travel guide.

Author Biography: Sheryl Smith-Rodgers of Blanco, Texas, is a freelance journalist, writer, and photographer. She has written for Texas Parks and Wildlife, Texas Highways, and other publications. END.

	Foreword	x
	Introduction	xi
	To the north
	Amarillo
	Big Texan Steak Ranch	3
	Golden Light Cafe	6
	Arlington
	Al's Hamburgers	9
	Arlington Steak House	11
	Candlelite Inn	12
	Dallas
	Celebration Restaurant	13
	El Fenix Mexican Restaurant	15
	Kuby's Sausage House	16
	Mecca Restaurant	18
	Denton
	Texas Pickup Cafe	19
	Fort Worth
	Angelo's	22
	Cattlemen's Fort Worth Steak House	23
	Joe T. Garcia's	26
	Paris Coffee Shop	28
	Irving
	Big State Drug's Fountain and Grill	31
	Jacksboro
	Green Frog Restaurant	33
	Lubbock
	Doll House Cafe	35
	Muenster
	Rohmer's Restaurant	37
	Plano
	Poor Richard's Cafe	39
	Ponder
	Ranchman's Cafe	40
	Salado
	Stagecoach Inn	43
	Sherman
	Juicy Pig Cafe	47
	Temple
	Bluebonnet Cafe	49
	Doyle Phillips Steak House	52
	Way down south
	Aransas Pass
	Bakery Cafe	59
	Blessing
	Blessing Hotel Coffee Shop	60
	Corpus Christi
	Frank's Spaghetti House	63
	Whataburger	65
	Falls City
	Shorty's Place	66
	Helotes
	Grey Moss Inn	67
	Hondo
	Hermann Sons Steak House	72
	Kenedy
	Barth's Restaurant	73
	La Grange
	Bon Ton Restaurant	75
	Lake Jackson
	Harnden's Dairy Bar	79
	Laredo
	La Mexicana Restaurant	80
	Rio Grande City
	Caro's Restaurant	82
	Riviera
	King's Inn	84
	Rockport
	Duck Inn Restaurant	85
	Round Top
	Royers' Round Top Cafe	86
	San Antonio
	Casa Rio	92
	Earl Abel's	95
	Jim's Restaurants	97
	Tower Restaurant	97
	Magic Time Machine Restaurant	97
	Mi Tierra Cafe and Bakery	101
	Schilo's	103
	Schulenburg
	Frank's Restaurant	106
	Victoria
	Fossati's Delicatessen	108
	Weesatche
	Weesatche Cafe	110
	Over in the east
	Beaumont
	Don's Seafood & Steak House	117
	Pig Stand	120
	Quality Cafe	123
	Burton
	Burton Cafe	128
	Centerville
	Town Cafe	130
	Galveston
	Gaido's Seafood Restaurant	132
	Sonny's Place	136
	Houston
	Christie's Seafood & Steaks Restaurant	138
	Felix Mexican Restaurant	141
	James Coney Island	142
	Massa's Restaurant	144
	Pino's Italian Restaurant	148
	Huntsville
	Cafe Texan	150
	Jefferson
	Club Cafe	151
	Longview
	Johnny Cace's Seafood & Steak House	154
	Paris
	South Main Depot Restaurant	156
	Spring
	Wunsche Bros. Cafe & Saloon	158
	Tomball
	Goodson's Cafe	164
	Waskom
	New Waskom Cafe	165
	Westward, ho
	Big Spring
	Herman's Restaurant	173
	Fabens
	Cattleman's Steakhouse	174
	Fort Davis
	Black Bear Restaurant	177
	Fort Stockton
	Sarah's Cafe	180
	San Angelo
	Zentner's Daughter Steak House	182
	Sterling City
	City Cafe	184
	Sweetwater
	Allen's Family Style Meals	187
	In the heart of Texas
	Austin
	Dairy Queen	193
	Green Pastures Restaurant	194
	Hut's Hamburgers	198
	The Hoffbrau	200
	Matt's El Rancho	203
	Bandera
	O.S.T. Restaurant	208
	Blanco
	Blanco Bowling Club and Cafe	210
	Brady
	Club Cafe	214
	Brownwood
	Underwood's Cafeteria	216
	Comfort
	Cypress Creek Inn	218
	Fredericksburg
	Andy's Diner	220
	Hunt
	Hunt Store and Cafe	223
	Lampasas
	Martin's Restaurant	224
	Marble Falls
	Blue Bonnet Cafe	227
	Michel's Drug Store	232
	New Braunfels
	Krause's Cafe	234
	New Braunfels Smokehouse Restaurant	236
	Waco
	Elite Cafe	239
	Welfare
	Po-Po Family Restaurant	243
	Wimberley
	Burger Barn	247
	And one you've never heard of...
	Somewhere in Texas, USA
	Rodgers' Restaurant	255
	Sheryl's Top 10 Favorite Old-Time Restaurants	260
	Historical Markers	261
	National Register of Historic Places	261
	Restaurant Cookbooks	261
	Sheryl's Hall of Fame	262
	Recipe Index	265
	Restaurant Index (Alphabetical Listing)	269

Busy Peoples Super Simple 30 Minute Menus or Toasts for All Occasions

2009-01-18T00:33:00.000-08:00

Busy People's Super Simple 30-Minute Menus: 137 Complete Meals Timed for Success

Author: Dawn Hall

Easy step-by-step instructions for entire meals that you can make in 30 minutes or less.

After a busy day at home or in the workplace, the best answer to "What's for dinner?" can be found in one of these delicious super-simple, low-fat, heart smart 30-minute menus.

The uniqueness of this can't-miss cookbook is that each menu has clear step-by-step instructions on how to put together the entire menu. Gone are the days of the vegetable being ready five minutes after the meal starts.

In addition, each menu has a pantry list of items you will need but probably already have, a list of cooking pans and bowls, and a grocery list arranged by supermarket department. Also included is a nutritional analysis of each recipe.

Busy People's Super Simple 30-Minute Menus ensures that all the elements of your busy-day dinner are ready to each when the family sits down.

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Toasts for All Occasions

Author: Jeff Herman

Most of us have been asked or will be asked to put a few words together and repeat them in front of a staring crowd. For most people, this is a formidable challenge. For some, it's a nightmare. With Toasts for All Occasions as your guide, you'll never be afraid of "saying a few words" again. This unique updated reference book gathers hundreds of toast samples -- from traditional and conservative, to uncommon and amusing -- that can be adapted by anyone, in any situation, at any time...even at the last minute! The hundreds of examples in Toasts for All Occasions can be easily modified to fit any circumstance or situation. It will provide you with the blueprint for a flawless and heartwarming personal or business toast that you can put together days or moments before the spotlight is on you.

	Introduction	9
Chapter 1	Favorite Toasts from Favorite Hosts	15
Chapter 2	Romantic Toasts and Proposals	47
Chapter 3	Toasts for Bachelor and Bachelorette Parties	57
Chapter 4	Wedding Toasts	67
	The Engagement Party	70
	The Rehearsal Dinner	74
	The Wedding Reception	77
	Same Sex Weddings and Commitment Ceremonies	93
Chapter 5	Anniversary Toasts	95
	General Anniversary Toasts	97
	Toasting Each Other on Your Anniversary	102
Chapter 6	Birthday Toasts	105
	Bris	117
	Bat or Bar Mitzvah	118
Chapter 7	Toasts for Friends	119
Chapter 8	Holiday and Special Occasion Toasts	127
Chapter 9	All-Occasion Toasts	143
Chapter 10	Irish Toasts	163
Chapter 11	International Toasts	177
Chapter 12	Business Toasts	189
	General Business Toasts	191
	Secretary's Day Toasts	193
	Retirement Toasts	194
Chapter 13	Spiritual Toasts	197
Chapter 14	Weird and Unusual Toasts	205
	Conclusion	213
	Write a Toast	217

Not Your Mothers Slow Cooker Recipes for Entertaining or Biggest Book of Slow Cooker Recipes

2009-01-17T13:50:00.000-08:00

Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Recipes for Entertaining

Author: Beth Hensperger

Hensperger and Kaufmann show that the slow cooker is the perfect tool for effortless entertaining on weekends and even weeknights, with more than 300 new recipes specially created to serve larger groups. Recipes range from casual to formal, and this is the only slow cooker cookbook that also includes tips on how to use your slow cooker for a wide variety of entertaining options and how to scale up those recipes for even more guests. It covers all the bases: appetizers, punches, dips, soups, entrees, fondues, desserts--all can be prepared ahead of time in the slow cooker, so that hosts will be able to focus on the guests, not the preparations.

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Biggest Book of Slow Cooker Recipes (Better Homes and Gardens Series)

Author: Better Homes Gardens

Great value—hundreds of tested and perfected recipes, informative tips, plus two bonus chapters—all-in-one economical resource for time-crunched cooks from the brand they know and trust.

Recipes for appetizers, beverages, soups, stews, main dishes, and desserts.

416 pages—about one recipe per page—make this the largest book of its kind.

Bonus chapters offer 5-ingredient recipes and one-dish meals.

Plenty of timesaving tips and advice for smoother meal prep.

Geronimo or Bread Machine Basics

2009-01-17T03:09:00.000-08:00

Geronimo: Fine Dining in Santa Fe

Author: Cliff Skoglund

In 1990, CLIFF SKOGLUND achieved his lifelong dream of owning and operating a restaurant in a historic building with the opening of Geronimo.
ERIC DiSTEFANO worked in the kitchens of Hotel Hershey, Breaker's Hotel, and Hacienda del Cerezo before joining Geronimo as head chef. Skoglund and DiStefano both reside in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Publishers Weekly

The Geronimo of the title isn't the famous Apache medicine man, but rather Geronimo Lopez, who built an adobe house for his family of 13 in 1756 (or perhaps it's Ger nimo Gonzalez, who bought the place in 1769). Either way, the restored building stands today as one of Santa Fe's most popular restaurants. Owner Skoglund and head chef DiStefano go for broke, throwing simplicity to the wind in this highbrow collection of 125 of Geronimo's most savory delicacies. An early disclaimer can be read as either a call to arms for challenge-seeking gourmets, or a retreat signal for those without a foie gras budget: "We know that some of the techniques we describe may, at first glance, seem a bit daunting... we have occasionally referred to hard-to-find items...." This is no understatement, as exemplified by such entr es as "Quick" Braised Rabbit Saddle with Matzo Scallion Dumplings, and Mesquite-Grilled Peppery Elk Tenderloin with Garlic Confit Potatoes and Exotic Mushroom Sauce. Before attempting either, one might indulge in a Martini Shot, consisting of Vodka Sorbet with pureed cucumber topped off with creme fraiche and "a generous dollop of caviar." The salads chapter offers lighter, though similarly complex, alternatives. As counterbalance, the authors interject interesting, even soothing, passages on the life of the restaurant and the restaurateur way of life. (Aug.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Interesting book: Island Lighthouse Inn or Olive Oil

Bread Machine Basics

Author: Jennie Shapter

This guide will help you to discover the different features of your bread machine and find out about essential dough ingredients and flavorings.

One Dish Vegetarian Meals or Ministry of Hospitality

2009-01-16T15:27:00.000-08:00

One-Dish Vegetarian Meals: 150 Easy, Wholesome, and Delicious Soups, Stews, Casseroles, Stir-Fries, Pastas, Rice Dishes, Chilis, and More

Author: Robin Robertson

12th One-Dish Vegetarian Meals, a healthful, great-tasting dinner is quick and easy to prepare. This book is a collection of the best recipes from three earlier works by best-selling author Robin Robertson-Rice & Spice, Pasta for All Seasons, and The Vegetarian Chili Cookbook-now in one convenient volume with an all-new introduction by the author. One-Dish Vegetarian Meals features a wide variety of globally inspired vegetarian recipes for every season, from substantial main-course salads for summer to hearty comfort food for cold weather. There are more than 150 terrific one-dish dinners to choose from, including soups and stews, stir-fries and casseroles, lasagnas, baked stuffed vegetables, simmered dishes, chilis, pastas, and more.

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Ministry of Hospitality

Author: Sylvia Cirone Deck

Ministry of Hospitality provides a process that can be used and adapted by any parish to enliven its Sunday gatherings through effective ministry of hospitality.

Postharvest Physiology and Hypobaric Storage of Fresh Produce or Tea and Tea Products

2009-01-16T06:44:00.000-08:00

Postharvest Physiology and Hypobaric Storage of Fresh Produce

Author: Stanley P Burg

This book is the definitive reference work documenting and evaluating hypobaric (low pressure) storage and is written by the world's leading authority on the subject. It is a detailed account of the mechanisms of postharvest gas exchange, heat transfer and water loss in fresh produce, and the effect of hypobaric conditions on each process. The book also contains a critical review of all available information on hypobaric storage, this includes horticultural commodity requirements, laboratory research, and the design of hypobaric warehouses and transportation containers.

Book review: 5 Dollar Menus for Two or Apple Barn Cookbook

Tea and Tea Products: Chemistry and Health-Promoting Properties

Author: Chi Tang Ho

While the health benefits of green tea are well-documented, researchers have only recently turned their attention to the action and health benefits of other teas. Tea and Tea Products: Chemistry and Health-Promoting Properties provides extensive coverage of the chemistry, biology, and health promoting properties of most varieties including black, green, and oolong. Written by leading natural product and nutritional experts, this book presents comprehensive and up-to-date perspectives on tea components that delve into taste components, flavor chemistry and stability, as well as the molecular biology of polyphenols, such as catechins and theaflavins. The text also discusses production and manufacturing aspects.

Flavorful India or Ethical Vegetarianism

2009-01-15T20:02:00.000-08:00

Flavorful India: Treasured Recipes from a Gujarati Family

Author: Priti Chitnis Gress

Located in northwestern India, Gujarat is known as the country's "Garden State" and is renowned for its vegetarian specialties. Flavorful India showcases the cuisine of Gujarat-from street foods like crunchy snack mix and vegetable fritters, to traditional home-cooked dishes that feature an abundance of locally available vegetables like okra, eggplant, bottle gourd, and many varieties of beans. Spicy dals, delicate flatbreads, and traditional sweets and beverages bring the Gujarati dining experience full circle. A chapter on the meat, poultry and fish specialties that are enjoyed in the region is also included.

These hearty, home-style recipes will introduce many to a new dimension in Indian cuisine that is rarely found in Indian restaurants or cookbooks. Most of the recipes are simple and easy to prepare, with ingredients that are readily found in typical supermarkets. A few feature vegetables and ingredients from Gujarat that most Indian grocery stores can supply. Step-by-step instructions, along with a comprehensive guide to spices and ingredients, will help readers navigate the Indian grocery store and prepare authentic Gujarati meals with ease.

Ethical Vegetarianism: From Pythagoras to Peter Singer

Author: Kerry S Walters

For vegetarians seeking the historical roots of vegetarianism, for animal rights activists and the environmentally concerned, and for those questioning their consumption of meat, here's a book that provides a deep understanding of vegetarianism as more than just a dietary decision.

Booknews

Brings together primary sources on vegetarianism as a moral choice, by authors including Mohandas Gandhi, Frances Moore Lappe, Pythagoras, Albert Schweitzer, and Leo Tolstoy. Selections are arranged chronologically, from antiquity to the present, and each selection includes an introduction. Appendices overview arguments against ethical vegetarianism. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

What People Are Saying

Tom Regan
Ethical Vegetarianism offers just the right mix of 'food for thought.' The movement for a more peaceful world has for too long hungered for a book like this. Here, truly, is a volume devoted to what we eat that belongs alongside those more numerous books describing how to cook it.
— Author of The Case for Animal Rights

Ultimate Cooking Companion for At Home Caregivers or Purba

2009-01-15T10:20:00.000-08:00

Ultimate Cooking Companion for At-Home Caregivers

Author: Elana Zucker

The Ultimate Cooking Companion for the Homemaker / Home Health Aide Elana Zucker, R.N., M.S.N. and Mary Ellen Capron, M.S., R.D.

Finally! Here is the practical handbook agencies and aids have been clamoring for! Elana Zucker, author of Prentice Hall's best-selling homemaker/home health aide textbook and nutrition consultant Mary Ellen Capron have teamed up to write the ultimate cooking companion for homemaker/home health aides who need to provide nutritious meals for the clients they serve. This handy reference takes the worry and wonder out of what to buy, prepare, and serve clients, many of whom have special needs. A "must-have" resource for home health agencies and their aides. Features:

• Clear and concise information on meal planning and cooking
• Sensitive to the realities of "real-world" budget and time constraints
• Abundance of recipes that are culturally-sensitive and age-sensitive
• Easy-to-follow tips for adapting recipes to further meet individual dietary needs and physical challenges and restrictions

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Neva L Crogan, PhD, APRN, BC (University of Arizona College of Nursing)
Description: This is a food and shopping guide for use by at-home caregivers. This book includes all the elements needed for caregivers so that they can prepare and serve nutritious meals in the home setting.
Purpose: According to the authors, the goal of the book is to assist the aide in establishing a nutritionally sound atmosphere so that nutrition will be maintained when the aide is no longer in the home. The book is designed to enhance the dining experience and if read and implemented, this is an obtainable goal.
Audience: The book was developed and written for at-home caregivers, however, it is a versatile book that may be useful by home care agencies. The authors are credible professionals.
Features: This book could be viewed as a resource for use in the home. It includes basic nutrition information, facts about food supplements, steps in how to feed a client, instructions for shopping and food storage, and a description of common therapeutic diets. It also includes a sizable number of recipes that can be adapted or food items substituted to meet individual needs of clients. The book includes appendixes and an easy to use glossary and index.
Assessment: This is a very useful and much needed cooking companion for at-home caregivers. All information is presented in a clear, concise manner so that it can be used both as an initial introduction to the content and as a quick review. The information will contribute to the caregiver's job satisfaction by modeling appropriate behaviors so that the client can achieve maximum health and well-being.

Rating

3 Stars from Doody

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Purba: Feasts from the East: Oriya Cuisine from Eastern India

Author: Laxmi Parida

Not just a recipe book but a comprehensive survey of culinary delights from the eastern Indian state of Orissa, better known for the architectural splendors of its ancient temples in Konarak and Puri.

The author speaks of her own experience in the context of the food she describes- meticulously documented by her as she passes through her grandmother's kitchen to her mother's overseen by the family cook. The little anecdotes that accompany some of the recipes provide an unusual glimpse into the middle-class Indian existence the author experienced while growing up in that vast and fascinating country.

Comparing and contrasting the techniques refined over generations, with that from diverse and distant cultures, augmented with an extensive bibliography, the book should appeal to a wide spectrum of readers --from the faltering beginner to the serious cook. An unusual chapter on the family cook's contribution might make the orthodox in you squirm but nevertheless offers a glimpse into the evolution of "restaurant-food" in urban Orissa.

A scientist by training, the author injects her own scientific-humor into the writing that also makes the book an amusing read.

Vegan Deli or Gentlemans Relish

2009-01-15T01:38:00.000-08:00

Vegan Deli: Wholesome Ethnic Fast Foods

Author: Joanne Stepaniak

Learn how to make kosher and other ethnic delicatessen fare in your own home. Acclaimed vegan cookbook author Joanne Stepaniak presents a rich legacy of meat- and dairy-free deli dishes using healthful, wholesome ingredients that echo authentic New York delicatessen flavor. Sections include: Pickled & Marinated Vegetables, Vegetable Salads, Bean and Tofu Salads, Grain, Potato & Pasta Salads, Spreads, Soups, Dressings, Hot Specialties and Fruit Dishes. And all economical to make!

Gentleman's Relish: A Compendium of English Culinary Oddities

Author: National Trust

The recipe for Gentleman's Relish has remained a secret since it was first invented by John Osborn in 1828, and no doubt some, whose taste buds recoil at this intensely salty blend of anchovies, butter, herbs, and spices are happy for it to remain secret. But both the dish and this book will delight culinary adventurers with the presentation of a wide range of culinary oddities—from Piccalilli and marmite through Bombay duck, Brown Windsor Soup to Sloe Gin and Samphire. Packed with histories, recipes, and anecdotes on a range of eccentric eats that delight the taste buds of the English, this essential reference is an ideal companion for anyone who relishes sampling the exotic and the unexpected.

Winter in the Alps or Blender

2009-01-14T13:55:00.000-08:00

Winter in the Alps: Food by the Fireside

Author: Manuela Darling Gassner

Take a culinary journey from the peaks of St. Moritz down to the glittering streets of Zürich—home to some of the most delicious food in all of Europe—in this attractive cookbook of Alpine cuisine. Be tempted by Cloud Soufflé, Pappardelle with Duck Ragù, melt-in-your-mouth Spätzle, Rösti, and Creamy Zabaione; sip warming Glühwein and roast chestnuts over the open fire and be transported to the enchanting heart of continental Europe during winter. Showcasing the culture, lifestyle, and food of this remarkably diverse region, this beautifully illustrated book is a stunning depiction of the unique cuisine and breathtaking beauty of the Alps.

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Blender: Krups Cookbook, 50 Recipes

Author: Catherine Madani

Compact, versatile, and easy to use, the blender is an indispensable tool for any modern kitchen. Whether you're cooking for yourself or for a crowd, planning a simple dish or an elaborate meal, preparing healthful recipes or indulgent ones, a blender helps every cook achieve the best results possible.

This handy new book from the leading appliance maker Krups gathers together 50 recipes specially created in the kitchens of renowned chef Alain Ducasse's Spoon restaurants to make the best use of your blender. From Carrot Soup with Cumin and Orange to Tea-Infused Crème Brulée, Blender features mouthwatering dishes that are clearly explained and beautifully photographed. Savory dishes include Gazpacho, Cold Roasted Red Pepper Velouté, and Curried Potato Soup, as well as blended drinks such as Tzatziki and Tomato Juice "Caprese." Among the sensational sweet recipes are Raspberry Clafoutis, Chocolate Hazelnut Milk with Nut Brittle, Waffles with Figs, and Pineapple Beignets.

Highlighting not only the blender's convenience and time-saving qualities but also the delicious effects that can be achieved at the touch of a button, Blender will inspire cooks everywhere to look at this kitchen standard with new interest and creativity.

Thanksgiving Cookery or Traditional Moroccan Cooking

2009-01-14T04:13:00.000-08:00

Thanksgiving Cookery

Author: James W Baker

In Congress, November 1, 1777: ...it is therefore recommended to the legislature of these UNITED STATES, to set apart Thursday, the eighteenth day of December next, for the solemn Thanksgiving and Praise. This is an excerpt from James Baker's story about the origins of Thanksgiving as we know it today. No other holiday captures the essence of our country: freedom of faith, politics, and ethnicity. As if the 28-page introduction isn't enough, Elizabeth Brabb transports us to the dinner table with a collection of favorite traditional recipes. If you never roasted a turkey, or if you want to know how to assemble a Thanksgiving feast for your family, then enjoy Elizabeth's collection from basic apple pie to hot apple cider to leftover turkey corn pudding. I'm hungry already!

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Traditional Moroccan Cooking: Recipes from Fez

Author: Madame Guinaudeau

Moroccan cuisine is famous for its subtle blending of spices, herbs and honey with meat and vegetables. In Fez, the country's culinary centre, the cooking has numerous influences - Arab and Berber, with hints of Jewish, African and French. The country's classic dishes are the famous couscous, tagines or stews, and bistilla, and exquisite pie made with a flaky pastry. Capturing the atmosphere of Fez, cultural capital of the medieval Moorish world, Madame Guinaudeau takes us behind closed doors into the kitchens and dining rooms of the old city. She invites us to a banquet in a wealthy home, shopping in the spice market and to the potter's workshop; shares with us the secrets of preserving lemons for a tagine; shows us how to make Moroccan bread.

Cooking at De Gustibus or Everybodys San Francisco Cookbook

2009-01-13T17:31:00.000-08:00

Cooking at De Gustibus: Celebrating 25 Years of Culinary Innovation

Author: Arlene Feltman Sailhac

For the past quarter-century the De Gustibus Cooking School at Macy's has had a unique view of the culinary revolution as it swept across America, transforming chefs into celebrities and introducing new dishes onto American menus and new foods into American homes. In De Gustibus at Macy's: Celebrating 25 Years of Culinary Innovation, founder Arlene Feltman Sailhac provides a unique pop-culture history of the American food scene since 1980, with a yearbook of superstar chefs and 100 seminal recipes that have been featured at her renowned culinary venue.

Organized chronologically, the book features brief essays that cover the explosive changes in the American culinary landscape over the last 25 years, along with colorful sidebars and archival photographs that capture the highlights of this history. Beautiful new photographs illustrate many of the recipes, which represent not only the most innovative dishes of the period but also the most timeless. An entertaining and appetizing trip down memory lane, Cooking at De Gustibus is a nostalgic look at how we were and how we ate.

Includes many recipes that have become modern classics
Profiles of and recipes by such cooking luminaries as Julia Child, Jacques Pepin, Alain Ducasse, Daniel Boulud, Alice Waters, Wolfgang Puck, and Emeril Lagasse
Organized chronologically, the book features essays that examine the changing American food scene over the last 25 years
Innovative design captures the feeling of a yearbook rather than a traditional cookbook

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Everybody's San Francisco Cookbook

Author: Good Life Publications

An exciting celebration of San Francisco's vibrant ethnic cuisine, revealing the secrets of cooking the city's global dishes. Features the foods of Italy, India, China, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and much more. Created to demystify ethnic cooking, it features recipes, menus, a detailed glossary of ingredients, and a guide to where to find them throughout the Bay Area, making it easy to get started cooking the city's favorite foods.

Smoothies or Boardin in the Thicket

2009-01-13T06:49:00.000-08:00

Smoothies: And Other Blended Drinks

Author: Elsa Petersen Schepelern

Blended drinks are so easy to make -- all you need is a blender or food processor and a little inspiration. From fruit smoothies with ice cream and yogurt-based drinks, to sodas, crushes, and cocktails, this great selection of recipes offers a delicious new look at blended drinks. There are lots of ideas for adults and children, all with an international flavor.

Book review: Digital Signal Processing or Implementing Electronic Document and Record Management Systems

Boardin' in the Thicket: Recipes and Reminiscences of Early Big Thicket Boarding Houses

Author: Wanda A Landrey

A descendant of one of the pioneering boarding house families, Wanda Landrey searched the Big Thicket to find survivors of the boarding house era and to collect their stories and recipes.

	Foreword
	Acknowledgements
	Preface
	Kountze: The Commercial Hotel	1
	Recipes	6
	Sour Lake: The Springs Hotel Resort	13
	Recipes	21
	Silsbee: The Badders Hotel/The City Hotel	29
	Recipes	40
	Southeast Texas: The Harvey Houses	47
	Recipes	52
	Bessmay: The Bessmay Hotel	63
	Recipes	68
	Trinity: The Scott Hotel	73
	Recipes	80
	Kountze: The Cariker Hotel	87
	Recipes	91
	Honey Island: The Honey Island Boarding House	95
	Recipes	101
	Colmesneil: The East Texas Hotel	109
	Recipes	113
	Batson: The Caledonia/Aunt Doll's Boarding House	123
	Recipes	131
	Saratoga: The Vines Hotel	139
	Recipes	147
	Bragg: The Bragg Hotel	157
	Recipes	164
	Epilogue	174
	Bibliography	177
	Index	184

Cooking Vegetarian or Kitchen

2009-01-12T19:07:00.000-08:00

Cooking Vegetarian: Healthy, Delicious, and Easy Vegetarian Cuisine

Author: Vesanto Melina

Discover the Richness of Vegetarian Cooking … Following a vegetarian/vegan diet doesn't mean you have to sacrifice taste or nutrition. No matter where you are on the food spectrum — from near vegetarian to vegan inside you will find tasty, nutritious, and easy-to-prepare recipes. Cooking Vegetarian is a comprehensive overview for healthy eating and healthy living through vegetarian eating. Nutrition guidelines, an ingredient guide, shopping resources and uncomplicated recipes help you understand what a healthy diet means and how to put it into action. No matter what your motivation — spiritual, philosophical or nutritional — Cooking Vegetarian offers you a wealth of recipes, resources, and ideas for creating a full and flavorful diet. Inside you Will Find: Over 150 easy-to-prepare recipes including 75 delicious low-fat ideas for heart health and weight loss • Clearly defined nutrition guidelines helping you create a balanced diet that is easy to follow • Identification and definitions of key vegetarian ingredients helps you simplify cooking and shopping • A complete listing of companies that provide high-quality nutritional foods • Complete nutritional analysis of each recipe.

New interesting textbook: Re Made in Japan or The First American Frontier

Kitchen: The Essential Guide to the Kitchen

Author: Michele Cranston

The ultimate companion for the cook who wants to master the basics.

Rustling up a stir-fry is easy, but making real stock or a good pizza dough is not. Kitchen is the essential toolbox that every cook needs to be successful.

From breakfast to lunch to dinner to dessert, this book is packed with the necessary techniques, classic recipes and essential tips for stress-free kitchen creativity. The more than 1,000 fabulous recipes include:

Pear and Walnut Salad

Duck and Mango Rolls

Leek and Chickpea Soup

Lemon and Thyme Lamb Cutlets

Peppered Beef with Pumpkin Mash

Raspberry Ripple Cake

Beautifully photographed and produced, Kitchen will inspire and satisfy with its simple and fresh approach to food and entertaining.

	Keeping things simple	6
	Breakfast	10
	Inspiration	12
	Recipes	42
	Kitchen bench	56
	Inspiration	58
	Recipes	92
	Salads	108
	Inspiration	110
	Recipes	126
	Summertime	144
	Inspiration	146
	Recipes	162
	Afternoon tea	182
	Inspiration	184
	Recipes	208
	Cocktails	224
	Inspiration	226
	Recipes	260
	Dinner	278
	Inspiration	280
	Recipes	316
	Desserts	342
	Inspiration	344
	Recipes	366
	Glossary	386
	Index	394

Green Barley Essence or Sushi at Home

2009-01-12T10:24:00.000-08:00

Green Barley Essence (Good Health Guide)

Author: Yoshihide Hagiwara

The all-natural "fast food".

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Sushi at Home

Author: Kay Shimizu

A complete guide to simple authentic sushi preparation step by step.
- A wide variety of easy-to-follow intriguing recipes with color pictures.
- How-to-prepare Japanese techniques revealed.
- This is a book written by outstanding Japanese sushi experts edited for the use of persons living mainly outside of Japan and yet traditional in its presentation.

American Vintage or Serving San Antonio

2009-01-11T23:42:00.000-08:00

American Vintage: The Rise of American Wine

Author: Paul Lukacs

Winner of the James Beard Foundation, International Association of Culinary Professionals, and Clicquot Wine Book of the Year awards.

How did a country with no winemaking traditions of its own suddenly become a world leader? Paul Lukacs offers a full history, from seventeenth-century experiments to the fall of wine during the dark days of Prohibition through its remarkably rapid upswing in recent decades. The tale is replete with quirky heroes and visionaries who changed the course of wine history: from Nicholas Longsworth, a diminutive, nineteenth-century real estate tycoon and the founding father of American wine, to the Mondavis and Gallos, the powerful first families of American wine in the modern era. 16 pages of illustrations.

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Serving San Antonio

Author: Assistance League of San Antonio

Viva Fiesta! Stroll through recipes from San Antonio's famous River Walk to the very hearts and homes of friends and members of the Assistance League of San Antonio. Experience the cultural and culinary mosaic of this unique city as you learn how your purchase of Serving San Antonio makes you a part of serving others.

Untrodden Grapes or Michigan Breweries

2009-01-11T14:00:00.000-08:00

Untrodden Grapes

Author: Ralph Steadman

From Chile to California, South Africa to Alsace, Ralph Steadman has seen the best of the world's wine-producing regions. On a search for the unique and original, he meets Aurelio Montes, the Chilean winemaker who planted syrah vines on a rocky, south-facing hill in order to "steal the wild complexity of the mountain's soul." In Spain, he learns of the white chalky soil called albariza that produces the sherry of the Jerez region. In California, the author describes crossing the Golden Gate Bridge, driving up into Marin County, and meeting enthusiastic winemakers whose vineyards sit precariously on the San Andreas fault. As the journey continues on through Burgundy, Champagne, and Sicily, Steadman brings the landscape and its people to life with pictures and prose.

Publishers Weekly

Steadman, illustrator of several of Hunter S. Thompson's gonzo narratives, also has a reputation in the world of wine-which is no contradiction, as he thinks of himself as "a romantic and a lifetime supporter of the maverick tradition in all fields of human activity." In this volume, which follows his well-received Grapes of Ralph, he wanders to notable vineyards in California, Chile, Spain, France, Italy and South Africa for a look at their grapes and wine-making techniques. Steadman chats with the owners, eyes their dogs, tastes their wines and takes notes, which frequently meander into fond digressions on unusual oenophilic practices. Still, it's Steadman's sketches that make the book: vertiginous mountain vineyards; splotchy caricatures of idiosyncratic vintners; lumpy, mustachioed villagers (male and female); even a brief album of wine dogs, "grand cru mutts." Although he's designed many wine labels himself, Steadman's no label snob; indeed, he rails against "the rigid aristocracy of fine appellation" and misses the "good, bad old days" when you could decant a nice Roussillon into your own jug straight from a pump at the wine cooperative. Readers dithering over the right bottle to surprise a wine-loving friend with might do better to shop at the bookstore for a Steadman instead. (Nov.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

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Michigan Breweries

Author: Paul Ruschmann

A guide to 66 breweries and brewpubs, with a history of brewing in the state and information about types of beer produced at each site, tours, food served, and nearby attractions. The authors both pick their favorite beer for each brewery.

About the Authors: Paul Ruschmann and Maryanne Nasiatka live in Canton, Michigan, and are the creators of BeerFestivals.org. They write the "Beer Travelers" column for All About Beer Magazine.

Perfect Glass of Wine or Crust

2009-01-11T05:18:00.000-08:00

Perfect Glass of Wine: Choosing, Serving, and Enjoying

Author: Brian St Pierr

Many people see the enjoyment of wine as an intimidating and complicated matter, requiring a mastery of arcane rules and rituals. In fact, there's no more to it than putting each wine to the ultimate test: Does it taste good? Wine writer Brian St. Pierre's book begins by introducing the basic flavors of the several grape varieties used in making wines around the world. Once those are understood, all the rest flows smoothly—what distinguishes the colors and types, how to match wine with food, how to store and serve it, and even how much to spend on a bottle. St. Pierre's sensible approach combined with stunning photographs and elegant maps of the world's great wine-growing regions make this the perfect no-nonsense guide or lovely gift for anyone who wants to learn to understand, appreciate, and, above all, fully enjoy the fruit of the vine.

Book review: Management and Supervision for Working Professionals or Hospitality Cost Control

Crust: Bread to Get Your Teeth Into

Author: Richard Bertinet

Crust retains the simple and groundbreaking approach that won Richard so many accolades for Dough, but takes the reader one step further into the wonderful world of breadmaking. Richard simply explains the method, accompanied with step-by-step photography, so that you can impress friends and family with homemade Sourdough, there's a chapter on croissants and all the variations that can be made with croissant dough, there's step-by-step how to make the most divine Brioche and there's even a chapter on what to do with left-over bread--delicious Summer Pudding, Croque Monsieur.Techniques are explained with painstaking photography.

Groups Dinner and a Movie or Food Adventures

2009-01-10T17:36:00.000-08:00

Group's Dinner and a Movie: Friendship, Faith, and Fun for Small Groups

Author: Cheri R Gillard

Fun nights will never be the same! Share a meal, catch a flick, and then talk about spiritual implications in the movie. Creates an electric, friendship-building atmosphere where you can comfortably talk about moral issues and biblical perspectives in today's culture. It's all here-form recipes, invitations, and decoration ideas to movie descriptions and discussion questions!

Food Adventures: Knowing Good Food from the Start

Author: Frances Boswell

In 100 recipes from all over the world, Adventures in Baby Food takes us from first spoonfuls to first schooldays, exploring and adapting dishes that children are encouraged to try as soon as they're old enough to sit up and take notice. Elisabeth and Frances also come up with ideas to keep children interested, transforming mealtime from that old familiar battlefield into a playground where everyone can join the fun. Baby food is, after all, not just for the early years-it's the first step towards a lifetime of enjoyable food.

Victory Beer or Shellfish

2009-01-10T07:54:00.000-08:00

Victory Beer: America's Best Homebrew

Author: Brewers Publications

From the lively flavor of "A Peek Under the Kilt" Scotch ale to the sensuous bite of "Lady of the Morning" continental dark bock, these recipes will thrill your taste buds and tune your brewing skills.

Go to: Ulysses S Grant or A Hundred and One Days

Shellfish: Chinese Style Made Easy

Author: Mu Tsun Le

Here is the ultimate resource for the preparation of delectable, exotic, easy to prepare seafood dishes. This is one of the two revised and expanded volumes of the original Chinese Seafood cookbook, edited by Su-Huei Huang. In addition to some of the recipes in the original volume, Master Chef, Mu-Tsun Lee added many new and exciting fully tested dishes which will certainly please the palate of all those who savor the aromatic flavors of shellfish. 101 delicious recipes, each accompanied by a full color photo of the completed dish together with 65 ingredient and procedural illustrations where needed. Discover the easy way to prepare shrimp, crab, oysters, scallops, abalone, clams and other sea creatures that will have your family and guests asking for more. This is a must for the kitchen cookbook library.

Herbal Encyclopedia or Quick N Easy Mexican Recipes

2009-01-09T21:13:00.000-08:00

Herbal Encyclopedia: A Practical Guide to the Many Uses of Herbs

Author: Lisa R Waltz

The Herbal Encyclopedia: A Practical Guide to the Many Uses of Herbs is a valuable resource for those seeking more than the usual aspects of learning about our planet's valuable medicinal herbs. Besides medicinal information, included is also information regarding the spiritual uses, and growing information for those who wish to grow their own natural medicines. Compiled by a nationally certified Naturopathic Doctor, this guide is a valuable addition to any reference library.Want to learn how to feed your body naturally? Want to learn how to grow your own medicinal herbs? Want to learn ways to incorporate herbs into your worship? Want to learn how to get healthy and stay that way? Then this book is for you!

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Quick-N-Easy Mexican Recipes: Marvelous Mexican Meals, in Minutes!

Author: Susan K Bollin

Now you can make those great-tasting Mexican dishes you've always dreamed of preparing, in thirty minutes or less! More than 150 recipes for burritos, enchiladas, tacos, tostadas, margaritas.

Prairie Cooks or Alexander Harkin

2009-01-09T10:30:00.000-08:00

Prairie Cooks: Glorified Rice, Three-Day Buns and Other Reminiscences

Author: Carrie Young

In her warm and often deliciously funny memoir Prairie Cooks, Carrie Young celebrates the Norwegian American foods of her childhood in an artful blend of reminiscences and recipes.

	Preface	ix
1.	Lutefisk and Lefse	1
2.	Cooking for the Threshers	13
3.	All of Her Mother's Children	26
4.	Liver, Black Pudding, and Antiphlogistine	33
5.	A Flair for the Dramatic	37
6.	Glorified Rice	45
7.	One Man's Meat	50
8.	A Born Cook	59
9.	Bloomers	70
10.	Kaffe Tid	74
11.	Gigi	82
12.	Entire County Saved by Rhubarb	88
13.	Fran's Famous Frozen Peas	92
14.	A Man's Worth	94
15.	Three-Day Buns	99
16.	The Nine Days of Christmas	105
	A Note on the Recipes	129
	Recipe Index	131

Go to: Sleep Thieves or Primal Healing

Alexander Harkin: The Minnesota Centennial Cookbook

Author: Virginia Huck

Features nearly three hundred old and new recipes from the kitchens of homemakers in cities and on farms in Minnesota's 87 counties. This favorite includes centuries-old traditional ethnic specialties as well as modern regional tried-and-true home cooking.

Martha Washingtons Booke of Cookery and Booke of Sweetmeats or Easy Way to Artisan Breads and Pastries

2009-01-08T22:48:00.000-08:00

Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery and Booke of Sweetmeats

Author: Karen Hess

This is the family cookbook Martha Washington kept and used for fifty years, with over five hundred classic recipes dating largely from Elizabethan and Jacobean times, the golden age of English cookery.

New interesting textbook: Food Fundamentals or Picnics Potlucks and Prizewinners

Easy Way to Artisan Breads and Pastries

Author: Avner Laskin

It’s the best cookbook on the subject, and it sells for a price that’s simply unbeatable. These are gourmet recipes made simple—that’s their magic. Avner Laskin trained at the renowned Cordon Bleu school in Paris, but he knows that most home bakers haven’t, so he takes the intimidation out of the baking process with wonderfully easy-to-follow guidelines. With his help, making such delicacies as French-Style Brioche and Peach “Tarletette” Rolls become real possibilities for almost anyone. Laskin discusses the raw materials (wheat, cereals, and flours); goes through all the techniques, from kneading to shaping; and covers fermented, sponge, and sour doughs. Bake up Heavenly Apple-Cinnamon Bread, Amaretto Almond Rolls, Russian Chocolate Crunch Cake, plus a selection of superb sandwich, everyday, and festive breads.

Taste of Autumn or Abundantly Wild

2009-01-08T14:06:00.000-08:00

Taste of Autumn: Filled to the Brim with Harvest Celebrations, Tasty Recipes and Fun for the Whole Family!

Author: Gooseberry Patch

Apples fresh from the orchard, trees ablaze with color, sunny days and crisp, cool nights...Taste of Autumn Cookbook shares the best of the season! Each chapter celebrates fall events like apple-picking, auctions & barn sales, hometown football, Halloween and Thanksgiving. We've packed 'em with scrumptious family recipes, from halftime hoagie dip, hot berry cider and autumn squash soup to herb-roasted turkey, hearty stuffed hamburgers, upside-down cranberry crunch and caramel-apple cheesecake. Sprinkled with decoration tips and easy ideas for making every meal special.

Interesting textbook: Introduction to the Design and Analysis of Algorithms or Microsoft Windows Vista Exam 77 600 with CDROM

Abundantly Wild: Collecting & Cooking Wild Edibles of the Upper Midwest

Author: Teresa Marron

Wild edibles are everywhere - even in your own backyard. Accomplished outdoorswoman and chef, Teresa Marrone, shows you how to take advantage of the edible foods that surround you.

Taming the Truffle or Cooking New American

2009-01-08T03:24:00.000-08:00

Taming the Truffle: The History, Lore, and Science of the Ultimate Mushroom

Author: Ian R Hall

Whether the world's best truffles are found in Piedmont or Perigord inspires impassioned debate, but the effects of dwindling supply and insatiable demand for the elusive, ultimate mushroom are unquestionable: prices through the roof, intrigue and deception, and ever more intensive efforts to cultivate.

The secrets of when, how, and where to collect truffles have benn passed from generation to generation since ancient times, but artificial cultivation remains the holy grail. Here in the most comprehensive practical treatment of the gastronomic treasure to date, the art and science of the high-stakes pursuit come together.

Their enthusiasm and expertise leavened with wry humor, the authors explore the newest techniques; they describe the commercial species in detail along with their host plants, natural habitats, cultivation and mintenance, pests and diseases, and harvesting with pigs, dogs, truffle flies, and even the electronic nose.

Pursuit of the fungus that costs more than gold is not for the faint of heart nor for those in a hurry, as under ideal conditions, truffle production in artificial truffieres can begin after three years but results may not be seen until a decade after planting, and maximum yields not for another decade still. So there is time to read and prepare, and no better source than this one.

New interesting textbook: Good Housekeeping Rush Hour Dinners or Bernard Claytons New Complete Book of Breads

Cooking New American: How to Cook the Food You Love to Eat

Author: Fine Cooking

Cooking New American offers today's cooks everything they need to know to cook fresh, contemporary, and great-tasting food for family and friends. With Fine Cooking's most popular recipes by many of America's greatest chefs that include Bruce Aidells, Gale Gand, Caprial Pence, Alice Waters, and Joanne Weir, the book features fresh, delicious ingredients simply prepared, with all the tips and techniques to successfully prepare today's favorite foods. The 200 recipes selected by the editors of Fine Cooking deliver the fresh and bold flavors that have powered the American culinary revolution, yet all the ingredients are readily attainable at the supermarket. The range of recipes is exciting, but every dish is decidedly easy-to-prepare. With almost 400 step-by-step color photographs, an assortment of techniques, ingredients, tips from the pros, essays, preparation and serving tips, optional ingredients, shortcuts, recipe variations, and timesaving tips as well as ideas for cooking ahead and serving suggestions, Cooking New American is a private tutorial in preparing the kind of food that Americans truly love to eat.

Commanders Wild Side or 500 Best Cookies Bars and Squares

2009-01-07T17:41:00.000-08:00

Commander's Wild Side: Bold Flavors for Fresh Ingredients from the Great Outdoors

Author: Ti Adelaide Martin

Dozens of dishes featuring wild game, fish, and fowl from one of america's favorite restaurants

With legendary talent, the freshest ingredients possible, and a tradition of fun, Commander's Palace proves that great restaurants only get better with time. A New Orleans institution since 1880, the critically acclaimed restaurant has been the winner of the James Beard Award for Most Outstanding Restaurant in America and has been ranked the top dining establishment in the city for seventeen consecutive years, officially making any visit to New Orleans incomplete without a savory meal in the beautiful Garden District landmark.

Nothing can stop the crew at Commander's Palace, and Commander's Wild Side, which features more than one hundred new recipes for fare straight from America's bayous, streams, mountains, and backcountry, as well as dozens of stunning photographs, proves it.

With thrilling flavors for any palate, executive chef Tory McPhail has recipes for everything from Juniper Berry-Grilled Elk, Rabbit and Goat Cheese Turnovers, and Roasted Quail with Bourbon-Bacon Stuffing to Jamaican Conch Callaloo, Marinated Crab Salad, and Pecan Butter-Basted Flounder with Creole Mustard Cream.

Looking for something more traditional? Try the Lemon and Garlic Grilled Pork and the Roasted Turkey or any of the nongame substitutions—just in case the butcher is out of mountain lion.

Commander's Wild Side is guaranteed to have just the right dish to spice up your cooking repertoire.

Book about: Hauptsache des Organisatorischen Verhaltens

500 Best Cookies, Bars and Squares

Author: Esther Brody

The ultimate family dessert collection.

For sweet satisfaction and delight, there is nothing like homemade cookies, brownies, bars or squares. Fun to eat and easy to prepare, they make the perfect portable snack and dessert.

500 Best Cookies, Bars and Squares includes a wide variety of recipes and flavors -- ranging from chocolate-based brownies and fruit bars and squares to an extraordinary range of cookies. The cookie recipes include the classic as well as variations on traditional favorites:

Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies

Lemon Shortbread

Farm-Style Oatmeal Cookies, Greek Almond Cookies and Crunchy Peanut Butter Cookies

Christmas Fruit Cookies, Cherry Valentine Cookies and Hanukah Sugar Cookies

Caramel Double Nut Squares and Favorite Glazed Lemon Raspberry Bars

Rhubarb Crisp Squares

Old-Fashioned Butter Tart Bars and Classic Chocolate Nut Brownies.

Each recipe is easy and delicious. The author also includes her time-tested personal baking tips and techniques.

Introduction

Making Perfect Cookies, Brownies, Bars and Squares

Ingredients Methods

Baking Problems (and How To Solve Them)

Drop Cookies

Hand-Shaped Cookies

Cut Cookies

Sliced Cookies

Sandwich Cookies

Biscotti

Shortbread

Brownies

Chocolate Bars and Squares

Coconut Bars and Squares

Fruit Bars and Squares

Nut and Peanut Butters and Squares

No-Bake Cookies, Bars and Squares

Specialty Cookies, Bars and Squares

Holiday Treats

Esther's Favorites

Frostings, Glazes and Toppings

Index

Shooters or New 8 Week Cholesterol Cure

2009-01-07T08:59:00.000-08:00

Shooters

Author: Spicebox

Whether you want a French Kiss or a Squashed Frog, the party starts here!

Kit includes:

book with 46 recipes
four awesome shot glasses
one easy pour spout

Everything you need to get the party started!

New 8-Week Cholesterol Cure: The Ultimate Program for Preventing Heart Disease

Author: Robert E Kowalski

Much has happened in the years since 1987 when The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure changed the way Americans think about coronary heart disease. And while cholesterol is still a risk factor for heart disease, the story is more complex than we once thought. In this completely updated book, Robert Kowalski reveals the latest developments in what we now know about heart disease and tells how to effectively combat all the newly discovered risk factors, from homocysteine to the deadly cholesterol Lp (a). He explains why diet is not enough and when supplements must be used, showing how optimal cholesterol levels can be reached without prescription drugs.

Kowalski, who had bypass surgery of his own in 1984, has effectively beaten heart disease by practicing what he preaches. He requires no prescription drugs, lives an unlimited and rigorous lifestyle, enjoys foods like steak and eggs, and has been given a clean bill of health by his physician. Included as well are new cholesterol testing methods; new heart-healthy products; special considerations for women, children, and the elderly; and new recipes.

Library Journal

Since this book first appeared in 1987, scientists have learned much more about cholesterol and its components, associated risk factors, supplements such as B vitamins and niacin, exercise, diet, and stress reduction, and longtime medical journalist Kowalski covers the evolving scientific information in depth. However, he also espouses an initially low-carb, low-calorie diet to induce ketosis and burn fat stores. That's fine for the short term in healthy individuals. But as with any significant change in diet, this one should not be undertaken without a physician's review since it may alter blood sugar levels in diabetics (and many folks have diabetes without realizing it) or require a change in medication levels. For larger collections. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

	Foreword	xiii
	Introduction	1
1.	Way Beyond Cholesterol	8
2.	Special Considerations for Women, the Young, and the Elderly	38
3.	Heart Health in a Nutshell: The Program at a Glance	48
4.	Good Food, Good Times, Good Health	57
	Mom Was Right: Eat Your Fruits and Vegetables	60
	Fats: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly	66
	A Nutty Approach to Heart Health	79
	Listening to Your Inner Carnivore	81
	Soy Foods and the Heart	87
	Garlic: Will a Clove a Day Keep the Doctor Away?	89
	Lifting a Glass to Heart Health	91
5.	Antioxidants, Supplements, and Your Heart	96
6.	Yup, Oat Bran Really Works	107
7.	Blocking Cholesterol in the Foods You Love	117
8.	Niacin: Fighting for Your Healthy Heart	128
9.	What's Hot, What's Not	142
10.	Take Your Heart Out for a Walk	158
11.	Sensible Solutions to Blood Pressure Control	173
12.	A Simple Proposal for Weight Control	182
13.	The Heart of Your Emotions	195
14.	Healthy Surfing in Cyberspace	208
15.	To Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow	211
16.	Recipes That Lower Cholesterol	214
17.	Cooking with the Kowalskis	226
	The Diet-Heart Newsletter	255
	References	256
	Index	267

Cooking for Children or Great Southern Food Festival Cookbook

2009-01-06T21:17:00.000-08:00

Cooking for Children: What Children Like to Eat

Author: Dagmar Von Cramm

What do your children like to eat? Are you succeeding at home with fixing not only their favorite foods, but healthy foods, too? With super-easy, everyday recipes for children ages one to eight, you'll find answers and helpful tips on how to make your cooking great tasting and fun for your children. With cool drinks like Berry Yogurt Smoothies to tempting and colorful meals like Carrot Corn Salad and Summer Noodles, your children will be thrilled and so will the adults. You'll also find useful tips on what to do about allergies, eating problems, and what to cook when your child is sick, as well as a section on health and nutrition. Make cooking for the family a treat rather than a chore!

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Great Southern Food Festival Cookbook: Celebrating Everything from Peaches to Peanuts, Onions to Okra

Author: Mindy B Henderson

The Great Southern Food Festival Cookbook is a celebration of Southern food and fun with over 500 recipes with information on 100 great events.

A food festival is a wonderfully American event that happens in small towns and large cities all over the South, celebrating everything from onions to peanuts, chocolate to chowder. This collection will be both cookbook and travel guide with delicious recipes and festival information for more than 70 festivals from Virginia to Texas. Southern food and Southern parties-or rather Southern parties about Southern food-are the very best kind. Featured festivals include:

Chicken and Egg Festival - Moulton, Alabama
West Virginia Strawberry Festival - Buckhannon, West Virginia
Bradley County Pink Tomato Festival - Warren, Arkansas
Shrimp and Grits: The Wild Georgia Shrimp Festival, Jekyll Island, Georgia
Suffolk Peanut Festival - Suffolk, Virginia
Cornbread Festival - South Pittsburgh, TN
Houston Hot Sauce Festival - Houston, Texas

Taste of Summer or Building Houses out of Chicken Legs

2009-01-06T11:35:00.000-08:00

Taste of Summer: Inspired Recipes for Casual Entertaining Completely Revised and in Color

Author: Diane Rossen Worthington

Chilled gazpacho, fresh lobster salad, buttery shortcake piled high with sweet strawberries--summer cooking is all about making the most of the season's luscious abundance. Revised and updated, this best-selling cookbook now has a beautiful full-color format packed with photographs, recipes, menus, and colorful sidebars offering helpful hints. Cooking and entertaining has never been so easy and inviting as with these simple, classic favorites, from fresh Whole Poached Salmon with Pesto Cucumber Sauce to golden brown lattice-crust fruit pies. Whether you're toasting a new graduate with a backyard buffet or relaxing under the stars with a picnic for two, The Taste of Summer has something special for every occasion and promises to delight and inspire all year round.

New interesting textbook: Identifying Child Molesters or Everyones Guide to Cancer Supportive Care

Building Houses out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power

Author: Psyche A Williams Forson

Williams-Forson examines the complexity of black women's legacies with food as a form of cultural work. While acknowledging the negative interpretations of black culture associated with chicken imagery, Williams-Forson focuses her analysis on the ways black women have forged their own self-definitions and relationships to "the gospel bird."

From personal interviews to the comedy of Chris Rock, from commercial advertisements to the art of Kara Walker, and from cookbooks to literature, Williams-Forson considers how black women defy conventional representations of blackness in relationship to these foods and exercise influence through food preparation and distribution.

Publishers Weekly

The humble chicken has possessed complicated associations for African-Americans from earliest slavery times, especially for women, who traditionally had to cook the bird for white kitchens. Moreover, hawking chicken by "waiter carriers" became a key source of income for poor disenfranchised blacks, while stealing chickens reflected a kinship with African-American "trickster heroism," according to Williams-Forson, an American studies professor at the University of Maryland. In her valuable though dense and scholarly study, Williams-Forson explores how the power of food images advanced the rhetoric of black stereotypes in lore and literature, for example, as portrayed in "coon" songs like Paul Laurence Dunbar's popular "Who Dat Say Chicken in Dis Crowd" and characterizations of mammies in advertisements in upscale magazines. With the Great Migration, blacks took their cultural practices with them, literally, in shoe boxes containing fried chicken, and their route became known as the "chicken bone express." The author discusses chicken as "the gospel bird" in African-American churches (the strength of one's cooking skills elevated one's status with the preacher), and how eating chicken (or eschewing it) provides a way for blacks to "signify" class and status. Following her hard-going study is a staggeringly thorough bibliography. (June) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

1	We called ourselves waiter carriers	13
2	"Who dat say chicken is dis crowd" : black men, visual imagery, and the ideology of fear	38
3	Gnawing on a chicken bone in my own house : cultural contestation, black women's work, and class	80
4	Traveling the chicken bone express	114
5	Say Jesus and come to me : signifying and church food	135
6	Taking the big piece of chicken	165
7	Still dying for some soul food?	186
8	Flying the coop with Kara Walker	199
	Epilogue : from train depots to country buffets	219

All American Cowboy Grill or The Art of the Tart

2009-01-06T00:53:00.000-08:00

All American Cowboy Grill: Sizzlin' Recipes from the Word's Greatest Cowboys

Author: Cheryl Rogers Barnett

The All-American Cowboy Grill will blaze a new trail through the Old West as it partners savory recipes from American cowboys and cowgirls of movie, TV, rodeo, and music fame with dozens of photos and sidebars of related interest.

Riding shotgun with the recipes of the celebrities will be mouth-watering recipes rustled up by cooks from some of the top real-life ranches of the western United States.

This time around the call to "come and get it!" will have the cooks focusing on recipes for the home and patio grill. The bulk of the recipes will feature entrees, the star of the grill, but those recipes will be complemented with a variety of other dishes that can be prepared on the grill, including vegetables, breads, and desserts, and an assortment of foods that would accompany a grilled supper such as cool, cool beverages and side dishes.

The book will have 20 to 40 short sidebars with real western history as well as western pop culture trivia from the movies and TV. There will be short articles on famous western tourist sites such as The Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum, The Roy Roger and Dale Evans Museum, The Cowboy Hall of Fame, and The Cowgirl Hall of Fame. The book will have 200 recipes and 100 photos.

New interesting book: Best Bridal Shower Party Games or Diabetes Quickflip Cookbook

The Art of the Tart: Savory and Sweet

Author: Tamasin Day Lewis

Tarts are the perfect self-contained treat, a delectable indulgence. In this special collection, Tamasin Day-Lewis provides classic recipes and new twists for an assortment of savory and sweet tarts. She explores the rituals of their preparation, from rolling to primping and patching to whisking, all of which make tarts the most satisfying of foods — to make and to eat.

The home chef is taught to prepare a variety of crusts from easy-to-follow directions. The most difficult step is trying to figure out which of the mouth-watering fillings to use. Included is everything from Sweet Corn and Spring Onion Tart to Rhubard Meringue Pie.

Beautifully designed, featuring more than fifty full-color photographs, and sumptuously filled, The Art of the Tart is sure to be the perfect addition to any cookbook collection.

Publishers Weekly

Tarts, when done well, are gorgeous creations--their fillings displayed in buttery crust like jewels shown on velvet. Day-Lewis (The English Woman's Kitchen; West of Ireland Summers: A Cookbook) does not disappoint; in addition to delectable recipes and luxurious photos, her prose itself is exquisite. Even the most jaded palate might be tempted with her description of the much-maligned Quiche Lorraine "with a buttery pastry and an unctuously creamy, bacony, barely wobbling interior." These tarts are rich (lots of butter, cream and eggs), simple and wholesome, prepared in straightforward ways with uncomplicated steps. As Day-Lewis explains, they are not "state-of-the-art, designer-dream, fashionable" fare (even if she tells us that Julia Roberts loves the Treacle Tart), but rather "foods to console and please on the highest order." The favorite tarts of well-known chefs appear regularly throughout the pages, tweaked and appropriately credited. Classics such as Onion Tart, Plain Apple Tart and that English favorite, Bakewell Tart, coexist with more flamboyant fare, such as Fennel, Taleggio and Cardamom Tart, Mjuk Mandeltarta (soft almond tart) and a "beauteous, sluttish, fall of the Roman Empire" Roast Fig and Honey Tart with Cointreau. With quiet sophistication, Day-Lewis presents a beautiful and useful book to savor on many levels. (Mar. 9) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

Day-Lewis (yes, she's Daniel's sister) is a well-known British food writer whose work has appeared here in Food & Wine and other magazines. She has a wonderful, somewhat breezy style, and the recipes in her new book are mouthwatering: Smoked Bacon and Garlic Tart, Fennel, Taleggio, and Cardamom Tart, Roast Fig Tart with Cointreau (which she describes as "a beauteous and sluttish, Fall of the Roman Empire kind of dessert"). In addition to her own recipes, there is a section called "Other People's Tarts," recipes from chefs, writers, and good home cooks. The text is lavishly illustrated with color photographs, but the book is a comfortable size for actually using in the kitchen (rather than leaving on the coffee table). Highly recommended. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Jancis Robinsons Wine Course or Savor the Moment

2009-01-05T14:11:00.000-08:00

Jancis Robinson's Wine Course: A Guide to the World of Wine, 2nd Edition

Author: Jancis Robinson

One of the world's most respected wine writers provides an introduction to the enjoyment of wine and an overview of the wines of the world in this companion volume to the acclaimed television series.

The huge array of wines available today can be exceedingly confusing to the novice or even experienced buyer. Anyone who enters a wine store is likely to be confronted by rows and rows of racks filled with endless choices. Where do you begin when all you want is a reasonable priced quality wine to serve with dinner?

Jancis Robinson can make anyone an expert, or at least an informed buyer, in short order. In this comprehensive guide to the wine producing countries of the world, she captures the flavor of each region's wines and gives her personal recommendations for the best names to look for. She also describes the distinctive characteristics of a broad range of grape varieties and looks at both the traditional and innovative methods used in winemaking. An up-to-date vintage guide makes selection even easier.

Designed to ensure that you get the most out of every glass, the Wine Course explains how to taste and store wine, suggests what to serve at home, and reveals how to order the best-value bottles in a restaurant. Full of infectious enthusiasm and lost of personal tips, this book will soon have you reaching for the corkscrew.

Other Details: 300 full-color illustrations 320 pages 8 x 8" Published 1996

there, and explaining not just how things are but giving the real explanation (not necessarily the same as the public relations pitch) of why they are that way.

As a subject for study, wine happens to come with an amazing amount of baggage, which we can choose to revel in or ignore. Its history stretches back past the Bronze Age, to at least 5500 years ago. Its geography encompasses all of the world's temperate zones (and quite a few of the tropical ones too). The wine business is conducted in some of the most beautiful corners of the world, and its personalities are some of the most colourful in any field of commercial activity. Wine is rich in religious symbolism, and has the unusual attribute of being able to last and evolve for centuries, providing a direct, tastable link with past generations. Yet today, wine production is a scientifically sophisticated business that is unusually open about what in many other businesses would be its secrets.

This book, which has been a seriously exciting project for me, aims to give you an insider's view of the world of wine. As I became involved in planning and then began writing, I realized not just how rapidly the world of wine has changed in the last decade or so, but how much less ignorant (I would certainly not say more knowledgeable) I am now—partly thanks to spending the last five years editing The Oxford Companion to Wine—and how much more insider information and advice I want to communicate. My hope is that in some small way this book will help its readers to get even more pleasure out of wine.

A Few Insider Tips to Set You on Your Way:

Wine amateurs may say opener . . .

But professional winos say corkscrew

Wine amateurs may say crate (of wine) . . .

But professional winos say case (= 12 bottles)

Wine amateurs may say drink (active verb)

But professional winos say taste

Wine amateurs may say champagne (for all fizzy wine) . . .

But professional winos say sparkling wine (for all fizzy wine except that made in the Champagne region in north east France)

Wine amateurs may think sediment in a bottle is a bad sign . . .

But professional winos know it's a sign of a producer who worships quality above cosmetics

Wine amateurs may think claret is any old red . . .

But professional winos know claret is a word used in Britain exclusively for red bordeaux

Wine amateurs may think Zinfandel is white . . .

But professional winos know Zinfandel's a red grape that no one wanted so someone cleverly began to make a very commercial off dry white out of it in California in the 1980s

Publishers Weekly

As elegant and meticulously laid out as a posh wine shop, this companion to the BBC series of the same title by Financial Times wine columnist Robinson brims with the kind of facts, advice and trivia that will likely enthrall aspiring oenophiles but may overwhelm dilettantes. Robinson, a congenial raconteur, divides this course into four long chapters, each providing a deep immersion into a different facet of the wine worldand each punctuated by splashy photographs and charts. "Getting the Most Out of Wine" demonstrates how to open, serve and order the stuff; "How Wine is Made" reveals how the grapes are harvested, fermented and bottled; the last chapters catalogue the hundreds of varieties of wine and the world's vineyards, from those in France and Italy to less prominent regions in Argentina, South Africa and New Zealand. The book is bursting with short glossaries and sidebars, addressing the esoteric (wine-scoring systems) and the pragmatic (pronunciation; varieties of corkscrews). A short vintage guide and an index are included, but no comprehensive glossary. Readers with income and patience enough for the trial and error that a wine education requires will find that this manual is best read over time, in conjunction with regular samplings of the wines showcased. The novice looking for a simple handbook to help navigate a wine retailer or a restaurant list may be better served by the Windows on the World Wine Course (see Notes, below). (Oct.)

Savor the Moment: Entertaining Without Reservations

Author: Junior League of Boca Raton

This menu-driven cookbook is filled with more than 300 recipes, stunning four-color photography, versatile entertaining ideas and great presentation tips. On location photography will highlight special menus aboard a yacht, by a waterfall, playing croquet, watching fireworks, overlooking a secret garden, on the polo fields, inside a tiled courtyard, under a beachside gazebo, and in a beautiful dining room. Cooking enthusiasts will enjoy both the quick and easy selections as well as the gourmet creations that are worth the time and effort. In addition to being a first-class cookbook, Savor the Moment is produced by the Junior League of Boca Raton and will raise funds to directly benefit numerous worthwhile community projects.

Simply Delectable or Around the Family Table

2009-01-05T02:29:00.000-08:00

Simply Delectable

Author: Sharon Glass

This collection of simple and elegant recipes is Simply Delectable! The delicious dishes in this easy-to-use cookbook are for cooks who want to create good food, quickly and easily, using the best and freshest ingredients.

From hors d'oeuvres to dessert, well-known chef and former Hollywood caterer Sharon Glass offers easy, creative ways to craft scrumptious meals. Feast on decadent Duck with Cherries, spicy Thai Red Chicken Curry, or savory Salmon Cakes with Avocado Butter. Create a light lunch of Mushroom Cappuccino Soup and Slow Roasted Beet Salad. Tempt your tastebuds with sweet treats: Fruity Ginger Trifle, Layered Chocolate Ice Cream Delight, Easy Apple Tarts with Caramel, and more. Simply Delectable includes suggested menu ideas for parties, formal dinners and casual get-togethers, as well as more than 100 stunning, full-color photos of the finished dishes.

Sharon's simple, innovative recipes are designed for the busy cook who wants to delight friends and family, without spending all day in the kitchen.

Author Biography: Sharon Glass is a self-taught cook who is passionate about food, and once ran a catering company in Los Angeles. She now lives in South Africa, where she has established a cooking school and continues to work in the catering business.

Interesting textbook: Working Forests in the Neotropics or Handbook of Gender and Work

Around the Family Table: 365 Mealtime Conversations for Parents and Children

Author: Ronda Coleman

The meaningful spirit of family gathered around the dinner table is rekindled in this engaging collection of 365 conversation starters designed to keep families talking, learning, and bonding year-round. Parents will learn how to cultivate and cherish mealtime discussions with their children through these thought-provoking questions. Topics include moral values, ethical dilemmas, relationships, problem solving, religion, and individuality. Families can breathe new life into the rich tradition of dinner conversation.

Author Biography: Ronda Coleman is a licensed nurse and the mother of seven children. She lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Denver Post

If your dinnertime conversation is limited to negotiations about carpools, homework and other chores, pick up a copy this book, which poses 365 questions intended to provoke a thoughtful dialogue.

She has collected questions designed to prompt stories from even recalcitrant diners: 'What is the worst nightmare you ever had? How old were you?' and 'What is mercy? Should we always show it, or are there times we should set it aside?'

Most of the questions nudge conversations about ethics and values, but in a nonconfrontational way. This book would be handy to have around for large family get-togethers, as well as weekday dinners.

Manufacture of Liquors Wines and Cordials Without the Aid of Distillation or Tea With Friends

2009-01-04T17:47:00.000-08:00

Manufacture of Liquors, Wines, and Cordials, Without the Aid of Distillation

Author: Applewood Books

While this 1863 work was originally intended as a comprehensive reference for those in the beverage trade, modern readers will find the recipes both delicious and easy to prepare in their own kitchens.

Tea With Friends

Author: Elizabeth Knight

In a similar format to Storey's very successful Country Tea Parties, Tea with Friends presents a year's worth of occasions to bring friends together around a pot of tea. Includes 13 original, little-fuss party ideas illustrated with elegant watercolor

paintings. Each party contains menus, tea recipes, and things to make or do to enhance the celebration.

Tra Vigne Cookbook or In the Devils Garden

2009-01-04T07:06:00.000-08:00

Tra Vigne Cookbook: Seasons in the California Wine Country

Author: Michael Chiarello

This classic cookbook from Food Network star Michael Chiarello is at last available in paperback. It's vintage Chiarello: blending simple yet sophisticated recipes from Napa Valley's famed Tra Vigne restaurant with the grace of Wine Country living and the warmth of his Italian heritage. More than 80 rustic recipes are enhanced by personal stories, detailed descriptions of how to choose ingredients for seasonal perfection and deliciousness, and Chiarello's personal philosophy of life as it relates to cooking—and feeding—those you love.

Books about: The Day Freedom Died or The Endless City

In the Devil's Garden: A Sinful History of Forbidden Food

Author: Stewart Lee Allen

Deliciously organized by the Seven Deadly Sins, here is a scintillating history of forbidden foods through the ages—and how these mouth-watering taboos have defined cultures around the world.

From the lusciously tempting fruit in the Garden of Eden to the divine foie gras, Stewart Lee Allen engagingly illustrates that when a pleasure as primal as eating is criminalized, there is often an astonishing tale to tell. Among the foods thought to encourage Lust, the love apple (now known as the tomato) was thought to possess demonic spirits until the nineteenth century. The Gluttony “course” invites the reader to an ancient Roman dinner party where nearly every dish served—from poppy-crusted rodents to “Trojan Pork”—was considered a crime against the state. While the vice known as Sloth introduces the sad story of “The Lazy Root” (the potato), whose popularity in Ireland led British moralists to claim that the Great Famine was God’s way of punishing the Irish for eating a food that bred degeneracy and idleness.

Filled with incredible food history and the author’s travels to many of these exotic locales, In the Devil’s Garden also features recipes like the matzo-ball stews outlawed by the Spanish Inquisition and the forbidden “chocolate champagnes” of the Aztecs. This is truly a delectable book that will be consumed by food lovers, culinary historians, amateur anthropologists, and armchair travelers alike. Bon appétit!

KLIATT

Any book with chapters like "The Joy of Fat" and "The Virgin's Nipple" is attention getting. Tie these subjects in with the history of food and there is even more interest. Stewart Lee Allen, previously known for his unorthodox history of coffee, The Devil's Cup, now takes a sardonic look at other commonly ingested items such as potatoes (in the 19th century common knowledge for some held that they made the Irish lazy and that's why they starved) and corn (snubbed by the upper class Europeans and given to the poor). Each chapter is a fact-filled two to four pages, bringing to light those fables and fallacies of our ancestors in an entertaining manner. Since we are what we eat, what we eat often plays a key role in history. For example, "The abrupt disappearance of the Etruscans around the fourth century BC has long baffled some historians, but some now think that when their priests discovered their culture's demise in a sheep's liver, the race simply merged with the Romans, rather than fight the inevitable." Much of the book emphasizes the "sinful nature" of certain foods (the tomato was known early on as the "love apple," for example). Although serious once, these anecdotes of history now tend to mainly amuse. This is a clever book that trivia experts will love and students assigned the "food history" paper will find useful. KLIATT Codes: SA—Recommended for senior high school students, advanced students, and adults. 2002, Ballantine, 325p. notes. bibliog. index., Gillen

Food of Italy or 100 Magnificent Muffiins and Scones

2009-01-03T21:24:00.000-08:00

Food of Italy

Author: Waverley Lewis Root

To read this book is not just to learn the proper preparation for lasagna and risotto, but also to encounter the Medicis, to witness an opulent banquet for two, and to learn the fables surrounding the origin of tortellini.

Interesting book: Workplace Readiness for Health Occupations or Applied Codeology

100 Magnificent Muffiins and Scones

Author: Felicity Barnum Bobb

Big muffins, little muffins, sinful muffins, guilt-free muffins, sweet muffins, savoury muffins, nuffin-in-'em muffins (gluten, wheat, dairy and sugar-free) ... every kind of muffin for every occasion. And scones! Great for breakfast or as a snack, try savoury muffins as an alternative to bread. Packed with recipes for all sorts of festive occasions, from children's parties to weddings. Plus, options suitable for special diets or food intolerances.

Cake Mix Magic 2 or Slurp

2009-01-03T12:42:00.000-08:00

Cake Mix Magic 2: 125 More Easy Desserts...Good as Homemade, Vol. 2

Author: Jill Snider

Cake mixes are more popular than ever and it's no surprise. Pressed for time, today's bakers love the quality, dependability and convenience that a cake mix offers. Better still, cake mixes are incredibly versatile. Keep one or two in the pantry along with a few other basic ingredients and you'll be ready to bake everything from cakes to squares, muffins and even cookies.

In Cake Mix Magic 2, you will discover more ways than you ever imagined to transform a good cake into a great cake or a mouthwatering dessert, simply by adding tasty but readily available ingredients such as nuts, chocolate, sour cream or fruit. As she did in her first best seller, Cake Mix Magic, Jill Snider provides you with the perfect shortcut solution. Now you can have delicious cakes that taste homemade in less than half the time it would take to bake from scratch. An no one will ever guess that your delightful desserts came from a box.

Here is just a sampling from the wide variety of baked treats: Cookies 'n' Cream Cake, Triple Raspberry Treat, Lemon Cream Torte, Chocolate Carmel Pecan Cake, Pineapple Coconut Dream Bars, Apple Crisp Cake, Cranberry Almond Coffee Cake, Spicy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies, No-Bake Bumbleberry Cheesecake, Almond Crisps.

More than 125 delicious cake mix recipes
From single layer to special occasion cakes
Know your ingredients section
Baking equipment essentials
Tips and techniques for perfect cake baking every time
Everything from cheesecakes to cookies
16 color photographs

Look this: A Covenant with Color or Building a Winning Career in Architecture

Slurp: Drinks and Light Fare, All Day, All Night

Author: Jim Hensley

Sip, savor, and satisfy your thirst for cool cocktails, silky smoothies, classic coffee drinks, tantalizing teas, and much more with Slurp.

A visual and gastronomic delight, this vivid and colorful cookbook presents both alcoholic and nonalcoholic drinks in detail, along with recipes for tasty appetizer pairings and tips on entertaining, as well as hangover remedies for "the day after."

More than 100 recipes--from morning smoothies and energy drinks to afternoon thirst quenchers, evening cocktails, and aperitifs--are presented by the time of day they would best be served.

Breakfast: a Mimosa paired with Yogurt Muesli and Pears
Afternoon: Watermelon, Lime, and Lemongrass Juice with Chicken and Grapefruit Salad and Yogurt Dressing
Evening: a Flirtini alongside Scampi with Coriander and Lime

In addition to delicious drinks and mouthwatering morsels, Slurp features tips for creating a well-stocked bar, hosting a successful party, and making clever garnishes, like colorful ice cubes and homemade edible shot glasses made from cucumbers.

World Religions Cookbook or Catering Solutions

2009-01-03T00:59:00.000-08:00

World Religions Cookbook

Author: Arno Schmidt

Food is central to daily religious practice and holiday celebrations the world over. For instance, Orthodox Jews keep kosher, Muslims feast after fasting during the holy month of Ramadan, and Hindus leave food offerings in the temple for the dieties. For many, food is seen as nourishment for the body and soul. This cookbook illuminates the food practices of followers of the world's major religions: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, and Shintoism. The narrative and nearly 300 recipes give a flavor of what is often eaten for sacred occasions and why. This volume will be useful for a range of cooks and purposes. It is targeted to middle school age to adults. Those looking for more and different recipes for religion class assignments and International Week Food Festival or even for browsing will be richly rewarded with a one-stop resource.

Each chapter covers a religion or two with similar food practices. A brief overview of the religion is followed by a discussion of any dietary restrictions. Then the recipes are organized by holiday or special occasion, featuring from appetizers to desserts. Recipes are culled from a variety of countries and cultures where the religion is practiced. The recipes are contextualized and have clear instructions for the novice cook. A final section in some chapters allows readers to recreate what the religion's founder or major figures might have eaten during their lifetime. A glossary defines what might be unfamiliar cooking terms and food and kitchen items. An introduction, list of recipes, conversion measurements, bibliography, index, and illustrations round out the cookbook.

Interesting book: A Speakers Resource or An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire 1300 1600

Catering Solutions: For the Culinary Student, Foodservice Operator, and Caterer

Author: Edward E Sanders

Geared to the introductory Culinary student, but very useful to food service operators and professional caterers alike, this book uses a clear, concise approach to connect the basics of culinary catering. It guides readers step-by-step through the entire rigorous process of catering a gourmet event—from food safety, cooking, and beverage selection all the way to background music and napkin folding.

World in My Kitchen or Healthy Eating for Life to Prevent and Treat Cancer

2009-01-02T15:17:00.000-08:00

World in My Kitchen: The Adventures of a (Mostly) French Woman in America

Author: Collette Rossant

"We are on our way to Le Havre. The train is going so fast that the landscape is all but a blur. From time to time, I can see a farm in the mist surrounded by a sea of green fields. I am excited but also scared. It is 1955, and we are on our way to New York."

So begins the marvelous journey of Colette Rossant, just married to an American architect and about to leave France for a new life in the heart of New York City. At first, Colette finds Americans' manners to be as mystifying as their cuisine, but before long, she discovers the myriad charms of her adopted country. Between taking on an astoundingly diverse series of jobs, raising four children, and renovating a Soho town house, Colette develops her own flair for food—and for superb food writing. In this spirited and deliciously entertaining memoir, Colette shares the unforgettable stories of her forty tumultuous years at the heart of American and international cuisine.

The children's cooking school she starts for her daughter's friends turns into a starring role on a PBS television series. As New York magazine's "Underground Gourmet," she hails the city's staggering array of outstanding ethnic cuisine. Either with her husband and children, or on her own, she travels to Africa, China, Japan, and South America, exploring cuisine and culture around the globe. She rides camels through the Australian outback, barters lipstick for fresh vegetables in Tanzania, and is almost arrested as a spy by the Chinese secret police—just because she is trying to eat like a local.

Charming, indomitable, endlessly curious and adventurous, Colette Rossant inspires us to savor every meal—and every day. With awonderful array of mouth-watering recipes, The World in My Kitchen is an irresistible celebration of family, food, and life.

Publishers Weekly

The third of Rossant's memoirs with recipes (after Apricots on the Nile; Return to Paris) takes the reader briskly from her 1955 marriage to an American architect right through to the present. It is less personal than her earlier books-after recounting initial difficulties with her new in-laws, she more or less lets her family (four children) fend for itself in these pages-perhaps because she has had a genuinely adventurous life, with a lot to tell, both about her New York neighborhood and the larger world. Her first boss was a criminal, but she soon found a new job as a French teacher, while she learned how to cook with American ingredients. These two callings, teacher and cook, led her through many jobs, a television show, friendships with celebrity "foodies," several cookbooks and eventually around the world collecting recipes and experiences in not only the usual destinations but also such exotic spots as Xi-an, a Chinese Muslim city. At times clich d, Rossant's writing is vivid and opinionated, which makes her good company, and the recipes that follow each chapter are as eclectic as one would wish from a well-traveled writer. Illustrations. (Sept.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

This is the third volume of Rossant's memoirs, after Memories of a Lost Egypt and Return to Paris. All three include recipes sprinkled throughout the text. A prolific author of cookbooks, Rossant recounts her arrival in New York as a new bride and her acclimation to the New York way of life. It's a great read about the city, full of the social history of the neighborhoods in which Rossant lived from the perspective of a newly arrived immigrant. Entertaining and warmly recounted, her stories give us insight into the character of a French woman and budding chef. Recipes are easy to follow and for the most part useful, including Watercress Soup, Apple Mousse, Cheese Souffl , Mushroom Consomm , and the obligatory Cr pe. Libraries owning Rossant's other works will want to purchase this. A good addition for popular cooking and biography collections in most public libraries. Elizabeth Rogers, CEF Lib. Syst., Plattsburgh, NY Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

Rossant (Return to Paris, 2003, etc.) concludes her trilogy of memoirs with this mouthwatering reminiscence of marriage and her stellar epicurean career. In 1955, the author and her husband left France for New York. For Rossant, moving to America meant, foremost, the discovery of new food, starting with an ice-cream sundae. She'd read about this "mountain of ice cream" in French reporters' accounts of America, but had never tasted one. Baked potatoes and bagels quickly became favorites as well. She missed lunching on a baguette stuffed with ham, but made do with cream cheese on walnut bread from Chock Full 'o Nuts. Broccoli took some getting used to: "It looked like a small tree, and tasted somewhat like cabbage . . . too bland." Indeed, American vegetables were generally a problem. String beans seemed a wholly different species than the haricots verts Rossant had enjoyed in France. Iceberg lettuce was . . . well, barely lettuce. She also found American packaged food tricky; making her first attempt with a cake mix, she baked the icing and used the cake powder as glaze. While navigating American cuisine, Rossant had children and a series of jobs, including writing for a French-language newsDelectable: Bon appetit!

Healthy Eating for Life to Prevent and Treat Cancer

Author: Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicin

a simple new dietary approach to cancer prevention and treatment

Current research has shown that what you eat is one of the strongest factors in preventing cancer. You can take advantage of this fact to safeguard your health–and this book shows you how. Drawing on the latest medical and dietary research, Healthy Eating for Life to Prevent and Treat Cancer presents a complete and sensible plant-based nutrition program that can help make cancer less likely–and also help those already diagnosed to heal.

Showing how you can put food to work against today’s most common forms of cancer (including lung, breast, prostate, ovarian, cervical, and digestive tract cancers), this book provides detailed nutritional guidelines that have been carefully drafted by Physicians Committee nutrition experts. The book includes over 80 delicious, easy-to-make recipes to help you put these healthy eating principles to work right away. Healthy Eating for Life to Prevent and Treat Cancer contains important information on:

• Antioxidants, omega-3 fatty acids, and other protective weapons

• Foods that boost the immune system

• Nutrition during cancer treatment

• Exercise and weight management

• Stress-reduction techniques

• And more

Whether you are looking to prevent or heal cancer, this book will give you the crucial knowledge you need to take charge now– of your diet, your health, and your life.

Also available:

Healthy Eating for Life to Prevent and Treat Diabetes (0-471-43598-8)

Healthy Eating for Life for Children (0-471-43621-6)

HealthyEating for Life for Women (0-471-43596-1)

Booknews

Based on studies of people who survive for long periods after being diagnosed with cancer, this book outlines new approaches to nutrition. It offers detailed nutritional guidelines to prevent cancer or help survive it. Chapters discuss nutrition, foods for cancer survival, nutrition during treatment, foods which help fight cancer, fitness, and stress. Eighty recipes are included. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

An Occasion to Gather or 500 Treasured Country Recipes from Martha Storey and Friends

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

An Occasion to Gather: Milwaukee Entertains

Author: The Junior League of Milwauke

An Occasion to Gather offers delicious menus, with fresh ingredients and easy to prepare gourmet dishes along with creative tips for entertaining. The stunning photography of Milwaukee landmarks and special recipes from local area chefs make this a must have for any cookbook collector.

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500 Treasured Country Recipes from Martha Storey and Friends: Mouthwatering, Time-Honored, Tried-and-True, Handed-Down, Soul-Satisfying Dishes

Author: Martha Storey

The country kitchen is an American icon. Everyone, whether they live in a log cabin or a luxury high-rise, strives to capture some of that warmth, flavor, fragrance, and feeling in their own kitchens. Martha Storey, country-living publisher for more than 17 years, draws on her own country roots and on the experience of Storey's many expert authors to help readers learn or relearn the time-honored skills of the American country kitchen and revisit the classics of down-home cooking.

In this chock-full-of-recipes cookbook, Martha shares her family's and friends' favorite tried-and-true country-cooking recipes. These are the simple dishes with country soul that make your mouth water. They are the church supper recipes that are never out of style and that will become the hand-me-down recipes you pass on to your children and grandchildren. In addition to providing these classic recipes, Martha covers the skills of the country kitchen. From woodstove to microwave, Martha shares tips and techniques for making cheese, preserving food, making sausage, pulling taffy, baking bread, and making pies and ice cream.

This heirloom cookbook, with old-fashioned and updated country techniques and know-how, is as complete as your great-grandmother's pantry!

Library Journal

Storey is the cofounder of Storey Books, which publishes "country cooking" books, gardening guides, and other practical titles, and she's also the mother of three and the grandmother of eight. Many of these 500 recipes are family favorites, while others come from popular Storey authors. Time-honored, as the subtitle says, or dated, depending on your point of view, they include such old standards as Seafood Newburg (with Velveeta) and Frosted Lettuce Wedges; and many of the recipes are available in other standard sources. Perhaps the most useful parts of the book are the introduction and the sections on "Arts of the Country Kitchen" and "Arts of the Country Home," which include illustrated guides to techniques and terms, equipment and ingredients, preserving, cheese making, crafts, gardening, and more. For larger cookery and crafts collections. Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

Sundays At Moosewood Restaurant or Big Book of Chicken

2008-12-31T16:40:00.000-08:00

Sundays At Moosewood Restaurant

Author: Moosewood Collectiv

Since its opening in 1973, Moosewood Restaurant in Ithaca, New York, has been synonymous with creative cuisine with a healthful, vegetarian emphasis.

Each Sunday at Moosewood Restaurant, diners experience a new ethnic or regional cuisine, sometimes exotic, sometimes familiar. From the highlands and grasslands of Africa to the lush forests of Eastern Europe, from the sun-drenched hills of Provence to the mountains of South America, the inventive cooks have drawn inspiration for these delicious adaptations of traditional recipes.

Including a section on cross-cultural menu planning as well as an extensive guide to ingredients, techniques, and equipment, Sundays at Moosewood Restaurant offers a taste for every palate.

Moosewood Restaurant is run by a group of 18 people who rotate through the jobs necessary to make a restaurant work. They plan menus, set long-term goals, and wash pots.

Moosewood Restaurant contributes 1 percent of its profits from the sale of this book to the Eritrean Relief Fund, which provides food and humanitarian assistance to the Eritrean people.

Moosewood Restaurant supports 1% For Peace, an organization working to persuade the government to redirect 1 percent of the Defense Department budget towards programs that create and maintain peace in positive ways.

GENERAL INTRODUCTION THE CUISINES Africa South of the Sahara by Nancy Lazarus Armenia and the Middle East by Laura Ward Branca British Isles by Tom Walls The Caribbean by Ned Asta Chile by Eliana Parra China by David Hirsch Eastern Europe by Maureen Vivino Finland by Susan Harville India by Linda Dickinson Italy by Anthony Del Plato Japan by Andi Gladstone Jewish by Wynelle Stein Mexico by Lisa Wichman New England by Maggie Pitkin North Africa and the Northeast African Highlands by Fouad Makki Provence by Kip Wilcox Southeast Asia by Bob Love Southern United States by Sara Robbins MENU PLANNING GUIDE TO INGREDIENTS, TECHNIQUES, AND EQUIPMENT WHAT WE MEAN WHEN WE SAY, "ONE MEDIUM ONION..."

Big Book of Chicken: More Than 275 Recipes for the World's Favorite Ingredient

Author: Maryana Vollstedt

Whether it's roasted, fried, grilled, broiled, braised, sautéed, or baked, chicken is always delicious. Maryana Vollstedt has created a new addition to Chronicle's best-selling Big Book series with this glorious homage to everyone's favorite fowl. The tremendous variety of ideas ranges from creative recipes like Pomegranate-Molasses Chicken Drummettes and Chipotle Cheddar Chicken Corn Chowder to comforting favorites like Chicken Marsala and Old-Fashioned Fried Chicken. Every recipe is simple to follow with lots of helpful tips on identifying parts of the chicken, cutting up and storing it, and safe preparation techniques. With more than 300 recipes inspired from cuisines around the world, this big book serves up everything there is to know about chicken.

Whitewater Cooks or Somersize Appetizers

2008-12-31T07:58:00.000-08:00

Whitewater Cooks: Pure, Simple and Real Creations from the Fresh Tracks Cafe

Author: Shelley Adams

Great recipes from a celebrated resort.

Whitewater Resort in the Canadian Rockies is renowned for its spectacular scenery, deep snow and Fresh Tracks Café. Despite constant pleading from customers, recipes for dishes made famous there were as unattainable as snowflakes in July. Even the café staff was sworn to secrecy. Now, Whitewater Cooks opens the kitchen doors.

With this eagerly anticipated book, home cooks can re-create chef Shelley Adams' signature dishes. Readers will enjoy over 70 recipes from the café's selection of top sellers—from warming soups to desserts—indulging in such culinary favorites as:

• Whiskey-smoked salmon chowder
• Ymir curry bowl
• Whitewater veggie burger
• Runaway train wrap
• Peppercorn, brandy and gorgonzola sauce
• Crackle top snowy mountain cookies
• Whitewater brownies.

Whitewater Resort is internationally recognized for its alpine scenery and the fine quality of its food. Now home cooks everywhere can share its most celebrated dishes.

Somersize Appetizers: 30 Easy-to-Make Recipes for Great Snacks That Are Unique, Delicious, and Low in Carbs

Author: Suzanne Somers

Dazzling hors d'oeuvres to heat up any cocktail hour!

The all-important appetizer . . . It's the first impression, a tantalizing and fanciful finger food to whet the appetite for what's to come. Gone are the days of Swedish meatballs, cheese and crackers, or chips with dip--Suzanne Somers' sexy collection of recipes will kick off any event with style. Whether you are entertaining for the holidays, casually hosting family and friends, or throwing a swank soiree, these appetizers will brighten any occasion.

In keeping with her reputation as a stellar chef, Suzanne presents fabulous, brand-new recipes for scrumptious nibbles you can pass around on trays or serve as delicious starters at the table. The bonus, for those watching their waistlines, is that Suzanne seamlessly eliminates refined sugar and carbohydrates--but your guests will never notice. What they will notice are innovative creations, spectacular flavor combinations, and exotic presentations to spice up any cocktail hour. Whether you are living a healthy Somersize lifestyle or are simply a lover of great food, Suzanne takes you step by step through easy instructions to help you succeed every time with winning recipes such as:

• Mini Burgers with Gorgonzola and Caramelized Onions

• Curried Lamb Skewers with Mint-Cilantro Chili Paste

• Wild Mushroom Risotto in Mushroom Caps

• Grilled Scallops Wrapped in Prosciutto with Basil-Parsley Pistou

• Lobster Bisque Cappuccino

• Saffron Mussels with Red Pepper Rouille

Filled with gorgeous photos, Somersize Appetizers includes stunning recipes sure to make your next party, family get-together, or evening at home totallyunforgettable.

Short Tails and Treats from Three Dog Bakery or Que Vivan Los Tamales

2008-12-30T20:17:00.000-08:00

Short Tails and Treats from Three Dog Bakery: A Canine Compendium Full of Pawsitively Scrumptious Top-Secret Recipes, Anecdogs and Never-Before-Seen Photographs

Author: Dan Dy

This is the story of two guys (and three dogs) who teamed up to create the world's best dog biscuit. In the process, they created a howling national success story! The bakers have developed such creations as Pupcakes, Scottie Biscotti, Snicker Poodles, Great Danish, and Collie Flowers in the world's first bona fide (or bone-ified) dog bakery. Three Dog Bakery, located in Kansas City, Missouri, has been featured on the Today Show, the Oprah Winfrey Show and on CNN.

Interesting textbook: Human Resource Development Research Handbook or Icebreaker

Que Vivan Los Tamales!: Food and the Making of Mexican Identity

Author: Jeffrey M Pilcher

Connections between what people eat and who they are—between cuisine and identity—reach deep into Mexican history, beginning with pre-Columbian inhabitants offering sacrifices of human flesh to maize gods in hope of securing plentiful crops. This cultural history of food in Mexico traces the influence of gender, race, and class on food preferences from Aztec times to the present and relates cuisine to the formation of national identity.

The metate and mano, used by women for grinding corn and chiles since pre-Columbian times, remained essential to preparing such Mexican foods as tamales, tortillas, and mole poblano well into the twentieth century. Part of the ongoing effort by intellectuals and political leaders to Europeanize Mexico was an attempt to replace corn with wheat. But native foods and flavors persisted and became an essential part of indigenista ideology and what it meant to be authentically Mexican after 1940, when a growing urban middle class appropriated the popular native foods of the lower class and proclaimed them as national cuisine.

Library Journal

This delightful approach to the history of Mexico examines how food has affected and mirrored the development of nationalism in the country. Pilcher (history, The Citadel) describes the early colonial conflict between the Mexican natives' consumption of corn and the European use of wheat. Tracing this conflict through the colonial period into the 20th century, he shows periodic attempts by Mexican elites and governmental officials to define Mexican culture and identity through a Europeanization of foods. That process essentially ended in the 1940s when the popular foods of the country were proclaimed to be the Mexican cuisine, resulting in a fusion of the two traditions. This well-written book highlights the interaction of the regional and national and the role of women in developing a national identity. Of interest to most academic libraries, it belongs in many public libraries as well.--Mark L. Grover, Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT

	Preface
	Introduction	1
Ch. 1	The People of Corn: Native American Cuisine	7
Ch. 2	The Conquests of Wheat: Culinary Encounters in the Colonial Period	25
Ch. 3	Many Chefs in the National Kitchen: The Nineteenth Century	45
Ch. 4	The Tortilla Discourse: Nutrition and Nation Building	77
Ch. 5	Replacing the Aztec Blender: The Modernization of Popular Cuisine	99
Ch. 6	Apostles of the Enchilada: Postrevolutionary Nationalism	123
Ch. 7	Recipes for Patria: National Cuisines in Global Perspective	143
	Epilogue	163
	Notes	167
	Glossary	203
	Select Bibliography	207
	Index	227

The Supermarket Diet or Edible Art

2008-12-30T10:35:00.000-08:00

The Supermarket Diet

Author: Janis Jibrin

Shop and then drop...your weight! The trusted diet and nutrition experts at Good Housekeeping present a groundbreaking new way to navigate the supermarket aisles for weight loss-and achieve long-lasting success.

Real food for real folks--and real weight loss that you'll be able to maintain. And it's all as easy as going to your local supermarket and picking up ordinary packaged convenience foods. Diets are among Good Housekeeping's most popular features, and now the magazine has created a diet revolution that everyone will want to join. Here, you will learn how to read food labels to eat healthy, shop for packaged foods that won't sabotage a diet, and stick to a healthy balanced menu that is low in calories, high in fiber, and moderate in carbs, fats, and protein.

Why you will love this diet:
* It's inexpensive and easy: the food is affordable and most meal preparation takes less than 20 minutes.
* It's flexible: you can choose from an enormous variety of foods.
* It's forgiving: you can have chocolate, alcohol, and other treats without feeling like you've blown it. There's even a Calorie Counter with 125-calorie snacks to satisfy cravings.

The diet begins with a two-week Boot Camp, which consists of 1,200 calories a day for fast, motivational results-many people will lose three to five pounds. But don't worry--with such items as rotisserie chicken and burritos, you'll come through without feeling deprived. Then, shift to Keep on Losin', a less rigorous daily plan of 1,500 calories--but one that's still highly effective! You might lose one to two pounds a week following these guidelines.

To make things even easier, there are 100 mouthwatering recipes, many incorporating convenience foods--and they're all tested in Good Housekeeping's famed kitchens. And there are dozens of helpful tips about avoiding diet saboteurs-including, believe it or not, eating too little, which slows the metabolism. With advice on things like dieting when your family isn't, the secrets of successful weight-loss winners, and stocking the kitchen wisely, you're set up for sensible weight loss, as well as a lifetime of healthy eating!

Library Journal

These two books both educate consumers about food labels, but only one is strictly a diet book. A former health columnist for the Los Angeles Times, nutritionist Ursell (fellow, Royal Soc. of Health) explains all the tricks to reading and understanding food labels and breaks down the U.S. government agencies and their authority in food manufacturing. Did you know, for instance, that the FDA considers irradiation a food additive that must be declared on the ingredients list? Or that durability indications (i.e., "best before" dates) are not required by law except for milk and eggs? Ursell covers children's food and organic food as well and even explains symbols and logos such as "Fair Trade" and "Dolphin Safe." Nutritionist Jibrin (The Unofficial Guide to Dieting Safely) maintains that cooking quick-and-easy meals at home is the key to losing weight and keeping it off. Though she devotes an entire chapter to not being "duped" by food labels, this is a diet book with sample menus and basic recipes tested by Good Housekeeping. The diet begins with a two-week "Boot Camp" that is supposed to help readers lose three to five pounds and leads up to "Keep on Losin'" and "Keeping It Off" programs for maintenance after weight loss. Helpful "Super Tips" such as opting for fiber, nuts, and "good fats" are interspersed throughout. Jibrin's book is well written and practical, and Ursell's is easy to read, small, inexpensive, and could easily be carried to the supermarket to help consumers purchase healthy foods. Both are recommended for all libraries.-Carla McLean, Kent Regional Lib., King Cty. Lib. Syst., WA Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Look this: Instant Case Studies or New Food Product Development

Edible Art

Author: Schiffer Publishing

Sculpture created from fruits and vegetables will challenge you, and amaze your guests. Simple techniques and tools make it possible to create absolutely stunning centerpieces that will be the talk of the party. Butterflies and rosebuds from colorful beets, carrots, and radishes are easily crafted. Elaborate melon lanterns and "flower" filled vases are crafted step-by-step in pictures, making it easy for you to follow the directions. Twenty-five splendid projects promise to delight dinner guests, and gratify their maker. An inexpensive hobby, food sculpture becomes a priceless addition to any table setting. This book will show you how to create imaginative centerpieces like a pro.

The Tuscan Year or Ultimate Foods for Ultimate Health

2008-12-29T23:53:00.000-08:00

The Tuscan Year: Life and Food in an Italian Valley

Author: Elizabeth Romer

The Tuscan Year recounts the daily life and food preparation of a family living on a farm in Tuscany. Elizabeth Romer chronicles each season’s activities month by month: curing prosciutto and making salame in January, planting and cheesemaking in March, harvesting and threshing corn in July, hunting for wild muchrooms in September, and grape crushing in Ocober. Scattered throughout this lovely calendar are recipes—fresh bread and olive oil, grilled mushrooms, broad beans with ham, trout with fresh tomatoes and basil, chicken grilled with fresh sage and garlic, and apples baked with butter, sugar, and lemon peel, among many others. Alive with the rhythms of country tradition, The Tuscan Year is a treasure for the armchair traveler as well as the cook.

Newsday - Irene Sax

More than a cookbook and better than a travel book about the unvarying circle of a year on a farm in Tuscany... This is not the Neapolitan cooking Americans know; not modern restaurant food, but an elegant peasant cuisine that wastes nothing.

Food and Wine - Catherine Fredman

Evocative narrative and authentic recipes are intertwined in...[this] beautifully written book about the food grown and prepared by a family living on a farm in Tuscany.

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Ultimate Foods for Ultimate Health: And Don't Forget the Chocolate!

Author: Liz Pearson

Be healthy, eat well and indulge your sweet tooth.

Several years ago, registered dietitian Liz Pearson and home economist Mairlyn Smith developed The Ultimate Healthy Eating Plan. This best-selling book provided guidance for optimal health and the prevention of diseases including cancer, heart disease and diabetes. Ultimate Foods for Ultimate Health is a welcome follow-up book about disease-fighting powerhouse foods. The authors describe how often to eat these foods and in what quantities. Filled with great tips for eating on the run, dining out and snacking wisely, the book combines the 50 best recipes from the first book with 90 new ones — all nutrition-packed and fabulous.

Wild Game Cookbook or Raw Food Formula for Health

2008-12-29T13:14:00.000-08:00

Wild Game Cookbook

Author: Doug Kazulak

Here, finally, is a practical cookbook for wild game. The nearly 120 recipes have been field-tested over an open fire and reflect the experience of generations of a family committed to careful use of wild game. The recipes--for deer, moose, bear, rabbit, squirrel, duck, goose, grouse, and pheasant--are enriched with warm anecdotes of past times with family, helpful hints, and cooking tips.

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Raw Food Formula for Health

Author: Paul Nison

Raw food chef and educator Paul Nison outlines an easily applied formula to help improve health and live a disease-free life. His program is nutritionally based on eating vibrant, live foods and being in touch with your emotional and spiritual feelings as a path to optimal health.

Super Sandwiches or Cooking ala Heart

2008-12-29T01:32:00.000-08:00

Super Sandwiches: Wrap 'em, Stack 'em, Stuff 'em

Author: Rose Dunnington

Whether for lunch, afternoon snacks, quick dinners, or to sate those anytime munchies, there’s nothing like a sandwich. It’s simple, delicious, and easy for kids to make—especially with this appetizing cookbook at hand. Why go for boring bologna or tired tuna when these yummy, healthy culinary creations will satisfy every kid’s appetite for food and cooking fun? And all the basics are explained, including how to sauté ingredients, grill whole sandwiches, and broil for perfect cheese melting. The lip-smacking, child-appealing sensations include Southern-style True BBQ on a bun, Sloppy Joes, and Cowboy Quesadillas with homemade Texas Caviar. Or kids can wrap it up with an Edgy Veggie combo.

Janet S. ThompsonCopyright 2006 Reed Business Information. - School Library Journal

Gr 6 Up
The first book describes the science involved in baking, but not before new bakers develop confidence with bread from preceding recipes. Sandwiches opens with a thoughtful introduction that describes best practices and suggests that teens are ready for foods more refined than peanut butter and jelly, and are capable of preparing them. The results will clearly impress the lunchroom crowd. Dunnington's tone will appeal to new cooks for its pithy attitude and can-do, casual approach to food, despite the sophistication of the meals presented. The two titles complement each other, with breads featured in one being useful for sandwiches in the other. Some recipes include tips on how to make a variation of the dish, such as using different fruit in Spectacular Strawberry Shortcake. Exceptional full-page color photos entice and provide an accurate representation of the finished products. Everyone loves a cook, and Dunnington makes sure the popularity factor is emphasized along with many good eats. With spiral-bound pages encased within a sturdy cardboard cover, terrific photos, and enticing recipes, these books are must-haves.

Cooking a'la Heart: Delicious Heart Healthy Recipes to Reduce Risk of Heart Disease and Stroke

Author: Linda Hachfeld

With over 90,000 copies sold, this illustrated "bible" for heart healthy eating has a wide array of more than 400 triple-tested recipes. Includes dietary guidelines and menus. "We think it's one of the best cooking light books we've seen".--"Food & Wine Magazine". 456 pp.

The One Pan Gourmet or Squeeze of Lime

2008-12-28T16:51:00.000-08:00

The One Pan Gourmet: Fresh Food on the Trail

Author: Don Jacobson

How to prepare simple, delicious meals on the trail

If you think eating in the backcountry means either cooking out of your car trunk on a multiburner stove or subsisting on dried fruit and freeze-dried pouch food, think again. In the first case you’re not really in the backcountry, and in the second case, says Don Jacobson, you’re not really eating.

The One Pan Gourmet shows you how to enjoy Mother Nature and enjoy easy, tasty, and satisfying meals using fresh ingredients and only one pan, pot, or small oven.

Don has gathered and trail-tested all the recipes, and he's added some new favorites for this edition. He's also included up-to-date information on cookware, outdoor stoves, and water filtration, as well as:

More than 175 recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert
Vegetarian options and low-fat choices
Provisioning and packing advice
Weekend menu plans for pan, pot, and oven

"Will improve the eating habits of all hikers. Gives the overnighter a delightful (yet luxurious) addition of tasteful, well-devised meals that require only one pan, pot, or do-it-yourself stove."—Sierra Outdoors

"Jammed full of a wide variety of dishes."—Sea Kayaker

"Offers a unique perspective on using fresh foods in the wild."—American Hiker

Don Jacobson wrote this book after 30 years of hiking, spelunking, and trail cooking on solo trips, with friends and family, and as a Boy Scout leader. He has personally developed and tested every recipe in the book.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

A Philosophy of Eating

Diet at Home . . . Eat on the Trail

A Question of Balance: Hardware or Munchware?

The Portable Kitchen

Utilitarian Utensils

A Few Thoughts about Water

Prometheus, the Camper

Pot, not Head, Bangers

Rampant Ambition . . . A One-Pan Oven

Packing It All Away

The Food

How to Plan a Menu

Meat Substitutes

Notes on Eating "Lite"

Power Buying

Getting the Show Ready for the Road

Packaging Ideas

The One-Pan Menu

Sample Weekend Menu

Cleanup

A Clean Site Is a Happy Site

The Frying Pan

Breakfast

Eggs

Cakes: Griddle, Pan, and Otherwise

Lunch and Dinner

Poultry

Vegetables

Meat

Dessert

The Pot

Breakfast

Cereals

Morning Beverages

Eggs and Meat

Lunch and Dinner

Poultry

Soups and Stews

Vegetables

Meat

Dessert

The Oven

Breakfast

Lunch and Dinner

Poultry

Vegetarian Delights

Beef

Pork, Ham, and Other "Ovenables"

Baked Goods

Dessert

Appendix

Menu Planning

Weights and Measures

Nutritional Content of Some Common Foods

Index

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Squeeze of Lime: Lime Recipes from la Collina Verde along with Treasured Family Favorites

Author: Linda Seigel Peterson

A Squeeze of Lime
Recipes from La Collina Verde
If you think limes are only used to make Key Lime Pie and Margaritas, think again!

The lime is a companion fruit—one that enhances the flavors of other foods without adding unnecessary calories or fat. For the health—conscious cook, limes—inexpensive and available year-round—offer an easy way t add a bright, light spark to any menu.

Linda Seigel Peterson presents over a hundred recipes using limes and also includes a number of family favorites, offering some old fashioned comfort food. The recipes are straightforward and easy, perfect for the beginning cook, yet they have the flair to capture the imagination of any adventurous chef.

A Squeeze of Lime addresses todays lifestyle with essays on creative leftovers—how to plan ahead and use whats left of a weekend feast for quick meals during the work week—and bachelor cooking—with tips on meal planning and grilling. A brief history of the lime rounds out a collection that honors this versatile, often underappreciated, citrus fruit.

A Versatile Companion Fruitthe Lime

What do I do with limes? Thats the question friends asked Linda Seigel Peterson when she began sharing the bounty of 700 lime trees at La Collina Verde (The Little Green Hill in Italian), her family ranch set on a hillside overlooking Santa Barbara, California. A Squeeze of Lime is the resultwith over a hundred recipes using limes in appetizers and drinks, soups and salads, entres, marinades, salsas, and desserts. Lindas enthusiasm for cooking became a passion during the eighteen years she has experimented with limes and tested recipes looking for a balance between simplicity and elegance. Some recipes are lovely twists on old favorites, like Chicken Soup and Lime Shortbread Cookies; others are more exotic, like Artichoke Tapanade and Steak La Collina Verde.

As Linda points out, the benefits of limes are not limited to cooking. Did you know, for example, that a squeeze of lime in the dishwater will cut grease? Or that a squeeze of lime and a sprinkle of salt rubbed on the bottom of a copper-bottom pot removes the tarnish? Or that a squeeze of lime perks up many foods on the dieters menu and helps eliminate the need for salt? Best of all, limes are generally inexpensive and almost always available.

Petersons family and friends inspired her to collect and pass on many recipes, and as a tribute to all who offered assistance, she has included a section of family favoritesrecipes that will bring back memories of old-fashioned home cooking. The book also contains a few recipes by Lindas husband Pete, who shares her kitchen and does some tasty grilling when he is not tending the groves. Both Linda and Pete work with the University of California Extension Cooperative Agricultural Division, and have recently planted litchi and longan trees alongside the limes. UCEC monitors the trees and advises the Petersons on how to adapt these delicate Asian fruits to the moderate coastal climate. Too bad the trees are not yet bearing fruitbut then maybe that will be Lindas next cooking project.

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The lime enhances other flavors but has rarely received its own acclaim outside of lemons; this presents over a hundred recipes using limes along with family favorites and essays on leftovers. Fans of limes who find their dishes too rare will relish the dishes herein and the international flavors explored.

Build a Better Burger or Solar Food Dryer

2008-12-28T06:09:00.000-08:00

Build a Better Burger: Celebrating Sutter Home's Annual Search for America's Best Burgers

Author: James K McNair

A collection of the prize-winning recipes of the national Build a Better Burger contest, along with 12 judges' recipes. Represents the best of the more than 50,000 contest entries Since 1990, including Caesar Salad and Flank Steak Burgers with Garlic Crostini; Hazelnut-Crusted Lamb Burgers; Carolina Pork Barbecue Burgers; Green Chile Chicken Burgers; and Mediterranean Tuna Burgers with Lemon-Basil Mayonnaise. Includes full-color photographs of all 56 recipes in the book.

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Solar Food Dryer: How to Make Your Own Low-Cost, High Performance, Sun-Powered Food Dehydrator

Author: Eben V Fodor

The Solar Food Dryer describes how to use solar energy to dry your food instead of costly electricity. With your own solar-powered food dryer, you can quickly and efficiently dry all your extra garden veggies, fruits, and herbs to preserve their goodness all year long-with free sunshine! Applicable to a wide geography-wherever gardens grow-this well-illustrated book includes:

Complete step-by-step plans for building a high-performance, low-cost solar food dryer from readily available materials
Solar energy design concepts
Food drying tips and recipes
Resources, references, solar charts, and more

Eben Fodor is an organic gardener with a background in solar energy and engineering. He works as a community planning consultant in Eugene, Oregon.

Complete Diabetic Cookbook or Le Cordon Bleu Dessert Techniques

2008-12-27T20:27:00.000-08:00

Complete Diabetic Cookbook: Healthy,Delicious Recipes the Whole Family can Enjoy

Author: Mary Jane Finsand

The Joy of Cooking for diabetics, this huge collection of more than 2,000 recipes ensures healthy, delicious meals for the whole family that are safe for diabetics. A large portion of the book focuses on diabetics' biggest problem area, desserts.

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Le Cordon Bleu Dessert Techniques: More Than 1,000 Photographs Illustrating 300 Preparation And Cooking Techniques For Making Tarts, Pi

Author: Laurent Douchen

For the first time, the chefs and instructors of the world-renowned Le Cordon Bleu cooking schools have written a cookbook that will teach anyone, from novices with a sweet tooth to expert bakers, how to prepare beautiful and delicious desserts at home. Hundreds of techniques are explained in step-by-step detail, with more than one thousand color photographs illustrating the experts methods for success.

Even if you've never made a sugar syrup or rolled out a piecrust before, this is the book for you. The simplest of techniques, typically left out of most cookbooks, are covered in the greatest detail. When you've mastered the basics, Le Cordon Bleu Dessert Techniques will challenge you to make increasingly difficult recipes on your way to preparing dazzling desserts. For example, upon mastering the basics of grating, chopping, melting, tempering and piping choclate, you'll want to try your hand at creating choclate ribbons and culs, marbleized chocolate slabs, and lacy chocolate cups for truly spectacular presentation. Once you've reviewed the techniquws for baking perfect cake layers, you'll be reday to creat a Chocolate Chestnut Roulade or the classic and decadent Sachertorte.

After learning from the experts, you'll be piping meringue, whipping up chocolate mousse, and preparing Pots de Creme with ease before you know it.

Kombucha Phenomenon or Plank Cooking

2008-12-27T11:45:00.000-08:00

Kombucha Phenomenon: The Miracle Health Tea,2nd Edition

Author: Betsy Pryor

Three million Americans are drinking Kombucha tea, and their numbers are growing. All the information necessary to brew your own is contained here, graphically illustrated with appendixes of documented positive health effects.

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Plank Cooking: The Essence of Natural Wood

Author: Scott Haugen

From elegant restaurants to backyard grills, the ancient method of cooking food on a wooden plank is a cooking style that's rapidly growing in popularity. When it comes to capturing the essence of natural wood and unparalleled texture in meats, vegetables, and other culinary delights, nothing compares to plank cooking.

In Plank Cooking: The Essence of Natural Wood, globe-trotting authors, Scott & Tiffany Haugen, share some of the world's most exquisite flavors. Thai red curry prawns, Achiote pork roast, pesto couscous stuffed chicken, and caramelized bananas are just a few of the unique recipes brought to life in this fully illustrated, one-of-a-kind book. In the oven or on a grill, plank cooking is fun and simple. This book outlines how to master the art of plank cooking -- from seasoning planks to detailed cooking tips in over 100 easy-to-follow recipes. Though exotic tastes prevail, the ingredients used in this book are easy to find in most grocery stores. So whether you're hosting a large backyard BBQ, or just trying to satisfy the finicky eaters in your family, you will find many great meals in Plank Cooking: The Essence of Natural Wood.

Yoga Cookbook or 3 Hour Diet Cookbook

2008-12-27T00:03:00.000-08:00

Yoga Cookbook: Vegetarian Food for Body and Mind

Author: The Sivananda Yoga Center

Eat Wisely and Well
The teachings of yoga advocate a vegetarian diet, with special emphasis on foods that bring peace to body, mind, and spirit. The Yoga Cookbook contains more than 170 recipes prepared under the guidance of the world-renowned Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centers. Illustrated with more than sixty beautiful color photographs, these delicious, easy-to-prepare recipes have an international flavor. Begin the day with Citrus Slices with Pomegranate Seeds and Carrot and Molasses Muffins. Savor Vegetable Ragout over brown rice, and still have room for a square of Gingerbread with Orange Butter Frosting. Serve Cinnamon Beans along with Herbed Polenta with Corn for an Italian-inspired feast. Treat yourself and those you love to Raisin Nut Balls, Banana-Nut Tart, or Chocolate Truffles. All are prepared with wholesome ingredients that increase vitality, energy, health, and joy.
Containing wheat-free recipes, guidance for vegans, and advice on buying, storing, and preparing the basic ingredients used in yogic cooking, and with special sections on feasts and fasts, The Yoga Cookbook brings this soul-satisfying, healing diet to experienced yoga students and beginners alike.

3-Hour Diet Cookbook

Author: Jorge Cruis

On the heels of his revolutionary dieting program, THE 3–HOUR DIET, Jorge Cruise offers a cookbook that will get you slim without depravation, calorie–counting, or giving up carbs. THE 3–HOUR DIET COOKBOOK contains all–new, quick recipes that make following The 3–Hour Diet easy. The book will function as both a cookbook and meal planner. The recipe section will contain approximately delicious AND quick (less than 10 minutes!) recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks and desserts. The meal planner will offer four "quick start" options for meat lovers, vegetarians, heart healthy and carb lovers – helping the reader lose up to ten pounds in the first 14 days.

The book begins by summarizing The 3–Hour Diet concept, and reintroduces its revolutionary approach for readers. Part 2 contains tasty recipes for breakfast, lunch and dinner that are lushly illustrated with full–color photographs in ten categories: super fast breakfasts, breakfasts, smoothies, pasta and pizzas, fish and seafood, poultry, meats, sandwiches, salads, and meatless meals; Part 3 completes the plan with recipes for yummy snacks and desserts. With motivational success stories woven throughout the first section, THE 3–HOUR DIET COOKBOOK features a key inspirational element to complement its mouth–watering recipes.

Settlement Cook Book 1903 or Turkish Cooking

2008-12-26T14:22:00.000-08:00

Settlement Cook Book 1903

Author: Simon Kander

This back-to-basics book is filled with hundreds of hearty, simple recipes that will fit today's demanding lifestyles. Clearly detailed, easy-to-read directions for creating everything from griddle cakes, shrimp Creole, and mulligatawny soup to cheese fondue, oyster a la poulette, and a variety of ethnic dishes. 26 black-and-white illustrations.

Turkish Cooking

Author: Tess Mallos

Turkey's fascinating history and unusual geography created a rich and diverse culinary tradition. Turkish Cooking explores the healthy, nutritious and delicious recipes inspired by this tradition, including such authentic favorites as Turkish Delight, Baklava and Braised Lamb. From fresh seafood to spicy meat skewers, stuffed vegetables to lots of nuts, grains, olives, figs and fruits, this amazing array of impressive dishes will delight everyone from the food connoisseur to the health conscious.

Party in a Box Mini Kit or Eat Drink and Be Vegan

2008-12-26T02:48:00.000-08:00

Party in a Box Mini Kit

Author: Susan Hom

This little kit has all the necessitites to get a party started right! Just crack open this box of fun-including three balloons, a noisemaker, a bag of confetti, streamers, and a 32page book of party games and ideas-to be on the way to a great time! Just add some music and party till dawn....

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Eat, Drink and Be Vegan: Everyday Vegan Recipes Worth Celebrating

Author: Dreena Burton

In Dreena Burton's first two best-selling vegan cookbooks, The Everyday Vegan and Vive le Vegan!, she offered a dazzling array of healthy, animal-free recipes, many of which were based on her experience as a mother of two young girls she and her husband are raising as vegans. Dreena also maintains an active website and blog and has cultivated an enthusiastic audience for her family-oriented, nutritious recipes. In this, her third cookbook, Dreena turns her attention to celebratory food-imaginative, colorful, and delectable vegan fare perfect for all kinds of events, from romantic meals for two to dinner parties to full-on galas. Many of the recipes are kid-friendly, and all are appropriate for everyday meals as well.

The book includes 125 recipes and sixteen full-color photographs, as well as meal plans, cooking notes, and advice on vegan wines and beers. Recipes include Lentil & Veggie Chimichangas, Thai Chick-Un Pizza, White Bean Soup with Basil & Croutons, Tomato Dill Lentil Soup, Olive & Sundried Tomato Hummus, "Creamy" Cashew Dip with Fruit, Crpes with Maple Butter Cream, 5-Star Ice "Cream" Sandwiches, and Hemp-anola (Dreena's take on granola).

Come celebrate with Dreena and impress your guests with these tempting animal-free recipes.

Judith Sutton - Library Journal

Atlas is the author of more than half a dozen popular vegetarian cookbooks, including Vegetarian Celebrations. Her vegan cookbook offers a wide variety of quick and easy recipes, most of them made with ingredients available in any large supermarket. Nearly Instant Thai Coconut Corn Soup and Pasta Jambalaya are just some of her family-friendly dishes. Recipes include nutrition information, and most provide menu suggestions. For all vegetarian cookbook collections.

Burton, author of two previous vegan cookbooks, began her newest from her blog. Her recipes call for far more specialty ingredients, like agave nectar, flax meal, and hemp seed nuts, than those in Vegan Express(though Burton does not include nutrition analyses), and many of them are more complicated as well. On the other hand, readers with wheat allergies, whether they are vegan or not, will appreciate the many wheat-free recipes here. For larger collections.

Jean Georges or Shun Lee Cookbook

2008-12-25T17:07:00.000-08:00

Jean-Georges: Cooking at Home with a Four-Star Chef

Author: Jean Georges Vongerichten

The cooking of Jean-Georges Vongerichten - sophisticated yet startlingly uncomplicated, hinting at French and Asian influences yet entirely original - has earned endless raves and accolades from every quarter. Why? Because Vongerichten has invented a culinary style that is highly creative and intensely flavorful but uses few ingredients and is remarkably simple. Now, Jean-Georges, with award-winning coauthor Mark Bittman, brings this extraordinary cuisine to the home kitchen. There are no mile-long lists of instructions, the recipes use readily available ingredients, and many can be prepared in thirty minutes or less. Some of the recipes are taken directly from the kitchens of Vongerichten's three restaurants - Jean Georges, Vong, and JoJo. They not only sound simple but are simple - and irresistible. Fennel and Apple Salad with Juniper. 10-minute Green Gazpacho. Sauteed Chicken with Green Olives and Cilantro. Warm, Soft Chocolate Cake.

Library Journal

You've really arrived as a chef when you need only use your first name for a restaurantor a book.

Library Journal

You've really arrived as a chef when you need only use your first name for a restaurantor a book.

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Shun Lee Cookbook: Recipes from a Chinese Restaurant Dynasty

Author: Michael Tong

Until the 1960s, nearly all Chinese food served in the United States was Cantonese. Egg Foo Yung. Barbecued Spareribs. Egg Drop Soup. But with the opening of his Shun Lee restaurants more than forty years ago, Michael Tong and his chefs introduced the spicy regional foods of Sichuan and Hunan and the red-cooked dishes of Shanghai to New Yorkers—and eventually to all of the United States. Crispy Orange Beef. Lake Tung Ting Prawns. Crispy Sea Bass. Dry Sautéed String Beans. Hot and Sour Cabbage. Scallion Pancakes. These dishes originated at Shun Lee, and are now on nearly every Chinese restaurant menu across North America.

Now, in his first cookbook, Tong shares his most popular recipes from the Hunan, Sichuan, and Shanghai regions of China. Who says Chinese food is difficult to prepare at home? With The Shun Lee Cookbook, even novices have nothing to worry about. All the recipes have been tested and modified for home kitchens. If adapting a recipe for the home—like Beijing duck—proved to be impossible, Tong omitted it. The result is a collection of easy-to-make but dazzling dishes. And perhaps the best part is that they can all be made with ingredients found in supermarkets everywhere.

Chinese favorites such as Hot and Sour Soup, Sichuan Boiled Dumplings, Dry Sautéed Green Beans, and Kung Pao Shrimp are included. There are also new dishes such as Peppery Dungeness Crab, Singapore-Style Rice Noodles with Curry, Red-Cooked Beef Short Ribs, and Hunan Lamb with Scallions.

In addition to the recipes The Shun Lee Cookbook includes tips for stocking home pantries with Chinese staples, and there are more than fiftycolor photographs of the finished dishes throughout.

Why order take-out when you can take home The Shun Lee Cookbook?

Library Journal

When Tong and his business partner opened Shun Lee Palace in New York City in 1967, it was one of the first upscale Chinese restaurants in the country and the first to offer regional Shanghai and Sichuan cuisine (Cantonese food was the only type most Americans had ever tasted at the time). The original Shun Lee and its equally elegant spin-off, Shun Lee West, remain enduringly popular, and now Tong has collected 100 favorite recipes, modified as appropriate for the home kitchen, in his first cookbook. With coauthor Louie, he provides a thorough introduction to ingredients, equipment, and techniques. Recipes include both Chinese classics and Tong's interpretations of traditional dishes; head notes provide culinary background and serving suggestions. Chinese cookbooks are something of a rarity these days, and Tong's is recommended for all subject collections. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Cooking with Sunshine or Balsamic Vinegar Cookbook

2008-12-25T06:25:00.000-08:00

Cooking with Sunshine: The Complete Guide to Solar Cuisine-With 150 Easy Sun-Cooked Recipes

Author: Lorraine Anderson

What could be more entertaining and magical than putting food into a cardboard box outdoors on a sunny day and taking it out fully cooked a few hours later? Solar cooking — a safe, simple cooking method using the sun's rays as the sole heat source — has been known for centuries and can be done at least during the summer in just about any place where there's sun. In Cooking with Sunshine, Lorraine Anderson and Rick Palkovic provide everything you need to know to cook great sun-fueled meals. They describe how to build your own inexpensive solar cooker, explain how solar cooking works and its benefits over traditional methods, offer more than 100 tasty recipes emphasizing healthy ingredients, and suggest a month's worth of menu ideas.

Library Journal

Anderson and Palkovic have been cooking with solar energy for more than two decades, and they self-published an earlier version of this book in 1994. Solar cooking has been getting attention lately for a variety of reasons (e.g., inexpensive solar cookers can make a huge difference to people in developing nations who are living in poverty), and "more advanced"--and more expensive cookers--have been in the news. But the cardboard cooker the authors put together in the early 1980s still works fine for them. Here they include instructions for building such a cooker, the "ABC's of Solar Cooking," lists of resources, and more, along with recipes for snacks, appetizers, main courses, and desserts. Unfortunately, the recipes are somewhat mundane (and it's rather surprising that many of them use ingredients such as canned cream soups), but the book could stand on the information it provides about solar cooking. Recommended for any collection on outdoor or alternative types of cooking. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Balsamic Vinegar Cookbook, Vol. 1

Author: Meesha Halm

An estimated 1.75 million liters of commercial balsamic vinegar and 1,760 liters of traditional balsamic vinegar are sold annually. Noted for its rich color, intense fruity aroma and exquisite sweet-and-sour flavor, it has become America's most coveted condiment. It is now served in the trendiest restaurants and is frequently featured in gourmet food magazines.

For gourmets who want to learn more about this uncommon elixir and use it to add a touch of flavor to their own home-cooked meals comes The Balsamic Vinegar Cookbook. Featuring more than 40 tantalizing recipes that make the most of balsamic vinegar's assertive, complex flavor, it offers dishes such as Minestrone Modena-Style, Maple-glazed Balsamic Carrots, Salmon with Gingered Balsamic Vinegar and Strawberry Granita. An engaging history of balsamic vinegar combined with a fascinating look at how it is produced round out this tribute, which also defines terms, clears up misconceptions and provides a list of mail-order sources to ensure that readers have access to the best balsamic vinegar possible.

Crock It or Zuzu Baileys Its a Wonderful Life Cookbook

2008-12-24T19:44:00.000-08:00

Crock-It

Author: Barbara M Murray

Slow cooking started when grandma pushed her bean pot to the back of the ash pile. Let time add flavor to your favorite foods. With today's busy lifestyles and rising prices, crockery cooking helps ease the strain of the stretched budget and provide the one element we all need...time. Just a few minutes in the morning with the easy to follow recipes in Crock-It, and you don't have to worry about what to have for dinner. Come home and open the door to the wonderful aroma of a healthy meal. It's like having gradma cooking for you in your own kitchen.

Delightfully illustrated and handwritten in large print, CROCK-IT is filled with an assortment of time-saving recipes that support the busy lifestyles of today without sacrificing nutrition and taste. In addition to soups, stews, and chicken fa-vorites, the eight chapters offer Mexican fare casseroles, vegetarian dishes, and kid pleasers. Be-ginners and experienced cooks alike will enjoy these delicious hassle-free dishes, prepared with ingredients and seasonings found in most kitchens.

Zuzu Bailey's It's a Wonderful Life Cookbook: Recipes and Anecdotes Inspired by America's Favorite Movie

Author: Karolyn Grimes

The actress who played ZuZu in "It's a Wonderful Life" serves up old-fashioned recipes and memories that comfort--inspired by or evocative of life in fictional Bedford Falls. Photos throughout.

Having Tea or Pleasures of the Vietnamese Table

2008-12-24T08:02:00.000-08:00

Having Tea: Recipes and Table Settings

Author: Tricia Foley

What could be cozier on a blustery winter's day than a mug of tea by the fire with freshly baked Irish soda bread slathered with sweet butter and tangy orange marmalade? Or more invigorating on a crisp, cool afternoon in autumn than a picnic in the country with sharp English cheeses; crusty white peasant bread; vegetable, cheese, and apple tarts; and Thermoses of steaming warm tea? Or a better way to celebrate the ripe berries of summer than a dessert party tea in the garden with lemon-curd tartlets, raspberry shortcake, raspberry sorbet, sugar cookies, and tea served in flowered china cups?

A cookbook and style book, Having Tea includes a range of stunning locations with recipes, menus, table settings, and serving ideas for tea. There are formal and elegant teas that ring in the winter holidays with rich dark fruitcake, shortbread, brandy snaps, and sherried English trifle; a tea for one in the study with spicy ginger Bundt cake and a plate of cookies; and tea for two in a loft, with slow-scrambled eggs, cornmeal muffins and apple butter, and panfried tomatoes sprinkled with fresh tarragon. Each menu provides suggestions for the ideal tea to suit the meal.

Since the American style of tea drinking originated in England, Having Tea goes to the source to show two classic English tea rooms, tea at the Savoy Hotel in London, and a tea dance at London's Waldorf. In addition, there are special sections on the history and different varieties of teas, selections of teapots and tea services, and directions for brewing the perfect pot of tea. A final section, the "Tea Larder," offers ideas for tea trimmings from honey to mint or ginger, tea sandwiches, and a directory ofmail-order sources for tea.

With approximately fifty recipes for tea sandwiches, crumpets, scones, cookies, and cakes as well as hearty tea-time meals, Having Tea will make you want to make having tea part of your day. It shows how, far more than a beverage, tea is a grand indulgence that provides food for the body and the soul.

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Pleasures of the Vietnamese Table: Recipes and Reminiscences from Vietnam's Best Market Kitchens, Street Cafes, and Home Cooks

Author: Mai Pham

A land of vibrant cultures and vivid contrasts, Vietnam is also home to some of the most delicious and intriguing food in the world. While its cooking traditions have been influenced by those of China, France, and even India, Vietnam has created a cuisine with a spirit and a flavor all its own.

Chef and restaurateur Mai Pham brings to life this diverse and exciting cooking in Pleasures of the Vietnamese Table. Born and raised in Saigon before emigrating to the United States, Mai has often returned to her native land to learn the secrets of authentic Vietnamese cooking, from family, friends, home cooks, street vendors, and master chefs. Traveling from region to region, she has gathered the simple, classic recipes that define Vietnamese food today: Green Mango Salad with Grilled Beef, Stir-Fried Chicken with Lemongrass and Chilies, Caramelized Garlic Shrimp, and especially pho, the country's beloved beef-and-noodle soup. With more than 100 recipes in all, Pleasures of the Vietnamese Table offers home cooks the chance to create and savor the traditional flavors of Vietnam in their own kitchen.

Filled with enchanting stories and stirring black-and-white photos of life in Vietnam, Pleasures of the Vietnamese Table provides a captivating taste of an enduring culture and its irresistible cuisine.

Library Journal

Pham, who fled Vietnam with her family in 1975, is now co chef and owner of the Lemon Grass Restaurant in Sacramento, CA. She first returned to Vietnam six years ago and has been back every year since, visiting her feisty 101-year-old grandmother and traveling throughout the country. Pham's first cookbook was The Best of Vietnamese and Thai Cooking (1996). Here she focuses on the wonderful food sold at markets and street corner stalls in Vietnam, starting with Pho, the famous rice noodle and beef soup, and moving on to salads and savory snacks, rice and noodle dishes, seafood such as Salt-and-Pepper Crab, and vegetarian dishes. Pham points out that street food is highly regarded in Vietnam and that the cooks who offer these delicacies are regarded as master chefs, since many "have spent a lifetime perfecting one, or at most a few, specialty recipes dishes typically packed with flavors." She also provides an overview of Vietnamese food and includes a separate chapter on the sauces and other condiments ("Layer After Layer") that are essential to finishing and individualizing each dish. Readable, personal, and filled with delicious recipes, this is highly recommended. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Entertaining is Fun or Asian Grocery Store Demystified

2008-12-23T23:20:00.000-08:00

Entertaining is Fun!: How to be a Popular Hostess

Author: Dorothy Draper

The timeless and collectible classic on entertaining-at last back in print! Dorothy Draper (1889-1969), like her contemporaries Diana Vreeland and Elsie de Wolfe, became an icon of stylish living through her interior decorating and many books.

Originally published in 1941, Entertaining Is Fun! is one of Draper's most delightful creations, hailed in the original flap copy of the book as "neither a cookbook nor a book of etiquette, but a vivacious and inspiring book on home entertaining." With its charming retro package, this book teaches you how to host the most fabulous dinner parties, holiday meals, and weddings, and also makes a great gift!

Asian Grocery Store Demystified: A Food Lover's Guide to all the Best Ingredients

Author: Linda Bladholm

A food lover's guide to all the best ingredients.Do you want to prepare an Asian meal as delectable as those in restaurants? Are you too intimidated by the exotic ingredients to try? And what's inside those mysterious bottles, bags, and boxes in your local Asian grocery store anyway'This handy Take it With You guide provides the answers. Author Linda Bladholm, who has lived, worked, cooked, and dined in locales as diverse as Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Japan, Hong Kong, China, Korea, Laos, and Vietnam, takes you on a tour of a typical Asian grocery store and expertly describes what you'll find.Make Your Next Shopping Trip a Successful and Fascinating Journey.Peppered with over 400 illustrations, plus stories about the ingredients used in every major Asian cuisine, this guidebook identifies and tells you how to use the vast array of meats, fruits, vegetables, noodles, tofu, rice, and delicacies. A bonus section of the author's favorite recipes will help you create savory, authentic dishes that will impress everyone-- and it will open a window onto the remarkable civilizations of the Orient.

Foreword	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	xi
CHAPTER 1 A Walk through Mr. Lin's Grocery Store	15
CHAPTER 2 Rice	24
CHAPTER 3 Noodles	30
CHAPTER 4 Starches & Flour	43
CHAPTER 5 Flavorings & Condiments	49
CHAPTER 6 Oils	64
CHAPTER 7 Vegetables	67
CHAPTER 8 Herbs & Aromatics	80
CHAPTER 9 Fresh Fruit	87
CHAPTER 10 Soybean Products	93
CHAPTER 11 Eggs & Preserved Meats	100
CHAPTER 12 Pickled Items & Preserves	105
CHAPTER 13 Dried Goods & Spices	111
CHAPTER 14 Canned Goods	125
CHAPTER 15 Snacks & Sweets	132
CHAPTER 16 Teas, Healing Tea, & Herb Tea	145
CHAPTER 17 Cookingwith Chinese Herbs	161
CHAPTER 18 Japanese Food Products	168
CHAPTER 19 Exotic Items for the Cultivated Palate	182
CHAPTER 20 The Mosaic Melting Pot: The Rest of the Asian
Market	186
EPILOGUE	196
APPENDIX 1 Basic Utensils	197
APPENDIX 2 Basic Asian Cooking Techniques	199
APPENDIX 3 Recipes	202
GLOSSARY	225
INDEX	229

Mouth Wide Open or Culinary Fundamentals

2008-12-23T12:39:00.000-08:00

Mouth Wide Open: A Cook and His Appetite

Author: John Thorn

Ever since his first book, Simple Cooking, and its acclaimed successors, Outlaw Cook, Serious Pig, and Pot on the Fire, John Thorne has been hailed as one of the most provocative, passionate, and accessible food writers at work today. In Mouth Wide Open, his fifth collection, he has prepared a feast for the senses and intellect, charting a cook’s journey from ingredient to dish in illuminating essays that delve into the intimate pleasures of pistachios, the Scottish burr of real marmalade, how the Greeks made a Greek salad, the (hidden) allure of salt anchovies, and exploring the uncharted territory of improvised breakfasts and resolutely idiosyncratic midnight snacks. Most of all, his inimitable warmth, humor, and generosity of spirit inspire us to begin our own journey of discovery in the kitchen and in the age-old comfort and delight of preparing food.

The Washington Post - Linda Kulman

John Thorne's Mouth Wide Open is a journey around his own kitchen. His exhaustive essays, most of which were previously published in his food letter, "Simple Cooking," tackle all manner of dishes, including some, like fried eggs, that might seem beneath consideration. Thorne deconstructs each recipe until he understands not just how it evolved but what each ingredient contributes. In an era marked by celebrity chefs and mundane microwavable meals, the amiable author takes pleasure in "the laying of hands on real food," a process he makes approachable to others through both his commentary and recipes. "Cooking is about doing the best with what you have...and succeeding," he writes. Thorne succeeds masterfully.

Publishers Weekly

This cornucopia of previously published pieces by James Beard Award-winning food writer Thorne, from his newsletter, "Simple Cooking," along with a few from other publications, showcases his relaxed, unfussy attitude, refreshing in this age of cookbook and food-personality overabundance. That casualness comes through on subjects from bagna cauda to pepper pot. It's all foodstuff to him, and his affection for foods of all kinds is boundless. Some of the most intriguing suggestions, reprinted from a regular feature of the newsletter, reflect an awareness that the avocado-green electric range is as legitimate as the Viking. Thorne likes to delve into the source and cultural history of individual dishes, and many spur-of-the-moment concoctions, whose recipes are given, were prepared out of a sense of what-the-heck invention and appetite. He fervently promotes his belief that in every foodie lurks a cook capable of doing wonders with prepared foods, that the opposite also holds, and that the ultimate authority on food is the person eating. (Dec.)

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Culinary Fundamentals

Author: American Culinary Federation

Wherever one’s career in the culinary arts may take them, this book will remain a valuable reference. It can support readers throughout their culinary education and certification, as well as throughout their professional career.This book presents a foundation — from the objectives and key terms that introduce each chapter to the activities and recipes that round it out, this book is organized to highlight and explain the basic competencies of a professional cook or chef. Section One takes a moment to look back at the importance of the culinary arts in the history of humankind as well as a glimpse ahead into the careers of culinary professionals. Section Two introduces important concepts for any professional cook or chef: nutrition, food safety, and food science. Section Three continues the development of some basic professional skills by exploring the purpose and uses for math and recipes in the professional kitchen. Section Four introduces the tools of the trade. Section Five is devoted to the ingredients found in a professional kitchen, from fresh herbs to meats to canned goods. Sections Six through Twelve are the heart of this book–basic cooking skills–stocks, sauces, sautés, roast, vegetables, starches, breakfast, baking and more. Also presents a broad view of the culinary globe by grouping it into large geographic areas: Europe and the Mediterranean; the Americas; and Asia. Appropriate for cooks, culinary apprentices, culinary trainees, chefs, and chef educators.

Dr Shapiros Picture Perfect Weight Loss Cookbook or Small Cakes

2008-12-23T02:57:00.000-08:00

Dr. Shapiro's Picture Perfect Weight Loss Cookbook: More than 150 Delicious Recipes for Permanent Weight Loss

Author: Howard M Shapiro

Those familiar with Dr. Shapiro's bestselling Picture Perfect Weight Loss know how simple and effective his Food Awareness Training approach is, especially for grab-and-go eaters or people who just can't deal with the usual deprivations of dieting. Virtually foolproof, the Picture-Perfect program reinforces your choices of healthy foods with strong visual reminders that stay in your mind long after calorie counts and portion sizes have become a blur.

Now, Dr. Shapiro works the same Picture-Perfect magic in your kitchen. Whether you are a passionate cook who gladly spends hours stirring, chopping, or kneading, or a noncook who can't wait to get out of the kitchen, the recipes in this book allow you to prepare delicious low-calorie meals the whole family will love.

Imagine enjoying these flavorful dishes and losing weight.

* Yukon Gold Potato Pancakes with Sausage
* Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms
* Chili Shrimp with Fruity Relish
* Grilled Pork Chops with Georgia Peach Chutney
* Garlic and Chive Mashed Potatoes
* Chocolate Mousse
* Creamy Lemon-Lime Cheesecake

There's even a chapter devoted entirely to cooking for families with children. Kids will rave over dishes like Fruit Pizza, Turkey Burgers with Secret Sauce, Summer Fruit Pops, and Carousel Ice Cream Cake. They may even want to start helping in the kitchen!

To appeal to the gourmet in all of us, Dr. Shapiro also includes recipes from 13 of the nation's top chefs. From Michael Romano of Union Square Café in New York City to Jesse Ziff Cool of the Flea St. Café in Menlo Park, California, these are the best of the best.

You also get real-life bitesfrom New York City firefighters who have used Dr. Shapiro's program to shape up. Real men do cook-- and well! And this book proves that they even enjoy it.

Publishers Weekly

Well known for his highly successful eating plan, Shapiro has produced a cookbook to compliment the strategy. Reiterating the adage "If you do what you did, you get what you got," he argues that people need to make changes they can live with. He offers his modified food pyramid as well as recipes and large, bold photos to illustrate his healthy alternatives to everyday fare. These photos can be particularly revealing when demonstrating, for example, how much healthier and satisfying a large portion of his Roasted Vegetable Quiche than is a third of a buttered bagel. Many recipes have a "Quick" sign that make them ideal for a hectic lifestyle, such as the Pan-Grilled Chicken with Grapes and Thyme. Recipes are provided for every occasion and food type; he insists no food is off-limits but that low-calorie choices can always be made, such as the spicy Pumpkin, Corn, and Lime Soup, as well as the Roasted Pepper and Basil Dip. While Shapiro does intersperse somewhat distracting interviews with famous personalities, his otherwise straightforward cookbook makes an ideal companion to his highly popular eating plan. (Jan.)

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Small Cakes: From Fairy Cakes to Fruit Slices

Author: Roger Pizey

From iced fairy cakes to fondant fancies; lemon drizzle cake to lime, lemon, and pistachio slices; these mini versions of classic baked goods provide comfort during a busy day and are perfect for sharing. Traditional favorites such as cheesecakes, sponge cakes, baked fruit loaves, and chunky brownies are waiting to be rediscovered. Perfectly formed miniatures become delicate indulgences rather than guilty pleasures in the creative hands of this leading pastry chef. His new approach to traditional baking is fun, inventive, and, above all, delicious. Thirty fun and exciting recipes provide ideas for baking a cake for any occasion and are a great excuse for transforming everyday baking into a delicious and joyful experience.

1	Introduction	1
2	What are people eating?	4
3	The quality diet	15
4	Choosing food	24
5	Fats (and oils)	33
6	Carbohydrates	50
7	Proteins	69
8	Minerals and vitamins	82
9	The non-nutrients	105
10	Not just nutrients	127
11	Evaluating your diet	142
	Index	163

	Introduction - History of Citrus	4
	How to Peel Citrus	8
	Drying Citrus Peel	8
	Citrus Recipes
	Appetizers & Soups	9
	Salads & Salad Dressings	13
	Seafood	23
	Meats & Poultry	28
	Vegetables	40
	Desserts	46
	Beverages	65
	Breads	74
	Cakes	82
	Pies	94
	Marmalades	104
	Preserves	104
	Sauces	111
	Freezing Citrus	119
	Weights and Equivalents	121
	Index	122

	Acknowledgments	3
	Introduction	5
	Guide to Spieces and Ingredients	11
	Guide to Utensils and Equipment	23
	Snacks and Appetizers	27
	Breads	47
	Rice Dishes	55
	Vegetables	61
	Dals and Kadhis	89
	Meat, Poultry, and Fish	95
	Chutneys, Pickles, and Condiments	115
	Sweets and Beverages	123
	Suggested Menus	139
	Index	141

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