 | The Ultimate Shortcut Cookie Book: 745 Scrumptious Recipes That Start with Refrigerated Cookie Dough, Cake Mix, Brownie Mix or Ready-to-Eat Cereal
Brand: Cumberland House
Imagine a kitchen warm with the smells of sweet vanilla, fragrant cinnamon, and fresh butter. On the kitchen counter is a cooling rack piled high with fresh-from-the-oven delights filled with chocolate chips and crunchy pecans. Ah, the age-old comfort of cookies. <i>Shortcut Cookies</i> tempts everyone back to the oven with an assortment of delectable home-baked cookies, all of which begin with refrigerated cookie dough, cake mix, or brownie mix. As an added bonus, there are more than 150 no-bake cookie ideas. Some recipes are quick and easy, while others result in the masterpieces that are sure to be the envy of the local cookie swap. With 650 recipes, <i>Shortcut Cookies</i> contains the broadest range of new recipes for cookies and bars that is unavailable elsewhere. | *$16.27 |
 | Spain...A Culinary Road Trip
Brand: Ecco
<P>From Mario Batali, superstar chef and author of <i>Molto Italiano</i> and <i>Italian Grill</i>, comes an eating tour throughout Spain with his friend Gwyneth Paltrow.</p> <P><i>Spain...A Culinary Road Trip</i> is the companion book to the prime-time public television series <i>Spain...On The Road Again</i>. The premise is simple: Mario Batali and Mark Bittman are single-minded, food-obsessed friends who are constantly on the lookout for the food, wine, and cooking that is unique to Spain--and in this series they will find it. Gwyneth Paltrow and the Spanish actress Claudia Bassols are eager to enjoy all the pleasures the country has to offer, and each pair will be lured into the worlds of the other. </p> <P>The foursome take the ultimate road trip adventure, showcasing the pleasures of Spain, the country's regional cuisine, art, history, and culture, as they've never been seen before. Hundreds of gorgeous and candid photos, anecdotes, and more than seventy recipes from Mario appear in this scrapbook of the dream vacation through Spain.</p> | *$14.99 |
 | Taste of Home: Best Church Suppers: Over 500 Potluck Favorites!
Brand: Readers Digest
<B>Fun, fellowship, and great food-these are the ingredients that make for a successful social gathering when supplied by people like you and the <I>Taste of Home</I> Test-Kitchen experts.</B> Packed with 506 delicious, home-style recipes for bite-sized snacks, refreshing beverages, tasty appetizers, spectacular side dishes, hearty entrees, and delightful desserts-each recipe serving eight or more. You are sure to find a dish to suit any occasion-church breakfasts and suppers, potlucks, reunions, family gatherings, or any other event that draws a hungry crowd. Each recipe uses everyday ingredients and is designed to travel well. <BR><BR> Special features include:<BR> * <B>506 Crowd-Pleasing Delights</B>-Everything from sensational party starters to comforting cassoroles to breakfast and brunch tidbits <BR> * <B>Potluck Pointers </B>-Hints and tips such as preventing a slow cooker from tipping over or using rubber bands to keep the lids on your casseroles dishes. And don't forget your extension cords and serving utensils.<BR> * <B>Serve a Crowd</B>-A special chapter has recipes that serve 20, 30, even 100 people! <BR> * <B>No-Fuss Favorites</B>-Quick-and-easy dishes you can throw together when you're pressed for time.<BR> * <B>Seasonal Specialties</B>-Great year-round and holiday specialities with a no- fuss approach and execution that can be used for classroom treats, bake sales, and themed events. <BR><BR> With <B><I>Best Church Supper Recipes</B></I>, you'll never wonder what to take to a potluck again. | *$9.00 |
 | The Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfection
Brand: Penguin (Non-Classics)
In his second in-depth foray into the world of professional cooking, Michael Ruhlman journeys into the heart of the profession. Observing the rigorous Certified Master Chef exam at the Culinary Institute of America, the most influential cooking school in the country, Ruhlman enters the lives and kitchens of rising star Michael Symon and renowned Thomas Keller of the French Laundry. This fascinating book will satisfy any reader's hunger for knowledge about cooking and food, the secrets of successful chefs, at what point cooking becomes an art form, and more. Like Ruhlman's <i>The Making of a Chef</i>, this is an instant classic in food writing-one of the fastest growing and most popular subjects today. | *$7.69 |
 | The Skinny Carbs Diet: Eat Pasta, Potatoes, and More! Use the power of resistant starch to make your favorite foods fight fat and beat cravings
Brand: Rodale Books
<DIV><DIV>The first cookbook to capitalize on the fat-blasting, health-boosting benefits of resistant starch<BR></DIV><DIV>After years of being relegated to the dietary sidelines, carbohydrates are making a comeback. Nutrition research shows that carbs have their place in a sensible eating plan—and a certain kind of carb, known as resistant starch, may even enhance the body’s natural fat-burning power.<BR></DIV><DIV>Resistant starch delivers fewer calories per gram than regular starches while increasing post-meal satisfaction. It may also improve blood-sugar control, lower cancer risk, and foster healthy digestion.<BR></DIV><DIV>Carb Lover’s Diet Cookbook provides the necessary tools and tips to make the most of resistant starch, including:<BR>-the best food sources of resistant starch—potatoes, bananas, breads, and more<BR>-complete instructions for cooking with resistant starch (cooling foods before serving is key)<BR>-150 recipes featuring resistant starch ingredients</DIV><DIV><BR> </DIV></DIV> | *$17.15 |
 | New American Table
Brand: Wiley | *$12.98 |
 | New England Soup Factory Cookbook: More Than 100 Recipes from the Nation's Best Purveyor of Fine Soup
Brand: Thomas Nelson
<p><strong>More than 100 of the best soup recipes Boston has to offer accompanied by fun stories and beautiful full-color photography.</strong></p> <p>Marjorie Druker is passionate about soups. She fell in love with soups when she first heard the story <em>Stone Soup</em>. After attending Johnston & Whales, Marjorie created the menu for the popular Boston Market restaurant chain, and soups were always her favorite. "My niche is taking what people like to eat and turning it into a soup," she says. <p>The New England Soup Factory restaurant has won the Best of Boston award four times. People skip school to eat their soups. A pregnant in labor stopped by the restaurant on the way to the hospital to satisfy a last-minute craving. New England Soup Factory soups are like no other soups. And now you can recreate these delicious soups in your own home. The <em>New England Soup Factory Cookbook</em> contains 100 of Boston's best-tasting traditional and creative soup recipes. The book also includes a chapter on sandwiches and salads to accompany such soups as . . .</p> <ul> <li>New England Clam Chowder</li> <li>Wild Mushroom and Barley Soup</li> <li>Curried Crab and Coconut Soup</li> <li>Raspberry-Nectarine Gazpacho</li> <li>Cucumber-Buttermilk Soup<br></li></ul> | *$14.58 |
 | 101 Margaritas
Brand: Wiley
The Margarita. It’s the drink that puts the "happy" in happy hour. A beguiling elixir of tequila, citrus, and sweetness that’s guaranteed to go down easy—and put a smile on your face. <p> The Classic Margarita—perhaps named after Margarita Sames, or maybe Margarete, a descendent of Ponce de Leon, but do we really care?—is a delectable blend of tequila, simple syrup, Cointreau, and lime and lemon juices. But as cocktail designer extraordinaire Kim Haasarud proves in this fantastic little guide, the Classic is just the starting point for margarita bliss. Open the book, and you’ll discover 101 heavenly margarita recipes—one for every season, every mood, and every occasion. <p> All your favorite margarita variations are here. You can chill out with a frozen Strawberry Margarita. Get romantic with an exotic Passionfruit Margarita. Or "berry" yourself in the fruity delights of a delicious Raspberry Margarita. But Haasarud also gives you lots of new and exciting margarita choices. You can take a cocktail party to new heights with the sophisticated Sake Margarita. Tame fiery foods with the refreshing Sweet Ginger Margarita. Or finish off a meal with a divine Hazelnut Margarita or an espresso-infused Margarita du Café. <p> So invite some friends, get out your shaker, and ready the glasses. With a little help from this book, you’ll be in Margaritaville in no time. <p> Kim Haasarud bartended her way through college and in 2002 founded Liquid Architecture, a firm that creates signature drinks and bar concepts. Her clients have included Fox Searchlight, Warner Brothers, HBO, Comedy Central, <i>Maxim</i>, the Tribeca Film Festival, Absolut Vodka, Jameson Irish Whiskey, and the Cheesecake Factory. She also writes the "West Coast Cocktails" column for <i>Slammed</i> magazine, a restaurant trade journal. Her Web site is liquid-architecture.com. <p> Alexandra Grablewski is a well-known food and beverage photographer whose work has appeared in <i>Gourmet</i>, <i>Martha Stewart Living</i>, <i>Real Simple</i>, <i>Better Homes and Gardens</i>, and <i>Wine Spectator</i> as well as in many books. | *$9.20 |
 | Well-Preserved: Recipes and Techniques for Putting Up Small Batches of Seasonal Foods
Brand: Clarkson Potter
For anyone who's ever headed to their local farmers' market reciting the mantra "I will not overbuy" but has lumbered home with bags overflowing with delicious summer strawberries, zucchini blossoms, and tomatoes, or autumn apples, pears, and cauliflower, this book will be your saving grace. <br><br><i>Well-Preserved</i> is a collection of 30 small batch preserving recipes and 90 recipes in which to use the preserved goods. Preserving recipes like Marinated Baby Artichokes are followed by recipes for dishes like Marinated Artichoke and Ricotta Pie and Sausages with Marinated Baby Artichokes; a Three-Citrus Marmelade recipe is followed by recipes for Chicken Wings Baked with Three-Citrus Marmelade, Shrmp with Three-Citrus Marmelade and Lime, and Crepes with Three-Citrus Marmelade, and so on.<br><br>In this book, Eugenia Bone, a New Yorker whose Italian father was forever canning everything from olives to tuna, describes the art of preserving in an accessible way. Though she covers traditional water bath and pressure canning in detail, she also shares simpler methods that allow you to preserve foods using low-tech options like oil-preserving, curing, and freezing. Bone clearly explains each technique so that you can rest assured your food is stable and safe.<br><br>With <i>Well-Preserved: Recipes and Techniques for Putting Up Small Batches of Seasonal Foods</i>, you will never again have a night when you open your cupboard or refrigerator and lament that there's "nothing to eat!" Instead, you'll be whipping up the seasons' best meals all year long. | *$15.30 |
 | Gluten-free, Sugar-free Cooking: Over 200 Delicious Recipes to Help You Live a Healthier, Allergy-Free Life
Brand: Da Capo Press
With millions of people suffering from food allergies, obesity, and generally less-than-perfect health, the connection between how we feel and the food we eat has never been more apparent. <P>Now, in <i>Gluten-free, Sugar-free Cooking,</i> gourmet chef Susan O’Brien offers more than 200 great-tasting recipes — covering everything from breakfast to dessert — that are perfect for people with food allergies as well as for those who simply want to adopt a more healthy way of eating. Free of gluten, sugar, and usually dairy, these tasty dishes are also invaluable for people living with medical conditions such as candida, fibromyalgia, Crohn’s disease, diabetes, autism, and ADHD, who must avoid certain foods to better control their symptoms. <P>Complete with product sourcing information, substitute ingredients, dining out advice, and online resources, <i>Gluten-free, Sugar-free Cooking</i> makes eating healthfully and avoiding problematic foods easy and delicious. | *$10.33 |
 | Earth to Table: Seasonal Recipes from an Organic Farm
Brand: Ecco
<p> There is nothing more delightful than a tomato still warm from the sun, or a strawberry so perfectly ripe that it stains your fingers. </p> <p> Why not eat this way all the time? The healthiest and most delicious food comes from farmers and artisans just down the road—though it is often easy to forget when we are surrounded by food shipped to our supermarkets from around the world and by highly processed products from distant factories. </p> <p> Jeff Crump learned of the pleasures of using local cuisine by working in world-famous restaurants like Alice Waters's Chez Panisse, and he set about to develop a network of farmers to keep his own restaurant's kitchen humming all year round. It was not long before he was out in the fields himself, alongside pastry chef and collaborator Bettina Schormann, planting and harvesting crops that would form the backbone of their menus, breads, and desserts. </p> <p> Eating locally means eating seasonally, and Jeff and Bettina offer up the most delicious of what each season provides. It could be something as unexpected as Gnudi with Ramps and Morels picked from the woods across the road; as simple and as refreshing as Dandelion Salad; or when it is cold outside, as hearty as Bread and Butter Pudding. </p> <p> <i>Earth to Table</i> lets nature write the menu. Tender, green things in spring. Ripe, juicy dishes in summer. The bounty of the harvest in autumn. Rich braises and tart preserves in winter. The result is a year of discovery of new ingredients and dishes, and a rediscovery of classics that suddenly taste the way they were meant to. </p> <p> Bringing together stories of the passage of seasons on the farm; profiles of some of the world's most innovative chefs—like Heston Blumenthal and Thomas Keller—and the farmers they count on; how-to sections that help readers make the most of the season and what their gardens and farmers' markets have to offer; stunning photographs; and, of course, creative and delicious recipes that make anyone wonder why they ever considered eating a tomato in February, <i>Earth to Table</i> explores what's best about food. </p> | *$14.00 |
 | Sarabeth's Bakery: From My Hands to Yours
Brand: Rizzoli
Mastering the art of baking, presented step-by-step through recipes from the legendary New York City baker. In the heart of Manhattan’s vibrant Highline District is a destination that is beloved by discriminating dessert lovers—Sarabeth’s Bakery. Sarabeth Levine offers an irresistible array of scones, muffins, croissants, cookies, and other classic desserts. This important addition to the baking book canon has been anxiously awaited by the extraordinary baker’s countless fans. It features more than one hundred inspiring recipes for her signature baked goods, ranging from unique English muffins and luscious banana cream pie with vanilla bean pastry to creamy chocolate pudding. Recipes for the perfect accompaniment to her buttery pastries—her legendary spreadable fruits—are also included. Step-by-step instructional photographs teach the baking techniques that make Sarabeth stand apart. Tips on such topics as making a decorative piecrust edge are also discussed in this user-friendly primer. The exquisite photography shows the home baker creative ways for sharing these wonders with friends and family. | *$26.37 |
 | George Foreman's Indoor Grilling Made Easy: More Than 100 Simple, Healthy Ways to Feed Family and Friends
Brand: Simon & Schuster
From dorm rooms and first apartments to suburban homes and four-star restaurants, the George Foreman grill is one of America's most popular small kitchen appliances. Women love it because it cooks delicious, healthy family meals in minutes and is super easy to clean. Men, on the other hand, often run from cooking. But grilling? Hey, that's definitely a guy thing.<P>And everyone knows the master of the indoor grill is George Foreman. This two-time heavyweight champion of the world knows what tastes really good because George Foreman <I>loves</I> to eat. When George gives advice on how to grill the best burger on the planet, well, believe him. He <I>knows.</I><P>As a world-class athlete and father of ten, George Foreman is focused on fresh, healthy foods that keep him and his family strong. Between kids, careers, and a heavyweight training schedule, the Foremans are a big, constantly-in-motion family. Getting dinner on the table could be an endurance event, but instead of going ten rounds in the kitchen, George Foreman has perfected fast and easy, and he passes on his strategy in <I>George Foreman's Indoor Grilling Made Easy.</I><P>Here are more than 100 recipes that speak to the reason everyone buys the indoor grill in the first place: easy dishes filled with big, bold flavor for healthy food fast. From breakfast foods to snacks, entrées, side dishes, and even desserts made on the grill, this is food to satisfy the young, the not-so-young, and everyone in between. Most recipes are naturally lower in carbohydrates (after all, George is a carnivore of some note), but some have choice carbs to fuel heavy training days.<P>In addition to the recipes, there are plenty of flavor-enhancing ideas -- marinades, spice rubs, and sauces -- for simple cuts of fish, beef, pork, and chicken. You'll also find insider info on how to make perfect grilled veggies every time. <I>George Foreman's Indoor Grilling Made Easy</I> even includes finger foods for a party and a Thanksgiving dinner made on the grill. Portions feed a family of four but can easily be ownsized for those living on their own (or doubled for Foreman-sized families). <P><B>· Includes a nutritional analysis of every dish<P>· Line drawings throughout</B> | *$9.30 |
 | Baked Explorations: Classic American Desserts Reinvented
Brand: Stewart, Tabori & Chang
<DIV> <P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 8.05pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito’s 2008 <I>Baked</I> was published to national critical acclaim and raved about across the blogosphere. Since then, their profile has gotten even bigger, with continued praise from Oprah and Martha Stewart; product availability in every Whole Foods across the U.S.; and a new bakery in Charleston, South Carolina, with even more traffic than their original Brooklyn location. </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 8.05pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 8.05pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">Now, in <I>Baked Explorations</I>, the authors give their signature “Baked” twists to famous desserts from across the country. Here is their take on our most treasured desserts: Banana Cream Pie, Black & White Cookies, Mississippi Mud Pie, and more—from the overworked to the underappreciated. Readers will love this collection of 75 recipes from breakfast treats to late-night confections and everything in between. </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"></P></DIV> | *$19.77 |
 | King Arthur Flour Whole Grain Baking: Delicious Recipes Using Nutritious Whole Grains (King Arthur Flour Cookbooks)
Brand: Countryman Press
<strong>Hang on to your pie plate—<em>King Arthur Flour Whole Grain Baking</em> will change the way every baker thinks about whole grains.</strong> Forget what you know about whole grain baking. Instead, envision light, flaky croissants; airy cakes; moist brownies; dreamy pie crusts; and scrumptious cookies—all made with whole grains. This is what you get in <em>King Arthur Flour Whole Grain Baking</em>, a revolutionary cookbook that breathes new life into breads, cakes, cookies, pastries, and more by transforming the dark and dense alchemy of whole grain baking into lively, flavorful, sweet, and savory treats of all types.<br /> <br /> <em>King Arthur Flour Whole Grain Baking</em> is a book that only the bakers at King Arthur Flour could successfully complete, opening up the home baker's repertoire to new flours, new flavors, and new categories of whole grain baked goods. It spills over with helpful tips, how-to illustrations, sidebars on history and lore, and a friendly voice that says to readers, "Come into the kitchen with me and let's bake." Thousands of hours were spent testing these recipes, making sure that each one met their high standards. The final result is more than 400 delicious, inviting, and foolproof recipes that have earned a place in <em>King Arthur Flour Whole Grain Baking—</em>the next generation whole grain cookbook. 16 pages of full-color photographs and 125 black-and-white illustrations | *$19.56 |
 | Bobby Flay's Burgers, Fries, and Shakes
Brand: Clarkson Potter | *$12.92 |
 | Who You Callin' Cupcake: 75 In-Your-Face Recipes that Reinvent the Cupcake
Brand: Ulysses Press
<P><b>CuPcAkE AnaRcHy</b></p> <P> Smash the rules! Trash your cookbooks! Start baking cupcakes that will blow people's minds! Designed for cupcake lovers who are sick and tired of the same-old, play-it-safe options, <i>Who You Callin' Cupcake?</i>, written by the master chefs of Chicago's popular Bleeding Heart Bakery, shows inspired bakers how to create stunning alternatives that will rock their guests. These 75 recipes mix unusual ingredients that are as daring as they are delicious. You don't need to be a master chef to use <i>Who You Callin' Cupcake?</i>'s easy-to-follow system for making tasty, original creations like: <P><b><ul> <li>Bananas Foster</li> <li>White Chocolate Wasabi</li> <li>Mojito</li> <li>Creamsicle</li> <li>BBQ Pork</li> <li>Chocolate Cherry Stout</li> <li>Curry Cardamom</li> <li>Peppermint Candy</li> <li>Tiramisu</li> </b></ul> <P> <P><b>About the Authors</b></p> <P>Michelle and Vinny Garcia's <b>Bleeding Heart Bakery</b> has been voted one of the top ten bakeries in the world, the Top Bakery in Chicago (by <i>Chicago Magazine</i>) and many other awards. They have appeared in numerous Food Network Challenges, including "Horror Cakes" and "Extreme Mystery Client Wedding. | *$8.95 |
 | Crepes: Sweet & Savory Recipes for the Home Cook
Brand: Chronicle Books
Ever-popular in France, delicate and delicious crêpes are once again basking in the international culinary spotlight. This gorgeously illustrated cookbook features more than 40 recipes for sweet and savory crêpes, all sure to delight friends and family alike. | *$7.37 |
 | Diet for a Small Planet
Brand: Ballantine Books
With the new emphasis on environmentalism in teh 1990's, Lappe stresses how her philosophy remains valid, and how food remains the central issue through which to understand world politics.<br> | *$7.06 |
 | Prevention's Diabetes Diet Cookbook
Brand: Rodale Books
<DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV>    Nearly 21 million Americans already have diabetes, and at least 54 million adults over the age of 20 are at risk. Fortunately, there is good news: Studies have shown that people with pre-diabetes who lose weight and increase their physical activity can prevent or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes—and even return their blood glucose levels to normal. This outstanding cookbook draws on the latest science to make losing weight and getting blood sugar under control easier than ever before.<BR><I>    Diabetes Diet Cookbook</I> features:<BR>-a new approach to controlling blood sugar naturally—by eating up to 50 grams of fiber a day (nearly<BR>twice the USDA’s recommended daily intake)<BR>-easy menu plans that lower daily carb intake to target abdominal fat, a leading risk for the heart<BR>disease that commonly accompanies diabetes<BR>-more than 200 great-tasting dishes—from Better-for-You Burritos and Skinny Monte Cristos to fabulous special-occasion desserts—that will satisfy the whole family and completely eliminate the need for separate meals<BR>-hundreds of practical tips for living well with diabetes<BR>    Designed to bring about steady, permanent weight loss—up to 2 pounds a week until one’s goal weight is reached—and filled with inspirational, real-life success stories that illustrate Prevention’s trusted advice in action, this is an indispensable book for anyone who has, or is at risk of developing, diabetes.</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV> | *$4.90 |
 | Weber's Charcoal Grilling: The Art of Cooking with Live Fire
Brand: Sunset Books
Anyone with half a taste bud knows the difference a good charcoal fire can make. There is no mistaking the effects of its woodsy aromas or the primordial satisfaction of grilling over crackling flames and glowing embers. Now Weber, the inventor of the first covered charcoal grill, presents the definitive book on this unique grilling style, which lately has been surging in popularity. Thoroughly researched and handsomely designed, Weber's Charcoal Grilling(tm) cookbook holds the most captivating examples of charcoal grilling and authentic barbecue from around the globe. More than 100 triple-tested recipes take readers through the full range of a charcoal grill's versatility, including seared steaks, roasted vegetables, smoked fish, barbecued ribs, wood-fired pizzas, and much more. The pages of Weber's Charcoal Grilling(tm) cookbook dazzle with more than 150 color photographs, one for each recipe, plus many more for illustrating essential grilling techniques and barbecue secrets. Additional photos and stories document a culture woven together by unforgettable personalities, an amazing culinary history, and a passionate appreciation for cooking over a live fire. Features: Written by chef and journalist Jamie Purviance, author of Weber's Real Grilling(tm) and other bestselling books on outdoor cooking<P>Featuring a simple, never-fail approach to lighting and tending a charcoal fire, which is the basis for a wide variety of more advanced approaches covered throughout the book<P>Richly illustrated by James Beard award-winning photographer Tim Turner, who provides a full-color photograph with each recipe<P>Packed with priceless advice--set apart in sidebars titled Live Fire Wisdom(tm)--from America's most trusted grillers, including chefs, barbecue champions, and charcoal fanatics | *$6.48 |
 | Perfect Pairings: A Master Sommelier's Practical Advice for Partnering Wine with Food
Brand: University of California Press
As thousands of wines from around the globe enter the marketplace and the American palate continues to adopt flavors from a range of cultures, the task of pairing wine and food becomes increasingly complicated. No longer is the choice simply red or white, or wines from California, France, or Italy. The typical shopper today has access to wines from those regions <i>plus </i>South Africa, Chile, Argentina, New Zealand, and Australia. If that isn't confusing enough, Asian, Latin American, and Creole dishes might find their way onto the same table. <i>Perfect Pairings,</i> by well-known Master Sommelier and respected restaurant industry veteran Evan Goldstein, provides straightforward, practical advice for choosing the right bottle for each meal. The quintessential resource for matching wine and food, this book includes 58 companion recipes developed by celebrated chef Joyce Goldstein that showcase each type of wine.<br><i>Perfect Pairings</i> combines in-depth explorations of twelve grape varietals, sparkling wines, and dessert wines with guidance about foods that enhance the wide range of styles for each varietal. Whether the Chardonnay is earthy and flinty; rich, buttery, and oak-infused; fruity and tropical; or aged and mature, Goldstein explains how to match it with dishes that will make the wine sing. His clear, educational, and entertaining approach towards intimidating gastronomical questions provides information for <i>all </i>readers, professional and amateur alike.<br><br>* 16 full-color photos<br>* Six seasonal and special occasion menus<br>* Tips for enhancing food and wine experiences, both at home and in restaurants<br>* Glossary of wine terminology<br>* Overview of the world's primary wine-growing regions <br>* Recommendations of more than five hundred wines, ranging in price from everyday to splurge | *$18.78 |
 | Cath Kidston Recipe Organizer
Brand: Chronicle Books
Creating a custom recipe book has never been easier! This sturdy and stylish three-ring binder is neatly organized course-by-course, with space to write cherished recipes, and store magazine clippings and Internet printouts. Featuring ample pockets for extra storage, as well as handy tear-out shopping lists, and a variety of helpful cooking charts, the <i>Cath Kidston Recipe Organizer</i> is an all-in-one source for kitchen inspiration. | *$11.64 |
 | Weight Watchers Versatile Vegetarian
Brand: Wiley
One of the greatest challenges for vegetarians is keeping the fat levels in their diet at a healthy level -- Weight Watchers makes that easy with fresh, delicious meals that are short on fat, and long on flavor. <I>Weight Watchers Versatile Vegetarian</I> brings you 150 easy recipes that highlight the best of vegetarian food -- from delectable lasagna and other pastas, to pizza, main course salads and sandwiches, skillet meals, appetizers and creative side dishes. Recipes are low in fat, especially saturated fat, which has been linked to heart disease and many forms of cancer. | *$8.14 |
 | 500 Cupcakes: The Only Cupcake Compendium You'll Ever Need
Brand: Fergal Connolly Part Number: BTC-597
Once upon a time, cupcakes were only a kid-friendly party favorite. No longer! Cupcakes are now the treat of the times, at once simple and chic. 500 Cupcakes is just that: a storehouse of recipes, written in clear instructions and appealingly packaged in bright, modern colors. 500 Cupcakes from front to back provides what bakers of all levels need to produce tempting creations. The introduction provides a comprehensive look at equipment and ingredients, plus a description of the cupcake-making process, from getting started to storing and transporting the yummy results. The collection of recipes span from classic flavors and shapes to new favorites for every style and taste including recipes for alternate diets. Each recipe is written in clear language (great for the novice baker), and every one features three variations on the basic recipe (great for the experienced baker seeking new flavors). The page design is attractive, featuring over 200 enticing pictures of cupcakes in the pan and on the serving plate 500 Cupcakes really is the only cupcake compendium you ll ever need ! | *$8.90 |
 | The Lost Art of Real Cooking: Rediscovering the Pleasures of Traditional Food One Recipe at a Time
Brand: Perigee Trade
<B>It's time to take back the kitchen. It's time to unlock the pantry and break free from the shackles of ready-made, industrial food. It's time to cook supper. </B> <BR><BR> <I>The Lost Art of Real Cooking</I> heralds a new old-fashioned approach to food-laborious and inconvenient, yet extraordinarily rewarding and worth bragging about. From jam, yogurt, and fresh pasta to salami, smoked meat, and strudel, Ken Albala and Rosanna Nafziger arm you with the knowledge and skills that let you connect on a deeper level with what goes into your body. <BR><BR> Ken and Rosanna celebrate the patience it takes to make your own sauerkraut and pickles. They divulge the mysteries of capturing wild sourdoughs and culturing butter, the beauty of rendering lard, making cheese, and brewing beer, all without the fancy toys that take away from the adventure of truly <I>experiencing</I> your food. <BR><BR> These foods were once made by the family, in the home, rather than a factory. And they can still be made in the smallest kitchens without expensive equipment, capturing flavors that speak of place and personality. What you won't find here is a collection of rigid rules for the perfect meal. Ken and Rosanna offer a wealth of recipes, history, and techniques that start with the basics and evolve into dishes that are entirely your own. | *$10.92 |
 | Raw for Dessert: Easy Delights for Everyone
Brand: Book Publishing Company (TN)
Now you can have your cake and eat it too! You can stay vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, or just plain health-conscious and still eat delicious cakes, pies, compotes, crumbles, custards, sorbets, ice creams, cookies, and candies! <P>Jennifer Cornbleet, author of the best selling <i>Raw Food Made Easy for 1 or 2 People</i>, shares her favorite easy no-bake treats. Learn how to: <BR>•Avoid white sugar, white flour, dairy products, trans-fats, saturated fats, and processed foods <BR> • Make easy-to-follow recipes – quickly and affordably <BR> • Enjoy desserts for every occasion – Summer Berry Compote, Caramel Apple Stacks, Crème Brulée, Pineapple Upside Down Cake, Chocolate Cupcakes, Coconut Cream Pie, Tropical Ambrosia Tart, Pine Nut Caramels, Concord Grape Sorbet, Cookies n’ Cream Ice Cream, Knockout Brownie Sundae . . . <P>These recipes strike the perfect balance between indulgence and health. | *$8.65 |
 | Gluten-Free Cooking For Dummies
Brand: For Dummies
Want to create tasty gluten-free meals and snacks? <i>Gluten-Free Cooking For Dummies</i> is loaded with more than 150 wheat-and gluten-free recipes. These sweet, spicy, and aromatic dishes prove that living the gluten-free lifestyle can be not only fun and easy, but delicious and nutritious too! <p> This practical, guide shows you how to select the right ingredients and prepare classic healthy dishes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert. You’ll find out what you can and can’t use in gluten-free cooking, learn to spot the hidden gluten in foods, discover surprising ways to save money when you go shopping, and even manage your weight. You’ll also learn how to convert your current favorite recipes to gluten-free delights using ingredients you probably already have in your kitchen. Discover how to: <ul> <li>Prepare your kitchen for gluten-free cooking <li>Shop for gluten-free products <li>Boost nutrition and flavor in your dishes <li>Get the kids involved in gluten-free cooking <li>Make any meal gluten free <li>Add color and nutrition at the same time <li>Cook gluten-free without a recipe <li>Do the “impossible”— gluten-free baking <li>Make gluten-free sandwiches, wraps, and pizzas <li>Create fabulous gluten-free fish, chicken, and meat dishes <li>Go gluten-free and vegetarian, too </ul> <p> Complete with delightful lists of gluten-free comfort foods, kid’s favorites, and ways to eat gluten-free while traveling <i>Gluten-Free Cooking For Dummies</i> is the best way yet to stay happy, healthy, well-fed, and wheatless! | *$8.97 |
 | The South Beach Diet Parties and Holidays Cookbook: Healthy Recipes for Entertaining Family and Friends
Brand: Rodale Books
<DIV><DIV>With more than 19 million copies in print worldwide, the best-selling phenomenon continues with fabulous all new recipes for healthy, delicious<BR><BR>South Beach Diet-friendly entertaining<BR><BR>The famed Miami Beach cardiologist who has helped millions of people worldwide to lose weight and eat healthier with his best-selling South Beach Diet books now addresses the special challenge that can undermine anyone’s willpower—the irresistible lure of diet-busting dishes at festive occasions.<BR><BR>As the more than 20 menus and 150 easy, all-new recipes in this cookbook prove, there’s no need to give up favorite holiday and party dishes to stay on the South Beach Diet. Dr. Agatston explains that healthy entertaining is not a matter of deprivation, but of "simply making as many good choices as possible." His new book provides those choices, putting a healthy twist on favorite entertaining meals for every occasion, whether it’s a family Christimas Eve dinner, a Thanksgiving feast, a Passover seder, a football fest in front of the TV, or a backyard barbeque with the neighbors. Readers will also find: <BR><BR>• practical tips and helpful (and healthful) hints throughout—including make-ahead suggestions, ideas for nonalcoholic cocktails (mocktails), ways to use leftovers, and more <BR><BR>• 55 full-page color photographs that illustrate the finished dishes along with ideas for stylish table settings and centerpieces</DIV></DIV> | *$5.96 |
 | Simply Spectacular Cakes: Beautiful Designs for Irresistible Cakes and Cookies
Brand: Clarkson Potter
Nothing brightens up a party or makes a celebration out of an everyday gathering like beautifully decorated cookies and cakes. Yet buying from boutique bakeries doesn’t have to be your only option—there’s a simple, fun way to have fabulous desserts at a fraction of the price. <i>Simply Spectacular Cakes </i>is the perfect guide for creating your own elegant, designer-quality confections that will impress friends and family<i>.</i><br> <br>Peggy Porschen—professional baker and designer extraordinaire, and author of <i>Pretty Party Cakes—</i>is known for her designs for cookies, mini cakes, and large cakes that are easy enough for anyone. Whether a seasoned baker or eager amateur, you can manage sophisticated designs such as the Tiffany Pearl Tiered Cake, inspired by various pieces of pearl jewelry, or Cherry Blossom Bites, little cakes that when grouped together look like a cherry tree in full bloom. Projects range from easy, such as icing cookies to look like retro candies, to those that call for more advanced handiwork, such as making flowers for the Anemone Cake. Beautiful photographs display the detail in Porschen’s decorations so that you can follow them exactly, or use them as inspiration to customize your own designs that match your skill level.<br> <br>With vivid color photographs, helpful advice from an expert baker, and an extensive how-to section, this book has all the information you need to make professional-quality cakes and cookies in your own home. More beauty, more fashion, more style—<i> Simply Spectacular Cakes </i>has all the best design ideas for creating gorgeous and stylish desserts. | *$18.41 |
 | Suzanne Somers' Get Skinny on Fabulous Food
Brand: Three Rivers Press
Somersize your way to weight loss and good health!<br><br>Find out why Somersizing has swept the nation! In Get Skinny on Fabulous Food, the number one New York Times bestseller and sequel to Eat Great, Lose Weight, which also went to the top of the Times list, Suzanne Somers will show you how to shed pounds for good and have more energy than ever before -- without dieting. This lifestyle-altering book provides you with:<br><br>* The guilt-free way to lose weight and reprogram your metabolism -- including more than 100 delicious Somersized recipes that leave you both satisfied and indulged<br>* Breakthrough research on food and nutrition that changes the way you think about your body<br>* Moving personal testimonials guaranteed to motivate and encourage you<br>* An easy-to-follow weight-loss plan that teaches you how to combine foods properly so that you'll get, and stay, skinny without feeling deprived <br><br>Join the millions of people who have lost weight safely and effectively with Get Skinny on Fabulous Food and start celebrating good health and good times with Suzanne's delectable, simple, and balanced Somersized meals. | *$4.69 |
 | Top Secret Restaurant Recipes: Creating Kitchen Clones from America's Favorite Restaurant Chains
Brand: Plume
With sixty-five illustrations and a host of restaurant facts, this colorful book provides recipes for more than one hundred dishes like those found in famous and well-known chains, such as Applebee's Quesadillas and T.G.I. Friday's Nine-Layer Dip. Original." | *$5.45 |
 | The Sprouting Book: How to Grow and Use Sprouts to Maximize Your Health and Vitality (Avery Health Guides)
Brand: Avery Trade
Written for everyone who is interested in good nutrition at a low cost and with great taste, this highly practical and fully illustrated book provides readers with all the information necessary to start and maintain an indoor sprout garden. The book discusses a wide variety of sprouts and sprouting methods, explains the sprouts importance in a healthy diet and presents a wealth of simple and delicious recipes. | *$7.95 |
 | Williams-Sonoma Cooking from the Farmers' Market
Brand: Williams Sonoma
This essential guide to produce illuminates how to identify, select, and prepare over 100 types of fruits and vegetables fresh from the market, with more than 245 recipes, including one for each ingredient. | *$19.80 |
 | The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness, and the Making of a Great Chef
Brand: Bloomsbury USA
<DIV><DIV>“There hasn’t been a food memoir this deliciously wicked since Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential.”—<I>Portland Oregonian<BR>The Devil in the Kitchen</I> is legendary chef Marco Pierre White’s memoir of growing up working-class in Leeds and going on to become a king in the culinary world—the original celebrity chef. The first British chef (and the youngest chef anywhere) to win three Michelin stars—and also the only one to ever give them all back—is known equally for his astonishing talent and for being a chain-smoking, pot-throwing enfant terrible of the kitchen. In <I>The Devil in the Kitchen</I> he takes readers on a revealing and raucous ride, featuring some of the biggest names in the food world and beyond. It’s truly a decadent feast for anyone who loves food or just a great story.</DIV></DIV> | *$8.96 |
 | Quinoa 365: The Everyday Superfood
Brand: Whitecap Books Ltd.
One of the world's healthiest foods, quinoa contains a perfect balance of all eight essential amino acids, and is a great source of protein, making it an increasingly popular food choice for those looking to incorporate 'superfoods' into their everyday diets. Gluten-free, wheat-free, and nutrient-packed, quinoa is ideal for those who are health-conscious, vegetarian, and/or physically active, as well as for those with gluten intolerance, wheat allergies, and other digestive disorders. But that's not all: You can eat quinoa guiltlessly knowing it's free of cholesterol and trans fats. In Quinoa 365 sisters Patricia Green and Carolyn Hemming show you how to use this miraculous superfood in all your favourite dishes. | *$19.77 |
 | In-N-Out Burger: A Behind-the-Counter Look at the Fast-Food Chain That Breaks All the Rules
Brand: HarperBusiness
<blockquote> <p> The untold story of the renegade burger chain that evokes a passionate following unlike any other </p> </blockquote> <p> In fast-food corporate America, In-N-Out Burger stands apart. Begun in a tiny shack in the shadow of World War II, this family-owned chain has steadÂfastly refused to franchise or be sold. It is a testament to old-fashioned values and remÂiniscent of a simpler time when people, loyalty, and a freshly made, juicy hamburger meant something. Over time, In-N-Out Burger has become nothing less than a cultural instituÂtion that can lay claim to an insanely loyal following. </p> <p> Perman uses her investigative skills to uncover the story of a real American success story. It is not only a tale of a unique and profitable business that exceeds all expectations, but of a family's struggle to maintain a sustainable pop empire against the industry it helped pioneer, internal tensions, and a bitter lawsuit that threatened to bring the company to the brink. </p> <p> This is a lesson in a counterintuitive approach to doing business that places quality, customers, and employees over the riches promised by rapid expansion. <i>In-N-Out Burger</i> is a keenly observed narrative that explores the evolution of a California fad that transformed into an enduring cult of popularity; it is also the story of the conflicted, secretive, and ultimately tragic Snyder family who cooked a billion burgers and hooked a zillion fans. As the story of In-N-Out Burger unfolds, so too does the cultural history of America as influenced and shaped by car culture and fast food. </p> | *$13.49 |
 | Edible Wild Plants: Wild Foods From Dirt To Plate (The Wild Food Adventure Series, Book 1)
Brand: Gibbs Smith
<P>Edible wild plants have one or more parts that can be used for food if gathered at the appropriate stage of growth and properly prepared. Edible Wild Plants includes extensive information and recipes on plants from the four categories: </P> <P>Foundation greens: wild spinach, chickweed, mallow, purslane; tart greens: curly dock, sheep sorrel, wood sorrel; pungent greens: wild mustard, wintercress, garlic mustard, shepherd purse; and bitter greens: dandelion, cats ear, sow thistle, nipplewort. </P> | *$15.44 |
 | Pizza: More than 60 Recipes for Delicious Homemade Pizza
Brand: Chronicle Books
Team five-time world pizza-throwing champion Tony Gemignani with acclaimed cookbook author Diane Morgan and the result is a cookbook that will turn any home kitchen into the best pizzeria in town. There are over 60 selections on the menu, including the thick, rounded-edge crust of classic Neapolitan pizza Margherita, the thin crust New York–style Italian Sausage and Three Pepper Pizza, and the stick-to-your-ribs, deep-dish kind, smothered in spinach and mozzarella. There are also plenty of new-fangled pizzas: layered with Thai curry flavored chicken or pineapple; cooked on the grill; even quick and easy versions using storebought crust. Aficionados will find six pizza dough recipes ready to suit anyone's crust preferences. Tips for proper use of such related gear as peels, stones, tiles, pans, grills, and ovens make this a complete pizza package. And with step-by-step dough tossing instructions from Tony himself, it's clear: When it comes to pizza—Pizza delivers. | *$8.56 |
 | Raw Food Life Force Energy: Enter a Totally New Stratosphere of Weight Loss, Beauty, and Health
Brand: Harper Paperbacks
<p> According to top nutritionist Natalia Rose, the secret to a beautiful lean body, youthful radiant skin, abundant energy, and a state of natural bliss is Life Force Energy. If we can properly harness and increase our Life Force Energy through simple dietary and environmental principles, we can experience radically improved levels of health, beauty, and happiness. </p> <p> With <i>Raw Food Life Force Energy</i>'s more than seventy irresistibly fresh and energizing recipes, you'll see amazing results, including: </p> <ul> <li>Effortless, abundant weight loss</li> <li>Glowing, healthy skin</li> <li>Markedly increased energy</li> <li>Fewer colds and flus</li> <li>A more positive attitude and increased mental acuity</li> </ul> <p> Natalia Rose offers a new vision of how to honor and revitalize our bodies and become powerfully attractive inside and out. <i>Raw Food Life Force Energy</i> shows us how to break out of our destructive, energy-draining patterns of poor eating, unsuccessful dieting, and stressful living to lift ourselves to a whole new stratosphere of well-being. </p> | *$7.97 |
 | The Blackberry Farm Cookbook: Four Seasons of Great Food and the Good Life
Brand: Clarkson Potter
<b>Nestled in the blue mists of Tennessee's Smoky Mountains, the 10,000-acre bucolic refuge of Blackberry Farm houses a top-rated small inn with one of the premier farm-to-table restaurants in the country.  This sumptuous cookbook offers a collection of recipes that are as inspired by the traditional rustic cooking of the mountainous south as they are by a fresh, contemporary, artistic sensibility. Some of the dishes are robust, others are astonishingly light, all are full of heart and surprise and flavor — and all are well within the reach of the home cook. <br></b><br>California has the French Laundry, Virginia has the Inn at Little Washington, and Tennessee has Blackberry Farm, where the indulgences of a luxury inn are woven together with odes to nature — fly-fishing, hiking, foraging, bird watching, and heirloom gardening — to create a new way of looking at the world, a way in which anything seems possible. <br><br>This is particularly true at the Inn's table and in its award-winning wine cellar. To the farm's master gardeners, food artisans and chefs, meals are an opportunity to express not only the earth and the culture of this remote spot, but also its spirit. On a spring day this might mean Rye Whiskey-Cured Trout with Fresh and Pickled Fennel, and the summer garden might inspire a Chilled Corn Soup with Garlic Custard, a papardelle of baby carrots, or a tomato terrine. In the cooler weather, game and traditionally preserved food — cider-basted venison, a shell-bean and gamebird cassoulet, a dried apple stack cake or  Bourbon Apple Fried Pies — keep conversation in front of the fire lively. For all its artfulness, however, Blackberry Farm's garden-to-table cooking tends to be an ode to a well-loved cast iron skillet, a backyard smoker or a wood-fired grill. <br><br>In the foothills, you don't eat to eat, you eat to talk, to remember and to imagine what you will eat tomorrow. In this book, the stories of the people who practice the traditional mountain food arts — the bacon man, the heirloom gardener, the cheese maker and sausage man — are woven together with the recipes, lore and regional history to reflect the spirit of the cooking at Blackberry Farm. Breathtaking photographs capture the magical world that surrounds the table — the hills and rushing creeks, the lights and shadows of the forest, the moods and moments of the garden. | *$37.08 |
 | The Professional Pastry Chef: Fundamentals of Baking and Pastry, 4th Edition
Brand: Wiley
The reference of choice for thousands of pastry chefs and home cooks<br> A favorite of pastry lovers and serious chefs worldwide, The Professional Pastry Chef presents comprehensive coverage of basic baking and pastry techniques in a fresh and approachable way. Now skillfully revised and redesigned to meet the needs of today's pastry kitchen, this classic reference is better-and easier to use-than ever.<br> The new edition contains more than 650 recipes, which offer a new emphasis on American applications of European techniques with yields suitable for restaurant service or for entertaining at home. It shares encyclopedic guidance on everything from mise en place preparation and basic doughs to new chapters covering flatbreads, crackers, and homestyle desserts. Throughout, award-winning Executive Pastry Chef Bo Friberg explains not only how to perform procedures, but also the principles behind them, helping readers to build a firm foundation based on understanding rather than memorizing formulas. Illustrated step-by-step instructions demystify even the most complex techniques and presentations, while 100 vivid color photographs bring finished dishes to life with a sublime touch of visual inspiration. Whether used to develop skills or refine techniques, to gain or simply broaden a repertoire, The Professional Pastry Chef is filled with information and ideas for creating mouthwatering baked goods and tantalizing desserts-today and for years to come. | *$38.90 |
 | Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease
Brand: Avery
<b>A powerful call for a paradigm shift in heart disease therapy.</b> <br/><br/> Based on the groundbreaking results of a twenty-year nutritional study by Dr. Esselstyn, a preeminent researcher and clinician, this book illustrates that a plant-based, oil-free diet can not only prevent and stop the progression of heart disease but can also reverse its effects. The proof lies in the incredible outcomes for patients who have followed Dr. Esselstyn's program, including a number of patients in his original study who had been told by their cardiologists that they had less than a year to live. Within months of starting the program, Dr. Esselstyn's patients began to improve dramatically, and twenty years later, they remain free of symptoms. <br/><br/> Complete with more than 150 delicious recipes, this book explains the science behind the simple plan that has drastically changed the lives of Dr. Esselstyn's patients forever. It will empower readers to take control of their heart health. | *$17.00 |
 | The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
Brand: Random House Trade Paperbacks
“Part treatise, part miscellany, unfailingly entertaining.”<br><i>–The New York Times </i><br><br>“A small pearl of a book . . . a great tale of the growth of a modern city as seen through the rise and fall of the lowly oyster.”<br><i>–Rocky Mountain News</i><br><br>Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky tells the remarkable story of New York by following the trajectory of one of its most fascinating inhabitants–the oyster.<br>For centuries New York was famous for this particular shellfish, which until the early 1900s played such a dominant a role in the city’s life that the abundant bivalves were Gotham’s most celebrated export, a staple food for all classes, and a natural filtration system for the city’s congested waterways.<br><br>Filled with cultural, historical, and culinary insight–along with historic recipes, maps, drawings, and photos–this dynamic narrative sweeps readers from the seventeenth-century founding of New York to the death of its oyster beds and the rise of America’s environmentalist movement, from the oyster cellars of the rough-and-tumble Five Points slums to Manhattan’s Gilded Age dining chambers. With <i>The Big Oyster</i>, Mark Kurlansky serves up history at its most engrossing, entertaining, and delicious.<br><br>“Suffused with [Kurlansky’s] pleasure in exploring the city across ground that hasn’t already been covered with other writers’ footprints.”<br>–<i>Los Angeles Times Book Review</i><br><br>“Fascinating stuff . . . [Kurlansky] has a keen eye for odd facts and natural detail.”<br>–<i>The Wall Street Journal</i><br><br>“Kurlansky packs his breezy book with terrific anecdotes.” <br>–<i>Entertainment Weekly</i><br><br>“Magnificent . . . a towering accomplishment.”<br>–<i>Associated Press<br></i> | *$8.73 |
 | The Alaskan Bootlegger's Bible
Brand: Happy Mountain Publications
Book Description How to make beer, wine, liqueurs, cider and moonshine whiskey. The author dusts off over 30 years of experience to tell you how it's done. He not only tells how to make darned near any kind of beer, wine, liqueur and whiskey you can imagine, he also tells you how to make the equipment to do it with. Ever wondered how a still is made? There are 8 types illustrated in this book and though it's illegal to build or possess a still, the illustrations are so complete, you could easily do it! This book includes plans and operating instructions from underground moonshiner manuals used in Mid East oil fields. Some are built with components found in most home kitchens. From moonshine, homebrew, wine and liqueur recipes, to stills, make your own cappers, kegs, scales and even a malt factory from an old freezer, it's all here! <P>Easy to read and humorous, this book entertains you with Alaskan tales and bootlegger's lore while you learn to make everything from beer and blossom wines, to horse turd whiskey and bathtub gin. If you could buy only one "make your own" book for the rest of your life, this is it. It's like getting a whole shelf of books for the price of one! | *$13.48 |
 | The Big Book of Preserving the Harvest: 150 Recipes for Freezing, Canning, Drying and Pickling Fruits and Vegetables
Brand: LEM Part Number: 571
Remember how grandmother's cellar shelves were packed with jars of tomato sauce and stewed tomatoes, pickled beets and cauliflower, and pickles both sweet and dill? Learn how to save a summer day - in batches - from the classic primer, now updated and rejacketed. Use the latest inexpensive, time-saving techniques for drying, freezing, canning, and pickling. Anyone can capture the delicate flavors of fresh foods for year-round enjoyment and create a well-stocked pantry of fruits, vegetables, herbs, meats, flavored vinegars, and seasonings. <i>The Big Book of Preserving the Harvest</i> introduces the basic technique for all preserving methods, with step-by-step illustration, informative charts and tips throughout, and more than 150 recipes for the new or experienced home preserver. Among the step-by-step tested recipes: Green Chile Salsa, Tomato Leather, Spiced Pear Butter, Eggplant Caviar, Blueberry Marmalade, Yellow Tomato Jam, Cranberry-Lime Curd, Preserved Lemons, Chicken Liver Pate, and more.<p></p> | *$8.87 |
 | The Tex-Mex Cookbook: A History in Recipes and Photos
Brand: Clarkson Potter
<P>Nobody knows Tex-Mex like Houstonian Robb Walsh, who has spent much of his career researching the vibrant Mexican-American-and-Texan kitchen. Now he shares all the savory details in a comprehensive Tex-Mex bible, filled with outsize characters, fascinating stories, rare archival photographs, and of course great recipes for making an easy-to-elegant range of classic and <i>nuevo</i> dishes. <br><br><i>The Tex-Mex Cookbook</i> takes readers from the Spanish missions of the eighteenth century to the nineteenth century’s short-lived Republic of Texas and beyond, capturing the flavor of old San Antonio’s Chile Queens as well as the distinctively homespun inventions of rural border towns in lively prose and historic photographs. From the birth of corn chip mania to the booming Tex-Mex aisles in supermarkets across America, <i>The Tex-Mex Cookbook </i>reveals how "America's oldest regional cuisine" became a nationwide passion. Recipes include tacos, enchiladas, and authentic Texas chili, as well as fajitas, nachos, and Frito pie. Upscale contemporary selections such as Wild Mushroom Chalupas and Prickly Pear Margaritas bring this western saga up-to-the-minute.<br><br>A food fiesta that will delight home cooks and history buffs alike, <i>The Tex-Mex Cookbook </i>celebrates this inimitable culinary culture with the fact-filled, fun-filled tribute it deserves.</p> | *$12.19 |
 | Pretend Soup and Other Real Recipes: A Cookbook for Preschoolers and Up
Brand: Tricycle Press
A Cookbook for Preschoolers & Up <P>Together with her co-author, educator Ann Henderson, cookbook author Mollie Katzen believes it's never too early to introduce children to the creative world of cookery in a fun, healthful way. For small children, exploring food and cooking is not just about eating, it can be a playful activity and a way to learn new skills. As an educational experience, consider all the things a child can learn in the kitchen: counting, symbol recognition, reading readiness, self-confidence, use of tools, food literacy, and more. <P>Pretend Soup brings the grown-up world of real cooking to a child's level. Each vegetarian recipe is presented on double-page spreads, two per recipe. Full of Mollie's well-loved warmth and whimsical artistry, the first spread details the ingredients, safety tips, and a familiar version of the recipe for the prep cook: the adult. The second spread presents the recipe pictorally for the child and introduces a few easy-to-read words - your child moves from the usual role of helper to head cook. | *$6.45 |
 | 660 Curries
Brand: Workman Publishing Company
Curry is Salmon with Garlic and Turmeric. Curry is Grilled Chicken with Cashew-Tomato Sauce. Curry is Asparagus with Tomato and Crumbled Paneer. Curry is Lamb with Yellow Split Peas, Chunky Potatoes with Spinach, Tamarind Shrimp with Coconut Milk, Baby Back Ribs with a Sweet-Sour Glaze and Vinegar Sauce, Basmati Rice with Fragrant Curry Leaves. Curry is vivid flavors, seasonal ingredients, a kaleidoscope of spices and unexpected combinations. And <i>660 Curries</i> is the gateway to the world of Indian cooking, demystifying one of the world's great cuisines.<br> <br> Presented by the IACP award–winning Cooking Teacher of the Year (2004), Raghavan Iyer, <i>660 Curries</i> is a joyous food-lover's extravaganza. Mr. Iyer first grounds us in the building blocks of Indian flavors—the interplay of sour (like tomatoes or yogurt), salty, sweet, pungent (peppercorns, chiles), bitter, and the quality of unami (seeds, coconuts, and the like). Then, from this basic palette, he unveils an infinite art. There are appetizers—Spinach Fritters, Lentil Dumplings in a Buttermilk Coconut Sauce—and main courses—Chicken with Lemongrass and Kaffir-Lime Leaves, Lamb Loin Chops with an Apricot Sauce. Cheese dishes—Pan-Fried Cheese with Cauliflower and Cilantro; bean dishes—Lentil Stew with Cumin and Cayenne. And hundreds of vegetable dishes—Sweet Corn with Cumin and Chiles, Chunky Potatoes with Golden Raisins, Baby Eggplant Stuffed with Cashew Nuts and Spices. There are traditional, regional curries from around the subcontinent and contemporary curries. Plus all the extras: biryanis, breads, rice dishes, raitas, spice pastes and blends, and rubs.<br> <br>curry, n.—any dish that consists of either meat, fish, poultry, legumes, vegetables, or fruits, simmered in or covered with a sauce, gravy, or other liquid that is redolent with any number of freshly ground and very fragrant spices and/or herbs. | *$11.61 |
 | Lick It! Creamy Dreamy Vegan Ice Creams Your Mouth Will Love
Brand: Book Publishing Company
Ice cream is universally loved and is at its very best fresh out of the ice cream machine. Homemade ice cream is actually easy to make, and can be made with a variety of nondairy milks perfect for those with dairy or soy allergies. Whether you avoid dairy products for health or ethical reasons, or to protect the environment, these frozen treats will rival any store bought gourmet ice cream. <P>Lick It! elevates vegan ice cream to its creamy, dreamy best. Readers will find well-loved, traditional flavors plus a tempting variety of exotic and gourmet tastes made with herbs, spices, and liqueurs. And you can adjust the flavors and sweetness to your liking, using the choicest natural ingredients. From scooped ice cream, sundaes, sherbets, and sorbets to ice cream sandwiches, shakes and floats, you'll find all your ice cream parlor favorites complete with toppings and sauces! So swirl it, savor it, lick it! It s never been yummier. | *$8.60 |
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