 | Mike Colameco's Food Lover's Guide to New York City
Brand: Wiley | *$11.11 |
 | Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think
Brand: Random House Audio
In this illuminating and groundbreaking new book, food psychologist Brian Wansink shows why you may not realize how much youâre eating, what youâre eatingâor why youâre even eating at all.<br><br>⢠Does food with a brand name really taste better?<br>⢠Do you hate brussels sprouts because your mother did?<br>⢠Does the size of your plate determine how hungry <br>you feel?<br>⢠How much would you eat if your soup bowl secretly <br>refilled itself?<br>⢠What does your favorite comfort food really say <br>about you?<br>⢠Why do you overeat so much at healthy restaurants?<br><br>Brian Wansink is a Stanford Ph.D. and the director of the Cornell University Food and Brand Lab. Heâs spent a lifetime studying what we donât notice: the hidden clues that determine how much and why people eat. Using ingenious, fun, and sometimes downright fiendishly clever experiments like the âbottomless soup bowl,â Wansink takes us on a fascinating tour of the secret dynamics behind our dietary habits. How does packaging influence how much we eat? Which movies make us eat faster? How does music or the color of the room influence how much we eat? How can we recognize the âhidden persuadersâ used by restaurants and supermarkets to get us to mindlessly eat? What are the real reasons most diets are doomed to fail? And how can we use the âmindless marginâ to loseâinstead of gainâten to twenty pounds in the coming year?<br> <br>Mindless Eating will change the way you look at food, and it will give you the facts you need to easily make smarter, healthier, more mindful and enjoyable choices at the dinner table, in the supermarket, in restaurants, at the officeâeven at a vending machineâwherever you decide to satisfy your appetite. | *$18.83 |
 | Miss Dahl's Voluptuous Delights: Recipes for Every Season, Mood, and Appetite
Brand: William Morrow Cookbooks
<p> Food is meant to be enjoyed, and Sophie Dahl would have it no other way. Growing up in a family of true food lovers, she began cooking at a young age and never looked back. <i>Miss Dahl's Voluptuous Delights</i> presents nearly one hundred of her tried-and-true recipes, organized around the four seasons and using the freshest ingredients available. Accented with her stories about how she came to know these foods and why she loves them, <i>Miss Dahl's Voluptuous Delights</i> provides a complete picture of what a meal should provide. From lemon-scented summer stews, to crisply burnished pies, to salads and soups for breezy lunches, to decadent desserts, Sophie Dahl cooks food that is indulgent, delicious, and wholesome. </p> | *$17.15 |
 | Miss Parloa's New Cook Book
Brand: IndyPublish.com
Originally published in 1886. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. | *$75.99 |
 | Miss Vickie's Big Book of Pressure Cooker Recipes
Brand: Wiley
The Ultimate Pressure-Cooker Cookbook<br> <br> Nobody knows more about pressure cookers than Vickie Smith, creator of the leading pressure-cooker Web site, MissVickie.com. Now, at last, Miss Vickie has gathered all of her pressure-cooker wisdom into a book. Whether you're a pressure-cooker newcomer or a longtime fan, you'll find all the recipes, techniques, and tips you need for a lifetime of great pressure-cooker meals.<br> <br> Miss Vickie's Big Book of Pressure Cooker Recipes is jam-packed with nearly 400 fast, tasty, foolproof recipes, ranging from one-pot meals like Chicken and Rice with Mushrooms to Sweet and Sour Pork, Navy Bean Soup, and Chocolate Malt Cheesecake. Miss Vickie's detailed recipe instructions and special techniques, such as "pan in pot" pressure cooking, guarantee that each dish comes out perfectly cooked--and perfectly delicious.<br> <br> But Miss Vickie gives you more than just great recipes. Her book also provides in-depth guidance on every aspect of choosing and using a pressure cooker, including:<br> * <br> <br> A buyers' guide to modern pressure cookers<br> * <br> <br> Step-by-step pressure-cooker instructions<br> * <br> <br> Pressure-cooker safety<br> * <br> <br> Basic and advanced pressure-cooking techniques<br> * <br> <br> Common mistakes in pressure cookery<br> * <br> <br> Adapting recipes to the pressure cooker<br> * <br> <br> Tips, tricks, and troubleshooting<br> <br> <br> Offering hundreds of recipes that are proven to work--and proven delicious--plus plain-English answers to all of your pressure-cooker questions, Miss Vickie has created the single most useful pressure-cooker book ever published. It's a resource you'll turn to again and again as you explore the world of pressure-cooker possibilities and pleasures. | *$13.38 |
 | Modern-Day Macrobiotics: Transform Your Diet and Feed Your Mind, Body and Spirit
Brand: North Atlantic Books
A macrobiotic diet is beneficial not just physically, but spiritually and emotionally. Consisting of nuts, grains, vegetables, and other foods that are primarily whole, living, and unprocessed, it combines foods in a way that balances the bodyâs energies. <i>Modern-Day Macrobiotics</i> is both a cookbook and a practical guide to understanding and adopting a macrobiotic lifestyle. Along with menus and complete eating plans â including a one-day tone-up, three-day detox, ten-day regeneration diet, and four-month healing diet â it helps readers tailor a diet to their specific needs. Nearly 80 recipes cover every meal of the day, including dessert, and are tagged with icons indicating what types of energy the dish imparts. Colorful reference charts help readers find useful information at a glance. Health benefits; buying and storing ingredients; shortcuts and ten-minute meals; and ordering in restaurants are also covered. Luscious, full-color photographs capture the vibrant flavors of this healthy, delicious diet. | *$11.75 |
 | Molecular Gastronomy: Exploring the Science of Flavor (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)
Brand: Columbia University Press
<P>Hervé This (pronounced "Teess") is an internationally renowned chemist, a popular French television personality, a bestselling cookbook author, a longtime collaborator with the famed French chef Pierre Gagnaire, and the only person to hold a doctorate in molecular gastronomy, a cutting-edge field he pioneered. Bringing the instruments and experimental techniques of the laboratory into the kitchen, This uses recent research in the chemistry, physics, and biology of food to challenge traditional ideas about cooking and eating. What he discovers will entertain, instruct, and intrigue cooks, gourmets, and scientists alike.</P><P> <I>Molecular Gastronomy</I>, This's first work to appear in English, is filled with practical tips, provocative suggestions, and penetrating insights. This begins by reexamining and debunking a variety of time-honored rules and dictums about cooking and presents new and improved ways of preparing a variety of dishes from quiches and quenelles to steak and hard-boiled eggs. He goes on to discuss the physiology of flavor and explores how the brain perceives tastes, how chewing affects food, and how the tongue reacts to various stimuli. Examining the molecular properties of bread, ham, foie gras, and champagne, the book analyzes what happens as they are baked, cured, cooked, and chilled. </P><P>Looking to the future, Herve This imagines new cooking methods and proposes novel dishes. A chocolate mousse without eggs? A flourless chocolate cake baked in the microwave? <I>Molecular Gastronomy</I> explains how to make them. This also shows us how to cook perfect French fries, why a soufflé rises and falls, how long to cool champagne, when to season a steak, the right way to cook pasta, how the shape of a wine glass affects the taste of wine, why chocolate turns white, and how salt modifies tastes.</P> | *$18.00 |
 | Molto Gusto: Easy Italian Cooking
Brand: Ecco
<p> The bestselling author of <i>Italian Grill</i> and <i>Molto Italiano</i> delivers a gorgeous collection of mouthwatering recipes to bring some Italian favorites home. </p> <p> Chef Mario Batali's zest for life infuses the casual Italian fare that has made his restaurant Otto Enoteca Pizzeria a perennially popular New York City destination. Now you can have the flavors of Otto at home, with <i>Molto Gusto</i>, a collection of recipes for everyone's favorites, from pizza, pasta, and antipasti to gelati and sorbetti. </p> <p> Mario has written the definitive book on great pizza making for the amateur, the novice, the foodie, and the gourmet cook, teaching how to make really great pizza at home without any fancy equipment. Here too are recipes for classic pizza, Otto's special pizzas, and even kids' pizzas. </p> <p> Looking for something a little lighter? Try the antipasti. Based on seasonal vegetables, with a few recipes showcasing seafood and meat, these dishes can make up an entire, healthy meal. Also included are many of Mario's favorite simple pasta dishes, and to finish it all off, fantastic recipes for gelati, sorbetti, and copette. </p> <p> Filled with Mario's infectious personality and love of robust flavors, and illustrated with luscious full-color photos, <i>Molto Gusto</i> makes it easy to spend a night on the town without leaving home. </p> | *$19.79 |
 | Molto Italiano: 327 Simple Italian Recipes to Cook at Home
Brand: Mario Batali Part Number: B051
<P>"The trick to cooking is that there is no trick." ââMario Batali</P><P> The only mandatory Italian cookbook for the home cook, Mario Batali's MOLTO ITALIANO is rich in local lore, with Batali's humorous and enthusiastic voice, familiar to those who have come to know him on his popular Food Network programs, larded through about 220 recipes of simple, healthy, seasonal Italian cooking for the American audience. </P><P> Easy to use and simple to read, some of these recipes will be those "as seen" on TV in the eight years of "Molto Mario" programs on the Food Network, including those from "Mediterranean Mario," "Mario Eats Italy," and the allânew "Ciao America with Mario Batali." Batali's distinctive voice will provide a historical and cultural perspective with a humorous bent to demystify even the more elaborate dishes as well as showing ways to shorten or simplify everything from the purchasing of good ingredients to preâproduction and countdown schedules of holiday meals. Informative head notes will include bits about the provenance of the recipes and the odd historical fact.</P><P> Mario Batali's MOLTO ITALIANO will feature ten soups, thirty antipasti (many vegetarian or vegetable based), forty pasta dishes representing many of the twentyâone regions of Italy, twenty fish and shellfish dishes, twenty chicken dishes, twenty pork or lamb dishes and twenty side dishes, each of which can be served as a light meal. Add twenty desserts and a foundation of basic formation recipes and this book will be the only Italian cooking book needed in the home cook's library.</P> | *$16.72 |
 | Momofuku
Brand: Clarkson Potter
Never before has there been a phenomenon like Momofuku. A once-unrecognizable word, it's now synonymous with the award-winning restaurants of the same name in New York City: Momofuku Noodle Bar, Ssäm Bar, Ko, and Milk Bar. Chef David Chang has single-handedly revolutionized cooking in America with his use of bold Asian flavors and impeccable ingredients, his mastery of the humble ramen noodle, and his thorough devotion to pork. <br><br>Momofuku is both the story and the recipes behind the cuisine that has changed the modern-day culinary landscape. Chang relays with candor the tale of his unwitting rise to superstardom, which, though wracked with mishaps, happened at light speed. And the dishes shared in this book are coveted by all who've dinedâor yearned toâat any Momofuku location (yes, the pork buns are here). This is a must-read for anyone who truly enjoys food. | *$23.73 |
 | Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home: Fast and Easy Recipes for Any Day
Brand: Fireside
<P> Winner of the 1995 James Beard Award for Best Vegetarian Cookbook <P> Although many people think that cooking without meat means spending more time in the kitchen, the cooks at the world-renowned Moosewood Restaurant know this isn't so. Busy balancing home, work, and other commitments, they've been cooking for family and friends every day of the week for over twenty years. <I>Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home</I> is the result of that experience -- over 150 carefully honed and tested recipes calling for the best ingredients, accompanied by time-saving tips and planning suggestions, add up to a delicious whole-foods cuisine that is versatile and healthful and can be prepared with a minimum of effort. <P> This book contains dishes full of exciting flavors, sure to please every taste, from savory soups to substantial main-dish salads, from hearty stews to palate-teasing "small dishes." Sauces, salsas and dressings, and a collection of almost-instant desserts turn the simplest meal into an occasion. <P> Chapters on techniques and menu planning, lists of recipes for special needs, including nondairy and vegan fare and kid-pleasing food, as well as an in-depth guide to stocking the meatless pantry (including a list of recommended convenience foods), make <I>Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home</I> the essential companion to everyday cooking. | *$9.95 |
 | Moosewood Restaurant Low-Fat Favorites: Flavorful Recipes for Healthful Meals
Brand: Clarkson Potter
This is the low-fat book cooks who care about wholesome, vegetarian-inspired food have been waiting for. Each of the more than 280 recipes are as delicious and trustworthy as those in the Moosewood Collective's previous books, and vibrant flavors and generous portions are still a hallmark of every dish. Because the Collective's primary goal is always to make great tasting food they resisted the notion of doing a low-fat book until they were convinced they could make low-fat dishes as flavor-packed as their regular favorites. "We've mostly been interested in gourmet cuisine at Moosewood Restaurant, not deprivation diet food," say the authors. "So, it's a happy surprise that the dishes we created for this cookbook don't come off as merely healthful diet foods. The food is exciting, ethnically diverse, and satisfyingly delicious. <Strong>Moosewood Restaurant Low-fat Favorites</Strong> is as much a celebration of the pleasures of eating as it is about low-fat cooking."<br><br>In <Strong>Moosewood Restaurant Low-fat Favorites</Strong> the Collective emphasizes a few changes in basic cooking techniques to apply to everyday recipes and they offer tips and ideas for sustaining a low-fat lifestyle. They bake rather than fry, replace high-fat ingredients with healthy substitutes (no artificial ingredients allowed!), and use butter and oil very moderately. What is lost in fat is gained in bold, intense flavors. "When fashioning low-fat recipes, taking a nip here, a tuck there, we sometimes need to add a little embroidery, an embellishment such as extra herbs, spices, fruit or vegetable purée, vinegar, sun-dried tomatoes, dried mushrooms, miso, soy sauce, or garlic," explain the cooks at Moosewood Restaurant. "Our gingerbread gets extra flavor and moisture from chunks of pear rather than from butter and egg yolks. Two small calamata olives enliven the Caesar Salad Dressing. A little sauerkraut adds interest to an Italian mushroom stew."<br><br>Fat will not be missed in mouthwatering recipes like Guacamole with Asparagus, Chinese Orzo Vegetable Salad, Spring Vegetable Paella, Indian Potato Pancakes, and Creamy Dairyless Rice Pudding. Along with those creative dishes, one of the most appealing parts of <Strong>Moosewood Restaurant Low-fat Favorites</Strong> is finding low-fat variations on familiar favorites such as Macaroni and Cheese, Shephard's Pie, and Dark Chocolate Pudding. An added bonus is that the Moosewood Collective has made sure that the ingredients used in the recipes throughout the book are very accessible--easily found in most well-stocked supermarkets. <br><br>In the nutritional, glossary, and guide sections of <Strong>Moosewood Restaurant Low-fat Favorites</Strong> the Collective gives explanations of nutritional terms, instructions for how to glean the information you need from nutrition labels, a brief overview of vitamins and minerals, and guides to ingredients and cooking techniques. These three important sections, combined with the deliciously appetizing recipes, are a wealth of encouragement for low-fat eating and living a healthy lifestyle. The fourteen chapters range from savory soups and main course salads to creative side dishes and aromatic Mediterranean and Asian-inspired dishes. With chapters which range from healthy breakfasts and lunch foods to a collection of fish recipes and more than twenty truly delectable desserts, <Strong>Moosewood Restaurant Low-fat Favorites</Strong> is sure to set the kitchen standard not only for health-conscious cooks, but also for those who have come to rely on the Moosewood Collective's easy, earthy approach to cooking. | *$14.67 |
 | More Best Recipes (America's Test Kitchen)
Brand: Cook's Illustrated | *$24.36 |
 | More Diners, Drive-ins and Dives: A Drop-Top Culinary Cruise Through America's Finest and Funkiest Joints
Brand: William Morrow Cookbooks
Join New York Times bestselling author and Food Network star Guy Fieri for a second helping of the best diners, drive-ins, and dives across America!Guy Fieri strikes again with More Diners, Drive-ins and Dives, giving you a road map to road food that's earned its culinary citizenship in "Flavortown." Join Guy on a cross-country noshing parade, mapping out the best places you've never heard of-more than fifty establishments off the beaten path. Compete in a (no hands) apple-pie-eating contest at Bobo Drive-In in Topeka, Kansas, dip your taste buds in Sweet Spicy Love sauce at Uncle Lou's Fried Chicken in Memphis, Tennessee, and get a load of the killer four-cheese mac-and-cheese at Gorilla Barbeque in Pacifica, California. Filled with Guy's hilarious voice and rampant enthusiasm for these hidden culinary gems, More Diners, Drive-ins and Dives is the perfect book for lovers of the American food scene and fans of Triple D. | *$9.96 |
 | More Smoothies for Life: Satisfy, Energize, and Heal Your Body
Brand: Three Rivers Press
Nutritionist Daniella Chace, coauthor of <i>Smoothies for Life</i>, is back with 150 smoothie recipes designed to cure common ailments, increase longevity, and satisfy cravings with fat-burning snacks. Learn how to save money and time by making Starbucks- and Jamba Juiceâworthy drinks right in your own kitchen, using the healthiest ingredients on the planet! Thereâs no easier, more decadent way to provide all the nutrients your body needs. With <i>More Smoothies for Life</i>, you can whip up:<br><br>⢠smoothies that enhance weight loss, increase metabolic rate, and control appetite<br>â¢heart-healthy smoothies rich in antioxidants from blueberries, walnuts, green tea, avocados,<br> pomegranates, and more <br>â¢elixirs that heighten mental clarity, improve memory, and support rejuvenating sleep <br>â¢quick-and-easy remedies for hangovers, insomnia, and stress <br>â¢homemade energy drinks that work and taste like Red Bull, minus the sugar and the price tag<br><br>Translating complex food science into easy-to-understand advice, Chace thoroughly explains the scientific basis for each medicinally active ingredient so you know youâre getting the most out of your daily shake. Your blender will never be put to better use! | *$8.95 |
 | More-With-Less Cookbook (World Community Cookbook)
Brand: Herald Press
Longacre has gathered 500 recipes from Mennonite kitchens that tell us how to eat better and consume less of the world's limited food resources. All recipes have been tested by professional home economists. This cookbook is written for those who care about their own health and the food needs of others in the world. | *$12.83 |
 | Mr. Boston: Official Bartender's Guide (Mr. Boston: Official Bartender's & Party Guide)
Brand: Wiley
<b>The new updated edition of America's bestselling drink-mixing guide</b> <p> America's favorite drink-mixing guide since 1935, <i>Mr. Boston: Official Bartender's Guide</i> has been the resource of choice for generations of professionals and amateurs alike. Now this classic is better than ever, with updated information, 200 new drink recipes, and new photography. More than 1,400 recipes range from classic cocktails to today's trendiest drinks, all presented alphabetically with clear, easy-to-follow instructions. With the latest lowdown on liquors, beers, and wines, plus savvy advice on equipment, bar setup, and more, Mr. Boston has it all. <p> Mr. Boston, part of the Barton Brands group, has been a widely recognized name in the bartending world for more than 70 years. The Mr. Boston brand includes a range of liquors and prepared cocktails as well as this 67th printing of <i>The Official Bartender's Guide</i>. | *$8.35 |
| | Mushrooms Demystified
Brand: Ten Speed Press
Simply the best and most complete mushroom field guide and reference book, MUSHROOMS DEMYSTIFIED includes descriptions and keys to more than 2,000 species of mushrooms, with more than 950 photographs. Mushroom authority David Arora provides a beginner's checklist of the 70 most distinctive and common mushrooms, plus detailed chapters on terminology, classification, habitats, mushroom cookery, mushroom toxins, and the meanings of scientific mushroom names. Beginning and experienced mushroom hunters everywhere will find MUSHROOMS DEMYSTIFIED a delightful, informative, and indispensible companion.<br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i> | *$39.95 |
 | My Bread: The Revolutionary No-Work, No-Knead Method
Brand: W. W. Norton & Company
<strong>Laheyâs âbreathtaking, miraculous, no-work, no-knead breadâ (<em>Vogue</em>) has revolutionized the food world.</strong> When he wrote about Jim Laheyâs bread in the <em>New York Times</em>, Mark Bittmanâs excitement was palpable: âThe loaf is incredible, a fine-bakery quality, European-style boule that is produced more easily than by any other technique Iâve used, and it will blow your mind.â Here, thanks to Jim Lahey, New Yorkâs premier baker, is a way to make bread at home that doesnât rely on a fancy bread machine or complicated kneading techniques. Witnessing the excitement that Bittmanâs initial piece unleashed worldwide among bakers experienced and beginner alike, Jim grew convinced that home cooks were eager for a no-fuss way to make bread, and so now, in this eagerly anticipated collection of recipes, Jim shares his one-of-a-kind method for baking rustic, deep-flavored bread in your own oven.<br /> <br /> The secret to Jim Laheyâs bread is slow-rise fermentation. As Jim shows in <em>My Bread</em>, with step-by-step instructions followed by step-by-step pictures, the amount of labor you put in amounts to 5 minutes: mix water, flour, yeast, and salt, and then let time work its magicâno kneading necessary. Wait 12 to 18 hours for the bread to rise, developing structure and flavor; then, after another short rise, briefly bake the bread in a covered cast-iron pot.<br /> <br /> The process couldnât be more simple, or the results more inspiring. My Bread devotes chapters to Jimâs variations on the basic loaf, including an olive loaf, pecorino cheese bread, pancetta rolls, the classic Italian baguette (<em>stirato</em>), and the stunning bread stick studded with tomatoes, olives, or garlic (<em>stecca</em>). He gets even more creative with loaves like Peanut Butter and Jelly Bread, others that use juice instead of water, and his Irish Brown Bread, which calls for Guinness stout. For any leftover loaves, Jim includes what to do with old bread (try bread soup or a chocolate torte) and how to make truly special sandwiches. <br /> <br /> And no book by Jim Lahey would be complete without his Sullivan Street Bakery signature, pizza Biancaâlight, crispy flatbread with olive oil and rosemary that Jim has made even better than that of Italyâs finest bakeries. Other pizza recipes, like a <em>pomodoro</em> (tomato), only require you to spread the risen dough across a baking sheet and add toppings before baking. <br /> <br /> HereâfinallyâJim Lahey gives us a cookbook that enables us to fit quality bread into our lives at home. color photos throughout. | *$16.97 |
 | My Favorite Ingredients
Brand: Ten Speed Press
At Londonâs acclaimed Petersham Nurseries Café, head chef Skye Gyngell creates dishes that follow the ebb and flow of nature. The restaurant composes its menus daily, after the fresh fruits and vegetables arrive and the kitchen staff chooses the most tempting of the bunch. This produce-driven ethos is the basis for <i>My Favorite Ingredients</i>, which highlights sixteen of Skyeâs most-loved foods. <br> <br>Each chapter stars one delicious ingredient--from asparagus to fish to cheese to honey--and offers diverse recipes based on a wide range of natural pairings, such as Crab Cakes with Corn Puree and Chili Oil, Goat Cheese Soufflé with Lemon Thyme, and Chicken with Figs and Honey. In this very personal collection of more than one hundred recipes, Skye shares her simple ways of combining foods to coax out their purest flavors. These dishes draw on Skyeâs long-standing relationships with local suppliers and farmers (the restaurant works with forty-seven different providers) to highlight unusual varieties of familiar staples like tomatoes, leafy greens, and vinegar that are well worth discovering. This charming cookbook showcases the beauty and bounty that we find in nature--and helps us incorporate a bit of that natural abundance in our own kitchens. | *$14.86 |
 | My Life in France (Movie Tie-In Edition) (Random House Movie Tie-In Books)
Brand: Anchor
Julia Child single handedly awakened America to the pleasures of <i>good </i>cooking with her cookbook <i>Mastering the Art of French Cooking </i>and her television show <i>The French Chef</i>, but as she reveals in this bestselling memoir, she didn't know the first thing about cooking when she landed in France.<br><br>Indeed, when she first arrived in 1948 with her husband, Paul, she spoke no French and knew nothing about the country itself. But as she dove into French culture, buying food at local markets and taking classes at the Cordon Bleu, her life changed forever. Julia's unforgettable story unfolds with the spirit so key to her success as as a cook and teacher and writer, brilliantly capturing one of the most endearing American personalities of the last fifty years. | *$6.81 |
 | My New Orleans: The Cookbook
Brand: Andrews McMeel Publishing
My New Orleans will change the way you look at New Orleans cooking and the way you see World-famous chef John Besh. It's 16 chapters of culture, history, essay and insight, and pure goodness. Besh tells us the story of his New Orleans by the season and by the dish. Archival, four-color, location photography along with ingredient information make the Big Easy easy to tackle in home kitchens. Cooks will salivate over the 200 recipes that honor and celebrate everything New Orleans. Bite by bite John Besh brings us New Orleans cooking like we've never tasted before. It's the perfect blend of contemporary French techniques with indigenous Southern Louisiana products and know-how. His amazing new offering is exclusively brought to fans and foodies everywhere by Andrews McMeel. From Mardi Gras, to the shrimp season, to the urban garden, to gumbo weather, boucherie (the season of the pig), and everything tasty in between, Besh gives a sampling of New Orleans that will have us all craving for more. The boy from the Bayou isn't just an acclaimed chef with an exceptional pallet. Besh is a chef with a heart. The ex-marine's passion for the Crescent City, its people, and its livelihood are main courses making him a leader of the city's culinary recovery and resilience after the wrath of Hurricane Katrina. | *$23.35 |
 | Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
Brand: Ten Speed Press
More mushrooms, less pollution! Yes, you heard right: growing more mushrooms may be the best thing we can do to save the environment. Microscopic cells called "mycelium"âthe fruit of which are mushrooms ârecycle carbon, nitrogen, and other essential elements as they break down plant and animal debris in the creation of rich new soil. What fungi expert Paul Stamets has discovered is that mycelium also breaks down hydrocarbons âthe base structure in many pollutants. So, for instance, when soil contaminated with diesel oil is inoculated with strains of oyster mushroom mycelia, the soil loses its toxicity in just eight weeks. In MYCELIUM RUNNING, Stamets discusses this revolutionary trend in mushroom cultivation and provides tips for choosing the appropriate species of fungi for various environmental purposes. | *$19.20 |
 | Nature's Cancer Fighting Foods
Brand: Reward - Penguin Books
A proven approach to beating disease and enjoying peak health written by one of the country's most dynamic health educators. <P>It's a fact seldom admitted by the medical establishment: chemotherapy and radiation are only about 6% effective in fighting cancer. Prompted by public outcry, research now validates a course of cancer prevention and treatment advocated by specialists in alternative medicine and practiced for centuries in Eastern cultures--nutritional therapy.<P> Verne Varona shows how to stop cancer in its tracks--and even reverse it--through diet. Backed by the testimony of prominent physicians and inspiring case histories, Varona explains what kind of nourishment works best to enhance immunity and restore vitality--without sacrificing enjoyment of food. Starting with the basics of smart eating and moving to specifics on the role of antioxidants, phytochemicals, herbs, vitamins, and more in preventing and conquering cancer, he outlines a complete, easy-to-follow program for freedom from a devastating disease--and improved odds of a long, healthy life.<P> Aimed to make dietary changes as painless as possible, this welcome resource also features a tantalizing collection of nutritious recipes, helpful shopping and cooking tips, and sensitive advice on eating in restaurants and at social gatherings. | *$9.50 |
 | 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> | *$17.50 |
 | New Food of Life: Ancient Persian and Modern Iranian Cooking and Ceremonies
Brand: Mage Publishers
This is a treasury of 240 classical and regional Iranian recipes. 120 colour photographs intertwined with descriptions of ancient and modern ceremonies, poetry, folk tales, travelogue excerpts, and anecdotes make "New Food of Life" not just a collection of recipes but also an introduction to Persian art and culture. Each recipe is presented in a format that is brilliantly logical and marvellously easy-to-follow. You will learn how to cook rice, the jewel of Persian cooking, simply yet deliciously. And by combining it with a little meat, fowl, or fish, vegetables, fruits, and herbs, you'll have a balanced diet - colourful, yet healthy, simple yet exotic.Iranian festivals, ceremonies, and celebrations, together with the menus and recipes associated with them are described in detail: from the ancient winter solstice celebration, Yalda, or the 'sun's birthday', which is the origin of such Western holidays as Christmas and Halloween, to the rituals and symbolism involved in a modern Iranian marriage. Like a magnificent Persian carpet, 1,000 years of Persian literature and art have been woven into the book. Food-related pieces from such classics as the "10th century Book of Kings", and "1,001 Nights" to the miniatures of Mir Mussavar and Aq Mirak, from the poetry of Omar Khayyam to the humour of Mulla Nasruddin are all included. Now with the ingredients for Iranian food available in most US cities, "New Food of Life" makes accessible one of the world's oldest - yet least known - culinary traditions where the first recipes were written 4,000 years ago in a cuneiform script on clay tablets. | *$29.67 |
 | Nigella Express: Good Food, Fast
Brand: Hyperion
<P>The Domestic Goddess is back, and this time it's instant. Nigella and her style of cooking have earned a special place in our lives, symbolizing all that is best, most pleasurable, most hands-on, and least fussy about good food. But that doesn't mean she wants us to spend hours in the kitchen, slaving over a hot stove.</p> <P>Featuring fabulous fast foods, ingenious shortcuts, terrific time-saving ideas, effortless entertaining tips, and simple, scrumptious meals, <i>Nigella Express</i> is her solution to eating well when time is short. Here are mouthwatering meals, quick to prepare and easy to follow, that you can conjure up after a day in the office or on a busy weekend, for family or unexpected guests. This is food you can make as you hit the kitchen running, with vital advice on how to keep your pantry stocked, and your freezer and fridge stacked. When time is precious, you canÃt spend hours shopping, so you need to make life easier by being prepared. Not that these recipes are basic, though they are always simple, but it's important to make every ingredient earn its place, minimizing effort by maximizing taste.</p> <P>Here too is great food that can be prepared quickly but cooked slowly in the oven, leaving you time to have a bath, a drink, talk to friends, or help the children with their homework, minimum stress for maximum enjoyment.</p> <P><i>Nigella Express</i> features a new generation of fast food, never basic, never dull, always doable, quick, and delicious. </p> <P>Featuring recipes seen on Food NetworkÃs Nigella Express series.</p> <P>Praise for Nigella Lawson and her cookbooks:</p> | *$16.23 |
 | Not Becoming My Mother: and Other Things She Taught Me Along the Way
Brand: Penguin Press HC, The
<B>Bestselling author Ruth Reichl examines her mother's life, giving voice to the universal unarticulated truth that we are grateful not to be our mothers</B><BR><BR> In <I>Not Becoming My Mother</I>, bestselling author Ruth Reichl embarks on a clear-eyed, openhearted investigation of her mother's life, piecing together the journey of a woman she comes to realize she never really knew. Looking to her mother's letters and diaries, Reichl confronts the painful transition her mother made from a hopeful young woman to an increasingly unhappy older one and realizes the tremendous sacrifices she made to make sure her daughter's life would not be as disappointing as her own.<BR><BR> Growing up in Cleveland, Miriam Brudno dreamed of becoming a doctor, like her father. But when she announced this, her parents said, "You're no beauty, and it's too bad you're such an intellectual. But if you become a doctor, no man will ever marry you." Instead, at twenty, Miriam opened a bookstore, a profession everyone agreed was suitably ladylike. She corresponded with authors all over the world, including philosophers such as Bertrand Russell, political figures such as Max Eastman, and novelists such as Christopher Marlowe. It was the happiest time of her life.<BR><BR> Nearly thirty when she finally married, she fulfilled expectations, settled down, left her bookstore behind, and started a family. But conformity came at a tremendous cost. With labor-saving devices to aid in household chores, there was simply not enough to do to fill the days. Miriam-and most of her friends-were smart, educated women who were often bored, miserable, and silently rebellious.<BR><BR> On what would have been Miriam's one hundredth birthday Reichl opens up her mother's diaries for the first time and encounters a whole new woman. This is a person she had never known. In this intimate study Reichl comes to understand the lessons of rebellion, independence, and self-acceptance that her mother-though unable to guide herself-succeeded in teaching her daughter. | *$7.18 |
 | Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook
Brand: Harold Imports Part Number: 3508
The slow cooker is perfect for today's fast-paced lifestyle, in which everyone is time and energy-conscious, economy-wise, concerned about nutrition, and demanding of great flavor. This comprehensive collection of 350 exciting recipes takes a new look at cooking withÃâ America's favorite appliance. Relying on wholesome ingredients and fresh, modern flavors, <i>Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook</i> features everything from traditional slow cooker classics to savory international cuisine to delicious no-fuss desserts. | *$10.69 |
 | Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Recipes for Entertaining
Brand: Harvard Common Press
Best-selling authors Beth Hensperger and Julie Kaufmann present 300 new recipes specially created to serve a group, proving that the slow cooker is the perfect tool for effortless entertaining on weekends and even weeknights. Like the recipes in Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook and Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Recipes for Two, the dishes here feature fresh, wholesome ingredients and reinforce what an essential appliance the slow cooker is for any busy cook. There are recipes to suit a wide variety of entertaining styles, from casual to formal; both classic slow cooker favorites such as New-Fashioned Pot Roast with Fresh Rosemary, Mulled Wine, and Hot Spinach Dip; as well as many more adventurous, innovative dishes such as Fondue with Sparkling Apple Cider, Brandied Red Onion Soup Gratinée, and Braised Pheasant with Mushrooms in Riesling that will really impress. In addition, this is the only slow cooker cookbook that includes lots of tips and techniques on how to use your slow cooker for a wide variety of entertaining options, covering all the bases: appetizers, drinks, soups, sauces, entrees, desserts. | *$8.92 |
 | Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Recipes for Two: For the Small Slow Cooker
Brand: Harvard Common Press
Today, 58 percent of American households consist of only one or two people, yet most cookbooks still contain recipes designed to serve 6-8. In this follow-up to the bestselling Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook, Beth Hensperger offers 125 new recipes specifically designed for the increasingly popular 1 1/2 to 3 1/2-quart slow cooker. This is the perfect book for busy singles and small families who want the convenience of a small slow-cooker-made meal without sacrificing wholesomeness and flavor. | *$7.62 |
 | Not Your Mother's Weeknight Cooking
Brand: Harvard Common Press
This book features 125 entree recipes for healthy, delicious meals that are quick to make, easy on the budget, and have plenty of appeal for both adults and kids. Hensperger takes the hallmarks of the Not Your Mother's slow cooker books - fresh, healthy ingredients and contemporary flavors - to create recipes including Roast Turkey Tenderloin with Citrus Wine Sauce, Baked Halibut Parmesan, Pan-Sauteed Lamb Chops with Blackberry Sauce, Ravioli with Quick Tomato Basil Sauce, and Portobello Mushroom Sandwiches with Cranberry Dijon Mustard. Home cooks will turn to this book time and again for simple, wholesome dinners for any night of the week. | *$4.99 |
 | Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats
Brand: NewTrends Publishing
A full-spectrum nutritional cookbook with a startling message--animal fats and cholesterol are vital factors in the human diet, necessary for reproduction and normal growth, proper function of the brain and nervous system, protection from disease and optimum energy levels. Includes information on how to prepare grains, health benefits of bone broths and enzyme-rich lacto-fermented foods. | *$16.59 |
 | Now Eat This!: 150 of America's Favorite Comfort Foods, All Under 350 Calories
Brand: Ballantine Books
FRIED CHICKEN, MACARONI AND CHEESE, BROWNIES, AND 147 OTHER FAVORITE RECIPES UNDER 350 CALORIES<br>Â <br>In this delectable cookbook, award-winning chef Rocco DiSpirito transforms Americaâs favorite comfort foods into deliciously healthy dishesâall with zero bad carbs, zero bad fats, zero sugar, and maximum flavor. Whatâs more, Rocco provides time-saving shortcuts, helpful personal advice, and nutritional breakdowns for each recipe from a board-certified nutritionist. So prepare your favorite foods without the guilt. Finally, a world-class chef has made healthy food taste great! | *$12.78 |
 | Olive Trees and Honey: A Treasury of Vegetarian Recipes from Jewish Communities Around the World
Brand: Wiley
"A land of wheat and barley, and grape vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey . . . you shall eat and be satisfied."<BR> --Deut. 8:8-10 <P>A Celebration of classic Jewish vegetarian cooking from Around the World <P>Traditions of Jewish vegetarian cooking span three millennia and the extraordinary geographical breadth of the Jewish diaspora--from Persia to Ethiopia, Romania to France. Acclaimed Judaic cooking expert, chef, and rabbi Gil Marks uncovers this vibrant culinary heritage for home cooks. Olive Trees and Honey is a magnificent treasury shedding light on the truly international palette of Jewish vegetarian cooking, with 300 recipes for soups, salads, grains, pastas, legumes, vegetable stews, egg dishes, savory pastries, and more. <P>From Sephardic Bean Stew (Hamin) to Ashkenazic Mushroom Knishes, Italian Fried Artichokes to Hungarian Asparagus Soup, these dishes are suitable for any occasion on the Jewish calendar--festival and everyday meal alike. Marksâs insights into the origins and evolution of the recipes, suggestions for holiday menus from Yom Kippur to Passover, and culture-rich discussion of key ingredients enhance this enchanting portrait of the Jewish diasporaâs global legacy of vegetarian cooking. | *$17.16 |
 | Omega Rx Zone: The Miracle of the New High-Dose Fish Oil
Brand: Avon
<p>The Next Generation of the Zone!</p> <p>Dr. Barry Sears is one of the world's most trusted voices on health, diet, and nutrition. Over the past decade, millions of people worldwide have followed his prescriptions for healthy living through his bestselling books. He introduced the world to the Zone, a state of improved hormonal control that has helped a generation of people lose excess body fat, reverse the aging process, and fight heart disease and diabetes.</p> <p>In <i>The Omega Rx Zone</i>, Dr. Sears reveals a revolutionary new technological advance that helps treat chronic disease, improves athletic performance, and more. Never before available to the public, pharmaceutical-grade fish oil has the potential to make you a more emotionally stable, healthier person by allowing your brain to work at peak efficiency and controlling the hormonal responses that ultimately govern your body and mind. Drawing upon his own research as well as recently published studies, Dr. Sears shares new understanding of heart disease, cancer, depression, Alzheimer's, attention deficit disorder, chronic pain, Type 2 diabetes, infertility, and multiple sclerosis. Used in conjunction with the Zone program, these findings can help you to:</p> <UL> <LI>Increase brain vitality and longevity <li>Maximize physical performance <li>Lose weightâand keep it off <li>Reverse chronic disease </ul> | *$4.09 |
 | On the Line
Brand: Artisan
Take one top New York restaurant, add danger, drama, and dialogue, toss in their best recipes, and you have a cooking classic.<br><br> How does a 4-star restaurant stay on top for more than two decades? In <i>On the Line</i>, chef Eric Ripert takes readers behind the scenes at Le Bernardin, one of just three New York City restaurants to earn three Michelin stars. Any fan of gourmet dining who ever stole a peek behind a restaurant kitchen's swinging doors will love this unique insider's account, with its interviews, inventory checklists, and fly-on-the-wall dialogue that bring the business of haute cuisine to life.<br> <br> From the sudden death of Le Bernardin's founding chef, Gilbert Le Coze, to Ripert's stressful but triumphant takeover of the kitchen at age 29, the story has plenty of drama. But as Chef Ripert and writer Christine Muhlke reveal, every day is an adventure in a perfectionistic restaurant kitchen. Foodies will love reading about the inner workings of a top restaurant, from how a kitchen is organized to the real cost of the food and the fierce discipline and organization it takes to achieve culinary perfection on the plate almost 150,000 times a year.<br> <br> Meanwhile, Le Bernardin's modern French cuisine, with its emphasis on seafood, comes to life in sophisticated recipes, including Striped Bass with Sweet Corn Puree, Grilled Shishito Peppers, Shaved Smoked Bonito, and Mole Sauce, and Pan-Roasted Cod with Chorizo, Snow Peas, Piquillo Peppers, and Soy-Lime Butter Sauce. | *$19.26 |
 | Once-A-Month Cooking Family Favorites: More Great Recipes That Save You Time and Money from the Inventors of the Ultimate Do-Ahead Dinnertime Method
Brand: St. Martin's Griffin
<DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV><P>Mimi Wilson and Mary Beth Lagerborg are back with a brand new book that features their Once-A-Month Cooking ⢠technique guaranteed to save time and money. Filled with all-new cycles - two one-month cycles, two two-week cycles, and three specialty cycles: gourmet, summer, and gluten-free â their trademark method remains the same: You shop for an entire cycle all at once, buying in bulk and saving money. You do all the food prep for the cycle the next day, freezing and refrigerating what needs to be kept cold, stocking the pantry when appropriate. Then, as the family assembles for mealtime, you do some quick finishing and itâs ready - fast and delicious! <I>Once-a-Month Cooking⢠Family Favorites</I> has something for every kind of eater and includes such soon-to-be favorites as:</P><P>-Adobe Chicken<BR>-Baked Mediterranean Cod<BR>-Chicken Wild Rice Soup<BR>-County-Style Ribs<BR>-Texas-Style Lasagna</P><P>With the perfect plan in hand and bulk shopping at economically-friendly prices, the Once-A-Month Cooking ⢠technique is a surefire way to get a delicious dinner on the table fast so that you can spend more time with your family!</P></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV> | *$8.40 |
 | One Bite at Time, revised cloth
Brand: Celestial Arts
A cookbook for cancer patients with more than 85 recipes, featuring full nutritional analysis and anecdotes from cancer survivors.<br><br>Chef Rebecca Katz shares delicious, nourishing recipes for cancer patients, who often experience culinary ups and downs because of sudden dietary restrictions and poor appetite due to damaged taste buds from harsh treatments. Revised and updated with 10 new recipes, this second edition provides caretakers with a tangible way to nurture loved ones through easy-to-digest meals that offer maximum flavor while boosting the immune system. | *$17.75 |
 | One-Dish Vegetarian Meals
Brand: Harvard Common Press
With One-Dish Vegetarian Meals, a healthful, great-tasting dinner is quick and easy to prepare. This comprehensive collection of vegetarian meals from Robin Robertson features 150 globally inspired vegetarian recipes for every season, including soups and stews, stir-fries and sautes, casseroles, lasagnas, baked stuffed vegetables, simmered dishes, chilis, pastas, main-dish salads, and more. Using fresh, wholesome, naturally flavorful ingredients, these recipes are perfect for both busy weeknights and leisurely weekend meals. There is tremendous variety, with choices such as Lentil Stew with Chard and Orzo; Autumn Harvest Lasagne; Zesty Bombay Beans with Chutney; Pumpkin and Black Bean Chili; Rigatoni with Radicchio, Italian Peppers, and Leeks; Green Beans and Rice with Sesame-Orange Sauce; and more. Vegetarians and non-vegetarians alike will find easy, delicious choices for any night of the week. | *$8.50 |
 | Organic and Chic: Cakes, Cookies, and Other Sweets That Taste as Good as They Look
Brand: William Morrow Cookbooks
<blockquote> <p> "When I bring one of my sweets into the roomâwhether at a wedding or an intimate dinner partyâthe expressions on people's faces turn that celebration into a memory I'll never forget. That's what baking should be." </p> </blockquote> <p> Many people are coming to recognize the merits of eating organic ingredients, but the idea of "organic baked goods" may bring to mind food that is more boring than beautiful and delicious. But in <i>Organic and Chic</i>, custom cake baker Sarah Magid uses her background in jewelry and shoe design to create vibrantly colored, highly original, delicious organic cakes and other desserts that are perfect for all kinds of celebrations. </p> <p> Filled with gorgeous photographs, <i>Organic and Chic</i> features recipes for delectable baked goods you'll be excited to re-create and serve to family and friends, from modern floral cakes and cupcakes to rustic farmer's-market sweets made with seasonal fruits: </p> <ul> <li>Red Velvet Love Cake frosted with Vanilla Whipped Buttercream and garnished with edible flowers </li> <li>Vanilla-Bean Butter Cake filled with Sweet Chocolate Ganache and decorated with hand-sculpted butterflies </li> <li>Minty Strawberry Shortcakes, celebrating the bounty of the summer </li> <li>Goldies, a tasty tribute to America's favorite cream-filled sponge cake </li> </ul> <p> Whether you're preparing some simple Double Ginger Cookies for a block party or bake sale, or experimenting with a rich and luscious dark chocolate birthday cake, you can be confident that you're serving desserts that are gorgeous and flavorful without resorting to fake, chemical-laden ingredients. Magid offers detailed step-by-step decorating instructions and enough inspiration to help even the most novice baker create bold cake-decorating effects, including eye-popping flowers, hand-sculpted leaves, and metallic-painted brushstrokes. </p> <p> A must for every health-minded baker, this unique cookbook balances exquisite flavors, organic ingredients, and stunning visuals to help you create your own masterpieces. </p> | *$9.52 |
 | Organic Body Care Recipes: 175 Homeade Herbal Formulas for Glowing Skin & a Vibrant Self
Brand: Storey Publishing, LLC
Radiantly healthy skin, hair, feet, hands, eyes, and nails. Commercial beauty products make this promise every day and live up to it with varying degrees of success. Stephanie Tourles offers a better solution to everyone frustrated with the endless cycle of expensive, synthetic, famous-name cosmetics that often fall short of expectations. Take control of beauty treatments with homemade products that use safe, nourishing ingredients to pamper the body and soothe the senses.<br><br> Tourles, a licensed esthetician, herbalist, and aromatherapist, has developed 175 recipes that are fun, simple, and immensely satisfying to make in home kitchens. Her natural beauty treatments deliver the results promised by department store brands â skin, hair, and nails that glow with vitality and inner wellness. Lotions, scrubs, toners, balms, and masks polish and balance the skin, soothe current problems, and prevent future ones. Shampoos, rinses, and conditioners tone the scalp, boost highlights, and leave hair soft and shiny. The book's whole-body coverage also includes recipes for hand and footcare, nail treatments, shaving cream, and even popular spa treatments such as microdermabrasion exfoliants, detox and cellulite soaks, ayurvedic oils, and herbal cold salves. Most important, there is never any doubt about the purity of these ingredients!<br> <Br> Each formula is clearly presented in recipe style, with notes on prep time, storage, and uses. Many products can be customized according to personal needs, whim, or mood, and they all use readily available, natural ingredients. <i>Organic Body Care Recipes</i> is a natural treasure for every body. | *$10.66 |
 | Paris Patisseries: History, Shops, Recipes
Brand: Flammarion
An exquisitely photographed introduction to the great French tradition of bakingâfrom the simple croissant to the light and flaky millefeuilles, drawn from the best pastry chefs in Paris. Temptations abound for the sweet tooth in Paris, from the hottest culinary trends to time-honored classics. Pâtisserie is an integral part of the cityâs culinary tradition and the source of countless delectable creations that combine fruit, cream fillings, icings, frostings, mousses, and pastry. Readers will yield to sweet temptation as they discover the best pastries and cakes the city has to offer, including macarons, éclairs, baba au rum, tarts, mont blanc, polonaises, and oriental cakes. Twenty pastry chefs show off their artful creations and share their signature recipes, which are described in the context of their historical tradition, composition, and gastronomic properties. The evolution of the pastry art is also explained, focusing in particular on the new generation of Parisian pâtissiers and chocolatiers, buzzing with the creativity and ingenuity that are redefining their craft. The book includes an address book of the best pâtisseries and tea rooms in Paris along with twenty recipes from the cityâs most respected pastry chefs. | *$25.08 |
 | Paris Sweets: Great Desserts From the City's Best Pastry Shops
Brand: Broadway
The prize-winning author of <i>Baking with Julia</i> (more than 350,000 copies sold), among other cookbook classics, celebrates the sweet life with recipes and lore from Paris's finest patisseries.<br><b><br></b>Like most lovers of pastry and Paris, Dorie Greenspan has always marveled at the jewel-like creations displayed in bakery windows throughout the City of Light. Now, in a charmingly illustrated tribute to the capital of sweets, Greenspan presents a splendid assortment of recipes from Parisâs foremost pastry chefs in a book that is as transporting to read as it is easy to use. <br><br>From classic recipes, some centuries old, to updated innovations, <i>Paris Sweets</i> provides a sumptuous guide to creating cookies, from the fabled madeleine to simple, ultra-buttery sables; tarts, from the famous Tatin, which began its life as an upside-down error, to a delightful strawberry tart embellished with homemade strawberry marshmallows; and a glorious range of cakesâlemon-drenched "weekend cake," fudge cake, and the show-stopping <i>Opera</i>. <i>Paris Sweets</i> brims with assorted temptations that even a novice can prepare, such as coffee éclairs, rum-soaked babas, and meringue puffs. Evocative portraits of the pastry shops and chefs, as well as information on authentic French ingredients, make this a truly comprehensive tour. <br><br>An elegant gift for Francophiles, armchair travelers, bakers of all skill levels, and certainly for oneself, <i>Paris Sweets</i> brings home a taste of enchantment. | *$8.87 |
 | Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide, 7th Edition: The Complete, Easy-to-Use Reference on Recent Vintages, Prices, and Ratings for More than 8,000 Wines from All the Major Wine Regions
Brand: Simon & Schuster
Featuring a fresh layout, revised maps, and more detail than ever before, the eagerly anticipated seventh edition of <I>Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide</i> offers collectors and amateurs alike the ultimate resource to the world's best wines. In every way, this edition bears out Parker's stated goal: "To make you a more formidable, more confident wine buyer by providing you with sufficient insider's information to permit the wisest possible choice when you make a wine-buying decision."<P>Understanding that buyers on every level appreciate a good deal, Parker separates overvalued bottles from undervalued, with wine prices instantly shifting according to his evaluations. Indifferent to the wine's pedigree, Parker's eminent 100-point rating system allows for independent, consumer-oriented, inside information.<P>The latest edition of <I>Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide</i> includes expanded information on Spain, Portugal, Germany, Australia, Argentina, and Chile, as well as new sections on Israel and Central Europe. As in his previous editions, Parker provides the reassurance of a simple number rating, predictions for future buying potential, and practical overviews of regions and grapes. Altogether, an indispensable resource from the man the <I>Los Angeles Times</i> calls "the most powerful critic of any kind." | *$0.98 |
 | Passover by Design: Picture-perfect Kosher by Design recipes for the holiday (Kosher by Design)
Brand: Mesorah Pubns Ltd Part Number: PBDH
In this fifth cookbook in the celebrated Kosher by Design series, Susie Fishbein makes Passover preparations elegantly simple. Featuring a blend of Passover-adjusted Kosher by Design favorites, with over thirty brand-new recipes and full-color photos, this is one cookbook you'll love to use throughout the holiday.<br>Passover by Design features:<br>**Over 30 brand-new recipes, many developed with kosher catering star, Moshe David <br>**Over 130 Kosher by Design favorites reformulated and retested for Passover <br>**Over 140 full-color images throughout, with over 40 brand-new photos <br>**Quick and easy table decor and entertaining ideas <br>**Useful, year-round healthy cooking techniques <br>**Comprehensive index for easy cross-referencing<br>**Also includes over 130 gluten-free recipes which makes this the perfect year-round cookbook for those on a gluten-free diet. | *$21.12 |
 | Pastry Queen Parties: Entertaining Friends and Family, Texas Style
Brand: Ten Speed Press
No one captures big-hearted, big-hatted Texas hospitality like Rebecca Rather--a beloved Hill Country author, restaurateur, and hostess with a growing national reputation. In PASTRY QUEEN PARTIES, Rebecca celebrates her state's culinary traditions, flavors, and ingredients with more than 100 savory and sweet recipes ranging from Honey-Lavender Rack of Texas Lamb to Grilled Cajun Catfish Tacos, Fig Crostada to Peach Daiquiri Likkercicles. The book is divided into six location-based party menus: a high society Houston soiree, a West Texas artist and musicians' bash, Tex Mex dining in San Antonio, a Gulf Coast summer beach bonanza, a small-town homecoming, and a sweet and sunny Hill Country garden party. Sidebars with tips and secrets from Rebecca and other great Texas hosts and hostesses, along with more than 100 gorgeous scenic and food photos, make for an irresistible invitation to do it up big, Lone Star style. | *$14.94 |
 | Patti Labelle's Lite Cuisine
Brand: Gotham
Legendary singer and <I>New York Times</I> bestselling author Patti LaBelle reveals her mouthwatering culinary secrets for eating your way to a healthier life. In <I>Patti LaBelleâs Lite Cuisine</I>, Patti LaBelle shares more than 100 original recipes for meals that are not only good for you but taste great too. She also shares her personal story of a lifetime of struggling with body image and tells of the heartbreaking loss of her mother to diabetes and learning recently that she, too, has the disease.<P> After she was diagnosed with diabetes, LaBelle had to radically change her dietary habits and food choices. With diabetic exchanges provided by the American Dietetic Association and the American Diabetes Association, in <I>Patti LaBelleâs Lite Cuisine</I> youâll find a wide array of healthful and heavenly dishes including "Oven (Tastes Like Southern) Fried Chicken," "Savory Shrimp Scampi," "Melt-in-Your-Mouth Roast Tenderloin," and "Killer Chocolate Cake with Guilt-Free Glaze."<P> One of Americaâs most beloved performers once again creates her special blend of delicious and healing magic with this one-of-a-kind cookbook that is destined to become a staple in kitchens all across America. | *$7.51 |
 | Paul Kirk's Championship Barbecue: Barbecue Your Way to Greatness with 575 Lip-Smackin' Recipes from the Baron of Barbecue
Brand: THE HARVARD COMMON PRESS/HAROLD IMPORTS Part Number: 3504
Chef Paul explains it all: the differences between barbecuing and grilling; how to build different kinds of fires and what kind of fuel to use; setting up the pit or grill; what tools are needed and how to prepare the food. | *$4.98 |
 | Paula Deen & Friends: Living It Up, Southern Style
Brand: Simon & Schuster
Sharing a delicious meal is everyone's favorite way of bringing together friends and loved ones. In her new cookbook, <I>Paula Deen & Friends: Living It Up, Southern Style,</I> Paula Deen -- author, restaurateur, and Food Network star -- turns to her friends to share their stories, ideas for entertaining Southern style, and, most important, more than 150 of the prized recipes they serve to their family and friends.<P>With the trademark Southern charm that has made her beloved by fans everywhere, Paula's new book features delicious, down-home entertaining menus, with recipes that are guaranteed to be instant crowd-pleasers. Whether you're planning an intimate family dinner, hosting an elegant cocktail party, or feeding a hungry crowd for lunch, these mouthwatering meals are the perfect way to share any occasion with good friends -- and have fun doing it! From a tailgate picnic to a bridge supper, a christening to a camping trip, and a family dinner to an ice cream social, there are recipes to delight any gathering.<P>Throw a down-home Birthday Bash with Beer-in-the-Rear Chicken, Bacon-Wrapped Grilled Corn on the Cob, and Buttermilk Pound Cake with Strawberries and Whipped Cream. Or host a casual Cookie Swap with friends and watch those Peanut Butter Brownie Cupcakes and Rolled Oatmeal Cookies disappear! An outdoor lunch wouldn't be complete without real Southern Fried Chicken and Buttermilk Corn Bread. And comfort foods like Quick Crab Stew, Shrimp and Wild Rice Casserole, and Black Bottom Pie are soul-satisfying dishes that warm the heart and soothe the spirit. There are also recipes for refreshing cocktails and beverages, from the Southern traditional favorites, like Plantation Iced Tea and Mint Juleps, to Lemonade and Hot Cranberry Cider.<P>Entertaining Southern style is about much more than the food; it's about spending time with the people you care about. Paula and her friends are the experts when it comes to creating delightful meals that are easy to prepare, so you, too, can relax and enjoy the fun with your guests. Each chapter is filled with helpful tips and time-saving techniques, as well as the memorable cooking stories that inspired Paula and her friends to create these recipes. You'll be inspired to share memorable meals and occasions with family and friends, as <I>Paula Deen & Friends</I> invites you to live it up, Southern style. | *$4.46 |
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