 | Brunetti's Cookbook
Brand: Atlantic Monthly Press
<DIV>Among their many pleasures, Donna Leon’s Commissario Guido Brunetti novels have long been celebrated for their mouth-watering descriptions of food. Multicourse lunches at home with Paola and the children, snacks grabbed at a bar with a glass of wine or two, a quick sandwich during a busy day, or a working lunch at a neighborhood trattoria in the course of an investigation have all delighted Brunetti, as well as Leon’s readers and reviewers. And then there’s the coffee, the pastries, the wine, and the grappa.<BR><BR>In <I>Brunetti’s Cookbook</I>, Donna Leon’s best friend and favorite cook brings to life these fabulous Venetian meals. Eggplant crostini, orrechiette with asparagus, pumpkin ravioli, roasted artichokes, baked branzino, pork ragu with porcini—these are just a few of the over ninety recipes for antipasti, primi, secondi, and dolci. The recipes are joined by excerpts from the novels, four-color illustrations, and six original essays by Donna Leon on food and life in Venice. Charming, insightful, and full of personality, they are the perfect addition to this long awaited book. <BR></DIV> | *$15.64 |
 | 125 Best Gluten-Free Bread Machine Recipes
Brand: Robert Rose
<p><i><b>Great breads from the home kitchen. They will taste like they came from the best bakery in town.</b></i></p> <p>For anyone who enjoys the flavor and aroma of freshly baked bread, nothing beats the convenience of a bread machine. This convenience is even greater for those managing a gluten intolerance. Finally here are great recipes for the food that is most strictly avoided and typically most missed in gluten-free diets: bread.</p> <p>These recipes make gluten-free breads that not only taste great but are specifically designed to meet the exacting requirements of bread machines. Each recipe has been thoroughly tested to ensure successful results every time.</p> <p>And what a collection of recipes it is:</p> <li>Banana seed bread<br> <li>Brown bread<br> <li>Cornbread<br> <li>Cranberry wild rice bread<br> <li>Egg-free, corn-free, lactose-free brown bread<br> <li>Italian herb bread<br> <li>Pumpernickel<br> <li>Sourdough walnut bread<br> <li>Tomato rosemary bread<br> <li>Hamburger/mini-sub buns<br> <li>Hot cross buns<br> <li>Sun-dried tomato ciabatta<br> <li>Thin pizza crust<br> <li>Cinnamon buns<br> <li>Focaccia<br> <p>Throughout the book there are tips and techniques for using a bread machine, and as a bonus the authors have included recipes for mixer prepared variations. These breads will be enjoyed by everyone in the family, whether affected by gluten intolerance or not.</p> | *$15.63 |
 | The Food Processor Bible
Brand: Whitecap Books
That dusty old food processor in the back of the pantry is an extra pair of hands, the fastest sous-chef you'll ever find, and an adventure in cooking. Over 500 recipes, hundreds of practical tips and techniques, and a Daily Food Use Guide will transform your food processor into your most cherished kitchen tool. | *$15.61 |
 | Designing Great Beers: The Ultimate Guide to Brewing Classic Beer Styles
Brand: Brewers Publications
Author Ray Daniels provides the brewing formulas, tables, and information to take your brewing to the next level in this detailed technical manual. | *$15.54 |
 | The Art of Distilling Whiskey and Other Spirits: An Enthusiast's Guide to the Artisan Distilling of Potent Potables
Brand: Quarry Books
<DIV><p class="MsoHeader" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">This book is a backstage pass into the world of small-scale distilling of whiskies, gins, vodkas, brandies, and more. The reader, the ultimate spirits aficionado, will learn how water and grain are transformed into the full range exquisite, timeless liquors. There are few books available that explore the actual craft of distilling in such detail. Most of the other spirits books chronicle the historical side of the distilling world or focus on the flavors of various vintages. Our book will be the consummate insider's guide to distilling techniques. Bill Owens' original photography, the result of two cross-country road trips, offers comprehensive illustration of the microdistilling world.</p></DIV> | *$15.54 |
 | The Frankies Spuntino Kitchen Companion & Cooking Manual
Brand: Artisan
From Brooklyn's sizzling restaurant scene, the hottest cookbook of the season...<br><br>From urban singles to families with kids, local residents to the Hollywood set, everyone flocks to Frankies Spuntino—a tin-ceilinged, brick-walled restaurant in Brooklyn's Carroll Gardens—for food that is "completely satisfying" (wrote Frank Bruni in <i>The New York Times</i>). The two Franks, both veterans of gourmet kitchens, created a menu filled with new classics: Italian American comfort food re-imagined with great ingredients and greenmarket sides. This witty cookbook, with its gilded edges and embossed cover, may look old-fashioned, but the recipes are just we want to eat now. The entire Frankies menu is adapted here for the home cook—from small bites including Cremini Mushroom and Truffle Oil Crostini, to such salads as Escarole with Sliced Onion & Walnuts, to hearty main dishes including homemade Cavatelli with Hot Sausage & Browned Butter. With shortcuts and insider tricks gleaned from years in gourmet kitchens, easy tutorials on making fresh pasta or tying braciola, and an amusing discourse on Brooklyn-style Sunday "sauce" (ragu), <i>The Frankies Spuntino Kitchen Companion & Kitchen Manual</i> will seduce both experienced home cooks and a younger audience that is newer to the kitchen.<br><br><br> | *$15.53 |
 | CookWise: The Hows & Whys of Successful Cooking, The Secrets of Cooking Revealed
Brand: William Morrow Cookbooks
Can you tell whether a recipe will work before you cook it? You can if you really know what's cooking.<p>In the long-awaited <i>CookWise,</i> food sleuth Shirley Corriher tells you how and why things happen in cooking. When you know how to estimate the right amount of baking powder, you can tell by looking at the recipe that the cake is overleavened and may fall. When you know that too little liquid for the amount of chocolate in a recipe can cause the chocolate to seize and become a solid grainy mass, you can spot chocolate truffle recipes that will be a disaster. And, in both cases, you know exactly how to "fix" the recipe. Knowing how ingredients work, individually and in combination, will not only make you more aware of the cooking process, but transform you into a confident and exceptional cook -- a cook who is in control.</p><p><i>CookWise</i> is a different kind of cookbook. There are over 230 outstanding recipes -- from Snapper Fingers with Smoked Pepper Tartar Sauce to Chocolate Stonehenge Slabs with Cappuccino Mousse -- but here each recipe serves not only to please the palate but to demonstrate the roles of ingredients and techniques. A What This Recipe Shows section summarizes the special cooking points being demonstrated in each recipe. This little bit of science in everyday language indicates which steps or ingredients are vital and cannot be omitted without consequences.</p><p>Among the recipes you'll also find some surprises. Don't be afraid of a vinaigrette prepared without vinegar or a high-egg-white, crisp pâte â choux. Many of the concepts used here are Shirley's own. Try her method of sprinkling croissant or puff pastry dough with ice water before folding to keep it soft and easy to roll.</p><p><i>CookWise</i> covers everything from the rise and fall of cakes, through unscrambling the powers of eggs and why red cabbage turns blue during cooking but red peppers don't, to the essential role of crystals in making fudge. Want to learn about what makes a crust flaky? Try the Big-Chunk Fresh Apple Pie in Flaky cheese Crust. Discover for yourself what brining does to poultry in Juicy Roast Chicken.</p><p>No matter what your cooking level, you'll find CookWise a revelation. Different people will use <i>CookWise</i> in different ways:</p><ul><li><b>Home cooks</b> will value <i>CookWise</i> as a collection of extraordinarily good recipes.</li><li><b>The busy chef</b> can use <i>CookWise</i> as a reference book to look up and solve problems. Major headings are shown in the Contents and 42 At-a-Glance summary charts make problem solving quick and easy</li><li><b>Beginning cooks</b> can use <i>CookWise</i> as a howto book with easy-to-follow recipes that produce dishes looking and tasting like the work of an experienced chef.</li><li><b>Food writers and test-kitchen chefs</b> who are developing recipes can find the formulas and tips for successful recipes,</li><li><b>Anyone who wants to improve a recipe</b> can use <i>CookWise</i> as a guide. Here is how to make cakes moister, a pate A choux drier and crisper, a dish lighter or darker in color; how to make muffins peak better, cookies spread less, or a roast chicken juicier.</li><li><b>Everyone who cooks</b> needs to be able to spot bad recipes and save the time, money, and frustration that they cause. Many of the At-a-Glance charts point out specific problems.</li></ul><p><i>CookWise</i> is not only informative, it's engrossing, and many sections react like a mystery story. The knowledge you gain from its pages will transform you, too, into a food sleuth, an informed and assured cook who can track down why sauces curdle or why the muffins were dry -- a cook who will never prepare a failed recipe again!</p> | *$15.52 |
 | How to Cook Like a Top Chef
Brand: Chronicle Books
The number one food show on cable TV presents the ultimate guide to becoming a Top Chef. This cookbook and culinary primer in one features recipes from all six seasons of the show and season one of <em>Top Chef: Masters</em>, along with insider techniques from everyone's favorite contestants and judges. Covering everything from knife skills to sauces and sous-vide, <em>How to Cook Like a Top Chef</em> teaches aspiring chefs what it takes to be a star in the kitchen. Packed with exclusive content including a foreword by <em>Top Chef: Masters</em> winner Rick Bayless, original recipes from contestants, behind-the-scenes interviews, juicy trivia, and tons of tips and tricks this volume is as indispensable on the cook's countertop as it is essential reading for <em>Top Chef</em> fans. | *$15.49 |
 | The Best of Clean Eating: Over 200 Mouthwatering Recipes to Keep You Lean and Healthy
Brand: Robert Kennedy Publishing
Clean Eating magazine helps improve readers' lives one meal at a time by providing a wholesome variety or delicious, low-fat, seasonal, local, budget-friendly, quick and easily made recipes that can be shared with family and friends. The editors of Clean Eating have chosen their top 200 recipes to be included in their first-ever cookbook. Bonus! 20 new recipes! | *$15.48 |
 | Nature's Garden: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants
Brand: Forager's Harvest Press
A detailed guide to all aspects of using edible wild plants, from identifying and collecting through preparation. Covers 41 plants in-depth and the text is accompanied by multiple color photos. | *$15.48 |
 | EatingWell 500-Calorie Dinners Cookbook
Brand: Countryman Press
<strong>Do you love food but hate “diets”? Do you want to be healthy and fit but find yourself too busy or simply at a loss about what to make for dinner? Then this book is for you.</strong> <em>EatingWell 500-Calorie Dinners</em> takes the guesswork out of healthy cooking by providing delicious, easy recipes and menus for dinners that come in at about 500 calories, an amount experts say will help most people lose weight without feeling deprived. Once you try the meals in this book you’ll be amazed at how well you can eat for 500 calories. One night you’ll have a steak sandwich with grilled peppers and a garlicky aïoli served along with roasted red potatoes and a green salad with a tangy vinaigrette, the next night braised chicken in a paprika-spiked sauce over egg noodles with snap peas tossed with a creamy tarragon dressing. Want a glass of wine with dinner or a dessert to end the evening? We’ve included those in our menus too. Try pork chops with an orange and fennel salad along with a side of quinoa and a dish of strawberry frozen yogurt.<br /> <br /> And this book will help you to do more than just trim your waistline—it will help you to improve your heart health and reduce your risk for diabetes too. It provides solid advice from <em>EatingWell Magazine</em>’s nutrition experts on what foods should be included in any healthful diet, how to figure out how many calories you need, how to determine appropriate serving sizes and estimate calories (without carting around a kitchen scale everywhere you go) and how to lose weight while still feeling satisfied.<br /> <br /> In this book, you’ll also find: <ul> <li> 140 delicious recipes that use simple techniques and easy-to-find ingredients </li> <li> Quick dinners: over 100 of the recipes are ready in less than 45 minutes and many take less than 30 minutes </li> <li> Secrets of successful weight loss from renowned weight-loss researcher Dr. Jean Harvey-Berino, chair of the University of Vermont’s Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, author of the James Beard Award-winning cookbook <em>The EatingWell Diet </em></li> <li> How to eat all day and still lose weight, including what a 1,500-calorie day looks like and easy ideas for breakfast, lunch and snacks </li> <li> Diet tips to maximize flavor and satisfaction while minimizing calories </li> </ul> 256 color illustrations | *$15.48 |
 | Cooking Light Fresh Food Fast: Over 280 Incredibly Flavorful 5-Ingredient 15-Minute Recipes
Brand: Oxmoor House
With over 280 incredibly delicious flavorful 5-ingredient, 150 minute recipes at your fingertips, you'll discover how simple it is to serve a healthful home-cooked meal on a busy weeknight. Our Test Kitchens experts have paired easy side dishes and desserts with superfast entrées to create over 160 mouthwatering menus.</br></br> Organized by easy-to-use food categories, including Soups, Sandwiches, Salads, Meatless Main Dishes, Fish and Shellfish, Meats, and Poultry, Cooking Light Fresh Food Fast offers recipes that are great for you and taste great, too!</br></br> With short ingredient lists, straightforward procedures, fresh ingredients, and delicious results, the recipes and meals in this cookbook will be the most requested, often-repeated solutions in your weeknight repertoire.<br> | *$15.47 |
 | Jamie's Food Revolution: Rediscover How to Cook Simple, Delicious, Affordable Meals
Brand: Hyperion
Cooking good food from scratch is a skill that can save you money, keep you healthy, and make you and your family and friends happy. What I've tried to do in this book is pick a whole load of meals that we all love to eat and break them down to make them as simple as possible. There are plenty of clear instructions and step-by-step pictures, so whether you're an accomplished cook or a complete beginner, you'll be able to enjoy cooking and achieve great results in the kitchen. <P>This book is inspired by all the people I've met who thought they could never and would never learn how to cook. I believe that good home cooking is one of the most essential, fundamental skills that every single person on this planet should have in order to look after themselves, their families, and their friends. This food revolution is all about people learning how to make a recipe, then teaching that recipe to their friends and family . . . if enough people do this, pretty soon everyone will be cooking. So cook something today, then PASS IT ON! </p>
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 | Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods
Brand: Chelsea Green Publishing
For thousands of years humans have enjoyed the taste and nutrition of fermented foods and drinks. We rely on the transformative, almost magical power of fermentation to preserve and improve all sorts of food, making them tastier, more digestible, and more appealing. Author Sandor Katz takes readers on a whirlwind trip through the wild world of fermentation. The book is divided into chapters that focus on particular types of food and Katz provides readers with delicious recipes-—some familiar, others exotic—-that are easy to make at home, including vegetable krauts and kimchis; sourdough breads and pancakes; miso and tempeh; beers, wines, and meads; yogurt and cheeses. <P>The recipes provide a veritable smorgasbord of tastes, like homemade tempeh, sauerkraut, and borscht, along with a basic description of yogurt and cheese-making, complete with vegan alternatives. Whether you prefer to wash down your meal with Elderberry wine or Nepalese rice beer, there's something here to satisfy any palate. <P>Katz, a leading expert on the history of these foods, has written a revolutionary and informative culinary guide he calls "a cultural manifesto." He has experimented with many forms of fermentation and has developed and collected a wide range of techniques and recipes from around the world. | *$15.45 |
 | 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> | *$15.45 |
 | Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning: Traditional Techniques Using Salt, Oil, Sugar, Alcohol, Vinegar, Drying, Cold Storage, and Lactic Fermentation
Brand: Chelsea Green Publishing
Typical books about preserving garden produce nearly always assume that modern "kitchen gardeners" will boil or freeze their vegetables and fruits. Yet here is a book that goes back to the future—celebrating traditional but little-known French techniques for storing and preserving edibles in ways that maximize flavor and nutrition.<br /><br />Translated into English, and with a new foreword by Deborah Madison, this book deliberately ignores freezing and high-temperature canning in favor of methods that are superior because they are less costly and more energy-efficient.<br /><br />As Eliot Coleman says in his foreword to the first edition, "Food preservation techniques can be divided into two categories: the modern scientific methods that remove the life from food, and the natural 'poetic' methods that maintain or enhance the life in food. The poetic techniques produce... foods that have been celebrated for centuries and are considered gourmet delights today."<br /><br /><i>Preserving Food Without Freezing or Canning</i> offers more than 250 easy and enjoyable recipes featuring locally grown and minimally refined ingredients. It is an essential guide for those who seek healthy food for a healthy world. | *$15.40 |
 | Cooking Light Fresh Food Fast: Weeknight Meals: Over 280 Incredible Supper Solutions
Brand: Oxmoor House
Dinnertime stress is over! Enjoy over 280 all-new 5-ingredient, 5-minute recipes guaranteed to come together easily from start to finish-fast. With options for 2, 4, or 6 servings, households of all sizes can share a home-cooked meal. These Test Kitchen approved recipes are tailor-made for hectic lifestyles and health-conscious families. </br></br> More than recipes...<br>This must-have collection offers over 160 full-color photographs, detailed nutritional analyses, ways to streamline prep so dinner is ready even faster, easy make-ahead options, assorted 10-minute side dishes, and suggestions for turning leftovers into tasty lunches-to-go.</br></br> Tips you can trust...<br>Helpful shortcut kitchen techniques show you how to shave minutes off your prep time, while simple ingredient pairing tips teach you to effortlessly craft a variety of mouthwatering meals from just a few flavor-boosting items.</br></br> Serving wholesome, homecooked meals on busy evenings just got easier thanks to Cooking Light® <em>Fresh Food Fast Weeknight Meals</em>. Family meals return with these ready-in-minutes recipes for healthy, delicious, satisfying dishes. | *$15.39 |
 | 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> | *$15.37 |
 | The Beer Book
Brand: DK Publishing
The world-wide interest in good beer is on the rise, and with it comes a thirst for more knowledge on the subject. <i>The Beer Book</i> offers a wealth of information on all aspects of beer, from its history to popular styles to brewing techniques. This a new generation of beer guide that follows in the large footsteps of Michael Jackson's authoritative title from DK, <i>Ultimate Beer. </i> | *$15.35 |
 | Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease
Brand: Avery
<i>Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease</i> challenges conventional cardiology by posing a compelling, revolutionary idea-that we can, in fact, abolish the heart disease epidemic in this country by changing our diets. Drawing on the groundbreaking results of his twenty-year nutritional study, Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., a former surgeon, researcher, and clinician at the Cleveland Clinic, convincingly argues that a plant-based, oil-free diet can not only prevent and stop the progression of heart disease, but also reverse its effects. Furthermore, it can eliminate the need for expensive and invasive surgical interventions, such as bypass and stents, no matter how far the disease has progressed. Dr. Esselstyn began his research with a group of patients who joined his study after traditional medical procedures to treat their advanced heart disease had failed. Within months of following a plant-based, oil-free diet, their angina symptoms eased, their cholesterol levels dropped significantly, and they experienced a marked improvement in blood flow to the heart. Twenty years later, the majority of Dr. Esselstyn's patients continue to follow his program and remain heart-attack proof. <P><i>Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease</i> explains the science behind these dramatic results, and offers readers the same simple, nutrition-based plan that has changed the lives of his patients forever. In addition, Dr. Esselstyn provides more than 150 delicious recipes that he and his wife, Ann Crile Esselstyn, have enjoyed for years and used with their patients. Clearly written and backed by irrefutable scientific evidence, startling photos of angiograms, and inspiring personal stories, <i>Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease</i> will empower readers to take charge of their heart health. It is a powerful call for a paradigm shift in heart-disease therapy. | *$15.33 |
 | Big Bob Gibson's BBQ Book: Recipes and Secrets from a Legendary Barbecue Joint
Brand: Clarkson Potter | *$15.32 |
 | Everyday Food: Fresh Flavor Fast: 250 Easy, Delicious Recipes for Any Time of Day (Everyday Food (Clarkson Potter))
Brand: Clarkson Potter
With 250 tempting recipes to take you from breakfast all the way through dessert, <i>Everyday Food: Fresh Flavor Fast</i> is the indispensable collection that home cooks yearn for. Organized into familiar categories—including sandwiches and pizzas, appetizers, salads, soups and stews, pastas, main courses, and side dishes—this highly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling <i>Everyday Food: Great Food Fast</i> helps you whip up the perfect dish any time of day.  <br> <br>Here is a book for the way we cook and eat now, with an emphasis on stretching meals (for example, leftovers from a roasted chicken are used to make a quick gumbo and roasted vegetables perform a second act as a vibrant pizza topping), turning to economical ingredients that deliver great results (such as flank steak, served with a piquant parsley-garlic sauce), and making healthier versions of comfort foods without skimping on flavor (like a lower-calorie chicken potpie). A section on enticing vegetarian main dishes as well as a roster of irresistible desserts round out this comprehensive collection. Here’s a taste of what’s inside:  <br> <br><b>Breakfast:</b> Jam-Filled French Toast  <br><b>Sandwiches and Pizzas:</b> Eggplant and Mozzarella Melt  <br><b>Appetizers:</b> Goat Cheese Crostini  <br><b>Salads:</b> BLT Salad with Buttermilk Dressing  <br><b>Soups and Stews:</b> Minestrone  <br><b>Pastas:</b> Spaghetti Puttanesca  <br><b>Main Courses</b>: Meatballs with Rosemary  <br><b>Vegetarian</b>: Mushroom and Parmesan Risotto  <br><b>Side Dishes:</b> Roasted Sweet Potato Fries  <br><b>Desserts:</b> Gingered Blackberry and Plum Shortcakes   <br> <br>Brimming with great time- and budget-saving tips as well as smart kitchen techniques, <i>Everyday Food: Fresh Flavor Fast</i> helps you use what you have on hand to make everyone’s favorite foods. With an easy-to-read format, a photograph of each and every dish, and plenty of ideas to keep you inspired, this is the cookbook you will turn to day after day for wonderfully simple, delicious meals.  | *$15.31 |
 | The DASH Diet Action Plan: Based on the National Institutes of Health Research: Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension
Brand: Amidon Press
This is the user-friendly guide to the DASH diet. Proven to lower blood pressure and cholesterol without medication, it was developed in research sponsored by US National Institutes of Health, entitled, the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH). Each new research study continues to prove the benefits of the DASH Diet. The DASH diet is recommended by the U.S. treatment guidelines for hypertension. The 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans advocate this eating plan for everyone. And the DASH diet forms the basis for the USDA MyPyramid. It is an eating plan that is rich in fruits, vegetables, low fat or nonfat dairy, is low in sodium, and includes lean meats, fish and poultry, grains, nuts and beans. The DASH diet helps lower cholesterol and supports healthy weight loss. It is flexible enough to meet the lifestyle and food preferences of most people. However, many people have found it difficult to follow the DASH diet. This is the user-friendly book, designed to make it easy to DASH. It was written by a dietitian who is experienced in helping people make sustainable changes in how they eat. Learn how to follow the DASH diet in your real life. Accommodate DASH even when eating on-the-run. Add more vegetables into your diet, even if you think you hate vegetables. Learn how to manage salt intake. Makeover your kitchen to simplify following DASH. Lose weight with the DASH diet. The book has 28 days of meal plans (with adjustments for 1200, 1600, and 2000 calorie plans), and DASH-friendly recipes. And this is the complete healthy lifestyle plan for hypertension. It includes the healthy weight loss and exercise that will lower blood pressure. Make your own personal DASH Diet Action Plan, with the specific steps to fit the DASH diet into your daily routine. Reach your goal to lower blood pressure or just having a healthier lifestyle. Purchasing this book is your first step in improving your health for the long run. | *$15.30 |
 | 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. | *$15.28 |
 | The Ciao Bella Book of Gelato and Sorbetto: Bold, Fresh Flavors to Make at Home
Brand: Clarkson Potter
TO TRY ONE SPOONFUL OF CIAO BELLA’S GELATO OR SORBETTO IS TO BE INSTANTLY TRANSPORTED. <br><br>When you think of the most delicious and fresh gelato and sorbetto in America, you are craving Ciao Bella. The premier gelato and sorbetto maker in the country may be known for using the world’s finest ingredients—Sicilian lemons, Valrhona chocolate, Louisiana pralines—but you don’t need to travel the globe to experience the bold flavors yourself. All you need is a handful of simple, fresh ingredients; a standard ice cream machine; and your imagination. <br><br>The magic of this book is that once you learn how to make just one easy custard or simple syrup base, you can dream up an infinite number of flavors. In addition to being able to re-create Ciao Bella’s award-winning favorites, like Key Lime with Graham Cracker Gelato or Hazelnut Biscotti Gelato, you’ll be able to invent your own combinaÂtions and mix and match more than 100 unbelievÂably indulgent frozen desserts. <br><br>From the PLAIN BASE: <br>• Italian classics such as GIANDUJA and PISTACHIO <br>• New American favorites like APPLE CARAMEL CRISP and PUMPKIN AND SPICE <br>• Cutting-edge flavors like BOURBON BUTTER PECAN and ROSEMARY AND OLIVE OIL <br>From the CHOCOLATE BASE: <br>• Exotic options from around the world like CHOCOLATE CHAI and MEXICAN COFFEE <br>• Kid-pleasers like CHOCOLATE S’MORES<br> <br>From the SIMPLE SYRUP: <br>• Sorbets such as WATERMELON, COSMOPOLITAN, and PEAR WITH BALSAMIC SWIRL <br>• Make-your-own granita combinations (no ice cream machine required!) like COFFEE/CINNAÂMON and RASPBERRY/SAUTERNES/HONEY <br><br>A special section called “Amazing Endings” tops off this delicious volume, containing fun ideas for how to serve gelato and sorbetto as the pros do—or with a more personal creative touch. With hundreds of helpful tips, information on the best ingredients, and a list of sources, this gorgeously photographed book ensures that the best gelato and sorbetto you can imagine are just a churn away. <br><br>NOW, WITH THE HELP OF CIAO BELLA co-owner F. W. Pearce and chef Danilo Zecchin, making gelato and sorbetto in your own kitchen couldn’t be easier. You’ll add an exclamation point to any meal with these tantalizing flavors: <br>• HAZELNUT BISCOTTI <br>• FIG AND PORT <br>• APPLE CARAMEL CRISP <br>• ROSE PETAL <br>• GREEN TEA <br>• POMEGRANATE CHAMPAGNE <br>• PEACH AND HABANERO CHILE | *$15.26 |
 | Pintxos: Small Plates in the Basque Tradition
Brand: Ten Speed Press
Acclaimed chef Gerald Hirigoyen's sophisticated and delectable small plates, served at his restaurants, Bocadillos and Piperade, set the standard for tapas in San Francisco. This book features 75 distinctive California-inflected versions of Spanish tapas and French Basque dishes (including Salt Cod with Piperade, Roasted Beets with Moroccan Spices, and Oxtail Empanadas with Spicy Mango Dip) specially written for the home cook. Conveniently organized by type of dish--grilled, soups, braises, skewers and toasts, sandwiches, bean dishes, and fried foods--and illustrated with the exemplary photography of James Beard award-winning photographer Maren Caruso, PINTXOS is all you need to host an authentic and stylish tapas party at home. | *$15.25 |
 | Betty Crocker Cooking Basics: Recipes and Tips to Cook with Confidence (Betty Crocker Books)
Brand: Betty Crocker
<i>Betty Crocker Cooking Basics, Second Edition</i> is the only cookbook you need to help you begin cooking with confidence, even if you barely know how to boil water. Fully updated to include 112 simple and tasty favorites like guacamole, meatloaf, and strawberry shortcake, the second edition of this comprehensive cooking guide even includes how-to photos for every recipe, advice on kitchen equipment, a reference to cooking terms, food storage tips, and cooking times and nutrition information. With game plans for special events like Thanksgiving Dinner, you will never go hungry! | *$15.22 |
 | Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It: And Other Cooking Projects
Brand: Ten Speed Press
Food and crafting enthusiasts look forward to the weekends to create, experiment, and stock the pantry with handcrafted edibles and gifts. For creative urban dwellers, the kitchen is a workshop space, and JAM IT, PICKLE IT, CURE IT is its how-to guide. This savvy collection of 75 recipes for creating homemade artisan foodstuffs features delicious projects easy enough to be completed in one to two days. Detailed instructions, prep-ahead tips, shopping lists, and optional extras outline the shortest route between crafty cooks and a pantry full of hand-labeled, better-than-store-bought creations. | *$15.21 |
 | Sweet Gratitude: A New World of Raw Desserts
Brand: North Atlantic Books
S<i>weet Gratitude </i>is a cookbook with a message: raw desserts aren’t only healthier for both people and the planet, they can also be every bit as tasty–indeed, sinfully so–as their mainstream counterparts. Tiziana Tamborra and Matthew Rogers, both master dessert chefs at the pioneering San Francisco-based Café Gratitude, present a tantalizing table of after-dinner or any-occasion delights. Illustrated with gorgeous color photographs, the recipes range from simple and quick to advanced and detailed, showing how versatile commonly used fruits and nuts are for whipping up innovative and beautiful desserts. Providing authoritative information on techniques and specialty ingredients, and emphasizing the seasonal and the regional, <i>Sweet Gratitude </i>contains fresh takes on old favorites like pumpkin pie and tiramisu, as well as ingenious new creations like Pomegranate Fig Tart, Brazil Nut Chocolate Ganache, and Shortbread Thumbprint Cookies with Goji Berry Jam. Ideal for anyone looking for healthier dessert choices as well as a valuable resource for people with special dietary needs including those who cannot consume dairy, gluten, or refined sugar, <i>Sweet Gratitude </i>shows readers how to craft what may be the most elusive item in the culinary canon: the guilt-free dessert! | *$15.21 |
 | Fat Witch Brownies: Brownies, Blondies, and Bars from New York's Legendary Fat Witch Bakery
Brand: Rodale Books
<DIV><DIV>At long last, the owner of New York City’s legendary Fat Witch Bakery shares her top-secret recipes for decadent and delicious brownies, blondies, and bars<BR></DIV><DIV>Patricia Helding’s rich, intensely chocolatey Fat Witch brownie is a New York obsession, an internet sensation, and arguably the very best brownie to be found on the planet. Unlike other bakeries that feature a range of desserts, Fat Witch, launched by Helding in 1998, specializes only in brownies—baking and selling over 2,000 each day. In Fat Witch Brownies, Helding showcases for the first time her favorite spins on the classic chocolate brownie with creations like the Banana Bread Brownie and the Breakfast Brownie, and she expands her repertoire even further with recipes for other scrumptious bar-shaped confections.<BR></DIV><DIV>With over 50 recipes that can be baked in the same 9 x 9-inch pan and require fewer than 10 ingredients, Helding shows that baking from scratch is neither expensive nor time-consuming. All of her recipes include ingredients from local grocery stores, and are ready to serve in one hour or less. Beginning with tips on the proper tools, timing, and techniques, continuing with five chapters of recipes, and finishing with fabulous frostings, Fat Witch Brownies allows you to explore the versatility and richness of brownies and bars and create the incredible desserts in your very own kitchen that have made Helding’s bakery famous.<BR></DIV><DIV> </DIV></DIV> | *$15.18 |
 | The Tassajara Bread Book
Brand: Shambhala
<i>The Tassajara Bread Book</i> has been a favorite among renowned chefs and novice bakers alike for more than thirty years. With complete instructions on making yeasted breads and full of recipes for breads, pastries, muffins, and desserts, Edward Brown offers a unique view on making bread with care and enjoying the results. <br><br>In this deluxe edition, the same gentle, clear instructions and wonderful recipes are presented in a new hardcover format, with an updated interior design and full-color photos of the breads. | *$15.17 |
 | How To Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food
Brand: Wiley
<b>Great Food Made Simple</b> <p> Here's the breakthrough one-stop cooking reference for today's generation of cooks! Nationally known cooking authority Mark Bittman shows you how to prepare great food for all occasions using simple techniques, fresh ingredients, and basic kitchen equipment. Just as important, <b><i>How to Cook Everything</i></b> takes a relaxed, straightforward approach to cooking, so you can enjoy yourself in the kitchen and still achieve outstanding results. <p> Praise for <b><i>How to Cook Everything</i></b> by Mark Bittman: <p> "In his introduction to <b><i>How to Cook Everything</i></b>, Mark Bittman says, 'Anyone can cook, and most everyone should.' Now, hopefully everyone will -- this work is a rare achievement. Mark is in that pantheon of a few gifted cook/writers who make very, very good food simple and accessible. I read his recipes and my mouth waters. I read his directions and head for the kitchen. Bravo, Mark, for taking us away from take-out and back to the fun of food."<br> -- Lynne Rossetto Kasper, host of the international public radio show "The Splendid Table with Lynne Rossetto Kasper" <p> "Mark Bittman is the best home cook I know, and <b><i>How to Cook Everything</i></b> is the best basic cookbook I've seen."<br> -- Jean-Georges Vongerichten, award-winning chef/owner of Jean-Georges <p> "Useful to the novice cook or the professional chef, <b><i>How to Cook Everything</i></b> is a tour de force cookbook by Mark Bittman. Mark lends his considerable knowledge and clear, concise writing style to explanations of techniques and quick, classic recipes. This is a complete, reliable cookbook."<br> -- Jacques Pepin, chef, cookbook author, and host of his own PBS television series <p> "Sometimes all the things that a particular person does best come together in a burst of synergy, and the result is truly marvelous. This book is just such an instance. Mark Bittman is not only the best home cook we know, he is also a born teacher, a gifted writer, and a canny kitchen tactician who combines great taste with eminent practicality. Put it all together and you have <b><i>How to Cook Everything</i></b>, a cookbook that will inspire American home cooks not only today but for years to come."<br> -- John Willoughby and Chris Schlesinger, coauthors of <i>License to Grill</i> | *$15.16 |
 | The Food Nanny Rescues Dinner: Easy Family Meals for Every Day of the Week
Brand: Palmer/Pletsch Publishing
<DIV><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Deciding what to make is always the most wearisome part of preparing a meal. But unlike other books that offer only good-looking recipes, this cookbook offers a revolutionary template for scheduling fun food themes for each night of the week—Monday is comfort food night, Tuesday is Italian night, Wednesday is fish night, and so on. With readily available ingredients in mind, this handy collection also provides fun and delicious recipes appropriate for every theme—hungry kids will look forward to a family dinner at home, especially when they know what to expect! Complete with tips to help every parent get organized, equip the kitchen, supply the pantry, involve other family members in the preparations, and forge family bonds around the dinner table—this book arrives family-tested and kid-approved.</P></DIV> | *$15.10 |
 | Becoming Raw: The Essential Guide to Raw Vegan Diets
Brand: Book Publishing Co.
This book contains a wealth of information on the raw food lifestyle. Nutrition experts Brenda Davis and Vesanto Melina once again provide the essential information needed to safely embrace a new dietary lifestyle. As they did for vegetarians and vegans in Becoming Vegetarian and Becoming Vegan, they present the first authoritative look at the science behind raw foods. And both old converts to raw foods and new recruits alike will be fascinated with food historian Rynn Berry's presentation of the first narrative history of the rawfoods movement in the United States. <BR> <P> More people are jumping onto the raw foods bandwagon either to lose weight, fight chronic health problems, or simply to benefit from the high level of nutrients found in uncooked or sprouted foods. Readers will find science-based answers to tough questions about raw foods and raw diets, easy-to-follow nutritional guidelines, and practical information on how to construct a raw diet that meets recommended nutrient intakes simply and easily. <BR> <P>A section of over forty-five recipes provides dishes for any time of day and every occasion. Nutritional analyses are given for each recipe. Also included is a section on what foods and equipment are needed to get started and what raw food preparation basics are good to master. <BR> <P> This book is a major contribution to the raw foods movement. | *$15.06 |
 | The French Women Don't Get Fat Cookbook
Brand: Atria
The #1 <I>New York Times </I>bestselling author of <I>French Women Don’t Get Fat </I>offers a long-awaited collection of delicious, healthy recipes and advice on eating well without gaining weight.<P>With <I>French Women Don’t Get Fat, </I>Mireille Guiliano wrote the ultimate non–diet book on how to enjoy food and stay slim, sparking a worldwide publishing phenomenon. Now, in her first-ever cookbook, she provides her millions of readers with the recipes that are the cornerstone of her philosophy—mouthwatering, simply prepared dishes that favor fresh, seasonal ingredients and yield high satisfaction. <P>Organized around Mireille’s three favorite pastimes—breakfast, lunch, and dinner—these recipes emphasize pure flavors, balanced ingredients, and easy cooking methods. Eating pleasurably is just as important as eating healthfully, and Mireille does not neglect dessert and chocolate (essential components of any French woman’s diet) and incorporates advice on entertaining, menu planning, and wine selection. And once again, Mireille offers tips and tricks to reduce one’s waistline (including a secret family recipe from Mireille’s beloved <I>Tante </I>Berthe for a delicious breakfast that melts away pounds effortlessly). <P>Filled with stories from Mireille’s childhood in France, her life in Paris, Provence, and New York, and her extensive travels and meals for business and enjoyment, <I>The French Women Don’t Get Fat Cookbook </I>is a beautiful, practical lifestyle guide to living well, eating wonderfully, and getting the most out of life with the least amount of stress. | *$15.05 |
 | My Life in France
Brand: Anchor
Julia Child singlehandedly created a new approach to American cuisine 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 was not always a master chef. <br><br><br>Indeed, when she first arrived in France in 1948 with her husband, Paul, who was to work for the USIS, 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 with her newfound passion for cooking and teaching. Julia’s unforgettable story – struggles with the head of the Cordon Bleu, rejections from publishers to whom she sent her now-famous cookbook, a wonderful, nearly fifty-year long marriage that took them across the globe – unfolds with the spirit so key to her success as a chef and a writer, brilliantly capturing one of the most endearing American personalities of the last fifty years.<br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i> | *$15.00 |
 | Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
Brand: Penguin
A delightful romp through history with all its economic forces laid bare, Cod is the biography of a single species of fish, but it may as well be a world history with this humble fish as its recurring main character. Cod, it turns out, is the reason Europeans set sail across the Atlantic, and it is the only reason they could. What did the Vikings eat in icy Greenland and on the five expeditions to America recorded in the Icelandic sagas? Cod, frozen and dried in the frosty air, then broken into pieces and eaten like hardtack. What was the staple of the medieval diet? Cod again, sold salted by the Basques, an enigmatic people with a mysterious, unlimited supply of cod. As we make our way through the centuries of cod history, we also find a delicious legacy of recipes, and the tragic story of environmental failure, of depleted fishing stocks where once their numbers were legendary. In this lovely, thoughtful history, Mark Kurlansky ponders the question: Is the fish that changed the world forever changed by the world's folly? | *$15.00 |
 | The Fannie Farmer Cookbook: Anniversary
Brand: Knopf
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of a great American classic, the 13th edition with a new introduction by the author. | *$15.00 |
 | 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> | *$15.00 |
 | Dinner Is In The Jar: Quick and Easy Dinner Mixes in Mason Jars or Mylar Bags (bw)
Brand: CreateSpace
Create a 90 day supply of easily prepared dinner mixes your family will love using food storage ingredients in mason jars or mylar bags for emergencies and convenience on busy days. Wouldn't it be nice if your pantry was filled with premixed dinners that you could put together with little effort and have healthy homemade meals that your family would love? Not only would you have a supply of easy dinners, but you could also give them away as gifts that anybody would absolutely love to receive. Dinner Is In The Jar is filled with meal mix recipes that can be easily stored in mason jars or mylar bags. Dinner Is In The Jar has a dinner mix jar recipe for every day of the month, including comfort meals such as Chicken Pot Pie, Biscuits and Gravy, Enchiladas, Pizza, Spaghetti and Meatballs in Mushroom Parmesan Tomato Sauce, Italian Cheese &amp; Sausage Calzone and many more. Dinner Is In The Jar also features planning charts making it easy to prepare a 90 day supply of dinner mix jar recipes, step by step photographs of how to create mylar bags for the mixes and where to easily get the ingredients. These are recipes your family will be begging you to make again and again, and with how quick and easy they are to make, you will gladly make them a regular feature on your dinner table. Create a 90 day supply of easily prepared dinners your family will love using food storage ingredients in mason jars or mylar bags for emergencies &amp; convenience on busy days with Dinner Is In The Jar. | *$15.00 |
 | The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears in Paris at the World's Most Famous Cooking School
Brand: Penguin
This is the funny and inspiring account of Kathleen Flinn-s struggle in a stew of hot-tempered chefs, competitive classmates, her own -wretchedly inadequate- French, and the basics of French cuisine. Flinn was a thirty-six-year-old middle manager trapped on the corporate ladder-until her boss eliminated her job. So she cashed in her savings and moved to Paris to pursue her lifelong dream of attending the venerable Le Cordon Bleu cooking school. Fans of <I>Julie & Julia</I> and the late Julia Child will be richly rewarded by this vibrant tale of self-discovery, transformation, and ultimately love. | *$15.00 |
 | Great Wine Made Simple: Straight Talk from a Master Sommelier
Brand: Clarkson Potter
From “one of the wine world’s most popular voices” (<i>USA</i> <i>Today</i>), a newly updated edition of her by-now classic introduction to wine, <i>GREAT WINE MADE SIMPLE: Straight Talk from a Master Sommelier</i>, reflects up-to-the minute wine trends, including the burgeoning popularity of the Shiraz grape, new flavor maps, and much, much more.<b><br><br></b>First published in 2000, <i>Great Wine Made Simple</i> established Andrea Immer Robinson as America’s favorite wine writer. Avoiding the traditional and confusingly vague wine language of “bouquet” and “nose,” and instead discussing wine in commonsense terms, the book launched Andrea’s career as a wine authority without pretense.<br><br>Now, thoroughly revised, <i>Great Wine Made Simple</i> lives up to its title by making selecting and enjoying wine truly simple. With Andrea Immer Robinson as your guide, you will never again have to fear pricey bottles that don’t deliver, snobby wine waiters, foreign terminology, or encyclopedic restaurant wine lists. You’ll be able to buy or order wine with confidence--and get just the wine you want--by learning how the “Big Six” basic styles (which comprise 80 percent of today’s top selling wines) taste and how to read any wine label. Ten new flavor maps show what tastes you can expect from climates around the world.<br><br>Andrea Immer Robinson genuinely knows more about wine than most wine lovers could ever hope to learn. But she doesn’t believe that you have to join a stuffy, exclusive wine-tasting set, or study a lot, to become a savvy wine buyer. Unlike other wine guides, <i>Great Wine Made Simple</i> makes it easy to master the ins and outs of choosing a wine that you and your guests will love—on any budget.<br><br>In her down-to-earth style, Andrea guides you through follow-along-at-home wine tastings that are easy, fun, and affordable, and even suggests a milk tasting for understanding variations in wine-body style. Building on this foundation, she covers the rest of the wine landscape with her inimitable style, candor, and humor, from classic regions to new tastes, plus a bevy of practical issues like wine gear and proper storage. A refreshing blend of in-depth knowledge and accessibility, <i>Great Wine Made Simple</i> is a welcome resource for those who are intrigued by wine but don’t know where to start. | *$15.00 |
 | 97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement
Brand: Smithsonian
<p> In <i>97 Orchard</i>, Jane Ziegelman explores the culinary life that was the heart and soul of New York's Lower East Side around the turn of the twentieth century—a city within a city, where Germans, Irish, Italians, and Eastern European Jews attempted to forge a new life. Through the experiences of five families, all of them residents of 97 Orchard Street, she takes readers on a vivid and unforgettable tour, from impossibly cramped tenement apartments down dimly lit stairwells where children played and neighbors socialized, beyond the front stoops where immigrant housewives found respite and company, and out into the hubbub of the dirty, teeming streets. </p> <p> Ziegelman shows how immigrant cooks brought their ingenuity to the daily task of feeding their families, preserving traditions from home but always ready to improvise. While health officials worried that pushcarts were unsanitary and that pickles made immigrants too excitable to be good citizens, a culinary revolution was taking place in the streets of what had been culturally an English city. Along the East River, German immigrants founded breweries, dispensing their beloved lager in the dozens of beer gardens that opened along the Bowery. Russian Jews opened tea parlors serving blintzes and strudel next door to Romanian nightclubs that specialized in goose pastrami. On the streets, Italian peddlers hawked the cheese-and-tomato pies known as <i>pizzarelli</i>, while Jews sold knishes and squares of halvah. Gradually, as Americans began to explore the immigrant ghetto, they uncovered the array of comestible enticements of their foreign-born neighbors. <i>97 Orchard</i> charts this exciting process of discovery as it lays bare the roots of our collective culinary heritage. </p> | *$14.99 |
 | Betty Crocker Cookbook: Everything You Need to Know to Cook Today, New Tenth Edition
Brand: Betty Crocker
The Best Just Got Better <p>The Most Trusted Cookbook <p>From foolproof, dependable recipes to reliable how-to advice, the Betty Crocker Cookbook has everything you need for the way you cook today.Whether you're a new or experienced cook, The Betty Crocker Cookbook® is the book for you! <p>Comprehensive resource, with more than 1,000 easy-to-follow recipes <p>Creative cooking ideas, including more than 400 recipe variations <p>Beautiful design, with 300 color photos and 55 illustrations <p>All-new chapters: "Casseroles & Slow Cooker" and "20 Minutes or Less" <p>Fast recipes flagged throughout—130 ready in 20 minutes or less! <p>Great-tasting Low-Fat recipes specially marked—more than 185 in all <p>Helpful Betty's Cures to solve common baking problems <p>Useful Learn with Betty photos to help get perfect results every time <p>Detailed nutrition information, plus dietary exchanges and carb choices <p>The all-new Tenth Edition—a perfect 10! | *$14.99 |
 | Jamie's Dinners: The Essential Family Cookbook
Brand: Hyperion
Cooking sensation Jamie Oliver returns with a cookbook designed to delight the entire family! estselling cookbook author Jamie Oliver takes his signature fresh, fun cooking style into new territory by putting his focus on the family. Designed to encourage us to eat healthier meals at home and enjoy our time spent in the kitchen, Jamie's Dinners features over 100 new and simple recipes for easy-to-afford, easy-to-prepare gourmet dinners that will get even the busiest of families back into the kitchen. Jamie's pared-down style and inventive use of fresh, uncomplicated ingredients will ensure that even novice chefs can cook up delicious dinners with confidence and ease using accessible, stylish recipes that the whole family will love, such as Farfalle with Carbonara and Spring Peas and Japanese-Style Saturday Night Steak. | *$14.99 |
 | The Paleo Diet: Lose Weight and Get Healthy by Eating the Food You Were Designed to Eat
Brand: Wiley
"We can’t recommend The Paleo Diet highly enough!"<BR> – Michael and Mary Dan Eades, M.D.<BR> authors of Protein Power <P>"The Paleo Diet is at once revolutionary and intuitive. . . . Its prescription provides without a doubt the most nutritious diet on the planet."<BR> –Jennie Brand-Miller, Ph.D., coauthor of the bestselling The Glucose Revolution and The Glucose Revolution Life Plan <P>"Filled with delicious recipes and meal plans, The Paleo Diet will open your eyes, trim your waistline, and improve your overall health."<BR> –Michael R. Eades, M.D., and Mary Dan Eades, M.D.<BR> authors of The 30-Day Low-Carb Diet Solution and coauthors of The Low-Carb Comfort Food Cookbook <P>"Finally, someone has figured out the best diet for people–a modern version of the diet the human race grew up eating. Dr. Loren Cordain’s easy-to-follow diet plan cuts right to the chase."<BR> –Jack Challem, coauthor of Syndrome X: The Complete Nutritional Program to Prevent and Reverse Insulin Resistance <P>Healthy, delicious, and simple, the Paleo Diet is the diet you were designed to eat. If you want to lose weight–up to 75 pounds in six months–or if you want to attain optimal health, The Paleo Diet will do wonders for you. The world’s leading expert on Paleolithic (Stone Age) nutrition, Dr. Loren Cordain demonstrates how, by eating all the lean meats and fish, fresh fruits, and nonstarchy vegetables you want, you can lose weight and prevent and treat heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis, Syndrome X, and many other illnesses. Over 100 delicious Paleo recipes provide enough flavor and variety to satisfy anyone, and the six weeks of Paleo meal plans get you started on a healthy and enjoyable new way of eating. Start reading and following The Paleo Diet today and eat your way to weight loss, weight control, increased energy, and lifelong health–while enjoying every delicious bite. | *$14.95 |
 | Food Inc.
Brand: Public Affairs
Food, Inc. is guaranteed to shake up our perceptions of what we eat. This powerful documentary deconstructing the corporate food industry in America was hailed by Entertainment Weekly as -more than a terrific movie-it-s an important movie.- Aided by expert commentators such as Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser, the film poses questions such as: Where has my food come from, and who has processed it? What are the giant agribusinesses and what stake do they have in maintaining the status quo of food production and consumption? How can I feed my family healthy foods affordably? Expanding on the film-s themes, the book Food, Inc. will answer those questions through a series of challenging essays by leading experts and thinkers. This book will encourage those inspired by the film to learn more about the issues, and act to change the world. | *$14.95 |
 | Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution: The Complete Guide to Achieving Normal Blood Sugars
Brand: Little, Brown and Company | *$14.95 |
 | Giant Book of Kitchen Counter Cures: 117 Foods That Fight Cancer, Diabetes, Heart Disease, Arthritis, Osteoporosis, Memory Loss, Bad Digestion and Hundreds ... Problems! (Jerry Baker Good Health serie
Brand: American Master Products, Inc.
The healing powers of favorite foods are leveraged in the recipes and cooking tips in this guide to using food to alleviate serious diseases and common ailments. Fighting colon cancer with cheese, preventing heart disease with green beans and chocolate, and curing urinary tract infections with blueberries are examples of the preventative measures and homemade cures that will help readers slash medical expenses and minimize doctor visits. Shopping advice and menu recommendations are provided that offer healthy, nutritional meals designed for sufferers of specific diseases. | *$14.95 |
 | Cakewalk: A Memoir
Brand: The Dial Press
From the author of the internationally acclaimed <i>Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath</i> comes a funny, touching memoir of a crummy—and crumby—childhood.<br><br>Growing up in the 1960s and ’70s, Kate Moses was surrounded by sugar: Twinkies in the basement freezer, honey on the fried chicken, Baby Ruth bars in her father’s sock drawer. But sweetness of the more intangible variety was harder to come by. Her parents were disastrously mismatched, far too preoccupied with their mutual misery to notice its effects on their kids. <br><br>A frustrated artist, Kate’s beautiful, capricious mother lived in a constant state of creative and marital emergency, enlisting Kate as her confidante—“We’re the girls, we have to stick together”—and instructing her three children to refer to her in public as their babysitter. Kate’s father was aloof, ambitious, and prone to blasts of withering abuse increasingly directed at the daughter who found herself standing between her embattled parents. Kate looked for comfort in the imaginary worlds of books and found refuge in the kitchen, where she taught herself to bake and entered the one realm where she was able to wield control.<br><br>Telling her own story with the same lyricism, compassion, and eye for lush detail she brings to her fiction, coupled with the candor and humor she is known for in her personal essays, Kate Moses leavens each tale of her coming-of-age in Cakewalk with a recipe from her lifetime of confectionary obsession. There is the mysteriously erotic German Chocolate Cake implicated in a birds-and-bees speech when Kate was seven, the gingerbread people her mother baked for Christmas the year Kate officially realized she was fat, the chocolate chip cookies Kate used to curry favor during a hilariously gruesome adolescence, and the brownies she baked for her idol, the legendary M.F.K. Fisher, who pronounced them “delicious.”<br><br>Filled with the abundance and joy that were so lacking in Kate’s youth, <i>Cakewalk</i> is a wise, loving tribute to life in all its sweetness as well as its bitterness and, ultimately, a recipe for forgiveness. | *$14.95 |
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