 | Green Smoothie Revolution: The Radical Leap Towards Natural Health
Brand: North Atlantic Books
Thanks to processed and fast foods, being overworked, and feeling stressed while eating on the fly, it is increasingly difficult for most of us to eat anywhere near a balanced diet. We may not be obviously sick, but may suffer from lack of focus, insomnia, sluggishness, or any host of symptoms caused by nutritional deficiency. <i>Green Smoothie Revolution </i>takes aim at this silent epidemic by restoring balance to our diets.<br>Â <br>Combining nutrition and know-how with recipes that pack a powerhouse punch, Victoria Boutenko reintroduces long neglected fruits, vegetables, and greens in the most persuasive style for our busy lives: with fast prep and delicious results. Featuring 200 recipes, <i>Green Smoothie Revolution </i>offers both simplicity (4 ripe pears, 1 bunch parsley, 2 cups water; blend well) and enough variety to keep taste buds happy and nutrients coming from a wealth of options. | *$8.16 |
 | 12 Steps to Raw Foods: How to End Your Dependency on Cooked Food
Brand: North Atlantic Books
Why do we overeat time and time again? Why do we make poor diet choices while we want to be healthy? What makes losing weight so difficult? These and many other vital questions are addressed in <i>12 Steps to Raw Foods</i> in an open and sincere dialogue. Based on the latest scientific research, Victoria Boutenko explains the numerous benefits of choosing a diet of fresh rather than cooked foods. This book contains self-tests and questionnaires that help the reader to determine if they have hidden eating patterns that undermine their health. Using examples from life, the author explores the most common reasons for people to make unhealthy eating choices.<br><br>Rather than simply praising the benefits of raw foods, this book offers helpful tips and coping techniques to form and maintain new, healthy patterns. Learn how to make a raw food restaurant card that makes dining with co-workers easy and enjoyable. Discover three magic sentences that enable you to refuse your mother-in-law’s apple pie without offending her. Find out how to sustain your chosen diet while traveling. These are only a few of the many scenarios that Boutenko outlines.<br><br>Written in a convenient 12-step format, this book guides the reader through the most significant physical, psychological, and spiritual phases of the transition from cooked to raw foods. Embracing the raw food lifestyle is more than simply turning off the stove. Such a radical change in the way we eat affects all aspects of life. Boutenko touches on the human relationship with nature, the value of supporting others, and the importance of living in harmony with people who don’t share the same point of view on eating. Already a classic, this enhanced second edition is aimed at anyone interested in improving their health through diet. | *$7.98 |
 | Healing With Whole Foods: Oriental Traditions and Modern Nutrition
Brand: North Atlantic Books
In this book, healer, teacher, and nutrition researcher Paul Pitchford brings together Western nutritional science and Chinese medicine to create a comprehensive, one-volume diet resource. Valuable information on health, diet, alternative medicine, presentation and preparation of foods, and delicious recipes are provided. 77 line drawings. 56 charts. | *$34.90 |
 | Conscious Eating
Brand: North Atlantic Books
<i>Conscious Eating</i> has been referred to as the "Bible of Vegetarians," for both beginners and advanced students of health. This classic work in the field of live-food nutrition is an inspirational journey and a manual for life. Included is new information on enzymes, vegetarian nutrition for pregnancy, and an innovative international 14-day menu of gourmet, Kosher, vegetarian, live-food cuisine, plus 150 recipes. | *$17.45 |
 | Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisine
Brand: North Atlantic Books
Medical researchers have found that a high-fat, high-sugar diet, combined with environmental pollutants and stress, can lead to a buildup of toxins in the body collectively known as chronic degenerative disease. Here holistic physician Gabriel Cousens provides a dietary regimen that may help reverse this process by introducing whole, natural, organic, and raw foods into the diet. These restorative "live" foods can reverse chronic disease and bring back health and vitality. This eclectic cookbook shares 250 delicious vegan recipes from chefs at the Tree of Life Cafe. Dishes include Avocado Salad with Rosemary, Green Dragon Broccoli, Raw-violis, Lavender Milk, and Carob Coconut Cream Eclairs. International entrees, juices, and aromatherapeutic remedies are also featured. | *$16.20 |
 | 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 |
 | I Am Grateful: Recipes and Lifestyle of Cafe Gratitude
Brand: North Atlantic Books
With locations in San Francisco, Berkeley, Marin, and Los Angeles, Café Gratitude has become well known for its inspiring environment and distinctive, flavorful organic foods. In <i>I Am Grateful,</i> cofounder Terces Engelhart presents her and her husband Matthew’s view of life and business philosophy. She also presents her story of personal healing, sharing highlights of her recovery from food addiction while explaining the benefits of a raw lifestyle. The book’s gorgeous, full-color photographs accompany easy-to-follow recipes for the café’s most popular items, making it easy for readers to prepare live foods at home. Recipes include café favorites such as the “I Am Luscious” raw chocolate smoothie, “I Am Bountiful” bruschetta, “I Am Elated” spicy rolled enchiladas, and “I Am Amazing” lemon meringue pie with macadamia nut crust. | *$12.70 |
 | 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 body’s 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 – including a one-day tone-up, three-day detox, ten-day regeneration diet, and four-month healing diet – 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. | *$11.94 |
 | There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program
Brand: North Atlantic Books
Diabetes has become a seemingly unstoppable national epidemic, affecting more than twenty million Americans. Conventional wisdom calls it incurable, but renowned Dr. Gabriel Cousens counters that claim with this breakthrough book. <i>There Is a Cure for Diabetes</i> lays out a three-week plan for reversing the negative genetic expression of diabetes to a physiology of health and well-being. Dr. Cousens’s method, widely tested at his famous Tree of Life centers, is to reset the DNA through green juice fasting and a 100% organic, nutrient-dense, vegan, low-glycemic, low-insulin-scoring, and high-mineral diet of living foods in the first twenty-one days. Both practical and inspirational, the book explains how to abandon the widespread “culture of death”–symbolized by addictive junk food–that fosters diabetes in favor of a more natural, nurturing approach. The program renders insulin and related medicines unnecessary <i>within four days </i>as the blood sugar drops to normal levels; and the diabetic shifts into a non-diabetic physiology within two weeks. The third week focuses on live-food preparation, featuring 100 delicious raw recipes. Dr. Cousens emphasizes regular consultations, monitoring blood chemistries, and emotional support, and includes a one-year support program to help maintain a diabetes-free life. | *$10.99 |
 | What to Eat
Brand: North Point Press
<DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV>Since its publication in hardcover last year, Marion Nestle’s <I>What to Eat </I>has become the definitive guide to making healthy and informed choices about food. Praised as “radiant with maxims to live by” in <I>The New York Times Book Review </I>and “accessible, reliable and comprehensive” in <I>The Washington Post</I>, <I>What to Eat </I>is an indispensable resource, packed with important information and useful advice from the acclaimed nutritionist who “has become to the food industry what . . . Ralph Nader [was] to the automobile industry” (<I>St. Louis Post-Dispatch</I>).<BR><BR>How we choose which foods to eat is growing more complicated by the day, and the straightforward, practical approach of <I>What to Eat </I>has been praised as welcome relief. As Nestle takes us through each supermarket section—produce, dairy, meat, fish—she explains the issues, cutting through foodie jargon and complicated nutrition labels, and debunking the misleading health claims made by big food companies. With Nestle as our guide, we are shown how to make wise food choices—and are inspired to eat sensibly and nutritiously.<BR><BR>Now in paperback, <I>What to Eat </I>is already a classic—“the perfect guidebook to help navigate through the confusion of which foods are good for us” (<I>USA Today</I>).</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV> <DIV><DIV><B>Marion Nestle</B> is the most respected nutritionist in America today. Her book <I>Food Politics </I>was given the James Beard Award, the top award for food writing; that book and its follow-up, <I>Safe Food</I>, are backlist classics for the University of California Press. A longtime nutritionist and former head of the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, Nestle lectures worldwide and was featured in the movie <I>Super Size Me</I>. A native New Yorker, she raised her family in California and now lives in Greenwich Village.</DIV></DIV> <DIV><B>Winner of the James Beard Foundation Award</B></DIV><DIV><B></B> </DIV><DIV> Since its publication in hardcover in 2006, Marion Nestle’s <I>What to Eat </I>has become the definitive guide to making healthy and informed choices about food. Praised as "accessible, reliable and comprehensive" in <I>The Washington Post</I>, <I>What to Eat </I>is a resource packed with important information and useful advice from the acclaimed nutritionist.</DIV><DIV><BR>How we choose which foods to eat is growing more complicated, and the straightforward, practical approach of <I>What to Eat </I>has been praised as welcome relief. Nestle guides readers through the supermarket sections—produce, dairy, meat, fish, breads, and juices, and then to the "center aisles," where big profits are made. She uses clear language to reveal the big food companies' marketing practices and get to the heart of the real issues. She cuts through foodie jargon and complex nutrition labels and debunks the misleading health claims made by the major companies in the food industry. Nestle explains the differences between foods that are wild and those that are farm-raised; frozen and fresh; and organic, natural, and conventional. She tells us what we need to know about carbohydrates, omega-3s, and <I>trans</I> fats; pesticides and the environment; portion size, labeling, and nutrition claims; supplements, additives, and preservatives; and food safety.</DIV> <DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV>"Not only is <I>What to Eat</I> the most comprehensive guide to the political and nutritional choices we make shopping for food, but it's also full of up-to-date research on health."—<B>Susan Salter Reynolds, </B><I><B>Los Angeles</B></I><B><I> Times Book Review</I></B></DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>"W ith this comprehensive guide, Nestle, a nutritionist, makes the weekly trip to the grocery less daunting and a healthy diet more attainable."—<B><I>Science News</I></B></DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV><DIV ><DIV>“[This] book is for anyone who has read a food label; been annoyed at how often their children nag them for certain cereals; wondered about the difference between natural and organic; or questioned who is minding the store when it comes to nutrition and food safety.”—<B>Marian Burros, <I>The New York Times </I></B></DIV><DIV><BR>“Nestle is simply one of the nation's smartest and most influential authorities on nutrition and food policy.”—<B>Carol Ness, <I>San Francisco Chronicle </I></B></DIV><DIV><BR>“Meticulously researched, thorough, and indispensable—Marion Nestle's <I>What to Eat</I> delivers on its title. It's a reliable, riveting guide to the amazing truth about what we're sold by the American food distribution system. Refreshingly rigorous and fun to read.”—<B>Alice Waters</B></DIV><DIV><BR>"When it comes to the increasingly treacherous landscape of the American supermarket, with its marketing hype and competing health claims, Marion Nestle is an absolutely indispensable guide: knowledgeable, eminently sane—and wonderful company, too.”—<B>Michael Pollan, author of <I>Omnivore's Dilemma</I></B><BR> <BR></DIV></DIV>"Pa rt muckraking journalism, part reference book and part consumer guide, <I>What to Eat</I> is organized in the manner suggested by the subtitle: as a walk down each grocery store aisle with a companionable Ph. D. researcher as the guide. It is a simple, yet effective, concept for organizing what otherwise could have become a mind-numbing amount of information."—<B>Steve Weinberg, <I>St. Louis Post-Dispatch</I></B></DIV></DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>"The industry wants you to believe there are no good foods or bad foods. Well, that's not true. And I can't think of anyone who knows the difference better than Marion Nestle."—<B>Eric Schlosser, author of <I>Fast Food Nation</I></B><BR> <BR>"According to nutritionist Nestle, the increasing confusion among the general public about what to eat comes from two sources: experts who fail to create a holistic view by isolating food components and health issues, and a food industry that markets items on the basis of profits alone. She suggests that, often, research findings are deliberately obscure to placate special interests. Nestle says that simple, common-sense guidelines available decades ago still hold true: consume fewer calories, exercise more, eat more fruits and vegetables and, for today's consumers, less junk food. The key to eating well, Nestle advises, is to learn to navigate through the aisles (and thousands of items) in large supermarkets. To that end, she gives readers a virtual tour, highlighting the main concerns of each food group, including baby, health and prepared foods, and supplements. Nestle's prose is informative and entertaining; she takes on the role of detective, searching for clues to the puzzle of healthy and satisfying nutrition. Her intelligent and reassuring approach will likely make readers venture more confidently through the jungle of today's super-sized stores."—<I><B>Publishers Weekly</B> </I></DIV></DIV></DIV> | *$9.39 |
 | A Gringo's Guide to Authentic Mexican Cooking (Cookbooks and Restaurant Guides)
Brand: Northland
Popular TV host and author Mad Coyote Joe takes the foreign out of Mexican cuisine and replaces it with genuine, mouth-watering dishes. Featuring more than 100 of Joe's favorite recipes, this is the real enchilada. | *$10.36 |
 | Fresh Vegetable and Fruit Juices
Brand: Norwalk Press
Dr. Walker explains how the lack or deficiency of certain elements, such as vital organic minerals and salts, and consequently of vitamins, from our customary diet is the primary cause of nearly every sickness and disease. Following his recommendations to consume fresh vegetable and fruit juices, we can furnish our bodies with the enzymes needed for optimal health. | *$3.74 |
 | Beating Cancer With Nutrition - Revised
Brand: Nutrition Times Press
The book was developed after working with over 500 cancer patients and organizing 3 international symposiums on the subject. The information contained in BCN is both scientifically backed with references and clinically proven in the hospital with patients. This information helps cancer patients to improve quality and quantity of life. BCN had been translated into Japanese and Chinese and is being translated into Korean. BCN had become a home study continuing education course for registered nurses. BCN 2001 version will contain a 72-minute audio CD version in response to the requests from tired cancer patients who said they needed and audio version of the book to get started. BCN had sold 110,000 copies in 7 years in print, which is impressive for small publishers. | *$5.93 |
 | Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food
Brand: O'Reilly Media
<div> <p>Are you the innovative type, the cook who marches to a different drummer -- used to expressing your creativity instead of just following recipes? Are you interested in the science behind what happens to food while it's cooking? Do you want to learn what makes a recipe work so you can improvise and create your own unique dish?</p> <p>More than just a cookbook, <em>Cooking for Geeks</em> applies your curiosity to discovery, inspiration, and invention in the kitchen. Why is medium-rare steak so popular? Why do we bake some things at 350 F/175 C and others at 375 F/190 C? And how quickly does a pizza cook if we overclock an oven to 1,000 F/540 C? Author and cooking geek Jeff Potter provides the answers and offers a unique take on recipes -- from the sweet (a "mean" chocolate chip cookie) to the savory (duck confit sugo).</p> <p>This book is an excellent and intriguing resource for anyone who wants to experiment with cooking, even if you don't consider yourself a geek.</p> <ul> <li>Initialize your kitchen and calibrate your tools </li> <li>Learn about the important reactions in cooking, such as protein denaturation, Maillard reactions, and caramelization, and how they impact the foods we cook </li> <li>Play with your food using hydrocolloids and sous vide cooking </li> <li>Gain firsthand insights from interviews with researchers, food scientists, knife experts, chefs, writers, and more, including author Harold McGee, TV personality Adam Savage, chemist Hervé This, and xkcd </li> </ul> </div> | *$23.09 |
 | Ma Gastronomie
Brand: Overlook/Rookery Hardcover
<P>Since its first publication in France in 1969, <i>Ma Gastronomie</i> has taken its place among the classics of French gastronomy. This essential volume is as celebrated for Fernand Point's wise, witty, and provocative views on food as for his remarkable, inventive recipes--over 200 of them--carefully compiled from his handwritten notes.</p> <P>An undisputed creative genius of French gastronomy and founder of the legendary La Pyramide restaurant, halfway between Paris and the Riviera, Point revolutionized French cuisine, building on its traditions and creating his own versions of the great classical dishes. His peers called him <i>Le Roi</i>, and during his reign there were few celebrities and no serious gourmet who didn't make the journey to dine at La Pyramide. His disciples, Paul Bocuse, Alain Chapel, and Jean and Pierre Troisgros, are among the world's greatest French chefs. As one of his three-star students, François Bise, said, "Point was an artist. It's difficult to say enough about him." In that spirit, it is not unfounded to assert that no cookbook collection is truly complete without a copy of <i>Ma Gastronomie</i>.</p> | *$22.98 |
 | The Oxford Companion to Wine, 3rd Edition
Brand: Oxford University Press, USA
Published in 1994 to worldwide acclaim, the first edition of Jancis Robinson's seminal volume immediately attained legendary status, winning every major wine book award including the Glenfiddich and Julia Child/IACP awards, as well as writer and woman of the year accolades for its editor on both sides of the Atlantic. Combining meticulously-researched fact with refreshing opinion and wit, <em>The Oxford Companion to Wine</em> offers almost 4,000 entries on every wine-related topic imaginable, from regions and grape varieties to the owners, connoisseurs, growers, and tasters in wine through the ages; from viticulture and oenology to the history of wine. Tracing the consumption and production from the ancient world to the present day, the <em>Companion</em> is a remarkable resource for gaining further appreciation for a beverage whose popularity has only increased with time.<br><br>Now exhaustively updated, this third edition incorporates the very latest international research to present over 400 new entries on topics ranging from globalization and the politics of wine to brands, precision viticulture, and co-fermentation. Hundreds of other entries have also undergone major revisions, including yeast, barrel alternatives, climate change, and virtually all wine regions. Useful lists and statistics are appended, including controlled appellations and their permitted grape varieties, as well as wine production and consumption by country.<br><br>Illustrated with maps of every important wine region in the world, useful charts and diagrams, and stunning color photography, this <em>Companion</em> is unlike any other wine book, offering an understanding of wine in its many wider contexts - notably historical, cultural, geographic, and scientific - and serving as a truly companionable point of reference into which any wine-lover can dip, browse, and linger.<br> | *$36.95 |
 | Cooking Light Cook's Essential Recipe Collection: Slow Cooker: 57 essential recipes to eat smart, be fit, live well (the Cooking Light.cook's ESSENTIAL RECIPE COLLECTION)
Brand: Oxmoor House
Beautiful to display and practical to use, Slow Cooker is truly a godsend for time-challenged cooks who want to prepare healthy, tasty, and satisfying meals but don’t have hours to spend hovering over their stoves. Replete with all the high standards that have made Cooking Light a trusted favorite, this new edition provides over 58 beautifully photographed recipes with useful, easy-to-follow instruction. | *$9.49 |
| | Weight Watchers 5 Ingredient 15 Minute Cookbook (2nd Edition) (Weight Watchers Cookbook Series)
Brand: Oxmoor House
200 All-New Kitchen Tested Recipes!
72 top-rated mouthwatering menus with POINTS values of 7 or less
No-stress shopping list and easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions included with every recipe
Weight Watcher POINTS values and complete nutritional analyses for all recipes | *$35.00 |
 | Cooking Light Annual Recipes 2010: Every Recipe...A Year's Worth of Cooking Light Magazine
Brand: Oxmoor House | *$20.71 |
 | Christmas with Southern Living 2010: Great Recipes * Easy Entertaining * Festive Decorations * Gift Ideas
Brand: Oxmoor House
<p>Southern Living presents the 30th edition of its annual cooking, entertaining, and decorating guide—<em>Christmas with Southern Living. </em>This comprehensive book includes everything readers will need to plan the perfect holiday season. <em>Christmas with Southern Living 2010 </em>features 100 brand-new recipes for the season, ranging from classic dishes and elegant entrees to easy sides and everyday favorites. Not only does this book offer readers a variety of recipe ideas to help celebrate the season, but it also offers dozens of decorating, entertaining, and gift ideas.</p> | *$19.72 |
 | Cooking Light Complete Cookbook: A Fresh New Way to Cook (Book & CD-ROM)
Brand: Oxmoor House
It's here! The most comprehensive Cooking Light collection of healthy and tasty recipes ever combined in one cookbook is now available in a kitchen-friendly ring-binder format, complete with 20 tabbed dividers, page lifters, and a bonus recipe chapter. <P>Shrink-wrapped and specially packaged, the Cooking Light Complete Cookbook also has a bonus gift tucked into the front pocket: a free interactive DVD with 100 menu ideas, recipes, shopping lists, and how-to video clips inspired by the popular "Dinner Tonight" column in the magazine. <P> Serving up a whopping 1,200 health-conscious, tasty recipes, 630 inspiring photographs, 750 kitchen secrets and shortcuts, plus 50 menus for everyday cooking and holiday entertaining, Cooking Light Complete Cookbook is THE most comprehensive collection ever by Cooking Light, America's leading epicurean magazine and trusted authority on healthy cooking. <P><b>Features:</b> <P> <P> <li>Handy new ring-binder format with dividers and page lifters plus FREE interactive DVD<P> <li>Bonus In Season recipe chapter features seasonal recipes and menus that highlight the Cooking Light way of life--cooking with nutritious whole foods that make it from the produce stand to your dinner table with ease<P> <li>The hardcover edition, the All-New Complete Cooking Light Cookbook, is a 2007 International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) Cookbook Awards winner | *$19.52 |
 | Gooseberry Patch Christmas Book 12: Recipes, Projects and Gift Ideas to Make Your Christmas Festive & Fun!
Brand: Oxmoor House | *$18.48 |
 | The New Mayo Clinic Cookbook: Eating Well for Better Health
Brand: Oxmoor House
Who hasn’t vowed to eat healthier? But who wants to give up great taste? Now you can have both. Introducing the cookbook that will change your mind about healthy meals, from the esteemed Mayo Clinic, the foremost authority on healthy cooking in America. Dedicated to the art of eating well, this all-new volume offers 150 inspired recipes for delicious dishes with appetizing photography and detailed nutritional analysis. Also includes Mayo Clinic’s New Philosophy of Cooking and Healthy Weight Pyramid. Destined to be a daily staple for health-conscious cooks everywhere. <P>Key Features: <P>- 150 delicious recipes <BR>- Up-to-date nutritional information on the world's healthiest foods <BR>- Foolproof techniques for bringing out ingredients' richest flavors <BR>- Approachable strategies for achieving nutritional goals | *$18.05 |
 | Cooking Light The Essential Dinner Tonight Cookbook: Over 350 delicious, easy, and healthy meals
Brand: Oxmoor House
Whether you're looking for dinner tonight or planning ahead for a special occasion, <i>Cooking Light The Essential Dinner Tonight Cookbook </i>has just what you need. You'll find great ideas and delicious, reliable recipes for healthy dinner solutions in this menu-packed volume from the most respected cooking authority in America.<br><br><b>Weeknight Meals</b><br>With over 350 delicious, easy, and healthy meals at your fingertips, choosing what's for dinner tonight has never been easier. Selections such as <b>Tomato-Basil Soup, Steak and Blue Cheese Pizza, </b>and <b>Biscuit-Topped Chicken Potpie </b>are sure to tempt your taste buds.<br><br><b>Complete Menus and Game Plans<br></b>Great-tasting, healthy recipes are not all that this hefty cookbook boasts. There is also a complete menu for each recipe offering superb "serve with" suggestions, along with a detailed and thorough game plan for getting it all on the table quickly and efficiently.<br><br><b>Photos of Every Recipe<br></b>And check out those photos! Each meal comes to life on these pages with big, bold images highlighting delicious food at its absolute finest.<br><br> | *$16.34 |
 | 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 |
 | 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 |
 | Weber's Way to Grill: The Step-by-Step Guide to Expert Grilling (Sunset Books)
Brand: Oxmoor House
Everything a griller wants to know in the most complete grilling technique book ever:<br>Five keys to grilling great steak<br>The right way with baby back ribs<br>What to do when flare-ups happen<br>The way to smoke a turkey<br>Five secrets for perfect fish every time<br>Simple ways to check for doneness<br>Getting great results with your smoker<br>The way to handle foods that stick<br>Working burger magic every time<br>Over 1,000 step-by-step photos<br>More than 160 delicious new recipes<br>Dozens of rubs, sauces, marinades, and more</br></br> What is Weber's Way to Grill? Well, first of all, it is not just one way to grill. It is not about absolute right and wrong when it comes to issues like gas versus charcoal, direct versus indirect heat, or grilling with the lid on or off. Webers Way to Grill includes and embraces any way to grill so long as it works. And what works best is paying attention to culinary details. There is a big difference between winging it and paying attention.</br></br> Thats the point of Weber's Way to Grill. That's why this book includes so many how-to photographs and explanatory captions and detailed recipes. The emphasis here is on paying close attention. Its about learning how and why certain ways work well, so that you can move beyond the limits of winging it. Great taste lies in the details. Just pay attention and enjoy a new level of grilling success.</br></br> | *$14.68 |
 | Weber's Real Grilling: Over 200 Original Recipes
Brand: Oxmoor House
For sublime outdoor cooking and entertainment, who better to turn to than the foremost authority on grills? With the experts from Weber taking you through the basics and beyond, you’ll be sizzling in no time. Over 200 recipes—each with a mouthwatering photo—are simple to follow and feature common ingredients found in the local market. You’ll also find, can’t-miss techniques, and even substitution tricks... Mark your favorites—and there’ll be plenty—with the handy enclosed page flags. And yes, once they’ve sampled the savory results of your newfound grilling skills, friends and family will be begging for your secrets. Just nod and say, "It’s all in the technique." <P>Key Features: <P>* One-of-a-kind grilling cookbook with over 200 original recipes, each with a color photos <P>* Photos illustrate tips and techniques throughout <P>* Recipes are big on flavor with easy to find ingredients <P>* Tabbed chapters and included page flags to mark your favorite recipes <P>* From basic preparation to advanced fire-tending methods, Weber’s Real Grilling™ has all the tools for successful grilling | *$14.68 |
 | Health The Carb Lovers Diet: Eat What You Love, Get Slim For Life
Brand: Oxmoor House | *$13.99 |
 | Cooking Light: 5 Ingredient 15 Minute Cookbook
Brand: Oxmoor House
<DIV><P></P>For busy home cooks, getting a meal on the table in 15 minutes or less, and with few ingredients, means more time with their family and less cost on their grocery bills. The <I><B>Cooking Light</B> 5-Ingredient 15-Minute Cookbook</I> meets those needs and delivers-with big flavor <I>and</I> nutritious dishes. And instead of just giving you recipes, we're giving you meals-94 in all! Each meal features a main-dish recipe and either a short recipe to go with it or suggestions for commercial side items. Plus there's a photograph of every meal! <B>Grocery Shopping Solutions<BR></B>With each meal plan, you get a grocery list of everything you need to complete the meal. Stock up on the ingredients from the Stress-Free Grocery List, and you can make one-third of the recipes in this book. <B>No Worries<BR></B>The nutrient analysis with every recipe gives you values for calories, fat, protein, carbohydrate, fiber, cholesterol, and sodium. You can use the exchange values to fit the recipes into your meal plan.<B>All This with Only 5 Ingredients?<BR></B>You'll be surprised at all the recipes you can make using only 5 ingredients: Chicken Alfredo Pasta, Deep-Dish Pizza Casserole, Speedy Chicken Cacciatore, Teriyaki Roast Chicken, Barbecue Pork Chops ...just to name a few.<B>Avoid the Rush Hour<BR></B>When you have only 15 minutes to get dinner on the table, try these recipes: Cajun-Style Swordfish, Fresh Tomato Pizza, Ground Beef Stroganoff, Chili Bacon Burgers, Teriyaki-Ginger Pork Tenderloin, Zesty Fettuccine and Shrimp.<B>Added Value<BR></B>Create 5 different desserts or salads from different combinations of the same 5 ingredients. Start with easy-to-make recipes in the Mix & Match chapter like Three-Bean Salad, Tex-Mex Salad, Strawberry Shortcakes, and Brownie Sundaes.<B>Slow Down to Speed Up<BR></B>Learn how to let a slow cooker do the work for you. All with 5 ingredients or less, these recipes are worth coming home to: Chili Grande, Chicken Pepper Pot, Italian Pot Roast, Glazed Turkey.<BR>Â </DIV> | *$13.63 |
 | Family Feasts for $75 a Week: A Penny-wise Mom Shares Her Recipe for Cutting Hundreds from Your Monthly Food Bill
Brand: Oxmoor House
What would you do with an extra $100 each month?<br>Let 's face it. Staying within a budget these days is a hard act to stick with, especially if you have a family of four or more. When juggling a busy schedule dedicated to school, work, and family activities, convenience has a tendency to overrule thriftiness-and we all know convenience comes at a cost. But if you can master your spending in just one area-your food bill-you will greatly expand your spending options for other, more rewarding areas of your life. <br><br>What would you do with more free time in your day?<br>You 've heard the saying " time is money, " and time well spent can save you big bucks. Learning how to compile grocery lists, compose weekly menu plans, and shop less will not only save money at the register, it will also save you time in the store and in the kitchen. Come to the table prepared to enjoy the feast as you build time-saving skills that will serve you and your family for a lifetime to come.<br><br>What would you do with more fun-filled family opportunities?<br>Saving time and money will not only make you feel good about yourself, it will also give you the greatest spending opportunity of all-more family fun. Whether planning for a special getaway, staycation, or simply a weekly family night, your family is your best investment. With all the time and money you 'll save, you 'll be able to refocus your energies where they matter most-with the ones you love.<br><br>Whether you 're overhauling your entire budget or just trying to save a little here and there, making a dent in your grocery bill may seem challenging in today 's market. A typical supermarket trip can easily cost a minimum of $100, and if you 're feeding an average family or larger, that number can soar even higher. What 's a mom on a budget to do?<br><br><em>Family Feasts for $75 a Week</em> to the rescue! Written by blogger mom and penny-pincher extraordinaire Mary Ostyn, who prepares three meals a day for her family of 12 for $800 to $900 a month, this book is stuffed to the gills with Mary's expert, in-the-trenches tips on savvy food shopping, plus 200 delicious recipes for homecooked meals that make the most of economical ingredients. </br></br> Selected by Good Morning America as one of the best cookbooks of 2009, <em>Family Feasts for $75 a Week</em> offers real-world advice teaches real-world families how to save in more ways than one. | *$10.71 |
 | 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 |
 | The Juicing Bible
Brand: Pat Crocker Part Number: 0-7788-0181-0
<p> <i>The comprehensive source of information on the health benefits of juicing.</i> </p><p> This new edition of a beloved best-seller features 100 brand new recipes, now bringing the total number to 350. In addition, it offers new pages of health information, including a "healthy body systems" section that provides information on the critically important cardiovascular and immune systems. Any health-conscious person can now readily optimize the selections and combinations of prescriptive juices, which are thoroughly cross-referenced. Unchanged is the most popular section of the book, which addresses more than 80 common health conditions. </p><p> Some of the new juicing recipes from the "heart-healthy" section are:</p><ul> <li>Deep orange heart -- a tantalizing combination of mango, cantaloupe, apricot and orange</li> <li>Strawberry sparkle -- a wonderful blend of strawberries, pomegranate, raspberries and cranberry juice</li> <li>Orange sunrise -- a mix of orange, kiwi, papaya and carrot... a glorious way to greet the day</li> <li>Melon mania -- a tasty blend of cantaloupe, honeydew, watermelon and orange.</li> </ul><p> With health tips, preparation techniques, helpful sidebars and 16 pages of color photographs, this new edition of <b>The Juicing Bible</b> is packed with information that is essential for anyone who wants to explore all the nutritional benefits that natural foods can provide. </p> | *$9.70 |
 | The Savoy Cocktail Book
Brand: Pavilion
<div><div><div>Synonymous with style, elegance, and sophistication, the Savoy is unsurprisingly also the birthplace of some of the most famous cocktails in the world. During the 1920s and 1930s, Prohibition-dodging Americans visiting London for tea-dances and cocktails made the bar at the Savoy their home. Here they were entertained by legendary American barman Harry Craddock, inventor of the White Lady and popularizer of the Dry Martini. Originally published in 1930, the Savoy Cocktail Book features 750 of Harry's most popular recipes. It is a fascinating record of the cocktails that set London alight at the time—and which are just as popular today. Taking you from Slings to Smashes, Fizzes to Flips, and featuring art deco illustrations, this book is the perfect gift for any budding mixologist or fan of 1930s-style decadence and sophistication.</div></div></div> | *$12.33 |
 | Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
Brand: Penguin
Ruth Reichl, world-renowned food critic and editor in chief of <I>Gourmet</I> magazine, knows a thing or two about food. She also knows that as the most important food critic in the country, you need to be anonymous when reviewing some of the most high-profile establishments in the biggest restaurant town in the world-a charge she took very seriously, taking on the guise of a series of eccentric personalities. In <I>Garlic and Sapphires</I>, Reichl reveals the comic absurdity, artifice, and excellence to be found in the sumptuously appointed stages of the epicurean world and gives us-along with some of her favorite recipes and reviews-her remarkable reflections on how one-s outer appearance can influence one-s inner character, expectations, and appetites, not to mention the quality of service one receives. <BR><br>-This wonderful book is funny-at times laugh-out-loud funny-and smart and wise.- <I>-The Washington Post</I><br>-Reichl is so gifted . . . the reader remains hungry for more.- <I>-USA Today</I><br>-Expansive and funny.- <I>-Entertainment Weekly</I><br> | *$16.00 |
 | 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 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 |
 | Born Round: A Story of Family, Food and a Ferocious Appetite
Brand: Penguin (Non-Classics)
<B> <I>The New York Times</I> restaurant critic's heartbreaking and hilarious account of how he learned to love food just enough </B> <BR><BR> Frank Bruni was born round. Round as in stout, chubby, and always hungry. His relationship with eating was difficult and his struggle with it began early. When named the restaurant critic for <I>The New York Times</I> in 2004, he knew he would be performing one of the most watched tasks in the epicurean universe. And with food his friend and enemy both, his jitters focused primarily on whether he'd finally made some sense of that relationship. A captivating story of his unpredictable journalistic odyssey as well as his lifelong love-hate affair with food, <I>Born Round</I> will speak to everyone who's ever had to rein in an appetite to avoid letting out a waistband. | *$8.99 |
 | The Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfection
Brand: Penguin (Non-Classics)
In his second in-depth foray into the world of professional cooking, Michael Ruhlman journeys into the heart of the profession. Observing the rigorous Certified Master Chef exam at the Culinary Institute of America, the most influential cooking school in the country, Ruhlman enters the lives and kitchens of rising star Michael Symon and renowned Thomas Keller of the French Laundry. This fascinating book will satisfy any reader's hunger for knowledge about cooking and food, the secrets of successful chefs, at what point cooking becomes an art form, and more. Like Ruhlman's <i>The Making of a Chef</i>, this is an instant classic in food writing-one of the fastest growing and most popular subjects today. | *$7.49 |
 | For You Mom, Finally
Brand: Penguin (Non-Classics)
<B> Bestselling author Ruth Reichl examines her mother's life-and gives voice to the unarticulated truths of a generation of exceptional women </B> <BR><BR> A former <I>New York Times</I> restaurant critic, editor in chief of <I>Gourmet</I>, and the author of three bestselling memoirs, Ruth Reichl is a beloved cultural figure in the food world and beyond. <I>For You, Mom. Finally</I>. is her openhearted investigation of the life of a woman she realizes she never really knew-her mother. Through letters and diaries-and a new afterword relating the wisdom she's gained after sharing her story-Reichl confronts the transition her mother made from a hopeful young woman to an increasingly unhappy older one and recognizes the huge sacrifices made to ensure that her daughter's life would not be as disappointing as her own. | *$5.39 |
 | Salt: A World History
Brand: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Mark Kurlansky, the bestselling author of <i>Cod</i> and <i>The Basque History of the World</i>, here turns his attention to a common household item with a long and intriguing history: salt. The only rock we eat, salt has shaped civilization from the very beginning, and its story is a glittering, often surprising part of the history of humankind. A substance so valuable it served as currency, salt has influenced the establishment of trade routes and cities, provoked and financed wars, secured empires, and inspired revolutions. Populated by colorful characters and filled with an unending series of fascinating details, Kurlansky's kaleidoscopic history is a supremely entertaining, multi-layered masterpiece. | *$4.94 |
 | Jan Karon's Mitford Cookbook and Kitchen Reader: Recipes from Mitford Cooks, Favorite Tales from Mitford Books
Brand: Penguin (Non-Classics)
<B>"[Jan Karon's] wonderful cookbook is like a souvenir scrapbook to be dipped into time and again. The read world should be as good as Mitford." <BR> -<I>Cleveland Plain Dealer</I> <BR><BR> Millions of readers have discovered the delights of a trip to Mitford, and they've all found themselves hankering for mouthwatering dishes like Father Tim's Rector's Meatloaf and Esther Bolick's outrageously delicious Orange Marmalade Cake. Now, Jan Karon makes it easy to satisfy all these cravings and many more. Along with 150 fabulous recipes are Jan's personal reminiscences, dozens fo beloved scenes from each of the Mitford books, jokes, cooking tips, blessings, and a wonderful story never before published in the novels. For readers and cooks alike, <I>Jan Karon's Mitford Cookbook & Kitchen Reader</I> is a veritable feast. | *$13.50 |
 | The New Whole Foods Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Resource for Healthy Eating
Brand: Penguin (Non-Classics)
<B> The bible of nutritional eating-now fully updated for the twenty- first-century kitchen</B> <BR><BR> The average American's awareness of the relationship between diet and mental and physical well being has virtually exploded since <I>The New Whole Foods Encyclopedia</I> was first published in 1983. There has never been a greater selection of whole foods available at even a typical grocery store-but the choices can often be dizzying. <BR><BR> This new edition shows consumers how to select, prepare, store, and use more than 1,000 familiar and unusual foods to maintain optimum health and heal what ails them. Readers of Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser- as well as anyone concerned about the quality of the food they ingest- will make this the go-to resource on good nutrition. <BR><BR> This updated edition of <I>The New Whole Foods Encyclopedia</I> includes: <BR><BR> •More than two hundred new entries <BR> •A new index featuring home remedies <BR> •Line drawings illustrating unusual foods <BR> •Resources for hard-to-find foods <BR> •A fully cross-referenced format with sidebar recipes throughout <BR><BR> | *$10.69 |
 | Taste of Home: Best Church Suppers: Over 500 Potluck Favorites!
Brand: Penguin Group USA Part Number: 9780898216394
<B>Fun, fellowship, and great food-these are the ingredients that make for a successful social gathering when supplied by people like you and the <I>Taste of Home</I> Test-Kitchen experts.</B> Packed with 506 delicious, home-style recipes for bite-sized snacks, refreshing beverages, tasty appetizers, spectacular side dishes, hearty entrees, and delightful desserts-each recipe serving eight or more. You are sure to find a dish to suit any occasion-church breakfasts and suppers, potlucks, reunions, family gatherings, or any other event that draws a hungry crowd. Each recipe uses everyday ingredients and is designed to travel well. <BR><BR> Special features include:<BR> * <B>506 Crowd-Pleasing Delights</B>-Everything from sensational party starters to comforting cassoroles to breakfast and brunch tidbits <BR> * <B>Potluck Pointers </B>-Hints and tips such as preventing a slow cooker from tipping over or using rubber bands to keep the lids on your casseroles dishes. And don't forget your extension cords and serving utensils.<BR> * <B>Serve a Crowd</B>-A special chapter has recipes that serve 20, 30, even 100 people! <BR> * <B>No-Fuss Favorites</B>-Quick-and-easy dishes you can throw together when you're pressed for time.<BR> * <B>Seasonal Specialties</B>-Great year-round and holiday specialities with a no- fuss approach and execution that can be used for classroom treats, bake sales, and themed events. <BR><BR> With <B><I>Best Church Supper Recipes</B></I>, you'll never wonder what to take to a potluck again. | *$7.42 |
 | Keys to Good Cooking: A Guide to Making the Best of Foods and Recipes
Brand: Penguin Press HC, The
<B>The answers to many kitchen conundrums in one easy-to-use volume, from the author of the acclaimed culinary bible <I>On Food and Cooking. </I> </B> <BR><BR> From our foremost expert on the science of cooking, Harold McGee, <I>Keys to Good Cooking</I> is a concise and authoritative guide designed to help home cooks navigate the ever-expanding universe of ingredients, recipes, food safety, and appliances, and arrive at the promised land of a satisfying dish. <BR><BR> A work of astounding scholarship and originality, <I>Keys to Good Cooking</I> directly addresses the cook at work in the kitchen and in need of quick and reliable guidance. Cookbooks past and present frequently contradict one another about the best ways to prepare foods, and many contain erroneous information and advice. <BR><BR> <I>Keys to Good Cooking</I> distills the modern scientific understanding of cooking and translates it into immediately useful information. Looking at ingredients from the mundane to the exotic, McGee takes you from market to table, teaching, for example, how to spot the most delectable asparagus (choose thick spears); how to best prepare the vegetable (peel, don't snap, the fibrous ends; broiling is one effective cooking method for asparagus and other flat-lying vegetables); and how to present it (coat with butter or oil after cooking to avoid a wrinkled surface). This book will be a requisite countertop resource for all home chefs, as McGee's insights on kitchen safety in particular-<I>reboil refrigerated meat or fish stocks every few days. (They're so perishable that they can spoil even in the refrigerator.); Don't put ice cubes or frozen gel packs on a burn. (Extreme cold can cause additional skin damage</I>)-will save even the most knowledgeable home chefs from culinary disaster. <BR><BR> A companion volume to recipe books, a touchstone that helps cooks spot flawed recipes and make the best of them, <I>Keys to Good Cooking</I> will be of use to cooks of all kinds: to beginners who want to learn the basics, to weekend cooks who want a quick refresher in the basics, and to accomplished cooks who want to rethink a dish from the bottom up. With <I>Keys to Good Cooking</I> McGee has created an essential guide for food lovers everywhere. | *$23.10 |
 | Twain's Feast: Searching for America's Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel Clemens
Brand: Penguin Press HC, The
<b>One young food writer's search for America's lost wild foods, from New Orleans croakers to Illinois Prairie hen, with Mark Twain as his guide. </B> <BR><BR> In the winter of 1879, Mark Twain paused during a tour of Europe to compose a fantasy menu of the American dishes he missed the most. He was desperately sick of European hotel cooking, and his menu, made up of some eighty regional specialties, was a true love letter to American food: <I>Lake Trout, from Tahoe. Hot biscuits, Southern style. Canvasback-duck, from Baltimore. Black-bass, from the Mississippi.</I> <BR><BR> When food writer Andrew Beahrs first read Twain's menu in the classic work <I>A Tramp Abroad</I>, he noticed the dishes were regional in the truest sense of the word-drawn fresh from grasslands, woods, and waters in a time before railroads had dissolved the culinary lines between Hannibal, Missouri, and San Francisco. These dishes were all local, all wild, and all, Beahrs feared, had been lost in the shift to industrialized food. <BR><BR> In <I>Twain's Feast</I>, Beahrs sets out to discover whether eight of these forgotten regional specialties can still be found on American tables, tracing Twain's footsteps as he goes. Twain's menu, it turns out, was also a memoir and a map. The dishes he yearned for were all connected to cherished moments in his life-from the New Orleans croakers he loved as a young man on the Mississippi to the maple syrup he savored in Connecticut, with his family, during his final, lonely years. <BR><BR> Tracking Twain's foods leads Beahrs from the dwindling prairie of rural Illinois to a six-hundred-pound coon supper in Arkansas to the biggest native oyster reef in San Francisco Bay. He finds pockets of the country where Twain's favorite foods still exist or where intrepid farmers, fishermen, and conservationists are trying to bring them back. In <I>Twain's Feast</I>, he reminds us what we've lost as these wild foods have disappeared from our tables, and what we stand to gain from their return. <BR><BR> Weaving together passages from Twain's famous works and Beahrs's own adventures, <I>Twain's Feast</I> takes us on a journey into America's past, to a time when foods taken fresh from grasslands, woods, and waters were at the heart of American cooking. | *$10.68 |
 | The Indian Vegan Kitchen: More Than 150 Quick and Healthy Homestyle Recipes
Brand: Perigee Trade
<B>The author of <I>New Indian Home Cooking</I> presents a fresh take on Indian recipes for vegans, vegetarians, and anyone who loves Southeast Asian cuisine. </B><BR><BR> Renowned nutritionist and cooking instructor Madhu Gadia delivers a wonderful new recipe collection that is perfect for vegans looking for fresh ideas, as well as anyone who savors healthy, light recipes that don't compromise on authenticity. Unlike most Indian vegetarian cookbooks, this unique collection avoids dairy and eggs, highlighting vegetables, and making use of soy products and other simple substitutions. It also offers nutritional analyses, as well as notes on serving, history, and variations. | *$8.39 |
| | Supermarket Vegan: 225 Meat-Free, Egg-Free, Dairy-Free Recipes for Real People in the Real World
Brand: Perigee Trade
<B> An all-new collection of delicious, simple vegan dishes using easy- to-find, readily available ingredients-going vegan has never been easier. </B><BR><BR> The author of <I>The Mediterranean Vegan Kitchen</I> shows readers how to use readily-available ingredients to create healthy, delicious, simple, low-cost, and elegant family vegan meals, including: <BR><BR> •More than 225 meat-free, egg-free, dairy-free recipes for appetizers, soups, salads, main courses, side dishes, beverages and desserts <BR><BR> •No expensive and suspect meat, egg, or dairy "substitutes" <BR><BR> •Helpful preparation tips <BR><BR> •Comprehensive nutritional analysis of every recipe <BR><BR> | *$7.39 |
 | The Lost Art of Real Cooking: Rediscovering the Pleasures of Traditional Food One Recipe at a Time
Brand: Perigee Trade
<B>It's time to take back the kitchen. It's time to unlock the pantry and break free from the shackles of ready-made, industrial food. It's time to cook supper. </B> <BR><BR> <I>The Lost Art of Real Cooking</I> heralds a new old-fashioned approach to food-laborious and inconvenient, yet extraordinarily rewarding and worth bragging about. From jam, yogurt, and fresh pasta to salami, smoked meat, and strudel, Ken Albala and Rosanna Nafziger arm you with the knowledge and skills that let you connect on a deeper level with what goes into your body. <BR><BR> Ken and Rosanna celebrate the patience it takes to make your own sauerkraut and pickles. They divulge the mysteries of capturing wild sourdoughs and culturing butter, the beauty of rendering lard, making cheese, and brewing beer, all without the fancy toys that take away from the adventure of truly <I>experiencing</I> your food. <BR><BR> These foods were once made by the family, in the home, rather than a factory. And they can still be made in the smallest kitchens without expensive equipment, capturing flavors that speak of place and personality. What you won't find here is a collection of rigid rules for the perfect meal. Ken and Rosanna offer a wealth of recipes, history, and techniques that start with the basics and evolve into dishes that are entirely your own. | *$11.03 |
 | Imbibe!: From Absinthe Cocktail to Whiskey Smash, a Salute in Stories and Drinks to "Professor" Jerry Thomas, Pioneer of the American Bar Featuring the Origina
Brand: Perigee Trade
A lively, historically informed, and definitive guide to classic American cocktails. <P>Cocktail writer and historian David Wondrich presents the colorful, little-known history of classic American drinks-and the ultimate mixologist's guide-in this engaging homage to Jerry Thomas, father of the American bar. <P>Wondrich reveals never-before-published details and stories about this larger-than-life nineteenth-century figure, along with definitive recipes for 100 punches, cocktails, sours, fizzes, toddies, slings, and other essential drinks, plus twenty new recipes from today's top mixologists, created exclusively for this book. <P>This colorful and good-humored volume is a mustread for anyone who appreciates the timeless appeal of a well-made drink-and the uniquely American history behind it. | *$10.51 |
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