Monday, February 23, 2009

The Forme of Cury or The Salad Book

The Forme of Cury

Author: Samuel Pegg

As to the Romans; they would of course borrow much of their culinary arts from the Greeks though the Cook with them we are told was one of the lowest of their slaves



New interesting book: Dr Atkins New Diet Cookbook or Corazon Del Yoga

The Salad Book: Over 200 Delicious Salad Ideas for Hot and Cold Lunches, Suppers, Picnics, Family Meals and Entertaining, All Shown Step-by-Step and with 800 Fabulous Photographs

Author: Steven Wheeler

The definitive cook's collection, with over 200 mouthwatering salad recipes from around the world.



Sunday, February 22, 2009

Magic Salsa or Roots and Recipes

Magic Salsa: 125 Naturally Low-Fat Bold and Brassy Sauces to Add Flavor to Any Meal

Author: David Woods

Salsa! This Spanish word for sauce has become a well-known ingredient in kitchens across the United States. These recipes offer three distinct styles of salsa: uncooked, cooked, and a combination of both. Offering an array of vibrant colors, flavors, and textures, each recipe also includes complete nutrition information and at least one serving suggestion, but ultimately there are no rules. Experimenting is part of the fun!



Books about: Guia de Escrita de Subvenção Eficaz:Como Escrever a Nih Grant Application Próspero

Roots and Recipes: Six Generations of Heartland Cookery

Author: Vern Berry

This collection of family recipes and history provides an insight into daily life and cooking in the Midwest for six generations. Beginning with narratives of the way each couple met, married, and lived their daily lives and including sample menus from several generations, it allows the reader to see just what kind of dishes would have been prepared daily.



Saturday, February 21, 2009

Favorite Dishes or Good Morning Cook Book

Favorite Dishes

Author: Carrie V Shuman

Favorite Dishes is due to the fact that the noble women who have labored for the best interests of mankind and womankind, in the development of the Women's Department of the World's Columbian Exposition, found time to contribute this collection of recipes, as a means of enabling the compiler to open an additional avenue for women to provide the necessary funds to pay the expenses of a visit to the Exposition.



Read also Globale Probleme und die Kultur des Kapitalismus

Good Morning Cook Book

Author: Jill M Phillips

A practical guide for anyone who wants to make the morning meal memorable. Includes chapters on uncommon breakfast beverages and extras such as Bacon Bars and Bananas Grecian.



Friday, February 20, 2009

Greek Vegetarian Cookery or Acetaria

Greek Vegetarian Cookery

Author: Jack Santa Maria

From appetizers to cakes and desserts, these recipes combine the freshest ingredients—whole grain flour, olive oil, lemons, yogurt and cheese, wild herbs, among others—in ways that will tantalize the palates of both vegetarians and lovers of traditional Greek food. To complement the 200 recipes, the author outlines religious, historical, and other influences on Greek cuisine. He also relates anecdotes of his life in Greece and accounts of folk customs there. A full array of mouth-watering dishes is included, along with a note on the pronunciation of Greek words and an extensive glossary. The recipes include Cucumber and Yogurt Dip, Bean Soup with Hot Peppers, Chick Peas with Apricots, Cauliflower Fritters, Olive and Orange Salad, Cheese Rolls, Melon with Honey Dressing, and Semolina Halva.



Books about: Tax Research or Public Education

Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets (1699)

Author: Christopher Driver

First published in 1699, John Evelyn's Acetaria is an early book about food, rather than just a collection of recipes or a medical treatise - the usual forms. He discusses the merits of salad, the demerits of meat-eating, the best way to mix, to grow, to gather and to season a salad, and the place of the salad in classical literature and the early history of man. What better introduction to eating more vegetables, or growing more salad plants? John Evelyn (1620-1706) was a virtuoso, scholar and man of letters of Restoration England. His diary is required reading, his architectural and environmental treatises were prophetic, and his gardening was legendary. Acetaria is one of its fruits. It has pleased generations of readers. This is a new setting of his text, with a useful introduction putting some contemporary perspectives on his opinions, together with a full index and glossary.



Thursday, February 19, 2009

High Vitality Cooking for Health or Love on the Rocks

High Vitality Cooking for Health (Kitchen Doctor Series)

Author: Maggie Pannell

The right food can make a big difference to health, and this fantastic Kitchen Doctor series provides the health conscious home cook with a multitude of delicious recipes and healthy eating advice in every volume.



Book about: Rutherford B Hayes or Chutes and Ladders

Love on the Rocks: Men, Women, and Alcohol in Post-World War II America

Author: Lori Rotskoff

In this fascinating history of alcohol in postwar American culture, Lori Rotskoff draws on short stories, advertisements, medical writings, and Hollywood films to investigate how gender norms and ideologies of marriage intersected with scientific and popular ideas about drinking and alcoholism.

After the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, recreational drinking became increasingly accepted among white, suburban, middle-class men and women. But excessive or habitual drinking plagued many families. How did people view the "problem drinkers" in their midst? How did husbands and wives learn to cope within an "alcoholic marriage?" And how was drinking linked to broader social concerns during the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War era?

By the 1950s, Rotskoff explains, mental health experts, movie producers, and members of self-help groups like Alcoholics Anonymous and Al-Anon helped bring about a shift in the public perception of alcoholism from "sin" to "sickness." Yet alcoholism was also viewed as a family problem that expressed gender-role failure for both women and men. On the silver screen (in movies such as The Lost Weekend and The Best Years of Our Lives) and on the printed page (in stories by writers such as John Cheever), in hospitals and at Twelve Step meetings, chronic drunkenness became one of the most pressing public health issues of the day.

John W. Crowley

Lori Rotskoff, who writes wonderfully well, has filled a blank in the (gendered social history of American drinking and sobriety from Prohibition through the fifties: a subtle, engaging, and now indispensable study.

What People Are Saying

John W. Crowley
Lori Rotskoff, who writes wonderfully well, has filled a blank in the (gendered) social history of American drinking and sobriety from Prohibition through the fifties: a subtle, engaging, and now indispensable study. (John W. Crowley, author of The White Logic: Alcoholism and Gender in Modernist American Fiction)




Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction1
Ch. 1Cultures of Drink in Prohibition and Post-Repeal America17
Dissolute Manhood and the Rituals of Intemperance17
Righteous Womanhood and the Politics of Temperance27
Depression, War, and the Rise of Social Drinking34
Drink, Gender, and Sociability in the 1930s and 1940s52
Ch. 2Engendering the Alcoholic61
From Intemperance to Alcoholism61
Diagnosing the Alcoholic Man69
Problem Drinkers and Returning Veterans in Postwar Popular Culture86
Ch. 3Alcoholics Anonymous and the Culture of Sobriety105
The Social Foundations of Mutual Help in the 1930s and 1940s105
The Early Membership of Alcoholics Anonymous114
Gendered Rituals of Fellowship122
Gendered Narratives of Illness and Recovery139
Ch. 4The Dilemma of the Alcoholic Marriage149
Diagnosing the Alcoholic's Wife149
The Wives of AA and Al-Anon in the 1940s and 1950s162
Rehabilitating the Alcoholic Marriage171
Ch. 5Drink and Domesticity in Postwar America194
The Alcoholic Culture of the Postwar Subjects194
Alcohol and Family Trouble in Postwar Fiction and Popular Culture211
Drinking, Consumerism, and the Cultural Significance of Alcoholism228
Conclusion235
Notes243
Bibliography283
Index301

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Glorious Liqueurs or Gourmet Cooking for Free

Glorious Liqueurs

Author: Mary Aurea Morris

A romantic near experience in every liqueur-laced bite.



Book review: Understanding and Overcoming Depression or The Type 2 Diabetes SourceBook

Gourmet Cooking for Free

Author: Bradford Angier

Willow Creek Press is proud to bring back to print Bradford Angier's classic Gourmet Cooking for Free. First published in 1970, Gourmet Cooking for Free deserves a place on the kitchen bookshelves of a new generation. Believing that no store can supply food as fresh or nutritious as nature's own wild bounty, Angier gives unique and delicious recipes for preparing wild game, fish, and wild plants. Readers will learn and enjoy the flavor, variety, and nutrition wild foods have to offer. Chapters include Big Game (venison, bear, moose, buffalo, caribou), Game Birds (grouse, duck, partridge, quail, pheasant, goose, turkey), Small Game (beaver, rabbit, squirrel), Fish (trout, Atlantic salmon, bass, pickerel, eels), Shellfish (clams, oysters, crabs, crayfish, mussels, turtle), Edible Wild Plants (wild rice, water cress, nettle, wild onion, mustard, dandelion, cattail, plantain, fiddleheads), and Wild Fruit (blackberries, elderberries, currants, raspberries, cranberries). Anyone who savors new taste sensations in exceptional cuisine will want to take this carefully guided tour through nature's cupboard.



Monday, February 16, 2009

Con El Mantel Sobre El Terreno or Food Choice and the Consumer

Con el Mantel Sobre el Terreno

Author: Igone Marrodan

En época de vacaciones debemos aprovechar la invitación que el agradable clima veraniego ofrece. їQué mejor disfrutar de una sabrosa comida o merienda al aíre libre? Así, también se puede escapar de la rutina y gozar de la naturaleza en nuestro tiempo libre.

Es un amplio recorrido por el mundo de la cocina: desde los tradicionales cocidos a los platos más actuales. Con un lenguaje sencillo y con una letra clara, las recetas, bien equilibradas, van acompañadas en su mayoría de información útil e interesante acerca del plato y, así, de forma amena, enriquecen la cultura culinaria del lector. Aprovechando en cada época del año los productos que la naturaleza nos ofrece, esta obra destierra para siempre viejas concepciones erróneas: Cocinar no es un sufrimiento, es un placer que todos podemos disfrutar.



New interesting textbook: Imperial Hubris or Sketches from a Life

Food Choice and the Consumer

Author: David W Marshall

This book provides an interdisciplinary survey of food selection and examines each of the stages which the consumer goes through in making choices about what food to include in the daily domestic cuisine. The study of food provisioning is usually confined to the act of supplying food in the food chain, and food choice limited to sensory activities, or the retail arena. This book addresses the consumer tasks of acquiring, preparing, cooking, serving, consuming and finally disposing of food. The 'domestic food provisioning' process is under a wide range of economic, social, nutritional and scientific influences and the book draws material from a variety of disciplines. It illustrates the importance of adopting and 'integrated' approach, and the need to bridge some of the gaps that exist between the pure and social sciences. In the process it brings together an international field of expertise and offers an insight into the nature of consumer choice as an integrated set of activities. Written for those requiring an overview of this subject for commercial or academic reasons, the book provides the food industry with an insight into the demands of its customers and a way of understanding how they may be met. Lecturers and advanced students in food science, nutrition, sociology, psychology, business studies and economics will find it an essential collection of information.



Sunday, February 15, 2009

Maine Collection or Veggie Organic London

Maine Collection

Author: Portland Museum of Art

Captures the details of the McLellan-Sweat House, which houses the Portland Art Museum. Divider pages reflect the dedication to preserving the well-known landmarks of the area.



Interesting textbook: Eternal Russia Yeltsin Gorbachev and the Mirage of Democracy or Regulating Unfair Trade

Veggie & Organic London

Author: Russell Ros

Veggie and Organic London lists more than 200 restaurants, organic and health food stores, juice bars, and vegetarian caterers (as well as social and activist groups) to help you enjoy meat-free and organic dining while exploring one of the most exciting cities in the world. Shunning the tired and the tiresomely chewy, Veggie and Organic London introduces visitors to some of the freshest, most flavorful food the city has to offer.

Comprehensive and discerning, these handsomely designed travel guides cover a range of special interests, from art and architecture to food and shopping. Packed with practical travel tips as well as the kind of information you won't find in other books, these are first-class companions for travelers to London.

Library Journal

Restaurant reviewer and nutrition writer Rose has compiled a convenient and detailed guide for vegetarians and organic foodies traveling to or living in London. Restaurants and shops are organized by neighborhood, with maps providing locations and landmarks. Each review has a helpful key to cost, taste, and portion of the menu that is vegetarian or organic, as well as information on hours, child friendliness, and the availability of vegan options and alcohol. Rose reviews everything from the smallest caf s to well-known expensive destinations, providing recommendations on menu choices, comments on service, and other quirky observations. He also provides information on contact groups, supermarket chains, organic gardening courses, and hotels accommodating for vegetarians. A handy size to slip in a pocket or purse, this attractive guide promises to lead both vegetarians and omnivorous food lovers to some of the most reasonably priced and diverse meals in London. Recommended for travel collections and for all hungry visitors to London.-Melissa Stearns, Franklin Pierce Coll. Lib., NH Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.



Friday, February 13, 2009

Maine Collection or Veggie Organic London

Maine Collection

Author: Portland Museum of Art

Captures the details of the McLellan-Sweat House, which houses the Portland Art Museum. Divider pages reflect the dedication to preserving the well-known landmarks of the area.



Interesting textbook: Eternal Russia Yeltsin Gorbachev and the Mirage of Democracy or Regulating Unfair Trade

Veggie & Organic London

Author: Russell Ros

Veggie and Organic London lists more than 200 restaurants, organic and health food stores, juice bars, and vegetarian caterers (as well as social and activist groups) to help you enjoy meat-free and organic dining while exploring one of the most exciting cities in the world. Shunning the tired and the tiresomely chewy, Veggie and Organic London introduces visitors to some of the freshest, most flavorful food the city has to offer.

Comprehensive and discerning, these handsomely designed travel guides cover a range of special interests, from art and architecture to food and shopping. Packed with practical travel tips as well as the kind of information you won't find in other books, these are first-class companions for travelers to London.

Library Journal

Restaurant reviewer and nutrition writer Rose has compiled a convenient and detailed guide for vegetarians and organic foodies traveling to or living in London. Restaurants and shops are organized by neighborhood, with maps providing locations and landmarks. Each review has a helpful key to cost, taste, and portion of the menu that is vegetarian or organic, as well as information on hours, child friendliness, and the availability of vegan options and alcohol. Rose reviews everything from the smallest caf s to well-known expensive destinations, providing recommendations on menu choices, comments on service, and other quirky observations. He also provides information on contact groups, supermarket chains, organic gardening courses, and hotels accommodating for vegetarians. A handy size to slip in a pocket or purse, this attractive guide promises to lead both vegetarians and omnivorous food lovers to some of the most reasonably priced and diverse meals in London. Recommended for travel collections and for all hungry visitors to London.-Melissa Stearns, Franklin Pierce Coll. Lib., NH Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.



Maine Collection or Veggie Organic London

Maine Collection

Author: Portland Museum of Art

Captures the details of the McLellan-Sweat House, which houses the Portland Art Museum. Divider pages reflect the dedication to preserving the well-known landmarks of the area.



Interesting textbook: Eternal Russia Yeltsin Gorbachev and the Mirage of Democracy or Regulating Unfair Trade

Veggie & Organic London

Author: Russell Ros

Veggie and Organic London lists more than 200 restaurants, organic and health food stores, juice bars, and vegetarian caterers (as well as social and activist groups) to help you enjoy meat-free and organic dining while exploring one of the most exciting cities in the world. Shunning the tired and the tiresomely chewy, Veggie and Organic London introduces visitors to some of the freshest, most flavorful food the city has to offer.

Comprehensive and discerning, these handsomely designed travel guides cover a range of special interests, from art and architecture to food and shopping. Packed with practical travel tips as well as the kind of information you won't find in other books, these are first-class companions for travelers to London.

Library Journal

Restaurant reviewer and nutrition writer Rose has compiled a convenient and detailed guide for vegetarians and organic foodies traveling to or living in London. Restaurants and shops are organized by neighborhood, with maps providing locations and landmarks. Each review has a helpful key to cost, taste, and portion of the menu that is vegetarian or organic, as well as information on hours, child friendliness, and the availability of vegan options and alcohol. Rose reviews everything from the smallest caf s to well-known expensive destinations, providing recommendations on menu choices, comments on service, and other quirky observations. He also provides information on contact groups, supermarket chains, organic gardening courses, and hotels accommodating for vegetarians. A handy size to slip in a pocket or purse, this attractive guide promises to lead both vegetarians and omnivorous food lovers to some of the most reasonably priced and diverse meals in London. Recommended for travel collections and for all hungry visitors to London.-Melissa Stearns, Franklin Pierce Coll. Lib., NH Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.



Thursday, February 12, 2009

Flower Power or Asparagus

Flower Power

Author: P Allen

This is a manuscript that explores the use and simplicity of flowers in recipes. The fact is, flowers are the source of a lot of nutrition that we have lost since the 1800s. Using the products of your garden is to use them in conjunction with the recipes that people still have, and to enhance their dishes, not only for the eye, but taste too!



Go to: Medieval England or International Trade and Agriculture

Asparagus (Quamut)

Author: Quamut

Quamut is the fastest, most convenient way to learn how to do almost anything. From tasting wine to managing your retirement accounts, Quamut gives you reliable information in a concise chart format that you can take anywhere. Quamut charts are:

  • Authoritative: Written by experts in their field so you have the most reliable information available.
  • Clear: Our explanations take you step-by-step through everything from performing CPR to threading a needle.
  • Concise: You’ll learn just what you need to know—no more, no less.
  • Precise: Quamut charts include detailed text, photos, and illustrations to show you exactly how to do just about anything.
  • Portable: Your know-how goes with you wherever your projects lead.
Asparagus, explained.

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

  • The history, different types, and nutritional value of asparagus
  • What to look for when buying asparagus, and how to store it after you buy
  • How to cook asparagus in the most popular and tastiest ways



Monday, February 9, 2009

Handbook of North European Garden Plants or Americas Best Brews

Handbook of North European Garden Plants: With Keys to Families and Genera

Author: James Cullen

This book provides a means for the accurate identification of over 190 families and 2220 genera of flowering plants cultivated out-of-doors in gardens in north-west Europe and in other geographical regions with a similar climate, including parts of North America. The text is an abridged version of The European Garden Flora, published in six volumes, and consitutes a handy single volume digest that considers families and genera, but not species. A key to all the families is provided and for each of the families, a key to the genera within it. Scientifically rigorous descriptions of families and genera follow, including information on the number of constituent genera or species, and details of geographical distribution. Illustrations of genera from most of the major families are included to aid accurate identification.



Read also Soups and Stews or First Impressions

America's Best Brews

Author: Steve Johnson

This guidebook helps you identify what you're tasting. Brew connoissuer Steve Johnson quaffed more than 2,000 types of the best and tastiest craft beers.



Sunday, February 8, 2009

Food in the Ancient World or Philosopher Fish

Food in the Ancient World

Author: John M Wilkins

In Food in the Ancient World, a respected classicist and a practising world-class chef explore a millennium of eating and drinking.


• Explores a millennium of food consumption, from c.750 BC to 200 AD.

• Shows the pivotal role food had in a world where it was linked with morality and the social order.

• Concerns people from all walks of life – impoverished citizens subsisting on cereals to the meat-eating elites.

• Describes religious sacrifices, ancient dinner parties and drinking bouts, as well as exotic foods and recipes.

• Considers the role of food in ancient literature from Homer to Juvenal and Petronius.



Table of Contents:
1An overview of food in antiquity4
2The social context of eating41
3Food and ancient religion81
4Staple foods : cereals and pulses112
5Meat and fish142
6Wine and drinking166
7Food in ancient thought187
8Medical approaches to food213
9Food in literature247

Read also 23rd Precinct or The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion

Philosopher Fish: Sturgeon, Caviar, and the Geography of Desire

Author: Richard Adams Carey

From the acclaimed Rick Carey ("a humanist and a journalist of considerable depth" Washington Post), a fascinating chronicle of a fast-disappearing fish-and of the people whose lives and livelihoods depend on it.

Since the days of the Persian Empire, caviar has trumpeted status, wealth, prestige, and sex appeal. Today it goes for up to one hundred dollars an ounce, and aficionados will go to extraordinary lengths to get their fill of it. According to acclaimed writer Richard Adams Carey, that's just the problem. In this spectacular jaunt, Carey immerses himself in the world of sturgeon, the fish that lays these golden eggs. What he finds is disturbing: Sturgeon populations worldwide have declined 70 percent in the last twenty years, most drastically in the Caspian Sea. The beluga sturgeon, producer of the most coveted caviar, has climbed to number four on the World Wildlife Fund's most-endangered species list. Armed with a novelist's eye for human eccentricity and an investigator's nose for trouble, Carey takes us on an illuminating journey across the globe to uncover the secrets of the sturgeon. On that trek we meet the fascinating real-life characters both profiting from its scarcity and fighting to save it. A high-stakes cocktail of business, diplomacy, technology, and espionage, The Philosopher Fish is, at its heart, the epic story of a 250-million-year-old fish struggling to survive.

Author Biography: Richard Adams Carey was born in Connecticut and educated at Harvard College. After his graduation he went to work in a northwestern saw-mill, and he has since divided his time between Alaska and New England. His previous book, Against the Tide, was a portrait of four of the last one-man, one-boat fishermen on Cape Cod. He lives in Center Sandwich, New Hampshire.

Kirkus Reviews

Hard to imagine that a story about fish eggs could be "fast-paced," not to mention prophetic. But this piece of environmental journalism is both. Carey (Against the Tide, 1999, etc.) traces the rise of the caviar industry and the concomitant decline of the sturgeon. Caviar dates to at least the 13th century, when a Mogol king dined on the eggs at a monastery, though in medieval Russia caviar was not a luxury-even peasants ate the "blackberry jam of tiny globes." By the late 19th century, the taste for roe had spread to Germany, France, and the US, where it quickly achieved delicacy status and remains one of the most expensive epicurean dishes around: at Manhattan's upscale Petrossian, says Carey, two ounces of beluga caviar cost well over a hundred dollars. Just a century ago, sturgeon were everywhere, the big kid on the block in most river systems in the northern hemisphere; but now the creatures whose eggs are so delectable have been overfished and are on the brink of extinction. Carey introduces scientists, entrepreneurs, and activists who are trying hard to keep the sturgeon around, though as is often the case with environmental policy, red tape and competing interests mean slow progress. A long tousle over the status of beluga sturgeon under the Endangered Spices Act culminated in 2004 with the listing of the fish as threatened, but the fate of beluga caviar imports to the US is still up in the air. In relating all this, Carey introduces some charming characters, from Petrossian's head buyer, Eve Vega, to crusading lawyer biologist Frank Chapman. As for the subtitle, don't be skeptical: this really is a book about desire. It's about how Americans balance supply and demand, how "wediscipline ourselves to measure our desires against finite means." As such, it's a book about America in microcosm. Caviar, it turns out, is not just tasty. In Carey's hands, it's luminous.



Saturday, February 7, 2009

Quickflip to Delicious Dinners or Little Wok Cookbook

Quickflip to Delicious Dinners

Author: Eileen Faughey

Quickflip to Delicious Dinners is not an ordinary cookbook. It's a unique cooking system that makes it easy to add variety and health to dinners- without learning lots of new recipes. Its innovative format shows how to transform 10 basic recipes into 50 popular dishes, simply by changing a few ingredients.

  • The Quickflip is easier, faster, and more versatile than a traditional cookbook. Recipes are simplified so that people will actually use them instead of simply collecting them.
  • The Quickflip takes popular dinner recipes such as pasta, stir fries, pizza, and soups, and shows you how to make healthy international variations by simply changing a few ingredients. Using a single set of instructions for each recipe, you can create five or more different and delicious versions of that dish. The Quickflip organizes recipes into an easy to use, convenient, and practical format. This unique format allows you to follow the recipes exactly or create additional variations.
  • The Quickflip includes a pantry list and is color-coded to make shopping easy. It includes nutrition facts and food exchange information, and it's full of practical cooking hints and nutrition tips.
  • Color photography and a built-in counter-top easel make the Quickflip appealing and convenient to use.
  • When you Quickflip to Delicious Dinners, you'll make the transition from thinking about eating well to actually doing it!

For nutritionists and other health professionals, the Quickflip is also a useful teaching tool. It can be used to teach how to stock a pantry, how to make a variety of healthy meals from a basic recipe, cooking techniques that add flavor and nutrients without extra fat, and how to use herbs and spices creatively.

About the Author:

Eileen Faughey, M.A., R.D. is a nutritionist in private practice. She blends her nutrition knowledge and culinary expertise to introduce this unique approach to making delicious, healthy meals.

Environmental Nutrition

A novel way of following recipes and planning healthful dinners.

Jan Ellen Spiegel

Provides a foundation so cooks can walk into their kitchens and create dinner out of whatever's available. -- San Francisco Examiner

Womens Magazine

The Quickflip offers good-tasting meals that are sure to satisfy all members of the family.beautifully designed.an answer to today's fast-paced lifestyle.

What People Are Saying

Mary Rogers
A very clever recipe system. It helps busy people make something new and different without a lot of effort. -- (Mary Rogers, author of Dinner! software)


Bonnie Taub-Dix
I highly recommend this book to those who are tired of making the same old thing and would like to be more creative with familiar ingredients. -- (Bonnie Taub-Dix, M.A., R.D., quoted in Newsday)




Go to: The Dittoheads Guide to Adult Beverages or Fish for Thought

Little Wok Cookbook

Author: Smithmark

The Little Wok Cookbook is a colorful and varied collection of Far East-inspired recipes that are quick to prepare and delectable to eat.



Friday, February 6, 2009

Food Culture in France or Complete Encyclopedia of Wine

Food Culture in France (Food Culture around the World Series)

Author: Julia Abramson

French cooking has been seen as the pinnacle of gastronomy. Food Culture in France provides an accessible tour of haute cuisine but also mainly the everyday food culture that sustains the populace. It illuminates the French way of life as well as showing what the popular cooking shows, such as Julia Child's, were based on. Readers will find the basics discussed in narrative chapters on food history, major foods and ingredients, cooking, typical meals, eating out, and diet and health.



New interesting textbook: Smoothies Blends and Shakes or Cooking from the Heart

Complete Encyclopedia of Wine: How to Choose and Enjoy the Wines of the World

Author: Robert Joseph

The Complete Encyclopedia of Wine provides essential information on which wines to drink region by region?from California to New Zealand, and from the grandest Bordeaux ch'teau to the minutest estate in Chianti or the most high-tech Napa winery?covering the best vintages of the leading vineyards and the exciting output of the small wineries. Hundreds of the world's great wines are described and evaluated. Every page is an information-packed celebration of the world's most varied and complex alcoholic beverage. It won't turn you into an instant wine expert, but it will provide you with the knowledge you need to buy wine with confidence and so enhance your enjoyment of the luscious liquor of the vine.



Thursday, February 5, 2009

Sunkist Recipes or Home Magic

Sunkist Recipes

Author: Alice Bradley

Alice Bradley, Principal of Miss Farmer's School of Cookery (Boston, MA) compiles sweet and savory recipes using Sunkist oranges and lemons.



See also: Entendimiento de Tejidos

Home Magic: The 10 Minute Table Decorator

Author: Betterway Books

Complete with glowing illustrations, this inspirational guide includes ideas and advice for creating unique table decorations and place settings for parties, formal dining, and everyday meals. Full color.



Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Grannys Taste of Christmas or Permission to Party

Granny's Taste of Christmas

Author: Dianne C Evans

293 of Granny's treasured family holiday recipes. Christmas dinner with all the trimmings, 61 Southern Christmas cakes and cheesecakes. Delicious gifts for shut-ins. Delightful original Granny artwork. Tips and Granny funny wisdoms. Christmas carols for family "sing-alongs". A great Christmas gift!



Books about: Die Populistische Vision

Permission to Party

Author: Jill Murphy Long

Probably the most pressing need for women today is to take a little time for themselves. Weighed down with the demands of dual careers, household responsibilities, child rearing and marriage, today’s busy woman lets her friendships suffer, and she never feels she has the time to nurture herself. Third in the Permission to... series, Permission to Party is a beautifully illustrated book that gives women permission to enjoy life to the fullest.

Permission to Party lets women know it’s OK (and even necessary) to take care of themselves and also tells them how to carve the time out of a busy schedule. It then gives them a plethora of imaginative ideas and techniques to use.

This elegant, fun book includes ways to nurture relationships and foster self-expression by bringing people together for meals and celebrations in intimate settings or large groups, as well as how to create your own quiet or playful celebration rituals to mark either special occasions or accomplishments. Plus, Permission to Party includes simple recipes, aromatherapy tips, uplifting music recommendations, party themes and party decorating ideas.



Table of Contents:
Introduction1
Chapter 1Women Who Celebrate Wholeheartedly: And Without Permission5
Chapter 2Making Time for Fun: Everyday Celbrations21
Chapter 3Merry Days: Twelve Heartwarming Invitations43
Chapter 4How the World Celebrates: Carnivals, Festivals, and Other Excuses65
Chapter 5Life's Milestones: Precious Moments83
Chapter 6Great Traditions: Making Memories111
Chapter 7Up and Away: Picnics and Tailgating Parties131
Chapter 8Parties for Two: Scrumptious Secrets153
Chapter 9Home Sweet Home: Celebrate Your Life169
Chapter 10Parties Made Easy: Smashing Successes189
Resources: Recommended Reading215

Monday, February 2, 2009

Cooking for Two or Karma Cookbook

Cooking for Two

Author: Jean Par

Cooking for Two is the twenty-eighth title in the popular Company's Coming series of cookbooks. After years of experience as a professional caterer and with four children now grown, Jean Pare knows firsthand the challenge of cooking for two. Responding to a growing demand for recipes that make fewer servings, she has created this diverse collection of small-quantity recipes that are quick, easy and use everyday ingredients. The result is an impressive assortment of appetizers, soups, casseroles, main courses, quick breads, desserts and more. Whether it's an occasion for a satisfying Asparagus Soup or decadent Amber Cheesecake, Cooking for Two serves up the perfect portions.



Table of Contents:
The Jean Pare Story6
Foreword7
Appetizers8
Beverages11
Breads & Quick Breads13
Cakes28
Cookies40
Desserts45
Main Courses64
Pies105
Salads115
Sauces129
Soup133
Squares139
Vegetables146
Measurement Tables151
Index152
Mail Order Form158

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Karma Cookbook: Great Tasting Dishes to Nourish Your Body and Feed Your Soul

Author: Boy Georg

A hundred flavorful macrobiotic recipes that benefit health and mood—as eaten by pop icon Boy George and cooked by nutritionist Dragana Brown. Complete with stylish color photos, preparation tips, and plenty of irreverent anecdotes.

When Boy George—the “Karma Chameleon” himself—discovered macrobiotic cooking, it changed his life, bringing him new levels of health and happiness. In the Karma Cookbook, he joins forces with his great friend and macrobiotic mentor, Dragana Brown, to offer up dozens of recipes that will tantalize your taste buds and boost your immune system. Ranging from nourishing soups and wholesome main dishes to healthy drinks and sugar–free desserts, the recipes are accompanied by expert knowledge, practical advice, and cheeky commentary. Among the delights: Creamy Carrot Soup, Sizzling Soba, Crunchy Filo Parcels, Watercress and Shiitake Salad, and Apricots with Vanilla Custard.



Sunday, February 1, 2009

Bachelorette Dares or Vintage Feasting

Bachelorette Dares

Author: Courtney Cook

What do you do at a bachelorette party? Go out on the town and take this entertaining deck with you! It contains dozens of outrageous dares for various destinations that will give the bride-to-be a night to remember.



Interesting book: The Clean Tech Revolution or Good Neighbors Bad Times

Vintage Feasting: A Vintner's Year of Fine Wines, Good Times, and Gifts from Nature's Garden

Author: Joy Sterling

Join Joy Sterling on a stroll through the vineyards and gardens of California's Iron Horse Vineyards, into her kitchen and to her table. Filled with charming anecdotes, a year's worth of news from the grapevine, and imaginative menus and recipes, this is a delightful window into her life as wine lover, epicure, philosopher, and hostess.

Vintage Feasting

February 14. The vineyards are asleep. Our Valentine's Day feast is fresh, cracked Dungeness crab soup cooked with Fumé Blanc, served with garlic mayonnaise and bubbly....

In settings suffused with the scents of Giverny-like gardens, Joy shares secrets of tasting and cooking with wine, reveals her own experiments with menus and vintages, and explains why certain pairings of food and wine endure. And she exults in life's surprises, like the magical cluster of rare morels that appeared one day under a century-old Douglas fir and became an exotic ragout.

Whether it's savoring the intense aromas of crushed violets in a young Cabernet Sauvignon; recalling a culinary adventure at Paul Bocuse's restaurant; drinking in the Provence scents of zinnias and lavenders; or concocting a Halloween dinner of turban squash, Vintage Feasting is a treasure of fascinating lore, succulent menus, memorable wines—and a zest for enjoying life that leaves us refreshed, delighted, and inspired anew.

Publishers Weekly

A year in the life of a California wine producer and connoisseur, sans pretense. (Oct.)