Salads books

Sophie Grigsons Country Kitchen or Spirit of the Earth

2009-12-06T14:19:00.000-08:00

Sophie Grigson's Country Kitchen

Author: Sophie Grigson

Sophie Grigson's modern and relaxed approach to cooking has appealed to her fans for over a decade, in books like Organic, Fish, and Sophie Grigson's Sunshine Food. Here, Sophie's collected more than 120 recipes that make the most of seasonal food.

Fresh food has always been the cornerstone of Sophie Grigson's cooking, and country living ensures that she has fine produce throughout the year. Her own garden, local markets, to say nothing of what grows wild in the fields--all inspire her to create simple recipes for friends and family. In Sophie Grigson's Country Kitchen, you will find such seasonal pleasures as Pot-Roast Chicken with Leeks and Spring Herbs, Spiced Eggplant Salad, Roast Christmas Goose, and Garden Rhubarb and Honey Compote. Filled with gorgeous color shots of the food, the countryside, and the produce, Sophie Grigson makes cooking an all-year-round delight.

Spirit of the Earth: Native Cooking from Latin America

Author: Beverly Cox

In Spirit of the Earth, award-winning authors Beverly Cox and Martin Jacobs celebrate the rich cuisine of native Latin American cultures through 125 authentic recipes-from the peppery ajis and scrumptious ceviches of Peru and Chile to the honeyed desserts of the Yucatán Peninsula and the sophisticated moles of Mexico. Traditional recipes for familiar items like tortillas, tamales, and guacamole are included, as well as such delicacies as Pompano in Garlic and Chile Sauce, Quinoa and Potato Gratin, and Spicy Peanut Chowder.

Full-color photographs styled with genuine Latin American artifacts enrich this substantial volume, and cultural essays by noted authorities Michael D. Coe and Jack Weatherford introduce each chapter. Recipes for appetizers and snacks, sauces and seasonings, side dishes, main courses, beverages, and desserts follow. A glossary, explanations of basic techniques, and a list of sources for authentic ingredients complete the book.

Author Biography: Beverly Cox has written 10 cookbooks, including Spirit of the Harvest, co-authored with Martin Jacobs (Stewart, Tabori & Chang), which won James Beard and IACP Awards.

Martin Jacobs is an award-winning food photographer who has photographed more than 40 cookbooks.

Indulgence or Real Chocolate

2009-12-05T10:38:00.000-08:00

Indulgence: One Man's Selfless Search for the Best Chocolate

Author: Paul Richardson

From Willy Wonka to Ferrero Rocher, chocolate is embedded in our culture as perhaps no other foodstuff. And although it has been swooned over endlessly in print, Indulgence takes the subject into entirely new realms. In a pleasurable mélange of travel narrative, historical writing, and literary gastronomy, Paul Richardson discovers a substance that still has much to say about the joys and agonies of our human debt to pleasure. In this whimsical chronicle of one of mankind's ruling passions, he concludes that, despite the wholesale debasement of a once-sacred substance, chocolate has lost none of its mysterious capacity to bewitch. Paul Richardson is one of Britain's leading food historians.

The New York Times - Tobin Harshaw

A British food historian, Richardson is sometimes trenchant, sometimes sophomoric, but always good-humored. And while he has a thorough grasp of how this Central American plant took on its ritual and romantic baggage, he's more interested in finding out, on foot, how that history lives on today.

New interesting textbook: Hippos Go Berserk or Skippyjon Jones in the Doghouse

Real Chocolate

Author: Chantal Coady

In Rococo Real Chocolate Chantal Coady, proprietor of London's exquisite Rococo Chocolates in King's Road presents over 50 groundbreaking and highly unusual recipes that anyone can make at home. Painstakingly tested and illustrated with beautiful, easy-to-follow, step-by-step photographs, the book makes the mysterious art of chocolate accessible to the amateur home enthusiast. Coady is an ardent proponent of what she calls "Real Chocolate" and explains the difference between excellent natural ingredients - the only used in Rococo recipes - and the over-sweetened, fat and additive-laden confections most widely marketed in the world today. Simply put, "Real Chocolate" is chocolate made with only the very finest all-natural ingredients. Fun to make and divine to taste! Recipes will include basics like plain and flavoured ganaches and truffles, decorative chocolate leaves and curls; unusual offerings like chocolate tempura and white chocolate and cardamom pannacotta, and savory recipes like black beans with ginger and cocoa, and chocolate tapenade.

The book is also filled with amazing chocolate lore from irrefutable evidence of chocolate's physical and mental health benefits, to the fact that white chocolate is the closest thing found in nature to human breast milk!

Author Biography: Chantal Coady is founder of the Campaign for Real Chocolate and co-founder of the Chocolate Society. She is evangelical in her mission to share with the world the "Real Chocolate" she has sold in her shop for over 15 years.

Publishers Weekly

Founder of London's Rococo chocolate shop and author of two previous chocolate books, Coady has now unleashed her inexhaustible passion for all things chocolate onto a full-scale cookbook. Coady (who co-founded the standard-bearing Chocolate Society) has made it her personal mission to keep the informed consumer away from "fast chocolate," with its hydrogenated fats and nasty byproducts. Despite its principled stance, this is a highly functional cookbook. It can be used as a chocolate primer-how to make ganache and truffles, how to temper chocolate, how to work with simple molds. But it also contains an intriguing exploration of chocolate as a savory ingredient (a gesture toward chocolate's often overlooked South American origins). Many of these depend on an unexpectedly logical invention: chocolate-balsamic vinegar, the active ingredient in Hangover Fried Eggs; Eggplant, Chocolate and Goat Cheese Pizzettes; and Quick Pan-roasted Chicken with Chocolate Vinegar. Coady also covers surer territory with Classic Mousse, old-fashioned hot cocoa, Chocolate Brownies and an assortment of the usual cakes and cookies. While ingredients can be expensive and not always easy to find (Coady has a ruinous affection for saffron and cocoa nibs, for example), the recipes are generally appealing and straightforward. The photographs are mouthwatering and the design elegant beyond belief-virtual prerequisites for chocolate books. (Feb.)

Library Journal

Coady (The Chocolate Companion; Chocolate: Food of the Gods) acquired an international following with her London chocolate shop, Rococo. Her new, lavishly illustrated book features recipes as well as a history of chocolate and "master classes" on ganache, tempering, and other special techniques. Along with indulgent, mouth-watering desserts and other treats (e.g., drinks such as Chocolate Manhattans), she offers an eclectic selection of savory recipes, from Chocolate Tempura to Pan-Roasted Chicken with Chocolate Vinegar (some of her "nonsweets" may be a bit too exotic for many readers). It's a bit surprising that she doesn't include more information on chocolates with "high cocoa content" (i.e., extra bittersweet and the like) that are increasingly available to consumers. Nevertheless, professionals and other chocolate lovers will find her latest book delectable and a bargain; for most baking collections. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Tray Gourmet or Pickled Herring and Pumpkin Pie

2009-12-04T06:56:00.000-08:00

Tray Gourmet: Be Your Own Chef in the College Cafeteria

Author: Larry Berger

The college cookbook spiced with academic humor. Great gift idea.

Publishers Weekly

Dotted with cleverly named recipes, whimsical illustrations, even admonishments for parents--``the authors in no way mean to imply that ownership of Tray Gourmet by your child should cause you to interrupt or discontinue your regular care package schedule''--this thoroughly entertaining book is surprisingly accurate, entirely practical and professionally wrought. This work of Yale graduates--writers Berger ( Up Your Score: The Underground Guide to Psyching Out the SAT ) and Harris and cartoonist Kalb--will sit on the top of college freshmen packing lists, since it literally teaches students how to beat the system and eat ``gourmet'' (i.e., fun and healthy) meals out of their student cafeteria. The basic precept involves utilizing a combination of cafeteria-line fare, salad-bar ingredients, condiments and the ubiquitous microwave oven. Recipes range from the classic ``I Think Therefore I Ham Salad'' (made with condiments and salad-bar items) and ``Fond O' You Cheese Fondue'' (``great for entertaining large groups of friends in the cafeteria''), to a chapter entitled ``Solving the Mystery Meat,'' featuring ``Bitchin' Surf Burger'' and other lower-brow treats. The authors know college students' limitations, and leave little to chance. Ingredients are measured by teaspoons, soup spoons, heaping teaspoons or soup spoons, handfuls, cups, glasses, bowls or pats. (Feb.)

Pickled Herring and Pumpkin Pie: A Nineteenth-Century Cookbook for German Immigrants to America

Author: Henriette Davidis

Pickled Herring and Pumpkin Pie is the reprint of a best-selling nineteenth-century German cookbook that was adapted for Germans living in America. As several German-language editions were published in Milwaukee, the recipes and other information evolved considerably, and the book was eventually translated into English with the title Practical Cookbook.

The result is a fascinating mix of recipes from Old and New Worlds, ranging from traditional German fare (see the Beef Rouladen) to very American dishes (try the version of Strawberry Shortcake) to frontier cuisine-how about some roasted beaver tails? In addition to such culinary delights, Pickled Herring and Pumpkin Pie offers a glimpse into life in a nineteenth-century immigrant household and how immigrants tried to preserve the old ways while adapting to a new environment. Features of the cookbook include advice on how to use such "new" ingredients as corn or equipment like the Dutch oven, and how to shop in America, grow a proper kitchen garden, preserve food, cook medicinal dishes, and entertain properly.

Pickled Herring and Pumpkin Pie offers authentic immigrant recipes in their cultural, social, and historical context. It is a delightful resource for epicures with a historical bent as well as for those who enjoy learning more about the day-to-day life of their ancestors.

Distributed for the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies

Author Biography: Henriette Davidis (1801-1876) is widely regarded as Germany's most famous and influential cookbook author. A minister's daughter from Westphalia, she spent her young adult years working as a house mistress at wealthy estates and as a teacher at a school for young women. Striving to educate her students to be good housewives and proper young ladies, she saw a lack of written guidelines in the education of young girls and women, especially in their education as young cooks.

In the middle of the nineteenth century, at a time when more than four hundred mostly regional cookbooks were already flooding the German market, Davidis created a cookbook of "tested recipes" from all over German-speaking Europe, recipes that were so clear "that even inexperienced young housewives and children could follow them and become good cooks." Her Practical Cookbook, first published in 1844, became an instant success. It went through twenty personally revised editions during her lifetime, and another forty-two editions before 1906. It was translated into Danish, Dutch, and English.

Roman Community at Table during the Principate or Feast of Words

2009-12-03T03:15:00.000-08:00

Roman Community at Table during the Principate

Author: John Donahu

"This book is indispensable both for ancient history and for food history, since it sets the moralizing literature of the Roman republic and empire within the correcting frame of epigraphy to clearly reveal the ordering of status and gender at meal times. Donahue offers fascinating reflections on public and private dining, doing for Roman politics what Pauline Schmitt did for the Greek polis. The Roman Community at Table during the Principate brilliantly ties meal times into the practices of Rome's Hellenistic predecessors and richly reflects the religious and cultural contexts of eating."
---John Wilkins, University of Exeter
"Donahue gives a riveting account of Roman communal dining in the civic sphere. Assembling scattered, difficult evidence, and employing apt cross-cultural comparisons, he skillfully constructs a picture of an activity central to public life in the Roman west, and of its social, economic, and ideological consequences."
---Matthew Roller, Johns Hopkins University

Ranging from the extravagant banquets of the emperors to the numerous feasts in cities and towns throughout the Western Empire, John F. Donahue's new study examines public feasting in Rome during the first four centuries of the Common Era. Taking as its starting point the development of feasting in ancient Greece and then in Rome, this study brings to the fore the importance of the publicly shared meal in ancient culture and its particular significance within the Roman Empire.
Previous studies have focused on the Roman feast largely for its structural and symbolic elements. Through a careful assessment of ancient evidence and modern comparative material, Donahue breaks newground by focusing on the "public" banquet, allowing the exploitation of a broad range of literary and epigraphic texts. The resulting treatment provides the first comprehensive examination of areas such as festal terminology, the social roles of benefactors and beneficiaries, the kinds of foods offered at feasts, and the role of public venues in community banquets.
Donahue's unique study relies on over three hundred Latin honorary inscriptions to recreate the ancient Roman feast. Illustrations depicting these inscriptions, as well as the food supply trades and various festal venues, bring important evidence to the study of this vital and enduring social practice. This book reveals the integral place of feasting in ancient culture as well as the unique power of food to unite and to separate its recipients along class lines throughout the Roman Empire. It will be of interest not only to classicists and historians of the ancient world, but also to anthropologists and sociologists interested in food and social group dynamics.

Interesting book: Poder Curatico de la Orina or Autism

Feast of Words: Banquets and Table Talk in the Renaissance

Author: Michael Jeanneret

The banquet gives rise to a special moment when thought and the senses—words and food—enhance each other. Throughout history, the ideal of the symposium has reconciled the angel and the beast in the human, renewing the interdependence between the mouth that speaks and the mouth that eats. Michel Jeanneret's lively book explores the paradigm of the banquet as a guide to significant tendencies in Renaissance Humanist culture and shows how this culture in turn illuminates the tensions between physical and mental pleasures. Ranging widely over French, Italian, German, and Latin texts, Jeanneret not only investigates the meal as a narrative artefact but enquires as well into aspects of sixteenth-century anthropology and aesthetics.

Booknews

Jenneret (French literature, U. of Geneva) explores the paradigm of the banquet as a guide to significant tendencies in Renaissance Humanist culture and shows how this culture in turn illuminates the tensions between physical and mental pleasures--between the mouth that speaks and the mouth that eats. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Introduction
Part I - Pleasure and the norm
1. Humanism on holiday
The feast of the gods
The al fresco meal
Conviviality
The head and the stomach
2. Ceremonies and manners
Civility
Manners and Mannerism
The pomp of princes
Officers of the mouth
3. Rules for the appetite
An archaeology of the table
Diet
Medicine v. cookery
Part II - When the fable comes to table
4. Table talk
Convivial speech
A mouth full of words
Philologists or logophiles?
5. Eating the text
Storytelling while eating
'Our after-dinner entertainers'
'My salad and my Muse'
The marrow bone
Metaphors of bibliophagy
6. Classical banquets
Philosophy at meal time
Satire and its cooking
Greedy grammarians
7. Something for every taste
The copious and the varied
Erasmus: feasting on words
Guillaume Bouchet: stuffings
Giordano Bruno: the failed banquet
8. Dog Latin and macronic poetry
Dog Latin, cooks' talk and gibberish
Folengo and the ars macaronica
Muses with greasy hands
'My country is a pumpkin'
9. 'The centre of all books'
'Monarch of ecumenical symposia'
'You only talk about sex'
'Edible syllables and letters'
'I've never seen people talk so much'
Conclusion
Imitatio/Mimesis
Writing and nature
Paradoxical metaphors
Naturalizing the narrative?
Writing in action
Bibliography
Index

Magic Herbs or Chefs Compendium of Professional Recipes

2009-12-01T23:34:00.000-08:00

Magic Herbs: More Than 200 Delicious & Healthy Recipes That are Naturally Low-Fat & Fat-Free

Author: Julie Metcalf Cull

A natural remedy for monotonous meals. In ancient times herbs were thought to heal and perform other wonders. While their magic powers may be just folklore, herbs do provide health benefits—like regulating blood sugar and appetite and raising levels of "good" (HDL) cholesterol. But the real magic of herbs lies in the distinctive flavors they add to foods. They transform low-fat, low-salt meals from, dull to delicious. Magic Herbs is a collection of over 200 recipes that make it easy to spice up your diet, using more than 50 types of herbs in savory dishes that are naturally low-fat and fat-free. Mouthwatering creations include:

Arugula and Turkey Stuffed Mushrooms
Dill Weed and Thyme Whole Wheat Herb Bread
Grilled Porterhouse Steaks and Basil Tomatoes
Bay Leaf and Cayenne Shrimp Creole
Nutmeg Orange Marinated Chicken
Easy Chive and Garlic Twice-Baked Potatoes
Cinnamon Pumpkin Torte
Bergamot Strawberry Iced Tea

Each easy-to-make recipe provides preparation time and complete nutrition analysis and exchange information. This unique book also features a "dictionary" of herbs, tips on growing and drying your own, and suggestions for using herbs in decorating and gift-giving.

Go to: Cost Management Problem Solving Guide or Understanding Media Economics

Chef's Compendium of Professional Recipes

Author: Edward Renold

This is a well-established reference and textbook for professional chefs and students. This edition presents essential recipes based on traditional and classic methods, but is simplified and adapted to meet the needs and conditions of the busy professional kitchen.

Trends towards healthy and safe eating are taken into account and alternatives are suggested to certain ingredients to meet this demand. Vegetarian recipes are also included.

Well-established reference and textbook
This new edition presents essential recipes based on traditional and classic methods

Beach Cuisine or Fresh Cut Fruits and Vegetables

2009-11-30T19:53:00.000-08:00

Beach Cuisine: A Collection of Recipes from the Atlantic Coast

Author: Jewel Cammarano

An enticing collection of culinary delights, a regional cookbook with great heart and soul. Starting in Currituck County, North Carolina and making an appetizing journey to the lower end of South Carolina, the author has included an amazing variety of recipes from easytoprepare appetizers to sumptuous desserts, with a liberal sampling of boundtoplease seafood selections.

Fresh-Cut Fruits and Vegetables: Science,Technology and Market

Author: Olusola Lamikanra

Fresh-cut Fruits and Vegetables: Science, Technology, and Market provides a comprehensive reference source for the emerging fresh-cut fruits and vegetables industry. It focuses on the unique biochemical, physiological, microbiological, and quality changes in fresh-cut processing and storage and on the distinct equipment design, packaging requirements, production economics, and marketing considerations for fresh-cut products. Based on the extensive research in this area during the past 10 years, this reference is the first to cover the complete spectrum of science, technology, and marketing issues related to this field, including production, processing, physiology, biochemistry, microbiology, safety, engineering, sensory, biotechnology, and economics. ABOUT THE EDITOR: Olusola Lamikanra, Ph.D., is a Research Chemist and Lead Scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Southern Regional Research Center, New Orleans, Louisiana. He received his B.S. degree from the University of Lagos, Nigeria, and his Ph.D. from the University of Leeds, England. He was Professor in the Division of Agricultural Sciences and Director of the Center for Viticultural Science and Small Farm Development at Florida A&M University, Tallahassee. Dr. Lamikanra is the author of more than 100 publications.

Booknews

Sales of produce that has been trimmed or peeled, washed, and packaged for consumers' convenience totaled about $11 billion in 2000, accounting for over 10 percent of the total fresh fruit and vegetable market; sales are expected to continue increasing by 10 to 15 percent annually. Editor Lamikanra (a USDA chemist) provides 14 chapters covering the biochemical, physiological, microbiological, and quality changes in fresh-cut processing and storage as well as packaging requirements, production economics, and marketing considerations. The reference is intended for students, food scientists, plant physiologists, microbiologists, chemists, biochemists, chemical engineers, nutritionists, agricultural economists, and molecular biologists. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Ch. 1	Fresh-cut Produce: Tracks and Trends	1
Ch. 2	Quality Parameters of Fresh-cut Fruit and Vegetable Products	11
Ch. 3	Overview of the European Fresh-cut Produce Industry	21
Ch. 4	Safety Aspects of Fresh-cut Fruits and Vegetables	45
Ch. 5	Physiology of Fresh-cut Fruits and Vegetables	91
Ch. 6	Enzymatic Effects on Flavor and Texture of Fresh-cut Fruits and Vegetables	125
Ch. 7	Microbiology of Fresh-cut Produce	187
Ch. 8	Microbial Enzymes Associated with Fresh-cut Produce	249
Ch. 9	Preservative Treatments for Fresh-cut Fruits and Vegetables	267
Ch. 10	Application of Packaging and Modified Atmosphere to Fresh-cut Fruits and Vegetables	305
Ch. 11	Biotechnology and the Fresh-cut Produce Industry	339
Ch. 12	Flavour and Aroma of Fresh-cut Fruits and Vegetables	391
Ch. 13	Evaluating Sensory Quality of Fresh-cut Fruits and Vegetables	427
Ch. 14	Future Economic and Marketing Considerations	439
	Index	449

Guilt Free Fat Free Cookbook or Wine and Champagne Cocktails

2009-11-29T16:11:00.000-08:00

Guilt-Free, Fat-Free Cookbook

Author: Anne Sheasby

This is the essential book for people who want to reduce the fat in their diet, maximize their nutrition, and treat family and friends to mouthwatering meals.

Wine and Champagne Cocktails (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.

Class in a glass.

Though wine, champagne, and sparkling wines are usually enjoyed on their own, mixing them into cocktails can provide a refreshing and elegant change of pace. Learn the basics of great wine and champagne cocktails, including:

The best red and white wines to use for making cocktails
A breakdown of the differences between various sparkling wines
Wine and champagne cocktail recipes from the Four Seasons restaurant

Diners or Top 100 Recipes from Ready Steady Cook

2009-11-28T12:30:00.000-08:00

Diners

Author: Karen Offitzer

More than just a place to grab a bite, the diner is an expression of the free-flowing American spirit, as generous as a bottomless cup of coffee and a flashing neon sign beckoning the traveler or passer-by with the immortal words "Eat Here Now."

Diners across America pay homage to the spirit and ingenuity of both early and contemporary entrepreneurs, celebrating the energy and passion of an American culture devoted to simple pleasures and classic, unadorned food.

Experience the sights and sounds of the glorious diners of America through photographs and descriptions of:
-- Diners of the past and present
-- Neon lights and shiny silver buildings
-- Chrome counter stools and rollicking juke boxes
-- Signs, menus, and sturdy diner crockery
-- Blue plate specials, hearty hamburgers, and sinful desserts

Diners is a delightful pictorial celebration of this astounding slice of American culture and history, presenting an entertaining and informative text served up in style with full-color and archival photographs, fine art, and memorabilia.

Interesting textbook: Family Favourites or Book of Tea

Still Going Strong or Antipasto Table

2009-02-23T14:16:00.000-08:00

Still Going Strong: A History of Scotch Whisky Advertising

Author: John Hughes

Johnnie Walker Red Label, Black & White, Bells, J&B, Talisker, Lagavulin--all world famous brands, but what were their origins and what is their history? Whisky, perhaps Scotland's most famous export, has been produced for centuries, but in the nineteenth century, production moved away from small stills to the sorts of mass production we see today. With the growth in larger distilleries, there was a matching growth in whisky branding and advertising. Scotch, whether Malt or blended is now produced by large companies, and the brands are known the world over.

Author Biography: John Hughes was in the enviable position of being marketing director for the Famous Grouse and has been at the forefront of branding and marketing one of Scotland's most famous whiskies. This is his second book on whisky for Tempus Publishing.

Antipasto Table

Author: Michele Scicolon

Walk into any restaurant or trattoria in Italy and you'll be greeted by antipasto tables laden with platters of colorful salads, tender seafood dishes, regional salamis and cheeses, and fresh vegetables prepared in every way imaginable. With this inspiring collection of two hundred versatile, simple-to-prepare recipes, Michele Scicolone recreates these antipasto tables at home. The Antipasto Table includes many traditional favorites passed down by the author's family as well as new interpretations based on her own travels in Italy, and even some antipasti new to this country.

Imagine a table of hot antipasti -- fresh mozzarella rolled in bread crumbs and fried until crisp outside and melted within or grilled calamari with oregano and white wine. Or sample the cold dishes -- Sicilian eggplant salad or trout marinated in olive oil, vinegar, and sage. Bread-based antipasti include taralli, fennel-laced biscuits, perfect with a glass of red wine; and bruschetta, grilled country bread topped with fresh tomatoes and herbs or Gorgonzola and pine nuts.

This marvelous cookbook also features special sections on the art of preparing vegetables and selecting the proper wines to serve with antipasti. The Antipasto Table highlights the foods that make Italian cuisine so wonderfully appealing.

Publishers Weekly

Not to be confused with the ubiquitous Italian-American ``antipasto salad,'' genuine ``antipasti'' are delightful hot or cold hors de'oeuvres--the kind of delicacies perched on the ``antipasto table'' at restaurants and trattorie all over Italy. And although, according to Scicolone ( Fish Steaks and Fillets ) in Italian ``antipasto'' means ``before the meal,'' these ``are not mere appetizers.'' In some Italian restaurants, devouring antipasti is a course-after-course indulgence similar in concept to dining on Spanish tapassic . Recipes here, though admirably detailed with substitutions and well-organized methods, are particularly impressive for their simplicity and ease of preparation. Among them are sauteed peppers with balsamic vinegar, orange, parmesan and walnut salad, and mussels with caper mayonnaise--including a method for cleaning and preparing mussels and clams. Instructions for home-drying a bumper crop of ripened plum tomatoes are here, as well as recipes for such uniquely Italian specialties as crusty, chewy Tuscan bread, crispy semolina focaccia and crunchy Sardinian flat bread. An up-front ``antipasto pantry'' section and menus for combining antipasti make this volume doubly useful. Author tour; HomeStyle Book Club alternate. (June)

Library Journal

Scicolone, a cooking teacher and consultant, offers a large collection of simple but fresh and vibrant recipes, most of which can stand on their own as antipasti or be combined with other dishes as the centerpiece of a light meal. The Bread and Focaccia chapter is especially good; Fava Beans with Prosciutto and Parmesan, Wild Mushroom Corstini, and Smoked Salmon with Fennel are among the tempting dishes in other categories. A good companion to Christopher Styler's similar Primi Piatti ( LJ 3/15/89).

Disccookery or Vegetarian Cook Book

2009-02-22T10:34:00.000-08:00

Disccookery: The Discdrive 20th Anniversary Cookbook

Author: Jurgen Goth

"The most intelligent radio [program] in the country."

- The Globe and Mail

Since its launch in 1985 DiscDrive has become a Canadian institution, with hundreds of thousands of loyal listeners from coast to coast (and even more listening daily across the northern U.S.).

From early on, food became an important ingredient in the DiscDrive mix: after all, Jurgen Gothe was already an award-winning food and wine journalist. Whether improvised on the spot, or based on what Gothe cooked that weekend, his food preparation ideas -- from the ridiculously simple to the ridiculously elaborate -- formed part of the afternoon delights. Listeners clamored for his recipes and the program's website posted selected ones.

In honor of the radio show's upcoming 20th anniversary, Gothe's inventive recipes have been assembled into one delicious volume: DiscCookery.

DiscCookery has more than 120 recipes, most of them from Gothe's own kitchen and some solicited from DiscDrive listeners. Each recipe is not only paired with an appropriate wine but also a suitable music selection.

Selections focus on:

Soups and Salads

Drinks

Pasta, Fish and Seafood

Stews

Chicken and Duck

Meat

Snacks and Sides

Desserts

Extravaganzas (which includes Gothe's True North Chili made with musk ox, wild boar and caribou).

DiscCookery even includes Gothe's legendary Dinner and Ride Home for Cinderella: a stew of beef, peaches, corn, and vegetables, cooked and served in a pumpkin.

Look this: Happiness in a Storm or Heart Disease Breakthrough

Vegetarian Cook Book: Substitutes for Flesh Foods

Author: E G Fulton

Originally published in 1904, this cookbook provides a fascinating insight into the huge variety of wholesome vegetarian dishes that were available a century ago.

Fulton has treated the subject from the commonly accepted definition of the term vegetarianism, which means to abstain from flesh foods, but allows the use of eggs, milk, and its products. After studying the vegetarian restaurants and the food questions for many years, Fulton has placed before you a book containing instruction in the preparation of wholesome dishes that will build up in place of tearing down the body.

Culinary Taste or Low Carb Diet Book

2009-02-21T06:52:00.000-08:00

Culinary Taste: Consumer Behaviour in the International Restaurant Sector

Author: Donald Sloan

Culinary Taste: Consumer Behaviour in the International Restaurant Sector looks at the factors that influence our culinary tastes and dining behaviour, illustrating how they can translate into successful business in industry.

With a foreword from Prue Leith, restaurateur, author, teacher, and prolific cookery writer and novelist, and a list of well-known and respected international contributors from the UK, France, Australia and Hong Kong, this text discusses the issues involved from a multitude of angles.

• Provides wide-ranging insight into the nature of culinary taste as expressed in commercial restaurant settings
• Evaluates the influence on culinary taste of a variety of factors such as: social class, gender, health awareness, marketing and geography
• Considers the importance of understanding these issues for business management and for success in the hospitality industry today

Go to: Direction de Personnel Publique :Contextes et Stratégies

Low-Carb Diet Book

Author: Elaine Gardner

Explains what the low-carbohydrate diet is, why it works, the benefits and the things to look out for.

	Introduction	6
	The low-carb approach	8
	Different types of carbohydrate	10
	Good fats and bad fats	12
	Sources of protein	14
	Vitamins, minerals and fluids	16
	Assessing your weight	18
	Problems associated with excess weight	20
	How to start a diet	22
	Shopping	24
	The importance of exercise	26
	Getting support while losing weight	28
	Maintaining a diet plan	30
	Keeping the weight off	32
	Meal planners	34
	The low-carb kitchen	38
	Kitchen basics	40
	Cooking methods	41
	The store cupboard	42
	Fruit	43
	Vegetables	45
	Meat, poultry and game	47
	Fish and shellfish	49
	Vegetable protein	50
	Grains and cereals	52
	Dairy foods and eggs	53
	Fats and oils	54
	Sauces and dressings	55
	Breakfasts	56
	Soups	68
	Appetizers	76
	Main course salads	86
	Meat, poultry and game	96
	Fish and shellfish	110
	Vegetarian dishes	122
	Salads and side dishes	136
	Desserts	148
	Checking carbohydrate content	156
	Index	158

Not Your Mothers Cookbook or The Edible Tao

2009-02-20T03:11:00.000-08:00

Not Your Mother's Cookbook: Unusual Recipes for the Adventurous Cook

Author: John Bear

Tired of the same chicken-pasta-fish routine? Then leaf through these pages of kitchen-tested recipes for inspiration. Using recipes culled from newspaper food editors, invented in a recipe game, and adapted from published cookbooks and Internet sites, the authors offer out-of-the-ordinary dishes that are accessible to an average cook in an ordinary kitchen — dishes that actually work. Though the ingredients may be surprising, as in Green Chile Maple Brittle, or the preparation procedures unorthodox, as in Eggs Cooked for 12 Hours in Turkish Coffee, these dishes can be served — and enjoyed — with pride. Accompanied by illustrations throughout, these surprising recipes inspire cooks to push the boundaries of traditional cuisine.

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The Edible Tao: Munching My Way Toward Enlightenment

Author: Ruth Pennington Paget

My sister worked as a waitress at the Ho-Ho Inn, a Chinese restaurant, on Cass Street in Detroit. She sat a plate of Egg Foo Yung in front of five-year-old me. I had a way with words and quickly renamed this Egg Foo "Yuck." Tears ran down my cheeks as I thought about eating this worm-like mess of food. The Chinese waiter called George came in and looked at me. They took the Egg Foo "Yuck" and threw it in the garbage, then he went to the freezer and got me one of those ice cream treats that Chinese restaurants serve; a coconut flavored outer shell of ice cream surrounding a mango core.

My sister came in and glared at me. George said, "She ate everything, so I gave her an ice cream." I smiled sweetly at George. My love for the Chinese, if not their food, began at that instant.

--The Edible Tao

Flavors of the Mediterranean or Fitness Kitchen

2009-02-18T23:30:00.000-08:00

Flavors of the Mediterranean

Author: Oliver Baussan

Following his internationally best-selling book on olive oil with chef Jacques Chibois, author Olivier Baussan has teamed up with another talented chef, Jean-Marie Meulien, to give readers recipes full of the sunny tastes and aromas of the Mediterranean tradition. The authors first present the ingredients, condiments, and cooking methods common to the Mediterranean region, before laying out 90 recipes to suit every occasion. Through the different chapters--Seasonal Vegetables, Seafood, Market Produce, Meat and Game, and Garden and Orchard Produce--readers are treated to recipes ranging from olive soup with anchovies and three-pepper caviar to roast peaches with basil and lime-blossom juice. The table is set for unforgettable meals.

Publishers Weekly

In this beautifully photographed tour of Mediterranean cuisine, Baussan, author of Olive Oil and owner of l'Occitane, and French chef Meulien present fresh, unique recipes from the region. Their French-infused recipes, accompanied by informative introductions and wine recommendations, can be as simple as Confit of Rabbit Thighs with Fennel and Garlic, which is baked in a clay pot, or Socca with Dried Apricots and Pine Nuts (socca, from Nice, is a thin cake of chickpea flour). Arranged in four chapters-"The Sea," "The Market," "The Wild Harvest," and "The Garden and Orchard"-the book focuses on the freshest of ingredients. Among the 100 color illustrations, photos of fish just caught introduce such recipes as Baked Stuffed Calamari and Ricotta-Filled Sea Bream with Mimosa Sauce. Desserts include Figs in Orange Wine with Verbena Granita, and Blancmage with Baby Chestnuts. Although some ingredients and wines may be difficult to find, home cooks turning the pages of this volume will likely be inspired to make the effort to find them. (June) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

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Fitness Kitchen

Author: Shelly Sinton

The Fitness Kitchen is a cookbook that debunks the hype of the usual weight-loss rhetoric and promotes a balanced and easy-to-maintain approach to cooking and living.

Library Journal

Moderation is key in this beginner's guide to healthy cooking by recipe tester/reviewer Sinton. Ten "Fitness Kitchen Principles" make up the chapters, covering everything from cooking methods and tools to exercise while cooking and maintaining a winning attitude toward food. Sinton's mantra is similar to Kathleen Daelemans's in Getting Thin and Loving Food: she feels that deprivation will lead only to bingeing and self-recrimination. With recipes for all times of day, including condiments and drinks, Sinton has collected easily modifiable dishes for everyone, including both vegetarians and carnivores. Many recipes (e.g., Chai Spiced Brown Rice Pudding) are easy to make or sound like they would be worth a little extra time and effort. Sources and inspirations, as well as nutritional information for each recipe, are provided. Recommended for public libraries. (Index not seen.) Deborah Shippy, Moline P.L., IL Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Superfeast or 75 Easy To Make Muffin Recipes

2009-02-17T19:49:00.000-08:00

Superfeast: Foods & Juices for Health & Healing

Author: Michael Van Straten

The best juices, soups, and foods for health and healing, with 100 new recipes and special sections on low-carb dieting and pregnancy, aging and illness.

This companion to Michael van Straten's Superfood Pocketbook features more than 100 new recipes, including juice and smoothie concoctions, and special sections on superfoods and juices for pregnancy, health and healing, and low-carb dieting. Superfeast also contains an A-Z of the top foods for staying healthy, a list of ailments, and a section on "nature's pharmacy." Another outstanding guide from a leading practitioner of complementary medicine and author of What's Up Doc?, Stress and How to Avoid It, and the Superfood Pocketbook.

Each small but perfectly formed book in this series is unique. Designed and produced to please the eye, Little Books are perfect for giving--yet they are far more than gift books. Each compact volume offers expert information, sound advice, thought-provoking ideas, and inspiration-- always from a respected and trusted source. Happy reading from Little Books.

Library Journal

This part cookbook, part health-food bible by British osteopath and acupuncturist van Straten covers a lot of ground. It begins with an alphabetical list of 100 "superfoods" ranging from almonds to yogurt, complete with half- to one-page descriptions. Fun and informative, the list includes some surprises, e.g., beer, butter, duck, pasta, radishes, and prunes. Following this cataloging of individual foods is a brief section on vitamins and minerals and their benefits and sources. Next come 100 recipes arranged according to seven different characteristics: vitality, aphrodisiac, protective, pick-me-up, calming, low-carb, and cleansing. Finally, a section on "supercures" covers such broad health issues as healthy joints, allergies, and pregnancy. The recipes themselves have a distinct British ring to them, as befits their provenance; however, care is taken to provide all measurements and oven temperatures in U.S. terms as well as metric. Recommended for health food or organic cookery collections.-Susan Hurst, Miami Univ. of Ohio Libs., Oxford Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

75 Easy-To-Make Muffin Recipes

Author: Linda Fraser

There is nothing quite like the smell of home baking and few things are more delicious than muffins or tea breads served straight from the oven. Muffins are an increasingly popular tea-time treat, and are so simple to make - the mixture can be beaten tog

Artichoke or Skinny Dips

2009-02-16T16:07:00.000-08:00

Artichoke (Quamut)

Author: Quamut

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.

Artichokes, explained.

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

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

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Skinny Dips: Great Party Dips and Dippers That Are (Secretly) Healthy

Author: Lisa Gronholm

With dips this delicious, you'll never know you're avoiding the perils of party food. Now you can "party hearty" with dozens of exciting new recipes for dips and dippers. Here you'll find fascinating new dip flavors and your old favorites stealthily redesigned to remove unnecessary fat and calories without sacrificing taste.

Cheats Cuisine or Nutrition and Cancer Prevention

2009-02-13T08:36:00.000-08:00

Cheat's Cuisine

Author: Aoileann Garavaglia

Based on her regular column in Saturday's Irish Independent, cookery writer Aoileann Garavaglia has created forty-eight easy-to-follow timed menus that will amaze and delight your dinner guests.

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Nutrition and Cancer Prevention: New Insights into the Role of Phytochemicals

Author: American Institute for Cancer Research

Recent advances have contributed to our understanding of how a plant-based diet confers many health advantages and how substances from plants may be effective in the prevention of specific cancers. The Ninth Annual Research Conference of the American Institute for Cancer Research has focused on the latest developments in several categories of nutrients of wide contemporary interests. The conference sessions included such topics as the effects of soy, green tea, selenium, wine, grapes, and spices in cancer prevention. This conference was held in Washington, D.C. on September 2nd and 3rd, 1999, and was entitled Nutrition and Cancer Prevention: New Insights Into the Roles of Phytochemicals.
The discussion program included a session that was devoted to the current status of herbal products in relation to cancer prevention, in recognition of the increasing attention that complementary and alternative medicine has been receiving from the scientific community as well as the general public. A separate presentation addressed the issue of nutritional supplements and cancer prevention.

Booknews

The theme of the conference was chosen in light of recent findings on how a plant-based diet confers many health advantages and how substances from plants may be effective in preventing specific cancers. The 19 papers explore the impact of soy, tomatoes, tea, garlic and allyl sulfur compounds, selenium, resveratrol (from wine), herbals, dietary supplements, and beta-carotene. They also discuss dietary intervention strategies, new insights into the role of phytochemicals in cancer prevention, and chemoprevention. Abstracts are also provided for 66 poster papers. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Im on a Budget Not a Diet or Meals in Minutes

2009-02-12T04:55:00.000-08:00

I'm on a Budget - Not a Diet!: Cater It Yourself and Save $$$ Recipes, Tips and Ideas to Make Anyone the Ultimate Hostess... on a Budget

Author: Kelly McClain Roberts

Simply put, this is the best real world catering cookbook around. There are no hard-to-find ingredients or impossible-to-create recipes. You will only find budget-conscious, delicious foods that when combined with the helpful suggestions make the presentation look as great as the food tastes. This is a cookbook devoted to helping people cater any event, on their own, regardless of budget. I'm on a Budget...NOT A DIET! came from years of hosting everything from small get-togethers to dessert for 200. It was born out of necessity due to the high cost of professional catering. This book empowers even someone who has never prepared a full party menu to take charge, save money, and have a first-rate event that looks as though they have catered events for years. The book is full of terrific money- and time-saving ideas, and no one would ever know how little of either you have involved, unless you tell them.

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Meals in Minutes

Author: Robert Ros

With Robert Rose's Favorite Meals in Minutes you can choose from more than 50 great-tasting recipes that you can cook in 30 minutes or less. Experience a wealth of different flavors from savory snacks like Greek Chicken Pita Sandwiches to main courses like Indian-Style Grilled Chicken Breasts or Crab and Corn Pancakes with Sweet-and-Sour Sauce to down-home-and-delicious desserts such as Lemon Fool with Fresh Berries.

Shirleys Daisies A Haven Of Recipes or The Great Vegetarian Cookbook

2009-02-09T14:23:00.000-08:00

Shirley's Daisies/A Haven Of Recipes: An Easy-To-Cook Book For Families

Author: Shirley Bragg Farley

This cookbook is full of fast, yet nutritious meals, some handed down through our family and some from friends over the years. Western, or American, Oriental, Cajun and Vegetarian Recipes. The meals are delightful to eat. I also use some low-fat recipes and give some advice on substitutes to make the foods healthier. Measurements, Seasonings, and Spices are explained. Beverages, Desserts, Salads and more for lunch and dinner meals.

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The Great Vegetarian Cookbook: More than 200 Irresistible Vegetarian Recipes From Around the World

Author: Rosamond Richardson

Drawing from cuisines around the world, The Great Vegetarian Cookbook presents 200 healthy and delicious dishes using a rich variety of vegetables, herbs, and spices. From soups and starters to main courses and desserts, Rosamond Richardson’s recipes are especially suited to inexperienced cooks or those who want to make quick and easy dishes. Whether cooking a simple supper or an elegant dinner, The Great Vegetarian Cookbook provides recipes for the kind of food that will entice you back to the kitchen for more. Among Rosamond Richardson’s many books are The Natural Garden, The Natural Home, The Great Green Cookbook, the best–selling Natural Superwoman, and Alfresco, winner of a coveted James Beard Award.

	Introduction	6
	Vegetables through the seasons	8
	Shopping & stocking the cupboard	28
	Essential equipment	29
	Some useful techniques	30
	Starters	33
	Soups	47
	Eggs & cheese	59
	Snacks, dips & bread	69
	Tortillas, pancakes & frittas	83
	Vegetables
	Side Dishes	93
	Main Courses	98
	The versatile potato	111
	Purely pasta	121
	Pulses, rice & polenta	137
	Savoury pies & pastries	153
	Entertaining
	Starters	163
	Main courses	175
	Sparkling salads	187
	Delectable desserts	209
	Basic recipes	218
	Nutrition chart	219
	Index	221

Choice Cookery or Healthy Asian Vegetarian Dishes

2009-02-08T10:41:00.000-08:00

Choice Cookery

Author: Catherine Owen

Published in 1889 by prolific cookbook author Catherine Owen, this work was designed to appeal to women looking for the "newest and best in modern cookery." Originally written for Harper's Bazar, Owen's work was aimed at the upper class household seeking culinary elegance, rather than household economy.

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Healthy Asian Vegetarian Dishes: Nutritious and Delicious

Author: Periplus Editions

Highly nutritious, easytodigest, and

Food Gifts for All Seasons or The Great Wine Pyramid

2009-02-07T06:59:00.000-08:00

Food Gifts for All Seasons

Author: Anne Byrn

Create unforgettable gifts of food for loved ones year-round with celebrated food writer Anne Byrn's compilation of seasonal recipes. Food Gifts for All Seasons offers 52 recipe ideas, many of which are make-ahead gifts that can be stored until needed. Organized by season, Byrn's book offers gift-giving suggestions and presentation tips for every occasion.

Each section opens with an introduction to the season, including information about decorative greenery and flowers that are at their peaks. Noted artist Anne Hathaway's savory illustration complement recipes such as Black Pepper Cheese Bread Boules, Orange Pecan Biscotti, Mary's Cranberry Chutney, Caramel-Glazed Apple Cake, West End's Vegetarian Lasagna, and Valentine's Truffles.

Food Gifts for All Seasons is a beautiful and delicious gift to give—or to keep for yourself.

The Great Wine Pyramid: Get Your Daily Servings While Enjoying Wine

Author: John Rudy

Do you get enough wine in your diet? The Great Wine Pyramid features more than 150 fabulous recipes that include wine as a key ingredient. Discover wine's remarkable ability to enhance the taste of food, reducing the need for salt, and transforming an ordinary meal into an extraordinary one. Thirty-five wineries have joined with the authors to share some of their favorite recipes. Presented in a simple and easy-to-understand manner, this book will build your confidence and enjoyment when cooking with wine.

If I cook with equal amounts of red wine and white wine, is that a balanced diet? A balanced diet includes food from various food groups including Grains, Vegetables, Fruits, Milk and Meats, Beans & Nuts. Inside this book you will find unique recipes arranged by food group with, of course, wine. Ever tried Champagne Lavender Cake or Blackberry-Cabernet Chocolate Truffles? How about Spicy Zinfandel Stew, Sherried Camembert with Grapes or Scallops in Wine Cheese Sauce?

"I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to my food", W.C. Fields once quipped. Wine enlivens the heart, just as wine enlivens food. Discover the joys of cooking with wine as you laugh at cartoons and quotes, enjoy fascinating trivia and wine quizzes, and learn clever ways to exercise while preparing your wine menu. Cheers!

Americas Collectible Cookbooks or Festive Food of Ireland

2009-02-06T03:16:00.000-08:00

America's Collectible Cookbooks: The History, the Politics, the Recipes

Author: Mary Anna DuSablon

In Mary Anna DuSablon's look at the two hundred-year evolution of American cookbooks, these authors receive their due--not simply as recipe peddlers, but as shapers of American culture. This book describes how government and industry joined forces to woo women back into the kitchen after the world wars. And it hails the role of the cookbook as a fund-raiser during the many years of social reform.

Booknews

A compendium of recipes, historical narrative, publishing anecdotes, and rambling reflection about cookbooks and cookbook authors in America. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	List of Illustrations
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	A Genuine American Cookbook	1
2	Manuscript Cookbooks	9
3	Early New England Classics	15
4	The Great Western Expansion	38
5	Teaching the American Tradition	59
6	Little Cookbooks with Motives, Ulterior and Avowed	93
7	The Joy and the Myth	106
8	Imported Influences: Great Chefs	120
9	How to Compile a Best-Selling Homemade Cookbook	139
10	Celebrity Cooks	162
11	The Big, Beautiful Cookbook	170
12	Guru versus Gourmet: A Media Battleground	176
	Glossary of Old and Unusual North American Cooking Terms	186
	Selected Bibliography	197
	Index	203

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Festive Food of Ireland

Author: Darina Allen

Ireland's advocate of fresh, simple cooking presents recipes for the full range of traditional Irish holiday fare.

Cooking without Sugar or 500 Best Ever Recipes

2009-02-04T23:34:00.000-08:00

Cooking without Sugar: Recipes for Diabetics and Dieters

Author: Carol L Ston

Written by a diabetic's wife who understands the problems of controlling blood sugar, Cooking without Sugar contains a variety of no-sugar recipes. In this little book for diabetics and dieters, you will find recipes that: are easy to follow, and suitable for novice or experienced cooks; contain no sugar; contain no esoteric, hard-to-find ingredients; and can be used in any sensible diet program. [Note: I used bullets, but they show up here as Gk. sigma letters.]

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500 Best-Ever Recipes

Author: Martha Day

A superb collection of 500 all-time favourite recipes, with step-by-step instructions and 550 colour photographs.

Classroom Cupboard or Terrific Pacific Cookbook

2009-02-03T19:52:00.000-08:00

Classroom Cupboard: Lessons, Activities and Culinary Concoctions for Kids

Author: Lisa Solis

This resource provides the elementary teacher or parent with an alternative approach to teaching while engaging students in taste-tempting, hands-on experiences through a multiple array of easy to use, integrated lessons, imaginative projects, and attractive reproducible worksheets and activities utilizing a food theme.

Terrific Pacific Cookbook

Author: Anya Von Bremzen

The Pacific is the Mediterranean of the 1990s. Its where the new ideas in food are coming from. Its hot, light, fresh, exotic, and energetic. Its Thai, Vietnamese, Australian, Malaysian and Indonesian. Its Chinese-influenced, Indian-influenced, Japanese-influenced. Now Anya von Bremzen and John Welchman, award-winning authors of Please to the Table, present the terrific pacific in over over 260 glorious recipes and dozens of essays on spices, markets, pantries, techniques, and cultural traditions. Terrific Pacific is for people who've come to love the citrusy flavors of lemon grass and kaffir limes; who want to use more chilies, ginger, cilantro, spice rubs, and pastes; who are curious about curries. Visiting four-star chefs in Australia and roadside vendors in Penang, tea houses in Singapores old Chinatown and home cooks in Vietnam--wherever the culinary melting pot bubbles--the authors offer a spectacular marriage of flavors. And in an age of great treats, terrific pacific desserts stand out for being both simple and exotic. Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club's HomeStyle Books, and the Better Homes & Gardens Family Book Service.
52,000 copies in print.

Publishers Weekly

The intricately spiced, multilayered flavors of the Pacific seduce the palate in the 300-plus recipes here. The authors (Please to the Table), who investigated ingredients and techniques on travels to Australia, Thailand, Malasia, Japan, Singapore and other outposts now culinarily ``in,'' deliver the goods on this newly popular cuisine in meticulously adapted recipes. However, three caveats for the home cook: considerable time and patience are required to capture such taste complexities as Griddle Breads with Curried Lamb; many dishes include fat-loading deep-frying; and, although substitutions are frequently suggested, such aromatics as lemongrass, kaffir lime leaves and galangal are essential to many dishes. Those issues aside, this compendium, with many recipes that are not beyond the novice, offers an intensive course in this bold fusion fare and should prove to be a definitive volume. Broiled Bluefish with Caramelized Lemons blends seafood, citrus and herbs irresistibly; Pork Chops with a Mushroom Saute and Arugula Pesto is a rich, three-way marriage of flavors. HomeStyle main selection. (Nov.)

Library Journal

Coming from the authors of Please to the Table (LJ 12/90), a widely praised Russian cookbook, this ambitious book on the foods of the Pacific Rim is somewhat of a surprise. Von Bremzen describes how a trip to Australia first piqued their interest in fusion, or East-West, cuisine and led to this latest collaboration. Many of the cookbooks on Pacific Rim cooking present only one viewpoint, that of a creative and/or trend-conscious chef experimenting with Asian and Western flavor combinations. Terrific Pacific instead provides dozens of recipes from home cooks and chefs, street-food vendors, food writers, and others the authors encountered in their travels throughout Australia and New Zealand, Southeast Asia and Japan, and, finally, California. The text is always readable, and the recipes, though some are more authentic than others, amazingly diverse. For most collections.

Pork and lamb stand up to the heady perfumes of star anise, dried tangerine peel, and sherry in dishes like Red-Braised Lamb Shanks and Spare Ribs with Mango Barbecue Sauce. But in a lighter dish, such as Stir-Fried Pork Ribbons, these meats won't overpower delicate aromatics like lemongrass and kaffir lime.

ESSAY

A Touch of Kuching

CURRIES

There are as many curries as there are cooks, but each one starts the same way: pounded aromatics are slowly cooked in oil, then augmented with freshly ground spices. Not until the entire house is redolent with curry paste do any more ingredients join in. Some tempting curries are Lamb Korma, Eggplant and Raisin Tamarind Curry, and Fragrant Ceylonese Fish Curry.

ESSAY

A Tiffin at Raffles

VEGETABLES

Radiant Chinese Greens, tender asparagus, luscious eggplants, earthy mushrooms, pungent turnips-vegetables are flash-fried and spiked with soy and garlic or slowly simmered in a complex curry. From the great vegetarian traditions of China, India-and California.

ESSAY

Borneo Fare

RICE AND NOODLES

Rice is revered throughout Asia, but in China, noodles are also a national treasure. And, yes, it is bad manners not to slurp loudly as you enjoy Broad Rice Noodles with Chinese Sausage and Shrimp. Also, Salmon Biriyani from San Francisco and Steamed Sticky Rice with Swordfish and Shiitakes.

ESSAY

Breakfast in Singapore's Chinatown

DESSERTS

The lush textures, bright flavors, and vivid colors of native Pacific fruits turn ordinary cakes, creams, puddings, and pastries into tantalizing tropical jewels-like Seduction Pineapple Upside-Down Cake, Mango Gratin with Champagne Sabayon, and Banana and Kiwi Spring Rolls.

ESSAY

The Tea Chapter in Singapore

BASICS

Basic steamed rice, chicken stock, toasted nuts, and homemade spice mixes, sweet soy sauce, and hot chile sauce.

NOTES ON INGREDIENTS

INDEX

Pocket Guide to Ontario Wineries Wines Vineyards and Vines or 125 Best Entertaining Recipes

2009-02-02T16:10:00.000-08:00

Pocket Guide to Ontario Wineries, Wines, Vineyards, and Vines

Author: Konrad Ejbich

The must-have publication for anyone who buys Ontario wines.

Interest in Ontario wines has exploded. No one apologizes any more for serving them; wine snobs compete instead to find the next great producer. The Liquor Control Board of Ontario reports that Ontario wine now accounts for more than 20 per cent of its wine sales.

The market is clearly ready for A Pocket Guide to Ontario Wines, Wineries, Vineyards, & Vines. This is the only comprehensive and fully authoritative reference on Ontario wines. In addition to providing up-to-date listings for wineries and vineyards -- from the Niagara Peninsula, the North Shore of Lake Erie, Pelee Island, Toronto, and Prince Edward County -- it reviews practically every Ontario wine currently available and includes many older vintages. Thousands of wines are graded from "undrinkable" to "extraordinary," and Ejbich's appraisals, based on scrupulously careful
tastings, are completely independent and free of bias. Entries also include tasting notes, notes on when a wine is ready to drink, grape varieties and soil types, and the winemaker's approach to his art.

This pocket-sized book, modelled on Hugh Johnson's celebrated international wine guide, will be the must-have publication for anyone who buys Ontario wines, from the average consumer to the serious aficionado.

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125 Best Entertaining Recipes

Author: Julia Aitken

Recipes for entertaining that deliver maximum flavor with minimum effort.

Hosting the perfect dinner party can mean days of planning, hours of shopping, and then a frenzy of last-minute preparation in the kitchen. After cleanup, the exhausted home chef often wonders how everything went.

In 125 Best Entertaining Recipes, there are 125 easy and delicious recipes that are sure to please guests. Here is just a sampling:

• Thai-roasted shrimp as a starter, followed by a bowl of visually stunning neon beet soup
• Main dishes like braised chicken and apples with grainy mustard sauce, or pot roast beef with wild mushrooms
• The best-ever Caesar salad—everyone will want seconds
• Chocolate terrine with drunken pineapple or blackberry-peach ruffle pie—the perfect finish to a great meal.

Dozens of helpful tips and examples of kitchen wisdom are sprinkled throughout the book, along with refreshingly frank advice on how to ensure a successful dinner party. (Rule #1: Invite only people you like.)

These flavorful dishes require only common, everyday ingredients. The result? A relaxed, satisfied home chef after every entertaining event.

Pre-dinner nibbles
• 9 recipes Sit-down appetizers
• 11 recipes Soups
• 9 recipes Pastas and breads
• 12 recipes Fish, seafood and vegetarian
• 15 recipes Poultry
• 8 recipes Meat
• 14 recipes Side dishes
• 17 recipes Salads
• 13 recipes Desserts
• 26 recipes

Index

The Menopause Cookbook or Gennaros Italian Year

2009-02-01T12:28:00.000-08:00

The Menopause Cookbook: How to Eat Now and for the Rest of Your Life

Author: Hope Ricciotti

The perfect team--a gynecologist and her chef husband--have put together a book full of great advice and over 125 wonderful recipes to add estrogen naturally to your diet. As a gynecologist, Dr. Hope Ricciotti has been counseling women about the best way to stay healthy and lower the impact of menopausal side effects for years. She has found that some women either cannot tolerate hormone replacement therapy or do not feel it is right for them. What she suggests is adding phytoestrogens--natural estrogens found in food--as well as calcium and antioxidants to one's diet for all the benefits of estrogen without any of its worries. Even women on hormone replacement therapy will find that these delicious recipes will add to their health. Vincent Connelly, a trained chef, worked with Dr. Ricciotti to give each recipe the best in nutrition and in taste. It would be hard to resist pan-seared salmon with goat cheese, leeks, and basil or gratin of potatoes, chard, and roasted peppers. Even even the busiest women can make many of the recipes. Besides main entrees, sections on breakfast foods, sandwich spreads, pastas, desserts, and even smoothies are included.

Publishers Weekly

Ricciotti, a gynecologist, has teamed up again with her husband, chef Vincent Connelly (The Pregnancy Cookbook), this time on a nutritional guidebook for menopause. Ricciotti explains hormonal changes in layperson's terms and includes crucial information, such as the relationship between heart disease and decreased estrogen, and recommends "a low-fat, high-fiber, antioxidant-rich diet, and regular exercise." Particularly thorough are the chapter on osteoporosis; lists of calcium, phytoestrogen and antioxidant food sources; a pragmatic shopping list; and workable suggestions for foods to eat when going out or eating on the run. However, many of the recipes include soy products (soy is a source of phytoestrogens), be it tofu (used as a texturizing agent for sauces such as Spaghetti with a Tomato-Tofu Sauce), soy mozzarella (Pizza), soy nuts (Broccoli with Oyster Sauce and Soy Nuts) or firm tofu (Salad of Grilled Tomatoes, Tofu, Portobello Mushrooms and Radicchio). For the already converted, this will be a boon, but for many women, it may be difficult to accept soy as the primary ingredient. The original ideas in the section on Spreads and Sandwiches are appealing (White Bean, Dried Tomato, and Balsamic Spread and Arugula and Cilantro Pesto). Apple and Rhubarb Crisp (rhubarb is high in calcium), a simple and delightfully healthy recipe, is an example of the book's philosophy at its best. (Jan.) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

What People Are Saying

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Susan Love, M.D., author of Susan Love's Hormone Book and Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book

This is a wonderful guide to cooking with phytoestrogens. Although [the book is] titled The Menopause Cookbook, the whole family will enjoy these recipes which answer the oft-repeated question: How do you cook with tofu and flaxseed?

Gennaro's Italian Year

Author: Gennaro Contaldo

As much a celebration of Italy as its food, Gennaro's Italian Year brings this beautiful country vibrantly to life. From feast days to festivals, Christmas delicacies to summertime delights, chef Gennaro Contaldo expertly guides us through the Italian culinary year. Combining 120 seasonal recipes with stories from his childhood, he reveals which Italian fare is best and when. Told with irresistible passion and charm, Gennaro shows us how each season brings a tantalizing array of deliciously different dishes, like Chestnut Gnocchi with Sausage and Rosemary, Parsnip and Apple Soup, Fresh Fava Bean and Pecorino Cheese Salad, and Mixed Berry Sorbet. Sumptuously illustrated with 100 color photographs, this is a classic Italian lifestyle cookbook.

	Bakery and Breakfast Dishes	196
	Beverages	173
	Cake	235
	Cereals	180
	Eggs	163
	Entrees	67
	Hygiene of Cooking	9
	Nut Butter	241
	Pies	225
	Puddings	205
	Salads	17
	Salad Dressings	31
	Soups	40
	Sauces	149
	Toasts	188
	Vegetables	115

	Introduction	6
	Who's Who	8
	Starters	12
	Soups	27
	Snacks/Light Bites	41
	Accompaniments	55
	Vegetarian	69
	Fish and Shellfish	83
	Poultry and Game	98
	Meat	113
	Desserts	128
	Index	142

	Let's Skinny Dip! - Introduction	5
	Creamy Bases, Nutritional Counts	7
	Pepper Chart	10
	Measurements & Abbreviations	11
	Metric Equivalents	12
	Seafood Dips	13
	Creamy Dips	21
	Salsas and Guacamoles	39
	Bean Dips	53
	More Great Dips	63
	Dippers Galore	75
	Index	91

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Sophie Grigsons Country Kitchen or Spirit of the Earth

Sophie Grigson's Country Kitchen

Spirit of the Earth: Native Cooking from Latin America

Indulgence or Real Chocolate

Indulgence: One Man's Selfless Search for the Best Chocolate

The New York Times - Tobin Harshaw

Real Chocolate

Publishers Weekly

Library Journal

Tray Gourmet or Pickled Herring and Pumpkin Pie

Tray Gourmet: Be Your Own Chef in the College Cafeteria

Publishers Weekly

Pickled Herring and Pumpkin Pie: A Nineteenth-Century Cookbook for German Immigrants to America

Roman Community at Table during the Principate or Feast of Words

Roman Community at Table during the Principate

Feast of Words: Banquets and Table Talk in the Renaissance

Booknews

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Magic Herbs or Chefs Compendium of Professional Recipes

Magic Herbs: More Than 200 Delicious & Healthy Recipes That are Naturally Low-Fat & Fat-Free

Chef's Compendium of Professional Recipes

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Beach Cuisine or Fresh Cut Fruits and Vegetables

Beach Cuisine: A Collection of Recipes from the Atlantic Coast

Fresh-Cut Fruits and Vegetables: Science,Technology and Market

Booknews

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Guilt Free Fat Free Cookbook or Wine and Champagne Cocktails

Guilt-Free, Fat-Free Cookbook

Wine and Champagne Cocktails (Quamut)

Diners or Top 100 Recipes from Ready Steady Cook

Diners

Top 100 Recipes from Ready Steady Cook

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Still Going Strong or Antipasto Table

Still Going Strong: A History of Scotch Whisky Advertising

Antipasto Table

Publishers Weekly

Library Journal

Disccookery or Vegetarian Cook Book

Disccookery: The Discdrive 20th Anniversary Cookbook

Vegetarian Cook Book: Substitutes for Flesh Foods

Table of Contents:

Culinary Taste or Low Carb Diet Book

Culinary Taste: Consumer Behaviour in the International Restaurant Sector

Low-Carb Diet Book

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Not Your Mothers Cookbook or The Edible Tao

Not Your Mother's Cookbook: Unusual Recipes for the Adventurous Cook

The Edible Tao: Munching My Way Toward Enlightenment

Flavors of the Mediterranean or Fitness Kitchen

Flavors of the Mediterranean

Publishers Weekly

Fitness Kitchen

Library Journal

Superfeast or 75 Easy To Make Muffin Recipes

Superfeast: Foods & Juices for Health & Healing

Library Journal

75 Easy-To-Make Muffin Recipes

Table of Contents:

Artichoke or Skinny Dips

Artichoke (Quamut)

Skinny Dips: Great Party Dips and Dippers That Are (Secretly) Healthy

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Cheats Cuisine or Nutrition and Cancer Prevention

Cheat's Cuisine

Nutrition and Cancer Prevention: New Insights into the Role of Phytochemicals

Booknews

Im on a Budget Not a Diet or Meals in Minutes

I'm on a Budget - Not a Diet!: Cater It Yourself and Save $$$ Recipes, Tips and Ideas to Make Anyone the Ultimate Hostess... on a Budget

Meals in Minutes

Shirleys Daisies A Haven Of Recipes or The Great Vegetarian Cookbook

Shirley's Daisies/A Haven Of Recipes: An Easy-To-Cook Book For Families

The Great Vegetarian Cookbook: More than 200 Irresistible Vegetarian Recipes From Around the World

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Choice Cookery or Healthy Asian Vegetarian Dishes

Choice Cookery

Healthy Asian Vegetarian Dishes: Nutritious and Delicious

Food Gifts for All Seasons or The Great Wine Pyramid