Rogovs Guide to Israeli Wines 2007 or Calico Cupboards

Rogov's Guide to Israeli Wines 2007

Author: Daniel Rogov

The 2008 edition contains a detailed map of Israel's wine regions; coverage of over 150 wineries; a tasting chart for your own ratings; contact details of all wineries; and almost 1,400 wines tasted, rated and fully described. The guide indicates which of Israel's wines are kosher, provides information on what makes a wine kosher and discusses whether there is a contradiction between good wine and kosher wine. Also in the book, a guide to tasting wines and an essay on dessert wines. In a convenient pocket-sized format, Rogov's Guide To Israeli Wines 2008 rates in detail all available wines from Israel through the 2006 vintage. This is the definitive guide to the entire Israeli wine scene!

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Calico Cupboards

Author: Junior Auxiliary of Benton

This book is dedicated to frontier women whose creativity transformed the ancient skill of piecing quilts into an art. Kitchen tested, quality recipes are charmingly illustrated with heritage quilt pattern designs and their histories. Includes recipes for those with food allergies.

Deleites de la Cocina Mexicana or Gourmet Vegetables

Deleites de la Cocina Mexicana: Healthy Mexican American Cooking

Author: Maria Luisa Urdaneta

Mexican food, Tex-Mex, Southwestern cuisine—call it what you will, the foods that originated in Mexico have become everyone's favorites. Yet as we dig into nachos and enchiladas, many people worry about the fats and calories that traditional Mexican food contains.

Deleites de la Cocina Mexicana proves that Mexican cooking can be both delicious and healthy. In this bilingual cookbook, Maria Luisa Urdaneta and Daryl F. Kanter provide over 200 recipes for some of the most popular Mexican dishes-guacamole, frijoles, Spanish rice, chiles rellenos, chile con carne, chalupas, tacos, enchiladas, fajitas, menudo, tamales, and flan-to name only a few. Without sacrificing a bit of flavor, the authors have modified the recipes to increase complex carbohydrates and total dietary fiber, while decreasing saturated and total fats. These modifications make the recipes suitable for people with diabetes-and all those who want to reduce the fats and calories in their diet. Each recipe also includes a nutritional analysis of calories, fats, sodium, etc., and American Diabetic Association exchange rates.

Because diabetes is a growing problem in the Mexican-American community, Deleites de la Cocina Mexicana is vital for all those who need to manage their diet without giving up the foods they love. Let it be your one-stop guide to cooking and eating guilt-free Mexican food.

What People Are Saying

Melissa Bardsley
Melissa Bardsley, M.S., R.D. Nutritionist

Deleites de la Cocina Mexicana is wonderful! It shows that a traditional Mexican or Mexican-American diet can be very sound nutritionally.

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Gourmet Vegetables: Smart Tips and Tasty Picks for Gardeners and Gourmet Cooks

Author: Anne Raver

Celebrate the savory, homegrown tastes of North America's new cosmopolitan cuisine, from ancient black Aztec corn to Osaka purple mustard greens. Both gardeners and gourmet cooks will relish this luscious volume, written by leading gardeners, growers, and chefs. Here are the most flavorsome and sought-after root vegetables, salad greens, peas, beans, tomatoes, cucurbits, and more, with expert advice on cultivation and cooking. Cold frames, hotbeds, and other innovative techniques and tools make it possible to grow produce year-round, especially with tips on trellising, cover crops, and French intensive gardening. Scrumptious recipes include Okra with Green Mango and Lentils, Tuscan Style Shiitake Mushrooms, and Baked Beet Salad with Fall Green and Feta Cheese.

California Wine Drinks or Regional Italian Cooking

California Wine Drinks: Cocktails, Coolers, Punches & Hot Drinks

Author: William I Kaufman

The resurgence in popularity of lighter drinks makes this book a timely addition to the shelves of the more adventuresome wine lover. More than 200 drink recipes, mixing tips, and entertaining suggestions make it suitable for professional or home use.

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Regional Italian Cooking

Author: Circ

Circe is an astonishing cook, having spent more than 15 years in Professional catering in some of the finest homes in the Southern California area. She had the luck to marry at an early age into an extended Italian family whose women were only too happy to share their expertise in the kitchen. Besides cooking for her family of seven daily, she is also well known for entertaining large groups of up to 200 people by herself. Here is the culmination of almost 35 years of experience preparing the wonderful foods of her adopted homeland. Mange!

Guilty Comfort Foods or Yours in Food

Guilty Comfort Foods: Eliza's Secrets

Author: Lisa Bick

Interspersing family recipes with recollections from her childhood, nostalgic photographs, and musings about her grandmother's life, the author shares family culinary secrets that elevate cooking to a spiritual pursuit. From tasty puddings and cinnamon rolls to shoo-fly pie and delectable cakes, these 28 recipes for down-home desserts involve simple ingredients and offer easy-to-follow instructions. Both culinary artists and visual artists will appreciate how this celebration of Americana uses food to explore family history.

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Yours in Food

Author: John Baldessari

In John Baldessari's new book, Yours in Food, the founding member of the conceptual art movement explores America at the table, savoring the nuances of breaking bread in carefully composed vignettes culled appropriated video and film.Reflections on food and eating specially commissioned from a smorgasbord of contemporary writers on culture and the arts, from novelist David Eggers to musician David Byrne, offer up the perfect accompaniment to Baldessari's work. Paired with his images, these humorous, insightful, and, in some cases, bizarre meditations investigate one of the most fundamental and telling of all human experiences. A visual and intellectual feast, Yours in Food is sure to entertain and delight readers of fiction, art history, and cultural criticism and all lovers of food. A Blind Spot Book published by Princeton Architectural Press.

Author Biography: John Baldessari is one of the most influential American artists to emerge since the mid-1960s. His droll and ironic composite photocollages, installations, and videotapes have shed new light on the nature of perception, meaning, and interpretation.

I Want My Dinner Now Simple Meals for Busy Cooks or Food for Thought

I Want My Dinner Now!: Simple Meals for Busy Cooks

Author: Renee Pottl

A perfect mix of old-fashioned favorites and creative new entrees sure to become part of your family'ss everyday repertoire. Most dishes are low fat and salt and use fresh and pre-packaged, but not highly processed ingredients. Preparation is so quick and

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Food for Thought: Fish and Feather: A Culinary Tour of the World's Rivers, Oceans and Seas

Author: Simon Courtauld

Following the success of Simon Courtauld’s first anthology, Food for Thought: Fruit, Herbs, and Vegetables, comes a second, equally entertaining collection by this top food writer. Filled with witty observations, delicious descriptions, and eye-opening anecdotes—as well as quirky illustrations—this lively guide navigates ocean, sea, river, and freshwater stream to produce some mouth-watering morsels about fish and seafood. Courtauld’s tantalizing tidbits focus on the luxuries of lobster, how to catch a crab, bringing home the bouillabaisse, the global delights of mackerel, the ethics of shopping for salmon and cod, and time honored classics like raw oysters and shrimp cocktail.

Grandes Recetas Con Ajo or Flavor Chemistry of Ethnic Foods

Grandes Recetas Con Ajo: Descubra la versatilidad del ajo con esta coleccion de originales recetas

Author: Edimat

For chefs and novices alike, this handy series makes cooking a delight and eating a pleasure. Featuring cuisines from around the world, each recipe is depicted with clear instructions and illustrated sequences. The versatility and use of everyday ingredients to enhance and enrich meals is explored in each book.


 
La cocina dejará de ser un secreto con esta colección de 40 títulos con las recetas más exquisitas de la cocina nacional e internacional. Si comer es un placer, cocinar puede ser un deleite. Todas las recetas incluyen claras instrucciones que se completan con ilustraciones. Estos libros le harán descubrir la versatilidad de los ingredientes más cotidianos así como estos trucos que enriquecerán sus comidas.

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Flavor Chemistry of Ethnic Foods

Author: Fereidoon Shahidi

Ethnic and international foods have gradually been integrated into the daily diet in North America. However, the existing literature of flavor characteristics and chemistry of such foods remains fragmentary and diverse. This book presents a summary of the current status of knowledge in this area.

Leaves from Gerards Herball or A Pint of Plain

Leaves from Gerard's Herball

Author: Marcus Woodward

Selection from most famous English herbal includes tobacco, poppies, sunflowers, peach trees, onions, much more.

New interesting book: Modeling with Technology or ABAP Objects

A Pint of Plain: How the Irish Pub Lost Its Magic but Conquered the World

Author: Bill Barich

Seamlessly blending history and reportage, Bill Barich offers a heartfelt homage to the traditional Irish pub, and to the central piece of Irish culture disappearing along with it.

After meeting an I rishwoman in London and moving to Dublin, Bill Barich—a “blow-in,” or stranger, in Irish parlance—found himself looking for a traditional I rish pub to be his local. There are nearly twelve thousand pubs in Ireland, so he appeared to have plenty of choices. He wanted a pub like the one in John Ford’s classic movie, The Quiet Man, offering talk and drink with no distractions, but such pubs are now scare as publicans increasingly rely on flat-screen televisions, rock music, even Texas Hold ’Em to attract a dwindling clientele. For Barich, this signaled that something deeper was at play—an erosion of the essence of Ireland, perhaps without the Irish even being aware.

A Pint of Plain is Barich’s witty, deeply observant portrait of an Ireland vanishing before our eyes. Drawing on the wit and wisdom of Flann O’Brien (the title comes from one of his poems), James Joyce, Brendan Behan, and J. M. Synge, Barich explores how I rish culture has become a commodity for exports for such firms as the I rish Pub Company, which has built some five hundred “authentic” Irish pubs in forty-five countries, where “authenticity is in the eye of the beholder.” The tale of Arthur Guinness and the famous brewery he founded in the mid-eighteenth century reveals the astonishing fact that more stout is sold in Nigeria than in Ireland itself. While 85 percent of the I rish still stop by a pub at least once amonth, strict drunk-driving laws have helped to kill business in rural areas. Even traditional I rish music, whose rich roots “connect the past to the present and close a circle,” is much less prominent in pub life. I ronically, while I rish pubs in the countryside are closing at the alarming rate of one per day, plastic I PC-type pubs are being born in foreign countries at the exact same rate.

From the famed watering holes of Dublin to tiny village pubs, Barich introduces a colorful array of characters, and, ever pursuing craic, the ineffable Irish word for a good time, engages in an unvarnished yet affectionate discussion about what it means to be Irish today.

Publishers Weekly

All that the author, a California transplant, wanted was to find the perfect pub in his Dublin neighborhood, an easy task since Barich had "been in training for the job most of my life." What should be a breeze morphs into a countrywide pub crawl and journalistic investigation, as the author discovers that the romanticized Irish pub of The Quiet Man has become commercialized, while stricter drunk driving laws and Ireland's changing social dynamics don't bode well for the future of the places beloved by everyone from Joyce to the working class. Barich (Laughing in the Hills) also talks about the various aspects of Irish pub culture, from its music to its literary denizens. Barich crams in a lot of intriguing elements-history, sociology, autobiography, travelogue, character study-without deciding on a focus. Consequently, his effort feels less like a book than a collection of loosely connected facts and observations, which gradually languish as the author strays from the revelatory and informative (e.g., the nutritional qualities of Guinness; Ireland's attempts at temperance) for the quaint. (Mar.)

Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Gastronomie or Recipes Collected over a Period of 50 Years with Your Health in Mind

Gastronomie!: Food Museums and Heritage Sites of France

Author: Tom Hughes

Gastronomie! is a unique book for cooks and foodies, for those who travel only to eat and for those who can do it all from an armchair. This book tours the fascinating regions of France to discover how Roquefort cheese is made, how Burgundy snails are raised and what makes a Truffle hunter, and much more.

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Recipes Collected over a Period of 50 Years with Your Health in Mind

Author: Ronald Alan Duskis

One of the things humans like to do more than anything is to eat! Thus, I have gathered together many wonderful healthy but good-tasting recipes, some of which are mine, some from members of my family, friends, or from others. Many of these recipes go back 50 or more years. I hope you will check out Recipes Collected Over a Period of 50 Years With Your Health in Mind

It is packed with so many mouth-watering recipes of so many different kinds. There are American, Mexican, Chinese, and Italian, about any kind you could want. Even a Mid-Eastern curry dish! There are all kinds of desserts too from cakes, cookies, cheesecake etc. Many of these are easy to fix. Some take longer, but oh are they worth the effort! So here's to happy cooking.

Author Biography: Dr. Ronald Alan Duskis is a graduate of UCLA and has taught courses at another college on Nutrition and Food. He has been a host on a college radio show on health and a guest on many other radio shows. He has sold over a hundred of these books across America.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction of author	2
	Introduction of author and husband	3
	Table of Contents	4
	Carob Brownies	7
	Beth's Creamy Cottage Cheese Dressing	8
	Allison's Sloppy Joe Seasoning Mix	9
	Verna's Burger Nabe (a Japanese dish)	10
	Chicken Spring Rolls	11
	New Mexico Hamburger Chile Bak	12
	Easy Mexican Casserole	13
	Mattie's Broccoli Casserole	14
	Mary's Eggplant Parmesan	15
	Mary's Italian Spaghetti Sauce	16
	Cashew Chicken	17
	Carol's Chicken Cacciatore	18
	Chicken and Crescent Almondine	19
	Basic Biscuits	20
	Chicken Gumbo (with okra)	21
	Strawberry "Coffee" Cake (no coffee in it)	22
	Basic Indian Fry Bread	23
	Teresa's Sopapias	24
	Norwegian Lefse	25
	Homemade Egg Noodles	26
	Homemade Cream Soup	27
	Bonnie's African Samosas	28
	Coconut Dreams	29
	Popcorn Balls	30
	Best Carob (or Chocolate) Cake	31
	Old Fashioned Betty Crocker White Cake	32
	Grandma's Date Cookies	33
	Pat's Date Nut Cake Rolls	34
	Peanut Butter Pie	35
	Artichoke Chicken	36
	Anna's Chiffon Cake	37
	Cindy's English Muffins	38
	Jumbo Cookies	39
	Carob Macaroonies	40
	Spanish Rice	41
	Hungry Jack Turnovers	42
	Oatmeal Muffins	43
	Mom's Raised Donuts	44
	Glazed Icing	45
	Cheryl's Tomatilla Sauce	46
	Carob or Chocolate Pumpkin Cake	47
	Mary Ann's King Ranch Casserole (My Sis in law)	48
	Sopapilias	49
	Gayla's Stuffed Chicken Breasts	50
	Stuffed Squash	51
	Old Fashioned Tapioca Pudding	52
	Tofu Dip	53
	Homemade Tomato Soup	54
	Vegetable and Beef Lasagnia	55
	Black midnight Carob or Chocolate Cake	56
	Kooky Cookies	57
	Cheryl's Chicken Fahitas (Cheryl is my sister-what a cook!)	58
	Cheryl's Oven Fried Chimichangas	59
	Carob Chip Walnut Cookies	60
	Mom's Oatmeal Cookies	61
	Mound Bars	62
	Mock Almond Joys (or Mock Reese Cups)	63
	Swedish Pancakes (thin)	64
	Yummy Pecan Brittle	65
	Trudy's Homemade Sweetened Condensed Milk	66
	Almond Butter Cookies	67
	Mom's Date "Coffee" Cake (Without coffee)	68
	Green Chili Burros	69
	German Carob or Chocolate Cake	70
	Cheryl's Greek Salad Dressing	71
	Joe's Special (Cheryl's)	72
	Lime Meringue Pie	73
	Verna's Natural Pecan Pie	74
	Carrot Cake	75
	Cottage Cheese Cake	76
	Carob Spritz	77
	Carob Cheesecake	78
	Dorothy's Pound Cake	79
	Norva's Delicious Pound Cake	80
	Carob Pudding (Dairy-free)	81
	Cabbage Goulash	82
	Homemade Turkey Sausage	83
	Cheryl's Old Fashioned Eggnog	84
	Yummy Carob Chip Pudding Cake	85
	Matilda's Tortilla Rollups	86
	Helen's English Sponge Cake (or shortcake)	87
	Basic Cheesecake	88
	Gini's Zucchini Pound Cake (makes two loaves)	89
	Blaine's Basic Sugar Cookies	90
	Date Pudding	91
	Basic Chicken Rice Soup	92
	Potato Onion Cheese Soup	93
	Crescent Cheeseburger Pie	94
	Now for Some Yummy Meatless Recipes
	Pecan Loaf: #1	95
	Pecan Loaf: #2	96
	Lentil and Nut Roast	97
	Peanut Butter Roast	98
	Meatless Stuffed Peppers	99
	Cottage Cheese Meat Balls	100
	Cashew Burger Casserole	101
	Almond Bake Soyameat Casserole	102
	Mock Chicken Stew	103
	Mock Chicken Croquettes	104
	Soy Chicken Cacciatore	105
	Spinach Lasagna	106
	Meatless Burger Cheese Enchiladas	107
	Scrambled Tofu (eggless)	108
	Quick One-Dish Oriental Meal	109
	Chinese Noodle Casserole	110
	Meatless Stroganoff	111
	Cashew Loaf	112
	Cashew Nut Casserole	113
	Cabbage Casserole	114
	Date Nut Bread	115
	Corn Dodgers	116
	Potato Onion Soup	117
	Mexican Montzuma Pie	118
	And Here are Some Recipes As Seen in the Back to Health Book by Author, Ronald Alan Duskis
	Stuffed Avocados	119
	Cheese-Potatoes Scalloped	120
	Codfish Cakes	121
	Chicken Cacciatore	122
	Crunchy Chicken Casserole	123
	Savory Beef Noodles	124
	Raisin Bran Muffins	125
	Spicy Oaties	126
	Aloha Carrot Cake	127
	Cream Cheese Frosting	128
	One Crust Butter Pie Crust	129
	Apple And Cream Pie	130
	No-Bake Pie Crust	131
	Apple Pie With No-Bake Crust	132
	Blueberry Buckle	133

Ultimate Cocktail Book or Porter

Ultimate Cocktail Book

Author: Bill Reavell

Once again the epitome of glamour in America, cocktails are both taste-bud-tingling treats and superbly stylish. Sophisticated, cool, and appealing to the eye, just like the beverages it presents, this ultimate book on the ultimate libation is itself a recipe for the perfect cocktail party. Begin with the basics--essential equipment, decorating and serving tips, unassailable bartending advice. Mix in hundreds of spectacular color photographs and a full range of fabulous concoctions, from the classic Martini to the treacherous Knockout, from elegant slow sippers to deadly Scorpions, from a Cool Wind to a Sirocco. Garnish with a chapter on alcohol-free cocktails too delicious and good-looking to limit to the drivers. The result? A subtle and harmonious blend of information stirred, not shaken, into a book with a powerful kick.

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Porter, Vol. 5

Author: Terry Foster

Porter reviews the history of George Washington's favorite beer and teaches you how to create this rich, full-bodied ale for your own enjoyment.

Catering for Special Occasions with Menus and Recipes or Symposium and Komos in Aristophanes

Catering for Special Occasions with Menus and Recipes

Author: Fannie Merritt Merritt Farmer

When this book was originally published in 1911, Fannie Farmer said: "Americans of today are accused, somewhat unjustly, it seems, of being inhospitable. Because we do not, in the manner of a generation or two ago, lay aside all our duties at the visit of friends and welcome them ungrudgingly to our ordinary meal we expose ourselves to this charge; but, in truth, it is a higher conception of hospitality that has brought about this change. We receive our guests more normally; we make preparations for their coming, and take pleasure in giving them a meal that shall vary from the humdrum order of culinary production. The fashion in entertaining, as in so many other things, has changed, and consciously or unconsciously we conform to the new standards. And why is not the new hospitality more satisfying, both to the host and guest, than the old? It seems to me that housekeepers are enjoying as never before the days set apart for their friends, and have learned to appreciate the saying of Brillat-Savarin, 'He who receives friends, without himself bestowing some pains upon the repast prepared for them, does not deserve to have friends.' And certainly there is none of us so regardless of the delights of the table that he does not respond to the warming influences of a meal prepared by a thoughtful hostess as a tribute to him as a guest."

"The difficulty for the housekeeper lies in the selection of an appropriate menu. This little book is intended to meet this difficulty. May it be a help to many!"

Table of Contents:

	New Year's Afternoon Teas	1
	St. Valentine's Spreads	27
	Washington's Birthday Spreads	51
	St. Patrick's Day Luncheons	69
	Easter Dinners	87
	Fourth of July Spreads	105
	Hallowe'en Spreads	127
	Thanksgiving Dinners	143
	Christmas Dinners	165
	Wedding Receptions	185
	Birthday Feasting	201
	Children's Parties	219

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Symposium and Komos in Aristophanes

Author: Babette Putz

Feasting, wine, revellers and dancing girls; the modern image of ancient Greek symposia is an enduring one. Many symposia were more formal affairs; drinking-parties after which a komos, or procession of revellers, often took place, with much protocol involved. Many accounts survive in ancient literature, as well as depictions on vase paintings. There has been a considerable amount of modern research on the symposium, especially on its archaeological evidence. However, the komos has not received as much attention, and the connection of either celebration with comedy has not been studied to any great extent. This book looks at the symposium and komos in Aristophanes and the comic fragments from two angles, considering the use of these forms of celebration to help shape a play's plot or to depict characters, and discussing the information found in comedy on some practical sympotic matters. The context of relevant scenes, the activities shown, their humour, and the social status of their characters are also explored. First published in 2003, this revised edition is fully updated taking into account important new research.

About the Author:
Babette Putz is a lecturer in Classics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Christmas Cheer or From USA with Love

Christmas Cheer: For the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Author: Vicki Howard

Artist Vicky Howard creates such lovable snowmen, beautiful Christmas trees, and toy-stuffed stockings that her designs are among the most recognizable and licensed illustrations in America. Now, with Christmas Cheer, this very gifted creator brings her talents to a delightful holiday-themed book.Howard's use of rich colors and intricate details make this a perfect book for Christmas. The volume includes favorite holiday sayings, poems, and carols, along with recipes for gingerbread, sugar cookies, and candy cane fluff. The combination is seasonally scrumptious!

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From USA with Love: Russian Impressions and Healthy Cooking

Author: Olga Victoria Whittington

Book collects her mom's recipes in addition to interesting thoughts about life under Communist rule and her one in America. In hopes of promoting healthier lifestyles and nourishing, home-cooked food, author offers mouthwatering dishes and insightful tips to make life easier in the kitchen. She begins with salads and soups and moves on to the main dish such as Russian meatballs and beef-stroganoff. Of course, she doesn't forget sweets: Russian pancakes, apple cake and cookies. In her epilogue, she provides healthy diet for everyone.

2009 Joy of Cooking Box Calendar or 2009 Irish Pubs Wall Calendar

2009 Joy of Cooking Box Calendar

Author: Irma S Rombauer

"I highly recommend this book as a must-have in your kitchen. Chock full of great information, this book takes all of the guess work out and leaves no stone unturned." —Paula Deen

Called "an essential work for all cooks" in its starred review in Publishers Weekly, the 75th anniversary edition of Joy of Cooking is the source for this popular calendar. Carefully culled from the venerable cookbook, essential facts and tips for today's cooks are presented on the calendar's dated pages, and a step-by-step kitchen- and time-tested recipe for a mouthwatering dish is featured on an undated page each week. This calendar easily earns its place alongside it on kitchen counters of both serious and novice cooks.

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2009 Irish Pubs Wall Calendar

Author: Dennis Flaherty

Treat yourself to a pub tour of Ireland! Traverse all over the Emerald Isle on your pub quest. This colorful calendar with its mini-travelogue plus Irish toasts and sayings is sure to wet your whistle for a visit to Ireland!

Parkers Wine Buyers Guide or Soy Dessert and Baking Book

Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide: Fifth Edition

Author: Robert M Parker

Thoroughly revised and updated, this fifth edition of the Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide has been eagerly awaited by seasoned collectors and occasional drinkers alike. No one wants to waste his or her precious dollars on an unenjoyable bottle, and with Parker's advice in hand, no one ever will. Employing his famous 100-point rating system, Parker rates more than 8,000 wines from all the major wine-producing regions in the world -- including Austria for the first time ever. Each wine producer is evaluated separately, and Parker's independence allows him to be completely honest in his opinions. In addition, the book includes other essential information such as how to buy and store wine, how to spot a badly stored and abused bottle, and how to find the best wine values for under $10.

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Soy Dessert and Baking Book: Add Soy and Nutrition to Your Favorite Cakes,Cookies,Pies,Tarts,Muffins,Puddings,Quick Breads,and Other Desserts

Author: Brita Housez

Incorporating healthy ingredients into delicious baked goods and desserts can seem like a daunting goal, but it doesn't have to be. Brita Housez has created 120 delicious recipes that incorporate soy into everyone's favorite baked goods and desserts—thereby making them more nutritious than ever. By substituting soy products for fattening ingredients like butter, cream, and cheese, Housez cuts calories, adds nutrition, and retains every bit of the great flavor you expect when biting into a slice of cheesecake or a chocolate cupcake. The book includes eight pages of gorgeous four-color photographs and many dairy-free recipes.

Publishers Weekly

Soy aficionado Housez (Tofu Mania) brings the versatile bean to the dessert table to help even the most diehard sweet tooth get the 25 to 40 grams of soy per day that doctors recommend. The recipes integrate soy in many ways, from the traditional tofu and soy milk to soy flower, soy flakes, soy nuts and soybean oil; Housez's secret to maintaining authentic tastes while eliminating much of the fat is to only partially substitute soy to have cooks use some soy flour and some unbleached all-purpose flour, for instance. Although this gives her Lemony Cranberry Bundt Cake a dense texture, the Light Chocolate Cupcakes are just what the name promises: light and airy, with the added decadence of chocolate frosting made with vanilla soy milk. The recipes are simple, marked by helpful headings (like "non-dairy" or "1-bowl recipe") and finished with nutritional information and notes on quantity, timing, and how well the dish freezes. Housez offers chapters on everything from cookies to crepes and biscuits to bars, and while traditional dishes such as Apple Pie, Oatmeal Raisin Cookies and Blueberry Muffins are included, Housez also tackles Tiramisu and Zabaglione. And she recommends an extra soy boost in the form of sauces like the rich Caramel Sauce, which has appealing overtones of cinnamon. These recipes prove it's possible to eat healthy without sacrificing too much taste. (Jan.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

Housez (Tofu Mania) provides 120 recipes for cookies, cakes and pies, quick breads, smoothies, and other desserts and baked goods prepared with soy products. She turned to soy both for its nutritional value and as a way of reducing fat in desserts such as cheesecakes. However, she says, "there is no need to overdose on soy," and in many recipes she uses soy products only as a partial substitute for the butter or other ingredients that are high in fat but are essential for flavor. Dana Jacobi's Amazing Soy (LJ 6/15/01) includes desserts among its hundreds of recipes, but most subject collections will want to add Housez's book, too. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Table of Contents:

Introduction	xv
The Soy Baker's Pantry	xxi
cookies
Double Chocolate Chip Cookies	2
Double Nut-Butter Cookies	3
Cream Cheese Snickerdoodles	4
Oatmeal Raisin Cookies	5
Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies	6
Dried Fruit and Oat Crunchies	7
Ginger Cookies	8
Chinese Almond Cookies	9
Lemon Cookies	10
Coconut Macaroons	11
Lemon Coconut Biscotti	12
Nutty Meringues	14
Surprise Meringues	15
Lace Brandy Cups	16
Wonton Cinnamon Crisps	18
squares & bars
Chocolate Brownies	20
Brownie Cheesecake Squares	22
Cherry Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Squares	24
White Chocolate Cherry Bars	25
Sour Cherry StreuselSquares	26
Cranberry Apple Macadamia Bars	27
Rum Raisin and Apple Custard Squares	28
Sugar 'n' Spice Squares	29
Soynut Butter and Oat Squares	30
Crispy Rice Squares	32
Lemon Squares	33
Peach Squares	34
cakes & frostings
Light Chocolate Cupcakes	36
Chocolate M&M Cupcakes	38
Cocoa Layer Cake with Chocolate Cream Frosting	40
Sour Cream Chocolate Cake	42
Chocolate Cream Puffs with Grand Marnier Cream Filling	44
Chocolate Raspberry Pavlova	46
Ultra Light Cheesecake	47
Cheesecake with Swirled Lemon Curd	48
Cream Cheese, Tofu, and Mocha Cake	50
Mocha Cinnamon Torte	52
Tiramisu	54
Tangy Lemon Cake	55
Pineapple Upside Down Cake	56
pies & tarts
Basic Shortbread Crust	60
Pastry Crust for Fruit Pies and Tarts	61
Flan Pastry Crust	62
Graham Cracker Crust	63
Apple Pie	64
Plum Pie	66
Peaches 'n' Cream Pie	67
Key Lime Pie	68
Quick Lime Cheesecake Pie	70
Mango and Lemon Cheesecake Pie	71
Sweet Potato Pie	72
Sugar Pie	74
Butter Tarts	75
Creamy Rhubarb Tarts	76
Lemon-Lime Tarts	77
Mango Kiwi Soynut Tart	78
Blueberry Cheesecake Tart	80
Orange Mocha Cheesecake Tart	81
Chocolate Orange Pear Tart	82
Summer Berry Pizza	83
Apple Turnovers	84
pancakes, crêpes, cobblers & dumplings
Blueberry Pancakes	88
Apple Bread Pancakes	89
Chocolate Crêpes	90
French Toast with Fried Apples	91
Peach Fritters	92
Fruit Fritter Batter	93
Maple Grandpères	94
Honey Rum Baked Apples	95
Pear and Cherry Crisp with Lemon Sauce	96
Black Forest Cobbler	98
Nutty Cranberry Cobbler	99
Strawberry Shortcake	100
Granola Snack	102
muffins, biscuits & quick breads
Blueberry Muffins	104
Cornbread Muffins	105
Banana Oatmeal Muffins	106
Lemon Cranberry Muffins	107
Honey Lemon Muffins	108
Applesauce and Sour Cream Muffins	110
Baking Powder Biscuits	111
Quick 'n' Easy Carrot Scones	112
Yogurt Soda Bread	114
Banana Bread	115
Flax, Banana, and Orange Bread	116
Strawberry Quick Bread	117
Applesauce Loaf	118
Quick Health Loaf	119
Pineapple Cranberry Loaf	120
Cherry and Lime Pound Cake	121
Almond Pound Cake	122
Lemony Cranberry Bundt Cake	124
yeast breads
Cinnamon Buns	128
Plum Coffee Cake	130
Raisin Casserole Bread	132
Stollen	134
Caribbean Holiday Sweet Bread	136
Bagels	138
hot & cold puddings
Irish Cream Chocolate Pudding	142
Rice Pudding with White Chocolate	143
Vanilla Soy Pudding	144
Monmouth Pudding	145
Summer Pudding	146
Fruit Flummery	147
Steamed Cranberry Pudding	148
Persimmon Pudding	150
Carrot Christmas Pudding	152
Caramel Apple Bread Pudding	154
custards, mousses, soufflés & trifles
Banana Apple Cranberry Custard Flan	156
Zabaglione	157
Crème Caramel à l'Orange	158
Irish Coffee Crème Caramel	159
Coffee Tortoni	160
Chocolate Pots de Crème	161
Chocolate Mousse	162
Tropical Yogurt Mousse	163
Zesty Lime Mousse	164
Lemon Custard Soufflé	165
Chocolate Orange Soufflé	166
Raspberry Orange Trifle	167
creams & sauces
Best Whipped Topping	170
Basic Vanilla Sauce	171
Caramel Sauce	172
Chocolate Soynut Butter Sauce	173
Lemon Curd	174
Almond Cream	175
Orange Cream	176
Berries with Orange Ricotta Cream	177
Strawberry Fool	178
Margarita Dip with Fresh Fruit	179
confections
Amaretto Drops	182
Chocolate Caramels	183
Chocolate Caramel Truffles	184
Chocolate Soynut Butter Truffles	185
Soynut Brittle	186
beverages
Banana Daiquiri	189
Banana Soynut Shake	190
Coconut Lychee Banana Shake	191
Cranberry Buttermilk Shake	192
Cranberry Peach Smoothie	193
Protein Berry Shake	194
Raspberry Kiwi Shake	195
Orange Strawberry Smoothie	196
Peach Almond Shake	197
Mango Flax Seed Shake	198
Caramel and Amaretto Hot Chocolate	199
Holiday Eggnog	200
Acknowledgments	201
Index	202

Simplify Entertaining or The Accidental Gourmet

Simplify Entertaining: Less-Stress Solutions for Party Giving

Author: Mary Corpening Barber

Hundreds of practical, simple solutions for creating the perfect party that will save you time and money and let you enjoy yourself in the process. This book is filled with many ideas and techniques to orchestrate a successful gatheringlarge or small, formal or casual.

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The Accidental Gourmet: Weeknights: A Year of Fast and Delicious Meals

Author: Sally Sondheim

DO YOU DREAD FIXING DINNER EACH NIGHT, BUT ARE LOOKING FOR BETTER THAN TAKEOUT? THE AUTHORS OF THE BESTSELLING A DINNER A DAY SHOW YOU HOW TO PREPARE DELICIOUS, FAMILY-PERFECTED MEALS EVERY MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR.

If you're the cook in your household and crave comfort food that will bring your family back to the table, you need The Accidental Gourmet: Weeknights. Written by a gourmet and an I-hate-to-cook, this must-have volume translates Grandmother's cooking into today's lifestyle and gives new meaning to the term "fast food," as it brings variety, great taste, and fun back to home-cooked meals. In a unique approach to taking control of the kitchen, Sally Sondheim and Suzannah Sloan have created 260 brand-new menus—including entrées, side dishes, and desserts—that will allow time-pressed cooks to put together readily available ingredients with style and speed.

There's no guesswork involved: Each menu is presented to you complete on two facing pages. The recipes are accompanied by organized shopping lists that make once-a-week marketing a snap, a rundown of necessary cooking equipment, and an indispensable preparation schedule that gets everything to the table on time. Each menu feeds an average family of four, but can easily be expanded or reduced to fit your needs, and the dishes highlight the freshest foods of the season, judiciously augmented by timesaving convenience foods. Now your family can enjoy such mouthwatering combinations as hearty chicken soup with carrots, beans, potatoes, and spinach, served with maple syrup muffins and strawberry-topped sherbet over melon; or a sausage, egg, and vegetable bake,served with spiced peaches, rosemary buns, and angel food cake with blueberry sauce. How about pork chops simmered with lemon, brown sugar, and honey, served with egg noodles tossed with butter and poppy seeds, sautéed snow peas and asparagus, and a butterscotch pudding layered with shortbread cookies? All the thinking, all the planning, all the organization, has been done for you. All that's left for you to do is to take the credit!

Whether you're a single parent, the cooking half of a two-career family, or an overscheduled stay-at-home mom, The Accidental Gourmet: Weeknights is the one book you'll want to use every day.

Publishers Weekly

Hoping to trump their own highly successful A Dinner a Day, Sondheim and Sloan have turned out another year's worth of weeknight meals, planned and formatted down to the smallest detail. With their weekly shopping list, two-page spreads, and meticulously sequenced prep instructions, the authors have once again taken all of the planning and pain (some may argue much of the fun) out of deciding what's for dinner. Readers can cook straight from Monday's Silence of the Hams to Wednesday's Orson Beans with absolutely no forethought or last-minute trips to the corner deli. Nowadays, the word "gourmet" in a title more or less guarantees something from a can or a mix on almost every page, and this volume is no exception. Anyone frightened of whipped toppings, instant pudding mixes, canned nacho cheese soup, pre-seasoned stuffing or canned fruits had better steer clear. Still, the book is a godsend for its target audience: busy working people or oversubscribed family cooks whose only quick alternative is a frozen TV dinner or takeout. For these, the horrendous puns ("Dancin' Chick to Chick" and "I Get a Cake Out of You") and scary desserts (peanut butter and jelly cake; marshmallow cr me fantasies) will be a small price to pay for a home-cooked meal made a little easier. (Dec.) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Pan or The Basic Basics

Pan!: Recetas sencillas y deliciosas para hacer en una maquina de pan

Author: Kathryn Hawkins

This book contains a wealth of bread-making recipes that include everything from breads to pizza bases to doughnuts, each accompanied by a vibrant color illustration. A thorough introduction explains the basic steps and variety of ingredients, followed by Bread-Machine Basics, Handy Hints, and Troubleshooting. Following that are dozens of recipes for loaves, cakes, tea breads, and homey favorites, including Olive and Pesto Sourdough Loaf, Boston-Style Brown Bread, Smoky Potato and Corn Bread, Almond Danish Pastries, Chocolate Truffle Cake, French Toast, and many more. The book covers types of flour and shows how to incorporate mouth-watering additions such as nuts, grains, sun-dried tomatoes, olives, herbs, spices, and dried fruits. Different-shaped breads are featured, along with tips on what to do with those leftover bits of dough and bread. The last chapter describes wonderful jams, butters, and spreads that can be paired with these yummy creations.

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The Basic Basics: How to Cook from A-Z

Author: Janet MacDonald

This is a handbook for the starter cook. Ingredients and techniques are listed alphabetically for quick and easy reference, and it provides the basic methods and techniques for dealing with vegetables, fruits, meat, fish, poultry, grains, legumes, pulses, breads and pasta, with advice on how to clean, store, prepare and cook each entry.

Line drawings illustrate techniques such as dicing, slicing, coring fruit and rubbing in fat, and where appropriate a very simple recipe - such as a basic broth or pie - is included, which allows the reader to develop the skills demonstrated.

Entries also cover simple but easily-forgotten information such as how to poach an egg, the quantities for a Yorkshire pudding batter, and what temperature to roast a chicken at.

International Wine Guide or Guide to Craft Brewing

International Wine Guide

Author: Susy Atkins

Whether you enjoy light, dry, or fruity whites or full-bodied, light, or smooth reds, this book promises to help today s enthusiast choose and appreciate the different styles and tastes of wine from around the world. The core of this book provides 10 different styles with a key wine for each, plus lesser-known varieties and up-and-coming ones. You ll also find advice on buying and serving as well as tips on food pairings, plus how to choose the perfect varietal.

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Guide to Craft Brewing

Author: John Alexander

A guide to Craft Brewing explains how to brew your own beer in clear and straightforward terms, making this popular and rewarding hobby accessible to all. This practical book covers twenty-eight types of malts, thirty-one adjuncts and thirty-three hops, and includes how to treat water to match a beer type and yeast necessary to create your own unique beer style. It explains each step for the novice with tips and advice, but also includes advanced techniques and ideas for the more experienced home brewer.

John Alexander supped his first pint of home-brewed beer in 1970 and was hooked. He readily mastered the techniques involved in brewing with malt extract and cereals, and quickly moved on to mashing, brewing wholly from malt and adjuncts. He has also specialized in 'beer from the wood' since 1979 and this has helped him perfect the real ale recipes included in this book.