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Meatless: More Than 200 of the Very Best Vegetarian Recipes
16 critic reviews | 21 user reviews | Published: January 8, 2013
For anyone new to a vegetarian diet--flexitarians who adopt plans like Meatless Mondays--as well as committed vegetarians and fans of Power Foods, here is a comprehensive collection of easy, meat-free mains for everyday. As inspiring as it is practical, Meatless features 200 recipes—each accompanied by a gorgeous photograph—for full-fledged vegetarians and meat-eaters alike. You’ll find recipes for classics and new favorites, plus plenty of low-fat, vegan, and gluten-free options, too. More than just a cookbook, Meatless is also a roadmap to...
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Inventing Wine: A New History of One of the World's Most Ancient Pleasures
11 critic reviews | 10 user reviews | Published: December 3, 2012
The story of how wine, as enjoyed by millions of people today, came to be. Drinking wine can be traced back 8,000 years, yet the wines we drink today are radically different from those made in earlier eras. While its basic chemistry remains largely the same, wine's social roles have changed fundamentally, being invented and reinvented many times over many centuries. In Inventing Wine, Paul Lukacs tells the enticing story of wine's transformation from a source of spiritual and bodily nourishment to a foodstuff valued for the wide array of ple...
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Barefoot Contessa Foolproof: Recipes You Can Trust
11 critic reviews | 190 user reviews | Published: October 30, 2012
Millions of people love Ina Garten because she writes recipes that make home cooks look great; family and friends shower them with praise and yet the dishes couldn’t be simpler to prepare using ingredients found in any grocery store. In Barefoot Contessa Foolproof, the Food Network star takes easy a step further, sharing her secrets for pulling off deeply satisfying meals that have that “wow!” factor we all crave. Start with delicious Dukes Cosmopolitans made with freshly squeezed lemon juice, plus Jalapeño Cheddar Crackers that everyone wil...
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The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook
10 critic reviews | 145 user reviews | Published: October 30, 2012
The long-awaited cookbook by Deb Perelman of Smitten Kitchen—home cook, photographer, and celebrated food blogger. Deb Perelman loves to cook. She isn’t a chef or a restaurant owner—she’s never even waitressed. Cooking in her tiny Manhattan kitchen was, at least at first, for special occasions—and, too often, an unnecessarily daunting venture. Deb found herself overwhelmed by the number of recipes available to her. Have you ever searched for the perfect birthday cake on Google? You’ll get more than three million results. Where do you start? ...
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Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child
15 critic reviews | 230 user reviews | Published: August 7, 2012
It’s rare for someone to emerge in America who can change our attitudes, our beliefs, and our very culture. It’s even rarer when that someone is a middle-aged, six-foot three-inch woman whose first exposure to an unsuspecting public is cooking an omelet on a hot plate on a local TV station. And yet, that’s exactly what Julia Child did. The warble-voiced doyenne of television cookery became an iconic cult figure and joyous rule-breaker as she touched off the food revolution that has gripped America for more than fifty years. Now, in Bob Spitz...
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Foraged Flavor
7 critic reviews | 13 user reviews | Published: June 12, 2012
Forage for wild food and discover delicious edible plants growing everywhere-including your backyard-and how best to prepare them to highlight their unique flavors, with this seasonally organized field guide and cookbook. While others have identified in the past which wild plants are edible, Tama Matsuoka Wong, the forager for Daniel, the flagship restaurant of renowned chef Daniel Boulud, and Eddy Leroux, its chef de cuisine, go two steps further, setting the bar much higher. First, they have carefully selected only the wild plants that are...
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Dinner: A Love Story
5 critic reviews | 76 user reviews | Published: June 5, 2012
Inspired by her popular blog, DinnerALoveStory.com, a practical, readable, inspiring mix of recipes and stories from a dinnertime doyenne that will be indispensible in the kitchen and impossible to put down even after you're done cooking "Anyone who wants to shape family dinner into a time of greater enjoyment and engagement will find Dinner: A Love Story a terrific guide. Warm, funny, packed with recipes and photos, and reassuringly nonjudgmental, it will help inspire the most faint-hearted of cooks to pre-heat the oven."-Gretchen Rubin, ...
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The Cookie Dough Lover's Cookbook
5 critic reviews | 20 user reviews | Published: June 5, 2012
Food blogger Lindsay Landis has invented the perfect cookie dough. It tastes great. It's egg free (and thus safe to eat raw). You can whip it up in minutes. And, best of all, you can use it to make dozens of delicious cookie dough creations, from cakes, custards, and pies to candies, brownies, and even granola bars. Included are recipes for indulgent breakfasts (cookie dough doughnuts!), frozen treats (cookie dough popsicles!), outrageous snacks (cookie dough wontons! cookie dough fudge! cookie dough pizza!), and more.The Cookie Dough Lover'...
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Preserving
5 critic reviews | 2 user reviews | Published: May 29, 2012
Enjoy fresh, seasonal produce all year long with this beautifully illustrated cookbook and resource guide-a bestseller in Canada-filled with comprehensive instructions for canning and freezing and more than 200 recipes for pickles, chutneys, jams, sauces, curds, relishes and much more Home canning and preserving has been a long honored tradition for generations. With the abundance of fresh, organic ingredients available at local farmers' markets today's home cooks are discovering the pleasures of this wholesome and economical art as well. I...
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Cindy's Supper Club: Meals from Around the World to Share with Family and Friends
5 critic reviews | 7 user reviews | Published: May 15, 2012
A collection of 125 chef-worthy global recipes presented in international dinner menus, drawn from renowned chef Cindy Pawlcyn's informal gatherings.It's no secret that legions of fans flock to Cindy Pawlcyn's restaurants for her globally influenced signature dishes. What is not so well known is that Cindy has turned her passions for cooking and travel into a popular supper club, where she creates an adventurous menu celebrating a different international cuisine each week. Cindy's Supper Club has become a destination event, presenting a worl...
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