 | Hungry Girl: Recipes and Survival Strategies for Guilt-Free Eating in the Real World
Brand: St. Martin's Griffin
<P>Do you want to eat burgers, chocolate cake, frozen margaritas, fudge, and French fries--and still fit into your pants? Is life not worth living without brownies and onion rings? Do you want a surefire way to tame your cravings? From breakfast ideas and chopped salads to guilt-free junk food and cocktails, Hungry Girl recipes taste great but are low in fat and calories. Check it out!</P> <P>* Eggs Bene-Chick: 183 calories<BR>* Bring on the Breakfast Pizza: 127 calories<BR>* Ooey Gooey Chili Cheese Nachos: 216 calories<BR>* Big Bopper Burger Stopper: 202 calories<BR>* Dreamy Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge: 65 calories<BR>* Lord of the Onion Rings: 153 calories<BR>* Rockin' Tuna Melt: 212 calories<BR>* 7-Layer Burrito Blitz: 277 calories<BR>* I Can't Believe It's Not Sweet Potato Pie: 113 calories<BR>* Cookie-rific Ice Cream Freeze: 160 calories<BR>* With easy instructions, simple steps, and hilariously fun facts and figures, Hungry Girl recipes are as fun to read as they are to make!</P> <P>And when you're not in your kitchen, check out HG's 10 mini survival guides, plus tips 'n tricks that'll help you make smarter food choices anywhere, anytime!</P> | *$7.67 |
 | Hungry Girl Chew the Right Thing: Supreme Makeovers for 50 Foods You Crave
Brand: St. Martin's Griffin
<DIV><DIV><DIV>Hungry Girl's FIRST-EVER recipe card set!!! </DIV><DIV>Now You Can Give In To Temptation... 50 Insanely Delicious Guilt-Free recipe swaps in a super-fun card deck!<BR><BR>Take a look at these crazy delicious treats:<BR>  *Red Velvet Insanity Cupcakes:<BR>           140 calories each!</DIV><DIV><BR>  *Woohoo Waffle Stack:<BR>           226 calories for the whole stack!</DIV><DIV><BR>  *Amazing Ate-Layer Dip:<BR>           105 Calories per serving!</DIV><DIV><BR>  *Planet Hungrywood Sweet & Cap’n Crunchy Chicken:<BR>           234 calories per serving</DIV><DIV><BR>Enjoy 50 Supreme Makeovers for 50 foods you crave! </DIV></DIV></DIV> | *$3.98 |
 | The Fat Smash Diet: The Last Diet You'll Ever Need
Brand: St. Martin's Griffin
<DIV><DIV>Dr. Smith’s diet has been featured on VH1’s number-one rated show, <I>Celebrity Fit Club</I>, where Hollywood celebrities follow his customized diet plan and compete to lose weight. Now, with <I>The Fat Smash Diet</I>, everyone will have access to the revolutionary eating plan that leads to lifestyle changes and permanent weight loss forever. <BR><I>The Fat Smash Diet </I>is not a gimmick or short-term fix. It is a four-phase diet that starts out with a natural detox phase to clean impurities out of the system. Once this nine-day phase is completed, the next three phases encourage the addition of everyday foods that promote significant weight loss. In just thirty days, most dieters will complete all four phases and be on their way to a thinner lifetime of good health. Best of all, there is <I>no </I>calorie counting, and Dr. Smith guarantees there never will be. As an added bonus, there are over fifty easy-to-cook, tasty recipes that make it easier to stick with Dr. Smith’s plan. <I>The Fat Smash Diet </I>is unlike any other program on the market. In fact, it’s the LAST DIET YOU’LL EVER NEED! </DIV></DIV> | *$3.60 |
 | Fasting and Eating for Health: A Medical Doctor's Program for Conquering Disease
Brand: St. Martin's Griffin
Precise diet and fasting programs to relieve headache, hypoglycemia, rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, colitis, psoriasis, lupus, and uterine fibroids.<br><br>Using fasting to lose weight<br><br>How to start, what to expect, how to reintroduce food to maintain maximum benefits<br><br>How to work with a physician for longer fasts (more than 3 days)<br> | *$8.95 |
 | Baby Love: Healthy, Easy, Delicious Meals for Your Baby and Toddler
Brand: St. Martin's Griffin
<DIV><DIV><P>Finally, the must-have cookbook is here for the millions of busy parents who have taken on a healthier approach to eating—less processed, more organic—and who want to feed their little ones easy-to-make, cost-effective, completely nutritious and delicious meals.</P><P>With more than sixty gourmet-inspired recipes and dozens of Chef Geoff’s tips for quick and nutritious preparation, parents everywhere will be in on the <I>Baby Love</I> secret: that making fresh baby food is pretty simple, even if you’ve never cooked a day in your life.</P><P>Learn how to make two weeks worth of <I>Baby Love</I> meals in less than one hour per week, at a fraction of the cost of jarred baby food. Say good-bye to bland and processed and hello to fresh and scrumptious!</P><P>BABY LOVE recipes include: Pom-Pom Apple*Peach and Apricot Oatmeal*Tropical Smoothie *Creamy Butternut with Nutmeg*Very Gouda Grits*Norah’s Brain-Booster Zucchini Muffins*</P><P>Made with Love…Baby Love</P><P> </P></DIV></DIV> | *$11.89 |
 | Greens Glorious Greens: More than 140 Ways to Prepare All Those Great-Tasting, Super-Healthy, Beautiful Leafy Greens
Brand: St. Martin's Griffin
The latest word from the nutrition front is that green leafy vegetables may be our most powerful weapon against cancer and other diseases of aging. Plus, most dark leaft greens are high in nutrients such as beta-carotene, anti-oxidants, folic acid, and fiber.<br>In Greens Glorious Greens! Johnna lbi and Catherine Walthers, both gourmet natural foods chefs, unlock the mysteries of buying and preparing these delicious vegetables. IN an easy-to-use A-to-Z format, they cover thirty-give different greens, providing nutritional information and a brief historical profile for each, plus tips on how to shop for freshness, and how to store, wash, and cut the greens for maximum flavor. Albi and Walthers offer more than 140 ways to turn these nutritional superstars into delicious salads, soups, stews, entrees, and sautees. Most dishes are quick and easy, low in fat, and of the scale in terms of nutrients and taste. Many of vegetarian and therefore cholesterol free, come contain chicken, beef or fish. Any home cook will delight in this clear and engaging guide to preparing all the vegetables that are not only good <i>for</i> you, but just plain<i> good.</i><br><br>Recipes include:<br>Grilled Polenta with Dandelion Greens, Southern Style Black-Eyed Peas and Collard Greens, Cajun Kale Salad, Broccoli Rabe with Toasted Pecans and Currants, Skewered Chicken Teriyaki over Frisee and Arugula<br> | *$11.72 |
 | The No-Salt, Lowest-Sodium Cookbook
Brand: St. Martin's Griffin
Donald Gazzaniga, diagnosed with congestive heart failure, was on a waiting list for a heart transplantthe only effective medical treatment. Urged by his doctor to keep his sodium intake down under 1,500-2,000 mg. a day, Don headed for the kitchen and went to work. Aware that cutting table salt from your diet is the barest beginning of a true low-sodium menu, Don devised recipes that were 70% lower in sodium than those in other low-sodium cookbooks. The result? Dons name was removed from the transplant list; his doctors believe that his diet played a significant role. The No-Salt, Lowest-Sodium Cookbook contains: Hundreds of good-tasting, easy-to-make recipesA 28-day low-sodium menu planner Advice on finding low-sodium prepared foods, eating in restaurants, etc. Accurate sodium content of every ingredient and of the total servings Substitutes for high-sodium flavorings, and information on other taste-improving substances. | *$10.00 |
 | Once-A-Month Cooking Family Favorites: More Great Recipes That Save You Time and Money from the Inventors of the Ultimate Do-Ahead Dinnertime Method
Brand: St. Martin's Griffin
<DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV><P>Mimi Wilson and Mary Beth Lagerborg are back with a brand new book that features their Once-A-Month Cooking ™ technique guaranteed to save time and money. Filled with all-new cycles - two one-month cycles, two two-week cycles, and three specialty cycles: gourmet, summer, and gluten-free – their trademark method remains the same: You shop for an entire cycle all at once, buying in bulk and saving money. You do all the food prep for the cycle the next day, freezing and refrigerating what needs to be kept cold, stocking the pantry when appropriate. Then, as the family assembles for mealtime, you do some quick finishing and it’s ready - fast and delicious! <I>Once-a-Month Cooking™ Family Favorites</I> has something for every kind of eater and includes such soon-to-be favorites as:</P><P>-Adobe Chicken<BR>-Baked Mediterranean Cod<BR>-Chicken Wild Rice Soup<BR>-County-Style Ribs<BR>-Texas-Style Lasagna</P><P>With the perfect plan in hand and bulk shopping at economically-friendly prices, the Once-A-Month Cooking ™ technique is a surefire way to get a delicious dinner on the table fast so that you can spend more time with your family!</P></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV> | *$7.60 |
 | SOS! The Six O'Clock Scramble to the Rescue: Earth-Friendly, Kid-Pleasing Dinners for Busy Families
Brand: St. Martin's Griffin
<DIV><DIV><P>Dinner with kids shouldn’t be a battleground. And it shouldn’t make a martyr out of the parent whose job it is to get it on the table fast, fresh and hot every day at 6 PM. Aviva Goldfarb’s cheerful Scramble system takes the hassle and worry out of mealtime. Her users and readers rely on her grocery lists, weekly meal plans and recipes not just for the healthy dinners themselves but for taking the stress out of dinnertime. She wants families to actually enjoy their dinners together! Now, with <I>SOS!</I> <I>The</I> <I>Six O'Clock Scramble to the Rescue</I>, Goldfarb is taking an extra of-the-moment stress away from meal planning for busy families: concern about the environment, about the cost of shipping out-of-season food halfway around the world, about packaging, about additives and preservatives.</P><P>In <I>SOS!</I> <I>The</I> <I>Six <I>O'Clock Scramble to the Rescue</I></I>, readers will get a full year of weekly meals that:</P><P>--help readers eat seasonally without missing their favorite foods<BR>--move toward a slightly more vegetarian menu for health and a lighter environmental footprint<BR>--reveal when organic matters (and when it doesn’t)<BR>--save money through easy, efficient planning, bulk buying, freezing and storing, and avoiding waste<BR>--pack the power of achievable ethnic meals, such as Easy Cheesy Tex Mex Scramble and Greek Pasta Salad<BR>--make grocery trips count</P></DIV></DIV> | *$10.00 |
 | The Divvies Bakery Cookbook: No Nuts. No Eggs. No Dairy. Just Delicious!
Brand: St. Martin's Press
<P> <P>THE DIVVIES BAKERY COOKBOOK is an opportunity for the millions of people who are dealing with serious food allergies to put the sweet back in their kitchens. With an assortment of delicious recipes, free of the four major food allergens - peanuts, tree nuts, dairy, and eggs (all vegan!), Lori Sandler offers sweet treats that everyone can enjoy and share ANY time: at birthday parties, snack time, bake sales, holidays, picnics, dessert time, and just because. What ingredients are left out have been replaced by double dollops of the good and the gooey - like chocolate, oatmeal, and molasses, - making the confections not only safe to eat, but absolutely delicious for everyone, even those without food allergies.</P> <P><BR>Divvies, an irresistible -fun-foods- company devoted to baking safe-to-eat, tasty treats for people with life-threatening food allergies, has been featured on <I>Good Morning America</I> and <I>The Martha Stewart Show</I>, as well as in the <I>New York Times</I>, <I>New York Post</I>, <I>Gourmet Magazine</I>, <I>Vogue</I>, <I>Everyday with Rachel Ray</I>, <I>Daily Candy</I>, and <I>Urban Baby</I>. All of their products are made in a dedicated facility where no nuts, eggs, milk, or ingredients that may have been exposed to these allergens are allowed in the door. </P> <P><BR>Some of the tasty recipes featured in THE DIVVIES BAKERY COOKBOOK include:<BR>Divvies Famous Chocolate Cupcakes (featured on the Martha Stewart Show!)<BR>Benjamin-s Chocolate Chip Cookies<BR>Pick-Your-Berry Muffins<BR>Extra Thick, Treasured-Filled Marshmallow Treats<BR>-Ice Cream- Hash<BR>Movie Night Popcorn</P> <P><BR>With the degree of -divviculty- indicated for each recipe, tips for the best birthday parties, perfect picnic baskets, cool cupcake towers, snacks in a cinch, tasty travel treats, and bonus gluten-free recipes, THE DIVVIES BAKERY COOKBOOK is the essential allergen-free cookbook for beginners and kitchen experts alike.</P> <P></P> | *$25.99 |
 | The Divvies Bakery Cookbook: No Nuts. No Eggs. No Dairy. Just Delicious!
Brand: St. Martin's Press
<DIV><DIV>THE DIVVIES BAKERY COOKBOOK is an opportunity for the millions of people who are dealing with serious food allergies to put the sweet back in their kitchens. With an assortment of delicious recipes, free of the four major food allergens – peanuts, tree nuts, dairy, and eggs (all vegan!), Lori Sandler offers sweet treats that everyone can enjoy and share ANY time: at birthday parties, snack time, bake sales, holidays, picnics, dessert time, and just because. What ingredients are left out have been replaced by double dollops of the good and the gooey – like chocolate, oatmeal, and molasses, – making the confections not only safe to eat, but absolutely delicious for everyone, even those without food allergies.</DIV><DIV><BR>Divvies, an irresistible “fun-foods” company devoted to baking safe-to-eat, tasty treats for people with life-threatening food allergies, has been featured on <I>Good Morning America</I> and <I>The Martha Stewart Show</I>, as well as in the <I>New York Times</I>, <I>New York Post</I>, <I>Gourmet Magazine</I>, <I>Vogue</I>, <I>Everyday with Rachel Ray</I>, <I>Daily Candy</I>, and <I>Urban Baby</I>. All of their products are made in a dedicated facility where no nuts, eggs, milk, or ingredients that may have been exposed to these allergens are allowed in the door. </DIV><DIV><BR>Some of the tasty recipes featured in THE DIVVIES BAKERY COOKBOOK include:<BR>Divvies Famous Chocolate Cupcakes (featured on the Martha Stewart Show!)<BR>Benjamin’s Chocolate Chip Cookies<BR>Pick-Your-Berry Muffins<BR>Extra Thick, Treasured-Filled Marshmallow Treats<BR>“Ice Cream” Hash<BR>Movie Night Popcorn</DIV><DIV><BR>With the degree of “divviculty” indicated for each recipe, tips for the best birthday parties, perfect picnic baskets, cool cupcake towers, snacks in a cinch, tasty travel treats, and bonus gluten-free recipes, THE DIVVIES BAKERY COOKBOOK is the essential allergen-free cookbook for beginners and kitchen experts alike.</DIV></DIV> | *$13.25 |
 | Far Flung and Well Fed: The Food Writing of R.W. Apple, Jr.
Brand: St. Martin's Press
<DIV><DIV>Celebrated journalist R. W. (“Johnny”) Apple was a veteran political reporter, a <I>New York Times </I>bureau chief and an incisive and prolific writer. But the role he was most passionate about was food anthro pologist. Known both for his restless wideopen mind and an appetite to match, Apple was also a culinary scholar: witty, wide-ranging and intensely knowledgeable about his subjects. <I>Far Flung and Well Fed </I>is the best of legendary <I>Times </I>reporter Apple’s food writing from America, England, Europe, Asia and Australia. Each of the more than fifty essays recount extraordinary meals and little-known facts, of some of the world’s most excellent foods —from the origin of an ingredient in a dish, to its history, to the vivid personalities—including Apple’s wife, Betsey—who cook, serve and eat those dishes. <P></P><I>Far Flung and Well Fed </I>is a classic collection of food writing— lively, warm and rich with a sense of place and taste—and deserves to join the works of A.J. Liebling, Elizabeth David, M.F.K. Fisher and Calvin Trillin on the bookshelf. <P></P></DIV></DIV> | *$16.58 |
 | The All-New Atkins Advantage: The 12-Week Low-Carb Program to Lose Weight, Achieve Peak Fitness and Health, and Maximize Your Willpower to Reach Life Goals
Brand: St. Martin's Press
<DIV><P><B>The proven diet that will slim you down, get you exercising, and change your life</B></P><P>The All-New Atkins Advantage is more than a diet: it features the Atkins proven-effective weight loss program in a 12-week, step-by-step plan, including instructions on how to incorporate healthy exercise into your life as well as guidance on maintaining the motivation to stick with the diet and exercise program.</P><P>Each week builds on the one before it to raise your level of competence and confidence:</P><P>Week 1: Combat cravings for sugars and starches with tasty, low-carb alternatives like veal parmesan and trout almondine.</P><P>Week 4: Achieve peak fitness with the Atkins approach to exercise. Fully illustrated stretching, cardio, and strength training plans will get you energized. </P><P>Week 6: Start an Atkins journal to maintain your motivation and continue your enthusiasm and success. </P><P>Week 9: Get out of your lunch rut! Go out for a special but speedy meal at a restaurant, instead of the nearby deli.</P><P>Week 12: All the work you’ve done thus far has prepared you for this moment: the beginning of the rest of your life!</P><P>Turn your life around and give yourself a dietary, exercise, and lifestyle makeover with THE ALL-NEW ATKINS ADVANTAGE.</P><P><I>The All-New Atkins Advantage</I> will allow you to enjoy a wider variety of foods, tailor an individualized exercise plan, and do Atkins <I>your</I> way.</P>The step-by-step program is designed to allow you to move at your own pace. Part I introduces you to the basics of the Atkins program, from a list of foods you'll want to have on hand to mental exercises to get you motivated. Part II features the 12-week Atkins Advantage Program, including a fitness component that allows you to design your own workout, no matter what your level of fitness. Part III includes 12 weeks' worth of delicious daily meal plans at varying carbohydrate levels. At the end of the twelve weeks, you will have changed the way you eat and become healthier, slimmer, and happier. STUART L. TRAGER, M.D. is a board certified orthopedic surgeon. He is an eight-time Ironman and a top ten finisher at the Ultraman World Championship who credits the Atkins Nutritional Approach for helping him achieve peak fitness and health.<P>COLETTE HEIMOWITZ, M.Sc., has been featured on national television networks such as NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News Channel, and MSNBC, and on radio programs across the country.</P> </DIV> | *$5.49 |
 | Carmine's Family-Style Cookbook: More Than 100 Classic Italian Dishes to Make at Home
Brand: St. Martin's Press
<DIV><DIV><P>Anyone who has visited Carmine’s flagship Times Square restaurant knows that Carmine’s food is the best of classic Italian cuisine—each dish prepared simply to bring out the most vibrant flavor and make anyone who tastes it smile and reach for seconds.</P><P>Carmine’s Family-Style Cookbook reveals the simple secret of Carmine’s longtime success—hearty, rich Italian food, just right for sharing, and perfect for cooking at home!</P><P>Carmine’s Family-Style Cookbook’s perfect Italian recipes include:<BR>--Appetizers, Soups and Salads: from Chicken Wings Scarpariello-Style to Carmine’s Famous Caesar Salad<BR>--Carmine’s Heroes: from classic Cold Italian Hero sandwiches to Italian Cheesesteak Heroes<BR>--Pasta: from Country-style Rigatoni to Pasta Marinara<BR>--Fish and Seafood Main Courses: from Salmon Puttanesca to Shrimp Fra Diavolo<BR>--Meat and Poultry Main Courses: from Porterhouse Steak Contadina to Veal Parmigiana<BR>--Side Dishes: from Spinach with Garlic and Oil to Creamy Polenta<BR>--Carmine’s Desserts: from Chocolate Bread Pudding to the world-famous Titanic Ice Cream Sundae</P><P>Carmine’s restaurant packs them in every night in its four bustling locations, including its warm, festive Times Square flagship where over a million people from all across the country come every year to share meatballs, chicken parmigiana, linguini with clam sauce, and fried calamari. Carmine’s flavors are the tastes Americans love to cook and eat at home—fresh garlic, bubbling tomato sauce, and pasta boiled just to the perfect al dente. Try any of the recipes in <I>Carmine’s Family-Style Cookbook</I> and bring home that classic Italian flavor to your family.</P></DIV></DIV> | *$17.80 |
 | Great Sausage Recipes and Meat Curing
Brand: Stackpole Books
This is the most comprehensive book available on sausage making and meat curing and has sold over 500,000 copies world-wide. It is easily understood, contains a wide variety of recipes, and is very effective in helping solve common problems. It is written by a man who learned the art of sausage making and meat curing at a very early age, and who made a living smoking and curing meats. | *$16.47 |
 | Crazy About Cupcakes
Brand: Sterling
<DIV><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%">Go cupcake crazy! With nearly 300 awesome, mouthwatering ideas to choose from, home bakers will find the right recipe for any occasion and every palate. And whether they’re chocolaty, spicy, crunchy, fruity, or creamy, these exquisitely decorated treats look as astounding as they taste—perfect little temptations designed to make adults nostalgic and children happy. All the basics are lovingly explained so anyone can whip up a beautiful batch, and there are varieties for every day (from healthy cupcakes to ice cream indulgences); parties big and small; holidays ranging from Christmas to the Fourth of July; just for kids; and fund-raisers and bake sales. Plus, to make things easy, an entire chart- and template-filled chapter focuses on flavor combinations and design elements. </P></DIV> | *$10.38 |
 | The Great Domaines of Burgundy: A Guide to the Finest Wine Producers of the Cote d'Or, Third Edition
Brand: Sterling
<DIV><DIV><DIV>Subdivided into hundreds of domaines, often family-run and small in size, Burgundy can seem forbiddingly fragmented even to wine experts. Now, acclaimed wine writers Remington Norman and Charles Taylor help wine lovers unravel the mystery of this grape. In compiling this revised version of their much-praised book, they revisited all the domaines that appeared in previous editions, along with numerous “rising stars,” to select the very best-and remove those that no longer make the grade. Norman and Taylor spoke to the winemakers about their grapes, their soil, and their techniques…and, of course, sampled their wines. In addition to a domaine-by-domaine guide with coverage of the region's microclimates, most important grapes, wine styles, there are tips on buying, storing and tasting wine and a rundown of recent vintages. </DIV></DIV></DIV> | *$21.43 |
 | The Art of Cupcakes: More Than 40 Festive Recipes
Brand: Sterling
<DIV><DIV>Chocolate and white batters, buttercream frosting, rolled fondant, and two variations of royal icing-these recipes show home cooks how to get bakeshop flavor right in their own kitchens. The 40-plus designs include such amazing treats as cupcakes topped with a fondant flower garden or with a sugary pacifier that's perfect for a baby shower. Miniature wedding cakes-embellished with petite tiers and graceful frills-make a unique grand finale. Instructions and spectacular, mouthwatering photographs make decorating oh-so-easy, even for beginners.</DIV></DIV> | *$10.52 |
 | Windows on the World Complete Wine Course: 2009 Edition
Brand: Sterling
<DIV><DIV><DIV><I>Windows on the World Complete Wine Course</I> is simply the bestselling wine book in North America—it’s a classic. In addition to retaining the expanded 60-page section on “101 Wines You Should Know,” from last year, the 2009 revision will include 16 pages of quizzes (two at the end of every chapter) to test readers on how much they’ve learned—just as if they were in Kevin’s class. Those who use the book as an actual course will find this enormously helpful, and a great challenge for testing their knowledge of wine fundamentals. Of course, all wine lists and labels, vintage charts, and trend reports will receive a complete update, too. <BR>As always, Zraly organizes his wines by region, from simple to complex, beginning with white wines from France, the U.S., and Germany; he moves on to the red wines of Burgundy and the Rhône, Bordeaux, the U.S., Italy, Australia, Argentina, and Chile; and concludes with champagnes and ports. By following Kevin’s order, readers will experience the best wines and the wide diversity of taste, style, region, and country. It’s not only a comprehensive and bargain-priced hands-on wine education, but a superb catalog from which to start a wine cellar or find a bottle appropriate for any occasion at any price.<BR>This unequaled volume retains all the invaluable information, fabulous illustration, and gorgeous styling of the previous editions—presented in Zraly’s inimitable, irreverent style. It’s clearly the wine guide against which all others are judged.</DIV></DIV></DIV> | *$8.63 |
 | Clean Food: A Seasonal Guide to Eating Close to the Source with More Than 200 Recipes for a Healthy and Sustainable You
Brand: Sterling Epicure
<DIV><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">More than a cookbook, Clean Food is a feast for the senses that will nourish mind, body, soul…and the planet, too. With more than 200 fresh, seasonal, and tempting vegan recipes, it will help everyone eat the way the want: close to the source.</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">From the White House kitchen to fast food restaurants, everyone’s discussing “the sustainable diet.” But what exactly does that mean? Terry Walters explains it all, and shows us how to eat seasonal, unprocessed, and locally-grown foods that are good for us and the environment. </P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Walters’s emphasizes tastes as much as ingredients in delicious recipes that include whole grains, vegetables, legumes, sea vegetables, nuts, and seeds, and range from Crispy Chickpea Fritters to Spicy Thai Tempeh with Cashews to a vegan and sugar-free Chocolate Lover’s Tart that’s absolutely luscious! Since they’re arranged from spring to winter (with a chapter for “anytime at all”), it’s easy to find the right meals for every season of the year. </P><P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Terry’s dynamic personality shines through on every page, particularly in her extensive introduction to the world of whole foods (which includes a glossary of ingredients). This is certain to be the cookbook of this and every season—the one that will help us make positive, sustainable, and yet delicious changes to the way we eat every day.</P></DIV><P> </P> | *$18.15 |
 | Canning for a New Generation: Bold, Fresh Flavors for the Modern Pantry
Brand: Stewart, Tabori & Chang
<DIV> <P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 8.05pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">“When I was growing up, canning was for old folks and cranks and separatists,” writes Liana Krissoff in her introduction to <I>Canning for a New Generation</I>. But not anymore. With soaring food prices and the increasing popularity of all things domestic and DIY, there’s never been a better time to revisit the centuries-old techniques of preserving food at home.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 8.05pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 8.05pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">This hip, modern handbook is filled with fresh and new ways to preserve nature’s bounty throughout the year. Organized by season and illustrated with beautiful photographs, it offers detailed instructions and recipes for making more than 150 canned, pickled, dried, and frozen foods, as well as 50 inventive recipes for dishes using these foods. Basic information on canning techniques and lively sidebars round out this refreshing take on a classic cooking tradition.</P></DIV> | *$15.98 |
 | Good Eats: The Early Years
Brand: Stewart, Tabori & Chang
<DIV><DIV><DIV>Alton Brown is a foodie phenomenon: a great cook, a very funny guy, and—underneath it all—a science geek who’s as interested in the chemistry of cooking as he is in eating. (Well, almost.) Here, finally, are the books that Brown’s legion of fans have been salivating for—two volumes that together will provide an unexpurgated record of his long-running, award-winning Food Network TV series, <I>Good Eats</I>. </DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>From “Pork Fiction” (on baby back ribs), to “Citizen Cane” (on caramel sauce), to “Oat Cuisine” (on oatmeal), every hilarious episode is represented. Each book—the second will be published in fall 2010—is illustrated with behind-the-scenes photos taken on the <I>Good Eats</I> set. Each contains more than 140 recipes and more than 1,000 photographs and illustrations, along with explanations of techniques, lots of food-science information (of course!), and more food puns, food jokes, and food trivia than you can shake a wooden spoon at. <BR></DIV></DIV></DIV> | *$19.99 |
 | Good Eats 2: The Middle Years
Brand: Stewart, Tabori & Chang
<DIV><I> <P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 8.05pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><I>Good Eats 2: The Middle Years</I> picks up where the bestselling <I>Good Eats: The Early Years</I> left off. Showcasing everything Alton Brown fans (and they are legion!) have ever wanted to know about his award-winning television show, <I>The Middle Years </I>is chock-full of behind-the-scenes photographs and trivia, science-of-food information, cooking tips, and—of course—recipes.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-line-height-alt: 8.05pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"></I></P></DIV>Brown’s particular genius lies in teaching the chemistry of cooking with levity and exuberance. In episodes such as “Fit to Be Tied” (meat roulades), “Crustacean Nation” (crab), and “Ill-Gotten Grains” (wheat products), Brown explains everything from how to make the perfect omelet to how to stuff your own sausages. With hundreds of entertaining photographs, along with Brown’s inimitable line drawings and signature witty writing, this comprehensive companion book conveys the same wildly creative spirit as the show itself. <BR> | *$22.50 |
 | I'm Just Here for the Food: Version 2.0
Brand: Stewart, Tabori & Chang
Eight years ago, Alton Brown set out to create a cooking show for a new generation. The result was "Good Eats", one of Food Network's most popular programmes. Four years ago, when Alton Brown set out to write "I'm Just Here for the Food", he wanted to create a cookbook unlike any other - a cookbook for people who would rather understand their food than follow a recipe. A mix of cutting edge graphics and a fresh take on preparing food, "I'm Just Here for the Food" became one of the best-selling cookbooks of the year - and received the James Beard Foundation/KitchenAid Book Award as best reference book. This year, to commemorate and celebrate this more-than-300-thousand-copies-sold success story, STC is pleased to announce "I'm Just Here for the Food: The Director's Cut". This special edition features 10 brand-new recipes, 20 pages of material not included in the original book, a jacket that folds out into a poster and a removable refrigerator magnet - all wrapped around the material that made the original a classic instruction manual for the kitchen. The book now combines more than 90 recipes with a wealth of information that allow anyone - at any level of expertise - to understand the whys and wherefores of cooking. | *$17.35 |
 | Good to the Grain: Baking with Whole-Grain Flours
Brand: Stewart, Tabori & Chang
<DIV><DIV>Baking with whole-grain flours used to be about making food that was good for you, not food that necessarily tasted good, too. But Kim Boyce truly has reinvented the wheel with this collection of 75 recipes that feature 12 different kinds of whole-grain flours, from amaranth to teff, proving that whole-grain baking is more about incredible flavors and textures than anything else.  </DIV><DIV>When Boyce, a former pastry chef at Spago and Campanile, left the kitchen to raise a family, she was determined to create delicious cakes, muffins, breads, tarts, and cookies that her kids (and everybody else) would love. She began experimenting with whole-grain flours, and <I>Good to the Grain</I> is the happy result. The cookbook proves that whole-grain baking can be easily done with a pastry chef’s flair. Plus, there’s a chapter on making jams, compotes, and fruit butters with seasonal fruits that help bring out the wonderfully complex flavors of whole-grain flours.</DIV></DIV> | *$13.99 |
 | Mastering Knife Skills: The Essential Guide to the Most Important Tools in Your Kitchen (with DVD)
Brand: Stewart, Tabori & Chang
<DIV>As the number of gourmet home kitchens burgeons, so does the number of home cooks who want to become proficient users of the professional-caliber equipment they own. And of all kitchen skills, perhaps the most critical are those involving the proper use of knives. <BR><BR>Norman Weinstein has been teaching his knife skills workshop at New York City’s Institute of Culinary Education for more than a decade—and his classes always sell out. That’s because Weinstein focuses so squarely on the needs of the nonprofessional cook, providing basic instruction in knife techniques that maximize efficiency while placing the least possible stress on the user’s arm. Now, <I>Mastering Knife Skills</I> brings Weinstein’s well-honed knowledge to home cooks everywhere. <BR><BR>Whether you want to dice an onion with the speed and dexterity of a TV chef, carve a roast like an expert, bone a chicken quickly and neatly, or just learn how to hold a knife in the right way, <I>Mastering Knife Skills</I> will be your go-to manual. Each cutting, slicing, and chopping method is thoroughly explained—and illustrated with clear, step-by-step photographs. Extras include information on knife construction, knife makers and types, knife maintenance and safety, and cutting boards, as well as a 30-minute instructional DVD featuring Weinstein’s most important techniques.</DIV> | *$18.69 |
 | Baked: New Frontiers in Baking
Brand: Stewart, Tabori & Chang
<DIV><DIV><DIV>As featured on <I>The Martha Stewart Show</I> and <I>The Today Show</I> and in <I>People Magazine</I>!</DIV><P style="MARGIN: 0in -1.5in 0pt 0in; LINE-HEIGHT: 11.25pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"> </P><P style="MARGIN: 0in -1.5in 0pt 0in; LINE-HEIGHT: 11.25pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none">Hip. Cool. Fashion-forward. These aren’t adjectives you’d ordinarily think of applying to baked goods. </P><P style="MARGIN: 0in -1.5in 0pt 0in; LINE-HEIGHT: 11.25pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"> </P><P style="MARGIN: 0in -1.5in 0pt 0in; LINE-HEIGHT: 11.25pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none">Think again. Not every baker wants to re-create Grandma’s pound cake or cherry pie. Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito certainly didn’t, when they left their advertising careers behind, pooled their life savings, and opened their dream bakery, Baked, in Brooklyn, New York, a few years back. The visions that danced in their heads were of other, brand-new kinds of confections . . . </P><P style="MARGIN: 0in -1.5in 0pt 0in; LINE-HEIGHT: 11.25pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"> </P><P style="MARGIN: 0in -1.5in 0pt 0in; LINE-HEIGHT: 11.25pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none">Things like a Malt Ball Cake with Milk Chocolate Frosting, which captures the flavor of their favorite Whoppers candies (and ups the ante with a malted milk ball garnish). Things like spicy Chipotle Cheddar Biscuits that really wake up your taste buds at breakfast time. Things like a Sweet and Salty Cake created expressly for adults who are as salt-craving ?as they are sweet-toothed.</P><P style="MARGIN: 0in -1.5in 0pt 0in; LINE-HEIGHT: 11.25pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none"> </P><P style="MARGIN: 0in -1.5in 0pt 0in; LINE-HEIGHT: 11.25pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none">Which is not to say that Lewis and Poliafito sidestep tradition absolutely. Their Chocolate Pie (whose filling uses Ovaltine) pays loving homage to the classic roadside-diner dessert. Their Baked Brownies will wow even the most discriminating brownie connoisseur. And their Chocolate Chip Cookies? Words cannot describe. Whether trendsetting or tried-and-true, every idea in this book is freshly <I>Baked</I>.</P></DIV></DIV> | *$11.77 |
 | Baked Explorations: Classic American Desserts Reinvented
Brand: Stewart, Tabori & Chang
<DIV> <P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 8.05pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito’s 2008 <I>Baked</I> was published to national critical acclaim and raved about across the blogosphere. Since then, their profile has gotten even bigger, with continued praise from Oprah and Martha Stewart; product availability in every Whole Foods across the U.S.; and a new bakery in Charleston, South Carolina, with even more traffic than their original Brooklyn location. </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 8.05pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: none; mso-line-height-alt: 8.05pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none">Now, in <I>Baked Explorations</I>, the authors give their signature “Baked” twists to famous desserts from across the country. Here is their take on our most treasured desserts: Banana Cream Pie, Black & White Cookies, Mississippi Mud Pie, and more—from the overworked to the underappreciated. Readers will love this collection of 75 recipes from breakfast treats to late-night confections and everything in between. </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"></P></DIV> | *$19.77 |
 | I'm Just Here for More Food: Food x Mixing + Heat = Baking
Brand: Stewart, Tabori & Chang
In his best-selling first book, Food Network star Alton Brown described what happens when food meets heat. Now Brown is back and ready to revolutionize the world of baking-and more. Breads, cakes, cookies, pies, custards, ice creams: The popular host of <I>Good Eats</I> explores the science behind our favorite sweets-and savories-explaining it all in his own inimitable style.<BR><BR>The book opens with a complete encyclopedia of the core ingredients or "the molecular pantry"-what they are, what they do, and how they play together (or don't). The main part of the book is divided by mixing method: Biscuit, Creaming, Muffin, Straight Dough, Modified Dough, Eggfoam, Custards, and a section called As Well As . . . , which includes such specialized methods as crepes, popovers, mousse, and doughnuts. .<BR><BR>To underscore the importance-and ease-of mastering the mixing techniques, the book features a special design that adds a half-page flap to the opening page of each mixing section. Printed on the flap is the master mixing technique to serve as a ready reference for each recipe that follows in that section.<BR><BR>The more than 80 recipes cover all the basics any baked-good lover could covet, from pie crust to funnel cake to homemade Pop Tarts to cheese soufflé. Select master recipes feature variations that underscore the effects of altering ingredient ratios or preparation methods. The classic chocolate chip cookie, for example, can be interpreted in soft, chewy, and crispy consistencies.<BR><BR>At 304 pages, the trivia-filled tome also contains all the fun components Brown fans have come to expect: fact-packed sidebars, intricate illustrations, glossaries, appendices, equipment lists-the works. It's everything readers have been waiting for . . . and more! AUTHOR BIO: Alton Brown is the writer, director, and host of the popular Food Network television program <I>Good Eats</I>. His first book, <I>I'm Just Here For the Food</I>, received the 2003 James Beard Foundation KitchenAid Book Award for Best Reference Book. His second book, <I>Alton Brown's Gear For Your Kitchen</I>, was nominated for both a James Beard and an IACP cookbook award. | *$12.99 |
 | Simple Stunning Parties at Home: Recipes, Ideas, and Inspirations for Creative Entertaining
Brand: Stewart, Tabori & Chang
<DIV><DIV><DIV>"When the opportunity for celebrating knocks, answer the door and offer it some champagne!" says Karen Bussen. Author of the bestselling "<I>Simple Stunning</I>" wedding series, Bussen now directs her expert’s eye to a more intimate kind of festivity: the at-home party. Her simple stunning credo, though, remains the same: Create menus featuring wonderful ingredients in no-fuss, crowd-pleasing preparations; combine homemade and store-bought items in fresh, elegant presentations; tailor colors, tableware, and lighting for visual impact; and limit effort, expense, and waste. </DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>The book details 12 complete plans for four different kinds of parties—cocktail gatherings, casual suppers, formal dinners, and daytime get-togethers. Each plan includes food and drink menus (with recipes) as well as decor and music suggestions. Following Bussen’s advice, you’ll delight your guests while showcasing your personal style—which is what great parties are all about.</DIV></DIV></DIV> | *$19.90 |
 | Alton Brown's Gear for Your Kitchen
Brand: Stewart, Tabori and Chang
Dedicated viewers of Alton Brown's acclaimed Food Network show <I>Good Eats</I> know of his penchant for using unusual equipment. He has smoked a salmon in a cardboard box, roasted prime rib in a flowerpot, and used a C-clamp as a nutcracker. <P>Brown isn't interested in novelty, he's just devoted to using the best-and simplest-tool for the job. <I>Alton Brown's Gear For Your Kitchen</I> offers honest, practical advice on what's needed and what isn't, what works and what doesn't. His advice: You only need three knives, but they are a lifetime investment. And don't bother with that famous countertop grill-it doesn't get hot enough to properly sear. <P>In his signature science-guy style, Brown begins with advice on kitchen layout and organization, then gets to the lowdown on these cooking elements: Big Things with Plugs; Pots and Pans; Sharp Things; The Tool Box; Small Things with Plugs; Storage and Containment; and Safety and Sanitation. Along the way he delves deep into kitchen science and appliance history and legend. Included are 25 brand-new recipes that employ featured gear. <P><I>Alton Brown's Gear For Your Kitchen</I> is essential for all of his fans-and anyone who wants a good guide to great kitchen gear. | *$11.90 |
 | Put'em Up!: A Comprehensive Home Preserving Guide for the Creative Cook, from Drying and Freezing to Canning and Pickling
Brand: Storey Publishing LLC
<DIV> <p>With simple step-by-step instructions and 175 delicious recipes, Put â€em Up will have even the most timid beginners filling their pantries and freezers in no time! You’ll find complete how-to information for every kind of preserving: refrigerating, freezing, air- and oven-drying, cold- and hot-pack canning, and pickling. Recipes range from the contemporary and daring — Wasabi Beans, Cherry and Black Pepper Preserves, Pickled Fennel, Figs in Honey Syrup, Sweet Pepper Marmalade, Berry Bourbon, Salsa Verde — to the very best versions of tried-and-true favorites, including applesauce and apple butter, dried tomatoes, marinara sauce, bread and butter pickles, classic strawberry jam, and much, much more.</p> </div> | *$12.84 |
 | Home Sausage Making : How-To Techniques for Making and Enjoying 100 Sausages at Home
Brand: Storey Publishing LLC
HOME SAUSAGE MAKING is the classic in the field. Now completely revised and updated to comply with current USDA safety standards, this new edition features 150 recipes. Included in the lineup are 100 recipes for sausages (cased and uncased) and 50 recipes for cooking with sausage, all written for contemporary tastes and cooking styles. There are instructions for making sausages with beef and pork, fish and shellfish, chicken and turkey, and game meats. Ethnic favorites include German specialties such as Bratwurst, Mettwurst, and Vienna Sausage; Italian Cotechino and Luganega; Polish Fresh and Smoked Kielbasa; and Spanish-Style Chorizo, Potatis Korv (Swedish Potato Sausage), Kosher Salami, and Czech Yirtrnicky. On top of all the meat varieties, there is an entirely new section on vegetarian sausage options. | *$7.79 |
 | The Healthy College Cookbook
Brand: Storey Publishing, LLC
For nearly a decade, <i>The Healthy College Cookbook</i> has offered time-pressed, budget-crunched students a simple way to enjoy home cooking in their own small apartment kitchens or even dorm rooms. Written by students for students, the book offers hundreds of simple, healthful alternatives to dreary cafeteria fare. The first edition was so successful it returned to print 17 times.<br> <br> Now, this best-selling cookbook has been revised, expanded, and enlivened for a new generation of students. One hundred brand-new recipes have been added to the old favorites, including expanded breakfast options, recipes for the ever-popular George Foreman Grill, new smoothie creations, and pizza toppings for storebought crusts, English muffins, and pita bases. Recipes require only a handful of easy-to-find ingredients. The book is packed with vegetarian options, and every recipe is as nutritious as it is delicious. Most can be prepared in less time than it takes to order pizza.<br><br> Most college students are new to cooking, and <i>The Healthy College Cookbook</i> contains a wealth of information and tips for the novice. It explains cooking terms, describes common spices, and offers basic, sensible advice on stocking a kitchen with equipment and food staples.<br><br> The book isn't just for novices, however. Even the most discerning young palates will appreciate zesty Garlic Green Beans with Tofu or lively Mandarin-Mint Salad. These recipes are so quick, so inexpensive, and so delicious that they're bound to become dinner party favorites, years past graduation. | *$9.54 |
 | Home Cheese Making: Recipes for 75 Delicious Cheeses
Brand: Storey Publishing, LLC
The classic home cheese making primer has been updated and revised to reflect the increased interest in artisanal-quality cheeses and the availability of cheese making supplies and equipment. <P>Here are 85 recipes for cheeses and other dairy products that require basic cheese making techniques and the freshest of ingredients, offering the satisfaction of turning out a coveted delicacy. Among the step-by-step tested recipes for cheese varieties are farmhouse cheddar, gouda, fromage blanc, queso blanco, marscarpone, ricotta, and 30-minute mozzarella. Recipes for dairy products include crème fraÃche, sour cream, yogurt, keifer, buttermilk, and clotted cream. There are also 60 recipes for cooking with cheese, including such treats as Ricotta Pancakes with Banana Pecan Syrup, Cream Cheese Muffins, Broiled Pears and Vermont Shepherd Cheese, Prosciutto and Cheese Calzones, and Grilled Vegetable Stacks with Roasted Red Pepper Sauce. Profiles of home cheese makers and artisan cheese makers scattered throughout the text share the stories of people who love to make and eat good cheese. Plus information on how to enjoy homemade cheeses, how to serve a cheese course at home, cheese tips, lore, quotes, cheese making glossary, and more. | *$7.75 |
 | Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables
Brand: Storey Publishing, LLC
Anyone can learn to store fruits and vegetables safely and naturally with a cool, dark space (even a closet!) and the step-by-step advice in this book. | *$7.54 |
 | Fix, Freeze, Feast: Prepare in Bulk and Enjoy by the Serving - More than 125 Recipes
Brand: Storey Publishing, LLC
Millions of shoppers save money buying groceries in bulk — trays of boneless chicken breasts, pairs of flank steaks, and flats of ripe tomatoes. But savings can quickly become losses if those bulk quantities spoil in the refrigerator or lie forgotten — unlabeled and unrecognizable under layers of ice crystals — in the back of the freezer.<br><br>Kati Neville and Lindsay Tkacsik have built businesses teaching home cooks how to take advantage of bulk savings by shopping wisely; converting food purchases into delicious, healthful family dinners; and labeling and storing the meals for easy access on busy days. They share all their best recipes and organizational wisdom in <i>Fix, Freeze, Feast</i>, a cookbook every price-conscious shopper will love, and warehouse club members shouldn't be without. With their help, home cooks will have freezers stocked with easy-to-prepare entrées, ready to be defrosted and cooked for weeknight family dinners. Imagine the comfort of knowing a homecooked meal is always available. <br><br>Each recipe includes instructions for dividing, preparing, and storing the raw ingredients, and a second set of simple directions for thawing, cooking, and enjoying the food. Designed for the way people cook today, <i>Fix, Freeze, Feast</i> meals are lighter and fresher than traditional bulk-cooking recipes, with a focus on simple stews and stir-fries, quick grilled or broiled main courses, and popular ethnic meals such as Beef Fajitas and Cashew Chicken Stir-fry.<br><br>Add to the entrées ready-to-bake cookie doughs, warming soups and side dishes, fruit smoothies, and portable kids' snacks, and those warehouse club shopping trips begin to look more valuable than ever. This is a system that saves time, saves money, and saves families from the empty calories of takeout food. Make room in the freezer for next week's dinner!<br><br><strong>Praise for <i>Fix, Freeze, Feast</i></strong> —<br> <p>"[<i>Fix Freeze, Feast</i>] delivers some yummy new recipes that are easily stored and don’t look or taste like frozen meals when they’re served days later . . . <i>Fix Freeze, Feast </i>promises to ease the stress of cooking and ensure that you’re well fed, with hearty meals, throughout the week or month." <br><i>— lhj.com (Ladies Home Journal)<br><br></i></p> <p><i>"Fix Freeze, Feast </i>is a smart book to keep on the shelf . . . There’s nothing like a hot meal after a long, hard day at work, especially if all the work was done weeks ago!" <br><i>— Scripps News Service</i></p><br> <p>"If you resolved to cook more at home in 2008, Fix, Freeze and Feast can help . . . In addition to recipes they also have tips for organizing your shopping list, packaging meals and preventing freezer burn." <i>— Spokane Spokesman-Review<br><br></i></p> <p>"If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to eat home-cooked meals as a family more often, <i>Fix Freeze, Feast</i> could be just the help you need to accomplish that . . . <i>Fix Freeze, Feast</i> won’t guarantee getting a scattered family home for dinner more often, but it will definitely make it much easier to get the meal on the table." — <i>The Register-Guard</i> (Eugene, OR) <br><br></p> <p>"Not so much a cookbook as a bulk-saving survival guide for harried cooks everywhere." <i>— Northern Virginia Magazine <br><br></p> <p>"The authors do a great job offering clear instructions for the cooking, an important final step that is too often left to guesswork." <i>— (Memphis) Commercial Appeal </p></i></i> | *$9.32 |
 | From Vines to Wines: The Complete Guide to Growing Grapes and Making Your Own Wine
Brand: Storey Publishing, LLC
Create you own backyard winery!<P> From breaking ground to savoring the finished product, Jeff Cox's From Vines to Wines is the most complete and up-to-date guide to growing flawless grapes and making extraordinary wine. <P> Wine connoisseurs, gardeners, and home winemakers will find the latest techniques in this fully revised and updated edition. With thorough, illustrated instructions, you'll learn how to: <P> -- Choose and prepare a vineyard site<P> -- Construct sturdy and effective trellising systems<P> -- Plant, prune, and harvest the perfect grapes for your climate<P> -- Press, ferment, age and bottle your own wine<P> -- Judge wine for clarity, color, aroma, body, and taste | *$11.55 |
 | Organic Body Care Recipes: 175 Homeade Herbal Formulas for Glowing Skin & a Vibrant Self
Brand: Storey Publishing, LLC
Radiantly healthy skin, hair, feet, hands, eyes, and nails. Commercial beauty products make this promise every day and live up to it with varying degrees of success. Stephanie Tourles offers a better solution to everyone frustrated with the endless cycle of expensive, synthetic, famous-name cosmetics that often fall short of expectations. Take control of beauty treatments with homemade products that use safe, nourishing ingredients to pamper the body and soothe the senses.<br><br> Tourles, a licensed esthetician, herbalist, and aromatherapist, has developed 175 recipes that are fun, simple, and immensely satisfying to make in home kitchens. Her natural beauty treatments deliver the results promised by department store brands — skin, hair, and nails that glow with vitality and inner wellness. Lotions, scrubs, toners, balms, and masks polish and balance the skin, soothe current problems, and prevent future ones. Shampoos, rinses, and conditioners tone the scalp, boost highlights, and leave hair soft and shiny. The book's whole-body coverage also includes recipes for hand and footcare, nail treatments, shaving cream, and even popular spa treatments such as microdermabrasion exfoliants, detox and cellulite soaks, ayurvedic oils, and herbal cold salves. Most important, there is never any doubt about the purity of these ingredients!<br> <Br> Each formula is clearly presented in recipe style, with notes on prep time, storage, and uses. Many products can be customized according to personal needs, whim, or mood, and they all use readily available, natural ingredients. <i>Organic Body Care Recipes</i> is a natural treasure for every body. | *$11.72 |
 | Tasting Beer: An Insider's Guide to the World's Greatest Drink
Brand: Storey Publishing, LLC
Beer. It's the most popular drink in the world. Enjoyed at ballparks, in home-away-from-home pubs, on the family room sofa, and in every kind of restaurant, beer is at ease in any setting. For all beer lovers who have known the pleasure of draining a pint, Randy Mosher explores and explains the complete tasting experience as it applies to all the wonderful brews of the world.<br><br>Beer may be the common beverage of the people, but it is far from simple. With 10,000 years of history, more than 900 identified flavors, dozens of styles, and thousands of breweries around the world, beer is as complex as its grape-based neighbors in the liquor stores. It is an artistic creation, brewed from dozens of possible ingredients and processed in hundreds of different ways. Mosher guides readers to a better understanding of how every batch of beer is affected by each of the brewmaster's choices — recipe formulation, brewhouse procedures, yeasts, fermentations, carbonation, filtration, packaging, and much more.<br><br>Beer can be light, dark, mild, strong, flat, or fizzy. Hundreds of tastes can be detected in beer, from resin to toast, and from apple to smoke. Readers will learn how to identify the scents, colors, flavors, and mouth-feel of all the major beer styles. There are also chapters on proper serving and storage conditions, and classic beer and food pairings.<br><br>The second half of the book is a style-by-style compendium of the different brews within major beer families, including American craft brews, British lagers, German ales, and Belgian Dubbels. For each style there are historical and regional facts, taste and aroma characteristics, seasonal availability, food pairings, and a few terrific recommendations for readers to sample.<strong></strong><strong></strong ><br><i></i> | *$9.99 |
 | Food Drying Techniques: Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-197 (Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin)
Brand: Storey Publishing, LLC
Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life. | *$1.99 |
 | Pickles and Relishes: From Apples to Zucchinis, 150 recipes for preserving the harvest
Brand: Storey Publishing, LLC
Step-by-step instructions to make traditional and salt-free pickles and relishes. | *$6.21 |
 | Making Cheese Butter and Yogurt: (Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-283) (Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin, a-283)
Brand: Storey Publishing, LLC
Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life. | *$2.40 |
 | CloneBrews, 2nd Edition: Recipes for 200 Brand-Name Beers
Brand: Storey Publishing, LLC
<p>Brewing home versions of popular commercial beers has never been simpler or more fun than it is with the 200 recipes in <i>CloneBrews</i>. Home brewers will find everything they need to brew up a batch of their own clone of Magic Hat #9, Ithaca Brown Ale, Moose Drool, or Samuel Adams Boston Ale. And with 200 possibilities to choose from, home brewers will find the perfect taste for every mood and every season.</p> <p>Revised, updated, and expanded, the second edition of <i>CloneBrews</i> contains 50 new recipes that reflect the current popularity of strongly hopped India pale ales and American pale ales as well as the growing interest in brown ales, imperial beers, English bitters, porters, stouts, wheat beers, and Belgian ales. The new edition also contains expanded and updated mashing guidelines and a complete review of ingredients and materials. All new to the second edition is a Food Pairing feature that recommends the best foods for every beer an indispensable feature for the brewer who also loves to barbecue or cook!</p> <p>Tested and retested, tasted and retasted, Tess and Mark Szamatulskis recipes are the product of 20 years spent running a successful homebrew supply shop and working with customers to create perfect beer clones. They deliver the flavors that home brewers want, described in clear recipes that every brewer will want to make. <br></p> | *$10.50 |
 | Homegrown Whole Grains: Grow, Harvest, and Cook Wheat, Barley, Oats, Rice, Corn and More
Brand: Storey Publishing, LLC
A backyard field of grains? Yes, absolutely! Wheat and corn are rapidly replacing grass in the yards of dedicated locavores across the country. For adventurous homeowners who want to get in on the movement, <i>Homegrown Whole Grains</i> is the place to begin.<br><br>Growing whole grains is simpler and more rewarding than most people imagine. With as little as 1000 square feet of land, backyard farmers can grow enough wheat to harvest 50 pounds in a single afternoon - and those 50 pounds can be baked into 50 loaves of fresh bread. <br><br>In addition to providing information on wheat and corn, <i>Homegrown Whole Grains</i> includes complete growing, harvesting, and threshing instructions for barley, millet, oats, rice, rye, spelt, and quinoa, and lighter coverage of several specialty grains. Readers will also find helpful tips on processing whole grains, from what to look for in a home mill to how to dry corn and remove the hulls from barley and rice.<br><br>Chapters for each grain include inventive recipes for cereals, desserts, casseroles, salads, soups and stews, and, of course, home-baked breads, the crowning achievement of the home grain grower. Sara Pitzer shares dozens of ideas for using whole grains - from cooking sturdy wheat berries in a slow cooker to malting barley for homebrewed beer. Whether milled into nutritional flours or used in any of their unmilled states, wheat, barley, quinoa, and the other grain crops are healthful additions to every diet.<br> | *$7.75 |
 | The Homebrewer's Garden: How to Easily Grow, Prepare, and Use Your Own Hops, Malts, Brewing Herbs
Brand: Storey Publishing, LLC
Grow Your Own...Brew Your Own! <p>If you have a backyard, or even a sun-facing porch, you can greatly enhance the flavor, aroma, and uniqueness of your homebrew by growing your own hops, brewing herbs, and malt grains. <p>Easy instructions will help you put the "home" into your homebrew from setting up your first hop trellis, to malting grain at home, to brewing recipes specially formulated for homegrown ingredients. When you grow your own organic ingredients, you can be sure they are the freshest and purest available. <br>Â </p> | *$8.38 |
 | Raw Energy: 124 Raw Food Recipes for Energy Bars, Smoothies, and Other Snacks to Supercharge Your Body
Brand: Storey Publishing, LLC
It’s time to rescue snacks from the realm of empty-calorie packaged junk food and transform everyday pick-me-ups into healthful, satisfying mini meals. Why waste calories on cookies or chips that have no nutritional value and provide only short-term satisfaction when raw foods are delicious, simple to prepare, and bursting with natural energy boosters that everybody needs to stay fit and healthy?<br><br>Thanks to <i>Raw Energy</i>, it has never been easier to add a full spectrum of raw ingredients to a healthful lifestyle. Author Stephanie Tourles’s 125 recipes for trail mixes, parfaits, energy bars, juice blends, smoothies, soups, vegetable chips, zippy dips, candies, and cookies combine raw ingredients in delicious snacks that are chock-full of nutrients and long-term energy boosters.<br><br>Made from real, whole foods that are uncooked, unadulterated, and unprocessed, these snacks are 150- to 250-calorie packages of health and vitality, dense with naturally occurring vitamins, minerals, fiber, and enzymes. The snacks in <i>Raw Energy</i> do not rely on refined white flour or sugar, they are not cooked in any way, and, with the exception of honey, they do not use animal products.<br><br>They do include raw nuts and seeds, nut butters, dried and fresh fruits, oats, carob, cocoa, freshly extracted juices, and vegetables. They taste great and are easy to digest. Tourles provides a complete overview of the benefits of raw foods, along with an introduction to "uncooking" techniques and an ingredient-by-ingredient food guide. For anyone looking for more nutritional punch from low-calorie snacks, <i>Raw Energy</i> provides 125 tasty starting points. | *$9.90 |
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Brand: Storey Publishing, LLC
Using this handbook, homebrewers, tinkerers, and putterers can create their own microbrewery that is safe and makes brewing easier. | *$10.24 |
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Brand: Strategic Book Publishing
The Blood Pressure Miracle is a unique, all-natural system for lowering your blood pressure that is not based on a single approach such as stress reduction, or herbs or special foods or exercise. It’s actually a combination of methods that have been scientifically proven to work, complied into one comprehensive lifestyle program. You will be surprised at how many options you have: Simple lifestyle changes, inexpensive natural supplements and even regular foods you can buy at your local grocery store have all been proven to improve heart health and reduce blood pressure. When you combine these strategies all together as in The Blood Pressure Miracle, the results are multiplied (and it probably explains why, if you tried a single natural remedy in the past, it did very little or nothing at all). | *$16.86 |
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Brand: Sugar Land Press
The Healthy Life Cook Book, 2d ed.<br>by Florence Daniel<br> | *$14.00 |
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