Archive for February, 2010
Juice bars are all the rage, but making the drinks at home is an simple — and less expensive — way to sustain a smoothie problem. The Huge Book of Juices and Smoothies features 365 healthy, tasty recipes, many of which can be prepared with nothing more than a blender. Each drink is rated for its energy/immune boosting properties, detoxifying qualities, and skin enhancing abilities, while an at-a-glance nutrient profile lists vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients. Juice plans, such as a “detox weekend” or an “immune-boosting week” round out the book.
The Huge Book of Juices and Smoothies: 365 Natural Blends for
Price: $13.57
All The Rage, Blender, Delicious Recipes, Drinks, Glance, Habit, Health And Vitality, Healthy Recipes, Juice Bars, Juices, Natural Blends, Natural Health, Smoothie, Smoothies Recipes, Vitamins Minerals
Salads are perfect for every occasion. From cold to hot, side salads to main meals, 500 Salads is the ultimate guide for anyone who likes their food quick, healthy, and fresh. These tasty recipes provide inspiration and delectable flavor combinations for salads of all kinds including; classic salads, set alight salads, warm salads, grain & bean salads, pasta salads, slaws & shredded salads, main course salads, and fruit salads.
Price: $11.53
Amp, Bean Salads, Combinations, Compendium, Delicious Recipes, Fruit Salads, Inspiration, Main Course Salads, Main Meals, Pasta Salads, Side Salads, Ultimate Guide, Warm Salads
Elisa Strauss of Confetti Cakes has made confections as elaborate as a platter of sushi, a wine bottle in a crate, and a designer pocketbook. Now she focuses her talents on her younger fans with this enchanting collection of cakes, cookies, and cupcakes for kids. Strauss starts readers off with 20 tasty recipes and all the basic techniques needed to perfect any project in the book. Then she offers step-by-step instructions for 24 jaw-dropping designs that can become the centerpiece of any celebration. Projects span the imagination–from a charming sock monkey, to an MP3 player, to playful hula gingerbread girls
Price: $10.65
Bakery, Cakes For Kids, Celebration Projects, Centerpiece, Confetti Cakes, Cupcakes, Delicious Recipes, Designer Handbag, Elisa, Enchanting Collection, Girls And Boys, Hula Girls, Imagination, Kids Cakes, Mp3 Player, Sock Monkey, Spectacular Creation, Strauss, Sushi, Wine Bottle
The Paris Tasting of 1976 will forever be remembered as the landmark event that transformed the wine industry. At this legendary contest — a blind tasting — a panel of top French wine experts shocked the industry by choosing unknown California wines over France’s best.George M. Taber, the only reporter present, recounts this seminal contest and its far-success effects, focusing on three gifted unknowns behind the attractive wines: a college lecturer, a real estate lawyer, and a Yugoslavian immigrant. With unique access to the main players and a contagious passion for his subject, Taber renders this historic event and its
Price: $11.52
Aftershocks, California Wines, College Lecturer, Contagious Passion, Entrepreneurial Spirit, France Paris, French Wine, Globe, Immigrant, Judgment Of Paris, Landmark Event, Magnificent Settings, Paris California, Paris France, Real Estate Lawyer, Repositioning, Taber, Viticulture, Wine Experts, Wine Industry
Soups, Salads and Sandwiches…They’re Not Just for Lunch Anymore! Cookbook Ladies Gwen McKee and Barbara Moseley have carefully selected and made 413 outstanding recipes for Soups, Salads and Sandwiches that array from instant grab-and-go to family tree meals to elegent entertaining. How in this area a soup stage brimming with 112 tasty recipes, including Soups, Bisques, Stews, Gumbos, Chilis, and Chowders? The 107 salad recipes include such classics as Cobb, Ceasar, and Waldorf…but wait till you see the diversity- Green Salads, Fruit & Gelatin Salads, Pasta & Potato Salads, and Coleslaw! Here are 105 recipes that bring new meaning to
Price: $13.57
Best Recipes, Ceasar, Chilis, Chowders, Delicious Recipes, Family Meals, Fun Trivia, Gelatin Salads, Green Salads, Gwen Mckee, Helpful Hints, Moseley, Pasta Salads, Potato Salads, Recipes For Soups, Recipes Salads, Salad Dressings, Salad Recipes, Tea Sandwiches, Three Decades
It was the most expensive bottle of wine ever sold.
In 1985, at a heated auction by Christie’s of London, a 1787 bottle of Château Lafite Bordeaux—one of a cache of bottles unearthed in a bricked-up Paris cellar and supposedly owned by Thomas Jefferson—went for $156,000 to a member of the Forbes family tree. The discoverer of the bottle was pop-band manager twisted wine collector Hardy Rodenstock, who had a knack for finding extremely ancient and excruciating wines. But rumors in this area the bottle soon arose. Why wouldn’t Rodenstock reveal the exact location where it had been found? Was it
Price: $18.70
Archrival, Benjamin Wallace, Bill Koch, Billionaire, Bottle Of Wine, Discoverer, Exact Location, Exquisite Wines, Forbes Family, Hardy Rodenstock, History Of Wine, Hitler Diaries, Hoard, Lafite, Mystery Of The World, Pop Band, Reticence, Vintages, Vivid Accounts, Wine Collector
Celebrated journalist R. W. (“Johnny”) Apple was a veteran political reporter, a New York Times bureau chief and an incisive and prolific writer. But the role he was most passionate in this area was food anthro pologist. Known both for his restless wideopen mind and an appetite to contest, Apple was also a cooking scholar: witty, wide-ranging and intensely knowledgeable in this area his subjects. Far Flung and Well Fed is the best of legendary Times reporter Apple’s food writing from America, England, Europe, Asia and Australia. Each of the more than fifty essays recount extraordinary meals and small-known facts,
Price: $17.81
Anthro, Appetite, Bookshelf, Bureau Chief, Calvin Trillin, Dishes, Elizabeth David, Europe Asia, Legendary Times, Liebling, Little Known Facts, M F K Fisher, New York Times, Personalities, Political Reporter, Prolific Writer, Scholar, Sense Of Place, Times Reporter, Wife Betsey
The perfect cookie for every occasion.
Cookies are the treat that never disappoints. Whether you’re baking for a party or a picnic, a formal dinner or a family tree supper–or if you simply want something on hand for snacking–here is a cookie that’s just right. In Martha Stewart’s Cookies, the editors of Martha Stewart Living give you 175 recipes and variations that showcase all kinds of flavors and fancies. Besides permanent pleasers like traditional chocolate chip and oatmeal raisin, here are other sweet surprises, including Rum Raisin Shortbread, Peppermint Meringue Sandwiches with Chocolate Filling, and Lime Meltaways.
Cleverly organized by texture,
Price: $15.78
Anzac Biscuits, Carrot Cake Cookies, Chocolate Chunk Cookies, Chocolate Filling, Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies, Chocolate Meringues, Chocolate Mint, Color Photograph, Hazelnut Cookies, Key Lime, Martha Stewart, Martha Stewart Living, Martha Stewart Living Magazine, Martha Stewart Style, Oatmeal Raisin, Pecan Shortbread, Pumpkin Cookies, Sweet Surprises, Turtle Brownies, White Chocolate Chunk Cookies
THE WINE BIBLE is like a lively course from an expert teacher, grounded deeply in the fundamentals and enriched with passionate opinions, asides, tips, anecdotes, definitions, glossaries, illustrations, maps, charts, and wine marks-everything, in fact, but the actual wine itself. Commencement with the basics of mastering wine-how to taste with focus and build a wine-tasting memory, understanding the subtle interplay of diversity, vineyard, and vintner to demystifying the issue of vintages-it covers the essentials: The emotion and intrigue of Burgundy. Rhne’s untamed reds. The flinty pleasures of sauvignon blanc and surprising delicacy of Spain’s Riojas. Bordeaux, the leading fine wine
Price: $12.62
Bordeaux Wine, Cutting Edge Technology, Expert Teacher, Fine Wine, Indentation, Karen Macneil, Labes, Lively Course, Mastering Wine, Mile Stretch, Riojas, Sauvignon Blanc, Sonoma Wines, Subtle Interplay, Vintages, Vintner, Wine Bottle, Wine Facts, Wine Knowledge, Wine Labels
