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Cooking With the Two Fat Ladies
by Jennifer Paterson, Clarissa Dickson Wright, Pam Krauss |
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Cooking with the Two Fat Ladies is a delectable, calorie-filled breath of fresh air from the usual low-fat cookbooks. The dynamic duo of Clarissa Dickson Wright and Jennifer Paterson roars across the U.K. on their Triumph 950 motorbike, gathering fine recipe ideas from villages and towns all over the idyllic British countryside. Based on a popular BBC cookery program of the same name, the book bursts with the unbeatable flavors of heavy cream, real butter, and full-fat cheeses. The book is divided into five important food groups: fish, meat, cakes, fruit, and game. Tempting color photographs of the Fat Ladies' recipes titillate the taste buds. Irresistible is Jennifer's Adult Chocolate Cake; the combination of ingredients--bittersweet chocolate, sugar, butter, and eggs--form a divine creation certain to elicit groans of ecstasy from all who sample it.
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Cookwise : The Hows and Whys of Successful Cooking
by Shirley O. Corriher
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Is it safe to let a biochemist into your kitchen? If it's Shirley Corriher, extend an open invitation. Her long-awaited book, Cookwise, is a unique combination of basic cooking know-how, excellent recipes--from apple pie to beurre blanc--and reference source. She makes the science of cooking entirely comprehensible, then livens it up with stories, such as when her first roast duck blew up because she overstuffed it and the fat from the bird caused it to expand beyond capacity. Food companies pay Corriher fancy fees to troubleshoot their recipes, and Cookwise puts her encyclopedic knowledge ever at your fingertips. If you want to know how to make the flakiest pastry, best-textured breads, delicious fruit desserts from fruit that's not fully ripe, impeccable sauces, and attractively bright cooked vegetables, this book contains the answers. "What this recipe shows" tells you up front what's useful in each of the book's 230-plus recipes. "At-a-glance," "What to do," and "Why" help you learn or troubleshoot in minutes. If eight steps to a perfect Juicy Roast Chicken are daunting, think of the delight of Rich Cappuccino Ice Cream in three steps or the seductive Secret Marquise in five.
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Baking With Julia
by Julia Child, Dorie Greenspan |
| Whether you watched Baking with Julia, the 39-show television series, if you are interested in baking you'll love the book. This handsome volume is even more crammed with information and guidance than the half-hour shows. It covers everything from basic breads to elegant cakes, including recipes for sweets and savories, from traditional pita bread to trendy tiramisu, and from cookies with just three ingredients to a wedding cake that takes a week to make. Many of these recipes are usefully illustrated. Dorie Greenspan, who authored this work, captures Julia's brisk, clear, no-nonsense voice perfectly. Adding masterful clarity to recipes that come from 27 chefs, she makes Baking with Julia an instant classic. |
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Know Your Fire
by George Hirsch, Marie Bianco |
| This is the bible of grilling from the Guru of Grilling himself. I know that the warm weather is a little ways off but this book will have to ready and raring to go for the first barbeque of the spring season. |
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Martha Stewart's Healthy Quick Cook: Four Seasons of Great Menus to Make Every Day
by Martha Stewart, James Merrell (Photographer)
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| My favorite Diva of the Dainty serves a delicate and oh-so-tasty blend of low-fat elegance in this handsomely designed cookbook. No calorie counter, Martha proves how a lush variety of grains, fruits, and veggies can be a delicious alternative to fatty dishes. She offers more than 170 recipes, showing how to transform the freshest seasonal ingredients into scrumptious treats guaranteed to delight both the palate and the eye. From Grilled Portobello Pizza to a luscious Lime Soufflé, Martha will change the way you think about healthy eating.
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Martha Stewart's Quick Cook
by Martha Stewart
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| The ideal cookbook for the '90s, Martha Stewart's Quick Cook shows readers how to create culinary masterpieces in less than an hour with simple ingredients and minimal preparation. Includes 52 menus, from soups to entrees to desserts. 78 full-color photographs. A must have for the busy cook!
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Joy of Cooking
by Irma Von Starkloff Rombauer, Irma S. Rombauer
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| Since its first private printing in 1931, The Joy of Cooking has been teaching Americans how to cook. Craig Claiborne calls it "a masterpiece of clarity" and Julia Child says it's the one book she'd keep if she could only have one English title on the shelf. The nearly 5,000 recipes are handily organized by meal and ingredient, and no cooking instruction goes unexplained, so you can finally understand the difference between poaching and braising. The book includes nutritional information as well as an extremely helpful list of measures and equivalents. You'll find a version of every recipe your mother ever cooked, along with straightforward instructions for cooking more exotic specialties such as turtles and muskrats
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Joy of Cooking
by Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, Ethan Becker, la Maestro
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| Do you know how to operate a stove and oven? Do you ever prepare food in a kitchen? If YES, then you need this book! This is the best all purpose guide I have ever seen because it has informative descriptions and diagrams in addition to being clear and easy to read. The authors tell you how to make great chocolate chip cookies, fricasee a chicken, choose an appropriate cut of beef, sear a chop, blanche an almond, or make yellow cupcakes! Since this will become your favorite kitchen reference tool you will definately want to purchase a hardcover edition. Otherwise the book will wear out in no time! I hope you love yours as much as I love mine!
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In Nonna's Kitchen; Traditional Italian Cooking And Culture From Italian Grandmothers
by Carol Field
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| As much about Italian family and culture as it is about cooking, this captivating survey of la cucina della nonna (the cuisine of the grandmothers) traverses Italy's countryside and finds not only terrific things to eat but also stories--stories passed along from grandmothers to grandchildren that reveal the fabric of daily life across generations. Mixing inventive variations on traditional Italian recipes with profiles of the grandmothers who created and adapted them, Field gives each dish a special cultural texture: we see what made this comfort food comfortable, and we bemoan the gradual loss of a culinary tradition, as the nonnas of tomorrow turn to microwaves and prepared food. Still, such dishes as passatelli (country soup with bread crumbs and parmigiano) or torta di verdura (mashed potato and spinach tart) seem capable of reestablishing a vanishing tradition with a single bite.
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