Escoffier or Fabulous Ways with Eggs

Escoffier: The King of Chefs

Author: Kenneth James

Auguste Escoffier (1846 -1935) was the first great star of modern cooking. Acknowledged during his lifetime as the greatest chef in the world, his clientele included Edward VII and Kaiser Wilhelm II, as well as the leaders of society and of fashion. Kenneth James traces Escoffier's career, from his humble origins on the French Riviera to Paris, London, and New York. Escoffier: The King of Chefs also presents the dishes, from eggs to lobster, on which Escoffier had both a lasting influence and strongly held views.

The New York Times

Auguste Escoffier (1846-1935) devoted his life to mastering French cuisine and sharing his knowledge with the world. Kenneth James honors the great chef with a richly detailed biography, complete with menus and recipes -- every other chapter is an ''interlude,'' indulging James's interest in the culinary history of (for example) coffee, frogs and tripe. — Elizabeth Hanson

Library Journal

To people who enjoy food-especially those who like to cook-the name Escoffier is magic. Universally acknowledged for making French cooking the world's premier cuisine, this master of foie gras, truffles, and cream sauces received a good deal of his training in the French army during the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71), including the sieges of Metz and Paris, when a good, juicy rat was the best food to be had. James, former director of scientific defense at the U.K.'s Ministry of Defence, has a strong interest in culinary history and reveals how Escoffier learned to create succulent dishes from this and that, making him one with the peasant housewives who concocted stews and casseroles that are now part of our everyday repertoire. He also shows how Escoffier developed, improved, and codified the work of both the great and the humble French cooks and argues that perhaps his strongest legacy has been his development of kitchen systems that are still used in modern restaurants. And Escoffier's association with hotelier Cesar Ritz indelibly welded good food to fine hostelry. Well researched yet accessible for lay readers, this reasonably priced biography would be a good addition to larger public libraries where there is an interest in culinary history.-Susan B. Hagloch, Tuscarawas Cty. P.L., New Philadelphia, OH Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

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Fabulous Ways with Eggs: Make the Most of Eggs with how-to Techniques and over 70 Delicious Step-by-Step Recipes

Author: Alex Barker

This authoritative and beautiful book provides esssential information on preparing, storing and cooking with eggs, including instructions on all the basic cooking techniques.

World of Culinary Supervision Training and Management or French Food

World of Culinary Supervision, Training and Management

Author: Jerald W Chesser

This third edition has been enhanced with updated information, expanded discussions of topics including leadership, diversity, and training technology, and case studies to assist the reader in understanding and applying the information. Supplemental materials have been expanded to include an instructor's manual, PowerPoint slides and a test bank.

Table of Contents:

Pt. 1	The chef as supervisor
Ch. 1	Supervision	1
Ch. 2	Quality, philosophy, history, excellence, reengineering, and change	27
Ch. 3	Motivation, morale, and strokes	51
Ch. 4	Building teamwork in the kitchen	71
Ch. 5	Total quality respect	97
Ch. 6	Dealing with conflict and complaints	113
Ch. 7	The chef as communicator	131
Ch. 8	The chef as leader	159
Pt. 2	The chef as trainer
Ch. 9	Total quality and training in the kitchen	185
Ch. 10	Preparing training objectives	209
Ch. 11	Understanding instructional delivery	221
Ch. 12	Training methods	239
Ch. 13	Induction and orientation training	261
Ch. 14	Training media and technology	275
Ch. 15	Training and transactional analysis	289
Pt. 3	Management and chef supervisors
Ch. 16	Managing and utilizing time	301
Ch. 17	Recruiting and selecting kitchen team members	313
Ch. 18	Discipline and the kitchen team	333
Ch. 19	Problem solving and decision making	347
Ch. 20	Team performance appraisal	363
App. A	Federal regulations and executive orders	375

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French Food: On the Table, On the Page, and in French Culture

Author: Lawrence R Schehr

French identity is a matter of taste-or palate, to be more precise. Food permeates the very idea of "Frenchness"-from the literary feasts of Marcel Proust to the culinary feats of Julia Child, from foie gras to the french fry. French Food is an entertaining and insightful look at the way people cook, eat, market, talk, and write about French cuisine.
More than a book about food alone, French Food uses diet as a window into issues of nationality, literature, and culture in France and abroad. Outstanding contributors from cultural studies, literary criticism, performance studies, and the emerging field of food studies explore a wide range of food matters: the history of French cooking, the intersections of taste and class, the aesthetics of cuisine, French food as nation building, novelists who use gastronomic details to spice up literary personas, and even the sexuality of a French dish. Revealing substance in a French meal beyond mere sustenance, this delicious volume is sure to sharpen your mind as well as your palate.

Nuts or Margaret Fultons Encyclopedia of Food and Cookery

Nuts: (Artisanal Foods Series) Sweet and Savory Recipes from Diamond of California

Author: Tina Salter

When the people at Diamond of California, the world's leading marketer of nuts, decided to create a cookbook, they scoured their archives, developed dozens of new recipes, and turned to some of America's best loved chefs, cooking teachers, and food writers for more. The result is Nuts: Sweet and Savory Recipes from Diamond of California, a collection of more than 100 recipes complemented by lavish color photography and hints and tips to help make the dishes easier and more fun to prepare. You'll find classic comfort food, like Farmhouse Chicken Stew with Buttermilk-Walnut Dumplings; no-stress show-stoppers for entertaining, like Seared Scallop Salad with Grapefruit, Endive, and Walnuts; and, of course, plenty of cookies, cakes, desserts, breads, and quickbreads, from an inventive Macaroon Nut Tart to sumptuous Blueberry-Almond Bread Pudding. Ready to make the foods you cook a little more special? Head for the kitchen . . . and go nuts!

Author Biography: Tina Salter is a book packager, food writer, and television producer who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Margaret Fulton's Encyclopedia of Food and Cookery: The Complete Kitchen Companion from A to Z

Author: Margaret Fulton

Completely revised and updated for today's cooks, this classic kitchen companion has everything one needs to know about buying fresh produce and preparing, cooking, storing, and preserving food. Step-by-step guides to basic cooking methods, a multitude of serving suggestions and short cuts, and extensive cross-referencing throughout make this encyclopedia a valuable addition to the kitchen shelf.

Barbecue Biscuits and Beans or Outdoor Tables and Tales

Barbecue, Biscuits and Beans: Chuck Wagon Cooking

Author: Bill Caubl

Recipes and preparation secrets for all-time favorite chuck wagon dishes—from trailside to elegant—are featured in this cookbook. Tasty dishes include a bounty of beef and game, vegetables, homemade breads, and delectable desserts.

Southern Living

"Worthy of a place in any modern kitchen."

Texas Monthly

"a cookbook... worthy of a place in any modern kitchen."

HippoPress - Manchester - Amy Diaz

You don't have to herd cattle to eat high on the hog.

Publishers Weekly

Cauble and Teinert are serious about turning chuck wagon cooking into a regional art form. Together, they helped found the Western Chuck Wagon Association. Teinert runs a catering service; Cauble cooked for a working ranch. In the introduction to the 180 recipes rounded up for this collection, Cauble identifies the challenges of his craft: "Cowboys like meat, beans, potatoes and bread. They like corn. Some will eat a green vegetable, especially if it's fried. They want Ranch dressing, even if it's from a bottle." Thus, ingredients for these dishes are always hearty and often abundant, with the quirky exceptions of Mountain Oysters and Baked Dove in Gravy. Cookware, when needed, is preferably cast iron. Part of the fun here is the enormous portion sizes: Roasted Suckling Pig calls for a 15- to 25-pound oinker ("scalded and scraped") and a coffee can to support its body cavity; it serves 15 to 20. SOB Stew uses up all the innards of a suckling calf, and the recipe ends with, "Add brains 15 minutes before serving." Saner classics abound, too: Chicken Fried Steak, Chili, Buttermilk Biscuits and Vanilla Ice Cream. Sauces, mops and rubs are essential for many of the entrees and the authors provide plenty of suggestions, including a complex Jalape o Raspberry Sauce with mango nectar, as well as a basic Barbecue Mop with Worcestershire sauce, vinegar sugar and spices. The brief foreword by Tommy Lee Jones is somewhat lackluster, but the book's photos are wildly Western without being clich . (Apr.) Forecast: The authors are negotiating for a TV series with PBS and the Food Network; if that happens, expect their book to take off. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

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Outdoor Tables and Tales: Recipes and Food Memories from America's Top Outdoor Writers

Author: Southeastern Outdoor Press Association

Every section of this culinary guide to the great outdoors begins with a tale spun by some of the best outdoor writers the South has to offer. This collection includes tasty dishes of nearly every species of Southern game and fish from venison to catfish. Campfire secrets time-tested by Southern outdoorsmen are interspersed throughout the cookbook.

Food and Philosophy or Heartbreak Grape

Food and Philosophy: Eat, Think, and Be Merry

Author: Fritz Allhoff

Food & Philosophy offers a collection of essays which explore a range of philosophical topics related to food; it joins Wine & Philosophy and Beer & Philosophy in in the "Epicurean Trilogy." Essays are organized thematically and written by philosophers, food writers, and professional chefs.

• Provides a critical reflection on what and how we eat can contribute to a robust enjoyment of gastronomic pleasures
  
• A thoughtful, yet playful collection which emphasizes the importance of food as a proper object of philosophical reflection in its own right

Table of Contents:

Foreword   Odessa Piper     viii
Acknowledgments     x
Setting the Table: An Introduction to Food & Philosophy   Fritz Allhoff   Dave Monroe     1
Appetizers: Food in Culture & Society     11
Epicurus, the Foodies' Philosopher   Michael Symons     13
Carving Values with a Spoon   Lydia Zepeda     31
Should I Eat Meat? Vegetarianism and Dietary Choice   Jen Wrye     45
Sublime Hunger: A Consideration of Eating Disorders Beyond Beauty   Sheila Lintott     58
First Course: Taste & Food Criticism     71
Taste, Gastronomic Expertise, and Objectivity   Michael Shaffer     73
Who Needs a Critic? The Standard of Taste and the Power of Branding   Jeremy Iggers     88
Hungry Engrams: Food and Non-Representational Memory   Fabio Parasecoli     102
Second Course: Edible Art & Aesthetics     115
Can a Soup Be Beautiful? The Rise of Gastronomy and the Aesthetics of Food   Kevin W. Sweeney     117
Can Food Be Art? The Problem of Consumption   Dave Monroe     133
Delightful, Delicious, Disgusting   Carolyn Korsmeyer     145
Food Fetishes and Sin-Aesthetics: ProfessorDewey, Please Save Me From Myself   Glenn Kuehn     162
Dessert: Eating & Ethics     175
Eating Well: Thinking Ethically About Food   Roger J. H. King     177
Picky Eating is a Moral Failing   Matthew Brown     192
Shall We Dine? Confronting the Strange and Horrifying Story of GMOs in Our Food   Paul B. Thompson     208
Taking Stock: An Overview of Arguments For and Against Hunting   Linda Jerofke     221
Petits Fours: Compliments of the Chef     237
Food and Sensuality: A Perfect Pairing   Jennifer L. Iannolo     239
Duty to Cook: Exploring the Intents and Ethics of Home and Restaurant Cuisine   Christian J. Krautkramer     250
Diplomacy of the Dish: Cultural Understanding Through Taste   Mark Tafoya     264
Balancing Tastes: Inspiration, Taste, and Aesthetics in the Kitchen   Aki Kamozawa   H. Alexander Talbot     276
Afterword     287
Thus Ate Zarathustra   Woody Allen     289
Notes on Contributors     293
Index     299

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Heartbreak Grape: A Journey in Search of the Perfect Pinot Noir

Author: Marq De Villiers

DeVilliers' quest for the 'heartbreak grape' begins with one sip of the superlative Calera Jensen '87. Behind the scenes of one of the world's most fascinating and romantic industries, the author celebrates the tenacity and invention of individuals who devote their lives to the magnificent obesession of wine-making in this completely revised and updated edition.

Secret Potions Elixirs and Concoctions or Pride of Kentucky

Secret Potions, Elixirs and Concoctions: Botanical and Aromatic Recipes for Mind, Body and Soul

Author: Marie Anakee Miczak

This interesting book contains, in an easy-to-understand format, many ways to utilize botanicals including essential oils, herbs & more for use in everyday life. All you need are simple ingredients & equipment such as a blender to be on your way to quickly whipping up a lavish spa treatment or healing remedy.

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Pride of Kentucky: Great Recipes with Food, Farm, and Family Traditions

Author: Kentucky Extension Association of Family Consumer Sciences

The Pride of Kentucky book is a collection of delicious recipes with food, farm, and family traditions highlighting the benefits of all "Kentucky Fresh" commodities and the farm-to-table connection. Featuring Kentucky's agri-tourism destinations, time-saving cooking tips, and heartwarming stories and photographs. Designated as the "Official Cookbook of the 2003 Kentucky State Fair."

Guinness Is Guinness or El Paso Cook Book

Guinness Is Guinness: The Colourful Story of a Black and White Brand

Author: Mark Griffiths

The history of Guinness, from its humble beginnings in the pubs of Dublin to its spread to bars in Nigeria and Indonesia, is explored in this fascinating analysis of the 250-year-old brand. Popular Guinness ads from across the years are included, as well as information on current company practices and marketing campaigns.

Each title in this series features an in-depth, biographical look at one of today's top brands, such as Guinness, Adidas, and Starbucks. The brands included have all established themselves not only as financial successes but also as cultural icons. The storytelling style and eye-catching design of the books make learning about these innovative brands stimulating and enjoyable.

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El Paso Cook Book

Author: Ladies Auxiliary of the Y M C A

The El Paso Cook Book (1898) was the first cookbook published in that city. The El Paso Cook Book is valuable from an historical standpoint-for what it tells us about El Paso and what it tells us about cookery at the beginning of the twentieth century. It also offers wonderful recipes that can be re-created today by anyone willing to include some trial and error in the cooking process to allow for changes wrought in ingredients and kitchen technology by the passage of more than a century.

Crazy for Crab or Ryman Remembers Recipes and Recollections the Ryman Auditorium

Crazy for Crab: Everything You Need to Know to Enjoy Fabulous Crab at Home, with 125 Recipes

Author: Fred Thompson

Fred Thompson begins with a comprehensive chapter on the basics, describing every type of crab available, how to buy it, how to clean it, and how to cook it and crack it. Then comes all the glorious recipes you could ever want to make with crab.

Library Journal

Thompson, a food writer based in North Carolina, grew up eating blue crab in traditional Southern preparations like She-Crab Soup. Here, he covers all the other important members of the family, from the West Coast Dungeness to Alaskan king to Florida stone crab, along with recipes inspired by a variety of cuisines. He includes detailed information on buying and preparing the different varieties of crab and types of crabmeat, boxes on topics such as "Crab Feeds, Feasts, and Boils," and a list of crab festivals around the country. The delectable recipes range from Soft-Shell Crabs in Spicy Peanut Sauce to Crab R moulade with Fried Green Tomatoes to crab cakes (more than a dozen versions). Thompson has an engaging style, and his latest will be useful as a reference as well as a cookbook. For most collections. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

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Ryman Remembers: Recipes and Recollections, the Ryman Auditorium

Author: Favorite Recipes Press

This collection of memories, recollections, and recipes chronicles the history of this special place and the people and events that have provided a cross section of culture and entertainment in the United States from the late nineteenth century to the present. Certainly few places in the country can boast having served up such a broad slice of Americana, including symphony, dance, drama, opera and Opry, comedy, politics, and religion.

Good Cook or Cooking By the Bootstraps

Good Cook: Seventy Essential Techniques

Author: Anne Willan

Internationally renowned as the founder of Ecole de Cuisine La Varenne, Anne Willan has published many best-selling cookbooks. Her La Varenne Pratique has become an indispensable text for professional chefs, while the Look and Cook series and subsequent public television program brought European cuisine to a mainstream American audience. Here, the award-winning author offers her expertise to a new market, outlining 70-plus techniques and hundreds of accompanying recipes for the kitchen novice.

The quick and easy dishes will appeal to both beginner and seasoned cooks. Categorized by main ingredient, the ten chapters address every subject of import to home cooks, including essential flavors and sauces; fish, meat, and poultry; vegetables and eggs; pasta and pastry. Step-by-step photographs illustrate the techniques, which are followed by recipes that utilize them. Readers will learn, for example, the best way to chop and chiffonade herbs, dice an onion, and peel a tomato, then apply these skills to the preparation of Tomato, Mozzarella, and Basil Salad; Real French Onion Soup; and other dishes. How to open oysters, roll and tie a roast, combine milk, butter, and eggs to create a classic white sauce: All the techniques a home cook could ever need are covered. Perfect for everyday use, this richly illustrated volume will be to amateurs what La Varenne Pratique is to pros-the last word, a book they'll turn to again and again.

Author Bio: ANNE WILLAN has 40 years of culinary experience as an author, columnist, and teacher. She has written widely praised, authoritative books on food, whether about techniques, ingredients, culinary history, home entertaining, or the country cooking of France. After studying and teaching cooking in London and Paris, she made her name in the United States as a food editor and writer. She founded Ecole de Cuisine La Varenne in Paris in 1975 and since 1991 has directed its programs at the Château du Feÿ in Burgundy and at The Greenbrier in West Virginia. Willan has served as President of the IACP and is a trustee of COPIA (The American Center for Food, Wine & the Arts) in Napa, California.

ALISON HARRIS is the photographer of The New Provencal Cuisine, Enchanted Liguria, and Cooking the Roman Way.

Library Journal

Founder of Ecole de Cuisine La Varenne, a French cooking school now based in Burgundy, Willan has written more than a dozen other cookbooks. Although her latest is based on the French culinary tradition, she includes many recipes (and some techniques) inspired by Asian, Latin American, and other cuisines, which makes this her most international title by far. There are also recipes and opinions from her daughter and son, features that add to the book's more contemporary feel (though Willan herself is certainly in favor of, for example, using a food processor rather than the drum sieve that was once essential in any French kitchen). She opens with a section called "Essential Flavors"-herbs, chiles, garlic and onions, tomatoes-followed by "Tips from the Pros"; chapters organized primarily by course or main ingredient follow. Kitchen techniques are introduced as appropriate, accompanied by dozens of step-by-step photographs and illustrated in fresh, uncomplicated recipes: "How To Chop Fresh Herbs," for example, includes a detailed section on knife skills and recipes that include Asparagus with Green Sauce, Warm Herb Potato Salad, and a lively version of Tabbouleh. James Peterson's Essentials of Cooking offers step-by-step photographs for dozens of kitchen techniques but is really a reference work, not a cookbook. With its hundreds of delicious recipes, Willan's latest is both-and an essential purchase. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

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Cooking By the Bootstraps: A Taste of Oklahoma Heaven Cooked Up By the Junior Welfare League of Enid, Oklahoma

Author: The Junior Welfare League of Enid

The cuisine of Oklahoma is rich and diverse, as reflected in Cooking by the Bootstraps. Features "Beyond Salt & Pepper," an internationally inspired spice chart, beautiful four-color photography, and 250 recipes from Cowboy Soup to Veal Marsala, Two-Step Tenderloin to Chocolate Spice Truffles, and many, many more!

300 Best Chocolate Recipes or Thai Cooking

300 Best Chocolate Recipes

Author: Julie Hasson

All the rich delights of chocolate captured in one volume of decadence.

Only chocolate is so rich, smooth and satisfying for so many of us. Whether bittersweet, semisweet, milk or white, there is a chocolate for everyone to love. Square or chip, grated or melted, the world's favorite baking ingredient is chocolate.

300 Best Chocolate Recipes is an outstanding collection of chocolate recipes originally published in two books, 125 Best Chocolate Chip Recipes and 125 Best Chocolate Recipes. This delicious array of recipes ranges from the traditional to the sophisticated, and from the simple to the challenging.

Featuring incredibly creative and luscious recipes for everything from cakes, cookies, pies, breads, puddings, bars, squares and muffins to hot and cold beverages and sauces, these are fail-safe recipes for a baker with any level of experience. Here is a sampling:

• Chocolate-dipped coconut macaroons


• Raspberry chocolate chip cookies


• High-octane espresso chip morning muffins


• Chocolate mousse cake


• Double chocolate cheesecake ice cream.

Every recipe is easy to follow -- and works to perfection every time.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Common Ingredients

Tools and Equipment for Perfect Desserts

Kitchen Tips

Breakfasts

Breads, Sandwiches and Scones

Muffins

Cakes

Cupcakes

Pies, Tarts and Pastries

Cookies, Bars and Squares

Candies, Snacks and Other Treats

Puddings and Mousses

Frozen Desserts

Sauces, Syrups, Frostings and Spreads

Beverages

Sources

Index

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Thai Cooking: From the Siam Cuisine Restaurant

Author: Kwanruan Aksomboon

Siam Cuisine is a unique restaurant in Berkeley, California, which has been acclaimed since the early eighties for serving authentic Thai food rivaling that in Bangkok restaurants. Gathered here are more than 100 recipes for their superbly cooked dishes—chicken simmered in red curry with coconut and bamboo shoots...prawns and calamari with sweet basil and chilies...coconut soup with pickled garlic and red preserved bean curd.

Downtown Girls Guide to Wine or Tell Me More

Downtown Girl's Guide to Wine: How to Buy, Serve, and Sip with Style and Sophistication!

Author: Megan Buckley

Sure, when it comes to cocktails, you're the Queen of Cosmopolitans-but wine is in a class by itself. It's elegant, über-refined-and intimidating. But you don't have to be a die-hard oenophile to enjoy your vino with panache.

The Downtown Girl's Guide to Wine is a fun, easy-to-read primer that will help you choose a good wine (or two, or three...) whether you're hostessing a party or placing an order at a glamorous restaurant. You'll get the scoop on basic wine terminology, key wine regions, and general trends in wine and restaurant etiquette-including navigating a wine list and handling your sommelier. Packed with hot tips, fun sidebars, and plenty of advice, this sophisticated little guide will have you sipping with savvy in no time.

Megan Buckley is the author of Sexy City Cocktails. A downtown girl of all trades, she is a former New York literary agent and Manhattan bartender extraordinaire. A freelance writer, she divides her time between New York and Ireland.

Sheree Bykofsky is a top New York literary agent, and the author of seventeen books, including The 52 Most Romantic Dates In and Around New York.

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Tell Me More: A Cookbook Spiced with Cajun Tradition and Food Memories

Author: Staff of the Junior League of Lafayett

Tell me more about the ways of Acadiana, about life in Southwest Louisiana and about those memories of meal times, recipes and family values found no where else.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgements	4
	Introduction	5
	The Story of the Cajuns	5
	Cajuns at Play	8
	Influences of Cajun Cooking	11
	Appetizers, Jellies, Pickles and Sauces	13
	Breads, Beverages, Cheese and Eggs	35
	Gumbos, Soups, Salads and Salad Dressings	57
	Vegetables and Side Dishes	81
	Meats and Main Dishes	109
	Fish and Seafood	137
	Desserts	163
	Measurements and Equivalents	209
	Substitutions	210
	Index	211
	About the Junior League of Lafayette

Your Special Wedding Toasts or Everything Thai Cookbook

Your Special Wedding Toasts

Author: Sharon Naylor

Your Special Wedding Toasts provides everything needed to help all the toast-givers rise to the occasion. It offers new ideas not only for the best man and father of the bride, but for everyone from the maid of honor to guests, and shows how to craft the toast, how to practice it and pitfalls to avoid, such as toasting only the bride or groom as opposed to the couple.

This helpful guide includes a brainstorming questionnaire to help collect and organize thoughts and stories, popular and inspiring quotes, examples of successful real-life toasts, plus a collection of original wedding toasts tailored to such special situations as second weddings, outdoor or destination weddings and even post-elopement parties.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction
Part 1	The Basics of a Great Toast
Chapter 1	Where It All Began	2
Chapter 2	Who Gives a Toast?	3
Chapter 3	Who Are You Toasting?	11
Chapter 4	Where to Find Inspiration	20
Chapter 5	The Twenty Keys to a Great Toast	28
Part 2	Lift Your Glass and Your Pen!... Wedding Toasts for Everyone
Chapter 6	The Best Man's Toast	36
Chapter 7	The Maid of Honor's Toast	44
Chapter 8	Bride and Groom's Toasts	50
Chapter 9	Toasts to Parents	55
Chapter 10	Toasts by Parents, Grandparents, Godparents, and Others	65
Chapter 11	Toasts to Friends and Family	71
Chapter 12	Toasts in Remembrance	78
Chapter 13	Toasts for Children	82
Part 3	Specialty Wedding Toasts
Chapter 14	Second Weddings	90
Chapter 15	Destination Weddings	97
Chapter 16	Outdoor Weddings	100
Chapter 17	Post-Elopement Celebrations	105
Chapter 18	Toasts of Advice	109
	A Note from the Author
	Appendices
	Worksheets	115
	Wedding Toast Checklist	117

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Everything Thai Cookbook

Author: Jennifer Malott Malott Kotylo

Thai cuisine creates a harmonious blend between spicy hot and comparatively bland ingredients from age-old Eastern and relatively new Western foods. Featuring both outstanding traditional recipes and cutting-edge crowd-pleasers such as Spicy Fried Rice Sticks, Salmon Toast, Chicken Satay, and Thai Crab Cakes, The Everything Thai Cookbook guides you through preparing meals as good as you'd find in your favorite Thai restaurant.

The Everything Thai Cookbook is perfect for both vegetarians and meat-eaters, offering an eclectic range of spices, flavors, and aromas. Whether you want to prepare a meal for one-or an entire feast-The Everything Thai Cookbook will have you serving up tasty fare to tempt even the most critical food connoisseur.

Featuring mouthwatering recipes for: *Banana Fritters
*Chicken-Vegetable Rice
*Coconut Curried Chicken
*Fresh Oranges in Rose Water
*Pad Thai
*Pumpkin Rice Custard
*Spicy Rice and Shrimp Salad

Jennifer Malott Kotylo is a freelance writer, editor, and marketing consultant, with clients including Sargento, Robert Mondavi Family of Wines, William Blair Limited Liability, and a host of first-tier restaurants such as award-winning Le Français, Tru and Charlie Trotter's. Ms. Kotylo, who serves as the treasurer of the Chicago Chapter of the American Institute of Wine & Food, lives in Chicago, Illinois.

Chocolate Truffles and Other Pleasures of Italys Piedmont Cuisine or Presenting the Turkey

Chocolate, Truffles, and Other Pleasures of Italy's Piedmont Cuisine

Author: Sally Spector

This book presents an in depth description of the cuisine that many consider to be Italy's best. Internationally famous for its wine and white truffles, the Piedmont also gives us numerous products ( . . . handmade breadsticks, quality beef, the world's best filberts, great variety of cheeses, exquisite chocolate and cookies . . . ) used to prepare dishes that are both extremely interesting and extraordinarily delicious. But there is much more than recipes: the author provides a vast amount of information about gastronomic culture and local traditions, social and agricultural history and how opinions and prejudices regarding different foods have changed over time, all explained with knowledge, enthusiasm and passion.

The informative text is lavishly illustrated with the author's own beautiful drawings and watercolors, making every page a pleasure to read or just look at. Cooks will certainly appreciate

the recipes and even those who will never prepare them will enjoy reading the fascinating story the book tells and will delight in its visual qualities, in just turning its splendidly designed pages.

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Presenting the Turkey: The Fabulous Story of a Flamboyant and Flavourful Bird

Author: Sabine Eich

In this book, art historian Sabine Eiche has assembled a delightful collection of art to illustrate the turkey's adventures in Europe. The idea for Presenting the Turkey came to the author by reading a letter dated in 1531, written by an agent of Duke Francesco Maria della Rovere of Urbino, who recounted having seen something

Where People Feast or Eat Smart in Indonesia

Where People Feast: An Indigenous People's Cookbook

Author: Dolly Watts

The food traditions of North America's indigenous peoples are centuries old and they endure to this day. For almost two decades, Dolly Watts and her daughter Annie have served native cuisine that is both traditional and modern; for them, Where People Feast, one of very few indigenous cookbooks available, is the culmination of a lifetime dedicated to introducing people to extraordinary foods that are truly North American. Recipes include Smoked Salmon Mousse, Indian Tacos, Venison Meatballs, Alder-Grilled Breast of Pheasant, Blackberry-Glazed Beets, Wild Rice Pancakes, and Wild Blueberry Cobbler. Includes sixteen full-color photos and 120 recipes.

Dolly and Annie Watts run Vancouver's Liliget Feast House, the only Native American fine dining establishment of its kind, which received a four-star "recommended" rating from The New York Times.

Judith Sutton - Library Journal

Dolly Watts, who was born in Gitk'san Nation in western British Columbia, and her daughter, Annie, were the chefs/owners of Liliget Feast House, an acclaimed restaurant in Vancouver known for its indigenous specialties from the Pacific Northwest (liligetmeans "where people feast"). Although they recently closed the restaurant, they have collected more than 100 favorite recipes in their first cookbook. Some are traditional, such as Alder-Grilled Marinated Elk, but others, like Sweet Potato Tarts, are not, and the recipe headnotes are fairly brief; however, a separate chapter on smoking and preserving offers a closer historical look at indigenous culinary traditions. Fernando and Marlene Divina's Foods of the Americas: Native Recipes and Traditionsis more comprehensive and wide-ranging, but as one of the few titles on the topic, the Wattses' book is recommended for most subject collections.

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Eat Smart in Indonesia: How to Decipher the Menu, Know the Market Foods and Embark on a Tasting Adventure

Author: Joan Peterson

    The third in the EAT SMART series is a comprehensive, readable survey of the whole scope of Indonesian gastronomy. It confers savvy to partake as fully and gloriously of Indonesian food as desired and is essential reading for any “foodie” visiting this vast archipelago.
    The newest (and third) guide in this authoritative series Eat Smart in Indonesia: How to Decipher the Menu, Know the Market Foods & Embark on a Tasting Adventure is a paean to Indonesian cuisine. It contains a rich historical perspective on the origins and varieties of Indonesian food and extensive background on the delectable regional dishes. Indonesian phrases are included to make one’s culinary adventure even more successful. At the core of the book are two extensive glossaries in Indonesian with English translations. The “Menu Guide” demystifies food selection, allowing visitors to order with confidence in restaurants; the “Foods & Flavors Guide” is a comprehensive list of foods, spices, cooking utensils, cooking styles, etc., to make shopping in the colorful outdoor markets easy and fun.
    Authors Joan and David Peterson (inveterate travelers, cooks, seekers of unusual herbs and spices, and new ways to prepare familiar ingredients) have added a delicious bonus by providing a chapter of recipes for travelers to preview the tastes before departure, thus broadening the guide’s appeal to cookbook lovers as well.

Distributed for Ginkgo Press

Story of Cajuns and Capsicum or Food on the Frontier

Story of Cajuns and Capsicum: Hot Peppers

Author: Richard Schweid

Smitten by a love of hot peppers, journalist Richard Schweid traveled to the capital of the U.S. hot sauce industry, New Iberia, Louisiana. This is Cajun country, and Capsicum (as hot peppers are known botanically) thrive there like nowhere else. At once an entertaining exploration of the history and folklore that surround hot peppers and a fascinating look at the industry built around the fiery crop, Schweid's book also offers a sympathetic portrait of a culture and a people in the midst of economic and social change.. "This edition of Hot Peppers has been thoroughly updated and includes some twenty-five recipes for such deliciously spicy dishes as crawfish etouffee, jambalaya, and okra shrimp gumbo.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
1	To New Iberia	3
2	In the Teche Hotel	13
3	Acadiana	23
4	Hot Sauce	34
5	Weighing and Paying	49
6	Picking Peppers	60
7	Boom and Bust	72
8	Money and Medicine	82
9	Custom	92
10	Killing the Pig	101
11	The Salt Mines	109
12	Genetics	117
13	Working the Atchafalaya	127
14	Adieu	137
	Lagniappe	144
	Bibliography	163
	Index	167

Interesting book: Spice Lilies or Booze and the Private Eye

Food on the Frontier: Minnesota Cooking from 1850 to 1900 with Selected Recipes

Author: Marjorie Kreidberg

A unique cookbook that combines lively social history with mouthwatering recipes from "the good old days." Gathering her data from old cookbooks, household guides, letters, diaries, and newspapers, the author pieces together a fascinating account of how the pioneer homemaker played a vital role during Minnesota's frontier years. More than 275 recipes included.

Fire Chef or Meal Ideas for a Year with Gaytha

Fire Chef: Fast Grilling and Slow Cooking on the Barbecue

Author: David Veljacic

A fire chief proves he's also a hot chef—and now the world will find out what his crew already knows: he can cook up an award-winning, finger-licking, nice and spicy barbecue. Whether fast-grilled on a high flame or slow-cooked at a low heat, every recipe will whet your appetite for preparing a little outdoor cuisine. Choose from 150-plus contemporary barbecue dishes and condiments; more than two dozen seafood recipes; and grilled appetizers, vegetables, and desserts...all laid out with a professional's techniques, equipment, and meat seasonings. Some of his information is simple but illuminating, such as how to grill the perfect steak. But then, get ready to add rubs, marinades, and basting sauces as you get going on melt-in-your-mouth Baron of Beef, Southern Barbecue Pork Shoulder, and Barbecued Corn with Buttered Cheese. 6 X 9 1/2. 8 Color Pages

Interesting book: Fundamentals of Cheese Science or Cookies Year Round

Meal Ideas for a Year with Gaytha

Author: Gaytha Ziegelmeier

"What's for dinner?" Gaytha Ziegelmeier has created and designed a meal planning reference guide to solving that age-old question. You will no longer waste time worrying about what you will cook for your family, looking for recipes, finding the ingredients, and planning a shopping list.

* With 12 months of meal ideas, supported by a corresponding shopping list with matching recipes, a busy woman or mother can rest assured that she will organize her cooking time appropriately.
* Organized shopping lists for each week of meal ideas.
* All dinners are made with easy-to-find ingredients in your local supermarket.
* Menu guidelines to maximize efficiency in the kitchen.
* Helpful kitchen and home management ideas.
* Delightful desserts included as well.
* Customized memory verses geared towards women.
* Family value and tradition ideas to establish within your home.
* Topics of conversation at dinnertime for the whole family.

Ziegelmeier's goal is to teach women to value the precious time with their family by providing every woman with the time management techniques used to create pre-scheduled healthy meals.

Foodservice Planning or Siren Feasts

Foodservice Planning: Layout, Design, and Equipment

Author: Barbara A Almanza

This comprehensive book has become a standard for designing and equipping a foodservice facility. Focuses on the role of the computer in foodservice planning and discusses the efficiencies technology can create. Includes one of the most comprehensive sections on equipment. Emphasizes the need for industrial engineering technologies in planning a start-up facility and successfully choosing and arranging equipment for optimum results. For anyone involved in restaurant, food service and hospitality management and planning.

New interesting textbook: Computer Forensics or Rick Steves Austria and the Alps DVD 2000 2007

Siren Feasts: A History of Food and Gastronomy in Greece

Author: Andrew Dalby

Cheese, wine, honey and olive oilfour of Greece's best known contributions to culinary culture- -were already well known four thousand years ago. Remains of honeycombs and of cheeses have been found under the volcanic ash of the Santorini eruption of 1627 BC. Over the millennia, Greek food diversified and absorbed neighboring traditions, yet retained its own distinctive character.

In Siren Feasts, Andrew Dalby provides the first serious social history of Greek food. He begins with the tunny fishers of the neolithic age, and traces the story through the repertoire of classical Greece, the reputations of Lydia for luxury and of Sicily and South Italy for sybaritism, to the Imperial synthesis of varying traditions, with a look forward to the Byzantine cuisine and the development of the modern Greek menu. The apples of the Hesperides turn out to be lemons, and great favour attaches to Byzantine biscuits.

Fully documented and comprehensively illustrated, scholarly yetimmensely readable, Siren Feasts demonstrates the social construction placed upon different types of food at different periods (was fish a luxury item in classical Athens, though disdained by Homeric heroes?). It places diet in an economic and agricultural context; and it provides a history of mentalities in relation to a subject which no human being can ignore.

Table of Contents:

	List of figures
	Preface
	Acknowledgements
1	The Way These People Sacrifice	1
2	The Gardens of Alcinous	33
3	Divine Inventions	57
4	In the Feasts of the Lydians	93
5	Sicilian Tables	113
6	Lemons of the Hesperides	133
7	Strymonian Eels	152
8	The Imperial Synthesis	168
9	Biscuits from Byzantium	187
	Notes	212
	Bibliography	267
	Index of ancient and medieval sources	287
	Greek Index	297
	General Index	310

Taste Color or Grandes recetas con fideos

Taste + Color

Author: Maria Villegas

This exquisite example of "fusion cuisine" has a novel format: the dishes are arranged by colors. It is the work of the renowned Colombian chef María Villegas - winner, on two consecutive occasions, of one of the most prestigious cookbook prizes, the French Gourmand World Cookbook Award. It is the fruit of the year she spent in Japan, where she immersed herself in the flavors, aromas and textures of Oriental food. Each section of the book, devoted to a single color, includes a complete range of entrees, soups, main dishes and desserts, as well as a surprising series of mini-recipes and useful tips. Easy to prepare, these dishes combine sophisticated tastes with ethnic touches that evoke the best of classic international cuisine. These inspired combinations are seen in recipes for such mouth-watering dishes as "Cream of tomato soup with herb wontons", "Lemongrass risotto" or "Pasta with caramelized pumpkin and Gorgonzola".They are examples of the way the book highlights the best of the new culinary fusion known as "author´s cuisine". Accompanied by strikingly beautiful photos taken by the Colombian photographer Claudia Uribe, this publication offers 84 recipes for main dishes and 64 complementary ones that may be integrated or combined to your taste, thus widening the range of possibilities.

Book review: Metodi di studio della congiuntura con DVD

Grandes recetas con fideos (Cocina paso a paso)

Author: Edimat Libros Staff

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.
 

Si comer es un placer, cocinar puede ser un deleite con esta colección de recetas mundiales, está pensado para cocineros y para los novatos. Todas las recetas incluyen claras instrucciones que se completan con ilustraciones. Estos libros revelan la versatilidad de los ingredientes más cotidianos así como estos trucos que enriquecen la comida.

Gold Rush Grub or Cooking with Chardonnay

Gold Rush Grub: From Turpentine Stew to Hoochinoo

Author: Ann Chandonnet

"Ann Chandonnet brings us a history of gold rush food complete with hearty recipes, ranging from sourdough flapjacks to stewed porcupine. From miners' meals and home remedies to holiday fare, beverages, and housekeeping, Gold Rush Grub follows the trail of stampeders from Sutter's Mill in California to Alaska and the Klondike." "The first food history of its kind, Gold Rush Grub presents a panoramic view of an exciting period in American history. The grub that stampeders ate was affected by everything from arctic weather to Pacific Coast agriculture and Midwest meatpacking. For those who struck it rich, there were oysters, ice cream, and cognac. The less fortunate had to make do with beans and nettle soup." Readers with an adventurous palate can experiment with recipes for scalloped grayling and caribou scrapple. Those who prefer to leave the porcupines and bears in peace will enjoy the engaging prose and historic photographs.

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Cooking with Chardonnay: 75 Sensational Chardonnay Recipes

Author: Barbara Ray

75 sensational easy-to-prepare recipes, each flavored with Chardonnay -- soups, pastas & grains, meats, poultry, seafood & desserts. Glossary and pronunciation guide for wine cooking terms. Introduction to Chardonnay. How to cook with wine, decipher wine labels, and serve wine.

Bartending inside out or Cafe Pasquals Cookbook

Bartending Inside-Out: The Guide to Profession, Profit, and Fun

Author: Lori Marcus

This concise reference offers those who have chosen bartending as their primary profession—as well as those who bartend part-time—the tools to achieve success. In addition to teaching the basics—how to pour; the differences between the vast array of gins, scotches, tequilas, and vodkas; how beer, wine, and spirits are made; and which glassware to use for each beverage—the guide provides critical information on the nuts and bolts of customer service, checking IDs, dealing with intoxicated customers, tipping, and inspiring a bar crew to work as a team. Including a glossary of common bar terms and recipes for more than 125 cocktails this third edition features updates in bartending practices and expanded coverage of the myriad tequilas, beers, and ales in vogue.

Go to: Ultimate Cabbage Soup Diet or World of Street Food

Cafe Pasqual's Cookbook: Spirited Recipes from Santa Fe

Author: Katharine Kagel

Illustrated with stunning hand-tinted photographs by Barbara Simpson and lively Mexican popular art, Cafe Pasqual's Cookbook includes over 60 sumptous recipes for the most requested dishes from this landmark Santa Fe restaurant. With Cafe Pasqual's Cookbook, you'll make this Santa Fe tradition your own.

Icebox Desserts or Culinary Math

Icebox Desserts: 100 Cool Recipes for Icebox Cakes, Pies, Parfaits, Mousses, Puddings, and More

Author: Lauren Chattman

These incredibly easy-to-put together do-ahead desserts are made with wholesome ingredients and creative flavor combinations. Eye-popping full-color photos, clear easy-to-follow instructions.

Library Journal

In her latest book, Chattman goes beyond her Icebox Pies with 100 recipes for all sorts of no-bake frozen treats, from Lemon-Blueberry Trifle to Summer Pudding to Watermelon Ice Cream Bombe. Many of them are homey, but there are sophisticated desserts for entertaining as well. Most are easy, and all of them can-in fact, must-be made ahead. For most collections. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Table of Contents:

	Beyond Icebox Pies	8
Chapter 1	Simply Perfect Puddings	12
Chapter 2	Light and Airy Mousses	30
Chapter 3	Dessert in a Glass: Icebox Parfaits	50
Chapter 4	Icebox Spectacular: Trifles and Charlottes	64
Chapter 5	If I Had Known You Were Coming, I Would Have Refrigerated a Cake: Ridiculously Easy Icebox Cakes	82
Chapter 6	A Slice of Heaven: Icebox Pies and Tarts	98
Chapter 7	The Secret Ingredient: Icebox Desserts Made with Gelatin	114
Chapter 8	Fun with Ice Cream	132
Chapter 9	No-Bake Cookies and Confections	150
	Measurement Equivalents	166
	Index	167

New interesting textbook: Mejoramiento de Interpretación:Como Manejar el Espacio en blanco en el Organigrama (2do editor)

Culinary Math

Author: Julia Hill

Easy lessons and exercises for mastering culinary math skills

Revised and Expanded Edition!

Used by culinary professionals and students around the country, this book presents proven step-by-step methods for understanding foodservice math and using it appropriately in the kitchen. Authored by former instructors at The Culinary Institute of America, it is filled with examples and sample problems that connect math skills to real-world situations. this edition has been expanded with new material on topics such as inventory, yield percentage, and statistics. It also includes more practice problems in each chapter to help readers develop and practice their problem-solving skills.

Well organized and easy to use, Culinary Math reviews basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; presents the units of measure used in most professional kitchens in the United States; and offers simple methods for converting weight and volume measures.

It also shows how to:

• Calculate yield percent

• Determine costs, edible portion costs, recipe costs, and beverage costs

• Find out the amount of a product needed for a particular use

• Carry out conversions for purchasing and food costing

• Change recipe yields

• Understand and use kitchen ratios

• Convert U.S. measures to metric units and vice versa

Simpler the Better or My French Kitchen

Simpler the Better: Sensational One-Dish Meals

Author: Leslie Revsin

Fast, delightful meals for every day or special occasions

Busy schedules and family demands can make it challenging to create quick, easy–and, at the same time, delicious–meals at home. This one-pot meal cookbook, which features over 125 short, scrumptious recipes, is all about convenience, taste, and presentation with minimum effort and maximum flavor. Leslie Revsin includes elegant yet unfussy dishes–Spaghetti with Pesto and Grape Tomatoes; Spanish Chicken and Garbanzo Stew; Chicken, Basil, and Peanut Stir-Fry; Roast Jerk Pork with Yams and Watercress; Sliced Steak, Baby Spinach, and Roquefort Salad; and Quick Ham Cassoulet, to name a few–that can be made from readily available supermarket ingredients and are simple in terms of the number of ingredients (no more than ten), number of steps (no more than three), and preparation time. And like every other book in The Simpler The Better series, One-Pot Meals includes quick tips, variations, and clever ideas for serving and dressing up dishes.

Go to: California Dish or Fish on a First Name Basis

My French Kitchen: A Book of 180 Treasured Recipes

Author: Joanne Harris

It's not surprising that Joanne Harris's novels -- Chocolat, Blackberry Wine, and Five Quarters of the Orange -- celebrate the pleasure and magic of food, since her fondest childhood memories are of making pancakes with her great-grandmother Mémée, picking blackberries with her grandfather in Yorkshire, and exploring the early morning markets of Noirmoutier. Now, with coauthor Fran Warde, Harris shares her treasured collection of family recipes that have been passed down from generation to generation in this illustrated cookbook.

Harris encourages cooks to engage all their senses when cooking -- look at what you're cooking, smell the ingredients, mix them with your fingers, and enjoy their sounds and textures. Cooking, she reminds us, is about as close to magic as modern society allows: to take a handful of simple, fresh ingredients and turn them into something wonderful, otherworldly.

The 120 recipes include French classics such as Onion Soup and Onion Tart, Coq au Vin, and Crème Brûlée, as well as family favorites like Anouchka's Chile Garlic Bread, great-aunt Simone's Marinated Tuna, and great-aunt Marinette's Slow Fudge Sauce. And, of course, there's an entire chapter devoted to chocolate -- cakes, meringues, and spiced hot chocolate.

My French Kitchen, a remarkable collaboration between Joanne Harris, a writer who loves food, and Fran Warde, a former chef who loves to write about food, belongs in your kitchen.

Art of Persian Cooking or Party

Art of Persian Cooking

Author: Forough Hekmat

From creating a holiday menu to determining which utensils to use, The Art of Persian Cooking covers a wide array of practical information to help even the novice chef prepare elaborate Persian dishes. The exotic fare is further enhanced by rich descriptions of the cultural and culinary history of Persian cuisine, without which it cannot be fully appreciated.

Books about: Hearts and Home or Homemade Meals in Minutes

Party: A Guide To Adventurous Entertaining

Author: Sally Quinn

In The Party, Sally Quinn turns her trademark sharp wit on the Washington social scene and offers an irreverent look at what goes on at the parties you read about in the columns. From seating debacles to real-life scandals, she reveals her firsthand experiences as a member of the Washington power elite to illustrate how to entertain for any occasion. The Party provides a checklist of ideas to help make the important decisions - such as what time of day (or night) or month and how to choose the invitations, the place, the food, the booze, the setting, the table, the entertainment, and, above all, the guests. Within these guidelines, Quinn tells about her own adventures, stories, and techniques from all kinds of different parties - from the elaborate, formal dinner to the impromptu get-together. Her playful, poignant, and often hilarious accounts of party disasters from her own and others' parties will strike a chord with anyone who has ever entertained.

Kirkus Reviews

Trite, trivial, and tasteless describe this unrewarding effort of a society reporter, novelist, and "sometime Washington hostess."

That latter label horrified Quinn (Happy Endings, 1991) when she heard it aplied to her on Good Morning America. She was, after all, a "serious journalist," and "hostess" was synonymous with "frivolous" in her view. She was, alas, somehow persuaded otherwise. Quinn has organized a book about giving parties that begins with a credible mantra from her party-giving parents: "A guest can do no wrong." It's downhill from there. Names—from the Clintons to Princess Margaret, Henry Kissinger to Lauren Bacall, and Washington pundits too numerous to mention or remember—are scattered profusely, but many of the anecdotes are pointless and without context. One secret of legendary hostess Perle Mesta's success, she tells us, was to hang a lamb chop in her window to signal a party—but why? Perhaps lamb chops have a kinky sexual connotation not revealed here. More likely, it was WW II and meat was rationed, making lamb chops a surefire lure for partygoers. No hint of that historic motive from Quinn, whose party success meter seems to be how many guests "in black tie and . . . evening gowns were reclining all over the living room floor giggling." Moreover, in a chapter alluringly titled "The Booze," her vaunted motto regarding the immunity of guests stops short at large cocktail parties, where she refuses to serve red wine because "people spill," and coffee after dinner, because "it kills the party"—presumably sobering everyone up. Other chapters deal equally improbably with table settings, entertainment after the meal, and where to have the party.

Beginning and ending chapters are titled "The Point" and "The Point (Again)," but Quinn seems to have missed it both times. Go to Miss Manners for a useful guide to party giving or to almost any celebrity bio for better anecdotes about parties-I- have-known.

Celebrations or The Book of Tea

Celebrations: Recipes From the Folks Who Brought You Calling All Cooks

Author: Bellsouth Pioneers AL Chapter

Ever have trouble deciding what to cook for a certain holiday? Well, fear no more - find just the right recipe in Celebrations. Starting with January and working through each holiday of every month, you will find just the right solution. Whether it be Easter, Cinco de Mayo or perhaps Tailgating, we hope you enjoy celebrating with Celebrations.

See also: Green Black Red or Settings on the Dock of the Bay

The Book of Tea

Author: Kakuzo Okakura

Written in English by a Japanese scholar in 1906, The Book of Tea is an elegant attempt to explain the philosophy of the Japanese Tea Ceremony, with its Taoist and Zen Buddhist roots, to a Western audience in clear and simple terms.

Booknews

Kakuzo was a leading figure in Japanese art and culture at the end of the 19th century, and this book, first published in 1906, is a classic treatise explicating the philosophical nuances of tea and the tea ceremony in Japanese culture. This edition contains an introduction by Liza Dalby who was the first American trained as a Geisha in the 1970s, and elegant photos by Daniel Proctor. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

The Cup of Humanity     1
Tea ennobled into Teaism, a religion of aestheticism, the adoration of the beautiful among everyday facts
Teaism developed among both nobles and peasants
The mutual misunderstanding of the New World and the Old
The Worship of Tea in the West
Early records of Tea in European writing
The Taoists' version of the combat between Spirit and Matter
The modern struggle for wealth and power
The Schools of Tea     17
The three stages of the evolution of Tea
The Boiled Tea, the Whipped Tea, and the Steeped Tea, representative of the Tang, the Sung, and the Ming dynasties of China
Luwuh, the first apostle of Tea
The Tea-ideals of the three dynasties
To the latter-day Chinese Tea is a delicious beverage, but not an ideal
In Japan Tea is a religion of the art of life
Taoism and Zennism     33
The connection of Zennism with Tea
Taoism, and its successor Zennism, represent the individualistic trend of the Southern Chinese mind
Taoism accepts the mundane and tries to find beauty in our world of woe and worry
Zennism emphasizes the teachings of Taoism
Through consecrated meditation may be attained supreme self-realisation
Zennism, like Taoism, is the worship of Relativity
Ideal of Teaism a result of the Zen conception of greatness in the smallest incidents of life
Taoism furnished the basis for aesthetic ideals, Zennism made them practical
The Tea-Room     51
The tea-room does not pretend to be other than a mere cottage
The simplicity and purism of the tea-room
Symbolism in the construction of thetea-room
The system of its decoration
A sanctuary from the vexations of the outer world
Art Appreciation     73
Sympathetic communion of minds necessary for art appreciation
The secret understanding between the master and ourselves
The value of suggestion
Art is of value only to the extent that it speaks to us
No real feeling in much of the apparent enthusiasm to-day
Confusion of art with archaeology
We are destroying art in destroying the beautiful in life
Flowers     87
Flowers our constant friends
The Master of Flowers
The waste of Flowers among Western communities
The art of floriculture in the East
The Tea-Masters and the Cult of Flowers
The Art of Flower Arrangement
The adoration of the Flower for its own sake
The Flower-Masters
Two main branches of the schools of Flower Arrangement, the Formalistic and the Naturalesque
Tea-Masters     107
Real appreciation of art only possible to those who make of it a living influence
Contributions of the Tea-Masters to art
Their influence on the conduct of life
The Last Tea of Rikiu

Homemade in a Hurry or Postres

Homemade in a Hurry

Author: Andrew Schloss

In an age where time is as precious as good food, enter Homemade in a Hurry, the secret to having more of both. With over three hundred recipes, from appetizers, soups, and salads to main courses, side dishes, and desserts, cooking from scratch is made easier with shortcuts for those who demand more a LOT more in less time. By jump-starting the cooking with high-quality prepared ingredients such as pestos, curry cooking sauces, and pre-chopped vegetables all found at local supermarkets the complicated is streamlined and what used to take hours in the kitchen is now ready in minutes. Author and cooking teacher Andrew Schloss has a knack for creating easy-to-prepare recipes that turn the same-old-thing into something special. Puree a can of navy beans with a little garlic, olive oil, and lime juice and voil , White Guacamole. Dress up a cup of stuffing mix for a turkey meatloaf that's in the oven in under ten minutes. A little mango and onion give new life to store-bought salsa making a perfect accompaniment to grilled salmon. And even after a delicious bit of Lasagna Bolognese, no one will guess it takes only minutes to prepare. Homemade in a Hurry is the essential home chef's companion guide to using the supermarket as a personal pantry for creating impressive dishes, whether for everyday meals or for full-on dinner parties.

New interesting book: Real Life Entertaining or Complete Slow Cooker Cookbook

Postres: (The Williams Sonoma Cookbooks Series)

Author: Abigail Johnson Dodg

Delicious desserts, both simple and extraordinary, are the subject of this cookbook. They're all here, from classics to more innovative dishes, from elegant holiday treats to a quick midafternoon snack. With color photographs throughout, Postres is a sumptuous treat in itself.

Recipes from Mulates or North DakotaWhere Food Is Love

Recipes from Mulate's

Author: Monique Boutte Christina

Mulate's is known in Louisiana for its Cajun food and live music and dancing. These 130 mouthwatering recipes are "garonteed" to help you pass a good time in your own kitchen. 30 color photos.

Library Journal

Boutte's father, Kerry Boutte, opened the original Mulate's in Beaux Bridge, LA, in 1980; he moved the restaurant to Baton Rouge in 1988 and then opened another one in New Orleans in 1990. The Baton Rouge Mulate's closed in 2001, and the popular New Orleans spot, known for its music as well as its food, reopened on January 11 after damage from Hurricane Katrina. The recipes Boutte has gathered here-for simple home-style Cajun food (some rely on mixes and other convenience foods)-come from other family members as well as from the restaurant, and black-and-white snapshots of the author's extended family appear throughout the book. One caveat: a number of recipes call for Mulate's Cajun Seasoning, but no recipe, or buying info, is included in the text. For area libraries and other large collections on regional cuisine. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Look this: Heart Cath and Angioplasty or Methods of Group Exercise Instruction

North Dakota...Where Food Is Love

Author: Marcella Richman

When first published, this cookbook was originally intended to be sold as a North Dakota souvenir at the famous "pie place," tower View Cafe, on #I-94, at Tower City. With a few minor changes and adjustments, the book is now in its 14th reprint and is a popular item in bookstores and novelty shops across the state and beyond. Like the 'little engine that could,' the book keeps going. Good recipes using common ingredients have made it a favorite with both new and experienced cooks alike. And the "Food is Love" theme appears to have a life of its own...just ask anyone who enjoys cooking and sharing!

Table of Contents:

	Breakfast & Brunch	1
	Breads	19
	Cookies & Bars	31
	Meats, Main Dishes & Vegetables	59
	Pasta	81
	Pastries, Desserts & Candy	117
	Salads & Dressings	141
	Soups, Sandwiches & Dips	155
	Special Places: Tower View Cafe	161
	Tower City Cafe: Clara's (1950-1963)	181
	Index	195

Parkers Wine Buyers Guide 6th Edition or Healthy Exchanges Diabetic Desserts Cookbook

Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide 6th Edition: The Complete, Easy-to-Use Reference on Recent Vintages, Prices, and Ratings for More Than 8,000 Wines from All the Major Wine Regions

Author: Robert M Parker

Thoroughly revised and updated, this sixth 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 newly expanded sections on the popular wines of California and Italy. 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.

Library Journal

Parker, a well known wine expert and an excellent writer, reviews the wines of France, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Spain, California, and Oregon in depth. After a particularly well written beginning chapter that includes lots of helpful facts, he lapses into 600 pages of tasting notes and chatty commentary. For each region, he gives accurate, concise information and a summary of recent vintages. In addition to naming the best growers, he rates them and offers a buying strategy for investors. Parker also includes the retail price and his numerical rating for each wine. Tiny chapters on the ``best of the rest'' conclude the book. Offering much valuable information, the book has only minor flaws and is an excellent buy. Recommended for libraries with serious wine readers. Carolyn I. Alexander, USACDEC Technical Information Ctr., Fort Ord, Cal.

New interesting book: From Your Ice Cream Maker or Rick Steins Complete Seafood

Healthy Exchanges Diabetic Desserts Cookbook

Author: JoAnna M Lund

Good news for diabetics and those looking for preventive dietary measures: you can have your dessert and eat it too! Along with the latest information on diabetes and pre-diabetes, this cookbook has recipes for more than 200 scrumptious desserts, from Butterscotch Pecan Parfait to Rocky Road Pistachio Pie. Both easy-to-make and mouth-watering, here are puddings, pies, cakes, cheesecakes, cobblers, cookies, brownies, and breads ...with little to no sugar or fat.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Pre-Diabetes: What You Should Know	xi
	Putting Dessert on the Menu	1
	Dessert Every Night	16
	How to Read a Healthy Exchanges Recipe	21
	Pudding Treats and Salad Sweets	23
	Pies to Make You Believe in Magic	59
	Cheesecakes Even New Yorkers Will Love	94
	Dreamy, Creamy Cakes	117
	Super Shortcakes and Colossal Cobblers	145
	Cookies and Brownies Galore	182
	More, More, More of the Good Stuff	203
	Index	247

Somersize Chocolate or The Essential Cake Decorating Guide

Somersize Chocolate: 30 Delicious, Guilt-Free Desserts for the Carb-Conscious Chocolate-Lover

Author: Suzanne Somers

Everyone loves chocolate!

Chocolate is often a dieter's downfall, but if you Somersize, it doesn't have to be. In the tradition of her bestselling Somersize Desserts comes Suzanne Somers' newest contribution to the Somersize phenomenon—guilt-free recipes for mouthwatering goodies that satisfy chocolate cravings without causing a dieting disaster. Thanks to SomerSweet, Suzanne's revolutionary sweetener with less than one gram of carbohydrate and zero sugars per serving, you can enjoy scrumptious low-carb desserts such as:

• Molten Chocolate Cake with White Chocolate Lava

• White Chocolate Pots de Crème

• Chocolate Crepes with Mascarpone Filling

• Grasshopper Pie with Chocolate Curls

• Chocolate-Dipped Cocoa Meringue Cookies

• Chocolate Cheesecake Petit Fours

With these thirty recipes, you'll never have to trade dessert for a smaller waistline. By incorporating these tasty treats into your Somersize program, you can look and feel great without depriving yourself of any of your favorite foods.

Publishers Weekly

Somers's latest is little more than a pamphlet of 30-odd recipes, many of which readers can find in other books. But it's bound to please its target readers-women who love chocolate and want to lose weight-because it's everything they need it to be: it gives instructions for making easy, quick desserts that are low in carbohydrates (though not always low in calories). Somers designs her book around the chocolate version of her own sweetener, SomerSweet, which is available for sale on her Web site. The book is therefore practically useless if readers don't purchase SomerSweet Chocolate Baking Bars (although Somers does give measurements for making the desserts with sugar and sugared chocolate, those results won't please carb-counters). Quibbles aside, there's no arguing with the decadence of such treats as Molten Chocolate Cake with White Chocolate Lava, Mini Coconut Baked Alaska, or Caramel Chocolate Brownie Sundaes. Somers's relentlessly upbeat tone runs through the book ("I have always loved pound cake. Now that it's chocolate, there's even more reason to love it!"), and she gives the level of difficulty for each recipe (oddly, though, no recipe is tougher than "level two"). 30 color photos. (Nov.) Forecast: Somers seems to have the golden touch, whether she's talking about hormone replacement, mastering the art of obtaining slim thighs, or selling her wares on the Home Shopping Network. Ads in Family Circle and Ladies' Home Journal will bump holiday sales for this book. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Book review: Barbara Bush or Impounded

The Essential Cake Decorating Guide

Author: Thunder Bay Press

The Cake Decorating Guide offers hints and notes on unusual ingredients, while step-by-step photographs guide the reader through many tricky techniques. Included is a comprehensive pictorial guide to essential equipment with detailed instructions on the best ways to use and maintain them. Preparation pages with step-by-step photographs and easy-to-follow instructions explain different methods that make this book perfect for bakers of all ages and abilities. Beautifully photographed glossaries show unusual ingredients and food varieties with their common and not-so-common names. Snippets of related history add interest while colorful double-page features provide a wealth of information on buying, storing and preparing some of the more unusual ingredients. Over 500 full-color photographs are featured.

Chinese Cooking or Cooking in the New South

Chinese Cooking: Favorite Home Dishes

Author: Hsueh Hsia Chen

Endowed with delectable, time-saving home style recipes, this collection f Chinese cuisine is designed for contemporary, fast-paced times. Based on the author Hsueh-Hsia Chen's twenty-one year culinary and teaching experience, this book is distinguished by its penchant for a light yet flavorful taste and practical guide for preparation methods. This mosaic of familiar favorites appeals to preferences in poultry, seafood, meats, tofu, eggs, vegetables, rice and noodles, topped with desserts.

Book review: Bach Flower Remedies for Beginners or Complete Idiots Guide to Low Carb Meals

Cooking in the New South: A Modern Approach to Traditional Southern Fare

Author: Anne Byrn

Like most native Southerners, Ann Byrn grew up eating the food of our memory—fried chicken and milk gravy, turnip greens slowly simmered with ham hocks, and homemade biscuits.

With the aid of today's time-saving tools and appliances, the availability of once hard-to-find ingredients, and the broadening of our culinary horizons, Southerners have branched out into a new style of cookery. We're using the same basic ingredients, but we have altered preparation and presentation, with an emphasis on the light, the simple, and the natural.

Cooking in the New South is a new look at what is traditional in our kitchens. It brings together more than 200 tested recipes for delicacies like Pumpkin Raisin Bread, Chilled Canteloupe Soup, Sesame Shrimp and Asparagus, Orange Giner Pork Roast, and Chocolate Bourbon Pecan Pie. Each section begins with a vignette about a treasured food from our past—including Brunswick stew, grits, and chess pie—to remind us of the roots of our delightful cuisine.

Cooking in the New South captures the style and ease of the newest trends while retaining the distinctive flavor of the well-loved, old-fashioned Southern fare.

Victorian Times and Pleasures or Sensacionales sopas

Victorian Times and Pleasures

Author: Inc Sta Junior League Of Williams

Not only does this cookbook contain fabulous recipes, it offers a pictorial tour sprinkled with historical anecdotes of the regions' most beautiful Victorian Structures. With contributions from several local restaurants, these recipes provide a broad selection of easy to prepare and gourmet dishes. This charming cookbook is a great addition to any cookbook collection.

Benefits Toy Lending Library, Reach Out & Read, Therapeutic Riding Program.

Interesting book: Curye on Inglysch or Growing and Using Cilantro

Sensacionales sopas

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.
 

Si comer es un placer, cocinar puede ser un deleite con esta colección de recetas mundiales, está pensado para cocineros y para los novatos. Todas las recetas incluyen claras instrucciones que se completan con ilustraciones. Estos libros revelan la versatilidad de los ingredientes más cotidianos así como estos trucos que enriquecen la comida.

Tomatoes 160 Fabulous Recipes or Grill of Victory

Tomatoes--160 Fabulous Recipes: The Definitive Cook's Guide To Selecting, Using, Preparing Tomatoes And Creating Delectable Dishes With Them, Including A Detailed Guide To Over 40 Different Varieties Of Tomatoes And How To Select, Store And Even Grow

Author: Christine Franc

The ultimate guide to cooking, using and growing tomatoes - one of the world's most popular ingredients.

Read also Feast or Famine or Joslin Diabetes Great Chefs Cook Healthy Cookbook

Grill of Victory: Hot Competition on the Barbecue Circuit

Author: William Brohaugh

A guided tour through the wacky world of competitive barbecuing, The Grill of Victory introduces the fascinating people who cook for love, trophies, and all-important contest points. The book leads readers through Galax, Virginia's "Smoke on the Mountain" competition, explaining how teams are organized; types of grills used, from rusty barrels to elaborate luxury models; the rules of competition (and how they're sometimes broken); what judges are looking for; and how each competition fits into the "Memphis in May" barbecue competition circuit. Tips and tricks — including ways to spice up store-bought barbecue sauce — and winners' secrets to great grilling techniques, rubs, and sauces turn backyard chefs into BBQ champs.

The Ethnic Vegetarian or Hollywood Cookbook

The Ethnic Vegetarian: Traditional and Modern Recipes from Africa, America, and the Caribbean

Author: Angela Shelf Medearis

150 deliciously diverse, culturally based recipes and the history and lore behind them.

"When enjoying a steamy serving of greens laces with peppers or a bowl of spicy gumbo, many people are unaware of the African origins of their meal...The Ethnic Vegetarian was created to preserve and showcase the vegetarian culture of my ancestors." So writes Angela Shelf Medearis in her introduction to this fabulous new cookbook.

The Ethnic Vegetarian opens with three chapters explaining how to adopt an ethnic vegetarian lifestyle, ideas for creating an ethnic vegetarian-friendly kitchen, and basic techniques for cooking in this manner. Next come the wonderfully inventive recipes - from "Moroccan Zucchinin Pancakes" and "Senegalese Tofu" to an eggplant-based "Congo Moambe" - all organized by ethnic cuisine: African, Afro-Caribbean, Native American, Creole, Slavery and Southern, and Modern

More than just recipes, the book also weaves traditions and lore surrounding African-American cookery with the author's own personal memories, experiences, and family history. Her warm and inviting style beckons readers of any ethnic background to explore the homespun authenticity of her recipes and tales to conclude, with her, that "African-inspired vegetarian dishes are as much a part of the American culinary table as apple pie."

Book about: Craquement :Pourquoi Me sens-je si Serré ?(Et d'Autres Mystères Économiques Non résolus)

Hollywood Cookbook: Cooking For Causes

Author: Jackie Zabel

Hollywood's "A-list" provide themed party menus served at their own homes to spotlight their favorite charities. Contributions and recipes by Michael J. Fox, Ron Howard, Jane Kaczmarek, Bradley Whitford, James Denton and many others, with the charities sharing in the proceeds.

Blue Heron Ranch Cookbook or Neoclassical View of Plated Desserts

Blue Heron Ranch Cookbook: Recipes and Stories from a Zen Retreat Center

Author: Nadia Natali

The Blue Heron Ranch Cookbook, based on Cooking Off the Grid, also by Nadia Natali, blends 126 tasty, healthful recipes with lively tales of the Natali family’s adventures living close to the land—in the wilds of California’s Los Padres National Forest. Nadia Natali's varied dishes, suitable for any group or family, are presented in a simple style that makes them both visually appealing and effortless, as a sequence of ingredients that correspond to numbered directions. Each chapter opens with a vivid account of the family’s trials and triumphs at Blue Heron Ranch, followed by a particular category of recipes, arranged in seven groupings. Whimsical illustrations adorn the recipes and embellish the sometimes poignant, often hilarious stories about raising a family in the wilderness, running a meditation center, and facing nature’s seemingly endless challenges—with the Blue Heron Ranch kitchen being the center around which these events unfold. Recipes include Blue Heron Ranch Potato Leek Soup, Saturday Market Quiche, Miso Pine Salmon, Ojai Bouillabaisse, Early Morning Rice Cream, Aunt Ev’s Cardamom Bundt Cake, and Honey Almond Chai. The Blue Heron Ranch Cookbook offers culinary and spiritual sustenance to anyone who wants to experience, or revisit, the pleasures of comforting, communal meals at Zen and other retreat centers.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments 8
Preface 9
Introduction 11
Menus for Family Gatherings/Retreats 13
Food and Supply List 16

Our Arrival 19
Vegetarian Dinners 23
My Favorite Tomato Sauce 24
Grandma Elizabeth’s Polenta 25
Lasagna from Enrico’s Family 26
Lasagna Layering 27
Matilija Manicotti 28
Pizza with Goat Cheese 29
Seasoned Rice 30
Blue Heron Beans 31
Adzuki Beans and Rice 32
Black Bean Enchiladas 33
Ojai Chili 34
Sauteed Vegetables with Rice 35
Special Vegetables with Almonds 36
Vincenzo’s Risotto 37
Carrots and Tofu 39
Lentils and Mint 40
Curried Lentils 41
California Split Pea Dahl 42
Pucci’s Potato and Egg Curry 43
Sunday Stuffed Potatoes 44
Spinach and Anaheim Chilies 46
Baked Eggplant 47
Saturday Market Quiche 48
Garden Vegetable Quiche 49

Fish and Chicken Dinners 51
Kobun’s Rice Balls 53
Miso Pine Salmon 54
Escolar 55
Millennium Paella 56
Chicken with Chard and Noodles 58
Francis’s Chicken and Curry 59
Westport Pineapple Chicken 60
Apple-Baked Chicken 61
November Stuffing 63

The Floods 65
Soups and Stews 69
—Vegetarian
Simply Miso Soup 70
Rainy Day Tofu Soup 71
Blue Heron Ranch Potato Leek Soup 72
Cross-Country Lentil Soup 73
Garbanzo Soup with Tomato 74
Winter Minestrone 75
—Chicken and Fish
Southwest Chicken Stew 76
San Francisco Chicken Stew 77
Blue Heron Chicken Stew 78
Rainy Day Chicken Noodle Soup 79
Ojai Bouillabaisse 81
—Chilled
Summer Borsch 82
Avocado and Cucumber Soup 83
Marica’sGazpacho 84
Poor Man’s Gazpacho 84
Yogurt Soup 86

Our Teepee 89
Salads and Dressings 93
Frankie ’s Salad Dressing 94
Blue Heron Salad Dressing 95
Baby Green Salad 96
Sackets Harbor Summer Salad 97
Santa Barbara Salad Variation 97
Cool Cucumber Salad 98
Potato and Bell Pepper Salad 99
Mixed Bean Salad 100
Rice Salad 101
My Roasted Red Bell Peppers 102
Goat Cheese Salad 103
Cloved Fruit Compote 104
Two Fruit Salads 105
Raita Salad 106

Fire 109
Breads and Muffins 113
Whole Wheat Bread 114
Rosemary Corn Bread 117
Garlic Bread 118
Tortillas from South America 119
Naan from India 119
Banana Bread 120
Weiner Sisters’ Popovers 122
Golden Scones 123
Marica’s Biscuits 124
Quick Ginger Molasses Muffins 125

Breakfast 127
Sunday Pancakes 128
Hearty Breakfast Crepes 129
Delectable French Toast 130
Birthday Waffles 131
Sesshin Oatmeal 132
Early Morning Rice Cream 133
Home-Baked Granola 134

Home Schooling 137
Puddings and Custards 141
Black Bear Apricot Pudding 142
Andrei’s Favorite Bread Pudding 144
Brown Rice Custard 145
Coconut Rice Pudding 146
Mexican Rice Pudding 146
Mocha Mousse 147
Zabaglione Cassis 148

Pies 151
Two Delicious Pie Crusts 152
Blue Heron Apple Pie 153
Blueberry Peach Pie 154
Persian Mulberry Peach Pie 155
Genevieve ’s Lemon Meringue Pie 157
Mitzi’s Chocolate Pecan Pie 158
Autumn Pumpkin Pie 159
Apple Crunch 160

Living Off the Grid 163
Cookies 167
Cardamom Cookies 168
Blue Heron Chocolate Chip Cookies 169
Genevieve ’s Butter Walnut Cookies 170

Cakes 173
Aunt Ev’s Cardamom Bundt Cake 174
Lemon Cranberry Bundt Cake 175
Chocolate Marble Bundt Cake 176
Chocolate Apple Sauce Cake 177
Birthday Coconut Cake 179
Persian Mulberry Cake with Goat Cheese 180
June Apricot Cake 181
Pear Upside-Down Cake 182
Meyer Lemon Half-Pound Cake 183
Carob Coconut Brownies 184
Tiramochamisu or Tiramintmisu Cake 185
Vincenzo and Kana’s Wedding Cake 186
Wedding Cake Filling and Icing 187

Our Zen Center 189
Sauces 193
Ginger Honey Sauce 194
Matilija Tamari Sauce 194
Ojai Lemon Sauce 195
Green Enchilada Sauce 196
Pesto Lemon Sauce 197
Mushroom Garlic Sauce 198
Marinated Ginger 199
Desert Hummus Sauce 200
Festive Cranberry Sauce 202
Frankie ’s Hot Fudge on Ice Cream 203

Drinks 205
Robin’s Chai 206
Teepee Hot Cider 207
4th of July Lemonade 208
Christine ’s Punch 209
Honey Almond Chai 210

In Remembrance of Andrei 213

Index 217

New interesting textbook: Christmas Memories Cookbook or Joy of Cranberries

Neoclassical View of Plated Desserts: Grand Finales

Author: Timothy Moriarty

"A Neoclassic View of Plated Desserts demonstrates both the subtle and theatrical pizzazz of a talented collective of visionaries." -Andrew MacLauchlan Executive Pastry Chef, Coyote Cafe "A brilliant addition to Tish Boyle's and Timothy Moriarty's series of cookbooks. This dynamic duo has thoroughly translated the recipes of some of our country's leading pastry chefs with immense ease and perfection. It is with enormous admiration that I recommend this cookbook to anyone searching for a greater knowledge of desserts." -François Payard Owner, Payard Patisserie & Bistro Author, Simply Sensational Desserts "It is the purpose of a neoclassic dessert to isolate the integral elements of a time-honored classic and transform its components to produce a dessert with the grandeur demanded by today's consumer. The pastry chefs who contributed to this book have provided recipes that do just that-and they do it magnificently!" -Bo Friberg Chef/Instructor, The Culinary Institute of America at Greystone

Publishers Weekly

In their third in a series (after Chocolate Passion) of books on plated desserts, Boyle and Moriarty (of Chocolatier magazine) pool the talents of various pastry chefs to assemble a collection of beautiful desserts that will challenge even the most able home cook. In an interesting introduction, well-known pastry experts such as Nick Malgieri (Chocolate) and Chris Broberg (pastry chef at Lespinasse) voice their opinions on dessert-related topics and relate their own sometimes difficult learning experiences. The desserts themselves are quite complex, with each recipe consisting of several parts (e.g., to make James Foran's Caramelized Apple Phyllo Crisp, you have to prepare the Crisp, Caramelized Apples, Phyllo Shells, Red Wine-Dried Cherry Sauce, Indian Cinnamon Ice Cream and an Apple Garnish, then assemble the whole). In compensation, these are impressive creations. Pat Coston's Milk Chocolate and Banana Mousse Box with Amaretto Ice Cream and Caramelized Bananas is like a present begging to be opened; John Degnan's Trio of Asian Br l es is daintily presented in individual sake cups. Special equipment is helpfully listed at the start of each recipe. (Mar.) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.|

Library Journal

This is the third book in the "Grand Finales" series by Boyle and Moriarty, both editors at Chocolatier magazine. The series in general focuses on artistic presentations of individual pastries as opposed to the traditional tortes, pies, and cakes. This volume presents "neoclassic" desserts, re-creations of such standards as tarte tatin, apple pie, and chocolate mousse. Created by 27 of the best pastry chefs working today, these desserts are truly inspired. But while the book is valuable for pastry chefs hoping to stay abreast of current trends in patisserie, it has little beyond beautiful pictures to recommend it to the average reader. The recipes are difficult and presented in the formula format familiar only to food service professionals. Even the lengthy introduction, interesting as it is, tends to ramble. There's a final chapter on working with sugar, a glossary of pastry terms, and a source list for ingredients. Recommended for academic libraries supporting culinary programs.--Tom Cooper, St. Louis P.L. Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.