This book covers everything from when to send out the invitations to making a list of guests, planning a menu, and creating a theme. There are hundreds of ideas in this book for every kind of party you can imagine. [More..] | |
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Slow Food is here again! From the eco-gastronomes who brought you the best cuisine in New York comes The Slow Food Guide to Chicago. Researched and written by a talented team of Chicago locals and Slow Food members, The Slow Food Guide to Chicago is the most readable and discriminating guide to the city’s diverse food scene. From the best cafés and take-out shops to farmers’ markets and high-end restaurants, this book has something for every budget and every taste. The second in a series of fresh, alternative food guides to North American cities, The Slow Food Guide to Chicago contains more than 500 entries chosen with the principles of Slow Food firmly in mind: conviviality, tradition, sustainability, and an emphasis on artisanal a [More..] | |
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In 1971, fed up with the politics and culture of America, Terry Tarnoff packed a bag, a guitar and sixteen harmonicas and headed out on an eight year journey that would take him into the jungles of Africa, the mountains of India and beyond. Smoking a chillum around a funeral pyre with lepers, battling fist size cockroaches in Mombasa Africa or driving through the poppy fields of Thailand with a kamikaze cab driver, each adventure leads Terry further into worlds unlike those he has ever known. Through an eclectic coterie of like minded expatriates-from a heroin junkie in Bangkok to the girl of his dreams in Stockholm-Terry begins to discover the true purpose of his travels. An energetic exploration of one drop-out's search to find answers [More..] | |
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GETTING ALL YOUR ESSENTIAL VITAMINS AND MINERALS HAS NEVER BEEN EASIER! Will vitamins and minerals keep you healthy? How much do you need? Which foods are the best sources? Is it better to eat raw or cooked foods? Now, for the first time, nationally known nutritionists Annette Natow and Jo-Ann Heslin offer a guide to the vitamin and mineral content of thousands of brand name and generic foods. Get the latest information on the eleven "marker" vitamins and minerals -- the ones that ensure you'll meet all your vitamin and mineral needs. Features include: Food values for vitamin A, thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, folic acid, vitamin C, calcium, potassium, sodium, iron, and zinc Portion size plus calorie counts for every food listed Warnings abo [More..] | |
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Becky Mercuri's Food Festival, U.S.A. captures the diversity of America's numerous food festivals, presenting 250 recipes from all 50 states, region by region. From the Bluefish Festival in Clinton, Connecticut, to the Walla Walla Sweet Onion Blues Fest in Washington, the book offers state food-production profiles, festival information, and, of course, recipes from the events. These range widely, from Dead Heat Kentucky Burgoo and Green Chile Stew to Peanut Butter Chiffon Pie and Black Forest Cheesecake, and also include tongue-in-cheek "treats" like Fried Rattlesnake from the World's Largest Rattlesnake Round-Up in Sweetwater, Texas, and Herb-Crusted Rack of Spam with Spamcetta Rolls, Courtesy of Austin, Texas's Spamerama event. Though [More..] | |
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MORE THAN 3.5 MILLION NATOW & HESLIN COUNTER BOOKS IN PRINT WHAT YOU EAT IS THE KEY TO MANAGING -- AS WELL AS PREVENTING -- DIABETES The two nutrition experts who created the national bestsellers The Fat Counter and The Cholesterol Counter offer the first complete food counter for people with type 2 diabetes. They'll help you make the best dietary changes based on your needs with this easy-to-use, thoroughly researched, and up-to-date food counter, featuring: • 10,000 food listings, including calorie, carbohydrate, sugar, and fat counts • Popular take-out and brand-name food counts • Information on how to find out your risk for type 2 diabetes • Helpful charts, worksheets, and quizzes • The latest news about sugar and diab [More..] | |
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Based on the wise-cracking TBS Superstation cable feature Dinner & a Movie, celebrity chef Claud Mann's Dinner & a Movie Cookbook (Lionheart Books, Ltd. / Andrews McMeel Publishing, October 2003) transports Hollywood.s celluloid archives into living rooms and kitchens across the country in the form of delectable, blockbuster-infused culinary creations like What.s Under Your Skirt Steak (Tootsie) or Deja vu Twice-Backed Potatoes a la Groundhog Day. Providing humorous commentary on American movie classics, Mann along with show co-hosts Paul Gilmartin and Lisa Kushell serve up tantalizing dishes with a piece of Americana-movie making on the side. Inside Claud Mann.s Dinner & a Movie Cookbook, you.ll find film-inspired recipes peppered with foo [More..] | |
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Discover the most delicious ways to eat healthier from around the world!We all know that eating healthier is easier said than done. New diets pop up every few months; the only problem is that the food choices are often too bland and there's usually little variety in the dishes you can eat. 30 Secrets of the World's Healthiest Cuisines is about to change all that. In a delicious departure from the nutrition-through-sacrifice school of cooking, this book celebrates the international and the flavorful with a healthy twist. You'll find out how to use the most healthful nutritional principles and ingredients from the world's major cuisines to create one fabulous, healthy global eating program.30 Secrets of the World's Healthiest Cuisines blends [More..] | |
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This guide is packed with stunning photographs, easy-to-use maps, and all the information you really need to know to get the most from your visit.Visit historic landmarks, museums or must-see attractions such as the Vasa warship, Millesgarden or Sergel Square. Enjoy concerts by the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, plays at Royal Dramatic Theatre or opera and ballet at Royal Opera. You'll find all this plus shopping, hotel and restaurant recommendations. [More..] | |
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If you read wine reviews from time to time, you re already either amused or confused by the soaring language wine writers often use to describe what they re smelling and tasting. But do you always know what they mean? Have you ever sipped a complex white and sensed what s so colorfully described as a peacock s tail? Have you ever savored a full-bodied red only to detect the ripe acrid smell of a horse stall? If not, you re in for a treat, because these and thousands more are all here to amuse, dismay, enlighten, inspire, puzzle and utterly shock you. In that spirit, welcome to the rich linguistic universe of wWineSpeak where words and wine intersect (some say, collide) in an uncontrolled riot of language guaranteed to keep you entertained f [More..] | |
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