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  The Essential Plant-Based Pantry...

  Maggie Green

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  Plant-based cooking is easier with the right ingredients on hand—and “a treasure-trove of recipes with intriguing flavor combinations” (Abigail Johnson Dodge, James Beard Award-nominated author of The Everyday Baker.  The Essential Plant-Based Pantry is the indispensable resource for cooks who want everyday, healthy recipes right at their fingertips, without the fuss of an extended shopping trip. Food and nutrition expert Maggie Green reveals the secret to her miraculous meal preparation routine: a well-stocked pantry.   By bringing together a few fresh ingredients like produce and nut milk with Green’s comprehensive list of easy-to-find, pantry-safe foods, you can prepare delicious recipes on time and within budget—without running to the store halfway through. Packed with amazing recipes including:   fettuccini cashew alfredoMoroccan tempehsesame Brussels sproutsred bean and mushroom jambalayacurry coconut chickpeastofu shakshukaCinci lentil chili

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  Refined Tastes - Sugar...

  Wendy A. Woloson

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  A look at sugar in 19th-century American culture and how it rose in popularity to gain its place in the nation’s diet today. 
   
  American consumers today regard sugar as a mundane and sometimes even troublesome substance linked to hyperactivity in children and other health concerns. Yet two hundred years ago American consumers treasured sugar as a rare commodity and consumed it only in small amounts. In Refined Tastes: Sugar, Confectionery, and Consumers in Nineteenth-Century America, Wendy A. Woloson demonstrates how the cultural role of sugar changed from being a precious luxury good to a ubiquitous necessity. Sugar became a social marker that established and reinforced class and gender differences. 
   
  During the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Woloson explains, the social elite saw expensive sugar and sweet confections as symbols of their wealth. As refined sugar became more affordable and accessible, new confections—children’s candy, ice cream, and wedding cakes—made their way into American culture, acquiring a broad array of social meanings. Originally signifying male economic prowess, sugar eventually became associated with femininity and women’s consumerism. Woloson’s work offers a vivid account of this social transformation—along with the emergence of consumer culture in America. 
   
  “Elegantly structured and beautifully written . . . As simply an explanation of how Americans became such avid consumers of sugar, this book is superb and can be recommended highly.” —Ken Albala, Winterthur Portfolio 
   
  “An enlightening tale about the social identity of sweets, how they contain not just chewy centers but rich meanings about gender, about the natural world, and about consumerism.” —Cindy Ott, Enterprise and Society

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  Better than Homemade - Amazing...

  Carolyn Wyman

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  Americans pride themselves in their knack for innovation, and nowhere has America’s can-do attitude been more apparent than at the supermarket. Need a cheese that is virtually indestructible? Want to find a way to stretch a pound of hamburger into a hearty main course for a family of five? Hard pressed for time to throw together a home-cooked meal? In the early decades of the twentieth century, and from the world wars to the cold wars, food producers and everyday dreamers met these challenges with the same ingenuity and resourcefulness that launched the country to the moon and back, with groundbreaking packaging, new technologies, and improvements on Mother Nature.  
  Better Than Homemade is food biographer Carolyn Wyman’s freewheeling and entertaining cultural history of the innovative packaged foods that changed the way we eat. With dozens of archival ads and original product shots of Hamburger Helper, Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, Minute Rice, Coffee-mate, Green Giant Canned Peas, Lipton Cup-a-Soup, Pillsbury Crescent Rolls—and many more revolutionary products—Better Than Homemade highlights the fascinating stories behind the food inventions; the histories behind the brands and icons that have become synonymous with them; the jingles that have made them such a large part of our popular culture; and the recipes that have tutored generations of homemakers and comfort food master chefs.

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  Sushi Made Simple

  Atsuko Ikeda

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  A masterclass in sushi making from London-based teacher Atsuko, who combines authentic knowledge and skills with contemporary, innovative ideas to give 60 recipes for rolls, wraps, moulded and deconstructed sushi.

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  The Royal Welsh Cookbook

  Gill Davies

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  A collection of recipes from members of the Welsh regiments together with those of families and friends.
  
  A really eclectic mix representing a long and proud history of serving and living around the world. The book has over 80 recipes: soups, starters, main meals, smaller meals, puddings, sauces, baking and drinks. Recipes have been submitted by people from across the Regimental family.
  
  A bold and imaginative initiative that will help tell the stories of the whole Regiment to the hundreds of thousands of visitors to The Royal Welsh Regimental Museum in mid-Wales. The Royal Welsh Cookbook is published by Graffeg 2020 on behalf of The Friends of The Royal Welsh Regimental Museum.
  
  Recipes include:
  • Leek and Sweet Potato Soup
  • Hungarian Goulash
  • Homestyle Chicken Curry
  • Danish Lemon Mousse
  • Rhubarb Miracle Pudding

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  Choosing Sides - From Holidays...

  Tara Mataraza Desmond

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  A collection of 130 side dish recipes to complement to any entrée, whether it’s for a holiday meal, a potluck, or just another weeknight. 
   
  Choosing Sides, a cookbook devoted entirely to side dishes, honors the standards and offers fresh ideas for new favorites. It capitalizes on our obsession with accessorizing meals using quality ingredients in inspired, varied, and memorable recipes. Every recipe offers multiple entrée suggestions and helps cooks design an entire meal. Instead of tagging bland afterthoughts on your plate at the last minute, you can create exciting combinations. 
   
  The chapters offer a range of recipes for broad appeal, crossing cuisines, techniques, and complexity. You’ll find recipes for breakfast, intimate gatherings, picnics, holidays, and more. Coconut Cilantro Toasted Israeli Couscous, Pumpkin Cozy Rolls, Honey Balsamic Peaches and Burrata, and Sesame Braised Bok Choy are just a few. A helpful chart, organized by main entrée, gives you a quick look at what to serve with chicken, beef, fish, and the like. Choosing Sides is a singular source for answering the mealtime question, “What should I serve with this?” 
   
  Praise for Choosing Sides 
   
  “An inspired and creative cookbook dedicated entirely to side dishes. Accessorizing the main element of the meal, whether for a weeknight dinner, family get-together, or holiday feast, needs to be artful, nourishing, and practical. Choosing Sides brings excitement to every meal with these innovative and contemporary side dishes.” —Diane Morgan, author of Roots: The Definitive Compendium 
   
  “This is an extraordinary collection, able to turn anyone who can roast a chicken or grill a lamb chop into a top chef. Nobody needs another recipe for meatloaf, but accompany your old standby with the likes of Smoked Gouda Grits and Red Grape and Bacon Salad (easy to throw together while the meatloaf is in the oven), and I guarantee your best friend’s other best friends will cringe with jealousy.” —Andrew Schloss, author of Art of the Slow Cooker and Cooking Slow: Recipes for Slowing Down and Cooking More 
   
  “Oh, to be an entrée surrounded by [Desmond’s] flavorful, colorful, vibrant sides! In Choosing Sides, Tara offers a modern spin on the humble, oft-neglected accompaniment. Her Chorizo Chard; Blood Orange Wild Rice; and Persimmon, Pomegranate, and Pistachio Salad are but three examples for how to turn supporting players into shining culinary stars. Tara can fill my plate any day.” —Cheryl Sternman Rule, author of Ripe: A Fresh, Colorful Approach to Fruits and Vegetables

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