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  All the Wild Hungers - A Season...

  Karen Babine

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  A “lovely” memoir of caring for a mother with cancer, reflecting on our appetites for food and for life (Minneapolis Star Tribune). When her mother is diagnosed with a rare cancer, Karen Babine—cook, collector of vintage cast iron, and fiercely devoted daughter, sister, and aunt—can’t help but wonder: feed a fever, starve a cold, but what do we do for cancer? And so she commits to preparing her mother anything she will eat, a vegetarian diving into the unfamiliar world of bone broth and pot roast.   In this series of mini-essays, Babine ponders the intimate connections between food, family, and illness. As she notes that her sister’s unborn baby is the size of lemon while her mother’s tumor is the size of a cabbage, she reflects on what draws us toward food metaphors to describe disease. What is the power of language, of naming, in a medical culture where patients are too often made invisible? How do we seek meaning where none is to be found—and can we create it from scratch? And how, Babine asks as she bakes cookies with her small niece and nephew, does a family create its own food culture across generations?   Generous and bittersweet, All the Wild Hungers is an affecting chronicle of one family’s experience of illness and of a writer's culinary attempt to make sense of the inexplicable.   “[Babine] continues to navigate her way through extraordinary challenges with ordinary comforts, finding poetry in the everyday. Reading this quiet book should provide the sort of balm for those in similar circumstances that writing it must have for the author.”―Kirkus Reviews   “Profound…Anyone who has experienced a family member’s struggle with cancer will be stabbed by recognition throughout this book…In the end, the overriding hunger referred to in this lovely book’s title is the hunger for life.”―Minneapolis Star Tribune

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  Tropical Cocktails Deck - 50...

  Mittie Hellmich

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  Gather around the tiki bar and enjoy libations to lounge by—from the Mai Tai to the Martinique Muse, the Bali Highball to the Bonsai Margarita.   Stir up a breezy tropical vacation any time of year with this delicious array of sun-drenched cocktails. From margaritas and tropitinis to creamy coladas and luscious fruity coolers, each card offers an enticing new taste of the island.   Recipes include:  Pina Colada Neuva  Zombie  Brazilian Caipirinha  Tidal Wave  Shark Bite  Papayarita  Madagascar Mood Shifter  Velvet Voodoo  Riki Tiki Toddy  Copabanana Daiquiri  And more!

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  Waiter Rant - Thanks for the...

  Steve Dublanica

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  According to The Waiter, eighty percent of customers are nice people just looking for something to eat. The remaining twenty percent, however, are socially maladjusted psychopaths. Waiter Rant offers the server's unique point of view, replete with tales of customer stupidity, arrogant misbehavior, and unseen bits of human grace transpiring in the most unlikely places. Through outrageous stories, The Waiter reveals the secrets to getting good service, proper tipping etiquette, and how to keep him from spitting in your food. The Waiter also shares his ongoing struggle, at age thirty-eight, to figure out if he can finally leave the first job at which he's truly thrived.

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  The Classic Allotment

  Gordon Thorburn, Sarah Cuttle,...

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  Allotments are enjoying a renewed popularity because people want to know exactly what theyre eating, save money, eat seasonally and save on carbon footprints. As well as men, more and more women are taking up the challenge to create their own sustainable food source with allotments, as well as experiencing the enjoyment of seeing things grow, not just fruit and vegetables, but also flowers. As well as potatoes and sunflowers, exotic plants such as ginger and pak choi are being grown and people are running businesses from their allotment produce, tapping into the locally-sourced, seasonal food market. Gordon Thorburn shows how to make the best from your allotment or even a veg patch with tips on natural bug deterrents, companion planting (save your cabbages by planting marigolds amongst them) and a handy seasonal planner, as well as must-try recipes.

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  Rose's Heavenly Cakes

  Rose Levy Beranbaum

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  Author of The Cake Bible:Glorious recipes that “range from towering creations for weddings and other special events to baby cakes for bite-size indulgence” (Publishers Weekly).  Winner of the Cookbook of the Year Award, International Association of Culinary Professionals   The author of The Cake Bible is a baking legend, “revered by serious cooks and part-timers” alike (USA Today). Now her legions of fans can enjoy Rose’s Heavenly Cakes, a must-have guide to perfect cake-baking.   With this book, home bakers can create delicious, decadent, and spectacularly beautiful cakes of all kinds with confidence and ease. With her precise, foolproof recipes, Rose shows you how to create everything from Heavenly Coconut Seduction Cake, Golden Lemon Almond Cake, and Devil's Food Cake with Midnight Ganache to Orange-Glow Chiffon Layer Cake, Mud Turtle Cupcakes, and Deep Chocolate Passion Wedding Cake. Rose's Heavenly Cakes features: Rose’s trademark easy-to-follow, expertly tested (and retested) recipes for perfectly delicious results every timeover 100 simply wonderful recipes for cakes for every occasion—from exceptionally delicious butter and oil cakes, sponge cakes, and mostly flourless cakes and cheesecakes, to charming baby cakes and elegant wedding cakesspecial tips and tricks for creating amazing special effects and beautiful cake décortempting full-color photos

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  Stotty 'n' Spice Cake - Stories...

  Bill Griffiths

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  Stotty 'n' Spice Cakebrings together regional recipes, dialect, social history and kitchen technology to give us an insight into how kitchen skills, tools and diets have developed.  Bill Griffiths takes us on a journey through cooking history - from the griddle on an open fire and the 'beehive' oven to the widely used, much loved and polished kitchen range (th' yuven).
  This book describes the changing tastes – as well as changes in supplies of meat, fish and grain over the years to include traditions such as the popularity of oatcakes, broth and bread. Recipes from across the region, such as Leak Pudding, Carlins, Singin'-hinny, Taffle Apple, Barley Broth and wartime recipes 'Warton Pie' (Wartime Pie) of course, all served with much home grown North East humour.
  A joyous celebration of the history of the food and its people from the North East of England.

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