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  Have Your Cake and Vegan Too -...

  Kris Holechek

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  Learn to bake irresistible vegan cakes of all kinds with this cookbook featuring fifty traditional favorites and new creations. 
   
  Going vegan doesn’t have to mean giving up the guilty pleasure of delectable, decadent cakes. As vegan baker Kris Holechek Peters proves, you can Have Your Cake and Vegan Too.  
   
  This book is packed with vegan cakes of all kinds, from sweet berry shortcakes and decadent chocolate treats to quick-and-easy coffee cakes and multilayered birthday extravaganzas. Plus, it offers tips on everything from getting the perfect moisture and texture to dairy-free frostings, creative decorations, and much more.  
   
  Mouthwatering recipes include:Black ForestChocolate CrumbSnickerdoodlePumpkin BundtTorta LimonePineapple Upside-DownCardamom CashewSpumoniAlmond MochaTuxedo

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  The Complete Beer Course - Boot...

  Joshua M. Bernstein

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  It's a great time to be a beer drinker, but also the most confusing, thanks to the dizzying array of available draft beers. Expert Joshua M. Bernstein comes to the rescue with The Complete Beer Course, demystifying brews and breaking down the elements that make beer's flavor spin into distinctively different and delicious directions.Structured around a series of easy-to-follow classes, his course hops from lagers and pilsners to hazy wheat beers, Belgian-style abbey and Trappist ales, aromatic pale ales and bitter IPAs, roasty stouts, barrel-aged brews, belly-warming barley wines, and mouth-puckering sour ales. There is even a class on international beer styles and another on pairing beer with food and starting your own beer cellar.Through suggested, targeted tastings, you'll learn when to drink down—and when to dump those beers down a drain.

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  Celebrate with a Cake! - A...

  Lindy Smith

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  Mark those special moments with a cake as memorable as the occasion.   Novelty cake designer Lindy Smith offers a comprehensive guide to making a range of beautiful celebration cakes, and guides the reader step by step from baking and carving to icing and adding special finishing touches. A clear techniques section introduces the wide range of equipment available to today’s cake maker, and explains how to make sponge, fruitcake, fondant, buttercream, and other recipes.   The fifteen projects have easy-to-follow illustrated steps for creating and decorating the cakes. Handy tips for shortcuts and creative variation ideas throughout allow you to tailor each cake to your timescale and taste, resulting in bespoke cakes for any occasion—weddings, anniversaries, christenings, birthdays, and more. In addition, handy templates and cutting guides are provided to ensure professional results every time.

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  A Tortilla Is Like Life - Food...

  Carole M. Counihan

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  An innovative portrait of a small Colorado town based on a decade’s worth of food-centered life histories from nineteen of its female residents.Located in the southern San Luis Valley of Colorado, the remote and relatively unknown town of Antonito is home to an overwhelmingly Hispanic population struggling not only to exist in an economically depressed and politically marginalized area, but also to preserve their culture and their lifeways. Between 1996 and 2006, anthropologist Carole Counihan collected food-centered life histories from nineteen Mexicanas―Hispanic American women―who had long-standing roots in the Upper Rio Grande region. The interviews in this groundbreaking study focused on southern Colorado Hispanic foodways―beliefs and behaviors surrounding food production, distribution, preparation, and consumption.In this book, Counihan features extensive excerpts from these interviews to give voice to the women of Antonito and highlight their perspectives. Three lines of inquiry are framed: feminist ethnography, Latino cultural citizenship, and Chicano environmentalism. Counihan documents how Antonito’s Mexicanas establish a sense of place and belonging through their knowledge of land and water and use this knowledge to sustain their families and communities. Women play an important role by gardening, canning, and drying vegetables; earning money to buy food; cooking; and feeding family, friends, and neighbors on ordinary and festive occasions. They use food to solder or break relationships and to express contrasting feelings of harmony and generosity, or enmity and envy. The interviews in this book reveal that these Mexicanas are resourceful providers whose food work contributes to cultural survival.“An important contribution to Mexican American culture.” ―Oral History Review“Counihan’s book is well written and will appeal to a wide spectrum of readers . . . I would recommend this book to those whose interests lie in foodways, gender studies, ethnography and folklore. A Tortilla is Like Life would be a good addition to any reading list, and a beneficial resource for those who desire to understand the complex associations of gender, food, culture and ethnicity.” —Digest: A Journal of Foodways and Culture

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  Prairie Style Weddings - Rustic...

  Fifi O'Neill

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  Get ideas for a rustic-themed bridal shower, rehearsal dinner, ceremony, or reception, plus ten DIY projects to add a homespun touch to your event. 
   
  Rustic barns and gardens are popular settings for the intimate, personalized weddings that are among today’s top trends. Stylist Fifi O’Neill knows how to transform such venues into gorgeous “prairie style” celebrations that seamlessly blend ruggedness and elegance. This beautifully illustrated look-book with more than 150 photographs is filled with unique ideas for planning the perfect bridal shower, rehearsal dinner, ceremony, and reception. From a cheery garden-shed party to a dinner set amid a lush cornfield, Prairie-Style Weddings shows how to achieve an effortless look that is rich in personality and bursting with charm. Ten simple DIY projects add a homespun touch to any wedding event.

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  Almonds - Recipes History Culture

  Barbara Bryant, Betsy Fentress,...

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  A treasury of information and “simple and creative” recipes that make the most of this delicious, nutritious nut (Daniel Boulud, chef and restaurateur). From the anatomy of a nut to the history of the almond in world culture, the cultivation of almond orchards in California, and nutrition provided by a favorite nut, this book provide a wealth of information about the versatile, high-protein, diet-friendly almond—along with numerous recipes that incorporate this scrumptious ingredient in snacks, starters, salads, pasta dishes, entrees, and desserts. Try over 50 recipes including Soba Noodles with Spicy Almond Butter Sauce · Almond-Crusted Pork Chops with Sweet-and-Sour Apricot Glaze • Lamb Tagine with Apricots, Almonds and Honey • Almond Florentine Cookies • Chocolate-Amaretto Torte • Moroccan Rice Pudding • Chocolate-Almond Bark • and moreIncludes photos

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