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  Pasta Risotto and Rice: Robin...

  Robin Miller

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  The host of Food Network’s Quick Fix Meals offers a delicious array of pasta, risotto, and rice dinners to satisfy your hungry family. 
   
  It’s 5:00 PM. Everyone’s hungry. Do you order takeout? Do you resort to nuking a processed meal from the freezer? Let Robin Miller give you a better option—one that doesn’t include an unhealthy heap of calories and fat.  
   
  With this volume from the Robin Takes 5 series, you’ll be able to whip up a healthy and satisfying dinner for you and your family with just five fabulous ingredients. Each recipe is quick, easy, healthy, and a mouthwatering 500 calories or less. 
   
  This eBook features a special video introduction by the author. The recipes featured here are also in Robin Miller’s fabulous cookbook Robin Takes 5.

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  Farmer John's Cookbook - The...

  Jon Peterson

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  Get a taste of farm life with seasonal recipes and stories from the founder of Angelic Organics, the popular CSA farm with members across the Chicago area.John Peterson grew up on the family farm he later transformed into the community supported farm Angelic Organics. For him, farming isn’t just about growing vegetables. It is also about building relationships between the farm and the people it serves. A leader in organic and biodynamic gardening, his passion is helping to connect people with their food, their farmers, and healthful living. In Farmer John’s Cookbook, readers get to experience a slice of farming life through stories and recipes that are arranged seasonally by crop. Peterson shares information on storing and preserving perishables as well as tips for using more peculiar vegetables grown on his farm, such as sunchokes and kohlrabi. Farmer John’s Cookbook is a “farm kitchen bible presented with missionary zeal” (Publishers Weekly).

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  Greek Revival - Cooking for Life

  Patricia Moore-Pastides

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  “Retains the innate taste and texture of Mediterranean cuisine while updating the techniques and diet constraints in innovative ways for today’s lifestyle.” —Nathalie Dupree, celebrated Charleston chef  
   
  Patricia Moore-Pastides, an accomplished cook and public-health professional, presents an appetizing introduction to the wonderful flavors and health benefits of the traditional Mediterranean diet with dozens of easy-to-make and impossible-to-resist recipes. 
   
  Greek Revival showcases a pantheon of healthy recipes, accompanied by beautiful color illustrations, helpful preparation techniques, and tips for making the most of familiar ingredients, from colorful fresh fruits and vegetables, to whole grains, beans, and seafood. Always mindful of time, health, and budget, the author makes wonderful use of natural, minimally processed ingredients readily found in most neighborhood supermarkets. Recipes include dolmades (grape leaves stuffed with cracked wheat and pine nuts), imam baildi (caramelized eggplant), gemista (vegetables stuffed with barley and mint), xifias souvlaki (herbed swordfish kebabs), tavas (oven-roasted onion, tomato and lamb stew), karidopita (spiced walnut cake), and many more. 
   
  Throughout the book Moore-Pastides shares lively stories of her days living in Greece and Cyprus that exemplify the enduring charm of an Old World lifestyle. Her observations are supported with illuminating summaries of current scientific research. Health-conscious readers looking to improve their diets and protect themselves from the perils of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer, and Alzheimer’s disease will find hope in the author’s research, presented in a way that is accessible and inspiring. 
   
  “She shares with us an insider’s view of Greek culture and deserves high praise for her engaging writing, creativity, and deeply felt passion for promoting a more healthy and balanced way of life.” —Zoe Kosmidou, Minister Counselor for Cultural Affairs, Embassy of Greece

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  Food Heroes - 16 Culinary...

  Georgia Pellegrini

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  From chef, author, and host of Modern Pioneering, a cookbook featuring essays about food artisans committed to local, wild and non-processed cuisine.   In Food Heroes, Georgia Pellegrini introduces readers to the lively stories of artisanal food devotees such as New York mushroom forager Marion Burroughs, French fig collector Francis Honore, fish missionary Jon Rowley in Washington State, and Ugo Buzzio in New York City, one of the last makers of traditional dry-cured sausages in the United States. Filled with colorful anecdotes, photographs, and recipes, this book offers an accessible introduction to the artisanal food movement, and vicarious living for armchair travelers, food lovers, and others who might won­der what it would be like to drop everything and start an olive farm, or who yearn to make and sell their own clotted cream butter. Thirty-two fantastic recipes follow the profiles, and encourage readers to find their own local suppliers.

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  101 Things To Do With Pumpkin

  Eliza Cross

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  Celebrate the flavor of pumpkin year-round with these sweet and savory recipes! Pumpkins mark the onset of fall—and those who love the flavor look forward to pies, cookies, hot spiced drinks, and breads of all kinds. 101 Things To Do With Pumpkin is a handy way to incorporate this favorite flavor into your kitchen repertoire for not just the autumn season, but year-round. It’s packed with recipes sure to please the pickiest pumpkin palate: ·      Curried Pumpkin Soup ·      Pumpkin Spoon Bread ·      Pumpkin Apple Pecan Chicken ·      Decadent Pumpkin Butter Cake and more!

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  Halloween Treats - Simply spooky...

  Annie Rigg

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  Every child loves the thrill of Halloween - the costumes, the trick-or-treating, the ghost stories and the sweets! And there's nothing more exciting for them than hosting their own Halloween party, complete with ghoulish sweet treats. In this spooky new book, queen of cakes, Annie Rigg, turns her hand to simple, cute and creepy cakes, cookies and other edible sweet treats to delight any Halloween-loving child. You'll find chapters on Cookies; Cupcakes; Big Cakes; and Other Treats. Kooky recipes include cookie ghouls, gingerbread witches' hats, spidery cupcakes, and jack-o-lantern cookies. Annie Rigg is an experienced freelance food stylist and writer. She has worked on numerous books and best-selling magazines, such as Sainsbury's Magazine, Olive, Delicious, Country Living and Good Food Magazine. She has worked with a number of top chefs, and used to cook for world-famous singers and bands on tour, including Tom Jones, Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd and The Rolling Stones.

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