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Winner of PETA’s Best New Cookbook Award: “Anyone who likes nutritious and flavorful meals with minimum fuss should invest in Quick-Fix Vegetarian.” —VegNews
The American Heart Association has told us: “Many studies have shown that vegetarians seem to have a lower risk of obesity, coronary heart disease (which causes heart attack), high blood pressure, diabetes mellitus, and some forms
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Welcome to the 7-Day Menu Planner for the holiday season, which was specially selected for when the stresses of the season can wreck family time and make meal-planning even more challenging. To inspire you, almost every week includes a photo of a recipe from that week and a shopping list for every day.
Planning menus will change your life (for the better) forever. You won't have that miserable felling as you stand in front of your open refrigerator...
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From the founder of a popular home and lifestyle retailer, a guide to hosting parties year-round, with ideas for food, décor and themes.
Mary Carol Garrity, founder of Nell Hill's, tries to guarantee that her customers shopping trips are worthwhile by personally providing them with inspiration on how to improve their homes and decor. This book is the culmination of her many years of experience both selling tabletop and listening to her customers...
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A James Beard award winning celebrity chef shares his family Christmas traditions and twenty of his favorite recipes from his boyhood home of Alsace, France.
From multitalented Hubert Keller, chef, restauranteur and Frenchman, a cookbook
commemorating the Christmas traditions he celebrated with his family in his childhood home of Alsace, France. Filled with personal reminiscences, beloved recipes and photos from chef Keller's life, this cookbook...
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Discover the Swedish tradition of fika-the twice-daily coffee break-in this illustrated guide with facts, quotes, tips, and twenty sweet and savory recipes.
Swedes are among the happiest people in the world-and for good reason. They know how to savor life's little pleasures. And there's nothing they enjoy more than taking a break-sometimes twice a day-to spend with friends over a delicious treat and a rich cup of coffee.
The Little Book of Fika...
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This comprehensive recipe collection of over 650 pages with 1,000 recipes contains dishes ranging from American fried chicken and southern veal stew to continental favorites like Italian pork and West Indian fried bananas. Every recipe was tested by the author, and all were original to the book, a new standard in American cookbook publishing. Leslie was a marvelous food writer whose strongly stated opinions about cooking techniques and ingredients...
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In Grilled Cheese, Please!, James Beard Award-winner Laura Werlin elevates the classic grilled cheese sandwich to a culinary center-of-the-plate meal through innovative and delicious recipes. Discover ooey gooey possibilities, such as Say Ole (Two Cheeses, Guacamole, Bacon, and a Corn Chip Crust); Brie, Mozzarella, and Sauteed Pears with Blue Cheese Butter; and Cheddar, Chorizo, Apples, and Pickled Onions on Ciabatta.
The recipes are arranged by...
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Claiming to be "the fruit of the personal experiences of at least a thousand housekeepers," the book reprints the contents of the New York Times Sunday edition Household Column, which apparently was extremely popular in its day, and the public clamored for reprints of the column's recipes. Besides the hundreds of formulas for cooking breakfast dishes, eggs, fish, oysters, soups, meats, vegetables, pastry, cakes, breads, and more, the book includes...
10) American Cookery
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Published in Hartford in 1796, this volume in the American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection is a facsimile edition of one of the most important documents in American culinary history. This is the first cookbook written by an American author specifically published for American kitchens.
Named by the Library of Congress as one of the 88 "Books That Shaped America," American Cookery was the first cookbook by an American author published in the United...
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Perhaps the most influential food writer of his day, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin's gastronomic essays are founding documents in the food-writing genre. This great classic of gastronomy is a witty and authoritative compendium on the art of dining, and it has never been out of print since first publication in 1825. The philosophy of Epicurus stands behind every page, and the simplest meal satisfied Brillat-Savarin, as long as it was executed with...
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The first edition of this very popular nineteenth century cookbook was published in 1839 as The American Housewife, later expanded to The Kitchen Directory and American Housewife and often republished as The American Housewife and Kitchen Directory. Author Anne Howe's name did not appear on the title page until later editions published after this 1841 version. Her preface states that although she is not an Ude (French chef) or a Kitchiner (popular...
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A collection of recipes, household hints, and thrifty tips that paints a fascinating portrait of American home life nearly two centuries ago.
Published in 1829 in Boston, “The Frugal Housewife” was written by one of the foremost female writers and social reformers of her time, Lydia Maria Child. The charming collection of recipes and tips for homemakers of the early nineteenth century emphasized frugality in the kitchen and self-reliance in the...
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Award-winning chef Scott Linquist transports Mexican flavors (and secrets) from the successful Dos Caminos restaurants to your kitchen table in Mod Mex: Cooking Vibrant Fiesta Flavors at Home. Highlighting regions from the Yucatan to Oaxaca, chef Linquist and cookbook maven Joanna Pruess present more than 125 fresh, inviting, and easy-to-prepare Mexican dishes ranging from Quinoa-Watermelon Salad with Arugula and Baja-Style Mahi-Mahi Tacos to Tuna...
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Forty cookie recipes from chefs, breweries, and bakeries across the U.S. and suggested beer pairings for each.
Whether you're a baker or a drinker with a baking problem, these pages will provide a series of guideposts for how to put together forty rockin' cookies-collected from celebrated chefs, bakers, and bakeries across the country-with craft beer. The information provides the building blocks for then experimenting with your own cookie and beer...
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Souvenirs is a memoir cookbook written by the multitalented Hubert Keller: celebrity chef, restaurateur, and Frenchman. Through personal stories and 120 recipes, the book explores his classical training and traces his development as a creative superstar chef. Keller apprentices in a Michelin three star—rated restaurant at the age of sixteen. He moves from his native Alsace, to southern France, and is inspired by the cuisine of the sun while working...
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The Big Green Egg Cookbook is the first cookbook specifically celebrating this versatile ceramic cooker. Available in five sizes, Big Green Egg ceramic cookers can sear, grill, smoke, roast, and bake. Here is the birthday gift EGGheads have been waiting for, offering a variety of cooking and baking recipes encompassing the cooker's capabilities as a grill, a smoker, and an oven.
The book's introduction explains the ancient history of ceramic cookers...
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Originally published in London in 1727, The Compleat Housewife was the first cookbook printed in the United States. William Parks, a Virginia printer, printed and sold the cookbook believing there would be a strong market for it among Virginia housewives who wanted to keep up with the latest London fashions-the book was a best-seller there. Parks did make some attempt to Americanize it, deleting certain recipes "the ingredients or material for which...
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Over seventy recipes for grilling traditional & nontraditional dishes on a Himalayan salt block from the bestselling author of “Salt Block Cooking”.
Mark Bitterman is the foremost salt block cooking expert and one of the largest importers and distributors of Himalayan salt blocks. Everyone who loves grilling will find this guide from the author of “Salt Block Cooking” indispensable to such an innovative, powerful form of outdoor cooking....
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"Robertson cuts to the chase and puts together good food simply. If you were thinking of slapping together a sandwich, you may as well make one of hers, full of vibrant veggies and flavors, instead of the same old pb and j. It doesn't really take much more time... "It was a real pleasure making dishes from the book. Like everyone else, I don't have a ton of time, so quick is always good. Reading and cooking from Robertson's recipes, I admire the way...
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