Homesteading: A Backyard Guide to: Growing Your Own Food, Canning, Keeping Chickens, Generating Your Own Energy, Crafting, Herbal Medicine, and More

A companion guide to the best-selling Back to Basics shares recommendations for identifying and incorporating green lifestyle choices, covering practices ranging from container gardening and keeping chickens to using rainwater and supporting sustainable restaurants.
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Clean Food: A Seasonal Guide to Eating Close to the Source, With More Than 200 Recipes for a Healthy and Sustainable You

More than a cookbook, Clean Food is a feast for the senses that will nourish mind, body, soul…and the planet, too. With more than 200 fresh, seasonal, and tempting vegan recipes, it will help everyone eat the way the want: close to the source.

From the White House kitchen to fast food restaurants, everyone’s discussing “the sustainable diet.” But what exactly does that mean? Terry Walters explains it all, and shows us how to eat seasonal, unprocessed, and locally-grown foods that are good for us and the environment.

Walters’s emphasizes tastes as much as ingredients in delicious recipes that include whole grains, vegetables, legumes, sea vegetables, nuts, and seeds, and range from Crispy Chickpea Fritters to Spicy Thai Tempeh with Cashews to a vegan and sugar-free Chocolate Lover’s Tart that’s absolutely luscious! Since they’re arranged from spring to winter (with a chapter for “anytime at all”), it’s easy to find the right meals for every season of the year.

Terry’s dynamic personality shines through on every page, particularly in her extensive introduction to the world of whole foods (which includes a glossary of ingredients). This is certain to be the cookbook of this and every season—the one that will help us make positive, sustainable, and yet delicious changes to the way we eat every day.

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The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious-and Perplexing-City

An acclaimed pastry chef, bestselling cookbook author, and creator of a massively popular blog, chronicles his life in Paris—from the delicious to the ridiculous.


David Lebovitz moved to Paris in 2002 to start a new life. After cramming all his worldly belongings into three suitcases, he arrived, hopes high, at his new apartment near the Bastille. But as this career pastry chef and cookbook author would soon learn, it’s a different world en France.

From the illogical) rules of social conduct to the mysteries of men's footwear, from shopkeepers who work so hard not to sell you anything to the nightmare of unchecked bureaucracy and the arcane etiquette of the cheese plate, here is Lebovitz’s story of how he came to fall in love with—and even understand—this glorious, maddening city.

With more than fifty original recipes, The Sweet Life in Paris is a deliciously funny, offbeat, and irreverent look at the city of lights, chocolate, and cheese.
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175 Vegetarian Salads

This vibrant collection of 180 meat-free meals provides a fabulous range of salad ideas that will be enjoyed by vegetarians and non-vegetarians alike. Bursting with delicious ideas for creating fresh, healthy and tasty salads all year round.
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So Easy: Luscious, Healthy Recipes for Every Meal of the Week

A Food Network host and best-selling author of The Food You Crave provides 150 easy-to-prepare recipes organized into chapters that tackle every mealtime solution--including simple grab-and-go and sit-down breakfasts, cooler-ready lunches, dinners in 30 minutes or less, easy desserts and more.
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Taste of Home The New Appetizer: 230 Recipes for Today's Party Starters

Over 150 color photos compliment an array of easy-to-follow appetizer recipes--including dips and spreads, meatballs, party pizzas, snack mixes and more--in a book that includes practical pointers, serving ideas, entertaining tips and handy guidelines on food portions and quantities.
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Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy

Shares recipes from lesser-known regions of Italy and secret dishes from famous areas, in a treasury that includes such options as Risotto Milan-Style with Marrow and Saffron, Rabbit with Onions and Stuffed Quail in Parchment, and Roast Lobster with Bread Crumb Topping.
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Real Simple the Best Recipes: Quick and Delicous Recipes You'll Use and Love for Life

Compiles the 90 best recipes from the magazine's ten-year history--including dinners that can be prepared in less than 30 minutes, one-pot meals, versatile side dishes and easy desserts--in a book that includes a recipe index and a guide to kitchen challenges.
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Simply Chocolate: 60 Chunky, Nutty, Creamy Creations

A full-color guide offers over 60 chocolate temptations--from elegant cheesecakes to simple-to-make cookies, from cakes and pies to quaint candies--as well as expert advice on how to handle chocolate, choose the best kind for baking and pick the right wine to go with your chocolate treats.
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Williams-Sonoma Cooking for Friends

Two experienced chefs show how to make any dinner a special occasion, offering recipes, organized by course, that include multiple ways to prepare and present food, in a book that includes full-color photos, tips and anecdotes, eight suggested menus per season and seasonal-ingredients charts.
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Food & Wine Best of the Best Cookbook Recipes: The Best Recipes from the 25 Best Cookbooks of the Year

A full-color guide offers over 100 of the best selections from what the editors have picked as the top 25 cookbooks of the year--including recipes by Mario Batali, Bobby Flay, Sara Jenkins, Giada De Laurentiis and more--in a book that includes over 20 previously unpublished recipes.
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Cooking Light Way to Cook

A guide with over 500 full-color photos combines the healthiest kitchen tips and techniques and delicious, wholesome recipes, in book where the organization focuses on cooking method and how much time the home cook has to prepare a meal.
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Preserving Food

Citing recent concerns pertaining to food safety, organic foods, and rising costs, a step-by-step guide to food preservation shares comprehensive guidelines for safe canning, freezing, and pickling practices while providing additional coverage for readers with special dietary needs.
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Down Home With the Neelys: a Southern Family Cookbook

Collects over one hundred and twenty southern style recipes and cooking secrets, from adding barbeque sauce to spaghetti and nachos to molasses-baked beans and a kitchen sink omelet.
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Easy Gluten-Free Baking

Gluten-Free Baking is filled with recipes for breads, cookies, pies, main dishes and more!
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Ciao Italia Five-Ingredient Favorites: Quick and Delicious Recipes from an Italian Kitchen

A latest work by the host of the long-running PBS series follows a theme of economically prepared dishes that incorporate a minimal number of ingredients, in a collection that includes such recipes as Spicy Soppressata Tartlets, Cheesy Stuffed Meatballs, and Pistachio Dusted Pork Chops.
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Martha Stewart's Dinner at Home: 52 Quick Meals to Cook for Family & Friends

In a book with 225 full-color illustrations, where each dinner takes about an hour to prepare, the famed best-selling author and TV icon offers fifty-two full meals divided by season and made with accessible ingredients, in a book with such recipes as Shaved Fennel-Celery Slaw, Chicken Paillards with Walnut Sauce, and Blackberry Shortbread Squares.
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The Deen Bros. Take It Easy: Quick and Affordable Recipes Meals the Whole Family Will Love

The Food Network stars and sons of Paula Deen share 125 quick-to-prepare and southern-inspired recipes for busy families, focusing on readily available ingredients while providing kid favorites including Easy Chicken and Dumplings, Apple Cider Pork Tenderloin, and Fluffy Chocolate Chip Sandwich Cookies.
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Robin Rescues Dinner: 52 Weeks of Quick-fix Meals, 350 Recipes, and a Realistic Plan to Get Weeknight Dinners on the Table

Presents food plans that include over 350 recipes for quick and wholesome main courses, side dishes, and desserts for busy people pressed for time who want to enjoy weekly home-cooked meals.
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Asian Dumplings: Mastering Gyoza, Spring Rolls, Samosas, and More

A guide to making authentic versions of the most popular regional dumplings also includes instructions for preparing dim sum favorites, in an illustrated reference that outlines such options as spicy potato samosas and Shanghai wonton soup.
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Gourmet Today: More than 1,000 Recipes for the Contemporary Kitchen

Edited by Gourmet magazine's editor-in-chief, this cookbook designed for today's modern palette offers over 650 recipes that can be prepared in 30 minutes or less, hundreds of vegetarian dishes, nearly 100 drinks, dozens of grilled dishes, nearly 100 seafood recipes, and over 300 desert.
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Cooking Light the Essential Dinner Tonight Cookbook

Culls favorite entries from the popular magazine column to present a volume of weeknight recipes that focuses on flavor and nutrition, in a lavishly photographed and accessible collection that is complemented by menus and nutritional information.
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Living Raw Food: Get the Glow With More Recipes from Pure Food and Wine

A follow-up to Raw Food/Real World shares a new collection of raw-foods recipes inspired by New York's Pure Food and Wine restaurant, in a volume that features such options as Cucumber Mint Gazpacho Soup, Mexican Chocolate Brownies with Sweet Tamale, and Avocado Gelato.
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Well-Preserved: Recipes and Techniques for Putting Up Small Batches of Seasonal Foods

A simple and accessible guide to canning and preserving meats, fruits, and vegetables in small batches year-round includes “low-tech� methods like oil-preserving, curing, and freezing, as well as traditional methods like water bath and pressure canning.
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Tea & Crumpets: Recipes & Rituals from European Tearooms & Cafes

Curious armchair travelers, nostalgic food excursionists, and inventive home entertainers will adore this tour of Europe's legendary tearooms and salons. A delicious culinary and cultural experience as well as a treasure trove of recipes from top-notch destinations, this little gem lets readers in on the rituals of taking tea. Recipes like the Ritz's cucumber sandwiches, Claridge's famous raisin and apple scones, or chocolate scones from Edinburgh's Balmoral Hotel, as well as color photographs of tasty tea fare and European teahouses, bring the charm of afternoon tea to anyone's home.
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Cook Yourself Thin: Skinny Meals You Can Make in Minutes

Offers reduced-fat recipes ranging from "green chile chicken enchiladas" to "deep dark chocolate cake" designed to facilitate weight reduction and better health.
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Martha Stewart's Cupcakes: 175 Inspired Ideas for Everyone's Favorite Treat

Features recipes for cupcakes, from classics such as devil's food to surprises like peanut butter and jelly, as well as frostings, fillings, toppings, and a wide selection of decorating and embellishment ideas, including stencil templates, and an equipment glossary.
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100 Calorie Snack Cookbook

Provides a wealth of recipes for homemade, low-calorie snacks including numerous options that can be incorporated into popular diet programs, in a volume that offers options for a variety of cravings and includes such fare as Spiced Popcorn, Pickled Cherries, and Curried Tuna and Spinach Quesadillas.
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The Eat-Clean Diet Cookbook: Great-tasting Recipes That Keep You Lean

The Eat-Clean Diet Cookbook in particular has over 150 recipes. The book is full of pictures, tips, and delicious and easy-to-make recipes. It is divided into smaller sections for different categories: breakfast, soup, grains, proteins, sauces, one-dish-meals, vegetables, pasta, and dessert. I'm glad that Reno has included a category just for grains -- I'm not accustomed to eating grains, but the recipes look so good that I feel I'm going to enjoy trying them out. I'm especially eager to try out the various quinoa dishes, as I've never had quinoa before. I just hope our local supermarket carries these high-protein dried fruits and seeds.
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Under the Table: Saucy Tales from Culinary School

A "Saveur magazine" chef describes her haphazard experiences as a student at New York City's French Culinary Institute, a journey during which she and her classmates tackled a range of challenges from veal calves and fish heads to broken eggs and cutthroat teachers.
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Babycakes: Vegan, Gluten-free, and (Mostly) Sugar-free Recipes from New York's Most Talked-about Bakery

Simply, BabyCakes is your key to an enlightened, indulgent, sweets-filled future. This is important news not only for parents whose children have allergies, for vegans, and for others who struggle with food sensitivities, but also for all you sugar-loving traditionalists. The recipes in these pages prove that there is a healthy alternative to recklessly made desserts, one that doesn't sacrifice taste or texture.
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Glorious One-Pot Meals: A Revolutionary New Quick and Healthy Approach to Dutch-oven Cooking

A guide to Dutch oven cookery introduces an innovative, infusion-cooking method and offers a host of recipes for delicious, easy-to-prepare, time-saving, and healthful single-pot meals, ranging from the classic All-American Pot Roast and Macaroni and Cheese to exotic international specialties, accompanied by pantry and freezer lists.
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America's Best BBQ: 100 Recipes from America's Best Smokehouses, Pits, Shacks, Rib Joints, Roadhouses, and Restaurants

Hungry for something different? Then try America's Best BBQ. Here, two of the world's top barbecue experts present their favorite barbecue recipes from across America.
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3 dollar Meals: Feed Your Family Delicious Healthy Meals for Less than the Cost of a Gallon of Milk

"$3 Meals" is a new kind of low-cost-cooking book, comprising more than 250 simple recipes--none requiring more than twenty minutes of "hands-on" time--that cost less than a gallon of milk--and yet look and taste darn good . . . and are good for you, too.
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Simply Mexican

"A solid, accessible introduction to Mexican cooking featuring 60 easy and authentic recipes for quick-to-the-table meals; each recipe includes "Cooking Notes" that highlight equipment, ingredients, techniques, and instructions for advance preparation".
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Sensational Salads

Enhanced with a full-color photo insert, this comprehensive cookbook provides more 110 easy-to-make, tasty recipes for an array of classic salads and new favorites along with an assortment of flavorful dressings.
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Eatingwell in Season: A Farmers' Market Cookbook

Provides nutritional advice about increasing fruit and vegetable intake for good health and weight loss, and includes more than 100 seasonal recipes approved by EatingWell's Test Kitchen which can be easily reproduced at home.
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Panini

A volume of more than fifty Italian grilled-sandwich recipes provides for a variety of occasions and includes an assortment of modern variations, in a collection that includes such options as Three Cheese & Tomato Melt, Shrimp Po'Boy, and Rustic Turkey with Brie & Apples.
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America's Most Wanted Recipes: Delicious Recipes from Your Family's Favorite Restaurants

The founder of a top copycat recipe Web site, RecipeSecrets.net, presents a collection of the most sought-after dishes from such restaurants as Chili's, Olive Garden, Cheesecake Factory, KFC, and T.G.I. Friday's that can now be made at home for a fraction of the price.
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Williams-Sonoma the Weeknight Cook: Fresh & Simple Recipes for Good Food Everyday

A collection of 350 contemporary recipes focuses on fresh ingredients and minimal cooking times, in a convenient ring-bound volume that devotes a chapter to menu planning and shopping and is complemented by preparation and storing tips.
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Southern Living Complete Quick & Easy Cookbook

Inside you'll find fast and fresh dishes, many of which can be made in 30, 20, or even 10 minutesor less, start to finish. Superfast recipes such as Basil Okra 'n' Tomatoes, Sausage-Shrimp Gumbo Soup, Garlic Fried Chicken Breasts, and Broccoli Cornbread Mini-Muffins are kitchen-tested to ensure that they're both quick and delicious. Along with scrumptious recipes in categories ranging from Streamlined Southern Favorites to Healthy 'n' Quick to Main Dishes in Minutes, you'll find make-ahead symbols that identify at a glance recipes that can be partially or totally made ahead. Prep and cook times let you choose recipes that fit your schedule. And at least one photo with every turn of the page makes this book as fun to look at as it is to cook from.

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Vegan Soul Kitchen

Offers recipes for low-fat African American dishes made with fresh ingredients and minimal amounts of salt and refined sugar, along with tips on using healthy cooking techniques and buying local, seasonal products.
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The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food

Explores humanity's relationship with animals that are cultivated for food, discussing the moral, health, and environmental consequences of meat consumption as well as how eating meat is regarded in a variety of cultures.
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Cake Mix Creations: 216 Easy Desserts That Start With a Mix

Features cake, cookie, cupcake, and breakfast food recipes that use boxed cake mixes, and are prepared using a minimum amount of time and ingredients.
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Frank Stitt's Bottega Favorita

A companion volume to Frank Stitt's Southern Table introduces the Alabama chef's take on Mediterranean cuisine in a cookbook that presents a variety of Southern-influenced Italian recipes, including Tomato Chutney and Roasted Sweet Pepper Pizza, Lamb Shanks with Sweet Peas and Mint, and Zabaglione Meringue Cake.
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Food & Wine Annual Cookbook 2009: An Entire Year of Recipes

Every delicious recipe from every issue of Food & Wine Magazine from the past year in one fabulous book. The cookbook of cookbooks!
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Gale Gand's Brunch!: 100 Fantastic Recipes for the Weekend's Best Meal

Gand, pastry chef and co-owner of Chicago's acclaimed Tru restaurant, is also the host of Food Network's Sweet Dreams and author of several cookbooks. Here, she provides savory recipes as well as some sweet ones, including Bacon Waffles and Cheesy Cheddar Grits. Her style is engaging and the recipes mouthwatering.
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America's authority on healthy eating offers a unique selection of quick, easy, and nutritious recipes that can be made with five ingredients or less or in fifteen minutes tops, providing a nutritional analysis and step-by-step instructions for each recipe.


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The Complete Idiot's Guide Glycemic Index Cookbook

With over 325 delicious and healthy recipes, The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Glycemic Index Cookbook is an invaluable reference for choosing foods according to their GI‚ a system of classifying carbohydrate-based foods by how much they raise blood sugar. Diabetes, insulin resistance, heart disease, and obesity may be avoided by following the glycemic index. Practical and easy to use, this is the one cookbook anyone concerned with their blood sugar will want to have in the kitchen.

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The New Mediterranean Diet Cookbook: A Delicious Alternative for Lifelong Health

Discussing the nutritional and health benefits of Mediterranean culinary practices, this delectable cookbook presents more than 250 recipes for simple traditional dishes from all over the region, all adapted for the modern American kitchen, in a revised edition of the popular cookbook that includes dozens of new recipes and new cooking techniques.

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