The Frankies Spuntino Kitchen Companion & Cooking Manual: An Illustrated Guide to "Simply the Finest"

We use white pepper for cooking just about everything. It's a hang-up we picked up working in French kitchens.

"Here is an address you won't want to miss: a place where the food rivals the best and is prepared with great spirit and creative energy....Frankies Spuntino is a tribute to our profession."

The Chefs Behind New York City's Popular Frankies Spuntino restaurants share their recipes, tips, and stories in this entertaining guide to good cooking and good times. Their cookbook is destined to become your go-to, tomato-sauce-stained kitchen companion.

"If any two chefs can be said to have captured the spirit of our times---big flavor, unfussy yet inspired ideas, perfect technique, and an insanely cool family vibe---it is the Franks. I have cooked my way through these recipes. They taste great and they work." ---Peter Kaminsky, food writer, fly fisherman

"I like Frankies' French toast and I love their sausage cavatelli. But when I met them, I realized the Franks love their food even more than I do. There is a simplicity about their recipes---the kind of food that was made a hundred years ago. And the Franks have big hundred-year-old beards too."---Spike Jonze, good eater, great filmmaker

"The Franks' tasty hybrid of art, technique, and crazy personal style is what we need to hide from all those new reality TV chefs... yammering at each other, hands filled with test tubes of curry, cooking nothing. Bring on the Franks! The new benchmark of reality and cooking." ---Mario Batali

"All the little old Sicilian ladies in the neighborhood must be seething with jealousy and plotting revenge. Frank Castronovo and Frank Falcinelli make the best meatballs, braciola, and eggplant marinara around." ---New York Magazine  (Check Catalog)

The Ciao Bella Book of Gelato & Sorbetto: Bold, Fresh Flavors to Make at Home

Collects gelato and sorbetto recipes from the award-winning chain featured on Oprah and The Apprentice while sharing advice on how to create personalized flavor combinations, in a treasury that includes such options as Chocolate Guinness, Hazelnut Biscotti and Grapefruit Campari.(Check Catalog)

Warm Bread and Honey Cake: Home Baking from Around the World

Containing a mix of familiar family favorites and unusual, exotic delicacies, this comprehensive collection is also a well-researched exploration of home-baking techniques and global ethnic history.  (Check Catalog)

Eating Well on a Budget: 140 Delicious, Healthy, Affordable Recipes: Amazing Meals for Less Than $3 a Serving

Americans are eating out less and, more and more often, their food decisions are being driven by two main things: budget and health. In this cookbook, the editors of "EatingWell" show how to make nutritious dinners without spending more than $3 a person. (Check Catalog)

American Heart Association Quick & Easy Meals: More Than 200 Healthy Recipes Plus Time-Saving Tips for Shopping, Planning, and Eating Well (Hardcover)

A retitled edition of the classic Meals in Minutes combines updated health information with more than 200 low-fat, low-cholesterol recipes that are tailored for fast preparation, in a volume that also provides time-saving tips.(Check Catalog)

The River Cottage Bread Handbook (Hardcover)

The River Cottage farm, established by British food personality Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall to promote high-quality, local, and sustainable food, has inspired a television series, restaurants and classes, and a hit series of books. In this new addition to the award-winning collection, River Cottage baking instructor Daniel Stevens shares his irrepressible enthusiasm and knowledge to help you bake better bread. From familiar classics such as ciabatta and pizza dough, to new challenges like potato bread, rye loaves, tortillas, naan, croissants, doughnuts, and bagels, each easy-to-follow recipe is accompanied by full-color, step-by-step photos. There’s even an in-depth chapter on building your own backyard wood-fired oven.(Check Catalog)

American Vegan Kitchen: Delicious Comfort Food from Blue Plate Specials to Homestyle Favorites (Paperback)

Publisher's Description - Do you ever crave the delicious comfort foods served at your local diner, deli, or neighborhood cafe? This cookbook shows you how to make vegan versions of your favorite dishes in your own home kitchen.These 175+ recipes will satisfy vegans and non-vegans alike with deli sandwiches, burgers and fries, mac and cheese, pasta, pizza, omelets, pancakes, tasty soups and salads, casseroles, and desserts. Put together your own Blue Plate Specials from the roadside eateries of Route 66. Sample favorites from the cafes of San Francisco to the bistros of New York. Enjoy truly great American flavors from tempting ethnic dishes to the homestyle comfort foods of the heartland.Recipes include: Around-the-Clock Coffee Cake, Beer-Battered Onion Rings, Darngood Donut Bites, Cajun Pot Pie, Fork-and-Knife Reubens, Midtown Greek Salad, Spicy Balsamic Maple Wingz, Yankee Cornbread, Southern Fried Seitan, Mom's Apple Pie, and many more.From coast-to-coast and cover-to-cover, American Vegan Kitchen helps you serve up great homestyle vegan recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and desserts. The book contains 30 full-color photos and helpful icons to bring American comfort food home to your table.(Check Catalog)

The Skinnygirl Dish: Easy Recipes for Your Naturally Thin Life (Paperback)

Features more than sixty easy-to-prepare, healthy, economical recipes; accompanied by advice for holidays and special occasions and tips on how to stock a healthful kitchen and think like a chef.(Check Catalog)

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Flour-Free Eating

A healthy choice...includes 150 recipes.

The Complete Idiot's Guide(r) to Flour-Free Eating has all the information readers need to easily and comfortably get on, and stick to, a healthier eating plan. It explains to readers what they can eat and what they should avoid, including important guidance on how to identify hidden flour in processed foods and how to stay flour free while eating out.

Includes more than 150 flour-and sugar-free recipes

Diabetes now affects over 18 million Americans, and since flour = sugar, eliminating flour is a must to help combat these and other illnesses.  (Check Catalog)

Brunetti's Cookbook

Among their many pleasures, Donna Leon’s Commissario Guido Brunetti novels have long been celebrated for their mouth-watering descriptions of food. Multicourse lunches at home with Paola and the children, snacks grabbed at a bar with a glass of wine or two, a quick sandwich during a busy day, or a working lunch at a neighborhood trattoria in the course of an investigation have all delighted Brunetti, as well as Leon’s readers and reviewers. And then there’s the coffee, the pastries, the wine, and the grappa.
In Brunetti’s Cookbook, Donna Leon’s best friend and favorite cook brings to life these fabulous Venetian meals. Eggplant crostini, orrechiette with asparagus, pumpkin ravioli, roasted artichokes, baked branzino, pork ragu with porcini—these are just a few of the over ninety recipes for antipasti, primi, secondi, and dolci. The recipes are joined by excerpts from the novels, four-color illustrations, and six original essays by Donna Leon on food and life in Venice. Charming, insightful, and full of personality, they are the perfect addition to this long awaited book.
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