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Scratch: Home Cooking for Everyone Made Simple, Fun, and Totally Delicious

Maria Rodale · Rodale
Pages: 384
Format: Print book

Maria Rodale was raised on real food. She doesn't think of eating homemade, from scratch meals as part of a trend or movement; it has always been her life. Raised in a family of farmers, bakers, chefs, gardeners, and publishers, Maria is used to growing, cooking, reading and writing about,...
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5 Ingredient Favorites: Quick and Simple Everyday Dishes

Rachel Lane · Reader's Digest
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

With ever less time for shopping and cooking, we are all looking for ways to create delicious food that both tastes great and is healthy. 5 Ingredient Favorites is divided into eleven easy-to-consult chapters, with dishes for every occasion, from after-school snacks and light-lunch soups...
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Crab: 50 Recipes with the Fresh Taste of the Sea from the Pacific, Atlantic & Gulf Coasts

Cynthia Nims · Sasquatch Books
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

If you dream about perfectly prepared crab cakes, steamed Dungeness straight from the shell, or lightly coated soft-shell blue crabs, this is your cookbook. Culinary expert Cynthia Nims offers 50 delicious ways to love crab--whether it's Dungeness, Alaskan king, and snow crab from the West...
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Craft Distilling: Making Liquor Legally at Home

Victoria Redhed Miller · New Society Publishers, 2016.
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Many people have experienced great success making their own beer or wine at home. In recent years a number of hobbyists have become interested in making distilled spirits. However, distilled spirits are more complicated to produce, and the process presents unique safety issues. In addition,...
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The Ciao Bella Book of Gelato and Sorbetto: Bold, Fresh Flavors to Make at Home

F. W. Pearce · Clarkson Potter; 4.11.2010 edition
Format: Hardcover

TO TRY ONE SPOONFUL OF CIAO BELLA’S GELATO OR SORBETTO IS TO BE INSTANTLY TRANSPORTED. When you think of the most delicious and fresh gelato and sorbetto in America, you are craving Ciao Bella. The premier gelato and sorbetto maker in the country may be known for using the world’s...
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The Amish Baking Cookbook: Plainly Delicious Recipes from Oven to Table

Georgia Varozza · Harvest House Publishers; Spi edition
Format: Paperback

Building on the success of The Homestyle Amish Kitchen (more than 58,000 copies sold), Georgia Varozza partners with experienced baker Kathleen Kerr to give you a cookbook filled with the foods most associated with the Plain and simple life: baked goods. This delicious collection of more...
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Preserving Everything: Can, Culture, Pickle, Freeze, Ferment, Dehydrate, Salt, Smoke, and Store Fruits, Vegetables, Meat, Milk, and More

Leda Meredith · Countryman Press; 1 edition
Format: Print book

The ultimate guide to putting up food. How many ways can you preserve a strawberry? You can freeze it, dry it, pickle it, or can it. Milk gets cultured, or fermented, and is preserved as cheese or yogurt. Fish can be smoked, salted, dehydrated, and preserved in oil. Pork becomes jerky....
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Pure Food: A Chef's Handbook for Eating Clean, with Healthy, Delicious Recipes

Kurt Beecher Dammeier · Benbella Books
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover

You are what you eat. And what you're eating isn't good.With the proliferation of artificial additives, hormones, antibiotics, and the thousand other man-made substances and chemical cocktails lurking in our grocery bags, eating healthy, natural foods is trickier than ever. It's...
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A Colander, Cake Stand, and My Grandfather's Iron Skillet 40 Top Chefs and the Stories and Recipes Behing Their Most Treasured Kitchen Tools


Format: Print book

In every cook's kitchen, there is a treasured tool: a workhorse utensil, go-to gadget, or a family heirloom with its own background story and the lofty standing of being a cook's most-prized possession. These beloved items say as much about the cook as their style of cooking. They tell...
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Bourbon Empire: The Past and Future of America's Whiskey

Reid Mitenbuler · Viking, 2015.
Pages: 320
Format: Print book

How bourbon came to be, and why it's experiencing such a revival today Unraveling the many myths and misconceptions surrounding America's most iconic spirit, Bourbon Empire traces a history that spans frontier rebellion, Gilded Age corruption, and the magic of Madison Avenue. Whiskey...
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