A fascinating interpretation of how the body functions tomaintain good health and addresses all kinds of ailments withspecific nutritional approaches. A pioneering nutritionclassic.

Why do we overeat time and time again? Why do we make poordiet choices while we want to be healthy? What makes losing weightso difficult? These and many other vital questions are addressed in 12 Steps to Raw Foods in an open and sincere dialogue. Basedon the latest scientific research, Victoria Boutenko explains thenumerous benefits of choosing a diet of fresh rather than cookedfoods. This book contains self-tests and questionnaires that helpthe reader to determine if they have hidden eating patterns thatundermine their health. Using examples from life, the authorexplores the most common reasons for people to make unhealthyeating choices. Rather than simply praising the benefits of raw foods, this bookoffers helpful tips and coping techniques to form and maintain new,healthy patterns. Learn how to make a raw food restaurant card thatmakes dining with co-workers easy and enjoyable. Discover threemagic sentences that enable you to refuse your mother-in-law’sapple pie without offending her. Find out how to

Starred Review. Turning the offices of National Public Radio into a sugar-dusted gastrolab, NPR producer Gray (of the news program All Things Considered) spent a year testing cake recipes on coworkers to find the most satisfying among them. The result is this eclectic but cohesive cookbook, with a gentle learning curve especially useful for novices. An untrained pastry chef herself, Gray begins with a basic, lemon-glazed sour cream pound cake (which she calls the "Man Catcher") that introduces several key baking techniques: creaming the butter and sugar, incorporating eggs, beating batter, and lining the pan. She increases the skill level gradually as she goes, moving on to bundt, layer, and fruit cakes, followed by trickier temptations like angel food cake and the spicy, molasses-rich Appalachian Stack Cake. Each recipe comes with the story of its origin, reception, and variants. Readers will spot many bold-faced culinary names like Paula Deen and Ina Garten, but also obscure sources like out-of-print cookbo

From "a great teacher and truly a master technician" (JuliaChild), a new cookbook full of faster-than-ever food, includingdozens of elegant "minute" recipes Jacques Pepin Fast Food My Waywas an immediate sensation, captivating cooks and critics, whocalled it "fabulous," "chic," and "elegant." Now America's firstand most enduring celebrity chef does himself one better, withrecipes that are faster, fresher, and easier than ever. OnlyJacques could have come up with dishes so innovative anduncomplicated. "Minute recipes": Nearly no-cook recipes fit forcompany: Cured Salmon Morsels, Glazed Sausage Bits Smashingappetizers: Scallop Pancakes, zipped together in a blender (10minutes) Almost instant soups: Creamy Leek and Mushroom Soup (7minutes) Fast, festive dinners: Stuffed Pork Fillet on GrapeTomatoes (18 minutes) Stunning desserts: Mini Almond Cakes inRaspberry Sauce (15 minutes)

Chosen as one of the New York Times’s ten best books in the yearof its original publication, this collection immediately won acherished place among lovers of the tale and vaulted Calvino intothe ranks of the great folklorists. Introduction by the Author;illustrations. Translated by George Martin. A Helen and Kurt WolffBook

The Chamberlain family spent a dozen blissful years in preWorld War II France, with their beloved cook, Clementine, learningthe gustatory pleasures of snail hunting in their backyard andbottling their own wine. When war rumblings sent them scurryingStateside, Clementine refused to be left behind and made a new homefor herself in Marblehead, Massachusetts, where she introduced theinitially suspicious Yankees to the pleasures of la cuisine debonne femme. First published in 1943, Clementine in the Kitchen isa charming portrait of a family of gastronomic adventurers, and amouth-watering collection of more than 170 traditional Frenchrecipes. This Modern Library Food series edition includes a newIntroduction by Jeffrey Steingarten, food critic for Vogue andauthor of The Man Who Ate Everything, winner of the Julia ChildBook Award.

Product Details 基本信息 ISBN-13 书号 9780804185592 Author 作者 Thorisson, Mimi Pages Number 页数 304页 Publisher 出版社 Clarkson Potter Publishers Publication Date 出版日期 2014年10月28日 Product Dimensions 商品尺寸 16开 Shipping Weight 商品重量 566g Language 语种 ENG Book Contents 内容简介 With beguiling recipes and sumptuous photography, "A Kitchen in France" transports readers to the French countryside and marks the debut of a captivating new voice in cooking. When Mimi Thorisson and her family moved from Paris to a small town in out-of-the-way Medoc, she did not quite know what was in store for them. She found wonderful ingredients--from local farmers and the neighboring woods--and, most important, time to cook. Her cookbook chronicles the family's seasonal meals and life in an old farmhouse, all photographed by her husband, Oddur. Mimi's convivial recipes--such as Roast Chicken with Herbs and Creme Fraic

Coffee has never been better, ormore interesting, than it is today. Coffee producers have access tomore varieties and techniques than ever before and we, asconsumers, can share in that expertise to make sure the coffee wedrink is the best we can find. Where coffee comes from, how it washarvested, the roasting process and the water used to make the breware just a few of the factors that influence the taste of what wedrink. Champion barista and coffee roaster James Hoffmann examinesthese key factors, looking at varieties of coffee, the influence ofterroir, how it is harvested and processed, the roasting methodsused, through to the way in which the beans are brewed. Country bycountry - from Bolivia to Zambia - he then identifies keycharacteristics and the methods that determine the quality of thatcountry's output. Along the way we learn about everything from thedevelopment of the espresso machine, to why strength guides onsupermarket coffee are really not good news. This is the first bookto chart the coffe