From light leafy snacks and wholesome pasta, rice, andcereal dishes to hearty seafood and meaty one-dish meals Healthy healing recipes include Pecorino with Pears ManukaHoney,Sicilian Orange Salad, and Apple Salad with Yogurt.Nutritious, one-dish salad meals include Pasta Salad with Tuna,Cherry Tomatoes Olives, Brown Rice Salads with Apples Walnuts, Seafood Salad, and Pork Salad with Fresh Fruit.

"I want my wines to tell a good story. I want them naturaland most of all, like my dear friends, I want them to speak thetruth even if we argue," says Alice Feiring. Join her as she setsoff on her one-woman crusade against the tyranny of homogenization,wine consultants, and, of course, the 100-point scoring system of acertain all-powerful wine writer. Traveling through the ancientvineyards of the Loire and Champagne, to Piedmont and Spain, shegoes in search of authentic barolo, the last old-style rioja, andthe tastiest new terroir-driven champagnes. She reveals just whatgoes into the average bottle--the reverse osmosis, the yeasts andenzymes, the sawdust and oak chips--and why she doesn’t find muchto drink in California. And she introduces rebel winemakers who areembracing old-fashioned techniques and making wines withindividuality and soul. No matter what your palate, travel the wine world with Feiringand you’ll have to ask yourself: What do I really want in myglass?

For the Trigianis, cooking has always been a family affair–andthe kitchen was the bustling center of their home, where folksgathered around the table for good food, good conversation, and theoccasional eruption. Example: Being thrown out of the kitchenbecause one’s Easter bread kneading technique isn’t up to par. AsAdriana says: “When the Trigianis reach out and touch someone, wedo it with food.” Like the recipes that have been handed down forgenerations from mother to daughter and grandmother togranddaughter, the family’s celebrations are also anchored to thelife and laughter around the table. We learn how Grandmom YolandaTrigiani sometimes wrote her recipes in code, or worked frommemory, guarding her recipes carefully. And we meet Grandma LuciaBonicelli, who never raised her voice and believed that when peoplefight at the dinner table, the food turns to poison in thebody. Adriana Trigiani’s voice springs to life from the first page ofCooking with My Sisters, a collection of belove

With mouthwatering morsels on every page, Light Bites contains an invaluable collection of light but satisfying recipes to serve a whole range of needs. Whether you're after a starter for a dinner party, a snack or treat between meals, a 'lunch-sized' portion or a main meal that doesn't load up on stodge or require hours in the oven, you'll find the recipe for you. Set out in a clear, practical design, using basic, easy to find ingredients, Light Bites is fully cross-referenced with useful suggestions for alternatives and more (or less) substantial dishes. All cravings are catered for, from Finger Food to Sweet Treats, from seafood to poultry and covering a variety of international styles of cuisine.

This essential and highly readableguide to the entire world of red wines will demystify thecomplexities of tasting, selecting, storing, and serving redwine.

For lovers of food and books, literary ventriloquist Mark Crick delivers this hilarious, but practical, collection of recipes-come-pastiches. This new edition of the book, which became a Christmas hit in 05/06 when published by Libri, contains 3 new pastiches of Dickens, Calvino and Thomas Mann. Not only are the pastiches entertaining but they also work as recipes too!

This compendium is brimming with 500mouthwatering recipes for pizzas and flatbreads.Packed with clear,easy-to-follow recipes, you'll find the perfect tasty treat forevery occasion. Casual weekend lunch, simple supper or tastystarter - these delicious recipes will hit the spot every time.

With this single book, learn everythingyou need to know about making frozen treats and delights. The 500fabulous, easy, cool, and glorious indulgences featured in thisbook include classic ice creams, sorbets, and Italian-stylegelatos; as well as elegant water ices and granitas, show-stoppingice cream cakes and gateaux, kid-friendly frozen goodies, andincredible edibles for the health- and calorie-conscious.

Ten years ago, Colbin's Food and Healing stood at theforefront of the food revolution, exploring the link between dietand health. In this anniversary edition, she provides updates onrecent dietary systems, including low-fat, food combining, andalternative medicine.

Cocktails are back－fresher and tastier than ever. The days when a cocktail meant an over－sweet, garish concoction, garnished with a pineapple chunk and a paper umbrella, are over. Today's cocktails are made with fresh, high－quality ingredients, with the intention of producing sometimes subtle, sometimes startling flavour combinations.

Classic recipes include Rum Raisin, Rocky Road, andChocolate Chip ice creams, Lemon, Strawberry Yogurt, and BitterChocolate sorbets Coffee and Lemon granitas, and Sicilian Cassataand Black Forest Ice Cream Cake. But you will also find someinnovative recipes, such as Nutty Spumone, Basil Sorbet and MojitoGranita.

From super-healthy fruit and veggie smoothiesand juices to wicked dessert smoothies，here you will find more thanl00 ideas for quick breakfasts，snacks，and desserts Health—enhanching recipes include Cilantr0＆Almond DetoxSmoothies．Spinach，Soy＆Wheat Juice with Gink0，and Banana e PeachSmoothies with Wheat Germ．At breakfast time．try hour Man90＆Yogu rtSmoothies or Citrus and Pa rsley Juice．For a quick dessert，whip upChocolate Cappuccino Smoothies or Banana Smoothies withChocolate＆Nuts．

What's the secret to making foolproof friands? How do you bakethe perfect piped cookie dough pinwheel? And what puts the snap inthe very best ginger snaps? Find out in "Field Guide to Cookies", ahandy pocket reference to more than 100 cookie recipes, completewith the fascinating historical background (the first known recipefor brownies was published in the 1897 Sears, Roebuck Catalogue),season (April 9 is Chinese Almond Cookie Day), and helpful bakingnotes for each delicious variety, from traditional favourites tomore exotic concoctions from all over the world. Including drop,bar, piped, rolled, puffed, sandwich, savoury, and mouldedvarieties, every cookie is illustrated in glorious full colour,with step-by-step instructions on how to prepare, bake, serve, andstore your creations. Gooey, delicious, home-baked confections arejust minutes away with "Field Guide to Cookies" in your pantry!

Nearly a quarter-century after her death, Agatha Christie remains the most popular mystery writer of all time. Now, in a celebrated publishing event, fans and newcomers alike are treated to another Christie novel. Created in 1930 as a stage play and faithfully adapted by Charles Osborne, Black Coffee brings back beloved detective Hercule Poirot to exercise his "little grey cells" one more deliciously deductive time... An urgent call from physicist Sir Claud Amory sends famed detective Hercule Poirot rushing from London to a sprawling country estate. Sir Claud fears a member of his own household wants to steal a secret formula destined for the Ministry of Defense. But Poirot arrives too late. The formula is missing. Worse, Sir Claud has been poisoned by his after-dinner coffee. Poirot soon identifies a potent brew of despair, treachery, and deception amid the mansion's occupants. Now he must find the formula and the killer...while letting no poison slip 'twix his low lips.

Packed with a variety of fruits andflavours, this compendium blends new juice ideas withtried-and-tested classic smoothie recipes, and is oaeked with tipsonspicing, thickening and sweetening up your favourite juices andsmoothies. From filling breakfasts to summer treats, this is theonly healthy drink book you will ever need.

Italian cooking is steeped in tradition and history, yet it is still relevant to today's modern cook. The emphasis on seasonal, locally sourced ingredients and uncompromising quality has had a profound effect on the style of Italian cuisine and has led to its sustained popularity. Simplicity is the essence, a philosophy adopted by Linda Doeser when creating this inspiring and mouthwatering range of dishes. With a collection of 100 traditional recipes, Linda captures the rich diversity of the culinary regional styles, revealing the characteristic ingredients and distinctive cooking techniques that are the key to creating delicious authentic dishes. The recipes evoke the essence of Italy, whether it be a plate of pasta topped with a simple sauce of olive oil, garlic and clams, a slow-cooked aromatic beef stew or the perfect seafood risotto. The additional advantage of the Italian diet, like that of most Mediterranean countries, is that it is one of the healthiest. This aspect, along with the distinct personalit

Now in paperback–the debut cookbook from the beloved Italiancook, restaurateur, and public television personality. Lidia Bastianich is famous for her Italian-American cooking, butthis cookbook–her first–captures the distinctive cuisine of hernative Istria, located on Italy’s northeastern Adriatic coast nearthe border of the former Yugoslavia. This book is also her mostpersonal; in addition to the recipes, she has included numerouspersonal stories, memories, and photographs from herchildhood. With La Cucina di Lidia, you can savor antipasti such as Polentawith Fontina and Mushrooms or Shrimp and Mixed Bean Salad. Rice andpastas include Plum Gnocchi, Risotto with Squash Blossoms, andZucchini and Tagliatelle with Leek Sauce. Entrées feature fish(Swordfish in Sweet and Sour Sauce), fowl (Roast Chicken withRosemary and Orange), meat (Stuffed Breast of Veal), and game (DuckRoasted with Sauerkraut). Desserts range from Chocolate ZabaglioneCake to Apple-Custard Tart. Here is an Itali

Go ahead. Get passionate about the food you eat. You don’t have to hide it. You can love food and lose weight atthe same time! The secret, which you’ll learn about in Love Foodand Live Well, is to know when to have carrot cake and when it’stime for just a carrot. For most dieters, food is the daunting factor that trips up ourbest intentions to lose weight and get fit. Let Chantel Hobbs teachyou that food is not the enemy! It’s our attitudes toward it thatdefeat us. Losing weight does not require being deprived of thefoods you love and being forced to eat boring, tasteless meals, andleft feeling hungry most of the time. Turn food into your ally byfollowing Chantel’s 80/20 rule: A full 20 percent of the time,splurge on the foods you love and incorporate them intocelebrations and social occasions. The remaining 80 percent of thetime, choose food on the basis of delivering maximum fuel for yourbody and ultimate health. Simply by having freedom in what you eat,you can train yourself in

Check out this super-fabulous sleepover kit. From top tips on how to plan your pyjama party to brilliant games and makeover ideas, this kit is perfect for you and your friends.

From the author of French Women Don't Get Fat, the #1 NationalBestseller, comes an essential guide to the art of joyful living—inmoderation, in season, and, above all, with pleasure. Together with a bounty of new dining ideas and menus, MireilleGuiliano offers us fresh, cunning tips on style, grooming, andentertaining. Here are four seasons' worth of strategies forshopping, cooking, and exercising, as well as some pointers forlooking effortlessly chic. Taking us from her childhood inAlsace-Lorraine to her summers in Provence and her busy life in NewYork and Paris, this wise and witty book shows how anyone anywherecan develop a healthy, holistic lifestyle.

In this wonderfully evocative book you will find all those old family favourite recipes from times past，together with some newer ones from the modern Grandma’S repertoire。Indulge yourself in the delicious traditional and more contemporary dishes that havebeen part of your life for as long as you can remember。This collection includes the classic roasts，delicious desserts and festive specialities that Grandma used to make，as well as their modern equivalents which have entered into our present—day eating patterns。It features much—loved recipes that have been brought back from holidays and give US warm memories of special people and places visited。They are all here：eomfort food recipes to remind US of childhood；growing-up food from when we started to experiment and travel；food to reminisce over when we remember special occasions。and recipes that hopefully you will want to pass on to your own grandchildren。

The beautifully presented and inspirational Cook's Bible is the definitive cooking guide for everyone—beginner and experienced cook alike. From choosing kitchen utensils to stocking the pantry,this book shows you can be superbly oranzed and creative in the kitchen. it offers valuable advice about all culinary matters,including kitchen equipment, ingredients, kitchen safety, and the basics of diet and healthy eating. The Cook's Bible provides practical information about all aspects of preparing and cooking food—from how to boil an egg to how to prepare sushi. It is also useful for those who know the basice but want to extend their kitchen repertoire to cooking exciting and varied dishes.its wide range of recipes has been carefully selected to combine traditional favorites with modern choices. So whether you wish to make a cheese souffle, create a paella, or bake Fresh Croissants—you will find the Cook's Bible an invaluable source of inspiration and advice that you will want to go back to again and ag