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

Witty, one-of-a-kind imaginative cupcake designs using candiesfrom the local convenience store. America's favorite foodphotography team, responsible for the covers of America's topmagazines, shows how to create funny, scary, and sophisticatedmasterpieces, using a zipper lock bag and common candies and snackitems.With these easy-to-follow techniques, even the mostkitchen-challenged cooks can - raise a big-top circus cupcake tierfor a kid's birthday - plant candy vegetables on Oreo earthcupcakes for a garden party - trot out a line of confectionery"pupcakes" for a dog fancier - serve sausage and pepperoni pizzacupcakes for April Fool's Day - bewitch trick-or-treaters withchilly ghost chocolate cupcakes - create holidays on icing withturkey cupcake place cards, a white cupcake Christmas wreath, andEaster egg cupcakes No baking skills or fancy pastry equipment isrequired. Spotting the familiar items in the hundreds of brilliantphotos is at least half the fun.

Now you can re-create the best and most inventive sandwichesin America right in your own kitchen. In this eating tour of thenation, those gurus of the road, Jane and Michael Stern, hunt downnearly 100 examples of supreme sandwichery. You'll enjoymouthwatering discoveries from nearly every state, from California(grilled Gruycre with leeks on multigrain from a neighborhoodbakery in Los Angeles) to Maine (an overflowing, warm lobster rollfrom a seaside diner) to Florida (a Cuban: ham, pork, Swiss, andgarlicky salami with pickles, lettuce, and tomato). The Sterns havetracked down America's best muffuletta (cold cuts and cheese toppedwith a bold and briny olive salad on Italian bread) and thespecialty of Louisville, Kentucky (the Hot Brown: white turkey meatunder sizzling cheese with tomato and bacon), not to be confusedwith Hot Truck (a hot pizza sub baked open-face, a campus sensationin Ithaca, New York). Each of the legendary heroes, hoagies, wraps,grinders, blimps, gyros, and subs comes with its own qui

The hotest pastry item since cupcakes, colourful, fun,crunchy-on-the-outside and soft on the inside macarons areexploding in populatirity. This easy-to-use cookbook shows how tomake these delicious french cookies at home. The book featuresstunning photographs and easy-to-follow directions for creating theperfect macarons. Featuring delicious favourite flavors includingdark chocolate ganache, Mocha, Nutty Pistachio, Lavender and funmacaron decorations. There's a macaron recipe for every taste andoccasion

那是不起眼的东地中海梅兹菜，偷走了我们的心-谁曾想到一碗捣碎的鹰嘴豆能尝起来像魔术？鹰嘴豆泥已成为所有现代冰箱中必不可少的物品，无论是用面包棒蘸酱，在面包上涂些泡沫以使烤肉串或三明治都具有风味，还是单独作为主餐的一部分提供。自制鹰嘴豆泥在许多方面都优于商店购买的鹰嘴豆泥：酸味更小，新鲜的风味更浓烈且组合起来便宜。此处作者Dunja Gulin分享她制作完美的自制鹰嘴豆泥的技巧和窍门，以便您每次都能恰到好处地获得风味平衡和质地。经典的组合通常是鹰嘴豆，柠檬汁，大蒜和芝麻酱，但这种基本配方用途广泛，非常感谢您可以吸收的所有风味。鹰嘴豆泥是 其中的食谱，包括洋葱果酱鹰嘴豆泥，印尼风味鹰嘴豆泥，烤茄子品种以及腰果和鳄梨的混合物。甚至还有一章北斗星，其中包括薄煎饼，皮塔饼面包和芝麻煎饼，还有关于鹰

The extremes of American eating--our equal urges to stuff and tostarve ourselves--are easy to blame on the excesses of modernliving. But Frederick Kaufman followed the winding road of theAmerican intestine back to that cold morning when the firstfamished Pilgrim clambered off the Mayflower, and he discovered thealarming truth: We've been this way all along. With outraged witand an incredible range of sources that includes everything fromCotton Mather's diary to interviews with Amish black-marketraw-milk dealers, Kaufman offers a highly selective,take-no-prisoners tour of American history by way of the Americanstomach. Travel with him as he tracks down our earliest foodies;discovers the secret history of Puritan purges; introduces dietgurus of the nineteenth century such as William Alcott, whobelieved that "Nothing ought to be mashed before it is eaten";traces extreme feeders from Paul Bunyan to eating-contest champDale Boone (descended from Daniel, of course); and investigates ourblithe efforts to re-create