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Home, Garden, and DIY March 2017
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Project smoke : seven steps to smoked food nirvana, plus 100 irresistible recipes from classic (slam-dunk brisket) to adventurous (smoked bacon-bourbon apple crisp)
by Steven Raichlen
"Project Smoke is the How to Grill of smoking, both a complete step-by-step guide to mastering the gear and techniques and a collection of 100 explosively flavorful recipes for smoking every kind of food, from starters to desserts. Project Smoke describes Raichlen's seven steps to smoked food nirvana, including: 1. Choose Your Smoker; 4. Source Your Fuel; 7. Know When Your Food Is Done. There's an in-depth rundown on various smokers; the essential brines,rubs, marinades, and barbecue sauces; and a complete exposition of woods: and ways to smoke-cold smoking, hot smoking, smoke-roasting and smoke-braising. Then the recipes, all big-flavored dishes. Bacon-Crap Poppers, Cherry-Glazed Baby Back Ribs. Slam-Dunk Brisket, Porkstrami, and Jamaican Jerk Chicken. Even desserts and cocktails-Smoked Chocolate Bread Pudding or a Mezcalini, anyone? Illustrated throughout with gorgeous full-color photographs, it's a book that inspires hunger at every glance, and satisfies with every recipe tried"
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The useful book : 201 life skills they used to teach in home ec and shop
by Sharon Bowers
"A modern and energetically designed encyclopedia of DIY with everything you need to know to roll up your sleeves and cook it, build it, sew it, clean it, or repair it yourself. In other words, everything you would have learned from your shop and home ecteachers, if you had them. Features practical projects and how-tos, with step-by-stp instructions and illustrations, relevant charts, sidebars, lists, and handy toolboxes. There's a kitchen crash course. Sewing 101. Housecare tips. Plus, in shop, the tools that everyone should have, and dozens of cool projects that teach fundamental techniques, from making a bookshelf to re-wiring a lamp"
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| 200 Tips, Techniques & Recipes for Natural Beauty by Shannon BuckShopping for beauty products can elicit two kinds of sticker shock: mainstream products can be packed with unpronounceable ingredients, while organic products can be prohibitively pricey. You can avoid both pitfalls with this thorough, photo-illustrated guide to homemade natural beauty products. Offering options for an impressive range of skin and hair types, these recipes are also rich in context, including details about the science of essential oils, sourcing fresh ingredients, and finding vegan alternatives (among many other topics). Whether you're concocting products for yourself or gifting them to others, 200 Tips is sure to pique the exploratory spirit of DIY beauty devotees. |
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| The Recipe for Radiance: Discover Beauty's Best-Kept Secrets in Your Kitchen by Alexis WolferEmploying a witty and welcoming tone, blogger and TV personality Alexis Wolfer invites you to "cook yourself beautiful" in this antidote to typical diet books. Celebrity cameos are sprinkled throughout the chapters, each of which matches a beauty concern to recipes for food-based solutions that you can apply (cantaloupe and carrot mask, basil soothing spray) or eat (orange sunshine soup, kale chips with spicy cucumber dip). Made primarily from easy-to-find ingredients, these recipes are easy and economical, giving them a broad appeal. Curious DIYers can continue exploring natural and kitchen-based methods in Jolene Hart's Eat Pretty or Goop Clean Beauty by the editors of "lifestyle collective" Goop. |
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Natural Hair Coloring: How to Use Henna and Other Pure Herbal Pigments...
by Christine Shahin
Henna, indigo, amla, and cassia -- before there were chemical dyes, these plants were the go-to resources for hair coloring, and they're still valuable today for people in search of nontoxic beauty products. Eco-salon owner Christine Shahin is an advocate for these natural pigments, and by using this book, you can replicate her methods for tinting your tresses in various shades of black, brown, or red. Shahin's clear, careful instructions (complete with photos) make it easy to follow along, even if you're new to the world of natural dyes. For a wider range of natural beauty products, pick up Annie Stole's Homemade Beauty.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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