Home, Garden, and DIY
November 2021
Recent Releases
Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes From Across the African Diaspora
by Bryant Terry (editor)

What it is: a wide-ranging collection of recipes, essays, poems, and art celebrating Black culture and food by a variety of creators, including Edna Lewis, Erika Council, Lazarus Lynch, and Nina Compton.

Recipes include: Buttermilk Biscuits; Vegetarian Gumbo; Jerk Chicken Ramen; Peach Hand Pie; Ghanaian Crepe Cake; Whiskey Sour. 

Read this next: Toni Tipton-Martin's Jubilee; Alexander Smalls' Meals, Music, and Muses; or Marcus Samuelsson's The Rise.
The King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion: the All-Purpose Baking Cookbook
by King Arthur Flour

The premium flour manufacturer provides a comprehensive reference and resource guide to baking everything from pastries, breads, cakes, popovers, cookies and pasta with easy-to-follow instructions, nutritional information and additional food tips.
Ultimate Guide to Furniture Repair & Refinishing: Restore, Rebuild, and Renew Wooden Furniture
by Brian D. Hingley

Featuring more than 500 step-by-step instructions, photographs and detailed drawings, this must-have DIY guide, which has been newly updated and redesigned, gives you all the information you need for simple repairs all the way to full restorations.
Focus on: Family, Food, and Memories
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
by Barbara Kingsolver with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver

What happened: Acclaimed novelist Barbara Kingsolver and her family moved from Tucson, Arizona to a small town in Virginia's Southern Appalachians where they strove to eat only local or homegrown food (with a few exceptions, such as coffee).

What's inside: details about things like vegetable gardening, turkey breeding, and cooking with what is in season (recipes are included), plus vivid descriptions, humor, and family lore.

Who it's for: You'll relish this tasty memoir if you want to know more about the food you eat or dream of mini-farm life. 
The Tailgate Cookbook: 75 Game-Changing Recipes for the Tastiest Tailgate Ever
by Beth Peterson

A former sports-themed-restaurant owner, award-winning recipe developer and professional tailgater offers 75 delicious, tailgate-ready recipes to prepare for your next big game-day celebration, including salty snacks, buffalo wings, lobster nachos and hamburger-themed cupcakes.
Cook, Eat, Repeat: Ingredients, Recipes, and Stories
by Nigella Lawson

The best-selling author of Nigella Bites combines narrative essays on the family experiences that inspired her career with recipes for such seasonal options as Chicken with Garlic Cream Sauce and Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake.
Sephardi: Cooking the History, Recipes of the Jews of Spain and the Diaspora, From the 13th Century to Today
by Hélène Jawhara Piñer

"This is no ordinary cookbook. It is a cookbook steeped in the history of the Sephardic Jews, culled from such diverse sources as medieval cookbooks, Inquisition trials, medical treatises, and poems. The recipes it contains follow the history of the Jewsof Spain and the Sephardic Diaspora. A culinary story is unearthed thanks to detailed analysis of real sources from the thirteenth century onwards. Whether written in Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, Occitan, Italian, or Hebrew, the recipes bear witness to the culinary richness of the Sephardim, conversos, who were able to transport and bring their cuisines to life wherever they went. Spain, Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, Italy, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico are all countries where the culinary cultureof the Sephardim lives on. Each bite transports us to the most deeply moving and intriguing aspects of the history of the Jews. Eating is to re-remember."
The Food of Oaxaca: Recipes and Stories from Mexico's Culinary Capital
by Alejandro Ruiz

One of Mexico’s most revered chefs introduces us to the vibrant foods of his home state through 50 recipes both ancestral and original, along with thoughtful essays on dishes, ingredients, kitchen tools and local traditions.
In Bibi's Kitchen: the Recipes & Stories of Grandmothers From the Eight African Countries that Touch the Indian Ocean
by Hawa Hassan

The best-selling cookbook author of Feed the Resistance teams up with the founder and CEO of a company that makes condiments inspired by Somalia to present seventy-five recipes and stories gathered from grandmothers of eight African nations.
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