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Cooking, Gardening, and the Home March 2016 |
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The desserts of Jordi Roca : over 80 dessert recipes conceived in El Celler de Can Roca by Jordi Roca
Roca’s creations exhibit a whirl of stimulating imagination, daring, and boldness and have made him one of the top influencers in the pastry scene, both nationally and internationally. He aims to give his diners a unique experience, by creating dishes intended to stimulate all the senses. The texture, flavor, aroma, or the preparation of the different ingredients can activate our sensory memory and take us to a moment, a landscape, or a feeling. Restless and curious, this young chef explores the limits of culinary creativity by breaking the mold and thinking outside and beyond the box.
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DIY Pickling : Step-by-Step Recipes for Fermented, Fresh, and Quick Pickles
by Rockridge Press
Work your way through a wide range of pickling projects with: Over 100 step-by-step pickling recipes Detailed troubleshooting guides to ensure pickling success Insider tips and anecdotes from pickling experts Chapters dedicated to fermented pickles and Asian pickles Instructions for canning and storing your pickles A bonus chapter about how to integrate pickles into your everyday cooking. Whether you are new to pickling or looking to go beyond the basics, DIY Pickling will give you the tools and tips you need to unleash your inner kitchen crafter and master your pickling skills.
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Fermented : a beginner's guide to making your own sourdough, yogurt, sauerkraut, kefir, kimchi, and more
by Charlotte Pike
Provides recipes for fermenting food staples, including sauerkraut, yogurt, labneh, and sourdough, and incorporating them into a range of dishes.
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The Modern Family cookbook
by Time Inc. Books
The Dunphy, Delgado, Pritchett, and Tucker families share their favorite recipes, including Mitchell's So-Cal tomatillo avocado dip, Claire's pesto shrimp pasta, Gloria's grilled steak wraps with avocado pico de gallo, and Manny's tiramisu.
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My kitchen year : 136 recipes that saved my life
by Ruth Reichl
The high-profile restaurant critic and former editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine shares dozens of favorite comfort-food recipes that helped her recover from depression and reconnect with a sense of purpose after the magazine was shut down.
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First bite : how we learn to eat
by Bee Wilson
The award-winning food writer and author of Consider the Fork draws on current research to trace the origins of food habits in culture, memory and appetite to explain how to alter one's palate to promote better health and fulfillment.
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Bone deep broth : healing properties with bone broth
by Taylor Chen
Describes how to create bone broth from beef, pork, poultry, or fish bones, and provides nutritious recipes featuring bone broth, including gingered borscht, poached eggs in tomato and bone broth sauce, spicy prawn stew, and Malaysian laksa.
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Cooking: Cocktails and Spirits
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Tequila Mockingbird : Cocktails With a Literary Twist
by Tim Federle
Tequila Mockingbird is the ultimate cocktail book for the literary obsessed. Featuring 65 delicious drink recipes, paired with wry commentary on history's most beloved novels, the book also includes bar bites, drinking games, and whimsical illustrations throughout.
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Gone with the gin : cocktails with a Hollywood twist
by Tim Federle
A cocktail book for classic movie aficionados pairs 50 drinks with history's most quotable films and is complemented by whimsical commentary, movie-themed snack suggestions and lighthearted illustrations.
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The School of Sophisticated Drinking : An Intoxicating History of Seven Spirits
by Kerstin Ehmer
"The school of sophisticated drinking" traces the deep-seated lineage of drinking in the social, political, and even scentific developments of our culture. Inspired by an ongoing series of lectures at Berlin's legendary Potsdamer Strasse cocktail den, the Victoria Bar, this comprehensive books delves into the sociopolitical significance of and technological innovations behind a familiar wine or spirit-- brandy, vodka, whisky, rum, gin, tequila, and champagne-- and shares plenty of tales of libational adventure. Whether you're an expert drinker or a novice barfly, it'll give you plenty to contemplate inside your glass.
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Sweetly Stitched Handmades
by Amy Sinibaldi
Sweetly Stitched Handmades includes 18 original designs that incorporate Amy Sinibaldi's love for patchwork and embroidery, natural linen, and a carefully chosen color palette of patterns and prints. The projects range in difficulty so that a beginning sewer may easily complete a few projects from start to finish, while others are more difficult and a more advanced sewer may be challenged to learn some new techniques. Projects include a color-block baby quilt, a crayon-castle caddy, a jam-jar pincushion, an airmail tote bag, and a simple "Home Sweet Home" embroidery.
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Homemade modern : smart DIY designs for a stylish home
by Ben Uyeda
Presents 30 DIY furniture-making projects to craft at home, with step-by-step instructions and lists of materials needed for making a plywood media console, zipstitch chair, concrete kitchen island, pipe and wood bar stools, platform bed and a geometric dog house.
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The Home: Love and Relationships
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The wait : a powerful practice to finding the love of your life and the life you love
by DeVon Franklin
Hollywood power couple DeVon Franklin and Meagan Good candidly share about their courtship and marriage, and the key to their success--waiting. Columbia Tristar Pictures executive DeVon Franklin and award-winning actress Meagan Good have learned sometimes all we can do is wait for "the one" to come into our lives. They spent years crossing paths but it wasn't until they were thrown together while working on the film Jumping the Broom that their storybook romance began. Faced with starting a new relationship and wanting to avoid potentially devastating relationship pitfalls, DeVon and Meagan chose to do something almost unheard of in today's society--abstain from sex until they were married. In The Wait, DeVon and Meagan share the life-changing message that waiting--rather than rushing a relationship--can help you find the person you're meant to be with. Filled with candid his-and-hers accounts of the most important moments of their relationship, and practical advice on how waiting for everything--from dating to sex--can transform relationships, allowing you to find a deep connection based on patience, trust, and faith.
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You probably shouldn't write that : tips and tricks for creating an online dating profile that doesn't suck
by Lisa Hoehn
Dating virtuoso and profile expert Lisa Hoehn has helped thousands of people meet, date, and fall in love (or into bed). In You Probably Shouldn't Write That, she offers a complete, no-nonsense approach to becoming the most attractive person on any dating site or app, including: Figuring out WTF to write, Choosing your most flattering photos, Attracting the right people, Sending that perfect message. Whether you're sharpening your profile, starting fresh, or looking to try a new site, Lisa will help you stop wasting time, energy, and money--and start getting the dates you deserve.
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It ended badly : thirteen of the worst breakups in history
by Jennifer Wright
The New York Observer columnist and co-founder of TheGloss.com presents a lighthearted, carefully researched pop history of the disastrous love lives of prominent historical figures, from Emperor Nero and Lord Byron to Norman Mailer and Elizabeth Taylor.
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