Food and Wine

It's a fact: Not all carbohydrates are bad for you. Unlike Atkins, South Beach, and other diets, Dr. Douglas Markham's breakthrough health plan is a more comprehensive, sustainable, and satisfying program for weight loss and total-body health. more...

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Newly revised, this bestseller now boasts even more to chew on with 25 additional recipes for colossal cookie creations. While it's clear--from malls to vending machines to grocery stores--that big, old-fashioned cookies are incredibly popular, many cookbook recipes still produce bite-size, crunchy results. Enter Big, Soft, Chewy Cookies to right this wrong with more than75 recipes for enormous, gooey cookies to sink your teeth into. Readers will find traditional and new favorites like:.:.; Coconut Bars.; Chocolate Chips.; Apricot Pillows.; Oatmeal White Chocolates... and more. Big, Soft Chewy Cookies has a cookie for every palette. Easy to-follow recipes for bar, drop, and holiday treats make this tasty tome a staple for every kitchen. more...

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Takes the reader on an historical journey of the discovery and development of sugar around the world. more...

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Adventures in Flavor with Soy, Beans, Vegetables, and Grains Youthful, exciting, and tickling the palate with flavor, West Coast vegetarian chef Ken Charney offers his lively take on vegetables, tofu, beans, and grains with over 200 recipes in The Bold Vegetarian Chef. Along with vibrantly seasoned, tempting food, Charney explains clearly how to work with key ingredients in the vegetarian kitchen, offering clear instructions and creative ways with soy, tempeh, and seitan, the wheat "meat." He also describes how to buy, store, and use any number of other vegetarian products. The Bold Vegetarian Chef presents a contemporary, upbeat take that makes vegetarian cooking as natural and easy as lifting a fork. Ken Charney (Seattle, WA) works for PCC Natural Markets, the largest chain of natural food cooperatives in the country. The author of numerous articles on vegetarian and soy cooking, he has appeared on local television in the Seattle area. more...

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Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. In China, in the eighth century, it entered the realm of poetry as one of the polite amusements. The fifteenth century saw Japan ennoble it into a religion of aestheticism--Teaism. Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life. In 1906 in turn-of-the century Boston, a small, esoteric book about tea was written with the intention of being read aloud in the famous salon of Isabella Gardner. It was authored by Okakura Kakuzo, a Japanese philosopher, art expert, and curator. Little known at the time, Kakuzo would emerge as one of the great thinkers of the early 20th century, a genius who was insightful, witty and greatly responsible for bridging Western and Eastern cultures. Nearly a century later, Kakuzo's The Book of Tea is still beloved the world over. more...

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