books: cooking, food & wine - top sellers ...     books:       The Skinnygirl Dish: Easy Recipes for Your Naturally Thin Life41 reviews Bethenny Frankel Fireside, 2009 Loved the book! Great recipes and practical tips As someone who is aspiring to eat more natural and whole foods, I've often struggled with "processed" foods just being easier to grab and use. This books teaches you that it is just as easy to eat natural whole foods - you do not have to spend hours in the kitchen to eat healthy. So far, I've made her greek yogurt "sour cream" - - awesome! And, I've made a few variations of her vinaigrettes. ...             Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook45 reviews Anthony Bourdain Ecco, 2010 Funny and fantastic! Anthony Bourdain is one of those polarizing personalities whom one either loves or hates. The same can be said for his latest book, "Medium Raw". Personally, I enjoy Bourdain's bristly sarcasm, dry as a bone humor, scathing cynicism, and vulgar language. Not surprisingly then, I found this book to be thoroughly entertaining. Chapters swing between impassioned raves and rants about various ...             Kitchen Confidential Updated Edition: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (P.S.)655 reviews Anthony Bourdain Ecco, 2007 Kitchen Confidential This where it all started for Bourdain. Acerbic, witty and brutally honest. If you love his show "No Reservations", you'll love this book!             Hello, Cupcake!: Irresistibly Playful Creations Anyone Can Make265 reviews Karen Tack, Alan Richardson Houghton Mifflin Co, 2008 Nice Cupcake I was watching the video and the book inspired me to make some cupcakes thanks a lots! for your Art.             Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats442 reviews Sally Fallon NewTrends Publishing, 1999 Back to Health Back to Basics Wow, what an incredible book, I have enjoyed reading and pondering the ideas and wisdom in this... a 'diet book'. There is much more that a diet book here. It is loaded with recipes, philosophy, wellness information, traditional ways of preparing food, and the ever appreciated challenges to the 'modern philosophies of eating' that are causing so much sickness and pain. Buy this book and more ...             The Master Your Metabolism Cookbook25 reviews Jillian Michaels Crown, 2010 Finally a cook book that uses REAL ingredients! I appreciate Jillian because she uses real food. Clean, natural foods that arent processed or artifical. Her cookbook includes everyday normal ingredients that you can find in any local supermarket. They arent things youve never seen or heard of. They are simple and relatively fast to prepare. I also liked the sections in the book where she addresses health issues and gives you tips on how to eat ...             Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.)451 reviews Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, ... Harper Perennial, 2008 FOOD FOR THOUGHT Reading "Animal, Vegetable, Mineral," I learned when not to pick asparagus; who's for and against genetically modified foods; where to buy heritage seeds; that tomato plants habitually lose their lower leaves (not to worry); how to make mozzarella cheese; how to spell mozzarella cheese; how mass produced beef, pork, and chickens are raised; what dairy products are okay for the lactose intolerant; ...             In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto381 reviews Michael Pollan Penguin (Non-Classics), 2009 An enlightening, perhaps shocking, revelation that shattered my views of eating properly Reading this book has resulted in a profound change in the way I view eating and buying the food that I eat. It didn't take me long to realize that much of the "food" that I eat is not really food at all, but a highly processed food product concocted by the intricate, industrialized, contemporary food chain. What a revelatory book. The first words in the Introduction to the book had me hooked: ...             The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals627 reviews Michael Pollan Penguin, 2007 Food industry: A Wolf in Sheep's clothing! This book will rock your food consuming world. In the name of capitalism the US food industry has worked hard to engineer food that does not satisfy your body's needs but rather makes you crave more food! The genetically altered and hormone enhanced corn, meat, etc is killing Americans at increasingly higher rates! This book lifts the veil on how food is produced and the scary truth behind ...             Top 100 Baby Purees: 100 Quick and Easy Meals for a Healthy and Happy Baby138 reviews Annabel Karmel Atria, 2006 This is a MUST GET This has got to be the best money I have spent. The book is great, with easy to follow instructions for great tasting food for your infant. My baby enjoys every bite. Even my 8 and 5 year old like tasting the pureed food as I make it, the tastes are amazing, I definetely recommend this to anyone with infants. You and your baby will not be disappointed.             The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl419 reviews Ree Drummond William Morrow Cookbooks, 2009 A Beautiful Homage to the People, Places and Things That She Loves I didn't know that I could have such a great time READING a cookbook. The usual cookbook is just page after page of boring black and white text. Not so with the Pioneer Woman Cooks. Ree Drummond combines her love of family, food and ranching in a beautiful homage to the people, places and things that she loves. Her photography is stunning. The visual step-by-step instructions are easy to ...             Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking647 reviews Jeff Hertzberg MD, Zoe Francois Thomas Dunne Books, 2007 Queen Choly I received this book a few weeks ago and it is the best bread book that I have ever had. It is so easy to make breads like the professionals do but it's made by a non-professional baker. It is wonderful. Buy this book it is the best! Amazon had the best price on it and was delivered very fast...Thank you, I love, love, love this book!             Smoke & Spice: Cooking with Smoke, the Real Way to Barbecue111 reviews Cheryl Alters Jamison, Bill Jamison Harvard Common Press, 2003 Great Book Great book for beginners...like us at Smoking. Lot's of recipes to choose from.             The Eat-Clean Diet Cookbook: Great-Tasting Recipes That Keep You Lean94 reviews Tosca Reno Robert Kennedy Publishing, 2007 The Eat Clean Diet Cookbook Very nice, lovely pix in the book easy to understand and the recipies that I have tried I will do again...lovely. Book in great shape too. Thanks.             Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream & Dessert Book253 reviews Ben Cohen, Jerry Greenfield, ... Workman Publishing Company, 1987 Ended my quest for the perfect ice cream I had memories of homemade icecream perfection from my childhood. However, I never could quite copy the taste no matter how many recipes I tried. I literally printed out volumes of variations, called my parents to ask if they remembered how it was made, looked in other cookbooks...still, there was something missing. I ordered this book after seeing some great reviews on Amazon figuring that at ...             Health The Carb Lovers Diet: Eat What You Love, Get Slim For Life Ellen Kunes, Frances Largeman-Roth Oxmoor House, 2010 The editors of Health Magazine (and top nutrition scientists) have big news: Eating carbs is the best way to get and stay slim. Breakthrough research revealed in this book shows how certain carb-rich foods--especially those with the amazing natural ingredient called Resistant Starch--act as powerful metabolism boosters and appetite suppressants. Rather than making you fat and bloated, as decades of low-carb diet gurus claimed, ...             Hungry Girl: 200 Under 200: 200 Recipes Under 200 Calories479 reviews Lisa Lillien St. Martin's Griffin, 2009 Great Book! By using just a few simple substitutions and adjusted cooking methods you can stay satisfied without sacrificing taste! Genius! I am incorporating the recipes into my weight watchers plan and staying full and not feeling like I am depriving myself. Small suggestion...I personally do not like shirataki noodles, so just sub out some whole grain pasta. I make the "fettuccine hungry girlfredo ...             Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook313 reviews Isa Chandra Moskowitz, Terry Hope Romero Da Capo Press, 2007 YOU HAD ME AT LEMON BARS! My best friend loaned me this book, and after reading half of it, I knew I wanted it! The dialogue is upbeat and sassy. The recipes range from comfortable to creative. None of the recipes look like "too much work," with the exception of a few special occasion foods. I love this book because it's MASSIVE! When I want to make something, I looked in about 5 cookbooks, and more often than not, ...             The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America's Most ...96 reviews Karen Page, Andrew Dornenburg Little, Brown and Company, 2008 Flavor made easy The Flavor Bible is a well written and highly detailed book that leads the reader down a road to understanding flavor from somewhere between an artistic viewpoint and a magical experience. The authors spend an extensive amount of time developing the readers understanding of what flavor really is. Much less time is spent on the clinical side of "cooking something." The latter part of the book ...             Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Vol. 1287 reviews Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, ... Alfred A. Knopf, 2001 A Master Work This is the second copy of this book that I bought since my original is in storage somewhere in Michigan. Julia is a master at telling you what to do as well as why to do it and how to recover from inevitable mistakes. Cooking her way does take us back to a time when people actually made time to cook. I enjoy taking the time to make the delicious dishes described in here. Many recipes are ...          • Filet mignon (French for "dainty fillet") is a steak cut of beef taken from the tenderloin, or psoas major of the steer or heifer. • Baby food is any food that is given specifically to infants, roughly between the ages of four months to two years. The food comes in multiple varieties and tastes, can be produced by many manufacturers, or may be table food that the rest of the family is eating, mashed up. A common trait of the many different baby foods is that they are designed for ease of eating; either a soft, liquidy paste or an easily chewed food. 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