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Antioxidants in Vegetables and Nuts - Properties and Health Benefits
by Gulzar Ahmad Nayik Amir GullThis book covers the nutritional and nutraceutical profiles of a wide range of popularly consumed vegetables and nuts. The first half of the book focuses on popular vegetables, and describes how higher vegetable consumption reduces the risk of diseases ranging from diabetes to osteoporosis, diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, cardiovascular diseases, autoimmune diseases and cancer. The book also includes an interesting section on the antioxidant potential of mushrooms. In turn, the second half discusses the nutritional value of various nuts. Nuts are nutrient-dense foods with complex matrices rich in unsaturated fats, high-quality protein, fiber, minerals, tocopherols, phytosterols and phenolics. The respective chapters illustrate how the consumption of nuts could ward off chronic diseases like hypertension, cancer, inflammation, oxidative stress, high blood pressure, coronary heart disease etc. In order to effectively promote vegetable and nut consumption, it is necessary to know and understand the nutritional and nutraceutical profiles of vegetables & nuts. Given its scope, the book will be of interest to students, researchers, food scientists, olericulturists, dietitians and agricultural scientists alike. Those working in the vegetable and nut processing industries, horticultural departments and other agricultural departments will also find the comprehensive information relevant to their work.
Olla De Barro (Cocina Rápida Y Sabrosa): Maravillosas Recetas de Cocción Lenta (Cocina rápida y Sabrosa)
by Claire NaylorEl libro de cocina para olla de cocción lenta tiene recetas para desayunos sabrosos, aperitivos agradables para el público, sopas satisfactorias, platos principales deliciosos y algunos platos y postres deliciosos. ¡Tendrás muchas opciones de comidas que encantará a toda la familia! ¿Que estas esperando? Haga una comida fácil de cocción lenta esta noche. Para aprovechar al máximo su olla de cocción lenta, lo importante es tener en cuenta que funciona de manera más efectiva cuando se trata de una preparación avanzada. Especialmente si tienes poco tiempo, preparar todos los ingredientes para tu comida cocinada a fuego lento la noche anterior será de gran ayuda. Algunos ingredientes, como las cebollas, producirán mejores resultados si están precocinados, pero todo se reduce a preferencias y sabor. Ponga todos los ingredientes preparados en su olla de cocción lenta la noche anterior, cubra el plato y déjelo en el refrigerador durante la noche. Por la mañana, saque la olla hasta que alcance la temperatura ambiente y luego esté listo para comenzar a cocinar
Big Ranch, Big City Cookbook: Recipes from Lambert's Texas Kitchens
by June Naylor Louis LambertA proudly Texan collection of 125 recipes that blend sophisticated techniques and ingredients with hearty, down-home ranch cooking, from a chef with five successful restaurants.A descendent of cattle ranchers, chef Lou Lambert's cuisine is neither chuck-wagon chow nor French bistro fare. He melds real West Texas flair with the contemporary fine food that he learned to cook at the CIA and then perfected at Wolfgang Puck's Postrio, creating big flavor dishes such as Beef Tenderloin with Blue Crab and Bearnaise and Coriander-Roasted Leg of Lamb with Border Chimichurri. Big Ranch, Big City taps into deep Texan pride, but Lambert's urban, elevated take on Lone Star standards will have broad appeal nationwide.
Cooking the Cowboy Way: Recipes Inspired by Campfires, Chuck Wagons, and Ranch Kitchens
by June Naylor Grady SpearsLife in the saddle, on the trail, and in the outback has forged a style of living that cowboy-turned-chef Grady Spears calls the Cowboy Way. It's a life where boots and hats are much more about function than fashion. It means that when you eat, drink, and breathe the tending of cattle, raising beef is not just some exercise where loss is charted on a spreadsheet. When your days are filled with the smells of fresh-cut hay and the creaking of worn leather, when you wake up with the sun and to the smell of coffee on the boil and biscuits from the chuck wagon, you are living the Cowboy Way.Because cowboys spend long days outdoors in every kind of weather, sometimes for weeks at a time, satiating a cowboy's hunger is a challenge for ranch cooks from Texas to Florida, north into Canada, and south of the border into Mexico. This collection of almost one hundred recipes is not only the result of Grady's journey across North America, but also the cowboy's journey through history.In Cooking the Cowboy Way, you'll have a ringside seat at the rodeo as Grady wrestles down new recipes from some incredible cowboy cooks and kitchen wranglers who know what hungry cow folks want to eat. And in the process, you'll be carried away by the magic of starry nights by the campfire and seduced by the heritage of the chuck wagon and ranch kitchens, where the menus are still stoked by the traditions of the Old West just as they have been for a century or more.
The Texas Cowboy Kitchen
by June Naylor Grady Spears"Grady's probably the only guy I know who could dress up a Frito pie and make it look pretty, and the only cook who'd think of marinating skirt steak in Dr. Pepper. . . . [He is equally] at ease in a worn pair of leather chaps as he is wielding a saute pan."—Nolan Ryan, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher and lifelong cowboyAs at home on the coffee table as it is on the kitchen counter, this definitive cowboy cookbook features historical essays and photographs depicting life on the Chisholm Trail alongside recipes that reinvent cowboy cuisine. Cowboy-turned-chef Grady Spears reinvents chuckwagon dishes from Barbecued Quail Tamales to Pork Tenderloin with Watermelon Salsa to Butterscotch Pie by elevating them to haute cowboy cuisine.Equal parts cookbook, history lesson, and photographic essay, The Texas Cowboy Kitchen blends Spears's distinctive culinary recipes with June Naylor's narrative of life on the Chisholm Trail and Erwin E. Smith's award-winning black-and-white cowboy photography and four-color culinary shots. Divided into 10 chapters ranging from "Campfire Cocktails" to "Things You Don't Rope" to "Chuckwagon Secrets," The Texas Cowboy Kitchen contains 100 original recipes perfected at Spears's renowned former restaurants, the Chisholm Club in Fort Worth, Texas, and the Nutt House Restaurant in Granbury, Texas—both of which satisfied wagonloads of hungry customers.
Fair Trade Rebels: Coffee Production and Struggles for Autonomy in Chiapas (Diverse Economies and Livable Worlds)
by Lindsay NaylorReassessing interpretations of development with a new approach to fair trade Is fair trade really fair? Who is it for, and who gets to decide? Fair Trade Rebels addresses such questions in a new way by shifting the focus from the abstract concept of fair trade—and whether it is &“working&”—to the perspectives of small farmers. It examines the everyday experiences of resistance and agricultural practice among the campesinos/as of Chiapas, Mexico, who struggle for dignified livelihoods in self-declared autonomous communities in the highlands, confronting inequalities locally in what is really a global corporate agricultural chain.Based on extensive fieldwork, Fair Trade Rebels draws on stories from Chiapas that have emerged from the farmers&’ interaction with both the fair-trade–certified marketplace and state violence. Here Lindsay Naylor discusses the racialized and historical backdrop of coffee production and rebel autonomy in the highlands, underscores the divergence of movements for fairer trade and the so-called alternative certified market, traces the network of such movements from the highlands and into the United States, and evaluates existing food sovereignty and diverse economic exchanges. Putting decolonial thinking in conversation with diverse economies theory, Fair Trade Rebels evaluates fair trade not by the measure of its success or failure but through a unique, place-based approach that expands our understanding of the relationship between fair trade, autonomy, and economic development.
The Cheffe: A Culinary Novel
by Marie NDiayeThe Cheffe is born into a very poor family in Sainte-Bazeille in south-western France, but when she takes a job working in the kitchen of a couple in the Landes region, it does not take long before it becomes clear that the Cheffe has an unusual, remarkable talent for cooking. She dreams in recipes, she's always imagining food combinations and cooking times, she hunts down elusive flavours and aromas, and she soon usurps the couple's cook.But for all her genius, the Cheffe remains very secretive about the rest of her life. She becomes pregnant, but will not reveal her daughter's father. She shares nothing of her feelings or emotions. And when the demands of her work and caring for her child become too much, she leaves her baby in the care of her family, and sets out to open her own restaurant, which will soon win rave reviews and be lauded by all.But her relationship with her daughter will never be easy, and before long, it will threaten to destroy everything the Cheffe has spent her life perfecting.
The 21-Day Weight Loss Kickstart
by Dr Neal BarnardThis easy to follow diet still allows you to eat unlimited carbohydrates, and promises: Appetite reduction Metabolism boost No calorie counting No points to calculate Dr Neal Barnard has been at the forefront of cutting-edge research on what it takes to lose weight permanently and with his medically proven programme you will also lower cholesterol and blood pressure.With clear, simple guidelines, meal plans, more that 60 recipes, tips for supermarket shopping and help on how to navigate a restaurant menu, THE 21-DAY WEIGHT LOSS KICKSTART is a diet that will give you the body you have always dreamed of having.
Bill Neal's Southern Cooking (Revised and Enlarged Edition)
by Bill NealSouthern cooking, the most interesting and complex regional cuisine in America, remains a mystery to many professional cooks and southerners. With a stellar collection of recipes, Neal reveals the background and subtleties of southern foods. He uses imaginative new ways with old standards to make the recipes more accessible, but he never resorts to shortcuts or processed ingredients. He also shows how the meeting of Native American, Western European, and African cultures has created this cuisine.
Dietary Treatment of Epilepsy
by Elizabeth NealEpilepsy is a common chronic neurological disorder characterised by recurrent unprovoked seizures, and affects 50 million people worldwide. Approximately 30% of these do not have seizure control even with the best available medications, hence renewed and increasing interest in the use of dietary treatments to treat epilepsy. These treatments include the traditional ketogenic diets but also the newer modified Atkins diet and low glycaemic index treatment. The ketogenic diet is a high-fat, adequate-protein, low-carbohydrate diet that in medicine is used primarily to treat refractory epilepsy in children, and requires the dedicated support of a multi-disciplinary team including doctors and dietitians. Dietary Treatment of Epilepsy: Practical Implementation of Ketogenic Therapy provides comprehensive and practical training on all aspects of implementing and managing dietary treatments for epilepsy, with key chapters on assessment, calculations, implementation, monitoring and complications. Edited by a highly respected expert in the field supported by a strong team of contributors, this is a must-have resource for paediatric dietitians and other members of the therapy team.
libro di cucina vegetariano: Ricettario dietetico vegetariano ricco di sostanze nutritive proteiche per un corpo tonico
by Macy NealPER TUTTI GLI AMANTI VEGGIE QUESTO È IL LIBRO CHE STAVI ASPETTANDO! Una dieta vegetariana deve includere un'ampia miscela di verdure, frutta, grassi sani, cereali e proteine. Per sostituire le proteine che ottieni dalla carne in una dieta, dovrai includere cibi vegetali ricchi di proteine come semi, noci, legumi, seitan, tofu e tempeh. Il consumo di cibi integrali ricchi di sostanze nutritive, come frutta e verdura, può fornire al tuo corpo i minerali e le vitamine necessari per colmare le lacune nutrizionali in una dieta. Alcune ricerche hanno scoperto che una dieta vegetariana può essere collegata a un minor rischio di sviluppare il cancro e quelli del colon, del seno, dello stomaco e del retto. Tuttavia, manca di prove sufficienti per dimostrare che una dieta vegetariana può ridurre efficacemente il rischio di cancro. Le persone che seguono una dieta vegetariana possono mantenere livelli sani di zucchero nel sangue. Può anche aiutare a prevenire l'insorgenza del diabete controllando i livelli di zucchero nel sangue. Le diete vegetariane aiutano nella riduzione di varie malattie cardiache che possono rendere il tuo cuore più forte e più sano. In questo libro troverai ricette fantastiche come: ★ Ciotola di fagioli neri ★ Tortilla per la colazione ★ Frittata di zucchine ★ palline di parmigiano e spinaci ★ Funghi ripieni ★ patate al forno e funghi con spinaci ★ Curry vellutato di ceci ★ Tagliatelle al sesamo ★ Frullato Tripla minaccia ★ Frullato di frutta e menta ★ Frullato di kefir ai mirtilli ★ Frullato di banana e burro di arachidi ★ Frullato al Matcha al cocco ★ Frullato al sole ★ Insalata di cavolo con pezzetti piccanti di tempeh e ceci ★ Bistecche di tofu alla griglia e insalata di spinaci ★ Brownie vegano ★ Pesto di cavolo nero e noci ★ Spag
Remembering Bill Neal
by Moreton NealA gifted chef, restaurateur, and writer working at a time when Americans were beginning to take a new interest in their culinary heritage, Bill Neal (1950-1991) helped raise Southern food to national prominence. Having rescued spattered and faded recipe cards from the Chapel Hill restaurant they founded together, Bill's former wife and business partner, Moreton Neal, has compiled a book that embodies the diversity and range of his cooking and illustrates the aesthetic that he applied to making meals. Remembering Bill Neal features more than 150 recipes--most of them never published before--from all stages of Bill's career: classic French dishes from La Residence, Southern traditional cooking from Crook's Corner, and fast and easy recipes from home. Moreton's introductory passages and headnotes introduce Bill to readers and put his recipes in the context of his career and his legacy as a chef.Part cookbook, part memoir, this volume both instructs and entertains, showing the lasting importance of Bill Neal's influence in the American regional cooking movement as well as being a muse and a mentor to a generation of Southern home and professional cooks.
Dieta Paleo: La guía paso a paso para principiantes (Pierda peso y gane salud)
by Ricardo NealPaleo para principiantes incluye deliciosas recetas para cada comida del día y es una guía completa para convertirse en Paleo. La dieta Paleo es ideal para las personas que tienen problemas de peso, desórdenes autoinmunes o una variedad de otras afecciones. La dieta Paleo puede bajar su colesterol y presión sanguínea, mejorar su control de azúcar en sangre y ayudarle a sentirse lleno y menos hambriento a pesar de consumir menos calorías. Estar preparado y tener la actitud mental correcta puede definitivamente ayudarle a empezar y mantenerse con la dieta. Con el tiempo, se convertirá en más que solo una dieta, envolverá su estilo de vida y le mantendrá sano y seguro. La parte más difícil es sencillamente empezar.
Food Fights & Culture Wars: A Secret History of Taste
by Tom NealonRevolution! Conflict! Gluttony! The gloriously illustrated history of food, including mythical origin stories, unusual recipes and more! In this eclectic book of food history, Tom Nealon takes on such overlooked themes as carp and the Crusades, brown sauce and Byron, and chillies and cannibalism, and suggests that hunger and taste are the twin forces that secretly defined the course of civilization. Through war and plague, revolution and migration, people have always had to eat. What and how they ate provoked culinary upheaval around the world as ingredients were traded and fought over, and populations desperately walked the line between satiety and starvation. Parallel to the history books, a second, more obscure history was also being recorded in the cookbooks of the time, which charted the evolution of meals and the transmission of ingredients around the world. Food Fights and Culture Wars: A Secret History of Taste explores the mysteries at the intersection of food and society, and attempts to make sense of the curious area between fact and fiction. Beautifully illustrated with material from the collection of the British Library, this wide-ranging book addresses some of the fascinating, forgotten stories behind everyday dishes and processes. Among many conspiracies and controversies, the author meditates on the connections between the French Revolution and table settings, food thickness and colonialism, and lemonade and the Black Plague.
Simple Food for the Good Life
by Helen Nearing"Simple Food for the Good Life" is a jovial collection of "quips, quotes, and one-of-a-kind recipes meant to amuse and intrigue all of those who find themselves in the kitchen, willingly or otherwise. " Recipes such as Horse Chow, Scott's Emulsion, Crusty Carrot Croakers, Raw Beet Borscht, Creamy Blueberry Soup, and Super Salad for a Crowd should improve the mood as well as whet the appetite of any guest. Here is an antidote for the whole foods enthusiast who is "fed up" with the anxieties and drudgeries of preparing fancy meals with stylish, expensive, hard-to-find ingredients. This celebration of salads, leftovers, raw foods, and homegrown fruits and vegetables takes the route from their stem or vine-to your table.
Holiday Cookies: Showstopping Recipes to Sweeten the Season
by Elisabet Der NederlandenFrom Icebox Pinwheel Cookies to Red-and-White Meringue Kisses to Apple Cider Caramels, find new inspiration for the best of seasonal baking with Holiday Cookies. This instant holiday classic is packed with 50 recipes, each gorgeously photographed and meticulously tested, along with dozens of decorating and packaging ideas. Filled with reimagined favorites like Giant Molasses Spice Cookies and Hazelnut Sandwich Cookies; confections like Peppermint Bark, Smoked Almond and Cacao Nib Brittle, and Dark Chocolate–Hazelnut Fudge; and detailed instructions for gorgeous gingerbread houses, cookie place cards, and edible ornaments, this is a cookie book like no other. Because the recipes are easy to scale up or down, Holiday Cookies is perfect for cookie exchanges, gift-giving, and just enjoying throughout the season. From a veteran baker and recipe developer, each cookie in this collection is guaranteed to be a stand-out, and destined to become your new Christmas classic.
Proof Positive: How to Reliably Combat Disease and Achieve Optimal Health
by Neil NedleyA must for all wanting to use natural means for preventing or treating high blood pressure, blocked arteries, cancer, chronic fatigue, diabetes, osteoporosis, and many other afflictions. Provides information that minimizes the use of prescription drugs, diet fads, and their accompanying side effects. Highly illustrated in full color, this tome of information is designed to be readable and easy-to-understand. Singular case studies, which can be misleading, are not used. Instead, the results of a host of scientific studies conducted around the world are cited, many of which involve large groups of individuals with widely varying lifestyles. Many topics are covered such as how to strengthen the immune system, overcome addictions, increase reasoning ability, cope with stress, and enhance children's mental and physical potential.
The Cleanse Companion Cookbook
by Bonnie Nedrow Jeff HauptmanWhether you are in great health and want to stay that way, or needing to heal from chronic illness, the The Cleanse Companion Cookbook will serve your body's needs. If you love delicious foods, this book will be your true companion for healthy nutritious meals.The Cleanse Companion Cookbook is intended as a reference for people on a detoxification program, providing the optimal foods to support naturopathic cleansing. Doctors around the country are using it for this and other health promoting purposes.It is an excellent book for folks suffering from diabetes, heart disease, osteoporosis, and any other chronic illness. It can be used to help families that need to be on special anti-inflammatory diets, as all the recipes are wheat, egg, dairy and nightshade free. These hypoallergenic recipes can help reduce inflammation so that your body can regain normal healthy functioning.The recipes are also perfect as a basic diet for healthy weight loss, or for optimal body composition programs, when you may not want to lose weight but you want more muscle.Best of all, The Cleanse Companion Cookbook has fabulous tasting recipes with the addition of sound advice on the health benefits of fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes as well as a variety of spices and herbs.
The Neelys' Celebration Cookbook: Down-Home Meals for Every Occasion
by Gina Neely Pat NeelyPat and Gina Neely, the beloved husband-and-wife team and authors of the New York Times best seller Down Home with the Neelys, are all about lettin' the good times roll.It takes family, friends, and ample good food, and in their new book, they share their recipes and secrets for entertaining year-round, dishing up new spins on seasonal classics, and suggesting occasions to celebrate that most of us haven't thought of ourselves.Along with menus for Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter Sunday, and every known holiday in between, here are all the fixings for a year of down home celebrating, 120 recipes including Hoppin' John Soup and Deep-fried Cornish Game Hens for New Year's Day; Smothered Pork Chops and Creamy Garlic Mashed Potatoes for "Welcome Home, Baby"; One-handed Turkey Burgers and Mint Tea for "Spring Cleaning." The Neelys believe that life should be celebrated, holiday or not. With this mouth-watering collection of recipes you have everything you need to Neely-tize your table far beyond the holiday season.From the Hardcover edition.
Down Home with the Neelys
by Gina Neely Patrick Neely Paula DisbroweMeet the Neelys: Pat and Gina, husband-and-wife team, hosts of their own television show, and proprietors of the celebrated Memphis and Nashville eateries, Neely's Bar-B-Que.The Neelys' down-home approach to cooking has earned them the highest accolades from coast to coast. It has also won them millions of viewers on the Food Network. Simply put, the Neelys are all about good food and good times. In this, their eagerly awaited debut cookbook, the Neelys share the delicious food they have been cooking up for years both at home and in their restaurants.Pat and Gina hail from families with a boundless love of cooking and bedrock traditions of sharing meals. At the Neelys', mealtime is family time, and that means no stinting on "the sauce." Indeed, that's one of the Neely secrets: the liberal application of barbeque sauce to almost anything--spaghetti, nachos, salad, you name it. Of course, there are other secrets as well, and you will find them all in the pages of Down Home with the Neelys, along with more than 120 mouthwatering recipes.Here are the tried-and-true southern recipes that have been passed down from one Neely generation to the next, including many of their signature dishes, such as Barbeque Deviled Eggs, Florida Coast Pickled Shrimp, Pat's Wings of Fire, Gina's Collard Greens, Grandma Jean's Potato Salad, Nana's Southern Gumbo, Memphis-sized Pulled Pork Sandwiches with Slaw, Get Yo' Man Chicken, and Sock-It-to-Me Cake. Certainly, no self-respecting southerner would dream of offering a meal to a guest without a proper drink, so Pat and Gina have included some of their favorite libations here, too.The Neelys work, laugh, love, and play harder than any family you'll ever meet. Their love for good food is infectious, and in Down Home with the Neelys, they bring their heavenly inspired cooking down to earth for all to share.
Finding Life's Secret Sauce: How to Fit Good Food, Fitness, and Fun into Your Crazy, Busy Schedule
by Melinda Hinson NeelyDo you want to eat well, exercise and be happy? Does a lack of time stand in the way? If so, it’s time to fit healthy habits into your busy schedule, without turning your life upside down. Finding Life’s Secret Sauce provides a recipe for happy, healthy living. You simply have to find the ingredients that work for you. Eat Up! Forget about diets and deprivation and enjoy good food. Shape Up! Add new twists to the old routine so you get fit and stay that way. Live it Up! Make sure there’s plenty of time leftover for fun. Motivation without intimidation, Finding Life’s Secret Sauce will help cure the wellness blues!
Down Home with the Neelys
by Pat Neely Gina Neely Paula DisbroweMeet the Neelys: Pat and Gina, husband-and-wife team, hosts of their own television show, and proprietors of the celebrated Memphis and Nashville eateries, Neely’s Bar-B-Que.The Neelys’ down-home approach to cooking has earned them the highest accolades from coast to coast. It has also won them millions of viewers on the Food Network. Simply put, the Neelys are all about good food and good times. In this, their eagerly awaited debut cookbook, the Neelys share the delicious food they have been cooking up for years both at home and in their restaurants.Pat and Gina hail from families with a boundless love of cooking and bedrock traditions of sharing meals. At the Neelys’, mealtime is family time, and that means no stinting on “the sauce.” Indeed, that’s one of the Neely secrets: the liberal application of barbeque sauce to almost anything—spaghetti, nachos, salad, you name it. Of course, there are other secrets as well, and you will find them all in the pages of Down Home with the Neelys, along with more than 120 mouthwatering recipes.Here are the tried-and-true southern recipes that have been passed down from one Neely generation to the next, including many of their signature dishes, such as Barbeque Deviled Eggs, Florida Coast Pickled Shrimp, Pat’s Wings of Fire, Gina’s Collard Greens, Grandma Jean’s Potato Salad, Nana’s Southern Gumbo, Memphis-sized Pulled Pork Sandwiches with Slaw, Get Yo’ Man Chicken, and Sock-It-to-Me Cake. Certainly, no self-respecting southerner would dream of offering a meal to a guest without a proper drink, so Pat and Gina have included some of their favorite libations here, too.The Neelys work, laugh, love, and play harder than any family you’ll ever meet. Their love for good food is infectious, and in Down Home with the Neelys, they bring their heavenly inspired cooking down to earth for all to share.
Back Home with the Neelys
by Pat Neely Ann Volkwein Gina NeelyFor Pat and Gina Neely the secret to a truly happy home is a lively mix of food and family. In their new book, the best-selling authors draw on their down-home roots and revisit the classic Southern recipes that have been passed down through generations. We're drawn into the kitchens of their mothers and grandmothers and back to a time when produce was picked in the backyard garden and catfish was caught on afternoon fishing trips with Grandpa. In their signature style, Pat and Gina have taken the dishes they were raised on and updated them for today's kitchens. Inside you'll find 100 recipes, including Small Batch Strawberry Jam (best when eaten with Easy Buttermilk and Cream Biscuits), Bourbon French Toast, Crunchy Fried Okra, Skillet Corn Bread, Grilled Succotash, Skillet Roasted Chicken, and Brunswick Stew (which combines a little of everything in your fridge). Pat and Gina believe good food leads to good times and Back Home with the Neelys is sure to bring back fond memories of the tradition, history, and flavors that are present in every family. From the Hardcover edition.
The Best Pasta Sauces: Favorite Regional Italian Recipes: A Cookbook
by Micol NegrinFood writer, cooking teacher, and Milan native Micol Negrin has written the first cookbook to explore the best, most authentic Italian pasta sauce recipes from a regional perspective. The culinary odyssey begins in northern Italy, where rich sauces are prepared with fresh cream or local cheese: Creamy Fontina Sauce with Crushed Walnuts and White Truffle Oil; Parmigiano Sauce with Fresh Nutmeg; Pine Nut and Marjoram Pesto. Central Italy is known for sauces made with cured meats, sheep's milk cheeses, and extra-virgin olive oil: Spicy Tomato, Onion, and Guanciale Sauce; Smashed Potato Sauce with Cracked Black Pepper and Olive Oil; Caramelized Fennel and Crumbled Sausage Sauce. In southern Italy, simple, frugal ingredients meld into satisfying and delicious flavors: Sweet Pepper and Lamb Ragù with Rosemary; Fresh Ricotta Sauce with Diced Prosciutto; Spicy Cannellini Bean Sauce with Pancetta and Arugula. The islands of Sicily and Sardinia take advantage of the bountiful seafood from the Mediterranean and game from the mountainous terrain: Pork Ragù with a Hint of Dark Chocolate and Cinnamon; Red Mullet Roe with Garlicky Bread Crumbs; Rich Lobster Sauce. Negrin also provides a primer on saucing the Italian way, the basics for handmade pastas, the key to cooking pasta al dente, vital ingredients for every Italian kitchen, perfect wine pairings, and the best food shopping sources around the United States. Complete with mouthwatering color photographs and detailed maps of the various regions, The Best Pasta Sauces lets you travel to Italy without ever leaving your kitchen.From the Hardcover edition.
The Last Super Chef
by Chris NegronFamily and food take center stage in this heartfelt middle grade story perfect for fans of John David Anderson and Antony John. For as long as he can remember, Curtis Pith has been obsessed with becoming a chef like Lucas Taylor, host of Super Chef. And Curtis has a secret: Taylor is actually his long-absent father. So when Taylor announces a kids-only season of Super Chef, Curtis finally sees his chance to meet his dad. But after Curtis wins a spot in the competition and arrives in New York to film the show, nothing goes as smoothly as he expected. It’s all riding on the last challenge. If Curtis cooks his heart out like he knows he can, he just might go home with the top prize—and the truth.