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  Atkins for Life Low-Carb Cookbook: More than 250 Recipes for Every Occasion

  by Veronica C. Atkins

  "Controlling carbs works in virtually every situation, when you're having dinner with the family or hosting a dinner party, when you're in a hurry or spending the day creating delicacies in your kitchen. If you like to take shortcuts or you enjoy starting from scratch, if you mostly tinker in the kitchen on the weekends or cook every day, here are the recipes that suit your lifestyle."- Veronica Atkins Atkins for... (more)
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  The Chocolate Mouse Trap: A Chocoholic Mystery (Chocoholic Mysteries)

  by JoAnna Carl

  Chocolate-shop manager Lee McKinney has had enough of party planner Julie Singletree's cutesy e-mails. Then somebody actually kills the woman, putting everyone on her mailing list on edge. As their connections to the murder emerge, so do more attacks. Lee smells a rat-and it's not made of chocolate. And if she doesn't want to be permanently deleted, it's up to her to trap it.
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  The Pleasures of Slow Food: Celebrating Authentic Traditions, Flavors, and Recipes

  by Corby Kummer

  In a world increasingly dominated by fast food, The Pleasures of Slow Food celebrates heritage recipes, artisan traditions, and the rapid evolution of a movement to make good food a part of everyday life. Slow Food is defined by how it’s made: if it’s allowed to ripen before it’s harvested, prepared by hand and enjoyed among friends, it’s Slow Food. It’s a philosophy, a way to farm, a way to cook...a way to live.... (more)
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  Rodale's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Herbs

  by William H. Hylton, Claire Kowalchik

  How to grow herbs, design herb gardens, cook with herbs, make herb dyes and herb medicines--it's all here. This extensively researched A-to-Z encyclopedia describes more than 150 herbs and their uses.
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  Better Homes and Gardens Cookies Cookies Cookies Any-Day Treats/Christmastime Treats

  by Better Homes and Gardens

  Two wonderful cookbooks in one--now available in soft cover. Any-Day Treats features recipes for treats just like the ones Grandma used to bake. Flip the book over and Christmastime Treats provides an array of delicious goodies that will make the holiday season extra special.
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  Claire's Corner Copia Cookbook: 225 Homestyle Vegetarian Recipes from Claire's Family to Yours

  by Claire Criscuolo

  Claire Criscuolo founded Claire's Corner Copia in 1975, on the same New Haven corner where it stands today, and where devotees of delectable vegetarian cuisine still flock. Now Claire's new cookbook enables cooks to re-create the same rich-tasting, low-fat, meatless meals in their own kitchens.
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  Mary Poppins in the Kitchen: A Cookery Book with a Story

  by P. L. Travers

  Get a unique glimpse at the famous Poppins cast as the spit-spot English nanny and the Banks children take over the kitchen for a week. With the help of familiar visitors like the Bird Woman, Admiral Boom, and Mr. and Mrs. Turvy, Mary Poppins teaches her irrepressible young charges the basics of cooking, from A to Z. And young readers can re-create the week's menus by following the thirty different... (more)
• The Joy of Cooking

  

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  The Joy of Cooking

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  The Best of Lord Krishna's Cuisine: 172 Recipes from the Art of Indian Vegetarian Cooking

  by Yamuna Devi

  A new edition of this classic cookbook is now available in a handy "best of" format. A decade ago Yamuna Devi's Lord Krishna's Cuisine was named Cookbook of the Year by the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP). The James Beard Foundation then recognized Devi's second book, Yamuna's Table , as the Best International Cookbook of the year in 1992. Now this beloved author, lecturer, and... (more)
• Art of Indian Vegetarian CookingYamuna Devi

  

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  Art of Indian Vegetarian Cooking

  by Yamuna Devi

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  Sicilian Food

  by Mary Taylor Simeti

  If there is one book that belongs on the shelf of food lovers, it is Sicilian Food by Mary Taylor Simeti. This book is a classic, the definitive work on Sicilian cooking and it is full of authentic, hard to find recipes gleaned from the author's friends, family and acquaintances on the island itself. Originally published in 1989 under the title Pomp and Sustenance: Twenty Five Centuries of Sicilian Food and then... (more)
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  VEGETABLE HEAVEN

  200 recipes, all vegetable, of course, and with Mollie's special side-by-side dishes. As always, not too difficult or time-consuming.
• Russian Cooking (Foods of the World Series)Time Life Editors, Helen Papashvily, George Papashvily

  

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  Russian Cooking (Foods of the World Series)

  by Time Life Editors, Helen Papashvily, George Papashvily

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  Cooking Up a Storm

  by Emma Holly

  The Coates Inn restaurant in Cape Cod is about to go out of business when its striking owner, Abby, jumps at a stranger's offer of help - both in her kitchen and her bedroom. Storm, a handsome chef, claims to have a secret weapon: an aphrodisiac menu that her patrons won't be able to resist. It certainly works on Abby - who gives in to the passions she has denied herself for years. But can this playboy chef really... (more)
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  Dirty Sugar Cookies: Culinary Observations, Questionable Taste

  by Ayun Halliday

  Ayun Halliday's fourth book, Dirty Sugar Cookies , takes readers into the unpredictable mind and comical experiences of a true anti-foodie, giving even the most hopeless cooks a moment of relief from self-criticism, and the least discriminating eaters a reality check. Halliday started out a repressed picky eater without so much as a single fast-food-loving sibling to save her from the gourmet ambitions of a... (more)
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  Burgers: 50 Recipes Celebrating an American Classic

  by Rebecca Bent

  Burgers presents the blue jeans of American cuisine in all their glory, from simple and comforting to sophisticated and elegant. With fifty delicious, highly original recipes, beautiful photographs, and authoritative information on ingredients and techniques, this book will give you a different burger for every night of the week–in fact, for every night of the month. Rebecca Bent has scoured the country looking... (more)
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  Fresh Ways With Italian Cooking

  Perennially popular, Italian cooking is still one of the most popular cuisines in America. This all-new cookbook offers a tantalizing selection of contemporary recipes and updated classics. Designed to utilize the widening availability of Italian food products in today's supermarkets, readers will find great new ways to use purchased produce and pasta to create fabulous dishes. 54 color photos and illustrations.
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  Kebabs on the Grill (Creative Cooking Library)

  by Sunset Books

  Shish kebab literally means "lamb on a stick," but to American chefs it can mean anything from shrimp skewers to Malaysian satay. This book provides the classic recipe for shish kebab as well as a wealth of creative ideas for preparing kebab varieties. Color photos.
• Sunset Recipe Annual: 1993 Edition (Sunset Recipe Annual)Sunset

  

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  Sunset Recipe Annual: 1993 Edition (Sunset Recipe Annual)

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  Sunset New Easy Basics Cookbook

  by Jerry Anne DiVecchio

  Here is the follow-up to Sunset's Easy Basics for Good Cooking (1982), which has sold more than 800,000 copies. This new edition includes 300 recipes, charts, step-by-step illustrations, and color photographs of various techniques. However, the recipes are rather unexciting, and the line drawings and photography have a somewhat old-fashioned look. Recent revisions of other basic cookbooks, such as Betty Crocker's... (more)