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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

by Michael Pollan

Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desires—sweetness,... (more)

The Totally Potato Cookbook (Totally Cookbooks)

The Totally Potato Cookbook (Totally Cookbooks)

by Helene Siegel

Potatoes: no matter what you do to these hearty root vegetables — mash, smash, bake, boil, roast, cream, scallop, or au gratin them, French fry, home fry, cottage fry, or hash brown them — they're everyone's favorite comfort food. No, we haven't forgotten those other classics — potato pancakes, potato bread, potato soup, potato salad, potato skins, potato chips, or shepherd's pie. And if that's not enough, there... (more)

One Potato, Two Potato

by Roy Finamore, Molly Stevens

Everyone loves potatoes. This book transports cooks beyond the usual side dishes and introduces them to the secrets and specialties of great chefs and cooks the world over. Finamore shows how to prepare spectacularly simple appetizers, including dips, chips, and showstopping cocktail potatoes made from a few ordinary ingredients. He presents dozens of soups and salads, including rich Summer Vichyssoise and Herb... (more)

Greatest Ever Potato: Easy and Delicious Step-By-Step Recipes

The Complete Superfoods Cookbook: Dishes and Drinks for Energy, Detoxing and Healing

The Complete Superfoods Cookbook: Dishes and Drinks for Energy, Detoxing and Healing

by Michael van Straten

Be kind to your body. Treat it to superfoods. Healthy eating is key to living well. The Complete Superfoods Cookbook provides more than 200 recipes for eating one's way to better health. Michael van Straten reveals that life can be enhanced and extended with such sumptuous dishes as pancetta, onion and green lentil soup; or with a blueberry and raspberry smoothie that protects the body from free... (more)

You Wouldn't Want to Sail on an Irish Famine Ship!: A Trip Across the Atlantic You'd Rather Not Make (You Wouldn't Want to...)

You Wouldn't Want to Sail on an Irish Famine Ship!: A Trip Across the Atlantic You'd Rather Not Make (You Wouldn't Want to...)

by Jim Pipe

The year is 1840 and a mysterious disease has just wiped out your potato crop. You could stay in Ireland and starve to death. Or you could sail across the Atlantic where a new life awaitsÂ…if you survive the stormy seas, vicious crew, and killer black fever thatÂ’s spreading on board the ship.

The Secret Life of a Snowbird: An Inside Look at Retirement in America s Sunbelt (HINT: It s humorous, poignant and warm!)

The Secret Life of a Snowbird: An Inside Look at Retirement in America s Sunbelt (HINT: It s humorous, poignant and warm!)

by Len Schritter

The Secret Life of a Snowbird provides a window into the life of snowbirds, those refugees from the frozen north who escape winter at home by migrating southward each year. With a keen eye for the absurd as well as the meaningful, author Len Schritter (a potato farmer from Idaho) shares his observations of his annual trek to Mesa, Arizona. Momentarily taken aback by a strange woman s offer to rub him with her... (more)

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