Exploring Top Books of Shelfari

Whether you'd simply like to add more fruit and vegetables to your meals, or want to change your lifestyle in a more dramatic way, The Raw Gourmet is the complete guide to one of the world's fastest growing nutrition and health movements-the living-foods diet. In the first book of its kind, Nomi Shannon opens a door onto a refreshing new world of food preparation...Learn how fresh, non-cooked fruits,... (more)

Soups, Salads & Starters: the Best of Williams-Sonoma Kitchen Library (Williams-Sonoma Kitchen Library)

Soups, Salads & Starters: the Best of Williams-Sonoma Kitchen Library (Williams-Sonoma Kitchen Library)

by Chuck Williams

The award-winning Williams-Sonoma Kitchen Library, treasured cookbook series comprising forty-three single-subject titles, provides the material for seven new collector's editions. Each title in the new format offers comprehensive coverage of a method or style of cooking, or a menu part, compiling favorite recipes into a single, beautiful book. Gorgeous full-color images of every recipe as a finished dish anchor... (more)

Under the Tuscan Sun

At Home in Italy

by Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes--widely published poet, gourmet cook, and travel writer--opens the door to a wondrous new world when she buys and restores an abandoned villa in the spectacular Tuscan countryside. In sensuous and evocative language, she brings the reader along as she discovers the beauty and simplicity of life in Italy. An accomplished cook and food writer, Mayes also creates dozens of delicious seasonal recipes... (more)

The Ultimate Chocolate (The Ultimate)

by Patricia Lousada

This affordable paperback on the ever--popular subject of chocolate is created for people with full and busy lives. Clear explanations on everything you should know about cooking and decorating with chocolate----for yourself or as gifts----are enhanced by dozens of detailed photographs. Step--by--step instructions and beautiful, full color photographs make this the perfect guide for the novice or seasoned... (more)

Martha Stewart's Cookies: The Very Best Treats to Bake and to Share (Martha Stewart Living Magazine)

Martha Stewart's Cookies: The Very Best Treats to Bake and to Share (Martha Stewart Living Magazine)

by Victor Schrager

The perfect cookie for every occasion. Cookies are the treat that never disappoints. Whether you’re baking for a party or a picnic, a formal dinner or a family supper–or if you simply want something on hand for snacking–there is a cookie that’s just right. In Martha Stewart’s Cookies, the editors of Martha Stewart Living give you 175 recipes and variations that showcase all kinds of flavors and fancies.... (more)

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Eating Raw (Complete Idiot's Guide to)

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Eating Raw (Complete Idiot's Guide to)

by Mark Reinfeld

A raw food diet is a purely healthy diet. More people than ever are turning to a raw food diet. In this guide, readers will find the secrets to raw food weight loss; how raw foods can heal the body and boost energy and enthusiasm; information on the anti-aging properties of raw food; and 100+ recipes that show how raw foods can be combined into delectable meals. • Fully explains the benefits of this... (more)

Julie and Julia

My Year of Cooking Dangerously

by Julie Powell

Nearing 30 and trapped in a dead-end secretarial job, Julie Powell resolved to reclaim her life by cooking, in the span of a single year, every one of the 524 recipes in Julia Child's legendary Mastering the Art of French Cooking. Her unexpected reward: not just a newfound respect for calves' livers and aspic, but a new life--lived with gusto.

Make It Fast, Cook It Slow

More than 300 Slow Cooker Recipes from the Slow Cookin' Woman

by Stephanie O'Dea

Make It Fast, Cook It Slow is the first cookbook from Stephanie O'Dea, the extremely popular slow cooking blogger: affordable, delicious, nutritious, and gluten-free recipes to delight the entire family. In December 2007, Stephanie O'Dea made a New Year's resolution: she'd use her slow cooker every single day for an entire year, and write about it on her very popular blog. The result: more than three... (more)

The Bubbly Bar: Champagne and Sparkling Wine Cocktails for Every Occasion

The Bubbly Bar: Champagne and Sparkling Wine Cocktails for Every Occasion

by Maria C. Hunt

Champagne and sparkling wine sales are exploding. With more than 900 million glasses of bubbly sold in 2007 alone, champagne and sparkling wines are now more accessible and affordably priced. People are sidling up to the bar for champagne drinks and bartenders are mixing them with everything from rum and gin to seasonal fruit and handcrafted syrups to create delicious cocktails. Categorized into Classics,... (more)

Dough: Simple Contemporary Breads

by Richard Bertinet

For all those who do not want to eat mass produced sliced bread filled with chemicals and preservatives, help is at hand. Chef, teacher and baker extraordinaire Richard Bertinet gets back to basics and shows that, far from being hard or time-consuming, baking bread is quick and easy. Dough breaks down the bread making process into easy-to-follow and achievable steps using just four simple ingredients - yeast,... (more)

Risotto and Classic Rice Cooking: Fabulous dishes from around the world: 150 inspiring recipes shown in 250 stunning photographs

Risotto and Classic Rice Cooking: Fabulous dishes from around the world: 150 inspiring recipes shown in 250 stunning photographs

by Christine Ingram

The book contains a visual A-Z guide to rice types and their individual properties, and the dishes they are best suited to make. There is advice on the equipment you will need and on all the classic rice cooking methods. All in all, with images, text from a leading author, directories, background information and the sensational recipe collection, this is the only book on rice you will ever need.

Claire's Italian Feast: 165 Vegetarian Recipes from Nonna's Kitchen

Claire's Italian Feast: 165 Vegetarian Recipes from Nonna's Kitchen

by Claire Criscuolo

Claire Criscuolo's latest cookbook contains the personal favorite recipes from her Italian grandmother for colorful, authentic meals. All recipes are vegetarian, and for classic Southern Italian dishes which require meat products, Criscuolo provides suggestions for alternatives. With chapters on appetizers, side dishes, pastas, entrees and desserts, Claire's Italian Feast evokes the fresh, abundant flavors of... (more)

The Moosewood Cookbook: Recipes from Moosewood Restaurant, Ithaca, New York

The Moosewood Cookbook: Recipes from Moosewood Restaurant, Ithaca, New York

by Mollie Katzen

Since its original publication in 1977, this influential and enormously popular cookbook has been at the forefront of the revolution in American eating habits. MOOSEWOOD was listed by the New York Times as one of the top ten best-selling cookbooks of all time, and no wonder. With her sophisticated, easy-to-prepare vegetarian recipes, charming pen-and-ink drawings, hand lettering, and conversational tone, Mollie... (more)

365 Ways to Cook Pasta

by Marie Simmons

A collection of pasta recipes.

Barefoot Contessa Family Style: Easy Ideas and Recipes That Make Everyone Feel Like Family

Barefoot Contessa Family Style: Easy Ideas and Recipes That Make Everyone Feel Like Family

by Ina Garten

Ina Garten, who shared her gift for casual entertaining in the bestselling Barefoot Contessa Cookbook and Barefoot Contessa Parties! , is back with her most enticing recipes yet—a collection of her favorite dishes for everyday cooking. In Barefoot Contessa Family Style , Ina explains that sharing our lives and tables with those we love is too essential to be saved just for special occasions—and it’s easy to do... (more)

Everyday Italian: 125 Simple and Delicious Recipes

Everyday Italian: 125 Simple and Delicious Recipes

by Giada De Laurentiis

In her hit Food Network show Everyday Italian , Giada De Laurentiis shows you how to cook delicious, beautiful food in a flash. And here, in her long-awaited first book, she does the same—helps you put a fabulous dinner on the table tonight, for friends or just for the kids, with a minimum of fuss and a maximum of flavor. She makes it all look easy, because it is. Everyday Italian is true to its title: the... (more)

Raw Food Made Easy For 1 or 2 People

by Jennifer Cornbleet

Ray's Boathouse

Seafood Secrets of the Pacific Northwest

by Ken Gouldthorpe

It's a local legend sitting just feet above the waters of Puget Sound on Seattle's Shilshole Bay. The view is outstanding, the Café bustling and audacious, and the restaurant elegant with a down home attitude. Simply put, it’s one of the best cold-water seafood restaurants in the world, and the locals call it Ray’s. Ray’s Boathouse: Seafood Secrets from the Pacific Northwest includes everything from appetizers... (more)

Panini

by Jo McAuley

A taste of Italy for casual eating. The panini is a grilled Italian sandwich, a popular menu item in bistros, cafés and delis. Panini is filled with easy-to-use recipes for vegetarian, seafood, meat and dessert sandwiches. Also included are instructions on how to make the best panini, what tools are needed and what ingredients to use. The recipes put a modern twist on celebrated classics such as the... (more)

Cook Once, Eat Twice Slow Cooker Recipes (Bertter Homes and Gardens)

Cook Once, Eat Twice Slow Cooker Recipes (Bertter Homes and Gardens)

by Better Homes and Gardens

For today's time-crunched cooks, cooking has never been easier! Imagine when tonight's stew becomes tomorrow's wrap, sandwich, pizza, or casserole. In Cook Once, Eat Twice Slow Cooker Recipes you get more than 200 delicious recipes--100 from the slow cooker for tonight's dinner and 100 “planned overs” for tomorrow's meal. Turn tonights Corned Beef dinner into tomorrow's Reuben Panini. Preparation is a snap... (more)

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