Friday, December 26, 2008

Raw Transformation or Complete Idiots Guide to Bartending

Raw Transformation: Energizing Your Life with Living Foods

Author: Wendy Rudell

This visually lively gourmet raw food recipe book provides all the information you need for increasing your health and well-being through a raw foods diet. The recipes will motivate anyone who wants to have more energy, vitality, and abundant health without feeling deprived of their former cuisine. In addition, the book introduces readers to the ways that we can transform our physical bodies and our consciousness through a combination of living foods, yoga, meditation, breath work, and much more.

The first third of the book introduces raw cuisine, giving information on nutrition and the benefits of adopting this lifestyle. It connects raw food to other modalities, to enable the whole process of physical, emotional, and spiritual transformation.

The next two thirds of the book features over 300 raw food recipes that are surprisingly diverse and easy to make. These recipes include entrees such as Indian Vegetable Curry and Pad Thai, desserts such as Banana Coconut Cream Pie, and a wide variety of salads, breads, crackers, side dishes, shakes, smoothies, soups, dressings, marinades, dips, and much more. Unlike many natural foods recipe books, this one uses only familiar, easy-to-find ingredients.

The book ends with a list of sources for blenders, juicers, kitchen gadgets, organic and specialty foods, as well as health retreat centers. It also includes a glossary and recommended reading list.



New interesting book:

Complete Idiot's Guide to Bartending

Author: Amy Zavatto

Bottoms Up!

For anyone who longs to know how to make a Lemon Drop, champagne punch, or a Hot Buttered Rum, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Bartending is the only guide they'll ever need. Whether they're throwing a party or just want to know how to make a great cocktail, food writer Amy Zavatto reveals recipes for the hottest drinks from some of the top bartenders and restaurants in the country. It also contains important information on stocking the bar and the basics of mixing and bar etiquette.

•Professional advice from the best in the industry, including Bill Samuels, president of Makers Mark; tequila experts Julio Bermejo and Alan Miguel Kaplan; and Miles and Marko Karakasevic, 12th and 13th generation distillers of Charbay Vodka
•Over 1,500 recipes-more than any other book of its size and type
•Bartending books with many recipes sell extraordinarily well
•Great layout and cocktail-by-name index makes recipes easy to find



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