Parties of the Month or Making Sense of Wine

Parties of the Month: Memories for a Lifetime

Author: Donna M Schueli

Parties Of The Month...Memories For A Lifetime is a comprehensive book with entertaining ideas for any size gathering! It covers:

• Party & decorating ideas
• Games for adults
• Tips for singles to meet someone at parties
• Theme-oriented cocktails, toasts & recipes
• Unique, fast and easy entertaining for every month of the year!

Parties Of The Month will help you entertain, giving you special advice, choices, and ideas when celebrating with a date or spouse to large groups of family, friends, or business associates.

Author Donna Schuelie wroteParties Of The Month for people with busy lifestyles. The ideas and recipes are healthy, quick, and inexpensive. The book is set up in an easy-to-find January to December format.

Celebrate New Years with Champagne Chicken; Enjoy a Touchdown Taco Bake at your Super Bowl party. For Valentine's Day, see the Aphrodisiac section for sensuous food ideas. Have a memorable Easter Egg Hunt. Serve red, white & blue frozen drinks at your 4th of July picnic. Learn how to give a Halloween party of a lifetime with fantastic costume ideas. Enjoy Pumpkin Pie Martinis. Serve red & green pepper wedges for Christmas. The ideas are limitless.

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Making Sense of Wine

Author: Matt Kramer

This new edition of Matt Kramer's classic guide to wine features a new preface and an all-new chapter that covers changes and advances in winemaking since first publication in 1989. The superbly written text explains everything an oenophile needs to know, including the creation and naming of wines, wine cellars, presentation and glassware, pairing wine with food, and much more. Kramer explores connoisseurship through the practical devices of "thinking wine" and "drinking wine," making for a most enjoyable and engrossing journey through one of life's most dependable pleasures.

Sacramento Bee

...Kramer remains as pleasurable to read as ever.

Publishers Weekly

Recommend Kramer's book to cherished adult ``children'' who refuse to be weaned from the beer bottle--this book may do the trick of transforming wine drinking into a familiar pleasure. While much wine writing verges on pedantry, columnist Kramer brings a disciplined reporter's ear to his job, along with wit and intelligence to spare. A relatively recent convert to wine, the author remembers how intimidating the drink can be, and seeks to tame it by solving the mysteries of its history, customs and manners. Why, for example, are many corks branded with their vineyard's name and year? As a precaution and tool for identification, lest the bottle label deteriorate in a damp cellar, and the cook or host need to verify the contents. Kramer is also not afraid to say, in his blunt style, that the overly technical language often used to explain how champagne comes by its bubbles is ``gobbledegook.'' And because he asserts that wine is meant to be imbibed with food--``without the context of food, wine is a eunuch''--his final chapter includes recipes for such delicacies as blanc-manger and butternut squash soup. (Sept.)

Library Journal

The author, a widely published food and wine writer, discusses the fundamentals of wine, as well as its fine points, from a perspective that combines common sense with scientific fact. Topics such as wine storage, service, and matching wine with food are dealt with in a no-nonsense fashion. Perhaps more interesting is the opening discussion of connoisseurship and the social dimension of wine. Some recipes are offered in the section on wine with food. The point of view taken is refreshingly free of dogma. This is recommended reading for those interested in wine and is a useful supplement to such standards as Andre Simon's Wines of the World , edited by Serena Sutcliffe (McGraw-Hill, 1981. 2d. ed.).-- Bruce Hulse, Vanguard Technologies Corp., Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents:

	Preface to the Second Edition	7
	Preface to the First Edition	11
	Acknowledgments	17
	Thinking Wine
	The Notion of Connoisseurship	21
	Wine in the Cellar and Society	35
	Appellation and Authenticity	61
	The Creation of Wine	79
	Twenty-First Century Fine Wine--The Consequences of Success	101
	Drinking Wine
	The Wine Cellar--A Brief History	123
	The Wine Cellar--Are You Ready for Reality?	135
	The Presentation of Wine	173
	Food Is the Meaning of Wine	187
	Bibliography	215
	Index	221

Tarts and Pastries or The Book Of Tea

Tarts and Pastries

Author: Le Cordon Bleu

This collection of timeless treats, perfected in the kitchens of Le Cordon Bleu, combines classic pastry-making with fresh fruits, chocolate, chopped nuts and pastry creams to create all your dessert favorites. From the ever-popular chocolate eclair to a delicious plum-filled brioche tart, these beautifully presented dishes have been specially created to give perfect results at home.

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The Book Of Tea

Author: Kakuzo Okakura

In 1906 in turn-of-the century Boston, a small, esoteric book about tea was written with the intention of being read aloud in the famous salon of Isabella Gardner. It was authored by Okakura Kakuzo, a Japanese philosopher, art expert, and curator. Little known at the time, Kakuzo would emerge as one of the great thinkers of the early 20th century, a genius who was insightful, witty and greatly responsible for bridging Western and Eastern cultures.
Nearly a century later, Kakuzo's The Book of Tea is still beloved the world over. In this edition, readers are treated to Kakuzo's delicious wisdom along with evocative quadratone photographs in an exquisite new package. Interwoven with a rich history of tea and its place in Japanese society is poignant commentary on Eastern culture and our ongoing fascination with it, as well as illuminating essays on art, spirituality, poetry, and more. The Book of Tea is a delightful cup of enlightenment from a man far ahead of his time.
Author Bio: Okakura Kakuzo (1862-1913) devoted his life to teaching, art, Zen, and the preservation of Japanese art and culture, working as an ambassador, teacher, writer, and, at the time of his death, as the Curator fo Chinese and Japanese Art at the Boston Museum.

Liza Dalby has lived intermittently in Japan since she was a teenager. She is the first non-Japanese ever to have become a geisha. She received a PhD in anthropology from Stanford University in 1978 and is the author of several books, including Geisha, and the upcoming Tale of Murasaki.

Booknews

Kakuzo was a leading figure in Japanese art and culture at the end of the 19th century, and this book, first published in 1906, is a classic treatise explicating the philosophical nuances of tea and the tea ceremony in Japanese culture. This edition contains an introduction by Liza Dalby who was the first American trained as a Geisha in the 1970s, and elegant photos by Daniel Proctor. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Eating and Drinking in Roman Britain or Edible Medicines

Eating and Drinking in Roman Britain

Author: H E M Cool

What were the eating and drinking habits of the inhabitants of Britain during the Roman period? Drawing on evidence from a large number of archaeological excavations, this fascinating new study shows how varied these habits were in different regions and amongst different communities and challenges the idea that there was any one single way of being Roman or native. Integrating a range of archaeological sources, including pottery, metalwork and environmental evidence such as animal bone and seeds, this book illuminates eating and drinking choices, providing invaluable insights into how those communities regarded their world. The book contains sections on the nature of the different types of evidence used and how this can be analysed. It will be a useful guide to all archaeologists and those who wish to learn about the strength and weaknesses of this material and how best to use it.

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Edible Medicines: An Ethnopharmacology of Food

Author: Nina L Etkin

Chile pepper is used today as a flavoring, but Aztecs also applied it for toothache, sore throat, and asthma. The tonic properties of coffee have been recorded in Islamic pharmacopoeia since the eleventh century, and many peoples have used it to protect against Parkinson's disease. Although much has been documented regarding the nutritional values of foods, until recently little attention has been paid to the pharmacologic potential of diet. This book investigates the health implications of foods from the cuisines of peoples around the world to describe the place of food in health maintenance. In this wide-ranging book, Nina Etkin reveals the pharmacologic potential of foods in the specific cultural contexts in which they are used. Incorporating co-evolution with a biocultural perspective, she addresses some of the physiological effects of foods across cultures and through history while taking into account both the complex dynamics of food choice and the blurred distinctions between food and medicine. Showing that food choice is more closely linked to health than is commonly thought, she helps us to understand the health implications of people's food-centered actions in the context of real-life circumstances. Drawing on an extensive literature that transects food and culture, the history of medicine, ethnopharmacology, food history, nutrition, and human evolution, Edible Medicines demonstrates the intricate relationship between culture and nature. It will appeal to a wide range of scholars and professionals, from anthropologists to nutritionists, as well as general readers seeking a greater understanding of the medicinal aspects of food.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Introduction	3
Ch. 2	Food in the history of biomedicine	44
Ch. 3	Spices : the pharmacology of the exotic	83
Ch. 4	Fermented foods and beverages	107
Ch. 5	The lives of social plants	134
Ch. 6	Medicinal qualities of animal foods	173
Ch. 7	Health in the marketplace : complementary and alternative medicine, functional foods, and more	204
App	Some common spices	229

Summer Pudding Club Book or Heavenly Chocolate

Summer Pudding Club Book

Author: Keith Turner

Containing 100 recipes, this book explores the delights of traditional summer desserts such as trifles and syllabubs, and their many variations. It focuses on traditional British puddings which have been tried and tested by the members of the Pudding Club.

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Heavenly Chocolate

Author: Christine Franc

Prepare for a feast for your eyes and tastebuds with this deliciously photographed book. You'll find it hard not to eat the pages, with over 70 tempting and tantalizing recipes such as Rich Chocolate Leaf Gateau, Hot Chocolate Zabaglione and the mouth-watering and hard to resist Mississippi Mud Pie. A comprehensive techniques section explains how to melt, cook, make sauces, frosting and decorations. Give in to temptation with these amazing chocolate creations.

Cocktails and Perfect Party Drinks or Punches

Cocktails and Perfect Party Drinks

Author: Susy Atkins

Helps to solve the dilemma of planning the perfect drink for every occasion. Each chapter focuses on a particular type of special occasion - from classic cocktail party to wedding - and sets out all the best drink options, including wines, beers, cocktails, and spirits. Includes hints and tips on storage, serving, and the best accompaniments to all the drinks featured.

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Punches (Quamut)

Author: Quamut

Quamut is the fastest, most convenient way to learn how to do almost anything. From tasting wine to managing your retirement accounts, Quamut gives you reliable information in a concise chart format that you can take anywhere. Quamut charts are:

• Authoritative: Written by experts in their field so you have the most reliable information available.
• Clear: Our explanations take you step-by-step through everything from performing CPR to threading a needle.
• Concise: You’ll learn just what you need to know—no more, no less.
• Precise: Quamut charts include detailed text, photos, and illustrations to show you exactly how to do just about anything.
• Portable: Your know-how goes with you wherever your projects lead.

Bowl them over at your next party.

Punch is the perfect party drink for a large number of guests, any time of year.
But did you know that many of the best punch recipes are just as easy to make by the glass? Get the festivities started with:

• The basics of punch, including a brief history
• By-the-glass and by-the-bowl punch recipes from the Four Seasons restaurant
• Seasonal punch recipes for spring, summer, fall, and winter

Great Food for Happy Kids or Favorite Seafood Recipes

Great Food for Happy Kids

Author: Jesse Frayn

This is a cookbook which will give every busy parent fresh and inventive ideas for healthy meals and snacks for their children, from babies to teenagers. Author Jesse Frayne has distilled her years of experience as the mother of four and a professional caterer into a wonderful book, chock full of recipes and advice on how to tempt the palate of the fussiest child, what to prepare for a summer picnic in a park or at the beach, ideas for kids' birthday parties and after school snacks.

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Favorite Seafood Recipes: Enjoy Your Restaurant Favorites at Home

Author: Sally Murphy Morris

All of the "How To's" of selecting and preparing fish are found in this handy volume. How to judge freshness, which cuts to buy, fish families, fish storage and cooking methods are detailed and illustrated.

The fishing enthusiast will especially appreciate easy-to-follow, illustrated instructions for cleaning a fish.

More than 100 tasty recipes for fish and shellfish are accompanied by photography.

Birthdays or 200 Classic Sauces

Birthdays: A Celebration

Author: Marilyn Atyeo

Do you know someone who always throws spectacular parties that seem to involve no work or frustration? Chances are they have this book, packed with more than 200 practical and exciting games and activities to make a child's birthday into a magnificent celebration.

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200 Classic Sauces: Guaranteed Recipes for Every Occasion

Author: Tom Bridg

• The unique collection of sauce recipes for every occasion
• Basic methods guarantee success every time

Table of Contents:

Basic Ingredients and Techniques.
Making Basic Sauces.
Classic French Sauces.
International and Modern Sauces.
Dessert Sauces.
Useful Terms and Techniques.
Useful Herbs and Spices.
Further Reading.
Indexes.

The Oxford Companion to Italian Food or The New Encyclopedia of Wine

The Oxford Companion to Italian Food

Author: Gillian Riley

Here is an inspiring, wide-ranging A-Z guide to one of the world's best-loved cuisines. Designed for cooks and consumers alike, The Oxford Companion to Italian Food covers all aspects of the history and culture of Italian gastronomy, from dishes, ingredients, and delicacies to cooking methods and implements, regional specialties, the universal appeal of Italian cuisine, influences from outside Italy, and much more.
Following in the footsteps of princes and popes, vagabond artists and cunning peasants, austere scholars and generations of unknown, unremembered women who shaped pasta, moulded cheeses and lovingly tended their cooking pots, Gillian Riley celebrates a heritage of amazing richness and delight. She brings equal measures of enthusiasm and expertise to her writing, and her entries read like mini-essays, laced with wit and gastronomical erudition, marked throughout by descriptive brilliance, and entirely free of the pompous tone that afflicts so much writing about food.

The Companion is attentive to both tradition and innovation in Italian cooking, and covers an extraordinary range of information, from Anonimo Toscano, a medieval cookbook, to Bartolomeo Bimbi, a Florentine painter commissioned by Cosimo de Medici to paint portraits of vegetables, to Paglierina di Rifreddo, a young cheese made of unskimmed cows' milk, to zuppa inglese, a dessert invented by 19th century Neapolitan pastry chefs. Major topics receive extended treatment. The entry for Parmesan, for example, runs to more than 2,000 words and includes information on its remarkable nutritional value, the region where it is produced, the breed of cow used to produce it (the razza reggiana, or vaccherosse), the role of the cheese maker, the origin of its name, Moliere's deathbed demand for it, its frequent and lustrous depiction in 16th and 17th century paintings, and the proper method of serving, where Riley admonishes: "One disdains the phallic peppermill, but must always appreciate the attentive grating, at the table, of parmesan over pasta or soup, as magical in its way as shavings of truffles." Such is the scope and flavor of The Oxford Companion to Italian Food.
For anyone with a hunger to learn more about the history, culture and variety of Italian cuisine, The Oxford Companion to Italian Food offers endless satisfactions.

Kathleen A. Welton - Library Journal

Widely praised by leading Italian chefs and including a foreword by Mario Batali, this A-to-Z guide to Italian food and culture includes more than 900 articles on everything from medieval cookbooks and Italian food in Renaissance painting to the latest cooking methods and regional delicacies. The content is engaging and appetizing and is equally enthralling whether discussing history or flavor, as it provides answers to questions great and small about all things Italian. The book is organized alphabetically, but its content is also accessible by subject, which include art and culture; baked goods; biographies; cheese and milk products; culinary terms; drinks and beverages; fish and seafood; fruits, vegetables, and nuts; herbs, spices, and condiments; history and society; meat and meat products; pasta and rice; prepared food and dishes; preparing, serving, and eating; regional cuisine; and sweets and confectionary. While photos are scattered throughout, more care could have been given to the book's visual presentation with the inclusion of additional images as well as sidebars, favorite recipes, and perhaps a color insert. Nevertheless, the book will delight readers and meets its goal of providing browsing pleasure. The author clearly shares her passion for food, having written many books on food and art, including Renaissance Recipesand A Feast for the Eyes.

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The New Encyclopedia of Wine

Author: Stuart Walton

Focuses on 12 major grape varieties from Chardonnay and Cabernet Sauvignon to Gamay, their aromas, flavors and characters.

Chef on the Run or How to Make Salads

Chef on the Run: Simply the Best

Author: Diane Clement

From Roasted Asparagus-Bocconcini Salad and Mediterranean Rack of Lamb to Strawberries 'n' Champagne Soup and Mango Panna Cotta, these tantalizing dishes represent a wide range of sources and styles covering every meal and the in-betweens. Some are adapted from cuisine sampled during the author's global treks with the Canadian Olympic team; some are from friends and other chefs; and some Clement created in her cooking classes and restaurant. Complete with color photographs, this 20th anniversary collection of recipes from this celebrity chef are simply the best.

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How to Make Salads (Quamut)

Author: Quamut

Go beyond the garden variety.

A great salad requires more than just some greens piled on a plate. Learn the secrets of making great salads of all sorts. Read on for:

• The tools you need to make magnificent salads easily

• How to make your own croutons

• How to make green salads, pasta salads, bean salads, and more

Quamut is the fastest, most convenient way to learn how to do almost anything. From tasting wine to managing your retirement accounts, Quamut gives you reliable information in a concise chart format that you can take anywhere. Quamut charts are:

• Authoritative: Written by experts in their field so you have the most reliable information available.

• Clear: Our explanations take you step-by-step through everything from performing CPR to threading a needle.

• Concise: You’ll learn just what you need to know—no more, no less.

• Precise: Quamut charts include detailed text, photos, and illustrations to show you exactly how to do just about anything.

• Portable: Your know-how goes with you wherever your projects lead.

Lebanese Kitchen or 101 Grow to Eat Ideas

Lebanese Kitchen

Author: Abla Amad

Authentic recipes using fresh produce.

Abla Amad shares her recipes in this inspiring book, which features the real food of Lebanon - culinary treasures that are centuries old, preserved & adapted for contemporary cooks. Here is the wide variety of small dishes that comprise a mezza table, including kibbee, stuffed vine leaves, tabbouleh, felafel, & bab ghannooj with its essential smoky flavor.

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101 Grow to Eat Ideas: Planting Recipes That Taste as Good as They Look

Author: Ceri Thomas

There's nothing better than the taste of a garden's own fresh fruit and vegetables. They provide flavor and freshness that no supermarket produce could ever hope to beat. For beginning gardeners or regular growers, this guide is packed with inspiration and ideas for growing salads, fruit, herbs, and vegetables. A garden is not necessary to enjoy these planting recipes that taste as good as they look, as they can grow equally well on a windowsill as a patio. Providing fresh ideas and clear advice, this collection ensures that readers never eat tasteless fruit or vegetables again.

Art of South American Cookery or Women in Gods Kitchen

Art of South American Cookery

Author: Myra Waldo

To our south lies the vast, complex area of South America, a continent of seemingly boundless distances. It offers much to the tourist, and to the gourmet too. For South America food is amazingly good-a complete, almost undiscovered cookery style. As a rule it is mild and no more highly seasoned than American food.

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Women in God's Kitchen: Cooking, Eating, and Spiritual Writing

Author: Cristina Mazzoni

About the Author:
Cristina Mazzoni is Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Vermont

Library Journal

Mazzoni (romance languages, Univ. of Vermont), the author of the much-acclaimed Saint Hysteria as well as an authority on the life of modern mystic Gemma Galgani, has worked something like a miracle in this brief book. It is at once a pleasing collection of stylish essays, a journey through one person's spirituality, and a profound work of scholarship. Mazzoni finds and follows the trail of breadcrumbs-the fraught place of food and food writing-through the lives and works of dozens of holy women from Byzantine times to the day of Therese of Lisieux. The implications of Mazzoni's gracefully stated paradoxes and questions are enormous; her ideas are likely to cast a wide and bright light both for scholars in many fields and for the common reader seeking to understand the present in the light of the past. Highly recommended. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction : learning to cook, eat, and read with Christian holy women	1
1	How to bake wonder dough into miracle bread : Byzantine saints and Catherine of Genoa	17
2	How to make cheese and how to eat love : Hildegard of Bingen with Hadewijch	34
3	How to taste sugar and spice : the flavors of Elisabeth of Schonau	48
4	How to bite with grace into forbidden fruits : apples, sweets, and Margaret Ebner	59
5	How to confect convent treats : sweet traditions and the martyrdom of Saint Agatha	74
6	How to sift flour, wash lettuce, and serve bread and fish : lessons from Angela of Foligno	87
7	How to skin stockfish and chop stew : Margery Kempe's sacrifices	102
8	How to boil and fry in God's pots and pans : Teresa of Avila's kitchen secrets	115
9	How to do philosophy in a busy kitchen : Margaret Mary Alacoque, Sor Juana, Cecilia Ferrazzi	131
10	How to feed the spirit on corn pudding and pork fat : Elizabeth Seton's culinary conversion	146
11	How to indulge in divine delicacies : Gemma Galgani's tasty treats	159
12	How to savor sweets, play with food, and dress a salad : flavoring the spirit with Therese of Lisieux	172
	Conclusion : eating and cooking lessons	189

The Merry Baker of Riga or Aromas and Flavors of Past and Present

The Merry Baker of Riga

Author: Boris Zemtzov

Mix one American expatriate, "inherited" managers, Soviet-trained bakers, and a Danish baking instructor with an Irish accent. Blend in the collapse of the Soviet legal system, derelicts that heave bricks through windows for sport, and mafiya racketeers. Put all them together in a decrepit bakery plant, and you will have just a taste of what lies between the pages of Boris Zemtzov's charming new travelogue, "The Merry Baker of Riga." An American businessman with no roots in Latvia, Boris Zemtzov nonetheless decided to establish a Western-style bakery there in 1992, just after the collapse of the Soviet. Forced to ramp up to speed with learning the culture of a new country, he must also find a common language with the managers he "inherited" from the Soviet Enterprise. Together they divide tasks and work to establish "The Merry Baker," repairing a decrepit bakery plant, finding retail space where almost none exists, and re-training Soviet-trained bakers. Along the way Zemtzov's experience with Russian mafiya, racketeers who threaten to drive him out of business, results in the first "sting" operation launched by an expatriate in the former Soviet Union.

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Aromas and Flavors of Past and Present: A Book of Exquisite Cooking (The Cook's Classic Library)

Author: Alice B Toklas

Aromas and Flavors of Past and Present is a book for browsing and reading as well as for cooking. Alice B. Toklas presents over two hundred recipes - some simple, some elaborate, and others that are simply extravagant (mashed potatoes that call for an entire pound of butter). Poppy Cannon's annotations make the recipes easy to understand and use in the United States, but the recipes themselves appear just as Toklas wrote them - with a mix of the practical and philosophical. (6 X 9, 192 pages)

Library Journal

Toklas did a lot of cooking to feed her companion Gertrude Stein's guests while Gertrude was pontificating at their Paris salon. In 1958 she pulled together more than 200 of her favorite recipes, covering everything from meatloaf to perfumed goose. Some of the dishes might not be considered healthy by today's standards -- lots of butter -- but some of the most famous people of the century dined on them with great joy (and no apparent ill effects).

Library Journal

Toklas did a lot of cooking to feed her companion Gertrude Stein's guests while Gertrude was pontificating at their Paris salon. In 1958 she pulled together more than 200 of her favorite recipes, covering everything from meatloaf to perfumed goose. Some of the dishes might not be considered healthy by today's standards -- lots of butter -- but some of the most famous people of the century dined on them with great joy (and no apparent ill effects).

Alan Wongs New Wave Luau or Clouds for Dessert

Alan Wong's New Wave Luau: Recipes from Honolulu's Award-Winning Chef

Author: Alan Wong

ALAN WONG is regarded as one of the best chefs in Hawaii. A winner of the 1996 James Beard Foundation's award for Best Regional Chef for the Pacific Northwest, he trained with legendary chef Andrй Soltner at New York's Lutиc before opening his own restaurant in Honolulu.JOHN HARRISON has co-authored cookbooks with many of America's leading chefs, including Mark Miller, Roy Yamaguchi, and Hubert Keller. He lives in Hawaii.

Table of Contents:

Preface by Janice Wald Henderson	viii
Acknowledgments	x
Introduction	xii
The New Wave Luau	1
Pupu and Starters	23
The Raw (and Nearly Raw) Bar: Appetizers from the Beach	47
Salads from the Garden	67
The Hukilau: Main Courses from the Sea	83
From Mauka to Makai: Main Courses from the Land	105
Sides and Condiments	125
Desserts	141
Drinks	163
Basics	173
Glossary	184
Index	188

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Clouds for Dessert: Sweet Treats from the Wild West

Author: Susan Lowell

Ever taste a cloud? Or take a bite out of the Grand Canyon? What if the West could taste the way it looks? Clearly, some of the great natural phenomena would have to be spectacular desserts.And so they are, for desserts of all foods are the most open to fantasy and fun. A little kitchen magic can turn the Rocky Mountains into snowcapped sundaes, or wild, rough, piggy javelinas into ginger cookies, or even cactus into Popsicles, pancakes, and tender rosy pies. The best food of a region expresses a sense of place in a way nothing else can. This is especially true of the American Southwest. These 50 recipes express climates and geography (pomegranates and citrus from the desert, piñon nuts and apples from the mountains) as well as history and culture (Tohono O'odham saguaro syrup, Spanish flan, cowboy cake, New Mexican biscochitos, and very chi-chi nouvelle Southwest chocolate mousse pie). 24 color photographs.

Publishers Weekly

"What if the West could taste the way it looks?" asks Lowell. "Clearly some of the great natural phenomena would have to be spectacular desserts!" This imaginative author who has retold traditional children's stories with a Western twist (The Tortoise and the Jackrabbit; Little Red Cowboy Hat), now offers colorful reinterpretations of over 65 desserts. Floating Island, for instance, becomes Clouds in the Sky: fluffy meringues drifting in creamy blueberry custard; while molded ice cream peaks with chocolate sauce and whipped cream make up snow-capped Rocky Mountain Sundaes. Other recipes-such as those for Southwestern cookies, cakes and sweet breads, and fruit desserts like Biscochitos, Tres Leches Cake, Pan de Muerto and Apple Empanadas-are presented with Western legends and history, family stories and amusing asides. Lowell's artistic eye transforms Lemon-Lime Cake into a flowering cactus (with marshmallow blossoms and candle spikes), and the story of her family's Gold Rush adventures gives way to orange-flavored "Gold Bar" Cookies, glittering with yellow sugar crystals. For holidays, there is a gingerbread adobe Dream Casa, complete with three little javelinas (pigs) in residence. Cooks with a fondness for Wild West stories will be intrigued by the way Lowell chooses to tell them. 55 color photos. (June) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Effective Health Care Supervisor or Delights of Delicate Eating

Effective Health Care Supervisor

Author: Charles R McConnell

The hands—on guide for front line health care supervisors, this long—time bestseller includes two new chapters on reengineering and downsizing and extensive revisions and updates throughout. This new edition covers all areas of supervision including time management, performance appraisal, motivation, and communication.

Mary L. Fisher

The fourth edition of this book places supervision in the context of today's changing healthcare environment. It is expanded beyond the previous edition in this respect, although the author admits that the basics of supervision are unchanged. The book stresses the need for supervisors to adapt to changes that will include expanding scopes of responsibility, a broader variety of duties, and redesigned work environments. New content includes the evolving roles of healthcare supervisors, reengineering, and staff reductions. The book's attempt to meet modern challenges for supervisors is well timed. The intended audience is first and second line supervisors. It is suggested as a textbook for supervisory development classes. The book is written in simple terms and is best positioned for those new to supervision. The author is a human resource officer in a New York hospital system, so is credible in his work experiences. He has numerous previous publications and his formal education is in engineering and business. There are few illustrations offered in this book. References, for the most part, are not offered in context, but there is a sparse annotated bibliography in the back of the book. Many of these books are dated "classics." Each chapter presents clear objectives and adds two exercises for practicing skills. The exercises can be helpful in a classroom setting. This text is comprehensive in the number of topics related to healthcare supervision that are covered. However, some topics are addressed superficially, such as budgeting for personnel costs. The contextual emphasis is timely and a sufficient reason to justify this new addition. Overall, this text needs to be evaluatedin relation to competing offerings. I would prefer more in-depth coverage of these important topics.

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Mary L. Fisher, PhD, RN, CNAA (Indiana University School of Nursing)
Description: The fourth edition of this book places supervision in the context of today's changing healthcare environment. It is expanded beyond the previous edition in this respect, although the author admits that the basics of supervision are unchanged.
Purpose: The book stresses the need for supervisors to adapt to changes that will include expanding scopes of responsibility, a broader variety of duties, and redesigned work environments. New content includes the evolving roles of healthcare supervisors, reengineering, and staff reductions. The book's attempt to meet modern challenges for supervisors is well timed.
Audience: The intended audience is first and second line supervisors. It is suggested as a textbook for supervisory development classes. The book is written in simple terms and is best positioned for those new to supervision. The author is a human resource officer in a New York hospital system, so is credible in his work experiences. He has numerous previous publications and his formal education is in engineering and business.
Features: There are few illustrations offered in this book. References, for the most part, are not offered in context, but there is a sparse annotated bibliography in the back of the book. Many of these books are dated "classics." Each chapter presents clear objectives and adds two exercises for practicing skills. The exercises can be helpful in a classroom setting.
Assessment: This text is comprehensive in the number of topics related to healthcare supervision that are covered. However, some topics are addressed superficially, such as budgeting for personnel costs. The contextual emphasis is timely and a sufficient reason to justify this new addition. Overall, this text needs to be evaluated in relation to competing offerings. I would prefer more in-depth coverage of these important topics.

Rating

2 Stars from Doody

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	An evolving role in a changing environment	3
Ch. 2	Health care : how is it different from "industry?"	21
Ch. 3	The nature of supervision : health care and everywhere	36
Ch. 4	Management and its basic functions	47
Ch. 5	Delegation and empowerment : forming some good habits	67
Ch. 6	Time management : expanding the day without stretching the clock	89
Ch. 7	Self-management and personal supervisory effectiveness	105
Ch. 8	Interviewing : start strong to recruit successfully	127
Ch. 9	The one-to-one relationship	144
Ch. 10	Leadership : style and substance	159
Ch. 11	Motivation : intangible forces and slippery rules	173
Ch. 12	Performance appraisal : cornerstone of employee development	186
Ch. 13	Criticism and discipline : guts, tact, and justice	209
Ch. 14	The problem employee and employee problems	227
Ch. 15	The supervisor and the human resource department	244
Ch. 16	Ethics and ethical standards	263
Ch. 17	Decisions, decisions	279
Ch. 18	Management of change : resistance is where you find it	293
Ch. 19	Communication : not by spoken words alone	304
Ch. 20	How to arrange and conduct effective meetings	318
Ch. 21	Budgeting : annual task and year-long implications	332
Ch. 22	Quality and productivity : sides of the same coin	355
Ch. 23	Teams, team building, and teamwork	372
Ch. 24	Methods improvement : making work - and life - easier	393
Ch. 25	Reengineering and reduction in force	413
Ch. 26	Continuing education : your employees and you	427
Ch. 27	The supervisor and the law	442
Ch. 28	Living with HIPAA	460
Ch. 29	Organizational communication : looking up, down, and laterally	479
Ch. 30	Unions : avoiding them when possible and living with them when necessary	491

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Delights of Delicate Eating

Author: Elizabeth Robins Pennell

"Gluttony is ranked with the deadly sins; it should be honored among the cardinal virtues," Elizabeth Robins Pennell declaims in this sparkling paean to the art of eating well. An ebullient guide to "the Beauty, the Poetry that exists in the perfect dish," The Delights of Delicate Eating is a choice collection, originally published in 1896, of the culinary essays Pennell wrote for London's Pall Mall Gazette.

Pennell began her career as a food writer, she confesses, "in spite of the fact that I couldn't boil an egg and my only qualifications were a healthy appetite and an honest love of a good dinner usually considered unbecoming to the sex." Her aim was to show that a woman could practice cooking as an art, preparing a complete aesthetic experience that combined exquisite flavors with a beautiful table, a soothing room, and lively conversation.

The Delights of Delicate Eating elevates "our daily bread" to a feast for the senses. Pennell leads the reader through the culinary delights of the day, from the fresh rolls of a solitary petit dйjeuner through elaborate dinners complete with spotless linen, flawless silver, and cut flowers in vases of Venetian glass.

Pennell sets good eating as the basis for good living, a healthy imagination, a happy marriage, stimulating conversation, and satisfying social intercourse. For all who would embrace such benefits, The Delights of Delicate Eating offers a lovely diversion.

From Turnover to Teamwork or Toasters Handbook

From Turnover to Teamwork: How to Build and Retain a Customer-Oriented Foodservice Staff

Author: Bill Marvin

Deals with staff turnover, a major cost factor in the hospitality industry. Takes a common-sense approach to why people leave and what can be done about it. Treats such issues as rapport between staff and management, training, salary structure and wages, incentives, performance reviews and disciplinary procedures.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
Pt. 1	Ponder the Problem	1
Ch. 1	Understand Why Workers Leave	3
Ch. 2	Think in Terms of Retention	17
Pt. 2	Recognize the Roots	25
Ch. 3	Improve Your Understanding of People	27
Ch. 4	Respect the Power of Climate	47
Pt. 3	Building the Bridge	55
Ch. 5	Get a Good Start	57
Ch. 6	Put It in Writing	73
Ch. 7	Eliminate Inequities	85
Ch. 8	Create a Sense of Motion	93
Ch. 9	Show Your Appreciation	115
Ch. 10	Keep Everyone Informed	119
Pt. 4	Develop the Team	135
Ch. 11	Share the Power	137
Ch. 12	Share the Wealth	145
Ch. 13	Other Team-Building Tips	159
Pt. 5	Take the Temperature	169
Ch. 14	Evaluate Your Retention Climate	171
	Glossary	177
	Resources for Retention	179
	About the Author	183
	Index	185
	Miscellaneous Blank Forms for Reader's Use	190

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Toaster's Handbook

Author: Peggy Edmund

Introductions by MARY KATHARINE REELY.

Fuss Free Entertaining with Just 4 Ingredients or Italy

Fuss-Free Entertaining with Just 4 Ingredients

Author: Joanna Farrow

The perfect cookbook for anyone who loves fabulous food that is quick to plan, easy to shop for, low cost and simple to make.

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Italy: Mediterranean Cuisine

Author: Konemann

How to cook like a king in France? With the Mediterranean Specialties series, it's no problem! In eight individual volumes — France, Italy, Morocco, Spain, Turkey, Greece, Tunisia and Islands of the Mediterranean — aficionados of Mediterranean cuisine will find a delightful cross-section of delicacies specific to each country. In each book, eleven renowned master chefs demonstrate the preparation of the recipes in steps that are described in detail, so that even cooks with little experience can be assured of success. Anecdotes and background information about local customs and the origins of select ingredients round out the presentation. Hot and cold appetizers, soups, creative main dishes with fish and meat, and ingenious desserts to crown any meal: in this series readers will discover the fascinating world of Mediterranean specialties with fragrant spices that taste of sun and the sea, awakening vivid associations with these vibrant cultures and cuisines.

Appetite for Ale or 300 Teatime Treats Cakes Sweets and Desserts

Appetite for Ale: Hundreds of Delicious Ways to Enjoy Beer with Food

Author: Fiona Beckett

As this unique cookbook proves, beer need not be relegated to the realm of mere beverage, but instead can serve as a unique ingredient or tasty flavoring in a variety of foods. More than 100 recipes—each recipe guaranteed to be accessible, hearty, and bursting with flavor—that utilize various styles of ale are offered, including soups and stews spiced by winter ales, chickens roasted using dark beers, and fine desserts finished off by sharp, fruity brews. An emphasis is placed on traditional, delicious dishes suitable for both entertaining and for domestic suppers, with sections including snacks, spreads, and dips; soups, pasta, and risotto; chicken and poultry; seafood; meats; bread and cheese; and sweet treats. Advice is also provided on pairing beers with meals and entertaining with ale, making this a must-have for experimental chefs and beer-lovers alike.

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300 Teatime Treats, Cakes, Sweets and Desserts

Author: Valerie Ferguson

A fantastic recipe collection offering sweet treats and inspiration for every occasion, whether a family bake-out, festive high tea, or a grand finale to an elegant dinner.

Coloring the Seasons or World of Wine

Coloring the Seasons: A Cook's Guide

Author: Allegra McEvedy

Allegra explores the significance of the color of the food we eat and, interestingly, how it is connected to the season we eat it in. With mouth-watering recipes, this is an invaluable guide to seasonal eating.

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World of Wine

Author: Stuart Walton

A comprehensive, authoritative and accessible guide for those seeking to explore in depth the wonderful world of wine.

Step by Step or Pure Food

Step by Step: Eating to Lower Your High Blood Cholesterol

Author: DIANE Publishing Company

A guide to help you choose, go easy on, & decrease certain foods. Includes menus, guidelines, cooking tips & comparison charts. 14 tables. Illustrated.

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Pure Food: How to Shop, Cook and Have Fun in Your Kitchen Every Day

Author: Christine Cushing

Using the best ingredients, and keeping it simple.

Chef Christine Cushing focuses on her kitchen philosophies of fun, adventure and experimentation in her new book. In her lively and informal style, she introduces an array of recipes that combine adventurous and sometimes exotic ingredients with simple, quick instructions for preparation. Health is always key.

Cushing even takes a trip to a supermarket to illustrate the process of discovering new ingredients. Customary fare takes on new heights with her tips for picking the freshest fish, produce, poultry and meat available on a given day.

A sampling of the sumptuous recipes:

• Smoked paprika aioli with grilled asparagus


• Arugula, spinach and feta salad with caramelized shallots


• Moroccan-style quick shrimp


• Stir-fried chicken and Chinese greens


• Pan-roasted halibut with shallots and grape tomatoes


• Lamb chops with herbs de Provence and Dijon mustard


• Lime-scented sushi rice


• Israeli couscous with fresh mint


• Spicy chive corn cakes


• Triple banana coconut loaf.

Pure Food introduces exquisite and nutritious dishes. In no time, Christine Cushing shows each step along the way -- from grocery shopping to garnishes.

The Empire of Tea or Banquetes Domesticos Navidenos

The Empire of Tea: The Remarkable History of the Plant that Took Over the World

Author: Alan MacFarlan

From the fourth century B.C. in China, where tea was used as an aid in Buddhist meditation, to the Boston Tea Party in 1773, when its destruction became a rousing symbol of the American Revolution, to its present-day role as the single most consumed beverage on the planet, The Empire of Tea explores the effects of the humble Camelia plant—both tragic and liberating—in the history of civilization. Alan MacFarlane explains, among other things, how tea became the world's most prevalent addiction, its use as an instrument of imperial control, and how the cultivation of tea led to the invention of machines and technology during the industrial revolution.

The Empire of Tea also incorporates personal stories of the people whose lives have been affected by their contact with the global obsession with tea, including the elegantly detailed account of Iris MacFarlane about her life on a tea estate in the Indian province of Assam, the world's center of tea cultivation. A fascinatingly tour of the world's great tea cultures—Japan, China, India, France, the United Kingdom, and others—The Empire of Tea brings into sharp focus one of the forces that have shaped history.

Publishers Weekly

Iris MacFarlane, a tea planter's wife, lived on a tea estate in Assam, India, for 20 years, and in the first chapter of this informative story of tea, she gives a moving account of her futile attempts to better the lives of the Assamese laborers, whom the British looked down upon as "irremediably inferior" to themselves. Then she and her son Alan, who was born on the estate and is now a professor of social anthropology, delve into the history of the leaf that over thousands of years became "the world's favorite drink," emphasizing the links between tea and political, cultural, social and economic events in China, Japan, India and England, where the British obsession with that "nice cup of tea" fueled the rapid growth of the British Empire. They also expound on the health benefits of tea, listing its many medicinal properties and contending that when tea was first introduced into China, Japan and England, it led to a decline in mortality rates because boiling the water to make it kills harmful bacteria. The story comes full circle in the final chapters, which concentrate on the hardships of the "coolies" who labored to harvest and process tea under the control of their rapacious British overlords. Although the book is more scholarly and less provocative than Roy Moxham's recent indictment of the British tea industry, Tea: A History of Addiction, Exploitation, and Empire (Forecasts, Aug. 25), it presents an equally fascinating picture of tea's impact on the lives of millions of people around the world. Illus. not seen by PW. (Apr.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Kirkus Reviews

Somewhat stiff but unfailingly informative history of tea, from the widow and son of a tea planter. Though the Macfarlanes' prose cannot be said to be as liquid as its subject ("The idea of adding a leaf to boiling water, however, is not a very obvious one, and certainly not an option open to the monkeys . . . that first consumed tea"), the story of tea can't help but fascinate due to the sheer scope of its influence. Tea played a critical role in the evolution of Japanese porcelain and British ceramics; it fueled the expansion of the British Empire and the Industrial Revolution, keeping workers alert beyond the toil and drudgery. It both soothes and invigorates, and its medicinal properties are little short of miraculous: antiseptic and antibacterial, tea "lowers cholesterol levels, reduces blood pressure, helps strengthen the walls of arteries, and consequently reduces the level of strokes and heart disease." It may inhibit cancer and diabetes; the simple boiling of its water helped free humans of waterborne disease. What really captures the reader's attention, though, is the authors' description of the tea plantation, palatial for the managers, squalid and miserable for the workers, from the early colonial farms in Assam to contemporary tea plantations. (The Macfarlanes concentrate on India, though circumstances can't be much different in Sri Lanka, Java, or China.) Tea pickers are mostly women, harvesting approximately 3,000 shoots an hour, "co-ordinated into a reaching-plucking-and-depositing set of movements every second or less for many hours a day, six days a week." They also reap boredom, rotten pay, occasional rape by employers, and the opportunity to be held in contempt bytheir colonial masters, who once described Indians, for example, as "chilarky . . . a word that covered lying, cheating and a general (innate, of course) inability to resist being saucily devious." Those Twinings cans may be decorative, but the history of their contents is not always so pretty, even as it makes for an absorbing read. (14 b&w illustrations)

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction
1	Iris Macfarlane: Memoirs of a Memsahib	1
Pt. I	Bewitched
2	The Story of an Addiction	30
3	Froth of the Liquid Jade	40
4	Tea Comes to the West	64
Pt. II	Enslaved
5	Enchantment	78
6	Replacing China	98
7	Green Gold	118
8	Tea Mania: Assam 1839-1880	138
9	Empires of Tea	166
10	Industrial Tea	188
11	Tea Labour	202
Pt. III	Embodied
12	Tea Today	226
13	Tea, Body and Mind	254
14	Bewitched Water	274
	Notes	287
	Bibliography	295
	Index	305

Book review: Macroeconomía

Banquetes Domesticos Navidenos

Author: Igone Marrodan

Por su fácil elaboración—generalmente anticipada—y la comodidad de su equitativa distribución, los diferentes platos que componen estos ágapes permiten que también los anfitriones y las personas encargadas de la cocina disfruten del festín de los comensales.

Es un amplio recorrido por el mundo de la cocina: desde los tradicionales cocidos a los platos más actuales. Con un lenguaje sencillo y con una letra clara, las recetas, bien equilibradas, van acompañadas en su mayoría de información útil e interesante acerca del plato y, así, de forma amena, enriquecen la cultura culinaria del lector. Aprovechando en cada época del año los productos que la naturaleza nos ofrece, esta obra destierra para siempre viejas concepciones erróneas: Cocinar no es un sufrimiento, es un placer que todos podemos disfrutar.