Over fifty recipes for creamy, velvety taste treats made with almonds, cashews, hazelnuts, and more: "The perfect guide to homemade nutty goodness." — Portland Press HeraldDIY Nut Milks, Nut Butters & More brings nut power to the people with more than fifty recipes for homemade nut milks and butters—along with delicious, whole-food snacks and desserts that put them to use. You'll even find tasty ideas for using the leftover nut pulp! Discover all s...

From award-winning chef, author, and television personality Melissa King comes an intimate, captivating memoir about family, food, and finding her voice as a queer Chinese American chef“Melissa’s story is a powerful reminder that success comes not from fitting into someone else’s expectations, but from embracing your whole self.”—Chef Kwame OnwuachiEmbracing my love of food has empowered me to embrace every layer of who I am: my Chinese...

When Melissa King, a transplanted southerner in search of connection, finds herself on the lean, mean streets of Chicago, she turns to her childhood passion for basketball. In her late twenties, King is at a crossroads in her life, and the randomness of the game as it is played on the streets suits her mood. The rules are unwritten, the teams a haphazard collection of players, and unlike anything else around her, the courts feel like home. So wherever there is a game, she gets her ball and...

Vegan food blogger Melissa King offers 100 simple, healthy, easy to prepare recipes for every meal of the day.Wouldn't you do more healthy cooking at home—if you only had the time? It can be tough to put dinner on the table without falling back on packaged, processed foods. But for Melissa King, watching her two young daughters struggle with health issues was tougher. She switched her family to a whole foods, plant-based diet—and it made all the difference. Today, M...

**WINNER OF THE JAMES BEARD AWARD • In her debut cookbook, Top Chef All-Stars champion and award-winning chef Melissa King shares 120 of her favorite dishes, blending her California sensibility with the Chinese cuisine of her childhood.“Ever since I first tasted Melissa’s cooking on Top Chef, I’ve been waiting for this book. Her food is beautiful and comforting, elegant, and very doable.”—Padma Lakshmi**From the moment she could see over the kitchen counte...

Most recipes in this book can be tweaked easily to suit your personal choice. You can substitute or altogether remove any ingredients (of course except the main ingredient) that you don't have or not liked. Although all recipes as it is are tasted and found to please most people taste bud. What you are waiting for? Grab the Book Top 67 Quick and Easy North Indian Vegetarian Cookbook and start making the food, which we are sure to give you instant gratification. You will find recipes like A...

The Anthropology of Los Angeles: Place and Agency in an Urban Setting questions the production and representations of L.A. by revealing the gray spaces between the real and imagined city. Contributors to this urban ethnography document hidden histories that connect daily actors within cultural systems to global social formations. This diverse collection is recommended for scholars of anthropology, history, sociology, race studies, gender studies, food studies, Latin American studies, and A...

From award-winning chef, author, and television personality Melissa King comes an intimate, captivating memoir about family, food, and finding her voice as a queer Chinese American chef“Melissa’s story is a powerful reminder that success comes not from fitting into someone else’s expectations, but from embracing your whole self.”—Chef Kwame OnwuachiEmbracing my love of food has empowered me to embrace every layer of who I am: my Chinese...

Almonds are everywhere, and with good reason! Full of vitamin E, magnesium, protein, fiber, calcium, and more, this superfood delivers lots of health benefits in a delicious little package. When almonds are made into grain-free flour, non-dairy milk, and nut butter, these easy alternatives to wheat flour, dairy, and peanut butter support a variety of diets--vegan to gluten-free, vegetarian to Paleo. Whether you're following a particular way of eating or just looking to add variety to your ...

If you’ve ever made jam or jelly at home, you know most recipes require more sugar than fruit—oftentimes 4 to 7 cups!—causing many people to look for other ways to preserve more naturally and with less sugar. Pomona’s Pectin is the answer to this canning conundrum. Unlike other popular pectins, which are activated by sugar, Pomona’s is a sugar- and preservative-free citrus pectin that does not require sugar to jell. As a result, jams and jellies can be made with less, little, or ...

In this monumental work, beloved dessert queen Alice Medrich applies her baking precision and impeccable palate to flavor flours—wheat-flour alternatives including rice flour, oat flour, corn flour, sorghum flour, teff, and more.The resulting (gluten-free!) recipes show that baking with alternate flours adds an extra dimension of flavor. Brownies made with rice flour taste even more chocolaty. Buckwheat adds complexity to a date and nut cake. Ricotta cheesecake get...

These days, people are accustomed to seeing chocolate labeled 54%, 61%, or 72% on grocery store shelves, but some bakers are still confused by what the labeling means and how to use it. In Seriously Bitter Sweet, Alice Medrich presents 150 meticulously tested, seriously delicious recipes—both savory and sweet—for a wide range of percentage chocolates. “Chocolate notes” appear alongside, so readers can further adapt any recipe using the percentage chocolate on hand. The book is a c...