"I'm wild about this book! Tim and Jan give us all the knowledge to cultivate our own herbs and endless ways to put them on the family table."Lorrianne Crook, host of Celebrity Kitchen and co-host of the nationally syndicated Crook & Chase CountdownSpice up your cooking with organic herbs from your own backyard!Cooking and gardening come together in this delightfully green book of herb-gardening tips and flavor-packed herb-based recipes. Fr...

The renowned baking instructor distills professional techniques down to the basics, delivering artisan bread recipes that anyone with flour and a fridge can bake with ease.Reinhart begins with the simplest French bread, then moves on to familiar classics such as ciabatta, pizza dough, and soft sandwich loaves, and concludes with fresh specialty items like pretzels, crackers, croissants, and bagels. Each recipe is broken into "Do Ahead" and "On Baking Day" sections,...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Rice allows [her vampires] to do what they do best: wreak havoc and evoke terror. All while impeccably dressed.” —The Washington PostThe vampire world is in crisis ... Old vampires, roused from deep slumber in the earth, are doing the bidding of a Voice commanding that they indiscriminately burn their kin in cities across the globe, from Paris to Mumbai, Hong Kong to San Francisco. Left with little time to spare, a host of familiar c...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREA mission to Mars. A freak accident. One man’s struggle to survive. From the author of Project Hail Mary comes “a hugely entertaining novel that reads like a rocket ship afire” (Chicago Tribune).“Brilliant . . . a celebration of human ingenuity [and] the purest example of real-science sci-fi for many years . . . utterly compelling.”—The Wall Stre...

In this James Beard Award-winning cookbook, George Greenstein reveals 125 recipes for the yeasted and quick breads that have been handed down through his family by three generations of bakers—the breads that made his bakery so well-loved for so many years.For more than twenty years, Greenstein owned and operated a Long Island bakery that produced a wide variety of baked goods, from many different ethnic traditions—focaccia and Irish soda bread, Bavarian pumpernicke...

Make the time-honored tradition of pickling simple and accessible with this handy DIY guide.From Japanese Tsukemono to Korean kimchi, from German sauerkraut to Indian chutney, pickling is part of a long and rich tradition of food culture around the world, and with DIY Pickling, making delicious sweet, sour, spicy and fermented pickles in your own kitchen has never been easier. Included are the fundamental pickling techniques that you’ll turn to again and a...

A cookbook featuring more than 65 recipes that make use of the parts of vegetables that typically get thrown away, including stalks, tops, ribs, fronds, and stems, with creative tips for making the most of seasonal ingredients to stretch the kitchen dollar.Make the Most of Your Produce!Don’t discard those carrot tops, broccoli stalks, potato peels, and pea pods. The secret that creative restaurant chefs and thrifty great-grandmothers share is that these, an...

Homemade preserves are delicious, easy to make and a delight for the whole family. This book will help you ensure that the shelves of your store cupboard will always be full of evocative, mouthwatering condiments and confections made, jarred and decorated in your own kitchen. Fresh, bright and contemporary, this beautiful new cookbook is filled with 140 recipes covering every kind of preserve and pickle, from jams and jellies to relishes and chutneys. There are specific chapters on Jams an...

Wolfgang Puck Makes It Easy is a groundbreaking cookbook in which Wolfgang Puck shares his creativity and genius so that anyone can prepare these wonderful recipes.Every element of the book aims to make it incredibly easy to create great food of the highest quality and creativity, as only Wolfgang Puck can do. In addition to more than 100 recipes, the book features numerous cooking tips as well as advice on how to select the freshest ingredients, how to ad...

A must-have guide to substituting ingredients for cooking and baking, with over 1,000 easy-to-find, healthy, and cheap substitutions to save you money and time.This comprehensive guide is a treasure trove for all aspiring and seasoned chefs, providing an extensive range of ingredient substitutes that will transform your cooking game. Whether you're facing a pantry shortage, dietary restrictions, time constraints, or budget limitations, you'll find the perfect alter...

The spiced peaches and icebox pickles, dilly beans and tomatoes in every shape and form, the blackberry jam and hot pepper jelly--it's summer, and a whole world of summers past, in a jar. Pack the pantry the way Grandma did, and put away the sweetest fruits and preserves, the most tender savory vegetables, the taste of the sunny day and the scent of the crisp harvest air, with more than 250 blue-ribbon canning and preserving recipes culled from TheFarmer's Wife magazine. A reliable resourc...

An indispensable resource for home cooks from the woman who changed the way Americans think about food.Perhaps more responsible than anyone for the revolution in the way we eat, cook, and think about food, Alice Waters has “single-handedly chang[ed] the American palate” according to the New York Times. Her simple but inventive dishes focus on a passion for flavor and a reverence for locally produced, seasonal foods.With an essential repertoire of t...