Prepare your taste buds for the magic of smoked foods.Smoking food is an ancient method for preserving meat that has been transformed into a superior way to infuse your food with more flavor. Smoking Foods will show you how pairing ingredients with specific woods will bring out the richness in everything you smoke. You'll also learn how rubs, marinades, sauces, and more can further enhance the foods you smoke.Renowned chef Ted Reader will share all...

Let James Beard Award–winning authors and hometown heroes Matt Lee and Ted Lee be your culinary ambassadors to Charleston, South Carolina, one of America’s most storied and buzzed-about food destinations.Growing up in the heart of the historic downtown, in a warbler-yellow house on Charleston’s fabled “Rainbow Row,” brothers Matt and Ted knew how to cast for shrimp before they were in middle school, and could catch and pick crabs soon after. They learned to recogni...

America’s love affair with pro-inflammatory sugars, fats, animal proteins, preservatives, additives, and high-temperature cooking has given rise to devastating health consequences. As rates of chronic degenerative disease surge around the country, it’s more important than ever to dispel the myths surrounding a plant-based diet and get people excited about choosing foods that truly can be both nutritious and gourmet.Gary Null has witnessed people make remarkable improvements in thei...

From the Creator of the Popular Food Blog My Healthy Dish, a Collection of Recipes for Everyone in the FamilyIn 2012, My Nguyen-a mother of two with a background in finance and dreams of becoming a dietitian-logged onto Instagram and started posting photos of meals she was making for her family on a regular basis. Her posts attracted more than 30,000 followers in four months, so she decided to give them more of what they were requesting via a blog titled

Oftentimes, the so-called diseases of affluence, like diabetes or high blood pressure, are due to improper diet as you age. By eating food with fewer carbohydrates and more fat, you can maintain a normal weight and become free of the symptoms of, for example, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome (enteritis), chronic fatigue syndrome, and sleep disorders.Low Carb High Fat Cooking for Seniors contains over 70 easy-to-prepare recipes for those who want hearty and nutritious...

An elevated guide to the craft of pasta-making by rising star chef Thomas McNaughton of San Francisco's hottest Italian restaurant, flour + water.Chef Thomas McNaughton shares his time-tested secrets to creating simple, delicious, and beautiful artisan pasta—from the best fresh doughs to shaping and cooking every type of pasta. A true celebration of Italy’s pasta traditions, flour + water includes fifty seasonally influenced recipes for home cooks of every skill le...

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...

A Southern cook shares the simple secrets to delicious homemade biscuits in this cookbook that explores the wide array of biscuit recipes and uses.Delicious on their own, traditional Southern biscuits can be an ideal vehicle for fillings and toppings, or a key ingredient adding flavor and texture to a variety of recipes. Yet as beloved as they are, biscuits often intimidate home cooks. Jackie Garvin overcame her decades long biscuit-making failures by research and ...

Dare to get more out of your greens!From healthy, superfood packed entrée salads to indulgent affairs featuring premium ingredients, this bold collection of more than 60 recipes for voracious omnivores and vivacious salad lovers features unusual and dynamic ingredient pairings that take salads to a whole new level.In Mixt Salads, the co-founder and executive chef of San Francisco’s beloved boutique salad joints shares his inventive, flavor-forward ...

American grilling, Japanese flavors*.* In this bold cookbook, chef Tadashi Ono of Matsuri and writer Harris Salat share a key insight: that live-fire cooking marries perfectly with mouthwatering Japanese ingredients like soy sauce and miso.Packed with fast-and-easy recipes, versatile marinades, and step-by-step techniques, The Japanese Grill will have you grilling amazing steaks, pork chops, salmon, tomatoes, and whole chicken, as well as traditional favor...

This James Beard award-winning cookbook brings chef-owner Cindy Pawlcyn’s Midwestern sensibility and flair for reinventing American food to Napa Valley with over 150 recipes.Mustards Grill is an institution in the wine country—the friendly restaurant where locals first started going for a full plate of inventive, delicious food and a glass of Napa's finest. Chef-owner Cindy Pawlcyn, founding chef of San Francisco's original Fog City Diner, put down her roots in Nap...

A New York Times Best Seller!This cookbook delivers more than 675 stove-top and oven recipes that are easy to make and pleasing-for the cook-and everyone who gathers around the table. From the bestselling author of the Fix-It and Forget-It slow cooker cookbook series.Meet the Fix-It and Enjoy-It Cookbook, an irresistible collection of more than 675 All-Purpose, Welcome-Home Recipes. Fix-It and Enjoy-It Cookbook offers choice recipes for stove-top a...