A moving portrait of how black Americans have spoken out against injustice—with speeches by Thurgood Marshall, Shirley Chisholm, Jesse Jackson, and more.In "full-throated public oratory, the kind that can stir the soul", this unique anthology collects the transcribed speeches of the twentieth century's leading African American cultural, literary, and political figures, many never before available in printed form ( Minneapolis Star-Tribune...

What's the best way to store prawns? What should you look for when you're buying broccoli? Or a good piece of steak? What are the essentials you should keep in your kitchen and how long will they last?In KItCHEN SECREtS, Barbara Lowery shares her vast knowledge of practical secrets, all those things our mothers knew about buying, storing, preparing, flavouring and cooking food that we never actually got around to learning. KItCHEN SECREtS looks at all the fresh foods we buy - meat, poultry...

The one-pot meal reinvented, and it's amazingly convenient: Cook complete meals on one sheet pan (sometimes two).Amazingly tasty: Food actually taste better when cooked on a sheet pan, because it uses three techniques—roasting, baking, or broiling—that intensify flavor.And amazingly versatile: Recipes ranging from easy weeknight dinners to special-occasion meals, plus extras like snacks and sides, ten quick brunch dishes, and irresistible, brilliantly creat...

From bag to table, healthy salads have never been easier.You've always known that eating green could be healthy, and now it's easier than ever. With the abundance of supermarket selections of prepackaged greens, you can create a restaurant-style salad?along with a fabulous dressing?in your own kitchen.Before bagged blends, a salad with four different types of lettuces was unheard of. Now there are more than fifty different combinations of lettuces, packaged in just the righ...

Easy-to-follow recipes that will help you craft the most delicious soups you've ever tasted…right in the comfort of your own home!New England Soup Factory soups are like no other soups, and now you can recreate them in your own home. Soups will no longer be the appetizers or side dishes thanks to the delicious and easy-to-follow recipes found in the New England Soup Factory Cookbook.With more than 100+ of the best soup recipes Boston has to...

A patented way to cook quick and easy one-pot meals, while keeping ingredients intact and full of flavor.Elizabeth Yarnell developed her revolutionary infusion-cooking method to avoid often mushy slow-cooker results and to make cooking and cleaning up after dinner a breeze. Now anyone with too many tasks and not enough time can use her technique to get dinner on the table in an hour or less, with no more than twenty minutes of hands-on prep work—and just one pot to...

An upscale approach to the new-old phenomenon of cooking with a slow cooker, by author and food journalist Lynn Alley, featuring 60 recipes.With fresh ingredients and imaginative recipes, you can create delicious meals to serve with pride to your guests. Drawn from slow cooking traditions from around the world, the recipes in The Gourmet Slow Cooker include Lamb Shanks in Tomato Sauce from Greece; Apricot Chicken from India; Chicken Mole from Mexico; White...

**"[A] beautiful book full of recipes that fit a food stamp budget," this IACP Cookbook Award winner shows that skill, not cost, is the key to great food. (Michael Pollan, New York Times–bestselling author of The Omnivore's Dilemma).Created for people who have to watch every dollar—but particularly those living on the U.S. food stamp allotment of $4.00 a day— Good and Cheap is a cookbook filled with delicious, healthful recipes backed by ideas tha...

James Beard Award-winning and self-made chef Naomi Pomeroy's debut cookbook, featuring nearly 140 lesson-driven recipes designed to improve the home cook's understanding of professional techniques and flavor combinations in order to produce simple, but show-stopping meals.Naomi Pomeroy knows that the best recipes are the ones that make you a better cook. A twenty-year veteran chef with four restaurants to her name, she learned her trade not in fancy culinary school...

A beautifully photographed, gift-worthy guide to growing, harvesting, and utilizing 47 unexpected garden plants to make organic pantry staples, fragrances, floral arrangements, beverages, cocktails, beauty products, bridal gifts, and more."Practical and inspiring all at once, Harvest inextricably weaves together the pleasures of the kitchen and the garden for cooks and gardeners."—Samin Nosrat, chef and author of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat

Based on the wildly popular segment on CBC TV’s Steven & Chris, Dish Do-Over takes foods that you can’t live without—guilty pleasures and family favourites—and transforms them. Same great taste, but lower in fat and calories, and often wheat-free and gluten-free, too. From a mouth-watering cheesecake with half the calories and fat to fettuccine alfredo that’s delicious and gluten-free, you won’t notice the smart swaps that make these favourites better. Packed with colour ...

A good broth or stock is the foundation of wholesome cooking. From the author of The Nourished Kitchen, come over a dozen master recipes for base stocks, plus forty recipes using these stocks in complete meals.Broths and stocks have always had a central place in kitchens around the world owing to their ability to comfort, nourish, and heal. In Broth and Stock from the Nourished Kitchen, Jennifer McGruther, an authority in the traditional foods mov...