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Home, Garden, and DIY November 2015
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"The experience of loving something -- particularly a book or a book's illustration -- so much that you actually want to eat it is near and dear to my heart." ~ from Cara Nicoletti's Voracious
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The Hands-on Home : A Sseasonal Guide to Cooking, Preserving & Natural Homekeeping by Erica Strauss"Want to create an organized, productive, and beautiful kitchen and home? Popular Seattle blogger, Erica Strauss (Northwest Edible Life) shows us how in this modern homekeeping handbook for thrifty DIYers who care about sustainability. A fresh take on modern homemaking, this is a practical (and sometimes sassy) guide to maximizing your time, effort, and energy in the kitchen and beyond. With a focus on less consumerism, it will teach you how to organize your kitchen and home to make the best use of your time. For those yearning to live a more ecologically minded, grounded lifestyle, this book is full of practical, no-nonsense advice, fabulous recipes, and time- and money-saving techniques"
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| The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science by J. Kenji López-AltAs a chef, test cook, and food writer, Kenji López-Alt has exactly the right background for culinary mythbusting. Suspicious of conventional kitchen wisdom, López-Alt applied scientific scrutiny to hundreds of common dishes, leading to this textbook-sized (yet wonderfully accessible) book of best practices. Offering tried-and-true techniques for preparing basics such as omelets, chicken stock, and all kinds of potatoes, López-Alt manages to be both funny and info-dense, while avoiding pitfalls like hard-to-find ingredients or daunting instructions. Library Journal calls The Food Lab an "indispensable kitchen manual" -- Alton Brown aficionados and other curious cooks will agree. |
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| Voracious: A Hungry Reader Cooks Her Way Through Great Books by Cara NicolettiPart memoir, part cookbook, Voracious is butcher-turned-blogger Cara Nicoletti's loving homage to her two passions: reading and cooking. In it, she describes the books that have shaped her life, and pairs each with a related recipe. Readers who go along for this delicious ride can relive comforting childhood stories with cacio e pepe from the Strega Nona picture books or salted chocolate caramels inspired by Anne of Green Gables; indulge more adult tastes with Middlesex olive oil yogurt cake or Gone Girl brown butter crepes; and flirt with the macabre by making porchetta di testa in honor of Lord of the Flies or fava bean mousse from Silence of the Lambs -- don't worry, it's served with chicken liver. |
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| Zahav: A World of Israeli Cooking by Michael Solomonov and Steven CookYou may not be able visit Zahav, the Philadelphia restaurant started by award-winning chef Michael Solomonov, but with this debut cookbook (co-written with Steven Cook), you can recreate Solomonov's Israeli-inspired food in your own kitchen. After mastering the tehina sauce that appears in recipes throughout the book, you can browse through the nine different ingredient-based sections, sampling approachable yet mouthwatering recipes from various regions and traditions. In addition to dishes like kibbe, beluga lentil soup, and Persian wedding rice, you'll also find baked goods such as rugelach, babka, and honey cake. For another diverse taste of modern Israel, pick up Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi's Jersusalem. |
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| The Complete Guide To Greenhouses & Garden Projects: Greenhouses... by Philip Schmidt, Pat Price, and Nora Richter GreerOutdoor living enthusiasts of various skill levels will embrace this handy guidebook for building garden structures, many of them from scratch. The benefits of this book over others lie in the range of projects -- covering everything from a simple hoop house to a Victorian-style greenhouse -- and the photo-illustrated demos to guide you through every step, from planning to completion. Whatever the size and style of your home and landscape, you'll be inspired to expand it to the outdoors after leafing through this "inspiring and instructive guide" (Booklist). |
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An Outside-the-Box Guide to Outdoor Living. Let's face it: most of us have the confidence to improve the inside of our homes with a fresh coat of paint, new rugs, furniture, and fixtures. But when it comes to the outside of our most prized possession, we don't know where to start. That's where Julie Moir Messervy's Home Outside comes in. The acclaimed landscape designer walks the reader through the process of turning any property into the home outside you've always dreamed of. Focusing on key concepts like Finding Your Comfort Zone and Placing the Pieces, Messervy presents breathtaking plans for remarkable front and back lawns, entertainment areas, and contemplative retreats, as well as innovative ways to create a better flow between the inside and outside of a house.
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| Building Projects for Backyard Farmers and Home Gardeners: A Guide to 21 Handmade... by Chris GleasonIf you're a homesteader (either rural or urban), you don't want to miss this collection of do-able DIY projects for backyards and small-scale farms. The 10 projects included here meet a lot of different needs: you can learn to build a rainwater collection system, assemble a vermiculture bin full of soil-enhancing worms, construct a compost box, and build structures to house plants or microlivestock (can't forget those bees and bunnies!). Clear instructions and lively interviews with experts add both variety and interest to this highly practical volume. |
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| The Greenhouse Gardener's Manual by Roger MarshallThe possibilities offered by greenhouses are vast, making greenhouse growing both attractive and confusing to newcomers. The Greenhouse Gardener's manual takes some of the uncertainty out of the process, walking you through selecting the right structure, plants, growing methods, and maintenance for whatever you have in mind; after all, you wouldn't want a greenhouse with the lighting and temperature for succulents if hydroponic veggies are your goal. Anyone interested in extending their growing season can benefit from this comprehensive tool -- there's even advice on starting a commercial greenhouse for gardeners with a more entrepreneurial bent. |
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Easy Concrete : 43 DIY Projects for Home & Garden by Malena SkoteCreating with concrete is easier than most do-it-yourselfers imagine, and the results can be spectacular and practical. With beautiful photography,Easy Concrete makes the material truly inviting, and the simple instructions cover everything from creatingmolds out of cardboard, wood, and metal to using hypertufa-a versatile type of concrete made with peat moss. There is also helpful guidance on adding the perfect finish and decorative details. With 43 projects that include outdoor pots, candleholders, garden benches, and a compost bin, this is the perfect introduction to a highly useful craft
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Dream Backyards : From Planters to Decks, Over 30 projects to Create a Beautiful Outdoor Living Space by Family Handyman Brings together more than thirty practical, do-it-yourself projects designed to transform a backyard into a treasured outdoor living space, with more than five hundred detailed diagrams and photographs, as well as step-by-step instructions to help readers create a dream water garden, deck, patio, path, arbor, gazebo, planter, and more.
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Ultimate Guide to Masonry and Concrete : Design, Build, Maintain by Creative HomeownerThis guide covers a wide range of masonry subjects, including basic installations, specific projects, and common repairs with concrete, block, brick, stone, tile, and stucco. Readers will find the information they need on tools, materials, and techniques explained in plain language and shown in full-color photos and detailed, colorful illustrations. The construction of 60 of the most popular masonry projects, such as laying a brick patio or walkway, building a barbecue, and building a retaining wall are covered in detail with dozens of step-by-step photographs and large, cutaway illustrations. Readers will find tips and special features on alternative approaches to projects that let them apply the information to different types of buildings and sites. Thorough coverage of masonry repairs & maintenance is also included
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Contact your nearest HCLS branch for more great books! |
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