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Home, Garden, and DIY July 2018
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| How to Grill Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Flame-Cooked Food by Mark BittmanWhat it is: the latest in Mark Bittman's wonderfully versatile and detailed How to Cook Everything series. It has color photos, covers grilling basics, and offers 1,000 recipes for appetizers, snacks, seafood, meat, poultry, vegetables (including veggie mains), sauces, breads, and desserts.
Recipes include: Bruschetta, Smoky Guacamole, Spanish-Style Garlic Shrimp, Tofu Steaks, Green Chile Cheeseburgers, Pulled Pork with Lexington BBQ Sauce, and Chocolate Panini. |
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The Perfect Cake: Your Ultimate Guide to Classic, Modern, and Whimsical Cakes
by America's Test Kitchen
Why you should read it: It's America's Test Kitchen's first cake cookbook and a wonderfully comprehensive collection (it even includes cheesecakes, cake pops, and cakes you microwave in mugs). There are also tips about getting started and core cake-baking techniques.
Recipes include: Classic White Layer Cake, Blueberry Jam Cake, Vegan Dark Chocolate Cupcakes, Petit Fours, and Spice Cake.
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| Tomoko Fuse's Origami Boxes: Beautiful Paper Gift Boxes from Japan's Leading Origami... by Tomoko FuseWhat it is: a well-illustrated guide to making a variety of lovely small boxes by a world-renowned Japanese origami artist who uses pictograms throughout her detailed instructions.
What's inside: thirty projects, such as traditional masu boxes, triangle boxes, flower boxes, dome boxes, hexagonal boxes, and barrel-shaped boxes, as well as variations and lids. |
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| Gardening with Less Water: Low-Tech, Low-Cost Techniques for Using Up to 90% Less... by David A. BainbridgeWhat it's about: Combining brevity, passion, and expertise with plenty of examples and illustrated instructions, ecology professor David Bainbridge presents several methods for delivering water directly to plants' roots. Best of all, these methods -- which include wicking systems, grow tubes, porous hoses, and clay pots -- can all be implemented using recycled or low-cost materials.
Who it's for: Gardening with Less Water is a must-read for gardeners concerned about drought or a limited water supply. |
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| Food52 Mighty Salads: 60 New Ways to Turn Salad into Dinner and Make-Ahead Lunches... by the editors of Food52What it is: an all-salad cookbook by the editors of the culinary website Food52, who believe that "salads are a place to play." In that spirit, they offer tempting recipes for 60 creative, hearty salads (and lots of dressings, too) as well as tips and variations.
Recipes include: Hoppin' John Salad with Crispy Cornbread, Grilled Peach and Apricot Salad with Kale and Prosciutto, Lemony Greek Pasta Salad, and Steak and Tossed Salsa Verde Salad. |
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| She Sheds: A Room of Your Own by Erika KotiteWho it's for: Anyone dreaming of a tiny hideaway will find inspiration, tips, and tricks in this beautifully photographed book that encourages reusing items you have and provides information about materials and costs for over 20 spaces in the U.S., England, and Australia.
Chapters include: "What's Your Shed Style?"; "Sheds for Gardeners;" "The Artist's Studio;" "Old-Soul Sheds;" "Stylish Sheds;" "Backyard Getaways;" "Build a She Shed from a Kit;" "Gallery." |
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| The All New Ball Book of Canning and Preserving: Over 350 of the Best... by the Ball Corporation; Meredith L. Butcher, editorWhat it is: a detailed guide to preserving that offers color photos, step-by-step instructions, and 350 recipes, from classics such as pickles and jams to international flavors like kimchi.
What's inside: details on water bath canning, fermenting, pressure canning, freezing, dehydrating, curing, and smoking, as well as information on picking the right jar and the importance of acidity. |
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Cake
by Maira Kalman
"With great style, wit, and joy, Maira Kalman and Barbara Scott-Goodman celebrate their favorite dessert. In Cake, renowned artist and author Maira Kalman and food writer Barbara Scott-Goodman bring us a beautifully illustrated book dedicated to their mutual love of cakes. Kalman's enchanting illustrations, in her inimitable style, and Scott-Goodman's mouthwatering recipes complement each other perfectly, making Cake a joyful whimsical celebration of a timeless dessert"
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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