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Home, Garden, and DIY May 2018
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| The Perfect Cake: Your Ultimate Guide to Classic, Modern, and Whimsical Cakes by America's Test KitchenWhy 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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| Vogue Knitting: The Ultimate Knitting Book by The Editors of Vogue Knitting MagazineWhat it is: an updated edition of a beloved knitting reference with over 1600 color images, step-by-step illustrations, and totally new sections that address designing sweaters, shawls, and accessories.
Reviewers say: "Trust Vogue" (Booklist); "an essential addition to the knitter's bookshelf" (Library Journal). |
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| The Less Is More Garden: Big Ideas for Designing Your Small Yard by Susan MorrisonWhy you should read it: It takes a lifestyle-based approach to garden design that'll help aspiring gardeners turn their modest-sized yards into personalized spaces.
What's inside: inspiring color photographs, thoughtful questions, and suggestions for livable, low-maintenance designs using appropriate plants, furniture, and hardscaping. |
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| The Flower-Powered Garden: Supercharge Your Borders and Containers with Bold... by Andy VernonFeaturing: floral color schemes, a florapedia of 50 gorgeous plants, information on planting and growing, beautiful photographs, and stories about why British producer Andy Vernon loves color.
Is it for you? Yes, if you'd like more colorful blooms in your garden and need an enthusiastic gardener to help you. |
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James Beard Award Winners and Nominees |
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Bravetart: Iconic American Desserts
by Stella Parks
So you want to make -- from scratch -- the candy bars, vanilla wafers, toaster pastries, and other sweet treats you usually see in a package? And maybe you'd also like to make snickerdoodles, chocolate pudding, vanilla ice cream, and other classic dishes? You're in luck! Stella Parks, an award-winning pastry chef, spent five years creating the 100+ recipes (and 200 or so variations) in this stunning book, which also includes vintage ads and historical details, including the surprising origin of Key lime pie.
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Six seasons : a new way with vegetables
by Joshua McFadden
A chef and “vegetable whisperer” offers 225 vegetable-centric recipes that provide a new way to view and utilize their attributes throughout their growing seasons including Farro and Tomato Salad, Carrot and Beet Slaw and Fried Farro with Pickled Carrots and Runny Eggs.
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In my kitchen : a collection of new and favorite vegetarian recipes
by Deborah Madison
The leading authority on vegetarian cooking and award-winning author of Vegetable Literacy presents a carefully curated and updated collection of her most popular recipes, including Roasted Jerusalem Artichoke Soup with Sunflower Sprouts and Olive Oil, Almond, and Blood Orange Cake.
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State Bird Provisions : a cookbook
by Stuart Brioza
"The debut cookbook from one of the country's most celebrated and pioneering restaurants, Michelin-starred State Bird Provisions in San Francisco. Few restaurants have taken the nation by storm in the way that State Bird Provisions has. Inspired by their years catering parties, chefs Stuart Brioza and Nicole Krasinski use dim sum style carts to offer guests small but finely crafted dishes ranging from Potato Chips with Crème Fraiche and Cured Trout Roe, to Black Butter-Balsamic Figs with Wagon Wheel Cheese Fondue, to their famous savory pancakes (such as Chanterelle Pancakes with Lardo and Maple Vinegar), along with a menu of more substantial dishes such as their signature fried quail with stewed onions. Their singular and original approach to cooking, which expertly blends seemingly disparate influences, flavors, and textures, is a style that has influenced other restaurants throughout the country and is beloved by diners, chefs, and critics alike. In the debut cookbook from this acclaimed restaurant, Brioza and Krasinski share recipes for their most popular dishes along with stunning photography, and inspire readers to craft an unforgettable meal of textures, temperatures, aromas, and colors that excite all of the senses"
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Nopalito : a Mexican kitchen
by Gonzalo González Guzmán
"A collection of 100 recipes for anyone who wants to cook traditional Mexican food in all its surprising freshness and variety, ranging from the simplest dishes to more complex ones, and including both the classic and the lesser-known regional gems of this cuisine. Nopalito provides a snapshot of regional Mexican cuisine from the perspective of Gonzalo Guzman, head chef at San Francisco's popular restaurant of the same name. With recipes for 100 traditional Mexican dishes (but through a California lens)from Puebla, Mexico City, Michoacan, the Yucatan, and beyond--including many recipes from the author's hometown of Veracruz--this beautifully photographed cookbook brings the warmth of Mexican cooking into the kitchens of home cooks. The book includes fundamental techniques of Mexican cuisine, insights into Mexican food and culture, and favorite recipes from Nopalito"
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Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
by Samin Nosrat; illustrated by Wendy MacNaughton
This is not your typical cookbook. Yes, it includes recipes, but it's more like a (fantastic) cooking course in a book. Using an approach she's perfected over the years, acclaimed chef Samin Nosrat explains four basic elements -- salt, fat, acid, and heat -- that will cut your apron strings to recipes. Complemented by lovely watercolor art, Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat just might be to cookbook of the year. Want more books about cooking science? Try J. Kenji López-Alt's The Food Lab, Harold McGee's On Food and Cooking, and various Cook's Illustrated guides.
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Dinner : changing the game
by Melissa Clark
A collection of recipes for home cooks from the New York Times food columnist that are easy and quick enough to prepare on weeknights, includng such dishes as herb-marinated steak, maple-roasted tofu, and coconut curry chicken
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Sweet : desserts from London's Ottolenghi
by Yotam Ottolenghi
A collection of recipes for sweets, baked goods, and confections from the superstar chef, including such dishes as banana cakes with rum caramel, pineapple and star anise chiffon cake, pecan snowballs, and lemon and poppy seed cake
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| Taste of Persia: A Cook's Travels through Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran... by Naomi DuguidWhy you should read it: Delicious recipes plus stories from Naomi Duguid's travels as well as compelling photographs, facts about the five countries she visited, and an annotated bibliography make this book a James Beard winner in the International category.
Recipes include: Cabbage Dolmas, Spinach Borani, Kurdish White Beans, Mint Dumplings, Tabriz Meatball Soup, Beef Stew with Onion and Tomato, Marinated Pork Kabobs, Fruit Leather, and Cardamom Cookies. |
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| Dorie's Cookies by Dorie GreenspanWhat it is: This James Beard Winner in the Baking and Dessert category offers techniques, tips, and a variety of creative, mouthwatering recipes.
Recipes include: Melody Cookies, Almond Crackle Cookies, Chocolate-Cornflake Haystacks, Blueberry Buttermilk Pie Bars, Snowy-Topped Brownie Drops, and Honey-Blue Cheese Madeleines.
Look for: the Beurre and Sel section, which includes all the recipes from the author's popular-but-now-closed Manhattan cookie store. |
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Harrison Memorial Library Ocean and Lincoln Carmel, California 93921 831-624-4629www.hm-lib.org/ |
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