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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 Kitchen
The Perfect Cake opens with a valuable chapter of mix-and-match layer cakes, frostings, and fillings, allowing anyone to find just the combination they're looking for. The following chapters traverse a range of styles, touching on easy crowd-pleasers, sky-high stunners, American classics, holiday cakes, charming miniature cakes, and more.
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Vogue knitting : the ultimate knitting book
by Editors of Vogue Knitting Magazine
A knitting reference from a notable knitting magazine, gets a thorough update—including 1,600 color images and brand-new sections with techniques and designs.
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| The Less Is More Garden: Big Ideas for Designing Your Small Yard by Susan MorrisonDesigner Susan Morrison offers savvy tips to match your landscape to your lifestyle, draws on years of experience to recommend smart plants with seasonal interest, and suggests hardscape materials to personalize your space. Inspiring photographs highlight a variety of inspiring small-space designs from around the country. |
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| The Flower-Powered Garden: Supercharge Your Borders and Containers with Bold... by Andy VernonA floripedia of 50 marvelous plants includes colorful favorites like dahlias, petunias, hollyhocks, fuchsias, and more. Vernon also shares basic gardening tips, with helpful advice on planting, watering, soil, and growing in containers. This colorful guide has everything you need to supercharge your garden with the power of flowers! |
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Debbie Macomber's Table : Sharing the Joy of Cooking With Family and Friends
by Debbie Macomber
For Debbie Macomber, food means family—recipes and holiday traditions are passed down through generations, and meals provide opportunities for everyone to gather and share their love. In this treasure trove you’ll find one hundred delicious dishes that have become Debbie Macomber’s staples, some inspired by her novels and others by family and friends.
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Whole beauty : natural rituals and recipes for lifelong beauty, inside and out
by Shiva Rose
A decade ago, after suffering from life-threatening autoimmune disorders, Hollywood actress Shiva Rose set out to discover a more holistic way to natural health and beauty. Growing her own organic herbs and flowers; mixing creams, lotions, and tonics; and following Ayurvedic practices and creating mindful rituals, she has not only healed her life but has also become a leader and entrepreneur in the world of all-natural beauty and lifestyle.
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Sweet: Desserts from London's Ottolenghi
by Yotam Ottolenghi & Helen Goh
Yotam Ottolenghi is as famous for his award-winning cookbooks as his London delis and eponymous restaurant, but he started off whisking egg whites for vanilla soufflés. Now, devoting a whole book to sweets, the superstar chef teams up with noted pastry chef Helen Goh for this beautiful collection of 110 decadent treats.
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The cooking gene : a journey through African-American culinary history in the Old South
by Michael Twitty
Sifting through stories, recipes, genetic tests and historical documents, a renowned culinary historian, in a memoir of Southern culinary tradition and food culture, traces his ancestry through food, from Africa to America and slavery to freedom, and the charged politics surrounding the origins of soul food, barbecue and all Southern cuisine.
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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.
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Dinner : Changing the Game
by Melissa Clark
A New York Times food columnist changes the way you look at dinner with 245 brand new, delicious recipes that are easy and quick enough to prepare on weeknights, including Jalapeno-Honey Steak, Maple Roasted Tofu and Blood Orange Chicken.
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| You Have It Made: Delicious, Healthy, Do-Ahead Meals by Ellie Krieger
For those who are always short on time when it comes to cooking, Ellie is here to help. Her recipes—which include breakfast bakes, soups, salads, casseroles, and more—can all be prepared ahead of time, making putting food on the table that much easier. Each recipe includes instructions for refrigerating and/or freezing as well as storing and reheating directions. |
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| Victuals: An Appalachian Journey, with Recipes by Ronni LundyThe James Beard winner for American cooking, Victuals is more than a cookbook, it's also an insightful exploration of the foodways, people, and places of the Mountain South. Through 80 recipes and stories gathered on her travels in the region, Lundy shares dishes that distill the story and flavors of the Mountain South. |
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