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Home, Garden, and DIY November 2016
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| Natural Color: Vibrant Plant Dye Projects for Your Home and Wardrobe by Sasha DuerrThe seasonal cookbook is a familiar standard by now, and in Natural Color, designer and art professor Sasha Duerr takes a similar approach to crafting with natural dyes. An advocate for "slow fashion," Duerr guides you through the botanical palette of each season (including how to gather, grow, or buy the necessary plants) and provides dyed textile projects along the way. Elegant color photos capture the vivid hues created by avocado pits, red cabbage, and nettles (to name just a few). Advice on mordants and dyeing techniques rounds out this thoughtful volume, which will appeal to dedicated dye artists who share Duerr's passion for sustainability. |
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The cool factor : a guide to achieving effortless style, with secrets from the women who have it
by Andrea Linett
With so many style and shopping options, it can be difficult to create a streamlined closet of pieces that can be worn easily and confidently. In The Curated Closet, style writer Anuschka Rees presents a fascinatingly strategic approach to identifying, refining, and expressing personal style and building the ideal wardrobe to match it, with style and shopping strategies that women can use every day. Including useful infographics, charts, and activities, as well as beautiful fashion photography, The Curated Closet is the ultimate practical guide to authentic and unique style.ook Annotation
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A Girl and Her Greens: Hearty Meals from the Garden
by April Bloomfield with J.J. Goode
In her latest outing, James Beard Award-winning chef April Bloomfield turns her attention toward the vegetable kingdom, using simple, seasonal ingredients to craft a satisfying range of dishes. Recipes such as spring peas with mint, roasted and raw fennel salad, and onions with sage pesto are well-reasoned (explaining not only how, but why), and are presented in a colorful, conversational style filled with entertaining anecdotes. This lively cookbook will be most appreciated by flexitarians who don't mind sprinkling some bacon on their broccoli. (If you'd rather skip straight to the bacon, try Bloomfield's earlier cookbook, A Girl and Her Pig.)
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Holiday Cooking for Everyone
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Design Mom: How to Live with Kids: A Room-by-Room Guide
by Gabrielle Stanley Blair
If you’ve ever looked at a decorating book and lamented that everything in it looks too fragile, fussy, or expensive for a family with kids, Gabrielle Stanley Blair is here to remind you that "design doesn’t have to disappear when kids appear." Starting with the entryway -- that Bermuda Triangle of shoes, coats, and bags -- Blair (a mother of six) walks you through the whole house, offering attractive, functional style solutions that will enable your household to run smoothly. In addition to practical design tips, she also shares some parenting insights that can help you create a harmonious home in which the whole family feels comfortable.
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| Sodium Girl's Limitless Low-Sodium Cookbook by Jessica Goldman; photography by Matt Armedariz Are you feeling salty about the challenges of low-sodium cooking? If so, you're not alone. Whether you're cooking for yourself or the people gathered around your holiday table, it can be tough to make impressive eats that meet the demands of a low-sodium diet. But blogger and food writer Jessica Goldman Foung has your back. Though this cookbook isn't holiday-focused, it's comprehensive enough to give you a solid foundation in creating low-sodium variations on all kinds of meals, and even offers recommendations for further cookbook reading. Fans of Foung's "cheerful, can-do attitude" (Library Journal) should also check out her earlier cookbook, Low-So Good. |
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| Vegan Holiday Cooking from Candle Cafe: Celebratory Menus and Recipes... by Joy Pierson, Angel Ramos, and Jorge PiñedaFeeding vegans and non-vegans together doesn't have to mean disappointment for one side of the table, at least not with this cookbook from the owner and chefs of high-end vegan restaurant Candle Cafe. Here, you'll find recipes for restaurant-quality fare made accessible to home cooks, all organized into menus for ten different holidays (religious, national, and otherwise). Dishes like rosemary portobello steaks and sweet potato latkes with almond crème fraiche are likely to please a variety of palates, though if you need a broader range, you may want to pick up The Superfun Times Vegan Holiday Cookbook by fan-favorite Isa Chandra Moskowitz, which is hot off the presses this month. |
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| The Joy of Gluten-Free, Sugar-Free Baking: 80 Low-Carb Recipes That Offer Solutions... by Peter Reinhart and Denene WallaceWarm, fragrant baked goods are an important component of many holiday celebrations, yet they're often denied to those who need to monitor carbs, sugar, or gluten. Beloved baker Peter Reinhart and co-author Denene Wallace, however, have honed combinations of nut flours and natural sweeteners to produce quick breads, crusts, cookies, cakes, muffins, and other treats with zero gluten and a staggeringly low glycemic load. Though it requires a bit of know-how and is un-apologetically baking-centric (try Danielle Walker's Against All Grain Celebrations for a wider view), there's no denying the delicious results of this book, which Library Journal dubs "nothing short of amazing." |
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Prince George's County Memorial Library System 9601 Capital Lane Largo, Maryland 20774 301-699-3500www.pgcmls.info/ |
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