Cookbooks
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Twelve Months of Monastery Salads
200 Divine Recipes for All Seasons
By Victor-Antoine d’Avila-Latourrette
Paperback , $14.95
Salads offer endless variations and provide a wonderful contrast of textures and flavors sure to please every taste. They are now more popular than ever due to the year-round availability of high-quality produce. Organized according to the bounty of the seasons, this engaging collection of 200 satisfying salads is in keeping with traditional monastic cooking, which centers on fresh, wholesome ingredients. As Brother Victor says in the book’s introduction, “A salad, carefully prepared, is always an occasion for celebration.”
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Vegan Planet
400 Irresistible Recipes with Fantastic Flavors from Home and Around the World
Paperback , $21.95
Robin Robertson once and for all explodes the myth that vegan food is bland, bizarre, or just too “lite.” First she provides a complete rundown on the vegan pantry and the tremendous health benefits of the vegan way of eating. Then she presents 400 exciting and globally inspired new recipes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, including decadent-without-dairy desserts and creative ideas for entertaining guests no matter what they like to eat.
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Vegetarian Planet
350 Big-Flavor Recipes for Out-of-This World Food Every Day
By Didi Emmons
Paperback , $24.95
Never before has so much of the Earth’s bounty been so abundantly available in local stores and supermarkets. In her best-selling and James Beard Book Award-nominated cookbook, Vegetarian Planet, Didi Emmons takes vibrant flavors from around the world and, using techniques known to any home cook and easy-to-find ingredients, creates 350 dishes at once bold and flavorful, soothing and homey. Not a book of recipes “from” this country or that, it is instead a celebration of the new, globally inspired American pantry.
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Weeknight Grilling with the BBQ Queens
Making Meals Fast and Fabulous
By Karen Adler, Judith M. Fertig
Paperback , $14.95
The BBQ Queens are back with 100 easy and versatile recipes for weeknight dinners on the grill. The Queens’ straightforward, fun-loving approach provides the perfect way for busy people to feed themselves and their families quickly and healthfully. They start with high-quality ingredients, add simple and delicious suggestions for rounding out the meal, and sprinkle in grilling tips, shortcuts, and advice for using leftovers to make every recipe truly user friendly and easily achievable on any night of the week.
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Wine Cocktails
50 Stylish Sippers that Show Off Your Reds, Whites, and Rosés
By A.J. Rathbun
Hardcover , $12.95
Drinks expert A.J. Rathbun brings to American readers something that the Europeans have been enjoying for years: wine cocktails. With his signature wit and flair, he explores the delicious art of mixing wine cocktails and shows readers how easy it is to enjoy a favorite wine in a whole new way. In four recipe chapters that cover reds and rosés, white wines, sparkling wines, and after-dinner treats, Rathbun mixes things up with juice, herbs, liqueurs, spirits, and spices. Bottoms up!
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Wine Mondays
Simple Wine Pairings with Seasonal Menus
By Frank McClelland, Christie Matheson
Hardcover , $24.95
Interest in pairing wine with food is at an all-time high—everywhere you look, wine pairing is being featured in food magazines, in restaurants, and on television cooking shows. Food and wine pairing may seem complicated, but anyone can do it with just a little bit of guidance! In Wine Mondays, Frank McClelland and Christie Matheson demystify this skill and offer 130 elegant recipes from McClelland’s acclaimed Boston restaurant L’Espalier, adapted here for the home cook. It’s the perfect book for anyone who loves great wine and great food and wants to learn how to enjoy the flavors of both to their full extent—and have fun while doing it!
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You’ve Got It Made
Deliciously Easy Do-Ahead Meals to Make Now & Bake Later
Hardcover , $25.95
Paperback , $14.95You’ve Got It Made is the go-to book for easy, hot-from-the-oven, homemade meals that can be prepared in advance but still taste fresh and delicious. This book features 150 recipes, including casseroles, quiches, gratins, pasta and grain dishes, pot pies, breads, fruit cobblers, cookies and more, that can be completely prepped and assembled ahead of time, frozen or refrigerated, and baked just before serving. From delicious appetizers like Spinach and Feta Puffs and Baked Brie; to comforting entrees like Pesto Ravioli Bake, Beef Stroganoff Casserole, and Old-Fashioned Chicken Pot Pie; to desserts like Five-Spiced Baked Apples and Soft Ginger Molasses Cookies, Diane Phillips provides the simple, do-ahead formula to make it happen.