Author Archive

  • Grace Parisi

    James Beard Award-nominated author Grace Parisi is the senior test kitchen associate at Food & Wine and the food and nutrition expert on Simplify Your Life. She is a frequent guest on Today, Good Morning America, and In Food Today. Parisi lives with her husband and two children in Brooklyn, New York.

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  • Get Saucy

    Make Dinner a New Way Every Day with Simple Sauces, Marinades, Glazes, Dressings, Pestos, Pasta Sauces, Salsas, and More
    Get Saucy

    By Grace Parisi

    Paperback , $17.95

    It’s so easy to make mealtime magic by whisking together a handful of ingredients, or by adding water or wine and a few spices to pan drippings. In Get Saucy, Grace Parisi has created 500 of the best recipes for sauces from all over the world, designed to delight home cooks of all skill levels. Comprehensive, accessible, and contemporary, this acclaimed cookbook is an indispensable kitchen aid.

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  • Happy Holidays from the Diva of Do-Ahead

    A Year of Feasts to Celebrate with Family and Friends
    Happy Holidays from the Diva of Do-Ahead

    By Diane Phillips

    Paperback , $14.95

    Holidays often conjure up warm and nostalgic memories, but they can also provoke a bit of anxiety, especially for those faced with cooking that big Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner. In Happy Holidays from the Diva of Do-Ahead, the Diva herself, Diane Phillips, provides 125 foolproof recipes and a no-fail game plan to eliminate the stress and make it easy to prepare meals for 12 holiday celebrations: New Year’s, Valentine’s Day, Passover, Easter, Mother’s Day, Memorial Day, Father’s Day, Fourth of July, Rosh Hashanah, and Halloween, with expanded menus and extra help for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

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  • Pam Abrams

    Pam Abrams is a writer and editor and has worked at several parenting magazines, most recently as vice president and editor-in-chief of Scholastic’s Parent & Child. Her articles have appeared in Parents, O magazine, and the Chicago Tribune, and she is the author of Now I Eat My ABC’s. She recently began teaching cooking classes for kids at her home in Brooklyn, New York.

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  • Gadgetology

    Kitchen Fun with Your Kids, Using 35 Cooking Gadgets for Simple Recipes, Crafts, Games, and Experiments
    Gadgetology

    By Pam Abrams

    Paper-over-boards with covered spiral binding , $14.95

    Kids and parents alike will love this activity book, chock-full of experiments, recipes, and games that will turn the kitchen into an educational playground. With a mortar and pestle, kids and their parents can make Green Bean Sesame Sauce Toss or homemade sidewalk chalk and with a nutcracker, they can make Fudgy Walnut Brownies or walnut shell sail boats. Other gadgets in the book include funnels, kitchen scales, melon balers, rolling pins, whisks, and more.

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  • Diane Phillips

    Diane Phillips is an esteemed culinary educator, James Beard Award-nominated cookbook author, product spokesperson, and consultant to the food industry. Fondly known as The Diva of Do-Ahead, she has taught her tremendously popular do-ahead entertaining classes for more than 15 years in cooking schools nationwide, selling out in markets from the Midwest to the Bay Area.

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  • Active Birth

    The New Approach to Giving Birth Naturally
    Active Birth

    By Janet Balaskas

    Paperback , $14.95

    This comprehensive guide to childbirth preparation offers important lessons in just how natural birth can be for both childbearing couples and professionals. Active Birth helps mothers participate more actively in pregnancy and childbirth and brings back some of the instinctive common sense that is often over-looked by modern obstetrics.

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  • Mary Lou Heiss

    Mary Lou Heiss is co-owner of Cooks Shop Here, a gourmet food shop in western Massachusetts, where she resides. She travels extensively for business, often giving lectures on tea, tea gardens, world cultures, Asian/world cuisines, and olive oil.

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  • Starting a Small Restaurant—Revised Edition

    How to Make Your Dream a Reality
    Starting a Small Restaurant—Revised Edition

    By Daniel Miller

    Paperback , $16.95

    More than 100 new restaurants open every day and interest in the restaurant business is at an all-time high, as evidenced by popular television shows and the chef-hosted lineup of Food Network programming. In this fully updated edition of Starting a Small Restaurant, Daniel Miller offers everything would-be restaurateurs need to know before they decide if the life of a small-business owner is right for them, as well as everything necessary to get a restaurant successfully up and running.

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  • Green Tea

    50 Hot Drinks, Cool Quenchers, and Sweet and Savory Treats
    Green Tea

    By Mary Lou Heiss

    Hardcover , $12.95

    Enjoyed by millions the world over for two millennia as a soothing, fragrant hot drink, green tea has steadily gained popularity in recent years. Those looking for ways to experiment with this hip, healthy, and delicious beverage will find 50 sweet and savory recipes for hot and cool drinks and beautiful color photos in Green Tea.

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  • Dave Lowry

    Dave Lowry is the restaurant critic for St. Louis magazine and the author of several books on the traditional martial arts of Japan. He has also contributed articles to Winds, the in-flight magazine of Japan Airlines. He lives outside of St. Louis.

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  • The Connoisseur’s Guide to Sushi

    Everything You Need to Know About Sushi Varieties and Accompaniments, Etiquette and Dining Tips, and More
    The Connoisseur’s Guide to Sushi

    By Dave Lowry

    Paperback , $14.00

    This handy guidebook offers all the information sushi lovers need to elevate their knowledge to a higher level. Easy to pop into a bag or coat pocket to bring along to a restaurant, The Connoisseur’s Guide to Sushi covers everything from the types of fish and sushi available to sushi-eating etiquette. The sushi novice and ardent sushi fan alike will find themselves turning often to this useful book.

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