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Book SynopsisFeast Your Eyes (and Tantalize Your Followers) with Fantastic Food Styling! A lovely meal can look beautiful on the plate but what makes it truly standout? That's all in your lighting, the way you plate, the props you use, and the photographic theories you apply. In short, it's all in the art of food styling! Get your dishes camera-ready in an instant with celebrated food photographer and cook Julia Konovalova. Julia takes you behind the lens and delves into the cornerstones of food styling, including sections on: . Backdrops and props . Color theory . Image composition . Introducing action into food photos . Juggling shutter speed, aperture, and ISO . How to shop and cook with food photography in mind . Composing in-progress shots . Mastering the art of styling with clients in mind Whether you are looking to make your followers swoon over mouthwatering home-cooked masterpieces or land a gig for a popular food brand, Julia has all the invaluable tips, tricks, and techniques to make your delectable art jump off the screen.

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Book SynopsisSmall Plates offers tips, tricks, and recipes for assembling bites and nibbles and making them a satisfying meal.Whether you’re entertaining or hustling to get a weeknight dinner on the table, this book shows you how meals built around small plates come together in a snap and expand the palates of family and friends by having them sample an array of dishes that are both familiar and new.This guide to composing satisfying and memorable meals features: Over 100 recipes for sauces, dips, appetizers, desserts, and more 30+ preparations that can be on the table in 30 minutes or less More than 50 plant-based dishes to keep things natural, fresh, and healthy Tips and tricks to elevate bits and nibbles into a delicious meals A guide to match cheeses, meats, spreads, and breads, along with seasonal salads and sides for the perfect pairings Life becomes beautiful when you focus on the little things, and this book makes it easier than ever. Small Plates takes a trend loosely based on Spanish tapas and shows you how to make it a nutritious part of everyday life.

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Book SynopsisFrom nutritious breakfasts to decadent desserts, Everyday Instant Pot —authorized by Instant Pot—presents a go-to collection of delicious, well-tested recipes for anytime cooking with an electric pressure cooker. The Instant Pot has become an instant classic, a must-have item for home cooks everywhere. Everyday Instant Pot presents an indispensable collection of well-curated recipes that are easy to follow and yield delicious, consistent results. From comforting classics like One-Pot Bolognese, French Dip Sandwiches, and Texas Beef Chili, to lighter fare such as chicken braised with citrus and olives, gingery salmon, and zesty and bright wild rice salad, you’ll find plenty of inspiration for getting the most out of your pressure cooker. The well-tested recipes include all the basics—like yogurt, eggs, jam, rice, beans—as well as dishes for every meal of the day. You’ll learn the fundamentals and benefits of cooking various cuts of meat—such as pork shoulder, chicken thighs, or beef chuck—in an Instant Pot. Along with a basic cooking method for each cut as well as a selection of flavor profiles—such as Korean, Mexican, Indian, Thai, and Mediterranean—that work well with it and suggestions for serving. With this comprehensive “building block” approach, and collection of inspiring recipes to draw on, you’ll become an Instant Pot expert in no time. Recipe List: Breakfast & Basics: Breakfast Quinoa Steel-Cut Oats (w/ variations: apple cinnamon; chocolate; banana maple) Yogurt Hard/soft-boiled eggs Baked Eggs with Spinach & Ham Jam Baked French Toast Prosciutto, Potato & White Cheddar Frittata Rice (white rice; brown rice; wild rice) Hummus Polenta Creamy Mashed Potatoes (buttermilk; Cheddar; horseradish, sour cream; Irish-style) White beans; Black beans; Chickpeas; Lentils Chicken stock; Vegetable stock; Beef stock Bone broth Main Dishes: Beef Maple-Bourbon Short Ribs Korean-Style Sesame Short Ribs BBQ Brisket Sandwiches French Dip Sandwiches Beef & Broccoli Barbacoa Tacos Meatballs & Tomato Sauce (with Spaghetti Squash) One-Pot Pasta with Bolognese Pork Five-Spice Pork Ribs Pulled Pork & Green Chile Tamales Sweet & Spicy Mexican Chile Carnitas (with salsa verde) Beer (or cider) Braised Pork Sausages (serve with mashed potatoes) Jambalaya with Andouille Sausage Poultry Thai Green Chicken Curry Burmese-Style Noodles with Chicken & Coconut Pulled Chicken Sliders (with kale & cabbage slaw) Chicken Adobo Burrito Bowls Butter Chicken with Cauliflower & Brown Rice Braised Chicken with Fennel, Oranges & Olives Turkey Breasts and Stuffing Fish & Vegetarian Braised Salmon with Lemon & Ginger Indian Fish Curry Chorizo & Seafood Paella Risotto (lemon & basil; artichoke & spinach) Cheddar & Gruyere Mac-n-Cheese Artichokes Stuffed with Bread Crumbs & Pancetta Zesty Wild Rice Salad Vegetable Ragout Soups & Stews Chicken Pho with Lemongrass & Bok Choy Smoky Seafood Chowder Lentil & Vegetable Dahl Curried Cauliflower Soup Fully Loaded Baked Potato Soup Tom Ka Soup Pork Ramen Chicken-Tortilla Soup White Bean Cassoulet with Sausage & Bacon Texas Beef Chili Pot Roast/Boeuf Bourguignon Dessert Salted Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Swirl Pots de Crème Coconut Rice Pudding with Toasted Pistachios Meyer Lemon-Gingersnap Cheesecake Apple-Cinnamon & Raisin Bread Pudding Coffee Crème Brulée Fudge Brownie Cake  

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Book SynopsisKale is a superstar among superfoods. It is packed with vitamins, antioxidants, and anti-inflammatories; supports the cardiovascular and digestive systems; promotes healthy eyes and bones; and plays an important role in the body’s detoxification processes. But not everyone has been quick to jump on the kale train. In Kale, Glorious Kale, Catherine Walthers shares recipes that explore all of the possibilities of this versatile vegetable. In addition to numerous fresh and flavorful salads, recipes include: Baked Eggs Over Kale Kale and Feta Pizza Penne with Kale, Sausage, and Mushrooms Cider-Braised Kale and Chicken For kale lovers as well as neophytes.

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Book SynopsisThe best recipes are meant to be shared, and in The Vintage Church Cookbook, blogger Parrish Ritchie brings together community cookbook standards that have been passed down for generations. From Pimento Cheese Deviled Eggs to Million Dollar Spaghetti, these recipes are comforting, scalable, and transportable, making them perfect for church and school gatherings and delivering to anyone who needs a hearty and delicious meal. Try: Cheese Pecan Wafers Amish Macaroni Salad Potluck Pot Pie Hummingbird Cake Tips from Ritchie’s family church cookbook offer welcome pieces of wisdom, such as baking cookies on an upside-down tray for the perfect golden-brown crunch and using the water from boiling eggs for your plants. A charming retro- inspired design with photographs for every recipe makes this the perfect book for anyone seeking a taste of comfort.

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Book Synopsis"In ten years of tender lessons, I have learned to hear this message: You were always there. You never left. You were never not you. Now walk with me a while and uncover that girl again. She's not far."When we face setbacks and obstacles, it's easy to feel alone and unsure of who we are. At some point, we've all felt like we have lost our identities entirely. Drawing from her own life-changing disasters and surprising blessings, former restaurateur and up-and-coming cooking maven Danielle Kartes serves up perfectly portioned stories to remind us we are never truly lost.With the decadent warmth of a Brown Butter Chocolate Bundt Cake, You Were Always There assures us that our even most challenging moments have their own glory. Mixing anecdotes of motherhood, cooking, and chasing your dreams with delicious, comforting recipes, You Were Always There is a devotional memoir that will inspire love, faith, and patience through the growing seasons of life. Take a little time each day to indulge in this conversation, reflect as you cook something delicious, and love yourself exactly where you are.Here, the sweet is always generously folded into the sour, great joy shares space with great sorrow, and we learn that every single moment in our lives is worth savoring. You Were Always There is an uplifting, life-affirming book that will become a new favorite for readers of bestselling authors like Joanna Gaines, Shauna Niequist, and Brené Brown.

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Book SynopsisTracing the evolution of food technology through the centuries, Sauces explores the development of this gastronomic art, from the use of simple bread thickeners to the smooth sauces we know today.

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Book SynopsisFeaturing a selection of recipes from around the world, Fats explores the complex meanings, debates and controversies that have surrounded this most basic yet fundamental food.

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Book SynopsisA unique, lively history of sweet melons and watermelons.

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Book SynopsisFor such a small fish, the herring has played an enormous role in history. Since the Middle Ages battles have been waged for it; international economic alliances have formed over it; a number of major cities owe their initial prosperities and structural foundations to it. Unquestionably, political powers have risen and fallen with the herring's own rise and fall in population. In Herring: A Global History Kathy Hunt looks at the environmental, historical, political and culinary background of this highly prolific, delicious and easily caught fish. It will appeal to food lovers, history buffs and anyone who has ever eaten British kippers, German Bismarcks, Dutch matjes or Jewish chopped herring.

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Book SynopsisThe small but mighty shrimp, or prawn, has lured diners to the table for centuries. These primordial-looking creatures spend their short lives out of sight, deep on the ocean floor, yet they have inspired an immense passion among many cultures. They are also at the centre of some of our most pressing environmental and human rights concerns. In this lively and entertaining book, Yvette Florio Lane embarks on a culinary and historical tour of the production and consumption of the beloved crustacean from earliest times to the present day, incorporating fascinating lore, unusual recipes and compelling images. Essential reading for foodies and food historians, Shrimp demonstrates that the enormous desire for this favourite shellfish has always come with a high price tag.

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Book SynopsisBerries are enmeshed with human history. Widely available in nature, they have been part of the human diet for millennia, and today they inspire everything from lip-gloss flavours to amusement parks. However diminutive their size, berries are of such significance to Northern and Eastern Europeans that picking them in the wild is `everyman’s right’, interwoven with their cultural identity, but some berries can be deadly. In Berries: A Global History, Heather Arndt Anderson relates the story of how humans came to love these tiny, bewildering fruits. Readers meet the inventor of thornless brambles, learn ancient fables and berry-lore, and discover berries’ use in poisonous witches’ brews and modern superfood health crazes. Featuring a selection of historic and original recipes for berry-lovers to try, this is a witty and lushly illustrated ramble through the curious history of our favourite fruits, which will appeal to food lovers and social historians alike.

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Book SynopsisNew title in the same series as bestselling The Stornoway Black Pudding Bible, The Italian Sausage Bible and The Macsween Haggis Bible Salmon can be eaten any time, and makes excellent starters, main courses, breakfasts and snacks, and there suggestions for all of these in this book. Due to its high protein content, omega-3 fatty acids and vitamin D, salmon is one of the most nutritious fish available, with many health specialists recommending that it should be eaten three times a week. In this handy and varied collection of recipes, award-winning chef Claire Macdonald demonstrates the enormous versatility of salmon in forty mouth-watering recipes which show you could eat salmon seven days a week and still never tire of it. Hot-smoked salmon, cold-smoked salmon, salmon fillets and Gravalax (salmon cured with sugar, salt and dill) all feature, together with a huge range of imaginative accompaniments, from beetroot, cheese and cream to bananas,tomatoes, garlic and prosciutto.Trade Review'She radiates a love of cooking and ... a love of eating' * Homes & Gardens *'Claire Macdonald is one of this country's most respected cooks' * Sunday Post *

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Book SynopsisThe latest in Birlinn's bestselling Food Bible series features the succulent soft fruits for which Scotland is so renowned - raspberries, Tayberries, redcurrants, blackberries - and shows how to get the best out of them. So much baking and cookery knowledge is packed into the compact Food Bible format, illustrated with Bob Dewar's delightfully quirky cartoons. Sue combines new and traditional recipes, including Bramble Clafoutis, Strawberry Risotto, Chocolate Raspberry Brownies, Duck with Blackcurrants, Redcurrant and Apple Lattice Pie and Blaeberry Polenta Cake. Sue is a real cook's cook, providing recipes that are easy to cook but reliably produce delicious results. As Nigella Lawson says: 'There couldn't be a book by Sue Lawrence that I wouldn't want to own and, indeed, I'd be horrified to learn that there were any titles I don't own. She writes beautifully, is as much chatty historian as cookery writer and her recipes always interest me and make me ravenous.'

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Book SynopsisUncle Aron's compliments, which hadn't changed since the days of the Bible, didn't sound so great. One time, he told my mother that she was awesome like an army with flags.' Another time, he informed her that your nose is like the tower of Lebanon." Meet the village it took to raise Gil Hovav - colourful aunts and uncles hailing from one of the most respected lineages in the Jewish world (Hovav is the great-grandson of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the reviver of the Hebrew language). This book includes twenty-two funny and heart-warming stories awash with love and longing for the people who raised one skinny and cross-eyed Jerusalemite boy to love poor-man's food, to love proper Hebrew and, most importantly, to love people. The nostalgic writing is dished up with more than twenty delicious family recipes with the seal of approval from Gil Hovav, the man who has played a major role in the remaking of Israeli cuisine and the transformation of Israel from a country of basic traditional foods into a gourmet nation . Readers get to chuckle at Hovav's amusing recollections and salivate over his family recipes for sweet sour chorba tomato soup and his Aunt Levana's eggplant and feta bourekas. If you've ever wondered how to make hilbeh or slow-cooked eggs (or if you're simply itching to expand your culinary repertoire), this book is for you. As wholesome and warming as a homecooked meal, Candies from Heaven will appeal to anyone who treasures good food and relationships built on love. Dig in, dear readers, pleasure is served.

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Book SynopsisLive a bright, fun, rainbow-filled life with Kawaii!The Japanese word Kawaii means lovable or adorable. Welcoming a little kawaii into your life is like opening the window and letting a sparkling sunbeam in. Whenever you feel a little low turn to this squishy, padded-covered book.Find fun ideas to: make a cosy kawaii home; playful, confidence boosting styling and beauty tips; and recipes that will make your smile. This book includes 10 easy how-to projects to bring kawaii into your life.Here, you'll also find a host of very special kawaii mascots that will always be ready to give you a hug when you need one: The Octonauts, Smiling Bear, Hello Kitty, Gudetama, Molang, Ricemonsters, Miffy the Rabbit, the Moomins, Donutella, Unicorno, Moofia and Pusheen.Escape into the magical world of kawaii...

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Book SynopsisAchieving a sense of equilibrium and inner peace can prove elusive when so many demands and responsibilities are constantly vying for your attention. Discover the tools for finding harmony in all aspects of your life with practical tips on everything from managing everyday stress to finding a work/life balance that is right for you. This inspirational book will help you find ways to maintain a healthy diet and lifestyle and be more mindful of the wider world and your impact upon it, while making sure there is always room for 'me' time.Balancing your life is essential to your health and well-being, and by applying a few simple concepts you will live your life at a pace that is comfortable and ultimately rewarding.

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Book SynopsisMilk, poured over cereal in the morning and splashed in coffee, is part of daily life in the West. Though milk is the sustaining and essential food of all mammals, and worldwide demand for it is growing every year, the majority of the world's population cannot digest raw cow's milk. Of those that do drink milk regularly, most have never actually tasted raw milk; what is known as milk today is a heavily treated version far removed from its natural state. In "Milk", Hannah Velten explores the myths and misconceptions surrounding the drink. Modern milk processing produces a safe, clean beverage that is far removed from real milk straight from the cow, but advocates of raw milk long for the days before pasteurization, homogenization and standardization. Paradoxically, milk back then was likely to be even less natural than today: known as the white poison, and filled with additives to make it look like milk after extensive watering-down, it was bacteria-ridden and dangerous to the health of invalids and infants. Now that milk has cleaned up its act, it is considered a staple for a healthy and balanced diet. Velten investigates how and why conceptions of milk have shifted in the public consciousness, from the science of nutrition, to dairy industry advertising and government endorsements. "Milk" will surprise and entertain in equal measure.Trade ReviewBooks in Reaktion's Edible series are paragons of their type; concise and flavorful, jammed with interesting facts, period photos and just a handful of recipes, in case you want to "do it yourself". I recommend these books to foodies and academics alike. -- Robert Sietsema, restaurant critic for The Village VoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 The First Milk 2 The White Elixir 3 White Poison 4 Solving the Milk Question 5 Modern Milk Recipes Glossary Appendix References Select Bibliography Websites and Associations Acknowledgements Photo Acknowledgements Index

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Book SynopsisForty years after first chewing on sugar cane in New Guinea, the home of sugar, the author underwent some complex dental work as a direct result of his sweet tooth. This led him to explore sugar cane's journey from New Guinea to Shakespeare's England. In the days before dentistry, people paid dearly for this sweet new food from exotic places. Queen Elizabeth I became so partial to hippocras, sugared almonds and pastilles that her teeth turned completely black.Bittersweet is full of ripping yarns and acts of bastardry. Through the ages, sugar has offered opportunities of tremendous riches to the unscrupulous few who grew and sold it. But in the days of manual processing, these fortunes were built on the backbreaking labour of slaves.Bittersweet explores the effects that sugar has had on the world. A foodstuff we take for granted and indulge in more than we should has caused wars and geopolitical balances that have shaped the modern world and the power balances we see in the 21st century.' The breadth of the connections Macinnis weaves through his tale continually surprises, all the more because the substance sugar is so deceptively simple that, before this book, we have taken it for granted. He has put his encyclopaedic knowledge to excellent use, placing science and technology naturally in a social context.' - Dr Peter Pockley, Australasian Correspondent for Nature.'Few foods have had such an impact on human history as sugar, from its origins, its influence on the slave trade and its use as a medicine, a luxury, a comfort food and now a cheap filler in the modern processed food supply. Peter Macinnis has traced its path carefully, cleverly crafting the story of all its sweet and sour effects.' - Dr Rosemary Stanton, Nutritionist.Table of ContentsAbout the authorAcknowledgmentsNote on measurements and moneyPrefaceIntroduction1 The beginnings2 The spread of sugar3 Sugar in the New World4 The English and the Sugar Business5 Fighting over sugar6 A science of sugar7 Rum and politics8 The end of slavery in the Americas9 Emancipation's harvest10 The rise of technology11 Labour problems12 Sugar in the twentieth centuryEpilogue: The costs and benefitsGlossaryReferencesIndex

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