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The ideal illustrated companion for becoming a successful bird watcher.   If you’ve ever been intrigued by chirping in the treetops or wished you could attract more bird life to your front porch, The Joy of Birding is for you. This colorful and unique guide combines the best of all birding books—it offers basic instructions for beginning birders, a key for identifying popular birds, and tips for attracting beautiful winged visitors to your neighborhood and backyard.   Author Kate Rowinski shows readers how to: Find and use markings, wing shape, beak shape, and size to identify birds Understand bird behaviors Recognize specific songs and calls Photograph birds in flight and repose Share the pleasure of bird-watching with others Vacation where birds are bound to be Reading it is almost as much fun as birding!

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Stock up for medical emergencies, power outages, natural disasters, and more! In today's world, anything can happen. There can be no question; it's best to be prepared. In The Prepper's Pantry Handbook, cooking expert and readiness enthusiast Kate Rowinski offers tips, techniques, and advice on how to keep your family well-fed and fully supplied in the event of any crisis. Offering a unique twist on preparation handbooks, Rowinski focuses on food storage and cooking--put simply, how to plan nutritional emergency meals and avoid "making do" on canned meats and chocolate bars. The Prepper's Pantry Handbook details: Storage techniques Personalizing your food plan Stockpiling, shelf life, and rotation Pickling, canning, sprouting, and drying Making delicious dinners out of your storage pantry Whether a disaster lasts for twenty-four hours or twenty-four weeks, The Prepper's Pantry Handbook is the ultimate guide to keeping your family eating healthily and maintaining proper nutrition, even in the worst of circumstances.

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"Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother."--Oprah Winfrey "Every minute in the presence of a child takes seven minutes off your life."--Barbara Kingsolver "In the end, it's not what you do for your children, but what you've taught them to do for themselves."--Ann Landers "The more people have studied the different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all."--Benjamin Spock Contributors include: Oprah Winfrey Edith Wharton Eleanor Roosevelt Diana, Princess of Wales William Blake Barbara Kingsolver Agatha Christie Barbara Walters Benjamin Spock Harriet Beecher Stowe Bette Davis Harry S. Truman Anna Quindlen Mark Twain Beatrix Potter Pablo Picasso Ann Landers Dr. Joyce Brothers William Shakespeare Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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Make your next outdoor adventure special and create incredible feasts with your Dutch oven—rice pilaf, beef and stout stew, breakfast pizza with ham and braised onions, chicken and dumplings, cherry crumble coffee cake, and more! Dutch ovens have always been a feature of American cooking—many generations of campers, Boy Scouts, and outdoors adventurers have enjoyed the delicious experience of a home-cooked meal around the campfire, thanks to their trusty Dutch oven. Now you can do the same with this new collection of seventy-five recipes that will make you want to pack up and head out on the trail! The table of contents includes: Breakfast Breads Soups and Stews Beef, Lamb, and Wild Game Pork Chicken Seafood Dessert And much more! The Wilderness Guide to Dutch Oven Cooking includes all your favourites, along with exciting new recipes. Wilderness cooki

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Most people don’t believe they will ever have to face a real disaster, or are too scared to look ahead and quickly dismiss any thoughts of a future catastrophe. But a cataclysm can happen in an instant and without warning, and you won’t be able to save yourself if you are not prepared. The Prepper’s Pocket Companion shows you what to do before, during, and after any disaster, whether big or small. With ten easy steps, you’ll learn the basics of: -Creating a foolproof plan -Storing water and food -Cooking off the grid -Alternative energy sources -Various disasters you may encounter -Short-term and long-term self-sufficiency -Safe and fast evacuation -And much more With this handy and instructive guide, you will learn how to protect yourself, your family, neighbors, and pets and be completely ready to face any disaster that may strike.

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Here Kate Rowinski shares chili recipes featuring pork, turkey, chicken, beef, and wild game, as well as a number of seafood and vegetarian varieties, along with some of the best side dishes to accompany a hot, delicious bowl of chili.In The Ultimate Guide to Making Chili, Kate Rowinski shares her knowledge of this great dish and some of her favorite chili varieties. In a brief introduction to chili, Kate explores the origins of chili and different types of chilies, as well the fundamentals of creating a good ‘bowl of red’. The Table of Contents includes: Introduction to the Chile Pepper Chili-Making Basics Competitive Chili Traditional Chili Home-style Chili Chilis Gone Wild Chile Sauces, Salas, and Rubs Chili Leftovers And more! There is an endearing quality and nostalgia about the thoughts that are conjured up when one contemplates eating a nice, warm bowl of chili during the summer or winter. Chili recipes are often well-guarded secrets, passed down from one cook’s recipe file to another’s for decades, from generation to generation. Some chili cooks go strictly by the book and measure each ingredient, while other cooks add in a dash of this and a dash of that, going by taste and a general feel. Either way, chili recipes always end up delicious.With over seventy-five different recipes, this cookbook will have a dish for anyone who loves chili.

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Bring the pressure cooker back into the kitchen and learn to make delicious, nutritious family meals in half the time!No longer is the pressure cooker a relic of your grandmother’s kitchen. Today, this powerful pot has become one of the most essential cooking tools in America. In this hectic, fast-paced life, with many hungry mouths to feed, a fridge of hodgepodge ingredients, and too many rules on how to cook one’s food, the pressure cooker emerges as the answer to all unnecessary problems.With her expertise on practical living, Kate Rowinski puts together an indispensable cookbook with an introduction to the fundamentals of pressure cooking—the best equipment, how to use your tools, safety practices, and cooking time charts for different ingredients—followed by more than eighty recipes that feature the pressure cooker for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and even all-day snacks. Learn to cook beloved meals in one-third to one-half the normal cooking time, such as:• Southern-style grits and eggplant-amole• Mini meatballs and risotto cakes• “Beer-b-que” pork and the perfect pot roast• Pineapple bread pudding• And much more!Reduce cooking time, retain more nutrients, maximize flavors, and minimize your electricity bill with your pressure cooker, the “shortcut” and convenient one-pot method that will solve all your kitchen headaches. Who knew cooking could relieve so much pressure?Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Good Books and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of cookbooks, including books on juicing, grilling, baking, frying, home brewing and winemaking, slow cookers, and cast iron cooking. We’ve been successful with books on gluten-free cooking, vegetarian and vegan cooking, paleo, raw foods, and more. Our list includes French cooking, Swedish cooking, Austrian and German cooking, Cajun cooking, as well as books on jerky, canning and preserving, peanut butter, meatballs, oil and vinegar, bone broth, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

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Make your next outdoor adventure special. Take your Dutch Oven and create incredible feasts—Rice Pilaf, Beef and Stout Stew, Breakfast Pizza with Ham and Braised Onions, Chicken and Dumplings, Cherry Crumble Coffee Cake, and more!.Dutch ovens have always been a feature of American cooking—many generations of campers, Boy Scouts, and outdoors adventurers have enjoyed the delicious experience of a home-cooked meal around the campfire, thanks to their trusty Dutch oven. Now you can do the same with this new collection of seventy-five recipes that will make you want to pack up and head out on the trail! The table of contents includes: Breakfast Breads Soups and Stews Beef, Lamb, and Wild Game Pork Chicken Seafood Dessert And much more! The Wilderness Guide to Dutch Oven Cooking includes all your favorites, along with exciting new recipes. Wilderness cooking can be delicious when you have this book in your rucksack!

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