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The Competent Cook: Essential Tools, Techniques, and Recipes for the Modern At-Home Cook by culinary instructor Lauren Braun Costello, is a delight. Even experienced home cooks are not necessarily well-trained cooks. Many people have been doing it “the hard way” since they first picked up the wrong knife—and held it incorrectly. Are you an experienced…
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What To Eat is informative and fun reading. The book Eat This, Not That (now available in a new 2010 edition) is a very helpful guide to making healthier and lower-calorie food choices—and losing weight in the process. The author is David Zinczenko, editor-in-chief of Men’s Health magazine. Now, the experts on healthy eating from…
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Speaking of cheese (as we did in our prior post), if Dad is a cheese lover, there’s a book about “life on the wedge” written by a cheesemonger—someone who pursued his passion to work in cheese. Dad might enjoy it along with a pound of something special, or a gift certificate to the local cheese…
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You can find films and books titled “Love At First Bite.” This version is “The Complete Vampire Lover’s Cookbook” with “More Than 300 Suckulent Recipes.” Essentially, this is a basic cookbook that mines the current vampire craze by titling recipes with vampire themes: Embrace The Darkness Frittata, Frightful Filet Mignon Caesar Salad, Suffering Suck-O-Tash, and…
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In her second cookbook, Daisy: Morning Noon and Night:Bringing Your Family Together With Everyday Latin Dishes, chef and television personality Daisy Martinez’s second cookbook offers flavorful Latin recipes that are easy to understand and execute. Daisy also helps the novice Latin cook by explaining the ingredients used in each recipe—their origins, what you can substitute…
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