Best Greek Cooking
Capturing the true spirit of the island, Kochilas explains the importance of shared food, the health benefits of raw and cooked salads, the bean dishes that are passed down through generations, the greens and herbal teas that are used in the kitchen and in the teapot as "medicine," and the nutritional wisdom inherent in the ingredients and recipes that have kept Ikarians healthy for so long. Award-winning author DIANE KOCHILAS. divides her time between New York, Athens, and her family's ancestral island, Ikaria, where she and her husband, Vasilis Stenos, run the Glorious Greek Kitchen cooking school.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Her cooking philosophy is rooted in the tenets of the Greek-Mediterranean Diet: keep it simple, respect seasonality, use ingredients that have integrity and are easy to find, eat lots of greens and vegetables, share, and finally, the golden rule - Nothing in Excess. So I was super-excited to see that Kochilas had a new cookbook coming out that focuses on the cuisine of Ikaria, her ancestral homeland and the location of her cooking school Glorious Greek Kitchen. The organic, unprocessed diet of Ikarians, as well as regular physical activity, laid-back attitude, and arguably nonexistent relationship with time (shops around the island read "Clocks, Anxiety and Stress Have No Place on Ikaria") are likely all contributing factors. An entire chapter devoted to using vegetables as a main course includes baked, stewed, braised, and stuffed veggies that will give you plenty of creative ideas for how to make the most of the season's bounty. As a sweet finale, I baked the spice cake for the revealing saint (fanouropita) in a decorative Bundt pan -- it makes the perfect afternoon treat with a cup of Greek coffee. Sprinkled throughout the book are gorgeous portraits of Ikaria's landscape and architecture, Ikarians engaged in daily activities and festivals, and mouthwatering food photography."
"Great cookbook with added cultural features."
"Beautiful book wonderful photographs."
"A wonderful read, well written, entertaining, with mouth watering recipes!"
"The pictures are beautiful, the stories are engaging, and I learned a lot from the recipes."
Wouldn't you like to have a cooking journal at hand that can provide some awesome and amazing recipes to make for your loved one ? You have the best instant pot recipes ever adjusted for only 2 servings available for you at all time!
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I appreciate reading reviews and write these in hopes they will assist you in making wise choices."
"Each recipes also includes the Prep time, pressure cooking time, and total time so you know what you are in for each recipes."
"Inside of this book the writer has described about easy instant pot guidelines.Highly recommend this book for the best possible delicious and easy recipes for cooking with an Instant Pot."
"Absolutely loved this book!"
"Nice Simple Recipes. Many of the instant pot recipes I look up online call for more ingredients than I will ever have in my pantry, but this has so many great recipes without having to make a trip to the spice store."
"I bought this for a friend who cooks for herself only and we had a good laugh over the cover."
"When you think Instant Pot - you can think large meals."
"This is a great book on Instant Pot for Two Cookbook."
90 Recipes for popular Greek dishes made with easy-to-find ingredients Greek Kitchen Tips including how to stock your pantry and kitchen with the right ingredients and equipment, plus cooking techniques A Regional Overview explaining Greek food from ancient times to modern day. Recipes in this Greek cookbook include: Kalamata Olive Spread, Greek Potato Salad, Spinach Rice, Vegetable Moussaka, Shrimp Santorini, Spinach and Feta Stuffed Chicken Breasts, Greek Yogurt Brandy Cake, and much more! "OPA’s the word for this book so full of the smells of basil & lemon & fish on the grill, soothed by olive oil, salted by sea air, shaded by vines from blinding white against bluest blue, that I want to run to my kitchen and dance to bouzouki & syrtaki and ask all my neighbors over to join the feast of eating & drinking & singing & dancing that Greek food conjures every single blessed day." ―John La Puma MD, Founder & Chef Clinic at ChefMD, New York Times Best Selling Author of REFUEL. Her previous cookbooks included Olive Oil and Vinegar for Life: Delicious Recipes for Healthy Caliterranean Living .
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I'm like a kid in a candy store, can't wait to try the next one."
"The recipes in this book are divine."
"I've already made several recipes from it - and they are healthy, easy to make, and really delicious!"
"Fresh and tasty recipes."
"A must have book for all cooks."
"Good receipes, way too much salt."
Best Interior Design Floors
If you want to learn how to install laminate wood flooring as a DIY project, this book provides the information you need to get it done like a PRO! Determine the type of laminate flooring you will use based on the installation method of the finish texture. Determine the amount of materials needed - add 10% to the area calculated. Continue installation of the laminate wood flooring throughout the room.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Among the plethora of longish manuals, full-scale do-it-yourself guides, printed home remodelling books and YouTube tutorials on one side, and thousands of free online articles on the other, one can get easily confused trying to find just the right stuff, and more to the point, in the right size. This is not to say that the instructions are not good but that I had no idea how much preparation the process takes and that a person can easily fail to plan everything ahead."
"Out of all the self-help books I have read in the past, this is by far the most thoroughly written books that I have come across. If you are a beginner or professional at installing laminate flooring, I recommend reading this book."
"He was able to break down each step required in common language that even someone who is unfamiliar with installing laminate wood flooring can feel confident enough to tackle the job."
"A very interesting read, who would think one day you will find a book about how to install laminate wood flooring?"
"Great book - now I have no excuse!"
"I am not a flooring expert, but have installed floating laminate floors and bamboo floors and would not recommend this 8 dollar book to anyone. My wife bought me this book and another Amazon self-published book about installing laminate flooring, _How To Install Laminate Flooring_,by Gary Johnson. I have several other professionally written and illustrated books about flooring that cover laminate floor installation."
Best German Cooking
Get more out of Paleo Diet by making Paleo meals with Instant Pot! •Discover 250 Paleo Recipe for Instant Pot. •Recipes for breakfast, dinner, lunch, snacks, desserts. •Save you time, money and energy: all recipes are easy to cook. •Improve your health: all recipes are healthy and well balanced. •Increase your happiness: happiness and food are highly connected. Discover 250 Paleo Recipe for Instant Pot Recipes for breakfast, dinner, lunch, snacks, desserts Save you time, money and energy: all recipes are easy to cook Improve your health: all recipes are healthy and well balanced Increase your happiness: happiness and food are highly connected.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I liked the variety of recipes here that are so easy to prepare."
"Each recipe is well-instructed as readers can follow easily."
"I adored this cookbook!"
"Incredible book, still too heavy."
"I got a new instant pot and started to look for a proper cookbook."
"All recipes in this book are saved with simpler ingredients with easy cooking directions."
"It has a good collection of healthy recipes , with step-by-step easy to follow instructions for preparing them in no time."
"Haven't tried many of the recipes yet."
Best Irish Cooking
In The Country Cooking of Ireland , internationally acclaimed food and travel writer Colman Andrews brings to life the people, countryside, and delicious food of Ireland. The breathtakingly beautiful photographs are alone enough to convince, but Andrews, calling Irish cuisine one of the most exciting food stories in the world today, lets the dishes make his case. Andrews offers a culinary feast with everything from nested eggs and steak-and-kidney pie to Arlington chicken liver pâté and battered sausages. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, STARRED REVIEWKnown for its scenic landscape rather than its gastronomic prowess, Ireland has never been considered a major force on the world's food stage. The breathtakingly beautiful photographs are alone enough to convince, but Andrews, calling Irish cuisine one of the most exciting food stories in the world today, lets the dishes make his case.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"what a beautiful cookbook, not only does it have authentic Irish Recipes it has wonderful pictures and stories."
"I think he did a great job with this book."
"Mr. Andrews includes witty and touching anecdotes with each recipe and beautiful photographs of the people and places of Ireland."
"Grear recipes and full of wonderful stories and history."
"The Country Cooking of Ireland contains not only wonderful recipes, but stories giving the history that developed many specialities."
Best French Cooking
In the companion book to his final PBS series, the world-renowned chef shows his close relationship to the land and sea as he cooks for close friends and family.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"My first recipe I made was the easiest thing I could find to jump in, the Coffee Panna Cotta. I made it for company recently bc it turned out great during my test batch. I learned a lot of tidbits of his life story and understand why his tastes in food have developed beyond French cuisine. The recipes are many, and with much variety; so you will find an array of the most recognizable ingredients to a few 'strange' ones as defined by the American commonplace diet. There are many simple seafood, shellfish, recipes that are 10 mins to whip up and the usual suspects, chicken, beef, pork, vegetables, etc...it is common that in the majority of cookbooks out there, you will find some recipes you'll never do while jumping into others. Some simple dessert recipes too...I want to try the brittle using seeds bc my g'daughter is allergic to nuts. Although he says you can use a pot on the stove to make this, he gives instructions to use the microwave to do it, which shows you, he doesn't mind using something that is usually relegated to just heating up tea or water. So many cooks and chefs say NEVER to run them under water, like it's a cardinal sin to do that, subscribing instead to a damp cloth or soft-bristled brush at most. In short, as on his TV series and these books, that is what you get...a straightforward and refreshingly simple approach to food. I made half a recipe using walnuts (I had no pistachios) and chocolate chips and it was so good, easy and fast and ready to eat in about an hour!"
"I highly recommend this book for any skill level."
"He's my favorite TV cook, so I'm not sure my assessment of the book is determined only by the book."
"What a book!"
"As always, a wonderful book that takes us into this phenomenal chef/author's heart."
"I love that so much of what he does is simple yet very elegant."
"I received my cookbook the week before Jacques new television series began on Public Television."
"Companion to his TV cooking show which is great."
Best Turkish Cooking
Have you been struggling with strict, restrictive healthy eating plans and repeatedly losing weight only to gain it all back? A comprehensive healthy meal preparation guide, this book by distinguished dietician Teresa McCain offers you invaluable insight into the best way to lose weight in a pleasant way with a healthy, mouth-watering monthly meal planner. A full range of 100 original appetizing meal plans, easy-to-prepare for seasoned or novice chefs, separated in distinct meal groups for BREAKFAST, SNACK, LUNCH and DINNER and accompanied by the recommended PORTIONS and the accurate amount of CALORIE INTAKE make this efficient monthly meal planner the best way to lose weight!
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I only gave it 3 stars because it was poorly edited.some recipes had titles that were not indicative of the actual list of ingredients ."
"This was helpful starting keto."
"Good collection of easy recipes."
"Great book to start my Keto journey!"
"I love the book, thank you so much."
"Awesome book!"
"ok meal plans are simple almost to simple, alot of onions in recipes and i thought they were off limits."
Best Polish Cooking
You will learn how to make the best dishes in the world in the easiest way possible: using an instant pot. Your success in the kitchen is guaranteed with just 2 simple tools: this great cookbook and an instant pot!
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I’m a new user of the Instant Pot and after having tried a few online recipes that didn’t turn out well, I though I would opt for a cookbook."
"Preparation time, Cooking time, Servings, ingredients, Directions, Nutritions. These are the six terms the author included with every 500 recipes of this book and the average preparation time of all the recipes included in this book is i think not more than 30 min and the recipes are prepared by a wide range of ingredients."
"This book has a good variety of recipes."
"Just made our first meal tonight."
"Anyone can follow these instructions and be on their way to amazing food in just minutes."
"A lot of recipes but a lot of the recipes are overboard for me."
Best Italian Cooking
Essentials of Italian Cooking is a culinary bible for anyone looking to master the art of Italian cooking, bringing together Marcella Hazan’s most beloved books, The Classic Italian Cook Book and More Classic Italian Cooking , in a single volume, updated and expanded with new entries and 50 new recipes. Recipes have been revised to reduce fat content, and a whole new chapter full of fundamental information about herbs, spices, and cheeses used in Italian kitchens--as well as details on how to select specific ingredients--has been added. From marinated carrot sticks to sweet-and-sour tuna steaks, Trapani style, to tortellini with fish stuffing and polenta shortcake with raisins, dried figs and pine nuts, the outstanding recipes--many of them poetically simple--are too numerous to do justice to in few words. Included is a spirited discussion of squid and the essentials of preparing fresh pasta, gnocchi (potato dumplings), authentic risotto, frittate and polenta dishes. While writing from Venice, her home for much of the year, Hazan never fails to consider the availability of ingredients in the U.S., and never assumes that all readers understand complex methods or exotic terminology.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The Ravioli Filled with Sweet Potatoes (flavored with amaretti cookies, prosciutto, parmigiano-reggiano, parsley, and nutmeg) in a Butter and Parmesan cheese sauce was just outstanding. The pancetta, herbs, garlic and anchovy flavors were spot on, but the addition of the dried porcini mushrooms made the dish really special."
"It was a gift and I am looking forward to sampling the results."
"Classic and timeless food and culture."
"Like all the other reviews, it is an excellent, informative book on Italian cuisine."
"great addition to kitchen library."
"Great recipes."
"My second go to cookbook."
"It is full of information that can take you from start to finish including making homemade pastas."
Best Spanish Cooking
In Spain, long-time Barcelona resident Jeff Koehler gathers the country's many time-honored dishes and age-old culinary customs, and distills the Spanish table down to its essence—food that is prepared simply but full of homemade flavors, and always meant to be shared. The story of the country is told through 200 recipes from classics like Shellfish Paella, Artichoke Egg Tortilla, and creamy Flan to delicacies such as Chilled Melon Soup with Crispy Jamón and Monkfish Steaks with Saffron. These pages abound in seductively rustic dishes like pork baked in a salt crust and served with fruit compote, chestnut purée or a blue cheese sauce." His work has appeared in Saveur, Food & Wine, Gourmet, NPR.org, the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, CS Monitor, and Tin House, and been selected for Best Food Writing 2010.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I could never condense what I liked about this book and do it justice !!"
"One of the best Spanish recipe books in English!"
"This is a stunning book - the pictures and stories it tells are fantastic."
"Excellent cookbook with beautiful photography, clear and concise recipes that are easy to follow and best of all, absolutely delicious!"
"My only complaint was the horrible (non-amazon) packaging that tore open and looked like a rat nest exploded!"
"Of the plethora of excellent books, this one stands out."
"Something from every region."
"Good recipts and good pictures."
Best Russian Cooking
A James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three generations Born in 1963, in an era of bread shortages, Anya grew up in a communal Moscow apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen. When I started my career in the early 90s, after emigrating in the 70’s, the Soviet drama of putting food on the table was still fresh. Whenever I ate at a fancy restaurant for my work, I felt pangs of guilt about all my family struggling back in Moscow. Over time Russia became a wealthy country, but I continued to be haunted by a sense that behind everything I ate professionally lay another reality: a shadow of our collective Soviet trauma. My mother has an almost uncanny recall of her emotional life, starting from her earliest childhood—back when she was an alienated sensitive kid in the totalitarian frenzies under Stalin. Even oligarchs are pining for the mayonnaise-laden salads and kotleti (Russian burgers) of our shared, vanished socialist childhoods. The pioneering Bolsheviks of the 1920s wanted to liberate women from domestic chores—and so both my grandmothers were lousy cooks! But the Bolshevik feminist project failed, and by the next decade, under Stalin, Soviet women got stuck where they remained—carrying the infamous “double-burden” of a job and housework. In a society with so much cultural control, some women of my mother's early 60’s generation found personal self-expression in cooking. Now with the avalanche of chichi prepared food at Russian supermarkets, cooking is strictly a matter of choice. When we completely ran out money Mom would make fried eggs over stale black bread cubes. Each chapter of the book has us obsessing about something different—a new “project.” The sumptuous kulebiaka from the pages of our beloved Chekhov drove us crazy but turned out incredibly. Chanakhi , a Georgian lamb stew with tons of herbs (Stalin's favorite dish incidentally) is something we cook a lot.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The book is spiced with considerable wit that will make you laugh out loud while also scratching your head in bewilderment, and at the same time will move you to compassion and sympathy for what these people endured for almost 100 years."
"Anya Von Bremzen's trip through the history of the Soviet Union using food as her guide is supplemented by her memories and her family's experiences."
"It is an inside look at communist food culture and how it was dominated by the "collective" system."
"Even if I had not had that connection, I would still have found Von Bremzen's book beautifully written, reaching from luscious food imagery to chilling testimonials about life in Stalin's Moscow."
"Importantly, with food and family as the centralizing thing, von Bremzen is able to sublimate abstract Soviet history and policy changes into narratives that are accessible and relatable to any reader."
"I was especially affected by Von Bremzen's reaction to our overwhelming supermarkets and bland American bread after she and her mother immigrated to the United States."
"It is a fascinating memoir to read even if you are not a foodie or student of Russian history."
"An extraordinary talent Anya Von Bremzen has in guide you intensively and passionately through a journey which unfolds the pages of of life during the Soviet era and making the present more readable."
Best Portuguese Cooking
Discover 250 Paleo and 250 Ketogenic Recipe for Instant Pot Recipes for breakfast, dinner, lunch, snacks, desserts Save you time, money and energy: all recipes are easy to cook Improve your health: all recipes are healthy and well balanced Increase your happiness: happiness and food are highly connected.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"This book has a good variety of recipes."
"Good book!"
"This is one of the best instant pot cookbooks on the market."
"With the step by step procedure, you will know how to make all the recipes, even if you are a newer of cooking recipes, you can complete a very good flavored dish!"
"One of the best purchases we ever made.Great book for preparing food in instant pot."
"It has many recipes and most of them are very useful for me. I liked that recipes are easy to cook, well balanced and healthy."
"The recipes & tips are great.Very good book for people who are new to cooking in the instant pot."
"I have been having my instant pot around for quite some time already but never owned a cookbook for it."
Best Hungarian Cooking
Blogger-author extraordinaire Kristy Turner deliciously refutes every excuse you’ve ever heard with 125 bursting-with-flavor vegan recipes for every meal of the day—including dessert! ” Not when you can make your own Homemade Seitan, Barbecue Sauce, Zesty Ranch Dressing, and Tofu Sour Cream. ” They will when they get a taste of Carrot Cashew Pâté, Portobello Carpaccio, and Gnocchi alla Vodka. You’ll find you can get enough protein, fit in at a potluck, learn to love cauliflower, and enjoy pizza, nachos, brownies, and more—without any animal products at all. One of Amazon’s Best Books of the Month in Cookbooks, Food & Wine “Charming.”— Washington Post. Beautiful photos illustrate almost every recipe, showing how appetizing these dishes are, and there are plenty of how-to photos.”— Oregonian. “Even to a committed carnivore, Turner’s whimsically seasoned tone is at once inviting and authoritative. If you have a dilemma, Kristy has the answer!”. — Angela Liddon, New York Times —bestselling author of The Oh She Glows Cookbook and creator of OhSheGlows.com. “With warmth, humor, and great recipes, Kristy Turner combats excuses people commonly use to defend their dietary status quo. Those who think they can’t be satisfied without eating beef, for example, will do well to get acquainted with her plant-based fajitas, sloppy Joes, tacos, and more. is guaranteed to change hearts and minds one meal at a time.”. — Gene Baur, president and cofounder of Farm Sanctuary, author of Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food. If you’re considering switching over to a plant-based diet—or simply eating a few more vegetarian meals—Kristy’s spectacular recipes and practical guidance will give you all of the inspiration you need. Most of all, her gentle and witty voice will guide you through all of the inevitable anxieties, stumbling blocks, and mishaps that accompany a lifestyle change. This book is beautiful, creative, whimsical, and profoundly inspiring.”. — Gena Hamshaw, author of Choosing Raw ; www.choosingraw.com. It’s true, no life is complete without the occasional calzone—but stuff ’em with Kristy’s Buffalo Cauliflower and Cashew Blue Cheese and you can have calzones and be vegan too. “Kristy and Chris have taken everything I love about their blog and somehow upgraded it, putting together one helluva cookbook with tons of helpful information and crazy good recipes that are sure to please hard-core vegans, curious newbies, and dabbling omnivores alike.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The author, Kristy Turner, has resisted the trappings of recipes calling for manufactured ingredients like vegan cheese (such as Daiya) and fake meats, available in the "health" food stores and has taken a new, tasty, and healthful approach with her recipes…super refreshing in the world of plant based/vegan cookbooks. Her recipes can be served to anyone, omnivore or vegan."
"I have been a vegetarian for over 20 years; live in a house with folks that all eat meat and LOVE all things cheese so never made the transition to Vegan - Friday nights after a long week in work are just too perfect when finished with cheese, wine and olives! Today I made the broccoli chickpea soup as nutritional yeast is always on hand in my pantry, and it was delicious , warm and easy to make; the Creole Corn chowder is next on my list as well as some of the rather delicious looking desserts to serve friends and family over the holidays...only to announce after they were vegan ! Follow up: I seriously doubted I could give up cheese, or that vegan cheese would be that good but just tried making their cashew blue cheese and all I can say is why, I am a convert!"
"I have successfully substituted coconut oil for vegan butter in all of those recipes so far, for anyone who wants to eschew the premade stuff. I've made almost a dozen recipes: the homemade BBQ sauce; green pea guacamole with homemade tortilla chips; baked bean and cornbread casserole; flourless chocolate decadence cake; BBQ jackfruit fajitas; chickpea omelettes; BBQ baked tofu; sweet and sour cauliflower; loaded Mexican baked potatoes; rosemary lemon poundcake; and molasses-hazelnut chocolate mousse tart. Many of the recipes involve a lot of different steps and/or ingredients, especially because some recipe components are actually previous "base" recipes (e.g. the baked beans utilize the homemade BBQ sauce)."
"They want me to make it again ...I love how there is an image for basically every single recipe."
Best Mediterranean Cooking
The Complete Mediterranean Diet Cookbook will fill a gap in the market by bringing the best of Mediterranean cooking into the American home kitchen, with 600 fresh, flavorful, and foolproof recipes. The highly reputable and recognizable brands of America’s Test Kitchen, Cook’s Illustrated, Cook’s Country, and Cook’s Science are the work of over 60 passionate chefs based in Boston, Massachusetts who put ingredients, cookware, equipment and recipes through objective, rigorous testing to identify the very best.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Second, this is much more than a book of recipes."
"It's helped us shift our eating habits away from meat, potatoes and pasta - although all three are included here - to healthier options."
"The table of contents in each section lists special indicators (little colored squares) after dishes which are either fast (45 minutes or less) or vegetarian. And then there are little "notes" inserted every few pages which go into a specific ingredient, what to look for, how it's used...things like sardines, pancetta, bay leaves...or else methods, like how to properly wash and dry a salad, or how to salt-soak beans. Many of the recipes also list further variations, such as pan roasted cauliflower...which then shows how to add capers and pine nuts, or spices and pistachios."
"It's a good cookbook, but if you're looking for manageable weeknight recipes and cook alone (no help in the kitchen) or work for a living, you may want to consider a different book...although I'm not sure what book that would be."
"I love to grill, love vegetables, grains and pasta, and this book will keep me busy for some time."
"Gave this as a gift and they are really enjoying it!"
"So far I have made the vegetable gratin, roasted artichokes, chicken kabobs, and a baked lemon fish potato dish. The potato lemon cod/hake dish was really good and it was very quick to make. The artichokes didn't come out as anticipated but this was also the first time I'd ever touched a fresh artichoke much less cooked one so I will take the blame on that."
"Excelent book!"
Best Scandinavian Cooking
'Hygge has been translated as everything from the art of creating intimacy to cosiness of the soul to taking pleasure from the presence of soothing things . Meik is CEO of the Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen and has spent years studying the magic of Danish life. the best qualified author (...) cosy and engaging Sunday Express Infectiously positive (...) the best beginner's guide Mail on Sunday this book explains everything you need to know about the Danish art of living well Metro Danish, dishy and the world's happiest man (this book) is gorgeously designed Times every wondered why Denmark is always ranked one of the happiest places on earth? Daily Mail Ireland The Danes are famously the happiest people in the world, and hygge is a cornerstone of their way of life.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Having been married to a Danish national for well over a decade now, and having made many annual (and sometimes more often) trips back to her homeland, it was with equal parts curiosity and incredulity that I found myself buying this book. The authenticity is there, and you can tell when you read about things like unscented candles being the status quo, and how the most popular manufacturers don't even offer scented products. Likewise, the references the ubiquitous mid-century light fixtures, advent candles and, most importantly, the predominance of wood furniture over composites or synthetics, all rings true to anyone that has spent any time in Denmark. Another bit that made rang true was discussion of the Danish weather, in particular the fact that some Danes will tell you there are only the gray and green winters. I actually agree on this point, because while it may be a regional thing (I spend most of my time on Fyn (Funen) when in Denmark), nobody and I mean nobody I've ever met would make, much less eat, any of this stuff in order to get their hygge fix. On the other hand, if you're after some deep, PhD dissertation style treatise on the subject of hygge, from the foundations all the way to modern practices and with every aspect beaten to death for 750 pages, then no, this is not the one for you."
"Thorough, clear, and with a sprinkling of snark make this the best book I've read on "hygge," and I've read LOTS of them."
"To find out what it's all about I read 'The Little Book of Hygge' by Meik Wiking (pronounced Mike Viking). As Wiking describes it, hygge is 'an atmosphere, an experience' - what we feel when we're with people we love in a warm and comfortable place. For instance, the following would be hyggelig: a small group of friends sitting around a fireplace in a cabin, wearing big jumpers (sweaters) and wooly socks, drinking malt wine. A traditional feature of Danish children's birthday parties is 'Cakeman' - a pastry in the shape of a large gingerbread man, decorated with flags, sweets, and candles. One is called Skipperlabskovs (Skipper Stew), which is brisket sitting in potato mash - served wtih pickled beets and rye bread. For casual wear, Danes like a comfortable jumper.....with leggings for girls or skinny jeans for boys. Wiking's suggestions for hyggelig pastimes include things like: spend a weekend in a cabin; have a cooking party with your friends; go out on a rowboat and bring a picnic basket; put couches in your office; have a movie night - with popcorn; go to a hyggelig restaurant and order pickled herring and schnapps; buy confections at a bakery; enjoy exhibitions of Christmas lights; have smorrebrod (an open sandwich on rye bread) with beer or schnapps; read a good book; and so on. For example, here's one: invite a couple of friends over; watch Netlfix; bring in Mexican food; drink sangria....and later on - have chocolate eclairs for dessert. = Hyggelig sounds might be: the crackling of burning wood; the pitter patter of raindrops; and trees waving in the breeze. However, Wiking's numerous suggestions for 'hyggelig experiences' got very repetitive.....and after awhile, it seemed like a lot of padding to have enough words for an entire book."
"Feeling Hygge just reading this."
"Great book!"
"My new favorite coffee table book."
"Practical tips, with a touch of humor to keep the reader interested."
Best Eastern European Cooking
Is it time to lose weight, get healthy, and give your family the best possible nutrition? heart disease type 2 diabetes high blood pressure obesity some cancers fibromyalgia Parkinson's disease Alzheimer's disease... It is useful for people wishing to lose weight as it is rich in fruit and vegetables and lower in sugars and saturated fats than a typical Western diet.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"As my wife and I are on a health kick at the moment we have been looking for a cookbook that contains tasty, healthy recipes that are easy to follow and taste great."
"Great recipes."
"author and publisher not listed in book (wierd)."
"Everything is easily laid out to follow and has pictures of finished meals that other cookbooks on Amazon, I have found, do not have. This cookbook offers 100+ delicious and healthy Mediterranean recipes and for each you will find: 1."
"The Mediterranean Diet is more than just a “diet,” it is a healthy way of life that puts emphasis on fresh, wholesome foods, and moderate amounts of dairy produce and healthy fats."
"Mediterranean Diet For Beginners by William Watts. Table of contents then an introduction. Food pyramid is explained using pictures and words about each category. Each recipe includes a title color photo, prep cook total time, servings and calories."
"I have been on the Mediterranean diet for sometime now."
Best English, Scottish & Welsh Cooking
Yotam Ottolenghi is one of the most exciting new talents in the cooking world, with four fabulous, eponymous London restaurants and a weekly newspaper column that's read by foodies all over the world. -- Christine Muhlke, food52.com. Ottolenghi's book "Plenty" rose to be a best seller in Britain on its release last year (it appeared here several months ago), and is among the most generous and luxurious nonmeat cookbooks ever produced, one that instantly reminds us that you don't need meat to produce over-the-top food. The recipes not only made vegetarian food sexy (note: Ottolenghi wants you to know he loves meat), they also made Western cooks crave Eastern Mediterranean flavors."
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I have been eagerly awaiting the US release of this book since its UK release last year. The commentary on each recipe is thoughtful and helpful."
"His gift with produce, herbs and spices, and technique makes this such a joy to work with. The binding and paper quality is top notch. My youngest, who detests goat cheese, gobbled hers up and proclaimed it to be the only recipe where goat cheese was fine. 2) The Leek Fritters with their yogurty, garlicky, parsley, cilantro sauce were divine. 3) The Soba Noodles with Eggplant and Mango were so flavorful, fabulously fragrant, and pretty."
"I’m in a smaller town in California; some of the ingredients are difficult to find & for a new(ish) cook, the directions can be confusing at times."
"The author is not a vegetarian, but has written a wonderful Middle-Eastern influenced cookbook that both carnivores and herbivores would love!"
"I Have a kindle version and bought a hard copy for my friend."
"I have reviewed this remarkable cookbook that is done for vegetarians, but fit my style in that the formulae can be included with any meat, poultry or fish entree and create a gourmet meal filled with exotic flavors and creations."
"I have Ottolenghi's next book, due out in September, ready and waiting on my Wish List."
"love these recipes, everything is delicious just not easy to make."