cooking

Presents over 400 recipes for holiday entertaining and gift giving.

Guide for beginning cooks on setting up a kitchen, basic techniques, ingredients, cooking times, and menus, including 100 recipes.

Describes how meals were cooked in the early 1900s; presents recipes for breakfast and dinner dishes, beverages, and desserts; provides party ideas; and includes a cookie cutter, place cards, and "Table Talker" conversation cards.

Describes how meals were cooked during World War II; presents recipes for breakfast and dinner dishes and desserts; provides party ideas; and includes a cookie cutter, place cards, and "Table Talker" conversation cards.

Describes how meals were cooked in colonial Virginia, presents recipes for breakfast and dinner dishes and desserts, provides invitation, decoration, and activity ideas for a tea, a ball, and a picnic, and includes a cookie cutter, place cards, and "Table Talker" conversation cards.

Provides recipes for over forty snacks and meals that are easy for kids to make, including nachos, wonton chips, caramel corn, tacos, and more.

The chefs at the Top Notch Restaurant prepare dinner.

Photographs and text provide many varied craft activities, all based on a popular theme with simple step-by-step instructions for making models, games, and more. Each activity is backed up with information about the subject.

Presents information on the history, production, and uses of several popular members of the legume family: peanuts, lentils, peas, and beans, particularly soybeans. Includes recipes.

A handmade gift of food for the holiday season, birthdays, anniversaries and other celebrations, is always welcome. As traditional cooking skills are being rediscovered, gifts of this nature are easy to prepare given clear and easy directions.