cooking

A food and cooking reference that features alphabetically arranged entries which provide definitions of food terms, descriptions of equipment and cooking techniques, biographies, more than four hundred reportage photographs, over 3,800 recipes, and information on the history of foods, eating, ingredients, and restaurants.

Celebrity chef Michael Symon chronicles his rise to fame and shares recipes for his favorite dishes and the signature creations that have defined his life and career.

Presents updated versions of over two hundred recipes from ancient Rome, including sauces, appetizers, soups and porridges, domestic meat and game, fish and shellfish, vegetables, desserts, preserves, and beverages; and discusses food sources, and banquet preparation.

Contains over forty-five recipes for traditional French foods, and features essays that explore the reasons why the city of Paris is held in such high culinary repute.

Presents a history and culture of South American food discussing the heritage and traditions of the primary groups which make up the region, and provides information on diet and health, food preparation, special occasion foods, and more.

Presents more than 150 recipes containing traditional foods of Spain's La Mancha region, accompanied by details on Spanish culture and cuisine.

Diana Abu-Jaber chronicles her life in upstate New York and in Jordan, using the dishes her Jordanian father cooked to weave together her most memorable moments and the defining events in her life.

The author presents fourteen recipes, imagining how they would read if literary giants such as Franz Kafka, Virginia Woolf, Gabriel Garcia M?rquez, and Marcel Proust wrote them.

Contains over five hundred of the most popular recipes of the twentieth-century covering appetizers, soups, meats, casseroles, eggs, vegetables, salads,breads, and desserts and includes a chronicle of the last one hundred years of culinary change in America.

Max is planning to surprise his mother with breakfast in bed on Mother's Day, but he does not know how to start the stove.