Food and Wine

This volume is designed to introduce people of all ages to the kitchen, show them around that somewhat unfamiliar room and transform them, with minimal pain, into competent cooks. Alastair Williams offers over 150 simple recipes interspersed with witty anecdotes. more...

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Learn more about Diets and Nutrition with this comprehensive Encyclopedia. Diets, food components, essential nutrients, vitamins, minerals, appetite, allergies,. eating disorders, and cleansing recipes are explained in details. Audience. Intended for everyone interested in diet and nutrition. Features.:.; Over 60 Popular Diets are explained in details.; The concepts of dieting and nutrition are explained in simple terms.; Navigate from Table of Contents or read page by page.; Search for the words or phrases.; Add Bookmarks.; Designed for optimal navigation on PDA, Smartphone, Tablet, and desktop devices.; Formatted to display on all electronic devices including Smartphones and Mobile Devices with a small display.; Text annotation and mark-up.; Automatic synchronization between the handheld and the desktop PC. You. could read half of the book on the handheld, then finish reading on the desktop. Annotations and drawings are also synchronized. Table of Contents. Diets: Popular Diets | Who's on Which Diet? | Cleansing Recipes. Healthy diet: Dietary Choices | Eating | Dieting. Nutrition: Overview | History | Nutrients | Amino acids | Vitamins |. Fatty acids | Sugars | Intestinal bacterial flora | Phytochemicals | Longevity. | Industry and food processing. Guidelines for Nutrient Consumption: Calorie | Traditional Food Pyramid. | MyPyramid | Serving size | Reference Daily Intake | Dietary Reference Intake. | Food labeling | Nutritional Facts Panel | Glycemic index. Essential nutrients: Vitamins: History | Human vitamins | Nutrition. | Deficiencies | Overdose | Supplements | Minerals: Bulk | Trace | Food sources. Appetite: Regulation | Effector | Sensor | Role in disease | Pharmacology. Food allergy: Signs and symptoms | The Big Eight | Diagnosis | Pathophysiology. | Causes | Treatment | Statistics | Differing views | In children | Labeling. laws. Eating disorders: Binge eating disorder | Anorexia nervosa | Bulimia. nervosa | Night eating syndrome | Eating disorder not oth more...

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It's a fact: Not all carbohydrates are bad for you. Unlike Atkins, South Beach, and other diets, Dr. Douglas Markham's breakthrough health plan is a more comprehensive, sustainable, and satisfying program for weight loss and total-body health. more...

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Newly revised, this bestseller now boasts even more to chew on with 25 additional recipes for colossal cookie creations. While it's clear--from malls to vending machines to grocery stores--that big, old-fashioned cookies are incredibly popular, many cookbook recipes still produce bite-size, crunchy results. Enter Big, Soft, Chewy Cookies to right this wrong with more than75 recipes for enormous, gooey cookies to sink your teeth into. Readers will find traditional and new favorites like:.:.; Coconut Bars.; Chocolate Chips.; Apricot Pillows.; Oatmeal White Chocolates... and more. Big, Soft Chewy Cookies has a cookie for every palette. Easy to-follow recipes for bar, drop, and holiday treats make this tasty tome a staple for every kitchen. more...

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Black Hunger focuses on debates over soul food since the 1960s to illuminate a complex web of political, economic, religious, sexual, and racial tensions between whites and blacks and within the black community itself. Doris Witt draws on vaudeville, literature, film, visual art, and cookbooks to explore how food has been used both to perpetuate and to challenge racial stereotypes. more...

Price: $57.00