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Absolutely Avocado (Cook West) (Cook West)

Geraldine Duncann

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

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Avocados—they're not just for salads anymore.

Take your taste buds beyond the ordinary with more than 50 recipes featuring the buttery smoothness of this favorite fruit. Soothe your palate with the delicate flavors of Avocado Crab Puffs. Warm up a cold winter's night with Avocado and Almond Soup or impress your friends with your zesty Guacamole with Attitude. 24 color photos.

About the Cook West Series: Savor the flavors of the West. Each book in the Cook West Series celebrates the tastes, colors, aromas, and ingredients that create the food of the American West. Home cooks and industry professionals alike will welcome these single-ingredient cookbooks into their kitchens. Each title in the Cook West Series offers 50 original recipes and helpful tips to impress, inspire, and invigorate. Western cuisine is gaining in popularity, and rightly so! Where, but in the West, can one experience the marital bliss of chile and chocolate? Or a refreshing glass of prickly pear lemonade on a hot summer day? Soothe your soul with the creaminess of avocado or allow your taste buds to dance around a tantalizing olive. Enjoy the pleasantly stimulating aroma of roasting garlic or the zesty tang of cilantro. From rubs and sauces to delightful desserts, Western cooks have laid claim to a culinary art as original and distinct as the landscape itself. Conveniently sized and affordably priced, each book in the Cook West Series is the perfect addition for every cookbook library.

Super Smoothies: 50 Recipes for Health and Energy

Sara Corpening Whiteford, Mary Corpening Barber

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Total reviews: 24 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

fun - but Healthy?? for EVERY lifestyle? 4 out of 5 stars.
4 of 6 people found this review helpful.

Sixteen of the recipes require sorbet, sherbet, or frozen yogurt. Two more call for Gatorade, and three more after that are cocktails. These smoothies may be healthy TREATS, but they are not healthy enough to replace meals.

Also, twenty-six recipes call for dairy. I realize that vegan is a less common lifestyle. Still. The authors describe almond and rice and soy milk in the Binders section, but they do not recommend which to substitute in a particular recipe. Furthermore, the authors do not suggest anything to replace yogurt. Soy yogurt has a strong soy flavor. Would more banana work instead? Would soy milk ice cubes? Do the other ingredients mask the soy flavor? The authors don't say.

I've only made the Virility Vibe so far. It's not bad, not startlingly good, but that may be because the banana I used was less than perfectly ripe, but then how often are perfectly ripe bananas an option?

Rereading my review, it seems negative to me, but this isn't a bad book. It just doesn't have much of what I was looking for: vegan recipes healthy enough to eat everyday, say, for breakfast.

As an aside, one needn't make pear nectar; no recipe is provided in the book. Most groceries stock it.

Editorial Review:

Encouraged by more than 180,000 copies of Smoothies sold, the best-selling authors of Smoothies, Wraps, and Cocktail Food are back to bring the blender into the new millennium. These days, smoothie lovers want more than just fruit-filled refreshment they want great nutrition along with great taste. Super Smoothies offers 50 energy-enhancing, health-boosting recipes. Whether you're looking for a potassium-charged postworkout drink, a flu-fighting immune system booster, or a kid-friendly breakfast on the go, Super Smoothies has a delicious, nutrition-packed smoothie for every lifestyle. With its eye-catching design and luscious full-color photography, Super Smoothies will turn any kitchen into a fabulous juice bar.

The Heirloom Tomato Cookbook

Mimi Luebbermann

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Whether you say "to-may-to" or you say "to-mah-to," chances are you'll agree there's nothing like the taste of a sun-ripened heirloom tomato and this beautifully photographed book is a cornucopia for the tomato lover. First there are the recipes: 50 in all, provided by such notable food names as One Market, Caprial's Bistro, Jimtown Store, and DaVero Olive Oil. Perfect for brunch, cocktails, or dinner, tomatoes are showcased in such delicious dishes as Gazpacho with Cucumber Salsa Verde, Cheese and Pesto Fondue with Tomato-Foccacia Skewers, and Grilled Sea Bass with Lemon-Oregano, Tomato Relish. Accompanying each is a wine pairing suggested by Kendall-Jackson, which each year hosts the Heirloom Tomato Festival in Sonoma the inspiration for this book. Then there's the photographic glossary of the top 25 heirloom varieties, detailed cultivation information, and an invaluable sourcelist of seeds and plants to entice those who want to eat their fruit and grow it too. Add to this, advice on choosing and storing tomatoes and a brief history, and you have a book as vibrant as the tomato it celebrates.

The Prickly Pear Cookbook

Carolyn Niethammer

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Those bristly cactus spines are guarding something really good to eat. Like chocolate, corn, tomatoes, potatoes, and chile, prickly pear cacti are one of the true treasures of the Americas. As a food, prickly pear is delicious, nutritious, and increasingly believed to be medicinal. Native Americans have enjoyed it for thousands of years, but transplants now flourish worldwide, particularly around the Mediterranean.

But how do you transform a live pincushion into a delicious smoothie, cool salad, or a pie as pink and airy as the desert dawn?

In her unique, beautiful cookbook Carolyn Niethammer has collected 56 enticing international recipes for the succulent fruit and tender green pads (or "nopalitos") of the prickly pear. A wild-food expert and master cook, she guides readers all the way from cactus patch to casserole, from easy spine removal techniques to Prickly Pear Barbecue Shrimp with Roasted Corn and Black Bean Relish. Other highlights of this marvelous collection are such simple yet sensational delights as Easy Nopalito Salsa, Sabra Soufflé, Chicken Yucatán, Prickly Pear Gelato, Prickly Pear Kuchen, and Prickly Pear Wine. 24 color photographs.

Berries

Roger Yepsen

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All about berries, both usual and unusual, with beautiful watercolor illustrations and ninety recipes.

Berries are edible jewels, distillations of sunlight, soil, and floral perfumes. Some offer ambrosial sweetness; others are assertive as herbs and spices. Yet many of us rarely encounter berries outside of a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich, or raspberry-scented seltzer. Berries reintroduces us to these delightful fruits, including neglected varieties that have nearly disappeared from the American diet and garden. Roger Yepsen, author/illustrator of Apples, offers advice on finding wild berries, growing your own, and preserving them for year-round enjoyment. His gallery of sixty delicate watercolors depict berries from black currants and wild strawberries to the exotic salmonberry and Achilles Red gooseberry. And while it's hard to improve on the fresh item, Berries includes almost a hundred recipes: blueberry buckle, raspberry soup, elderberry wine, and black currant crepes. This elegant guidebook will inspire the cook, gardener, forager—and anyone with a sweet tooth—to get more involved with the wonderful world of berries. 60 color illustrations.

Juicing for the Health of It (Natural Health Guide) (Natural Health Guide)

Siegfried Gursche

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Easy readiing 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book reads easy and is great for the novice juicer. Also good information for a person that wants to add juicing to their regular diet. Great recipes and easy to use.

Lemons: A Country Garden Cookbook

Christopher Idone

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Gorgeous series 5 out of 5 stars.
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I own this and all the Country Garden series of cookbooks. They are all visually gorgeous, and all written by professional chefs. Each book surrounds a featured ingredient which is seasonal. I must admit that many of the recipes could be considered "chi-chi," but for cookbook collectors, this series is really wonderful. I'm sorry they stopped adding to these books, and very sorry that they are going out of print.

Editorial Review:

Beautifully designed and exquisitely photographed, this unique series showcases sensational recipes that exhibit the wonderful versatility of fruits and vegetables, fresh from the garden or greengrocer's basket.

The Totally Apples Cookbook (Totally Cookbooks)

Helene Siegel, Karen Gillingham

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Delicious, Easy Recipes 5 out of 5 stars.
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A complete guide to apples in every form, from salads with a terrific taste and texture, to a wonderful curried apple soup. You'll enjoy the carmalized apple tart and delight in how EASY it is to prepare. When you have an abundance of apples or just love them, these recipes have the simple gourmet twist that will make your recipients say WOW!! Wonderful new ways to use the fruit which we always seem to have on hand. This totally compact book packs an arousing punch to everyones taste buds!

Editorial Review:

For all you Totally fans who have been haranguing us with heated e-mail for skipping a season or two, the wait is over. After a year-long hiatus, the Totallys are back by popular demand with the inimitable Helene at the helm. This time she celebrates America's favorite, and possibly most versatile fruit -- the apple. They are the sweet essentials in salads, slaws and soups and provide a saucy counterpoint to any entree. Apples are the key to classic compotes, chutneys, glazes and stuffings, along with homespun snacks and desserts delectable enough to have kept Johnny Appleseed at home.

Cranberry Cooking for All Seasons

Nancy Cappelloni

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A fresh look at Cranberry Cuisine 5 out of 5 stars.
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I have read many cookbooks which include cranberry recipes, but none with such an extensive look into the magnificent fruit. Mrs. Cappelloni provides the reader with an enlightening view on the subject of cranberries. I would say it is certainly the best single subject cookbook I have ever encountered. I recommend it to all.

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Are you always searching for creative, original recipes? Do you enjoy eating healthy foods? If so, you will love this colorful, high-quality cookbook, featuring cranberries as the star attraction in 125 innovative recipes. Here are easy-to-follow recipes for meat and poultry dishes, sauces, desserts, breads, cakes, stuffing, relishes, beverages, and preserves. Plus, background and nutritional information: historical facts and tidbits, beautiful harvest photos, and the latest studies on the cranberry’s many health benefits. Endorsed by the Cape Cod Cranberry Growers’ Association, Cranberry Cooking For All Seasons is sure to be a hit with cooks across the country. A "must-have" for every kitchen—from Thanksgiving through summer's end!

Apples

Frank Browning

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An engaging read, the commonplace made almost sacred 4 out of 5 stars.
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Browning's journeys through the world of apples are exhaustive, lyric and compelling. If you like NPR, or the old New Yorker, you'll love this book on the fruit of English Yeoman, Thomas Jefferson, French Nobelmen and Johnny Appleseed. You will never look at a grocery store Red Delicious the same again.

Editorial Review:

Winner of the 1999 IACP/Julia Child Cookbook Award in the category of Literary Food Writing

Frank Browning leads us on a beguiling journey through the primal myths of the world's most popular fruit, then explains that the first apples really appeared in Kazakhstan on the slopes of the Heavenly Mountains. He visits the apple germ-plasm repository in Geneva, New York, and describes the powerful effects of genetic engineering on the apples of the future. In Wenatchee, Washington, world capital of apple growing, he meets Mr. Granny Smith and learns about the apple's niche in the global marketplace, before setting off to sample Calvados from the pot stills of Normandy and cider from Somerset.

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Frank Browning, whose previous books include The Culture of Desire and A Queer Geography (FSG, 1998), grows apples and ferments cider in Wallingford, Kentucky. He also reports for National Public Radio from New York City.