 | The Raw Food Detox Diet: The Five-Step Plan for Vibrant Health and Maximum Weight Loss
Brand: William Morrow
If you're looking for the secret to a perfect body, you're going to find it right here. When you apply the principles in this book to your life, you're going to uncover a thinner, younger looking, more beautiful version of your current self and experience the renewed energy of youth. . . . Don't let anyone tell you it can't be done. It can be done.<P> The raw food craze has taken off: Raw restaurants are springing up, and celebrities, models, and other fans are swearing by the benefits of eating "all raw." But what if you¹re just curious about raw food and don't want to give up your lifestyle or the foods you love? The good news is, you can have your cake and eat it too! In The Raw Food Detox Diet, top nutritionist Natalia Rose shows you exactly how it's done. Raw food is a powerful detoxifying agent that can cleanse your body of all the waste that you have accumulated from years of eating processed foods. A diet rich in raw foods can set you on a course toward greater energy, clearer skin, a slimmer figure, and amazing natural health. But detoxifying too quickly will only shock your system. Rose advises you to transition gently, based on your dieting history and individual needs. Complete the Raw Food Detox questionnaire, and determine your personal Raw Food Transition Number (1 to 5) to find out which suggested menus, recipes, and cleansing methods are just right for you. At last, here's a diet book that's as fresh and accessible as its food while promising optimal health and weight loss results. Stop counting calories and oversubscribing to fad diet foods, such as soy milk, low-carb products, nutrition bars, and vitamin tablets. Whether you aim to lead an all-raw lifestyle, or are disillusioned with other diets and just want to lose weight while still eating the foods you love, The Raw Food Detox Diet offers all the inspiration -- including more than eighty delicious, simple gourmet recipes! -- and the guidance you'll need to achieve your goals. | *$16.57 |
 | Patti Labelle's Lite Cuisine
Brand: Gotham
Legendary singer and <I>New York Times</I> bestselling author Patti LaBelle reveals her mouthwatering culinary secrets for eating your way to a healthier life. In <I>Patti LaBelle’s Lite Cuisine</I>, Patti LaBelle shares more than 100 original recipes for meals that are not only good for you but taste great too. She also shares her personal story of a lifetime of struggling with body image and tells of the heartbreaking loss of her mother to diabetes and learning recently that she, too, has the disease.<P> After she was diagnosed with diabetes, LaBelle had to radically change her dietary habits and food choices. With diabetic exchanges provided by the American Dietetic Association and the American Diabetes Association, in <I>Patti LaBelle’s Lite Cuisine</I> you’ll find a wide array of healthful and heavenly dishes including "Oven (Tastes Like Southern) Fried Chicken," "Savory Shrimp Scampi," "Melt-in-Your-Mouth Roast Tenderloin," and "Killer Chocolate Cake with Guilt-Free Glaze."<P> One of America’s most beloved performers once again creates her special blend of delicious and healing magic with this one-of-a-kind cookbook that is destined to become a staple in kitchens all across America. | *$7.51 |
 | The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite
Brand: Simon & Schuster Audio
Most of us know what it feels like to fall under the spell of food -- when one slice of pizza turns into half a pie, or a handful of chips leads to an empty bag. But it's harder to understand why we can't seem to stop eating -- even when we know better. When we want so badly to say "no," why do we continue to reach for food?<P>Dr. David Kessler, the dynamic former FDA commissioner who reinvented the food label and tackled the tobacco industry, cracks the code of overeating by explaining how our bodies and minds are changed when we consume foods that contain sugar, fat, and salt. Food manufacturers create products by manipulating these ingredients to stimulate our appetites, setting in motion a cycle of desire and consumption that ends with a nation of overeaters. <I>The End of Overeating</i> explains for the first time why it is exceptionally difficult to resist certain foods and why it's so easy to overindulge.<P>Dr. Kessler presents groundbreaking research, along with what is sure to be a controversial view inside the industry that continues to feed a our nation -- from popular brand manufacturers to advertisers, chain restaurants, and fast food franchises. Dr. Kessler's cutting-edge investigation offers new insights and useful tools to help us find a solution. There has never been a more thorough, compelling, or in-depth analysis of why we eat the way we do. | *$16.01 |
 | Splendid Soups: Recipes and Master Techniques for Making the World's Best Soups
Brand: Wiley
Praise for the fully revised and updated Splendid Soups<br> <br> "Jim Peterson's Splendid Soups is a comprehensive and mouthwatering atlas of the world of soup. It not only covers soups of all nationalities and every garnish, but provides a handy list of sources for every hard-to-find ingredient and kitchen tool, too. More importantly though, through his gargantuan world tour Jim empowers home cooks to strike out on their own and invent new soups. It just makes me want to get into the kitchen and start cooking!" -SARA MOULTON Host, The Food Network's Cooking Live; Executive Chef, Gourmet magazine; Food Editor, Good Morning America<br> <br> "We love James Peterson. Splendid Soups is a bountiful source of enticing ideas!"-the moosewood collective Authors of the Moosewood Restaurant Cookbooks | *$23.50 |
 | The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food
Brand: Anchor | *$8.24 |
 | Tablescapes: Setting the Table with Style
Brand: Gibbs Smith
In Tablescapes: Setting the Table with Style and Flair, socialite, high-end event planner, and consummate hostess Kimberly Schlegel Whitman shows how to set the stage for special-occasion meals by setting a beautifully creative table with flair and panache. Featuring some of the most exquisite china, silver, and crystal, Whitman shows how she develops decorating themes appropriate for any occasion-from sit-down dinners for a few guests or buffets for many, to bridal and baby showers, holiday dinners with the family, and al fresco parties at the beach. Personalized table coverings are one of her specialties, and this book has a plethora of ideas. <br> | *$23.52 |
 | The Harney & Sons Guide to Tea
Brand: Penguin Press HC, The
<B>The country’s leading connoisseur presents a comprehensive guide for developing your tea palate</B>.<BR><BR> <I>The Harney & Sons Guide to Tea</I> transforms tea drinkers into tea experts. Written by one of the country’s leading tea professionals, <I>The Harney & Sons Guide to Tea</I> is an illuminating resource for tea drinkers interested in developing and refining their palate as well as their understanding of the complex agricultural, historical, and cultural significance of tea.<BR><BR> Drawing on his singular experience, Michael Harney masterly explores the full range of teas, revealing how each tea is distinctive, with a taste that derives from a precise combination of cultivation and production techniques, and influenced by the geography as well as its history. These lively profiles of diverse tea varieties—from delicate white tea to aged black puerh tea—include brewing instructions and vivid descriptions of the beverage scent, taste, and appearance; everything you need to become a connoisseur.<BR><BR> Tea has long been popular in the United States, but only recently have Americans treated this nuanced beverage with a deeper curiosity, more refined approach, and wider appetite. <I>The Wall Street Journal</I> reports that total U.S. tea sales are nearly four times what they were in 1990, and this growing population of discriminate consumers will celebrate the new vocabulary provided in <I>The Harney & Sons Guide to Tea</I>.<BR><BR> Unique in scope, candor, and accessibility, <I>The Harney & Sons Guide to Tea</I> will quickly become the classic reference and staple in the library of every serious tea drinker. | *$7.95 |
 | The Low-Carb Comfort Food Cookbook
Brand: Wiley
The revolutionary cookbook that satisfies all your comfort food cravings-from the New York Times bestselling authors of Protein Power<br> <br> When you think about low-carb diets, do you picture complicated meal plans and bland foods that leave you with cravings? Do the words comfort food make you long for scrumptious delights like pancakes, ice cream, chocolate chip cookies, or fettucine alfredo-foods you thought you could never have on a low-carb diet?<br> <br> If your answers to the above were yes and yes, you're in for a huge surprise! You can have these foods and many more, thanks to The Low-Carb Comfort Food Cookbook. Drs. Michael and Mary Dan Eades and chef Ursula Solom give you unique, easy cooking tips and more than 300 yummy low-carb recipes for foods that help you keep your weight down and fulfill your cravings. In no time at all, you'll be on an easy-to-follow low-carb plan that will allow you to stay thin and healthy-and feel great!<br> <br> Southern fried chicken with pan gravy * Elegant biscuits Melt-in-your-mouth pancakes * Deluxe low-carb macaroni and cheese * Beef and mushroom crepes * Spicy corn chips Soft crust pizza * Low-carb beef stroganoff * Raisin rolls Breaded sole * Fettucine alfredo * Low-carb lasagna * Super banana bread * Low-carb tacos * Bean and cheese burritos * Best garlic bread * Eggplant parmigiana * Rich low-carb pound cake * Scrumptious low-carb cheesecake * Apple brown betty * Cheddar cheese waffles * Chocolate ice cream * Key lime pie * Sublime truffles | *$8.70 |
 | Humble Pie (Quick Reads)
Brand: Harper
Everyone thinks they know the real Gordon Ramsay: rude, loud, driven, stubborn. But this is his real story! In this fast-paced, bite-sized edition of his bestselling autobiography Ramsay tells the real story of how he became the world's most famous and infamous chef: his difficult childhood, his brother's heroin addiction, his failed first career as a footballer, his fanatical pursuit of gastronomic perfection and his TV persona - all the things that have made him the celebrated culinary talent and media powerhouse that he is today. Gordon talks frankly about: / his tough childhood: his father's alcoholism and violence and the effects on his relationships with his mother and siblings / his first career as a footballer: how the whole family moved to Scotland when he was signed by Glasgow Rangers at the age of fifteen, and how he coped when his career was over due to injury just three years later / his brother's heroin addiction. / Gordon's early career: learning his trade in Paris and London; how his career developed from there: his time in Paris under Albert Roux and his seven Michelin-starred restaurants. / kitchen life: Gordon spills the beans about life behind the kitchen door, and how a restaurant kitchen is run in Anthony Bourdain-style. / and how he copes with the impact of fame on himself and his family: his television career, the rapacious tabloids, and his own drive for success. | *$0.49 |
 | Eating Well Through Cancer: Easy Recipes & Recommendations During & After Treatment
Brand: Favorite Recipes Press (FRP)
For 15 years, Dr. Miletello, an oncologist, wanted to write a cookbook as one of the most frequently asked questions was, "What should I eat?" Holly Clegg, author of the successful Trim & Terrific cookbook series has answered this question with her common sense approach to cooking and her easy, everyday recipes that has become her trademark for healthy cooking in today's hectic world. <P>Diet and nutrition are at the top of the list for anyone with a newly diagnosed malignancy. Patients have problems with a loss of appetite and altered taste either before or during treatment. Dr. Gerald Miletello, a practicing medical oncologist, collaborated with cookbook author, Holly Clegg to create Eating Well Through Cancer, a collection of 200 easy recipes to help cancer patients tolerate treatment. As nutritional evaluation and recommendations are daily concerns, practicing oncologist, patients, and families can benefit from this publication. In Eating Well Through Cancer, the personal experience of its authors combine to produce a cookbook that serves as a guide for nutrition before, during and after cancer treatment. Besides the recipes themselves, the book features diabetic exchanges, menu planning, high calorie variations, Doctor's Notes and a section that cross-references recipes and side effects. <P>Chapters are organized according to the phase of treatment and possible side effects. Additional sections are devoted to long term post treatment healthy eating as well as snacks and suggestions of foods for friends to bring those undergoing treatment. Some chapter titles are more characteristic of a medical encyclopedia, however the recipes resemble anything but hospital cafeteria fare. Although there are a few medicinal recipes from a natural laxative or a basic weight gain shake, Eating Well Through Cancer excels in presenting tasty favorite dishes with a healthy twist. Any patient undergoing chemotherapy will find this book to be an essential asset. The recipes are simple, tasty and easy to prepare. The last Chapter contains healthy nutritious recipes that are aimed at maintaining a smart healthy lifestyle. | *$9.00 |
 | Mediterranean Harvest: Vegetarian Recipes from the World's Healthiest Cuisine
Brand: Rodale Books
<DIV><DIV>Intensely flavorful and inherently healthy, Mediterranean food is one of the world’s most appealing cuisines. Mediterranean cooks know how to make eating a pleasure. They do it simply—with olive oil and garlic; with herbs and spices; with tomatoes and eggplants, peppers and squash, figs and peaches, and other seasonal produce. And of course there is crusty bread and local cheese, the freshest yogurt and endless wine. </DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>In this authoritative and anecdotal cookbook, award-winning author Martha Rose Shulman captures the vibrant flavors of the Mediterranean region in more than 500 delicious vegetarian dishes that will appeal to everyone. The book represents years of meticulous research gleaned from Shulman’s travels through France, Spain, Italy, the Balkans, Greece, Turkey, North Africa, and the Middle East. She presents authentic contemporary variations as well. You’ll dine with her in Greek olive groves, feast on torecipes handed down from mother to daughter for generations, and she offers her own matoes and fresh sardines in Croatia, savor coffee gelato in the streets of Bologna. At every turn in the road there is a new culinary reward. </DIV><DIV> </DIV></DIV><DIV><DIV>Wheth er you are a vegetarian or a dedicated meat eater, Shulman’s recipes are substantial enough to satisfy any appetite. Included are such tempting creations as Majorcan Bread and Vegetable Soup, Provençal Chick Pea Salad, Pasta with Ligurian Artichoke Sauce, Greek Cauliflower Gratin with Feta and Olives, Balkan-Style Moussaka, North African Carrot "Compote," and Sweet Dessert Couscous with Citrus and Pomegranate. There is also an entire chapter devoted to the renowned "little foods" of the Mediterranean: tapas from Spain, antipasti and merende from Italy; meze from the eastern and southern Mediterranean, and more. In addition, the book features a glossary of useful cookware and indispensable pantry staples and the best online sources for hard-to-find ingredients. </DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>As Martha Rose Shulman herself says, "Mediterranean food enthralls me." Readers of this classic will be enthralled as well. </DIV><P></P></DIV> | *$21.00 |
 | The Sweet Potato Queens' Big-Ass Cookbook (and Financial Planner)
Brand: Three Rivers Press
They’re wild, beloved, and all-around fabulous, but with the Sweet Potato Queens, there’re just never enough good times—or enough good eats. Well, now all fabulous women everywhere can have their own mountains of royal fun and food, because bestselling author and Boss Queen Jill Conner Browne is revealing her big-ass top secret recipes—and the events that inspired them—in The Sweet Potato Queens’ Big-Ass Cookbook (and Financial Planner). And, of course, she’s dishing up plenty of hilarious stories, including:<br><br>• Queenly adventures in mothering<br>•The tiniest bit of plastic surgery<br>• The all-true story of the Cutest Boy in the World<br><br>And, oh yes, as promised:<br>• Sound financial planning. Tip number one: Hope that Daddy lives forever. | *$3.14 |
 | Omega Rx Zone: The Miracle of the New High-Dose Fish Oil
Brand: Avon
<p>The Next Generation of the Zone!</p> <p>Dr. Barry Sears is one of the world's most trusted voices on health, diet, and nutrition. Over the past decade, millions of people worldwide have followed his prescriptions for healthy living through his bestselling books. He introduced the world to the Zone, a state of improved hormonal control that has helped a generation of people lose excess body fat, reverse the aging process, and fight heart disease and diabetes.</p> <p>In <i>The Omega Rx Zone</i>, Dr. Sears reveals a revolutionary new technological advance that helps treat chronic disease, improves athletic performance, and more. Never before available to the public, pharmaceutical-grade fish oil has the potential to make you a more emotionally stable, healthier person by allowing your brain to work at peak efficiency and controlling the hormonal responses that ultimately govern your body and mind. Drawing upon his own research as well as recently published studies, Dr. Sears shares new understanding of heart disease, cancer, depression, Alzheimer's, attention deficit disorder, chronic pain, Type 2 diabetes, infertility, and multiple sclerosis. Used in conjunction with the Zone program, these findings can help you to:</p> <UL> <LI>Increase brain vitality and longevity <li>Maximize physical performance <li>Lose weight—and keep it off <li>Reverse chronic disease </ul> | *$4.09 |
 | 101 Things to Do with a Tortilla
Brand: Gibbs Smith, Publisher
101 Things to Do with a Tortilla takes this delicious and nutritious staple of so many countries and brings it into the mainstream with family-friendly recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and more. Tortillas are a no-fail recipe ingredient, and Stephanie Ashcraft and Donna Kelly show that tortillas aren't just for Mexican food anymore! 101 Things to Do with a Tortilla features recipes such as Smoked Salmon Triangles, Southwest Egg Rolls, Tomato Olive Quesadillas, Italian Roast Beef Wrap, Tortilla Snowflakes, Green Chili Tortilla Soup In A Hurry, Guacamole Black Bean Salad, Green Chili Eggs Benedict, Southwest Lasagna, Tex Mex Meatloaf, Vegetarian Taco Casserole, Banana Quesadillas, even desserts like Chocolate Raspberry Burritos and Upside-down Apple Pie. Yummy! <P>This collection of distinctive and inventive recipes will help you look at tortillas in a whole new way! <P>Stephanie Ashcraft, author of the original 101 Things to do With a Cake Mix, was raised near Kirklin, Indiana. She received a bachelor's degree in family science and a teaching certificate from Brigham Young University. Since 1998, she has taught cooking classes for Macey's Little Cooking Theatre in Provo and Orem. She lives in Idaho; this is her sixth book. Donna Kelly was born and raised in tortilla country-Southern Arizona. She has four children and works as a prosecuting attorney in Utah. This is her first book. | *$3.95 |
 | Let's Do Lunch: Eating all the Calories and Carbs you want to lose weight!
Brand: Thomas Nelson
<P>With this Revised and Updated Edition of <I>Let's Do Lunch</I>, you <I>eat until full</I> in <I>all</I> the food groups, including all you want of <I>unprocessed</I> starchy carbs, the sweetest fresh fruits and fruit smoothies, lean red meat, corn thins, cheese, healthy fats, veggies, whole-grain cereals and crispbreads, dark brown and wild rice, snacks, dressings, condiments, and sauces. But because these foods stabilize your blood sugar, your body <I>forces</I> you to become less and less hungry with each passing day. Thus, you begin to eat less and less, consume fewer and fewer calories, and lose all the weight you want.</P> <P>In <I>Let's Do Lunch</I>, Roger Troy reveals:</P> <UL> <LI>Eat until full whenever you are hungry, no matter how often that is and no matter how many calories you consume (even if you start by eating 10,000 calories a day)-thus eliminating your hunger cravings.</LI> <LI>Your body can't tell the difference between starchy carbs, so when you eat the <I>Let's Do Lunch </I>starchy carbs, it eliminates your cravings for the fattening starchy carbs.</LI> <LI>Your body can't tell the difference between sugars, so when you eat the sweetest fresh fruits and fruit smoothies, it eliminates your cravings for all the foods made with fattening sugar in them. </LI></UL> <P>If you want to read about and talk with other <I>Let's Do Lunch </I>dieters, go to <B>www.letsdolunch.com</B> and click on "message boards." Once you do, you'll want to get started on this program right away.</P> | *$11.01 |
 | The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food--Before the National Highway System, Before Chain Restaurants, and Before Frozen Food, When the Nation's Food Was Seasonal
Brand: Riverhead Hardcover
<b>A remarkable portrait of American food before World War II, presented by the <i>New York Times</i>-bestselling author of <i>Cod</i> and <i>Salt</i>.</b><BR><BR> Award-winning <i>New York Times</i>-bestselling author Mark Kurlansky takes us back to the food and eating habits of a younger America: Before the national highway system brought the country closer together; before chain restaurants imposed uniformity and low quality; and before the Frigidaire meant frozen food in mass quantities, the nation's food was seasonal, regional, and traditional. It helped form the distinct character, attitudes, and customs of those who ate it.<BR><BR> In the 1930s, with the country gripped by the Great Depression and millions of Americans struggling to get by, FDR created the Federal Writers' Project under the New Deal as a make-work program for artists and authors. A number of writers, including Zora Neale Hurston, Eudora Welty, and Nelson Algren, were dispatched all across America to chronicle the eating habits, traditions, and struggles of local people. The project, called "America Eats," was abandoned in the early 1940s because of the World War and never completed.<BR><BR> <i>The Food of a Younger Land</i> unearths this forgotten literary and historical treasure and brings it to exuberant life. Mark Kurlansky's brilliant book captures these remarkable stories, and combined with authentic recipes, anecdotes, photos, and his own musings and analysis, evokes a bygone era when Americans had never heard of fast food and the grocery superstore was a thing of the future. Kurlansky serves as a guide to this hearty and poignant look at the country's roots.<BR><BR> From New York automats to Georgia Coca-Cola parties, from Arkansas possum-eating clubs to Puget Sound salmon feasts, from Choctaw funerals to South Carolina barbecues, the WPA writers found Americans in their regional niches and eating an enormous diversity of meals. From Mississippi chittlins to Indiana persimmon puddings, Maine lobsters, and Montana beavertails, they recorded the curiosities, commonalities, and communities of American food. | *$5.08 |
 | The Mediterranean Heart Diet: How It Works and How to Reap the Health Benefits, with Recipes to Get You Started
Brand: Da Capo Press
All about the Mediterranean Diet, from guiding principles to specific recipes, for people who want to improve their health by improving their eating habits. Most people know that a Mediterranean-style diet is "good for them," but many lack the information that determines the diet's success. The Mediterranean Heart Diet does what most doctors who recommend the diet don't: spells out which foods are "out" and which are "in," and why. <P>Doctors recommend a Mediterranean eating style to thousands who are diagnosed each year with heart disease because it is "heart-healthy"-it promotes lower saturated-fat consumption, and helps lower cholesterol and blood pressure levels. <P>It is an all-purpose style of eating that also benefits those at risk of developing certain cancers and those with a diabetic condition, because it is high in antioxidant-rich foods and whole grains. The Mediterranean Heart Diet not only provides a full range of satisfying recipes but also covers the science behind the diet's health benefits. Readers learn to create their own healthful eating plans and establish new habits. <P>More than 140 delicious recipes are included, from satisfying Lentil and Broccoli Soup to tangy Halibut in Citrus Sauce. All recipes feature nutritional analysis by serving, including food exchanges. | *$11.22 |
 | Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book (Better Homes & Gardens Plaid)
Brand: Wiley
<ul> <li>Completely revised and updated with a fresh new design. <li>More than 1,400 recipes—tested and perfected in the Better Homes and Gardens Test Kitchen--including 400+ quick and easy ones. <li>All-new 20-Minute chapter, which includes more than 45 fast meal solutions. <li>More recipes on your favorite topics: Cookies, Desserts, Grilling and Slow Cooker. Plus, the Grilling chapter now features recipes for the turkey fryer and more recipes for the smoke cooker. <li>At-a-glance icons identify Easy, Fast, Low-Fat, Fat-Free, Whole Grain, Vegetarian, and Favorite recipes. <li>Simple menu ideas featured in every main-dish chapter. <li>Updated Cooking Basics chapter includes need-to-know kitchen survival advice including food safety, make-ahead cooking, must-have timesaving kitchen gadgets and emergency substitution charts. <li>Essential need-to-know information now conveniently located at the front of each chapter for easy reference helps ensure cooking success. <li>More than 800 full-color photos of finished dishes, how-to demonstrations and food IDs. <li>Hundreds of hints and tips, plus easy-to-read cooking charts. <li><b>Bonus Material:</b> Exclusive to cookbook buyers, an online menu component offers hundreds of menu ideas and more than 75 bonus recipes. </ul> | *$9.68 |
 | The Grit Cookbook: World-Wise, Down-Home Recipes
Brand: Chicago Review Press
<DIV><DIV>The Grit, located in the quintessential boho town of Athens, Georgia, is known far and wide as the touring musicians' restaurant of choice. This classic cookbook features 150 of The Grit's most requested recipes, including 20 new recipes to celebrate the 20th anniversary of this famous establishment. True to its Southern roots, this hip vegetarian eatery combines soul-food sensibility with meatless cuisine, and while there are plenty of Italian, Indian, Mexican, and Middle Eastern favorites to satisfy the well-traveled vegetarian, the heart of this cuisine maintains the down-home, soul-food feeling of simple foods and classic combinations that are guaranteed to please. </DIV></div> | *$11.09 |
 | Cake Mix Cookies: More Than 175 Delectable Cookie Recipes That Begin With a Box of Cake Mix
Brand: Cumberland House Publishing
Imagine a kitchen warm witih the smells of sweet vanilla, fragrant cinnamon, and fresh butter. On the kitchen counter is a cooling rack piled high with fresh-from-the-oven delights filled with chocolate chips and crunchy pecans. Ah, the age-old comfort of cookies. <P>Next imagine that each of the yummy treats began with a convenient box of cake mix. That's right, a standard 18.25-ounce box of cake mix is the secret to some of the tastiest, simplest, and most irresistable cookies imaginable. With a few extra ingredients, turns of a spoon, and whirrs of a mixer, cake mix can make anyone a prize cookie baker. <P>Like <i>Cookie Dough Delights</i> and <i>Brownie Mix Bliss</i>, <i>Cake-Mix Cookies</i> is the first cookbook of its kind. Although several cake-mix cookbooks exist, including the bestselling <i>Cake Mix Doctor</i> books and <i>101 Things to Do with a Cake Mix,</i> they offer only a small number of cookie and bar recipes and overlap one another. <P>By contrast, <i>Cake-Mix Cookies</i> is filled with an array of more than 175 drop, shaped, filled, and bar cookie options for every occasion. Numerous all-American favorites are used as starting points: chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin, jam thumbprints, and dark chocolate brownies. There are also new takes on classic European cookies; for example, crunchy Italian biscotti, tender French madeleines, and rich Viennese teacakes. Finally, a healthy dose of new cookies has been created for the book: blackberry-lemon buttermilk bars, triple chocolate chess squares, and chocolate blackout. <P><i>Cake-Mix Cookies</i> contains the broadest range of new recipes for cookies and bars that is unavailable elsewhere. And while it capitalizes on the popularity of baking with cake mixes, it has its own unique niche on the home cook's shelf. | *$7.29 |
 | The Rice Diet Solution: The World-Famous Low-Sodium, Good-Carb, Detox Diet for Quick and Lasting Weight Loss
Brand: Simon & Schuster
<b>Can you really lose twenty pounds in a month? Will you really keep it off this time? With <I>The Rice Diet Solution,</i> you will! The Rice Diet Program has been helping dieters successfully lose weight since 1939. Now in book form, this world-renowned weight-loss method can help you change the way you eat forever.</b><P>The Rice Diet Program in Durham, North Carolina, was one of the first medical facilities in America to use diet as the primary way to treat disease. On this high-complex-carb, low-fat, and low-sodium whole-foods diet, "Ricers" lose weight faster, more safely, and more effectively than people on any other diet. Men lose on average twenty-eight to thirty pounds and women on average nineteen to twenty pounds per month! The Rice Diet also detoxes your body, ridding it of excess water weight and toxins from processed foods and the environment. The program's results have been documented by extensive studies and confirmed by thousands of people who report amazing weight loss, as well as immediate improve-ment in such conditions as heart disease, diabetes, and hypertension. After all the other diets out there have failed them, people find that the Rice Diet is the one that finally works -- for good.<P>Here's how it works: The Rice Diet strictly limits salt and sodium-rich ingredients. Salt, like refined sugar, is an appetite stimulant, so when you reduce salt intake, you lose water weight <I>and</i> are less inclined to overeat. The Rice Diet also limits saturated fats and instead relies on carbohydrates (fruits, vegetables, grains, and beans) as the main source of nutrition. The fiber cleanses your system and satisfies you so you feel full quickly. The Rice Diet makes it easy to limit calories; when you're eating foods that truly satisfy your hunger, it's a challenge to eat 1,500 calories per day!<P>To make it easy to follow the program, <I>The Rice Diet Solution</i> includes hundreds of tasty, filling, easy-to-prepare recipes -- some from the Rice House kitchen, others inspired by major chefs and adapted to Rice Diet standards.<P>The Rice Diet is not just an eating plan. It's a physical, emotional, and spiritual program that will change the way you live, giving you new vitality, energy, and longevity. Ricers report that the Rice Diet not only helps them solve weight problems they've struggled with their whole lives but also teaches them a whole new way of healthier, more mindful living.<P>Whether you want to lose twenty pounds or two hundred, the Rice Diet can help you do it -- finally and forever.<P><center><font size="+1">WHAT MAKES THE RICE DIET SOLUTION<P>THE LAST DIET BOOK YOU'LL EVER NEED?</font></center><P><b>SOLID TRACK RECORD:</b> Turning out success stories since 1939, the Rice Diet Program is the original, most effective diet to use nutrition to achieve not only safe and rapid weight loss but also the prevention and reversal of chronic disease. On this low-sodium, low-fat, detox diet, you'll enjoy a delicious variety of satisfying foods, including whole grains, fresh fruits, vegetables, legumes, dairy, seafood, and lean meats. You will never feel hungry!<P><b>RAPID WEIGHT LOSS:</b> The average "Ricer" loses up to thirty pounds in the first month!<P><b>LONG-TERM SUCCESS:</b> 63 percent of people who have lost weight on the Rice Diet report weighing the same or less one year later.<P><b>MEDICALLY SOUND:</b> The Rice Diet Program is run by Duke University-trained M.D.s (a cardiologist and an endocrinologist) with more than thirty years of medical experience using diet as the primary treatment for long-term weight loss and disease reversal. <P><b>SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN:</b> Numerous scientific publications, including the <I>American Journal of Medicine,</i> have documented the diet's dramatic effects on such life-threatening illnesses as congestive heart failure and heart disease and its risk factors: diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and obesity.<P><b>HOLISTIC APPROACH:</b> The Rice Diet ... | *$1.50 |
 | Wine Tasting Notebook
Brand: De Long Company
<i>De Long's WINE TASTING NOTEBOOK</i> is a simple, inexpensive yet elegant way to "hit the ground running" and learn about wine. It also makes a thoughtful gift for all wine lovers. <BR> A CONCISE LEARNING TOOL IN THREE PARTS: <BR>1. The <i>Wine Tasting Notebook</i> puts the repetitive parts of a note in convenient multiple choice for pros as well as acting as training wheels for beginners <BR>2. <i>Wine Tasting Terms</i> helps build your wine tasting vocabulary with 216 popular terms explained in brief. Includes practical details on identifying wine faults. <BR>3. <i>How to Take a Wine Tasting Note</i> walks you through the fundamentals of wine tasting. Wine is a complicated subject but the basic principles of wine tasting are not. <BR>* Elegant black cover with gold embossing slips easily into a coat pocket or purse. <BR>* Sewn binding lays flat for comfortable writing. <BR>* Water resistant wine tasting guide including WINE TASTING TERMS and HOW TO TAKE A WINE NOTE stores inside back cover. <BR><BR> <b>The Smart Way to Learn About Wine Tasting</b> | *$9.28 |
 | The Carbohydrate Addict's Cookbook: 250 All-New Low-Carb Recipes That Will Cut Your Cravings and Keep You Slim for Life
Brand: Wiley
From Atkins to Sugar Busters, from The Zone to Protein Power—and for all dieters on the Carbohydrate Addict’s programs—every recipe can be incorporated into your carbohydrate-conscious eating plan! <P>Lose weight and cut your cravings with the first cookbook from the world’s #1 authorities on carbohydrate addiction and weight loss. With 250 all-new mouthwatering low-carb recipes from Drs. Richard and Rachael Heller, the #1 New York Times bestselling authors and pioneers in carbohydrate-smart dieting, it is now easier than ever to shed those extra pounds permanently. Unlike many low-carb and low-fat cookbooks, which skimp on taste, The Carbohydrate Addict’s Cookbook seizes on the dynamic flavors of a rich crop of foods, from tasty appetizers and hearty soups to succulent seafood and sinfully delicious salads, from vegetarian alternatives to traditional, down-home beef and poultry dishes and easy-to-make breakfasts. With a special section on "Quick Fix Dishes and Snacks," you’ll find that this is the one low-carb cookbook you will rely on every day. | *$3.99 |
 | The 3-Hour Diet Cookbook
Brand: Collins
<P>On the heels of his revolutionary dieting program, THE 3–HOUR DIET, Jorge Cruise offers a cookbook that will get you slim without depravation, calorie–counting, or giving up carbs. THE 3–HOUR DIET COOKBOOK contains all–new, quick recipes that make following The 3–Hour Diet easy. The book will function as both a cookbook and meal planner. The recipe section will contain approximately delicious AND quick (less than 10 minutes!) recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks and desserts. The meal planner will offer four "quick start" options for meat lovers, vegetarians, heart healthy and carb lovers – helping the reader lose up to ten pounds in the first 14 days.</P><P> The book begins by summarizing The 3–Hour Diet concept, and reintroduces its revolutionary approach for readers. Part 2 contains tasty recipes for breakfast, lunch and dinner that are lushly illustrated with full–color photographs in ten categories: super fast breakfasts, breakfasts, smoothies, pasta and pizzas, fish and seafood, poultry, meats, sandwiches, salads, and meatless meals; Part 3 completes the plan with recipes for yummy snacks and desserts. With motivational success stories woven throughout the first section, THE 3–HOUR DIET COOKBOOK features a key inspirational element to complement its mouth–watering recipes.</P> | *$11.95 |
 | Mama Dip's Kitchen
Brand: The University of North Carolina Press
For nearly twenty-five years, Mildred Council—better known by her nickname, Mama Dip—has nourished thousands of hungry folks in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Her restaurant, Mama Dip's Kitchen, is a much-loved community institution that has gained loyal fans and customers from all walks of life, from <i>New York Times</i> food writer Craig Claiborne to former Tar Heel basketball player Michael Jordan.<p><i>Mama Dip's Kitchen</i> showcases the same down-home, wholesome, everyday Southern cooking for which its namesake restaurant is celebrated. The book features more than 250 recipes for such favorites as old-fashioned chicken pie, country-style pork chops, sweet potatoes, fresh corn casserole, poundcake, and banana pudding. Chapters cover breads and breakfast dishes; poultry, fish, and seafood; beef, pork, and lamb; vegetables and salads; and desserts, beverages, and party dishes.<p>The book opens with a charming introductory essay, a savory reflection on a life in cooking that also reveals the story behind Council's nickname. It is both a graceful reminiscence of a country childhood and the inspiring story of a woman determined to make her own way in the larger world. | *$9.92 |
 | Dr. Atkins' Quick and Easy New Diet Cookbook
Brand: Pocket Books
The revised and updated companion cookbook to the bestselling Dr Atkins' New Diet Revolution - with many new mouth-watering recipes that are ready in thirty minutes or less. Forget about salad without dressing, dried-out skinless chicken breasts and tasteless steamed vegetables. Forget about tiny portions, no fat/no flavour food and no second helpings. Forget about spending hours in the kitchen. With the delicious recipes in Dr Atkins' Quick And Easy New Diet Cookbook, you'll feast on juicy steaks, succulent chops, savoury egg and cheese dishes and indulge in desserts. Based on the bestselling Dr Atkins' New Diet Revolution, the recipes here will let you eat and lose weight the Atkins way, whether you're just beginning this nutritional approach, shedding pounds or maintaining your ideal weight. Designed for healthy eating, this cookbook will help you produce delectable meals every day that will be the key to a whole new you. | *$5.93 |
 | You: on a Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management
Brand: Thorndike Press
For the first time in our history, scientists are uncovering astounding medical evidence about dieting -- and why so many of us struggle with our weight and the size of our waists. Now researchers are unraveling biological secrets about such things as why you crave chocolate or gorge at buffets or store so much fat. <P><P>Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz, America's most trusted doctor team and authors of the bestselling <i>YOU</i> series, are now translating this cutting-edge information to help you shave inches off your waist. They're going to do it by giving you the best weapon against fat: knowledge. By understanding how your body's fat-storing and fat-burning systems work, you're going to learn how to crack the code on true and lifelong waist management. <P><P>Roizen and Oz will invigorate you with equal parts information, motivation, and change-your-life action to show you how your brain, stomach, hormones, muscles, heart, genetics, and stress levels all interact biologically to determine if your body is the size of a baseball bat or of a baseball stadium. In , Roizen and Oz will redefine what a healthy figure is, then take you through an under-the skin tour of the organs that influence your body's size and its health. You'll even be convinced that the key number to fixate on is not your weight, but your waist size, which best indicates the medical risks of storing too much fat. <P><P>Because the world has almost as many diet plans as it has e-mail spammers, you'd think that just about all of us would know everything there is to know about dieting, about fat, and about the reasons why our bellies have grown so large. <i>YOU: On a Diet</i> is much more than a diet plan or a series of instructions and guidelines or a faddish berries-only eating plan. It's a complete manual for waist management. It will show you how to achieve and maintain an ideal and healthy body size by providing a lexicon according to which any weight-loss system can be explained. <i>YOU: On a Diet</i> will serve as the operating system that facilitates future evolution in our dieting software. After you learn about the biology of your body and the biology and psychology of fat, you'll be given the YOU Diet and YOU Workout. Both are easy to learn, follow, and maintain. Following a two-week rebooting program will help you lose up to two inches from your waist right from the start. <P><P>With Roizen and Oz's signature accessibility, wit, and humor, <i>YOU: On a Diet -- The Owner's Manual for Waist Management</i> will revolutionize the way you think about yourself and the food you consume, so that you'll diet smart, not hard. Welcome to your body on a diet. | *$28.37 |
 | The Recipe Writer's Handbook, Revised and Updated
Brand: Wiley
The Recipe Writer’s Handbook Revised and Updated<BR> Barbara Gibbs Ostmann and Jane L. Baker <P>The definitive reference for recipe writing<BR> Offering comprehensive guidance on the intimate elements of the recipe writing art, The Recipe Writer’s Handbook is an indispensable companion for anyone who develops, tests, writes, or edits recipes—for publication, for broadcast, or simply to share with family and friends. The Handbook shows how to achieve accuracy and consistency—the hallmarks of the well-written recipe and provides complete and proven guidelines for recipe testing and writing, with coverage of format and syntax, spelling, terminology, weights and measurements, presentation, and other key areas. There is an added focus on writing recipes for an international audience, plus advice from radio, television, and Internet experts on developing recipes for each of those media. <P>Barbara Gibbs Ostmann (Union, MD) is a food and travel writer for the New York Times Regional Newspaper Group, with over twenty years of experience in newspaper, magazine, and cookbook writing and editing. Jane L. Baker (East Lansing, MI), a home economist with more than twenty-five years of experience in food writing, editing, and recipe development, is Director of Domestic Marketing for the Cherry Marketing Institute. | *$15.22 |
 | Forking Fantastic!: Put the Party Back in Dinner Party
Brand: Gotham
<B> The innovative hosts of a hot-ticket underground supper club invite you to crank up your oven, break out the vino, and save the dinner party from extinction </B><BR><BR> Twice a month, two veterans of the New York food world prepare a big meal in a tiny kitchen, serving heaping plates of spectacular cuisine to twenty diverse people (or more). Friends old and new at their Sunday Night Dinners supper club make spirited conversation while feasting on sumptuous cooking. Never obsessed with perfect place settings or fussy details, Zora O'Neill and Tamara Reynolds instead focus on the practical joys of down-to-earth entertaining at home. In <I>Forking Fantastic</I>, they showcase their very best recipes for making mouthwatering dinners-and for having the time of your life. <BR><BR> With a healthy dose of irreverent attitude and infectious spirit, here Tamara and Zora take the pressure off and encourage us to reclaim the lost art of cooking delectable meals for the masses. <I>Forking Fantastic!</I> includes:<BR><BR> * foolproof, party-tested, delicious menus that are easy to master, each with a "Plan of Attack" for preparing multiple recipes without panic.<BR><BR> * practical tips on everything from shopping and stocking a kitchen to making creative vegetarian substitutions and trussing a whole lamb for spit-roasting<BR><BR> * hard-won advice from the trenches and an inside look at Tamara and Zora's own cooking disasters<BR><BR> Food-forward but always realistic, Tamara and Zora celebrate seasonal, local ingredients while also extolling cornbread mix and the frozen pea. Quirky, funny and fresh, this book arms intimidated cooks everywhere with the courage, confidence and tools they need to have people over for the sake of food and community, not for the prize of being the best hostess on the block. A manifesto for bringing back a time-honored ritual one mind-blowing feast at a time, <I>Forking Fantastic!</I> makes dinner parties rock. | *$4.75 |
 | The Way to Make Wine: How to Craft Superb Table Wines at Home
Brand: University of California Press
Geared to everyday wine lovers who want to drink well, save money, and impress their friends, this book reveals everything needed to make delicious wines-both reds and whites-from start to finish. A new preface on the new trend and options in home winemaking update this edition.<br> | *$14.81 |
 | Weight Watchers All-Time Favorites: Over 200 Best-Ever Recipes from the Weight Watchers Test Kitchens
Brand: Wiley
This full-color cookbook is an exciting collection of the best recipes ever developed by the experts at Weight Watchers—225 tempting dishes never before presented in book form. If you’re a fan of the <i>Weight Watchers New Complete Cookbook</i> but are looking even more recipe choices, this new Weight Watchers collection will be an irresistible new kitchen companion. It’s packed with recipes that you’ll love, whether you’re cooking for a weeknight family supper, a casual backyard get-together with neighbors, or a festive gathering with friends. | *$15.99 |
 | Cooking Well: Multiple Sclerosis: Over 75 Easy and Delicious Recipes for Nutritional Healing
Brand: Hatherleigh Press
<b><i>Can practicing a healthy lifestyle, which includes a healthy diet, decrease Multiple Sclerosis symptoms? </i></b><br><br>In the U.S. alone, approximately 400,000 people suffer from Multiple Sclerosis (MS). MS is an autoimmune disease that affects the central nervous system. There are a variety of symptoms of MS, and it affects people in different ways, but there is no cure.<br><br>Eating well can help strengthen your body, and make living with the disease a little easier. Maintaining a low fat diet with foods containing anti-inflammatory properties can improve your well-being by decreasing your MS-related symptoms and flare-ups. <b><br><br>C<i>ooking Well: Multiple Sclerosis </i></b>features over 100 recipes designed to improve daily functioning and aid in the treatment of this disease. <br><br><b><i>Cooking Well: Multiple Sclerosis</i></b> also includes:<br>* An overview on how to live with MS<br>* A list of foods to avoid<br>* A meal diary and checklist to track your progress<br><br>All recipes and meals in the <b><i>Cooking Well</i></b> series have been specially created by renowned health and diet expert, <b>Chef Marie-Annick Courtier</b>. Each book in the series also includes general nutrition information as well as tips on which foods to avoid along the path of nutritional healing. | *$21.92 |
 | The Gluten Connection: How Gluten Sensitivity May Be Sabotaging Your Health - And What You Can Do to Take Control NOW
Brand: Rodale Press
<DIV><DIV>One of the nation’s top clinical nutritionists presents her 14-day program for treating and reversing gluten sensitivity, a condition that affects as much as 35 to 50 percent of the U.S. population and is a major contributing factor to an array of chronic illnesses<BR><BR>Struggling with weight gain? Plagued by fatigue? Suffering from joint pain? According to preeminent clinical nutritionist Dr. Shari Lieberman, these symptoms are among the hallmarks of a little-known but surprisingly common sensitivity to gluten, a protein in certain grains. Dr. Lieberman has been investigating gluten sensitivity for more than 20 years. In her experience, eliminating gluten can alleviate many troubling symptoms for which doctors often can’t find a cause, as well as chronic conditions for which mainstream medicine offers little hope of relief—including rheumatoid arthritis, ulcerative colitis, psoriasis, fibromyalgia, lupus, and irritable bowel syndrome. <BR><BR>In fact, 85 percent of Dr. Lieberman’s clients who follow a gluten-free diet report dramatic improvement in their health—and scientific studies support her results.<BR><BR>In The Gluten Connection, Dr. Lieberman presents a simple questionnaire to help readers assess their risk for gluten sensitivity and provides a 14-day eating plan to start them on the path to improved health and vitality. She also recommends nutritional supplements to support and maximize the therapeutic potential of a gluten-free diet.</DIV></DIV> | *$13.89 |
 | Eating for Pregnancy: An Essential Guide to Nutrition with Recipes for the Whole Family
Brand: Da Capo Press
Every pregnant woman recognizes that what she eats, drinks and does with her body directly affects the baby developing within her. Yet mothers-to-be—between juggling work, other children, and their many other responsibilities—often don’t have the time they’d like to devote to their nutrition. Now, <i>Eating for Pregnancy</i> addresses the nutritional needs of pregnant women today, helping them to navigate through frozen food aisles and prepared food sections and to create healthy, easy-to-prepare homemade meals. Authors Jones and Hudson provide reassuring, up-to-date nutritional information; shopping and eating tips to keep nutrient-intake high and unnecessary weight-gain to a minimum; and guilt-free, smart-choice convenience and semi-prepared food options. Their more than 120 recipes, organized into six main sections, are high in vitamins, iron, calcium, protein, and fiber and moderate in amounts of fat, sodium, and sugar. Each recipe highlights "What’s in this for baby and me" and includes complete nutritional breakdowns and meal planning advice; many offer suggestions for substitutions and other time-saving shortcuts. <i>Eating for Pregnancy</i> also caters to women with gestational diabetes with diabetic tips and ADA exchange values. A vegetarian chapter offers essential advice to pregnant vegetarians along with inspiring recipes. | *$0.19 |
 | How to Start a Home-Based Personal Chef Business (Home-Based Business Series)
Brand: Globe Pequot
<DIV>You don't have to go to culinary school to become a personal chef -- a passion for cooking and good business skills are all you need to get started right away. This book provides all the business savvy for the successful launch of a personal chef business.</DIV> | *$11.17 |
 | The Instinct Diet: Use Your Five Food Instincts to Lose Weight and Keep it Off
Brand: Workman Publishing Company
Satisfying our hardwired instincts has been critical to our survival for as long as we have been human. That's why we <i>eat when food is available, choose the most calorie-dense foods, and hate the feeling of hunger.</i> Today, these same drives are leading millions down the path of obesity. But Dr. Susan B. Roberts, an internationally recognized nutrition researcher at Tufts University, shows how to turn our food instincts into an engine for permanent, healthy weight loss.<br> <br> <i>The Instinct Diet</i>—the "I" diet—is a pleasure to follow: a diet based on impeccable research, a diet where the dieter never goes hungry, a diet that's unequivocally healthy, thoroughly grounded in the metabolic, genetic, and psychological workings of the human body. Essentially, it shows how you can control the controls. Through its focus on delicious, deeply satisfying dishes like Orange Crumbed French Toast, Pork and Lemongrass Soup, Watercress and Citrus Salad with Parmesan Toast, and Chocolate Bread Pudding, plus proven behavioral modifications (Dr. Roberts is a professor of nutrition <I>and</I> professor of psychiatry), the diet is a fat-burning marvel. At Tufts, 85 percent of participants in Dr. Roberts' research program lost 10 to 50 pounds in the first six months, and 90 percent of them kept the weight off for at least a year. <i>The Instinct Diet</i> shares everything learned by Dr. Roberts over 17 years and more: better ways to lose weight whatever you eat; also a three-stage diet plan; over 100 recipes; eight weeks of menus (with vegetarian and "non-cook" options throughout); and dozens of ideas and strategies for how to retrain our bodies—how to combat the "Gulping Syndrome," use the "Sandwich Technique," why tapping your forehead is an emergency measure to reduce food cravings, and more. | *$2.42 |
 | The Inflammation-Free Diet Plan
Brand: McGraw-Hill
A revolutionary diet to help you lose weight and control disease-causing inflammation <P>The Inflammation-Free Diet Plan will help you achieve your ideal weight--without fad dieting--while also reducing pain and allergies, slowing the aging process, and dramatically reducing your risk for dozens of medical problems. This flexible, easy-to-follow program is the ideal nutritional solution for every member of the family. <P>At the heart of the program is the revolutionary IF Rating system that, for the first time, tells you the inflammatory or anti-inflammatory effects of all of the foods you eat. The IF Rating integrates more than twenty different nutritional factors, including essential fatty acids, glycemic index, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and anti-inflammatory compounds into a single rating which guides your food choices for the day. <P>You no longer have to worry about choosing the right types of carbs or fats, or even counting calories--the IF Rating combines all those factors into a simple, holistic system for healthy eating! And unlike other programs that focus only on carbohydrates or fats, the IF Rating system also shows you which proteins are healthy and which provoke inflammation. <P>It all adds up to a uniquely healthful, easy to follow diet plan that fights illness and promotes weight loss! The Inflammation-Free Diet Plan gives you: <P>-IF Ratings for more than 1,500 common foods, listed both alphabetically and by categories, such as "Breakfast Cereals" and "Meats" -Self-assessments for measuring your level of systemic inflammation -A choice of three customizable eating plans: Preventative/Maintenance, Therapeutic, and Accelerated Weight-Loss -Three weeks worth of daily meal plans and dozens of delicious anti-inflammatory recipes <P>With The Inflammation-Free Diet Plan, you'll learn how to stop the silent enemy in its tracks and get started on the road to a longer, healthier, more vibrant life--today. | *$45.03 |
 | Skinny Bitch: A No-Nonsense, Tough-Love Guide for Savvy Girls Who Want to Stop Eating Crap and Start Looking Fabulous!
Brand: Tantor Media
<DIV>Not your typical boring diet book, this is a tart-tongued, no-holds-barred wake-up call to all women who want to be thin.</div> | *$8.95 |
 | FIX-IT and FORGET-IT LIGHTLY
Brand: Good Books
Yes, Now you can have it all: Food from your slow cooker that is scrumptious, quick and easy to prepare and low fat! | *$13.95 |
 | The Acid-Alkaline Diet for Optimum Health: Restore Your Health by Creating Balance in Your Diet
Brand: Healing Arts Press
A practical diet plan for restoring the acid-alkaline balance your body needs to experience optimum health <P>• Explains how acidification of the body contributes to disorders such as chronic fatigue syndrome, eczema, and ulcers • Categorizes food according to its acidifying or alkalizing effect on the body, rather than by chemical composition • Contains food tables to help readers design the best diet for their health needs <P>To enjoy optimum health, our body needs balanced quantities of alkaline substances and acids. An imbalance can result in health problems ranging from minor skin irritations, chronic fatigue, back pain, and depression to arthritis, ulcers, and osteoporosis. <P>Most people consume an abundance of highly processed foods that acidify the body and, as a result, are afflicted with many of these ailments. Naturopath and detoxification expert Christopher Vasey shows how a simple change in diet to restore your acid-alkaline balance can result in a vast improvement in health. <P>Vasey provides easy test methods to determine your acid levels, how to interpret these test results, and ways to establish a proper diet to maximize your health. Rather than organizing alkaline and acid foods on the basis their chemical composition, Vasey categorizes foods based on their actual alkalizing or acidifying effect on the body so that you can design a diet best suited for your particular health needs. He goes further to explain how some foods, such as fruits, can have either an alkalizing or an acidifying effect, depending on who eats them, and how to use alkaline supplements to support your dietary needs. | *$6.99 |
 | The Encyclopedia of Country Living: An Old Fashioned Recipe Book
Brand: Sasquatch Books
Initially self-published 20 years ago, The Encyclopedia of Country Living has become the trusted guidebook to sustainable, self-sufficient living. Filled with memorable anecdotes, crucial advice, and a generous helping of good humor, this compendium provides detailed information about food production — growing, processing, cooking, and preserving — together with hundreds of illustrations and recipes. With updates of over 1,100 mail order sources, including websites and email addresses, this revised edition is the definitive classic text for living off the land. | *$95.10 |
 | Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
Brand: Chronicle Books
Buying a villa in the spectacular Italian countryside is a wonderful fantasy -- even if 17 rooms and a garden in need of immediate loving care are included in the asking price. Frances Mayes -- gourmet cook, widely published travel writer, and poet -- changed her life by doing just that. Sprinkled liberally with delicious recipes for inspired Italian dishes, amusing anecdotes about the risks of being your own contractor, and a savvy traveler's reminiscences, <I>Under the Tuscan Sun</I> is Mayes's enchanting account of her love affair with Tuscany: of scouring the neighborhood for the perfect panettone and the perfect plumber; of mornings spent cultivating her garden, and afternoons spent enjoying its fruits in leisurely lunches on the terrace; of jaunts through the hill towns in search of renowned wines; and the renewal not only of a house, but also of the spirit. An unusual memoir that combines the appeal of M. F.K. Fisher, Peter Mayle, and Martha Stewart, <I>Under the Tuscan Sun</I> is a feast for the senses. | *$9.04 |
 | Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating
Brand: Free Press
<P> As seen on the <I>Today</I> show! <P> The National Bestseller Based on Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health Research...A Revolutionary Guide to Healthy Eating That Topples the USDA Food Pyramid <P> In <I>Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy,</I> Dr. Walter Willett explains why the USDA guidelines -- the famous food pyramid -- are not only wrong but also dangerous. Debunking current dietary myths such as the evils of eggs and how high milk consumption does a body good, Dr. Willett sets an all-new nutritional standard. You'll discover: <P> <LI>eye-opening new research on the healthiest carbohydrates, fats, and proteins <P> <LI>why weight control is the single most important factor <P> <LI>menu plans and recipes that make it easy to reinvent your daily diet </UL> | *$4.24 |
 | The G.I. Diet: The Easy, Healthy Way to Permanent Weight Loss
Brand: Workman Publishing Company
Why was this a #1 bestseller in Canada in 2002? Because it is an easy-to-follow, easy-to-stick-to, truly healthy approach to eating that is based on the Glycemic Index, the original science behind The Zone Diet, but eliminates that diet's complexity and tendency to leave dieters wanting more. If you can understand a traffic light, you can understand this diet--and lose weight permanently without feeling hungry, counting calories, or jeopardizing your health. If a food is in the green column, eat it. If it's in the red column, avoid it. And if it's in the yellow column, proceed with caution. Take bread, for example. White bread, with its high G.I. number, is red-because it's so highly processed the body digests it quickly, resulting in a spike in blood sugar, a release of insulin, potential storage as fat, and a quick return of the hungry feeling. Low-G.I. 100% stone-ground whole-wheat bread is green-the body takes a while to digest it, with no spike in blood sugar and a much longer feeling of satiety. Green, yellow, red: It's all here, with a full explanation of how the diet works, plus ratings for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, eating out or eating in. Includes some recipes, snack ideas, a shopping list, and tips on dining out. | *$7.22 |
 | The Volumetrics Weight-Control Plan: Feel Full on Fewer Calories
Brand: Harper Paperbacks
<P>Dieters everywhere have the same complaint: they're hungry all the time. Now this revolutionary book, based on sound scientific principles, can help you lose weight safely, effectively, and permanently without those gnawing pangs of hunger.</P><P><I>The Volumetrics Weight-Control Plan</I> introduces the concept of "energy density" -- concentration of calories in each portion of food. Here you'll learn how to avoid high energy -- dense foods, and how such different nutritional factors as fat, fiber, protein, and water affect energy density and satiety. You'll discover which foods, eaten under which circumstances, allow you to consume fewer calories and still be satisfied. And you'll get to know the hidden calorie traps, seemingly innocuous foods that can sneak unwanted calories into your body. Finally, the authors offer 60 sensible, tasty and easy recipes, plus an integrated program of exercise and behavior management that can be sustained over a lifetime.</P> | *$2.87 |
 | Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think
Brand: Random House Audio
In this illuminating and groundbreaking new book, food psychologist Brian Wansink shows why you may not realize how much you’re eating, what you’re eating–or why you’re even eating at all.<br><br>• Does food with a brand name really taste better?<br>• Do you hate brussels sprouts because your mother did?<br>• Does the size of your plate determine how hungry <br>you feel?<br>• How much would you eat if your soup bowl secretly <br>refilled itself?<br>• What does your favorite comfort food really say <br>about you?<br>• Why do you overeat so much at healthy restaurants?<br><br>Brian Wansink is a Stanford Ph.D. and the director of the Cornell University Food and Brand Lab. He’s spent a lifetime studying what we don’t notice: the hidden clues that determine how much and why people eat. Using ingenious, fun, and sometimes downright fiendishly clever experiments like the “bottomless soup bowl,” Wansink takes us on a fascinating tour of the secret dynamics behind our dietary habits. How does packaging influence how much we eat? Which movies make us eat faster? How does music or the color of the room influence how much we eat? How can we recognize the “hidden persuaders” used by restaurants and supermarkets to get us to mindlessly eat? What are the real reasons most diets are doomed to fail? And how can we use the “mindless margin” to lose–instead of gain–ten to twenty pounds in the coming year?<br> <br>Mindless Eating will change the way you look at food, and it will give you the facts you need to easily make smarter, healthier, more mindful and enjoyable choices at the dinner table, in the supermarket, in restaurants, at the office–even at a vending machine–wherever you decide to satisfy your appetite. | *$18.92 |
 | The Garden Primer: Second Edition
Brand: Workman Publishing Company
The most comprehensive, entertaining, down-to-earth one-volume gardening reference ever, and highly praised:<br><br> "Barbara Damrosch delivers the goods."—<i>Chicago Tribune</i><br> "Best of the crop."—<i>House Beautiful</i><br> "Barbara Damrosch's writing has the snap of a good snowpea and the spice of an old rose."—<i>The Seattle Times/Post Intelligencer</i><br> "Covers just about everything you could think of and then some." — <i>The Atlanta Journal-Constitution</i><br> "An extraordinarily comprehensive guide." — <i>The San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle</i><br> "Takes your soaring visions of garden splendor and plants them firmly in the ground."—<i>The Toronto Star</i><br> <br> Now the beloved classic is revised front-to-back. The new edition has gone 100% organic, which in Barbara Damrosch's hands also means completely accessible. It reflects the latest research on plants, soils, tools, and techniques. There is updated and expanded information on planning a garden, recommended plants, and best tools. Ecological issues are addressed much more extensively, covering lawn alternatives, the benefits of native species, wildlife-friendly gardens, and how to avoid harmful invasive species. More attention is paid to plants appropriate to the South, Southwest, and West Coast, while cold-climate gardeners are given detailed advice on how to extend the growing season. Simply put, the book is a richer and fuller compendium than ever before, with more text, more illustrations and garden plans, expanded plant lists, and gardener's resources. But Barbara Damrosch's core of practical, creative ideas and friendly style remain—she is still an "old-fashioned dirt gardener" at heart. | *$16.27 |
 | The American Frugal Housewife
Brand: Tutis Digital Publishing Pvt. Ltd.
Along with simply written recipes for roasting a pig and preparing corned beef, hasty pudding, carrot pie, buffalo tongue, and scores of other dishes, this fascinating book, with its lively and direct style, also offered 19th-century readers suggestions for treating chilblains and dysentery, cleaning white kid gloves, educating one’s daughters, and advice for dealing with dozens of other domestic concerns. First published in 1832, it was a "must" for brides of the mid-1800s. An intriguing glimpse into the kitchens of the past for modern cooks, antiquarians, and nostalgia lovers.<br> | *$6.97 |
 | French Women Don't Get Fat
Brand: Random House Audio
Stylish, convincing, wise, funny–and just in time: the ultimate <i>non</i>-diet book, which could radically change the way you think and live.<br><br>French women don’t get fat, but they do eat bread and pastry, drink wine, and regularly enjoy three-course meals. In her delightful tale, Mireille Guiliano unlocks the simple secrets of this “French paradox”–how to enjoy food and stay slim and healthy. Hers is a charming, sensible, and powerfully life-affirming view of health and eating for our times.<br><br>As a typically slender French girl, Mireille (Meer-<i>ray</i>) went to America as an exchange student and came back fat. That shock sent her into an adolescent tailspin, until her kindly family physician, “Dr. Miracle,” came to the rescue. Reintroducing her to classic principles of French gastronomy plus time-honored secrets of the local women, he helped her restore her shape and gave her a whole new understanding of food, drink, and life. The key? Not guilt or deprivation but learning to get the most from the things you most enjoy. Following her own version of this traditional wisdom, she has ever since relished a life of indulgence without bulge, satisfying yen without yo-yo on three meals a day. <br><br>Now in simple but potent strategies and dozens of recipes you’d swear were fattening, Mireille reveals the ingredients for a lifetime of weight control–from the emergency weekend remedy of Magical Leek Soup to everyday tricks like fooling yourself into contentment and painless new physical exertions to save you from the StairMaster. Emphasizing the virtues of freshness, variety, balance, and <i>always</i> pleasure, Mireille shows how virtually anyone can learn to eat, drink, and move like a French woman. <br><br>A natural raconteur, Mireille illustrates her philosophy through the experiences that have shaped her life–a six-year-old’s first taste of Champagne, treks in search of tiny blueberries (called <i>myrtilles</i>) in the woods near her grandmother’s house, a near-spiritual rendezvous with oysters at a seaside restaurant in Brittany, to name but a few. She also shows us other women discovering the wonders of “French in action,” drawing examples from dozens of friends and associates she has advised over the years to eat and drink smarter and more joyfully. <br><br>Here are a culture’s most cherished and time-honored secrets recast for the twenty-first century. For anyone who has slipped out of her zone, missed the flight to South Beach, or accidentally let a carb pass her lips, here is a buoyant, positive way to stay trim. A life of wine, bread–even chocolate–without girth or guilt? <i>Pourquoi pas?</i><br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i> | *$8.63 |
 | How to Cook Fish
Brand: BiblioLife
Other fish who have just been weaned and are beginning to notice solid food will repeatedly take a hook too large to swallow and be dragged into the boat literally by the skin of the teeth. | *$26.99 |
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