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Phantom Gourmet - The Phantom Gourmet is a food-related television program with a major focus on restaurant reviews from a critic with the same name (see below for more). The show airs on WSBK-TV in Boston, Massachusetts and WLWC in Providence, Rhode Island each Saturday and Sunday mourning ...
Gourmet - A gourmet is a person with a discriminating palate and who is knowledgeable in fine food and drink. The word is a corruption of the French word groumet, a valet in charge of the wines.
Guiltless Gourmet - Guiltless Gourmet is a snack food manufacturer, founded in 1989, and distributed by GMB Enterprises Inc. out of New Jersey.
The Surreal Gourmet - The Surreal Gourmet is a program on Food Network Canada hosted by Bob Blumer. The show features creative techniques for cooking and the memorable Toastermobile.
Natural Gourmet: Delicious Recipes for Healthy, Balanced Eating by Annemarie Colbin, ISBN 0345370287 : Annemarie Colbin learned early of the important relationship between food and health: having grown up in a vegetarian household, she spent many years integrating Eastern eating philosophies with Western habits, studying the works of everyone from J.I. Rodale and George Ohsawa to Julia Child and James Beard. With The Natural Gourmet, Colbin takes her ideas about healthful eating a step further with meals that nourish body and soul, and that are elegant enough to serve to company. The recipes included in The Natural Gourmet are the result of a collaborative effort by Colbin and ten students from her Natural Gourmet Cookery School in Manhattan. Each recipe is classified according to the Chinese Theory of the Five Phases, making it easy to combine the various courses to create a balanced, harmonious meal. Among the delicious dishes you'll find are: -- Curried Apple-Squash Bisque -- Mushrooms Stuffed with Garlic and Rosemary -- San Franciscan Pizza -- Lissa's Homemade Black Pepper Pasta with Scallion-Butter Sauce -- Stuffed Cabbage Rolls -- Jalapeno Corn Bread -- Japanese Red Bean Soup ...
The Vegan Gourmet: Full Flavor & Variety with Over 120 Delicious Recipes by Susann Geiskopf-Hadler, ISBN 0761516263 : In these pages, nature's abundance of vegetables and fruits, nuts, and seeds, beans and grains combine with the seasoning potential of fresh ginger and garlic, mustards, capers, olives, and chili peppers to make simple, healthful foods that taste extraordinary. Includes recipes for everyday breakfasts, lunches, and dinners; menu plans for special occasions and multi-course feasts; and ideas for appetizers. Illustrations.
At Blanchard's Table: More Than 200 Simple, Sensational Recipes from the Authors of a Trip to the Beach by Robert Blanchard, ISBN 0609610821 : The next best thing to actually living on an island paradise is being able to bring a bit of paradise home. Bob and Melinda Blanchard shared their own "paradise found" in their book A Trip to the Beach, the true story of the couple's adventures as they escaped civilization to open a restaurant on the Caribbean island of Anguilla. Now in At Blanchard's Table, the couple extends the celebrated warmth and hospitality of their acclaimed restaurant, and its delicious menu, to our homes. The happy result is a cookbook that's as much a pleasure to read as it is enjoyable to follow. Writing with the same humor and charm that made their first book such a success, Bob and Melinda share recipes drawn from their New England roots, their early years in the gourmet food business, and their life in the Caribbean. At Blanchard's Table is a delectable collection of more than 160 recipes perfect for get-togethers of family and friends, illustrated with glorious photographs that reveal how lucky they are to have homes in both Vermont and Anguilla. Although the Blanchards' restaurant gets rave reviews for...
The Vegetarian 5-Ingredient Gourmet: 250 Simple Recipes and Dozens of Healthy Menus for Eating Well Every Day by Nava Atlas, ISBN 076790690X : "Nava Atlas has solutions for maintaining sophisticated flavors in the dishes she creates and still manages to keep the ingredients healthy." --"Cooking Light Eating healthfully is a challenge for those with fast-paced lives. In "The Vegetarian 5-Ingredient "Gourmet, Nava Atlas pares meal preparation down to the essentials, using just a few high-quality ingredients in each delicious dish. Focusing on whole foods and fresh produce (with a little help from convenient natural sauces and condiments) she serves up a varied range of choices for everyday fare. More than 250 recipes include soups, salads, and pastas; grain, bean, and soy entrees; wraps and sandwich fillings; simple side dishes; fruit-filled finales; and more. The full-flavored fare made from five ingredients or less includes Curried Red Lentil and Spinach Soup; Greek-Flavored Potato Salad; Black Bean Nachos Grandes; Baked Barbecue Tofu and Peppers; and Miniature Fresh Fruit Tarts. Filled with ingenious shortcuts and sprinkled with kitchen wisdom and tips throughout, "The Vegetarian 5-Ingredient Gourmet also offers the reader doz...
Baking with Julia: Based on the PBS Series Hosted by Julia Child by Dorie Greenspan, ISBN 0688146570 : Baking with Julia is not only a book full of glorious recipes but also one that continues Julia's teaching tradition. Here, basic techniques come alive and are made easily comprehensible in recipes that demonstrate the myriad ways of raising dough, glazing cakes, and decorating crusts. This is the resource you'll turn to again and again for all your baking needs. With Baking with Julia in your cookbook library, you can become a master baker. With nearly two hundred recipes, and half as many pages of tantalizing full-color photographs, this incomparable kitchen companion goes far beyond what most cookbooks offer. More than fifty pages of illustrated reference sections define basic terms and techniques, and explain the hows and whys of batters and doughs to take you effortlessly through the essential techniques. If you've never made flaky pie crust, your first no-fail experience is at hand. If you've never baked bread, that most satisfying and sensual pleasure awaits the turn of a page. With recipes for breads, pastries, cookies, and cakes - from chocolate to cheesecake, from miniature gems to...
Soul Food: Recipes and Reflections from African-American Churches by Joyce White, ISBN 0060187166 : When Joyce White moved to New York City from Alabama, she left small-town life behind and landed a job as a food editor at a major women's magazine. Weekends, however, found her visiting churches in Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant, looking for a taste of home. Food has long been a part of the spiritual life of African-American churches, and what she found there, along with what she missed from home, was the comforting blend of cooking and fellowship that feeds both body and soul. In this warm and joyful collection, White offers more than 150 recipes for the foods that worshipers look forward to after services, and she captures the spirit of these sociable meals with warm, conversational, and occasionally poignant reflections from African-American churchgoers around the United States. From delicious renditions of classics such as Sugar-Crusted Biscuits to updated favorites such as Black Beans with Sun-Dried Tomatoes, as well as special fare for entertaining and Kwanzaa, the pages of Soul Food are alive with the spirit and love of African-American churches - and the terrific food to be found the...
Gourmet Chef (DS) - Pre-Owned : With your whisk, chopping knife, mixing bowl and other tools of the trade, your star is on the rise as you toil in the kitchen of one of the finest French restaurants, whipping up gourmet meals that tempt the palates of even the toughest customers. But do you have what it takes to become a true master chef? Demonstrate your cooking skills as you prepare dozens of delicious recipes, please customers and satisfy food critics. Command the kitchen of a fine French restaurant in Gourmet Chef. Wield your stylus to chop, mix and cook as you prepare more than 70 authentic gourmet recipes. Prove your talents on 20 challenging customers, including a sneaky food critic who comes to your restaurant in various disguises. As you demonstrate your mastery, you'll rise through the ranks, eventually attaining the position of top chef.
Gourmet Chef (DS) : With your whisk, chopping knife, mixing bowl and other tools of the trade, your star is on the rise as you toil in the kitchen of one of the finest French restaurants, whipping up gourmet meals that tempt the palates of even the toughest customers. But do you have what it takes to become a true master chef? Demonstrate your cooking skills as you prepare dozens of delicious recipes, please customers and satisfy food critics. Command the kitchen of a fine French restaurant in Gourmet Chef. Wield your stylus to chop, mix and cook as you prepare more than 70 authentic gourmet recipes. Prove your talents on 20 challenging customers, including a sneaky food critic who comes to your restaurant in various disguises. As you demonstrate your mastery, you'll rise through the ranks, eventually attaining the position of top chef.
The Well-Fed Baby: Healthy, Delicious Baby Food Recipes That You Can Make at Home by O. Robin Sweet, ISBN 0688178235 : Here is you source book for feeding your baby the healthy and natural way as seen on "Mothering," the television series on Fox FX, Fox Fit TV, and Fox Health Networks. From the makers of The Well Fed Baby line of organic, soy-based baby food, this book offers parents easy-to-make, all-natural recipes as an alternative to baby food. Not only are these recipes better-tasting and healthier than processed jarred baby food, they can be made at home in just minutes and at a fraction of the cost. Some of the recipes are presented by guest chefs who share with you their favorite ways to feed their little ones. "The Well Fed Baby" will teach you the basics of making baby food at home, as well as the benefits of using organic foods and soy foods, and how to initiate healthy eating habits from birth. The authors guide you through the different stages of feeding your baby, from milk and strained cereal at six months to chopped foods at twelve months. Your baby will love meals such as Carrot Puree with Mint, Baked Acorn Squash and Brown Rice, and Broccoli and Chicken Dinner. And you will love knowing tha...
Moosewood Restaurant Low-Fat Favorites: Flavorful Recipes for Healthful Meals by Moosewood Collective, ISBN 0517884941 : This is the low-fat book cooks who care about wholesome, vegetarian-inspired food have been waiting for. Each of the more than 280 recipes are as delicious and trustworthy as those in the Moosewood Collective's previous books, and vibrant flavors and generous portions are still a hallmark of every dish. Because the Collective's primary goal is always to make great tasting food they resisted the notion of doing a low-fat book until they were convinced they could make low-fat dishes as flavor-packed as their regular favorites. "We've mostly been interested in gourmet cuisine at Moosewood Restaurant, not deprivation diet food," say the authors. "So, it's a happy surprise that the dishes we created for this cookbook don't come off as merely healthful diet foods. The food is exciting, ethnically diverse, and satisfyingly delicious. Moosewood Restaurant Low-fat Favorites is as much a celebration of the pleasures of eating as it is about low-fat cooking." In Moosewood Restaurant Low-fat Favorites the Collective emphasizes a few changes in basic cooking techniques to apply to everyday recipes and ...
Classic Indian Cooking by Julie Sahni, ISBN 0688037216 : This extraordinary cookbook, "Classic Indian Cooking, amounts to a complete course in Indian cuisine. Elucidated by over 100 line drawings, it systematically introduces the properties of all the basic spices and special ingredients of Indian food, then explains the techniques employed in using them, always with the help of comparisons to familiar Western methods.It is immediately obvious that Indian food is rich and varied, yet not difficult to prepare. The cooking principles are basic and wellknown. The utensils needed are few and simple. As Julie Sahni says, "If you know how to fry, there are few tricks to Indian food." Every recipe has been especially designed for the American kitchen -- practically all the ingredients can be found in any American supermarket and there are scores of time-saving shortcuts with the food processor and handy directions for ahead-of-time preparation.Following a lively and absorbing introduction to the history of India's classic Moghul cuisine, Julie guides the cook through the individual components that make up an Indian meal. She begins with delicious appetiz...
Guide to Marine Mammals of the World by National Audubon Society, ISBN 0375411410 : The National Audubon Society Guide to Marine Mammals of the World describes in fascinating detail all 120 species of the world's whales, dolphins, porpoises, seals and sea lions, manatees, Marine and Sea Otters, and the Polar Bear. Written by a team of experts and featuring more than 320 illustrations, 418 photographs, and 123 maps, this new guide offers more authoritative, up-to-date, and accessible information than any book previously published on the subject. Organized by the four major groups of marine mammals--marine fissipeds, pinnipeds, cetaceans, and sirenians--the species descriptions include: Full-color paintings, some depicting males and females, juveniles, subspecies, or special features. Color photographs showing appearance in the wild and illustrating typical behaviors. Life history data, including length and weight at various life stages, and life span. Range and habitat text and a full-color range map based on the most current information. Facts about social organization, surface behaviors, swimming, and diving. Information on mating behavior, breeding, and the rearing of...
The Food Doctor - Fully Revised and Updated: Healing Foods for Mind and Body : Now fully revised and updated, this edition of the ever-popular guide to eating well has all the latest research, new and inspiring recipes, and an entire chapter on eating for one's individual metabolic body type and lifestyle. Written by two nutritionists, the pages are packed with nutrition advice, case studies, and food "cures." Find simple foods with amazing healing properties; check out the definitive list of the top 100 foods for health, vitality and happiness.
Simple Italian Food: Recipes from My Two Villages by Mario Batali, ISBN 0609603000 : Perfectly pristine ingredients, combined sensibly and cooked properly, are the unmistakable hallmarks of the best Italian food. Chef Mario Batali, known to fans far and wide as "Molto Mario" from his appearances on television's Food Network and as chef of New York's much-loved Pi restaurant, has elevated these simple principles to fine art, creating innovative new fare that pays tribute to traditional Italian home cooking in a distinctly modern way. Now, for the first time, more than 200 of his irresistible recipes for fresh pastas, sprightly salads, grilled dishes, savory ragus, and many others are gathered in Simple Italian Food, a celebration of the flavors and spirit of Italy. Mario draws inspiration for his distinctive dishes from the two "villages" that have left their stamps on his cuisine: Borgo Capanne, the tiny hillside village in Northern Italy where he lived and cooked for several years, and New York's Greenwich Village, where he has ready access to bountiful produce and outstanding artisan-made products; his full-flavored, smartly presented fare combines the best of both world...
Whole Foods Market Cookbook: The Ultimate Guide to Natural Foods with 350 Recipes by Steve Petusevsky, ISBN 0609806440 : Who else but Whole Foods Market could create a cookbook so fresh, so appealing, so full of valuable information, and so perfect for the way we are all cooking and eating today? Bursting with winning recipes, healthful cooking advice, cheerful guidance through the new language of natural foods, wine and cheese information, and a comprehensive glossary, this is a "thank goodness it's here" kind of cookbook. The world's largest natural and organic supermarket has created 350 contemporary recipes that are destined to become new classics. Whole Foods Market presents the most popular dishes from their prepared foods section, combined with brand-new recipes that showcase the wide variety of delicious ingredients available today. Far from "crunchy granola" fare, sophisticated recipes include Shrimp and Scallop Chalupas, Hazelnut Crusted Pork Loin, Thai-Style Green Curry Chicken, Griddled Sesame and Garlic Tofu with Wilted Bok Choy, Honey Jalapeno Barbecue Sauce, and Maple Butterscotch Macadamia Blondies. From meat and fish to tofu and vegetables, kid-friendly dishes to one-pot meals, the choices a...
Kites: Magic Wishes That Fly Up to the Sky by Demi, ISBN 0375810080 : Everyone loves to fly kites, but few people know their special history. Demi's beautifully illustrated book blends storytelling with fact to reveal the time-honored traditions behind kite flying and kite festivals in China. With illustrated directions for making and decorating magic kites, readers of all ages can soon be flying their own wishes up to the sky. A Note to Parents and Teachers The fun continues after the story is finished! As part of the Dragonfly Difference, we've included two pages of activities inspired by this story. We hope you'll enjoy them with a child after reading this Dragonfly Book. Dragonfly's Make-a-Wish Each of the kite symbols in this book represents a different kind of wish. What special fortune do you think these Chinese symbols might bring? 1. bear 2. plum 3. dog 4. watermelon seeds 5. oyster 6. rose Compare your answers with the Chinese meanings listed below. Do you have a wish for your family, your teacher, your friend, or yourself? On a separate piece of paper, draw a picture of the kite you would fly to make this wish come true. Finding Fortune You'll find ...
Star Wars Episode I the Phantom Menace Illustrated Screenplay by George Lucas, ISBN 0345431103 : For the first time in more than a decade, movie fans can revel in the complete illustrated screenplay from a brand new STAR WARS film: Episode I--the long-awaited story that begins the epic saga. Revisit your favorite characters . . . encounter new heroes and villains . . . journey back to familiar places . . . and enter strange, exciting new worlds . . . From the page to screen, this beautiful volume unveils the origins of the world's greatest space epic--starring young Anakin Skywalker, the Jedi Knight Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi, the plucky droid R2-D2, the ever-efficient C-3PO, and all of their daring and exotic allies as they face the growing threat ignited by political intrigue and the decay of the Galactic Republic. As a bonus, this special volume is lavishly illustrated with pages of original line-art storyboards pulled from the legendary Lucasfilm archives. These sequential drawings whisk you through the wondrous events of the movie itself, transporting you behind the scenes and revealing a vital part of the creative process--one in which filmmaker George Luca...
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