02.01.07
Cozy Up With A New Cookbook
Warm up this winter with a kitchen retreat and cook up something delicious. Planning an elegant seven course meal? A themed get-together or a cocktail party? The library is excited to offer a fabulous collection of nearly a thousand culinary books. Try these new choices to get started.
Twelve: A Tuscan Cookbook / Tessa Kiros
Call number: TX 732.2 .T86 K59 2006
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is exquisitely photographed book, Tessa Kiros uses each month of the year as a device to explore and record recipes in seasonal cooking with fine ingredients. Her personal observations throughout reveal the nuances of the Italian meal.”The Store Cupboard” has tips on filling the pantry with the right ingredients. The “Basics” section provides preparation instructions and recipes that Tuscan home cooks learned from their parents and grandparents. Substitutions for harder-to-find ingredients are offered along with encouraging tips on improvising to suit any taste. Wine notes and a glossary round out the book. Read the rest of this entry »
Working the plate : the art of food presentation / Christopher Styler
Call Number: TX652 .S826 2006
Long a
waited by professional chefs, this groundbreaking guide to food presentation will also delight and inspire culinary students and sophisticated home cooks. Acclaimed food writer and culinary producer Christopher Styler describes seven distinctive plating styles, from Minimalist to Naturalist to Dramatic, with several striking examples of every genre. Each plating suggestion is accompanied by clear instructions along with color photos of step-by-step techniques and finished plates. Complete with essays on plating from ten leading chefs and recipes for the dishes featured, this book is a work of art in itself–a must for the kitchen shelf. (From http://www.wiley.com)
Soul of a New Cuisine : A Discovery of the Foods and Flavors of Africa / Marcus Samuelsson
Call Number: TX725 .A4S26 2006
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arcus Samuelsson’s latest book, The Soul of A New Cuisine: A Discovery of the Foods and Flavors of Africa, is a personal reflection of his reconnecting with the land of his birth—it focuses on the rarely highlighted cuisine of the African continent. Born in Ethiopia and raised in Sweden by adoptive parents, the chef/co-owner of in New York City bridges cultures through his cooking. His book features more than 200 recipes peppered with stunning photographs capturing everyday life. Read the rest of this entry »
Arabesque : a taste of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon / Claudia Roden
Call Number: TX725 .A7R63 2006
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oden, a leading authority on Middle Eastern and North African food and the James Beard Award–winning author of The Book of Jewish Food, provides a thoroughly enjoyable and fascinating look at the cuisines of Morocco, Turkey and Lebanon. Including bits of history, stories and more that 150 recipes, Roden reworks the classics, making them easier and more flavorful for today’s home cook. By organizing the book by country, she makes it easy to plan meals from the same country or combine various recipes from each. In each recipe, flavors are exquisitely balanced, as in Moroccan Chickpea and Lentil Soup; Tagine of Chicken with Preserved Lemons and Olives; Turkish Lamb Stew with Eggplant Sauce and Roasted Quinces; or Squabs Stuffed with Date and Almond Paste. Read the rest of this entry »
Reid Duffy’s guide to Indiana’s favorite restaurants : with a recipe sampler / Reid Duffy
Call number: TX907.3.I35 D84 2006
The new a
nd expanded guide to Indiana’s favorite restaurants from a beloved reviewer noted TV personality and columnist Reid Duffy showcases 30 Indiana restaurants that have stood the test of time in this updated and expanded edition of Indiana’s Favorite Restaurants. These showcased restaurants have been in existence for 25 years or more, and in some cases for several generations. Recipes for favorite dishes from these restaurants are included so that you can recreate the foods you love at home. Approximately 60 recipes from Acapulco Joe’s Taco Filling to accompany Duffy’s reviews. Read the rest of this entry »
Modern garde manger : a global perspective / Robert Garlough
Call Number: TX820 .G37 2006
The Mod
ern Garde Manger is designed to meet the educational needs of novice culinary students and experienced chefs. Its carefully researched information and fully tested recipes span the broad international spectrum of the modern garde manger station. Five distinct sections covering seventeen chapters of text and recipes focus on the different aspects of the chef s required knowledge and responsibilities. Read the rest of this entry »
Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones / Anthony Bourdain
Call number: TX652 B67 2006
The good, the bad, and the ugly, served up Bourdain-style. Bestsel
ling chef and No Reservations host Anthony Bourdain has never been one to pull punches. In The Nasty Bits, he serves up a well-seasoned hellbroth of candid, often outrageous stories from his worldwide misadventures. Whether scrounging for eel in the backstreets of Hanoi, revealing what you didn’t want to know about the more unglamorous aspects of making television, calling for the head of raw food activist Woody Harrelson, or confessing to lobster-killing guilt, Bourdain is as entertaining as ever. Read the rest of this entry »
Cooking Book: Fostering Young Children’s Learning and Delight / Laura Colker
Call number: TX 661 .C65 2005
From
popping popcorn to baking bread, cooking can be as valuable to your early childhood program as books, blocks, and paint. Even better, kids love to cook! For beginners and gourmets alike, The Cooking Book is a user-friendly guide to creating tasty, wholesome cooking projects with young children. Five introductory chapters explain how to make cooking an important part of your program, as well as how engaging children in food preparation can promote further learning in science, math, literacy, social competence, and other curriculum areas. (By the publisher Redleaf Press)
Plum Lovin’ / Janet Evanovich
Call number: FIC EVA
Watch
your back…Look both ways… Because love is in the air… And that means big trouble! Mysterious men have a way of showing up in Stephanie Plum’s apartment. When the shadowy Diesel appears, he has a task for Stephanie — and he’s not taking no for an answer. Annie Hart is a “relationship expert” who is wanted for armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. Stephanie needs to find her, fast. Diesel knows where she is. So they make a deal: He’ll help her get Annie if Stephanie plays matchmaker to several of Annie’s most difficult clients. But someone wants to find Annie even more than Diesel and Stephanie. Read the rest of this entry »
Motive from the Deed : Blue Satan Mystery Series 3 / Patricia Wynn
Call number: FIC WYN
In the third adventure of the Blue Satan Mystery series, Mrs. Kean and the earl-turned-highwayman Blue Satan solve a murder against a backdrop of espionage and treason. In the fall of 1715, supporters of the Pretender James Stuart launch a revolution that threatens to overthrow George I. As a result, all Roman Catholics have been banished from the city of London and freedom of speech is greatly restricted. Accused of printing seditious pamphlets, Mrs. Kean’s brother Jeremy has been sent to Newgate prison, where he soon finds himself charged with murder. Steadfastly maintaining his innocence, Jeremy turns to the duo to help save his life. However, Mrs. Kean and Blue Satan can only uncover the motive that reveals the killer by first understanding the murderous deed. (from http://www.gazellebookservices.co.uk)
Hide/ Lisa Gardner
Call number: FIC GAR
Yo
u have good reason to be afraid. . . .
It was a case that haunts Bobby Dodge to this day—the case that nearly killed him and changed his life forever. Now, in an underground chamber on the grounds of an abandoned Massachusetts mental hospital, the gruesome discovery of six mummified corpses resurrects his worst nightmare: the return of a killer he thought dead and buried. There’s no place to run. . . . Bobby’s only lead is wrapped around a dead woman’s neck. Annabelle Granger has been in hiding for as long as she can remember. Her childhood was a blur of new cities and assumed identities. Read the rest of this entry »
False Mirror / Charles Todd
Call number: FIC TOD
Hampton Regis, a small harbor town on the southern coast of England, is a most unl
ikely place for violence. Yet, one spring morning, a man is found on the strand so severely beaten that he slips in and out of consciousness. The prime suspect? His wife’s jilted lover, who served with Rutledge in the recently ended Great War—but who left the Front under a cloud. Badly wounded, yes, but did someone also cover up cowardice? Read the rest of this entry »
Alexandria Link: A Novel / Steve Berry
Call number: FIC BER
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n Malone retired from the high-risk world of elite operatives for the U.S. State Department to lead the low-key life of a rare-book dealer. But his quiet existence is shattered when he receives an anonymous e-mail: “You have something I want. You’re the only person on earth who knows where to find it. Go get it. You have 72 hours. If I don’t hear from you, you will be childless.” His horrified ex-wife confirms that the threat is real: Their teenage son has been kidnapped. When Malone’s Copenhagen bookshop is burned to the ground, it becomes brutally clear that those responsible will stop at nothing to get what they want. And what they want is nothing less than the lost Library of Alexandria. Read the rest of this entry »
Deep Storm: A Novel / Lincoln Child
Call number: FIC CHI
Twelve-thousand feet beneath the Atlantic Ocean . . .
scient
ists are excavating the most extraordinary undersea discovery ever made. But is it the greatest archaeological find in history-or the most terrifying? Former naval doctor Peter Crane is urgently summoned to a remote oil platform in the north Atlantic, to help diagnose a bizarre medical condition spreading through the rig. But when he arrives, Crane learns that the real trouble lies far below-on “Deep Storm,” a stunningly advanced science research facility built two miles beneath the surface on the ocean floor. The top-secret structure has been designed for one purpose: to excavate a recently discovered undersea site that may hold the answers to a mystery steeped in centuries of myth and speculation. Read the rest of this entry »
Sales Essential Series with Fern Bratten 3 DVDs
Tracking numbers: 230B, 231B, 232B
Fern Br
atten knows a lot about sales – she has been in the sales business for many years. Now she has put her experience as a motivational speaker, salesperson, and stand-up comedienne into the training program, Selling With Passion. Fern tells the hysterical story of how she got her start as a sales professional. Throughout her presentation, you will learn how to bring creativity, enthusiasm and passion to the job of selling. Selling with Passion will motivate your sales people – and more importantly, it will give salespeople a solid foundation to succeed.
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The Image of the Black in Western Art
ARTstor is pleased to announce that more than 7,000 images from the Image of the Black archive are now available to ARTstor users. Another 1,500 will be released shortly, and further releases are planned for 2007. These images span the history of western civilization from prehistory to the present.
ARTstor Sponsored Campaign: Canyonlights World Art Image
Approximately 600 images from an ARTstor sponsored photographic campaign for Canyonlights are now available to ARTstor users. Sites richly documented in this campaign include Chaco Canyon, the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument, the Petroglyph National Monument, Salinas National Monument, and the Three Rivers Petroglyph Site. Read the rest of this entry »
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ARTstor Upcoming Collections
Peabody Museum, Harvard: Early Archaeological Excavations in Central America
The renowned photographic archives of the Carnegie Institution of Washington (CIW), held by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, documents early archaeological excavations throughout Central America. ARTstor will distribute approximately 55,000 digital images from this archive, in addition to approximately 90,000 digital images of the Peabody Museum’s remarkable collections of archaeological artifacts and art objects. Read the rest of this entry »
