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Dessert Designer: Creations You Can Make and Eat

Dessert Designer: Creations You Can Make and Eat

Capstone Young Readers: Grades 3-9. Create desserts that are treats for the eyes! Decorate like a pro with these fun ideas and tips to make amazing creations, such as a lollipop disco ball, nail polish bottle cake pops, alien cookies, and armadillo cupcakes. You may decide 

Slow Dough: Real Bread by Chris Young and the Bakers of the Real Bread Campaign

Slow Dough: Real Bread by Chris Young and the Bakers of the Real Bread Campaign

Blurb: Making bread is an ancient craft and a fulfilling experience, a skill that is learnt by touch and feel. There is nothing more satisfying than kneading, pulling, stretching and punching the dough, using a little yeast and sugar to transform its lumpen beginnings, as 

The Best Homemade Kids Snacks on the Planet by Laura Fuentes

The Best Homemade Kids Snacks on the Planet by Laura Fuentes

Blurb: If you’re a parent or a caregiver, you know that kids are hungry all the time. And while you want to give them the best, snack time can be a true test. How do you avoid the convenient-but-unhealthy storebought treats and instead provide something 

Get Your Bake On: Sweet and Savory Recipes from My Home to Yours by Brian Emmett

Get Your Bake On: Sweet and Savory Recipes from My Home to Yours by Brian Emmett

Blurb: Cook up some delicious, down-home goodness with this cookbook of more than seventy-five sweet and savory recipes from Brian Emmett, grand prize winner of CBS’s The American Baking Competition. In 2013, Brian Emmett burst onto the culinary scene with his charm, confidence, and superior 

Asian Pickles: Japan

Asian Pickles: Japan

Blurb: A DIY guide to making the salty, sweet, tangy, and sometimes spicy pickles of Japan, featuring 16 recipes for traditional tsukemono as well as new favorites with innovative ingredients and techniques. For Asian food aficionados and preservers and picklers looking for new frontiers, the 

For Cod and Country: Simple Delicious Sustainable Cooking by Barton Seaver

For Cod and Country: Simple Delicious Sustainable Cooking by Barton Seaver

Barton Seaver practices what he talks about with fish sustainability and cooking: he’s a National Geographic fellow increasing awareness to ocean issues and is a practicing chef. His dedication to both industries has made For Cod and Country more than a cookbook. It provides tips 

The Meals to Heal Cookbook: 150 Easy Nutritionally Balanced Recipes to Nourish You During Your Fight with Cancer

The Meals to Heal Cookbook: 150 Easy Nutritionally Balanced Recipes to Nourish You During Your Fight with Cancer

Blurb: Nutrition is a vital component of anyone’s fight against cancer, but loss of appetite and side effects of treatment can make even the simple act of eating a challenge.Written to meet the unique needs of cancer patients and caregivers, The Meals to Heal Cookbook 

Panda Inn: Calendar and Cookbook, and Recipe for Firecracker Chicken

Panda Inn: Calendar and Cookbook, and Recipe for Firecracker Chicken

I found this calendar at a used book store, and while it is from 2001 and no longer usable for keeping dates, it does have a classical collection of twelve traditional Chinese recipes. Recipes included: Tangerine Pork Chops; Firecracker Chicken; Braised Beef Short Ribs in 

Protein Ninja: Power Through Your Day with 100 Hearty Plant-Based Recipes that Pack a Protein Punch by Terry Hope Romero

Protein Ninja: Power Through Your Day with 100 Hearty Plant-Based Recipes that Pack a Protein Punch by Terry Hope Romero

Blurb: Whether you’re vegan, vegetarian, or eat-everything-you-can-get-your-hands-on, a weeknight home chef, everyday athlete, or just a busy person looking wholesome, protein-rich snacks and meals, you deserve something better than another chia seed ball or protein shake for dinner. Award-winning vegan chef Terry Hope Romero leads 

Soupelina’s Soup Cleanse: Plant-Based Soups plus Broths to Heal Your Body, Calm Your Mind, and Transform Your Life by Elina Fuhrman

Soupelina’s Soup Cleanse: Plant-Based Soups plus Broths to Heal Your Body, Calm Your Mind, and Transform Your Life by Elina Fuhrman

Soupelina’s Soup Cleanse: Blurb:Move over, juicing and bone broth! Soup cleanses are taking over the spotlight. Unlike sugary smoothies and juices, soups heal digestive issues and provide necessary fiber. Journalist Elina Fuhrman turned to plant-based soups while fighting an aggressive breast cancer, originating the first