Sparks in the Kitchen Review

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(More customer reviews)Take a talented chef, have her apply professional techniques to home cooking pursuits, and then publish a cookbook of the results and you have a vivid presentation of fresh flavors, new recipes, and explanations of what enhances traditional methods in SPARKS IN THE KITCHEN. Katy Sparks' restaurant is a very popular New York City venue: now her taste for innovation and drama is accessible to home cooks in such dishes as Soft-Shell Crab Tempura with Crushed Blackberry and Horseradish Relish, or Roasted Cauliflower Gratin. A peppering of color photos adds interest but the 'meat' is in the recipes themselves. A top pick for cooks seeking innovations and pizzazz.
Diane C. Donovan, Editor
California Bookwatch


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From Marjorie's Kitchen: Southern & Mountain Recipes Review

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(More customer reviews)I loved it, great book and tons of information. Well written and worth the cost. Highly recommnded!!!!!!!!

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Author Gregory Branson-Trent's latest release takes on the world of cooking in the form of a cookbook. With a wide range of recipes contained within 174 pages in eBook format, From Marjorie's Kitchen: Southern & Mountain Recipes, presents an indispensable guide to history of Southern and Mountain dishes. Southern and Mountain recipes hold an original flavor all their own. Often thought of as guilty pleasures, these foods are very down to earth and original. In this book, you will find the best of these recipes.Among the recipes included are:Moonshine, Pot Roast, Meatloaf, Country Biscuits, Cabbage Rolls, Peanut Butter Balls, Heavenly Hash, Bourbon Balls, Rum Balls, 7-Up Cake, Dump Cake, Strawberry Soda pop Cake, Oatmeal Cookies, Chicken & Dumplings, Baked Beans, Hash Browns, Corn Bread, Peanut Butter Cake, Crunchy Ice Cream Squares, Chicken Tempora, Lasagna, Red Velvet Cake, Potato Salad, Cole Slaw, Peanut Brittle, Potato Pinwheel Candy, Chow Chow, Pickled Eggs, Fruit Cobbler, Pound Cake, Chocolate Velvet Cake, Old Fashioned Stack Cake, Meat Balls, Macaroni Salad, Rice Pudding, Zucchini Bread, Peanut Butter Fudge, Fruit Cocktail Cake, Dirt Cake, No Bake Cookies, Grandma's Sugar Cookies, Pumpkin Bread, Pumpkin Cheesecake, Chocolate Vanilla Swirl Cheesecake, Pumpkin Pie, Oatmeal Carmelites, Deviled Eggs, Hog Jowls & Turnip Greens, Chocolate Pie, Coconut Custard Pie, Crab Dip, Hot Pepper Cheese Balls, Egg Nog, Wassail, Thanksgiving Yams & Topping, Pecan Pie, Doughnuts, Parker House Rolls, Sausage Rolls, Chicken Wings, Funnel Cake, Peach Pie, Hershey Bar Pie, Potato Soup, Five Bean Salad, Homemade Pizza, And Many, Many More...

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Ken Hom's Chinese Kitchen: With a Consumer's Guide to Essential Ingredients Review

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(More customer reviews)Unlike the reviewer that hated this book, I found Ken Hom's guide to Chinese ingredients extremely helpful in navigating the unfamiliar world of Chinese cooking. Mr. Hom lists all of the essential ingredients, and tips on what brands to buy. If you want to step away from the gooey Sweet-n-Sour glop of Americanized Chinese cuisine and into the THE REAL THING, buy this book.
It appears the book was first published in the UK, where Mr. Hom has a BBC TV cooking show, and some of the ingredients are listed in metric with English names for ingredients (i.e., corn flour instead of corn starch).

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Pancakes & Toppings (Better Homes and Gardens Test Kitchen) Review

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(More customer reviews)Wow! I didn't realize there were so many types of pancakes! This book has recipes ranging from your ordinary buttermilk pancakes, whole wheat pancakes, and oatmeal pancakes to more exotic sweet potato pancakes and gingerbread pancakes. Best of all, they are all delicious. There are also pancakes from around the world- several variety of crepes, aebleskiver, dutch babies as well as flavored syrups that are quick and easy to make.

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Featuring recipes for pancakes from all over the world, including American buttermilk, Hungarian palacsinta, French crepes, and Russian blinis, this book provides a delicious way to have pancakes at every meal. Each recipe includes nutrition facts and all recipes have been tested in the Better Homes and Gardens Test Kitchens to guarantee success. 20 color photos. 20 illustrations.

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How to cook with your mate--and I don't mean in the kitchen: Recipes for romancing Review

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(More customer reviews)What a fun book with lots of great ideas! It's great for married or dating couples and offers great suggestions - simple and more elaborate - to keep the romance alive. Nothing raunchy, just creative ways to keep the fires burning in a relationship. Must read for married couples wanting to stay in touch and in love! Would be great for guys to read who need help in the romance department.

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Catchy title, but what's it about?It's easier to describe what this book is by explaining what it isn't!It is not a cookbook- although some wonderful food recipes have been included at the end of the book...it is not a sex manual- although sensuality is an underlying theme...nor is it a guide for catching the man or woman of your dreams, although if you adopt the romantic mindset Ms. Kryza encourages, you probably will...even if you've been married to him or her for thirty years!

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Fit to Cook : Why "Waist" Time in the Kitchen? Review

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(More customer reviews)Denise Hamilton and Chantal Jakel collaborate with television's "Everyday Workout" series star Cynthia Kereluk to present Fit To Cook, a combination cookbook and fitness program. Fit To Cook offers easy, ready to serve in 6 to 60 minute recipes, four weeks of low-fat menus, pantry and shopping lists; a "Game Plan Guide", and a practical and effective Fitness Program. From Multi-Grain Soda Bread, Orange-Cinnamon Coffee, and Vanilla Fruit Salad, to Fit to Eat Grilled Cheese Sandwich, Capelli Medley with Roasted Tomatoes, and Salmon in a Nest, Fit To Cook offers delicious, nutrition eating that will please any palate, plus exercises that will guarantee the food you eat turns into muscle and energy, instead of fat and cellulose. Highly recommended for the health conscious family cook!

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Fit to Cook--Why "Waist" Time in the Kitchen? is not just another cookbook. It is a healthy lifestyle plan that follows the U.S. and Canadian Food Guides for healthy eating AND it is the only cookbook that contains a basic fitness plan by television's internationally syndicated Cynthia Kereluk, host of "Everyday Workout."Fit to Cook is a plan to ease your cooking chores--even the shopping lists are included. The recipes are low in fat, easy to prepare, use real food and best of all are delicious! This book simplifies your search for balanced nutrition, and it shows you how to easily improve your health and lifestyle.

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Kitchen Coach: Weeknight Cooking Review

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(More customer reviews)Wow - what a little dynamo. Just got home last night from a cooking class featuring Jennifer Bushman and this book. It was fantastic! And, from such a tiny little woman ... I had never heard of Ms. Bushman as her show has not yet made it to Texas, but signed up for her class because it sounded like it would be fun. It was one of the best I've been to lately (and I go to a lot of cooking classes). She made (and we ate) the Chicken, Avocado, Bacon, Spinach & Tomato Club Wrap w/ Pumpkin Fries; Gorgonzola, Escarole, Garlic & Roasted Pepper Pizza; Chicken Nicoise Salad w/ Walnuts & Blue Cheese Vinaigrette; Fresh Crab Tacos; Rotelli w/ Roasted Asparagus, Mushrooms & Shaved Parmesan and Peanut Butter and Jelly Muffins. I'm still full. I wanted to devour every word of her book when I got home last night, but had to turn in as work beckoned today. I am ready to curl up with it this evening! Ms. Bushman was such an inspiration - made me want to cook great meals every single night of the week and made it seem entirely possible. FYI ... she told us she's scheduled to be on the Today Show October 10. I can't wait to start cooking from this book - and I can't wait for the next one. Hope she'll return to San Antonio to cook from that one for us!

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The Greek Mama's Kitchen: Authentic Homestyle Recipes Review

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(More customer reviews)Like other companion volumes in the "Mama's Kitchen" series, The Greek Mama's Kitchen: Authentic Homestyle Recipes presents classic family recipes handed down through generations along with anecdotes of matronly cooking wisdom, such as "Kitchen life is controlled by the seasons - create dishes from whatever vegetables are available that day" and "For that sweet, mellow flavor of the best pepper salads, you need to first roast (or scorch) the peppers." Recipes such as Fried Cheese, Roast Quail in Grape Leaves, Vanilla Custard Pies and many more capture the essence of traditional flavors, and are presented with extensive, explicit instructions along with a introduction to the nature of the dish and when is best to serve it. A handful of color photographs round out this value-priced compendium.


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The Greek Mama's Kitchen is a celebration of the fascinating and diverse culinary traditions from different Greek communities as continued by families today. Focusing on the mother of the household, we catch a glimpse of how the old and new worlds meet and marry. Rosemary Barron shares her favorite everyday recipes and those popular for special occasions as they have been passed down through the generations. She records the cooking skills she learned from her mother and grandmother, and divulges family secrets that give certain dishes an extra zest to set them apart.

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Mrs. Restino's Country kitchen: The complete wood stove cookbook Review

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(More customer reviews)I have had a copy of "Mrs. Restino's Country Kitchen" since it was published in 1976. Its cover is now tattered and creased, quite a few of the pages are stuck together with unidentifiable food particles, and not long ago I finally had to repair the collapsing spine with tape -- that's how much I've used this book in the last 24 years. Ironically, I was never a back-to-nature person, a vegetarian, or a hippie -- I simply appreciated this book for its intelligent, clear-eyed approach to food and cooking. Over the years I grew to depend on it whenever I needed an idea for preparing an unfamiliar vegetable, or if I happened to have odds and ends lying around and didn't quite know what to do with them. Recently I've been using it more than ever, since my significant other is a botanist and a fine gardener, and I've discovered a little of the excitement of growing fresh vegetables, albeit in a tiny urban garden. In short, I would recommend this book to anybody, rural or urban, carnivore or vegetarian, hippie or yuppie -- Restino's writing style is straightforward, unsentimental, charming, full of character, and clearly comprehensible. You don't have to cook on a wood stove to be infected by her honesty, her clarity, or her very understandable desire to know for a certainty where one's food comes from. As a footnote -- this book, and the distinct picture it provides of its author, affected me personally, to the point where I have sometimes found myself wondering what might have happened to Susan Restino -- did she survive the turbulent '70s, did she stay in the country, how did her own life turn out. I'm glad to see she is still active, and that this wonderful book seems to be forthcoming in a new edition. It richly deserves a multi-generational following.

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Today's Herbal Kitchen: How to Cook & Design With Herbs Through the Seasons Review

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(More customer reviews)I've been growing my own herbs for a couple of years now, but didn't own a good cookbook on how to use them. "Today's Herbal Kitchen" solved my dilemma. The recipes are categorized by season so I always have the correct herbs to use along with appropriate dishes to serve. I highly recommend it.

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Through the years, herbs have sustained their place in the ever-changing American kitchen. And now more than ever, health-conscious cooks delight in flavoring foods with herbs to replace added fat and sodium. This book enlightens today's cook, explaining herb history, offering craft ideas, and sharing recipes through a seasonal approach.

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The Complete Book of Kitchen Collecting (Schiffer Book for Collectors) Review

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(More customer reviews)If you love potato mashers you will love this book because 40 pages are full of nothing but mashers. That is why I gave it 2 stars.

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In this one volume, Barbara Mauzy covers many categories of non-electrical kitchen collectibles from the 1920s through the 1950s. Over 1100 photographs depict the ingenuity and creativity of the makers of kitchenware during this period. Updated values, guides to the more popular designs and colors, manufacturing information, and general tips on collecting make this the complete guide for anyone interested in the colorful and inventive gadgets, tools, and dinnerware items which can still be found today.

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Feng Shui Your Kitchen Review

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(More customer reviews)This book helped us create (BY OURSELVES) a kitchen space that has rated rave reviews from friends-- and contractors!
It not only uses the principles of Feng Shu in terms of directions and decorative material elements, it also uses your personality to help you assess what will be most comfortable for the family that will use the space!
I am a 'fire', and my husband a 'wood' ... with children in 'earth' and 'wood'; we ALL feel that the kitchen is now the heart and hearth of our lives together.
SO I'm back to get another of Stasney's (SP?) books... because we're now moving on the redoing the living room!!
I'm not kidding... and no one is paying me to say this.
You will love this book!

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Use the principles of feng shui to create a kitchen that reflects your personality, patterns, and relationships. Charts and a questionnaire help you pinpoint your particular "type," and unique feng shui techniques offer area solutions, advice on where to put things, and suggestions for shifting just a few items for a more compatible design. With dozens of magnificent photos!

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Southwest Flavor: Adela Amador's Tales from the Kitchen Review

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(More customer reviews)If you're looking for a New Mexican - Southwestern cookbook that is simple, authentic and downright delicious, then this book is for you. Adela Amador has done a superb job of compiling a collection of unpretentious recipes that are easy to prepare and elegant in their simplicity. She divides the book into seasons and provides wonderful recipes for New Mexican classics such as Green Chile Stew, Fajitas, Sopaipillas and Bizcohitos. In addition she includes some other wonderful recipes such as Cranberry Pecan Pie and Chile Pork Roast. Along with the recipes, she includes an anthology of delightful stories which chronicle her life growing up in New Mexico. It is a cookbook that you will actually want to read from cover to cover - I did. I also plan to buy several copies to give as holiday gifts this year. All I can say is - buy this book, you'll be glad you did!

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This charming spiral-bound cookbook takes its name from Adela Amador's much-loved food column in New Mexico Magazine, "Southwest Flavor." Organized seasonally, it pairs recipes and "slice of life" stories like "It's raining snakes and toads," with a recipe for margarita pie and Adela's anecdote about a summer cloudburst and hundreds of tiny frogs. Then there was the time Adela and her mother were roasting chile and the stove blew up! Adela describes how the reader can roast chile (with no risk to life or limb), and includes both savory and sweet chile recipes. Her childhood recollections take us back to her days growing up in northern New Mexico, with memories of the magical Christmas lights of Madrid, New Mexico (and the tamales that accompanied that holiday), and of being serenaded as a young girl on New Year's Eve, with a recipe for the posole that her family prepared.
Dozens of traditional recipes enhance Adela's "tales," edited by New Mexico Magazine editors Emily Drabanski and Walter K. Lopez. The volume includes a glossary of Spanish food names and terms, and an index.

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Tips & Traps for Remodeling Your Kitchen Review

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(More customer reviews)R. Dodge Woodson's Tips & Traps For Remodeling Your Kitchen covers all the concerns specific to a kitchen remodel, from how to hire pros and negotiate prices to deciding what to do yourself, how to use charts on labor and materials to estimate costs, and how to understand the pros and cons of different designs and materials options.


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This book is a homeowner's ideal companion for any kitchen remodeling project. It's a complete overview that covers planning, estimating costs, choosing materials, hiring contractors and subcontractors, code considerations, HVAC issues, cabinets and counters, and the final punch-list phase, and homeowners get the benefit of the author's 30 years of experience as a construction and remodeling professional. Filled with tips and traps, illustrations, checklists, sample forms and contracts, this book is a roadmap that guides homeowners through the kitchen remodeling process.

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Anne Lindsay's Light Kitchen Review

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(More customer reviews)Lots of recipes that are easy to prepare, low in fat, low in calories & high on flavor. Recipes also include Italian, Thai, Chinese dishes.... Meats, chicken, poultry, lamb & fish as well as vegetables & deserts. Food counts are given for calories, fat, fibre, nutrients, etc. Lots of practical advice re: substitutes, buying ingredients & nutritional guidelines. Simple enough to use every day for weight loss & good health. Tasty enough for the whole family.

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First published in 1991, this new edition of Anne Lindsay's Light Kitchen features fully revised introductory material that can help anyone with a health concern — be it excess weight or high levels of blood glucose, blood pressure or blood fats— make lifestyle changes that will enhance their wellbeing.
Anne Lindsay's Light Kitchen also features:
Glycemic Index (GI) rating for recipes with 10 grams of carbohydrate or more, for easier monitoring of blood glucose levels and weight management
Canadian Diabetes Association Food Choice Values for each recipe
Nutrient analysis for each recipe, showing calories, protein, fats, carbohydrate, fibre, sodium and potassium
Over 200 creative, easy and delicious recipes
Make Ahead instructions for most recipes

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Cooking For My Family: From Catherine Pasculli's Hoboken Kitchen Review

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(More customer reviews)I bought this cookbook about three years ago when I lived in Europe. When I have friends over to eat, they think I got these great recipes from friends in Italy. I have told a few of my friends about this book, and I was sad to see that it is no longer available for purchase. I have purchased several cook books, only to be disappointed. For Italian cooking or to impress guests, this is the one I use the most. The meatballs and marinara sauce can be made to use as a heavy hors d'oeuvre and they always disappear at a party or presented as a meal. I love many of the recipes, so I do not have any one favourite, but the ones I do use the most are the meatballs, chicken nicoletta, chicken cutlets in mushroom suace, and the chicken parmesan. I hope this cook book is available for purchase again soon.

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Dinner was the time we all sat together and enjoyed Mom's cooking, but it was also the place we discussed the day, argued, laughed and basically caught up with each other. One thing Mom and Dad taught us was that no one" ate before the other. We always waited for each other and we all waited for Dad to sit down to start. What I remember the most was how good everything tasted. With a limited amount of money Mom created an abundance of easy, ethnic, earthy and Italian dishes. I have written this book for her and it is my hope that you will enjoy cooking her recipes as much as she loved Cooking For Her Family."

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Out of the Kitchen: Adventures of a Food Writer Review

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(More customer reviews)Storyteller and food fan Jeanette Ferrary's memoir packs in humor and food affection, beginning her story with childhood memories of food and its effects on her life and recounting her journey to adulthood and the travels which brought her in touch with food traditions across the country. Out Of The Kitchen: Adventures Of A Food Writer is a delightful leisure read, charting Jeanette's personal encounters with some of the most famous cooks in the world, and her eventual rise to become a food columnist for the New York Times.


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Jeannette Ferrary, a food writer for The New York Times and author of M.F.K. Fisher and Me, tells the story of her life as it relates to food. This is the journey from a girl's ambivalence about food ("women's work") to a career immersed in cuisine. Here are the changes she went through over feminism, career, food, marriage, divorce, childraising, work, and play. All along the way, food played an important part of her life, as heritage and legacy, as symbol, as nourishment, and as pleasure. The book contains many recipes as well as portraits of many of America's most famous chefs.

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