Chilies are used the world over to add flavour and interest to even the simplest of dishes. In this vibrant and exciting cookbook you will find both the subtly spiced and the red hot; both summer coolers and winter warmers - there's something for every occasion and any time of the year. As well as more than 140 sizzling recipes designed to titillate your palate, there is an extensive illustrated guide to the many types of chilies and chili products, and tips for storing and preparing fresh and dried chilies.
Soup Through the Ages: A Culinary History with Period Recipes
As cooking advanced from simply placing wild grains, seeds, or meat in or near a fire to following some vague notion of food as a pleasing experience, soup--the world's first prepared dish--became the unpretentious comfort food for all of civilization. This book provides a comprehensive and worldwide culinary history of soup from ancient times. Appendices detail vegetables and herbs used in centuries-old soup traditions and offer dozens of recipes from the medieval era through World War II.
Simple Knits with a Twist: Unique Projects for Creative Knitters
Millions of thoroughly modern knitters, including a growing number under the age of thirty-five, will applaud the fresh interpretations featured in Simple Knits with a Twist, Erika Knight's latest collection of creative designs. By matching classic stitches with other craft techniques and incorporating innovative materials like fine wire, beads, and recycled plastic with conventional yarns, Knight takes knitting beyond its traditional boundaries into new, inspired realms. Easy yet inventive, her projects bring a hip, artsy edge to items once deemed homespun.
Welcome to endless wardrobe options that adapt to Baby's needs! Each of the four sets by Carol Holding includes a blanket, cardigan, and booties, but you also get to choose from a hat or cap, and a one-piece romper or pants with a top. Now you have lots of options for dressing your little angel! 34 designs (hats, caps, sweaters, pants, rompers, booties, blankets, and tops) in 4 ensembles: Darlin Duds, Tiny Togs, Just So Adorable, and Too Cute.
Shibori Knits highlights the intersection between shibori and knitting, offering 20 patterns that utilize this transformative technique. Internationally acclaimed knitwear designer Gina Wilde guides knitters through three dynamic ways to add shibori to knitting. The first method uses physical resists (marbles or corks) that prevent specific areas of knitting from felting; where there are no resists, the garment does felt, creating unique fabric with bobbles and dimensionality. Another method uses nonfelting fibers as resists—for instance, a silk yarn knit with a wool yarn—to create windowpane effects or even mimic woven strips of fabric when felted.
