Reflecting Nature: Garden Designs for Wild Landscapes
The current horticultural trend of "naturalistic gardening" involves mimicking natural and wild areas and paying more attention to native plants. Two new books, offering two different approaches, explore this technique. In Reflecting Nature, the Malitzes (father and son) describe natural areas and discuss how these landscapes can be duplicated in the home garden.
Annals of the Caliphs' Kitchens: Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq's Tenth-century Baghdadi Cookbook
This English translation of al-Warraqs tenth-century cookbook offers a unique glimpse into the culinary culture of medieval Islam. Hundreds of recipes, anecdotes, and poems, with an extensive Introduction, a Glossary, an Appendix and color illustration. Informative and entertaining to scholars and general readers. On Oct. 14th 2008, Annals of the Caliphs' Kitchens was selected as one of the Top 100 winners of The Best of the Best Gourmand Awards of the Past 12 Years.
In the ninth installment of the wildly popular Ultimate series, cookbook authors Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough churn out more than 500 recipes and variations for all kinds of frosty treats, including a wide range of gelato, granita, sherbet, and semifreddo. And there's a whole chapter on cakes, pies, and other treats made with ice cream or gelato, whether home-made or store-bought! Bruce and Mark prove that when it comes to frozen desserts, ice cream is only the tip of the iceberg!
Features recipes for all meals that can be adapted to eliminate gluten, eggs, nuts, and dairy, along with advice on how to adapt other classic recipes to avoid harmful ingredients while providing a balanced diet for the entire family
Thomas Keller, chef/proprietor of the French Laundry--the most exciting place to eat in the United States, writes Ruth Reichl in the New York Times--is a wizard, a purist, a man obsessed with getting it right. His flavors have clarity and intensity. His methods dazzle. Every mouthful is an explosion of taste. This cookbook, Keller's first, is as satisfying as a French Laundry meal, a series of small, highly refined, intensely focused courses. 150 recipes an more than 200 photographs
