Kitchen Secrets: The Meaning of Cooking in Everyday Life

This book explores the thoughts, values and opinions of home cooks, their practices and experiences, and the skills and knowledge they use to prepare and provide food. It provides new and challenging ways of thinking about cooking, examining and often contesting commonly-held beliefs and theories about the role of practical cookery lessons, dinner parties as showcases for culinary flair and the negative effect of convenience foods on home cooking and kitchen skills.

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Self-Defense Techniques

Favoring an emphasis on real-life situations over the dramatic kicks and throws of a formal competition, Brazilian jiu-jitsu has quickly become recognized as one of the most effective self-defense techniques for non athletes. This guide provides lessons that anyone, regardless of strength or size, can use to neutralize an attacker in seconds. Offering a variety of defenses against knife and gun attacks, as well as escapes from headlocks, choke holds, and other situations, this volume is the next best thing to taking the classes popular with the military, police academies, and women’s self-defense schools.

Kneadlessly Simple: Fabulous, Fuss-Free, No-Knead Breads

As a new cook, this technique makes bread making easy. I always watched my mom make bread, and I thought it was too complicated. Now with Nancy Baggett's updated technique it's easy to make bread! I love the way that you can make the dough and adjust the rising time to fit your schedule. This way you can make the dough the night before, let it rise, complete a few more steps, and you have freshly made bread! The directions are easy simple and easy to follow. I can't wait to gather more ingredients so that I can make some more bread! Enjoy!

Am I Boring My Dog: And 99 Other Things Every Dog Wishes You Knew

A delightfully witty guide to keeping much-loved dogs not just fed and groomed, but happy to be with you. And vice versa.
Geared to the millions who want to be socially responsible but also indulgent, who want to be informed about the latest ideas inc are and training, and, above all, who worry about their relationships with their dogs, this poignant, irreverent guide is doggone funny. Written by a first-time dog owner who's been there, worried about that, this comprehensive but accessible book articulates the questions that many people have about all things canine-related but are afraid to ask, all with a reassuring, amusing tone.

1001 Designs for Whittling and Woodcarving With Over 1800 Illustrations

Over 1,000 design ideas for carving Christmas tree ornaments, cookie molds, toys, weathervanes, cigar-store Indians, sundials, caricatures, and many other projects. 1,821 illustrations.