Everything You Pretend To Know About Food And Are Afraid Someone Will Ask
What is the difference between sauteed, fried, pan-fried, stir-fried, and deep-fried? How can wine have legs? What is dim sum? For those of us who aren't gourmet chefs but still want the know-how to decipher a menu in an upscale restaurant, talk food at a cocktail party, or simply impress family and friends, here is a culinary handbook that takes the mystery out of food.
Love Stitches: For Someone You Love or Someone in Need
"Love Stitches" is a collection of patterns for charity crocheting that will become the charity stitcher's favorite resource. Every possible category is explored, with various chapters categorizing the different charities. Love Stitches for the Displaced has a variety of hat, scarf, and mitten patterns to help keep a homeless person warm in winter weather; also afghans to provide warmth and comfort in time of need, as well as patterns for the ever popular Warm Up America Squares.
Added by: susan6th | Karma: 3133.45 | Fiction literature | 19 February 2010
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Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
Alan is a middle-aged entrepreneur in contemporary Toronto who has devoted himself to fixing up a house in the bohemian neighborhood of Kensington. This naturally brings him in contact with the house full of students and layabouts next door, including a young woman, who, in a moment of stress, reveals to him that she has wings, moreover, that grow back after each attempt to cut them off. Alan understands. He himself has a secret or two. His father is a mountain, his mother is a washing machine, and among his brothers is a set of Russian nesting dolls.
Abby concocts comical and innovative strategies to get glasses. She thinks glasses make her best friend Rosa look beautiful. In the quest to have glasses like Rosa, Abby invents a multitude of ingenious ways to getting the glasses she so dearly desires. What one person might dislike about themselves may be just the thing that someone else would envy. Abby grows in appreciation of her own uniqueness. Reading Level: Grade K-4