Cooking: Cookbooks

Reveals simple, practical, and sometimes even money-saving solutions for choosing and preparing food in planet-pleasing ways. It has never been easier to create everyday meals that maximize flavor while minimizing your environmental impact.

Planck showcases traditional, real foods-produce, dairy, meat, fish, eggs-through tempting and straightforward recipes for the beginner or regular home cook. Learn how Nina stocks her pantry and where she buys real food.

Leftovers are overrated! Avoid having too much food at dinner with these simple two-serving meals. With 70 brand-new recipes, Julie encourages beginner and seasoned cooks alike to cook at home, even when time is tight and everyone is tired.

Pasta? Pancakes? Pizza? It's time to say "hello" to forbidden foods and "see you later" to fad diets! Cooking Light proves that, with the right tools, delicious and healthy can happily coexist in any lifestyle. More than 250 road-tested recipes, tips and solutions has done all of the thinking for you. Each section dishes up brand-new secrets to living a healthier life.

Following the natural cycle of a year at the market, with chapters organized by season, the book offers easy, delicious restaurant recipes from the top chefs who frequent the stands for ingredients and inspiration.

Offers over 300 brightly flavored recipes that will inspire beginning and experienced cooks, southern or otherwise, to take advantage of seasonal delights. Castle has organized the cookbook alphabetically by type of vegetable or fruit, building on the premise that when cooking with fresh produce, the ingredient, not the recipe, is the wiser starting point. While some dishes are inspired by traditional southern recipes, many reveal the goodness of gardens in new, contemporary ways. Peppered with tips, hints, and great stories, these pages make for good food and a good read.

The fourth book in the successful African-American Heritage series of cookbooks combines more than 230 recipes for traditional Southern dishes with nostalgia, significant historical photos, and the personal memories of members of the Atlanta University Center.

Losing weight and being healthy is often on our minds, but not everyone has the time to spend several hours a week at the gym. The beauty of dieting and cleansing with juices and smoothies is that you can take them anywhere, and they only take minutes to prepare. Juicing can be done from one to three days to cleanse the body of unwanted toxins and lose weight, while smoothies provide a longer-term meal-replacement strategy that keeps you feeling full and Juicing & Smoothies For Dummies brings you up to speed on everything you need to start incorporating this healthy lifestyle option right away.

A spirited, reliable, nondogmatic primer with more than 130 recipes for the ever-growing number of people who are eating and cooking semi-vegetarian fare. Offers everything from Chunky Lentil Soup with Parmesan to Peach Scone Cake--all served with an abundance of practical information and advice.

This book is a separate and original collection of over 300 different recipes for easy to prepare dishes emphasizing fresh ingredients, wonderful flavors and simplicity of style. These well-tested recipes are arranged alphabetically by vegetable type, giving gardening cooks quick access to great ideas for sharing the harvest with family and friends.

Focuses on the time-tested Mediterranean diet--recommended for great taste, good health, and long life--and on learning simple, delicious cooking methods that foster a happy and healthy relationship with good food.The growing section provides all the information necessary for those interested in organic gardening. The cooking section assumes little prior cooking knowledge or experience.

Food lovers and health-conscious home chefs alike learn how to integrate whole grains into their busy lives, from quick-cooking quinoa and buckwheat to the slower varieties such as spelt and Kamut. The stunning flavors and lively textures of whole grains are enhanced with natural ingredients such as butter, cream, and prosciutto--in moderation--to create lush Mediterranean-inspired recipes.

It is a lively guide to healthy cooking, day-by-day, packed with essential information and, above all, filled with enticing food. The recipes are eclectic, drawing from the healthy and delicious cooking of the Middle East, the Mediterranean, and Asia, among other cuisines.

Features 75 recipes and products grown in South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Kentucky, and Tennessee, but many of the same foods can be purchased locally in most areas of the country.

A comprehensive guide to using unadulterated, healthful foods, whether foraged, free-ranging, or fresh from the farmer's market. 1,200 recipes and a wealth of detailed cooking information.