Book Reviews
Plenty: Eating Locally on the 100-Mile Diet
Are you trully interested in where your food comes from? Have you heard of the 100 mile diet? Well this book is an interesting view on buying food locally. When Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon learned that the average ingredient in a North American meal travels 1,500 miles from farm to plate, they decided to launch a simple experiment to reconnect with the people and places that produced what they ate. For one year, they would only consume food that came from within a 100-mile radius of their Vancouver apartment. The 100-Mile Diet was born.
500 Paleo Recipes
Dana has done it again. If you loved her series of low-carb cookbooks you will find her approach to The Paleo diet—known in some circles as the “Caveman Diet”— just as creative as her other recipie books. What I appreciate about Dana's cookbooks is her recipies are always consitently fabulous. Her comments about each recipie help you decide which recipie to choose and there are no surprises. Each recipie is a hit with the family or comapny. Low-carb queen and bestselling author Dana Carpender shows how to stay the Paleo diet course deliciously with 500 easy-to-prepare recipes for everything Paleo from appetizers, to main dishes, to desserts. Dana's cookbooks have been my 'go-to' cookbooks over many years. 500 Plaeo Recipes is Dana latest cookbook is no exception. Dana has a number of simply sumptuous lamb recipes.
Weber's Way To Grill
The Weber name has been the the trusted king of Barbeque for more than 30 years years. This is a great book for the visual learner. If you want to learn the right way to grill this book has many how-to photographs, explanatory captions and detailed recipes.
Weber's Way to Grill embraces a variety of methods and ones that work will and provide success. The emphasis here is on paying close attention. Its about learning how and why certain ways to grill work well, so that you can move beyond the limits of winging it. Great taste lies in the details. Just pay attention and enjoy a new level of grilling success.
How To Grill
Another great visual grilling book for all - from beginner to professional. Steven Raichlen uses more than 1,000 full-color, step-by-step photographs to guide anyone passionate about grilling. How to Grill covers it all, from how to build an ingenious three-zone fire to the secrets of grilling a porterhouse, prime rib, fish steak, kebab, or chicken breast. Plus the perfect burger. Includes 100 recipes - one to illustrate each technique - with memorably delicious results!
Great Meat CookBook
Bruce Aidells's The Great Meat Cookbook is the definitive guide to the diverse supply of meats available to the modern cook. Today’s shopper has a choice of not only of beef, pork, lamb, and veal, but also of bison, venison, and goat.
In sidebars illustrated with color photographs of each cut, Aidells shows how to pick the best steaks, chop, roasts, and ribs. With hundreds of recipes, including "Great Meat Dishes of the World" like Beef Fillet stuffed with Parmesan and Proscuitto; budget-friendly dishes like Melt-in-Your-Mouth Pork Shoulder; speedy dinners like Mushroom-Stuffed T Bone Lamb Chops, and charcuterie and sausage selections, Aidell s provides all the information needed for juicy results every time.