Nestled in a charming European-style bistro, on a small street in the world-famous ski resort of Sun Valley, Cristina's Restaurant has been serving up seasonal and delicious fare for over eleven years. Cristina and her staff have been cooking and baking for customers that include locals, celebrities, politicians, CEOs and cosmopolitan travelers. She draws upon her memories and experiences of growing up in rural Tuscany, where her family recipes have been passed down from one generation to the next. Now enthusiastic customers will finally be able to prepare more than 75 favorites such as Hungarian Mushroom Soup, San Francisco Airport Salad, and Artichokes with Tomato & Shallot Topping, or enjoy Bread & Tomatoes, Limoncello, and Bacelli & Pecorino--dishes rich in tradition and fresh in their approach. "Cristina brings her sense of classic Italian cooking and sophistication to bear on all that she touches, and her superb restaurant is a rare treat in these mountains." --Jann Wenner, Editor and Publisher, Rolling Stone
Contains simple recipes representing Tuscan style cooking, taken from the author's Sun Valley, European-style bistro, covering all courses from appetizers through desserts.
Deceptively simple, home-style Italian food from a restaurant the New York Times hailed “a Sun Valley institution.” Celebrated Sun Valley restaurateur Cristina Ceccatelli Cook’s third cookbook―Cristina’s of Sun Valley ConGusto!―bursts with the Tuscan attitude of appreciating the simple, enjoying the beautiful, and living life with passion and joy. Whether you want to prepare an elegant dinner or a simple sandwich, these inspired and approachable recipes will bring Cristina’s signature style into your home and allow you to dish up the tastes that have created her reputation as a buona cuoca (good cook). Illustrated with over 150 beautiful photographs, Cristina’s of Sun Valley Con Gusto! also offers a glimpse of Sun Valley, Idaho, celebrations and Cristina’s flair for presentation that makes them so memorable. Use the recipes in this book to plan your own special events. Start with an antipasti of Marinated Artichoke Hearts, Prosciutto Cones, and Salmon Cakes, accompanied by refreshing Limoncello Spritzers. Linger over Bavettine all Carretierra. Then finish with Cristina’s famous Candied Orange Peels dipped in Chocolate and Granita al Caffè. You won’t be disappointed. Like Cristina’s loyal customers, you will return to Cristina’s of Sun Valley Con Gusto! again and again. Praise for Cristina’s “Cristina’s delightful Italian sensibility is evident in every element of her restaurant and in every bite of her beautifully presented food. Her recipes will fill your kitchen with aromas and flavors to nourish both body and spirit.”—Carole King, singer/songwriter “After traveling all over the world playing concerts, my favorite cook is Cristina and my favorite restaurant in the whole wide world is hers.”―Steve Miller, musician
The New York Times bestselling author and cooking show host shares 150+ delicious and satisfying recipes for bringing people together. Family, friends, cooking, and food are a passion for Cristina Ferrare. And she brings that irrepressible enthusiasm to A Big Bowl of Love, a homey collection of recipes for everyday meals and celebrations. From appetizers and soups to pastas, risottos, and hearty entrees, each dish has been tested, enjoyed, and cherished around Cristina’s table—as well as by viewers of her popular cooking series, Cooking with Cristina, featured on the Oprah Winfrey Network. Beyond the recipes themselves, this busy professional, wife, and mother shows readers how to shop, set up a pantry, and use “cook once, eat twice” recipes to make preparing and enjoying meals easy and fun.
A native of Italy and a splendid cook herself, Mazzoni savors the food writings and images of a broad spectrum of Catholic saints and holy women, including Catherine of Genoa, Angela of Foligno, Gemma Galgani, and the first person in the United States to be canonized, Elisabeth Ann Seton. Continuum Books
Exemplifies the author's passion for food, cooking, and entertaining with more than 150 fabulous recipes, special holiday menus, unique gift ideas, and creative table decorating ideas collected from generations of Italian tradition. Tour.
The New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed memoir from cultural icon and culinary standard bearer Alice Waters recalls the circuitous road and tumultuous times leading to the opening of what is arguably America's most influential restaurant. When Alice Waters opened the doors of her "little French restaurant" in Berkeley, California in 1971 at the age of 27, no one ever anticipated the indelible mark it would leave on the culinary landscape—Alice least of all. Fueled in equal parts by naiveté and a relentless pursuit of beauty and pure flavor, she turned her passion project into an iconic institution that redefined American cuisine for generations of chefs and food lovers. In Coming to My Senses Alice retraces the events that led her to 1517 Shattuck Avenue and the tumultuous times that emboldened her to find her own voice as a cook when the prevailing food culture was embracing convenience and uniformity. Moving from a repressive suburban upbringing to Berkeley in 1964 at the height of the Free Speech Movement and campus unrest, she was drawn into a bohemian circle of charismatic figures whose views on design, politics, film, and food would ultimately inform the unique culture on which Chez Panisse was founded. Dotted with stories, recipes, photographs, and letters, Coming to My Senses is at once deeply personal and modestly understated, a quietly revealing look at one woman's evolution from a rebellious yet impressionable follower to a respected activist who effects social and political change on a global level through the common bond of food.
Made Whole Made Simple is not about any particular diet; it is about walking away from fad diets and putting the focus on you—the individual. It is everything but diet and all about learning to UNDIET. Made Whole Made Simple will be your companion to navigating self-healing through real food and healthy habits. This book tackles nutrition in a straightforward way, focusing on how the body uses food to create energy and why metabolic flexibility (the body’s ability to utilize whatever fuel it is given) is so important. The first section of the book covers some biochemistry basics, walking you through a nutritional therapy approach with actionable tips to get your body back in balance. “Knowing how it works” is the first step in figuring out “how it works for me.” The foundations of health are broken down into four sections: digestion; hydration & mineral balance; blood sugar regulation; and fatty acid balance. Each foundation features a Farmacy graphic listing which nutrients support that system of the body and why, giving you the information you need to target those areas that are in need of healing. This book makes using food as medicine easy and approachable with 140 allergy-friendly recipes, all of which are free of grain, gluten, soy, and nightshades. Minimal amounts of dairy and nuts are used, and many of the recipes are coconut-free, egg-free, and AIP compliant as well. For added convenience, many of the recipes can be made in one pot, on a sheet pan, or in a slow cooker or pressure cooker—and some require no cooking at all. Icons mark those recipes that use five ingredients or less or take 30 minutes or less to prepare. All of these easy recipes are nutrient-dense, using the entire Farmacy to nourish you and your family so that you can lose weight, reverse inflammation, and feel your best without having to slave away in the kitchen or sacrifice flavor. Made Whole Made Simple is complete with cutting-edge information on stress management, metabolic flexibility, fasting, immune health, and hormone balance with actionable steps that can be put in place on day 1.
Human beings go through different stages in the functional areas of their lives: professional, recreational, social, psychological, spiritual, intellectual, and physical. Achieving balance in these areas can make us feel fully developed. The Crystal Chains book series will discuss and analyze some of the obstacles that prevent us from achieving this balance. In this first book, Crystal Chains: In the Workplace, we can see how mental chains (negative actions, gossip, etc.) may make us shine bright as a crystal, giving the illusion of apparent success and recognition in the workplace. As time goes by, they bind and inhibit us and act as barriers that limit and prevent growth in many areas of our lives. In the same way, we will show you ways to break these chains, if that is your choice, so that the brightness that is projected in your work life persists through time.
Integrated with today’s food variety and culinary creativity—and updated by award-winning chef Ron Oliver—this easy, entertaining cookbook gives you everything you need to put on the perfect 1920s theme event or to just enjoy easy lunch, dinner, and party suggestions for four or more. Add a dash of cocktail recipes served during Prohibition, a dollop of the fashion of the flappers, and an exciting garnish of the magical music of the Jazz Age to create your perfect soundtrack! The result? A deliciously delightful feast to titillate the taste buds and stimulate the senses for a memorable meal and glorious gathering of any size! Get ready to indulge in five fabulous parties and mealtimes mentioned in both F. Scott Fitzgerald’s literary classic and big screen adaptations of The Great Gatsby: • The 1920s version of high tea, la-di-da or not • A fun, festive, and fantastic ladies’ luncheon • The diner-style comfort food you might get at a Speakeasy (if you knew the password!) • A yummy five-course, homestyle sit-down dinner • An easy-to-prepare, casual to formal, pull-out-all-the-stops party This appetizing, full flavor spectrum cookbook of classic American cuisine features: • Step-by-step party prep timelines to make putting together any size event as low stress as possible • Recipes for eight that are easily adjusted up or down • A champagne and bubbly guide • Quotes from The Great Gatsby • 1920s music and fashion tips, plus fun facts about the times People in the Roaring ’20s really knew how to celebrate and eat. Now it’s our turn!
Cristina Curp, the creator of the popular food blog and wellness site The Castaway Kitchen, delivers everything you need to do away with diets and discover the right nutritional path for you in her new book, Made Whole. Made Whole is a comprehensive cookbook and resource guide that combines the Paleo approach with the low-carb/ketogenic diet, using only whole, natural, unprocessed ingredients. Cristina includes all the tools you need to be successful on a ketogenic diet, along with advice and how-tos for using the keto template to eat intuitively and develop a personalized nutrition plan based on your unique needs. Each recipe is free of grain, gluten, sugar, and dairy, along with nuts, starches, nightshades, and alcohol—making this a perfect cookbook for those following keto, Paleo, low-carb, AIP, or allergen-free diets. Cristina’s eclectic and mouthwatering recipes draw inspiration from international cuisines to keep cooking fun and exciting. You will feel like a gourmet chef with easy-to-make meals prepared from accessible ingredients that you can find at your local grocer using just the one master list that she provides in the book! Made Whole is a user-friendly guide to cooking beautiful food, eating well, and enjoying every last bite, while reaching your health and fitness goals. Sample recipes include: • Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies • Turkey Falafel with Tzatziki Sauce • Spaghetti and Meatballs with Roasted Beet Marinara • Toasted Coconut Salmon • Savory Flax Waffles • and many more! Made Whole will teach you that healthy food doesn’t have to fit into a certain label, box, or idea of what it should be. Once you begin to forget about what you can’t eat and embrace the wonderful and delicious things you can eat, you will find freedom and pleasure in fueling your body with the most exceptional sustenance that nature has to offer.
The New York Times bestselling author and cooking show host shares 150+ delicious and satisfying recipes for bringing people together. Family, friends, cooking, and food are a passion for Cristina Ferrare. And she brings that irrepressible enthusiasm to A Big Bowl of Love, a homey collection of recipes for everyday meals and celebrations. From appetizers and soups to pastas, risottos, and hearty entrees, each dish has been tested, enjoyed, and cherished around Cristina’s table—as well as by viewers of her popular cooking series, Cooking with Cristina, featured on the Oprah Winfrey Network. Beyond the recipes themselves, this busy professional, wife, and mother shows readers how to shop, set up a pantry, and use “cook once, eat twice” recipes to make preparing and enjoying meals easy and fun.
The authors invited to join me at this chapter of Strategies for Peace, are Bruce Cook, Ernesto Kahan, Ada Aharoni, Susana Roberts, Sara Zamir, Glenn Martin, Nina Meyerhof, Takis Ioannides, George Sklavounos, Bishnu Pathak, Subhash Chandra, Elias Galati, Marita Ragozza and Domen Kocevar. We need to create a discussion and a continuous dialogue, by inviting brilliant intellectuals from all points of the globe to interchange opinions, read one to the other, and let mutual influence be the media of our union as human beings. We are here, talking like friends, interchanging ideas about developing a possible future for our kids, and we find one to the other so near, so similar in our thoughts, so clear in our ideas, that we cannot stop continuing our dialogue in this sense, and through this tool called Strategies for Peace. To create books, written by persons that come from diverse cultures, is the tool to find a way out of this Babel Tower that leads humanity to an enormous hollow of Death and Disappearance.
Spirit of a Huasa is a contemporary story set in the Chilean countryside. It is about Chilean rodeo, Chilean cowboys, horses, Chilean cuisine, and a girl in crutches. Cristina Montalva will whet the appetite of uninitiated children who suffer from physical disabilities or setbacks to keep going and to persevere through horseback riding. Using the horse as a healing agent will improve spatial awareness, body image, self-confidence and physical stamina. In this story, 17-year-old Marta, a strong spirited girl, desires to become a huasa, a Chilean cowgirl, riding in rodeos and competing with huasos.
Made Whole Made Simple is not about any particular diet; it is about walking away from fad diets and putting the focus on you—the individual. It is everything but diet and all about learning to UNDIET. Made Whole Made Simple will be your companion to navigating self-healing through real food and healthy habits. This book tackles nutrition in a straightforward way, focusing on how the body uses food to create energy and why metabolic flexibility (the body’s ability to utilize whatever fuel it is given) is so important. The first section of the book covers some biochemistry basics, walking you through a nutritional therapy approach with actionable tips to get your body back in balance. “Knowing how it works” is the first step in figuring out “how it works for me.” The foundations of health are broken down into four sections: digestion; hydration & mineral balance; blood sugar regulation; and fatty acid balance. Each foundation features a Farmacy graphic listing which nutrients support that system of the body and why, giving you the information you need to target those areas that are in need of healing. This book makes using food as medicine easy and approachable with 140 allergy-friendly recipes, all of which are free of grain, gluten, soy, and nightshades. Minimal amounts of dairy and nuts are used, and many of the recipes are coconut-free, egg-free, and AIP compliant as well. For added convenience, many of the recipes can be made in one pot, on a sheet pan, or in a slow cooker or pressure cooker—and some require no cooking at all. Icons mark those recipes that use five ingredients or less or take 30 minutes or less to prepare. All of these easy recipes are nutrient-dense, using the entire Farmacy to nourish you and your family so that you can lose weight, reverse inflammation, and feel your best without having to slave away in the kitchen or sacrifice flavor. Made Whole Made Simple is complete with cutting-edge information on stress management, metabolic flexibility, fasting, immune health, and hormone balance with actionable steps that can be put in place on day 1.
In the tradition of Laura Esquivel's Like Water For Chocolate, The House of Impossible Loves is a novel set in twentieth-century Spain and France revolving around a family of cursed women.
Drawing on an innovative project exploring current mobility transition policies and practices in 14 countries around the world, including key institutions such as the European Union and the United Nations, this book provides a critique of current transitions, mobility and transport policies. The authors consider how our mobility futures have been imagined, what they will potentially look and feel like, what lives we might live in them and what choices we might have to make to get there.
Cristina Curp, the creator of the popular food blog and wellness site The Castaway Kitchen, delivers everything you need to do away with diets and discover the right nutritional path for you in her new book, Made Whole. Made Whole is a comprehensive cookbook and resource guide that combines the Paleo approach with the low-carb/ketogenic diet, using only whole, natural, unprocessed ingredients. Cristina includes all the tools you need to be successful on a ketogenic diet, along with advice and how-tos for using the keto template to eat intuitively and develop a personalized nutrition plan based on your unique needs. Each recipe is free of grain, gluten, sugar, and dairy, along with nuts, starches, nightshades, and alcohol—making this a perfect cookbook for those following keto, Paleo, low-carb, AIP, or allergen-free diets. Cristina’s eclectic and mouthwatering recipes draw inspiration from international cuisines to keep cooking fun and exciting. You will feel like a gourmet chef with easy-to-make meals prepared from accessible ingredients that you can find at your local grocer using just the one master list that she provides in the book! Made Whole is a user-friendly guide to cooking beautiful food, eating well, and enjoying every last bite, while reaching your health and fitness goals. Sample recipes include: • Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies • Turkey Falafel with Tzatziki Sauce • Spaghetti and Meatballs with Roasted Beet Marinara • Toasted Coconut Salmon • Savory Flax Waffles • and many more! Made Whole will teach you that healthy food doesn’t have to fit into a certain label, box, or idea of what it should be. Once you begin to forget about what you can’t eat and embrace the wonderful and delicious things you can eat, you will find freedom and pleasure in fueling your body with the most exceptional sustenance that nature has to offer.
For the Love of Greens will get you on the right path to optimal health. Learn how to incorporate green leafy veggies into any meal and even desserts, all while keeping the taste! Learn simple methods to avoid mealtime battles with kids, all in a joyful manner! You will find tips on how to introduce greens to even the pickiest of eaters, easy-to-follow recipes, and the mysterious Vitamin P! The key to little smiling faces asking for more greens, please!
Whether you are planning a romantic Italian getaway, packing a knapsack for your junior year abroad, or just want to engage your Italian business associate in everyday conversation, Italian Made Simple is the perfect book for any self-learner. Void of all the non-essentials and refreshingly easy to understand, Italian Made Simple includes: * basics of grammar * vocabulary building exercises * pronunciation aids * common expressions * word puzzles and language games * contemporary reading selections * Italian culture and history * economic information * Italian-English and English-Italian dictionaries Complete with drills, exercises, and answer keys for ample practice opportunities, Italian Made Simple will soon have you speaking Italian like a native.
Hawaiian legends figure greatly in the image of tropical paradise that has come to represent Hawai'i in popular imagination. But what are we buying into when we read these stories as texts in English-language translations? This is the question that Cristina Bacchilega poses in her examination of how stories labeled as Hawaiian "legends" have been adapted to produce a legendary Hawai'i primarily for non-Hawaiian readers or other audiences. With an understanding of tradition that foregrounds history and change, Bacchilega examines how, following the 1898 annexation of Hawai'i by the United States, the publication of Hawaiian legends in English delegitimized indigenous narratives and traditions and at the same time constructed them as representative of Hawaiian culture. Hawaiian mo'olelo were translated in popular and scholarly English-language publications to market a new cultural product: a space constructed primarily for Euro-Americans as something simultaneously exotic and primitive and beautiful and welcoming. To analyze this representation of Hawaiian traditions, place, and genre, Bacchilega focuses on translation across languages, cultures, and media; on photography, as the technology that contributed to the visual formation of a westernized image of Hawai'i; and on tourism as determining postannexation economic and ideological machinery. In a book with interdisciplinary appeal, Bacchilega demonstrates both how the myth of legendary Hawai'i emerged and how this vision can be unmade and reimagined.
Functional foods (foods with known bioactive properties) have shown potential for preventive and therapeutic treatments. However, this potential must be safely determined before they enter the commercial market. At the same time, nutrition research is transforming into a data driven field with reference to the identification and development of functional food products due to the large number of variables affecting food biochemistry in the human body. This volume presents reviews of recent advances in food chemistry, food technology and nutraceutical research (for diet therapy and cosmetics). Chapters in this volume cover a broad spectrum of topics: - drug discovery and development in the modern nutraceutical industry, - recent developments in the extraction, identification and quantification of bioactive peptides in foods, - concepts of bioavailability, bioaccessibility, bioactivity, bioefficiency and bioconversion of bioactive foods, - synthetic routes for obtaining bioactive compounds, - the role of nutrigenomics to identify key cellular functions by specific genetic and epigenetic interactions with a nutrient, - anti-cancer properties of important bioactive components of medicinal plants, - the effect of a diet based on different bioactive foods on prevention and treatment of diabetes, - antioxidant effects on cardiovascular disease, - beneficial effects of bioactive foods on metabolic syndrome, - the potential of tauroursodeoxycholic acid on prevention and recovery of neurodegenerative diseases, - the effects of natural phytochemicals in prostate cancer, - the effects of methylxanthines (caffeine and others), and culinary methods on physiological and toxicological effects of the bioactive food constituents. The volume is an ideal reference for pharmacy students, nutritionists, healthcare providers and nutraceutical R&D specialists interested in functional foods. [Series Intro] Frontiers in Bioactive Compounds brings edited reviews on the analysis and characterization of natural compounds of medicinal interest. Each volume covers useful information on a variety of natural sources as well as analytical techniques. This series is essential reading for analytical and medicinal chemists as well as professionals involved in natural and pharmaceutical product research and development.
This volume seeks to bring readers to a deeper understanding of contemporary cultural and social configurations of Alzheimer’s disease by analyzing 21st-century U.S. novels in which the disease plays a key narrative role. Via analysis of selected works, Garrigós considers how the erasure of memory in a person with Alzheimer’s affects our idea of the identity of that person and their sense of belonging to a group. Starting out from three different types of memory (individual, social and cultural), the study focuses on the narrative strategies that authors use to configure how the disease is perceived and represented. This study is significant not only because of what the texts reveal about those with Alzheimer’s, but also for what they say about us - about the authors and readers who are producing and consuming these texts, about how we see this disease, and what our attitudes to it say about contemporary U.S. society.
While scholarship on Caribbean women’s literature has grown into an established discipline, there are not many studies explicitly connected to the maternal subject matter, and among them only a few book-length texts have focalized motherhood and maternity in writings by Caribbean women. Reading/Speaking/Writing the Mother Text: Essays on Caribbean Women’s Writing encourages a crucial dialogue surrounding the state of motherhood scholarship within the Caribbean literary landscape, to call for attention on a theme that, although highly visible, remains understudied by academics. While this collection presents a similar comparative and diasporic approach to other book-length studies on Caribbean women’s writing, it deals with the complexity of including a wider geographical, linguistic, ethnic and generic diversity, while exposing the myriad ways in which Caribbean women authors shape and construct their texts to theorize motherhood, mothering, maternity, and mother-daughter relationships.
When the Teen Titans enter the Multiverse through a crack in their refrigerator they find themselves competing in a cooking contest developed by Darkseid, and they must bake their way to freedom.
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