Packed with colour photos, In a Mexican Garden captures Mexico's courtyard gardens, loggias, patios and swimming pools. An introduction highlights historical influences and folk art traditions of the distinctive Mexican style.
Now that aromatherapy has become an everyday luxury and top-quality incense can be found in trendsetting boutiques and nationwide retailers everywhere, it's time for the first stylish volume on this ancient tradition. Touching on topics ranging from spirituality to romance to health and well-being, Incense draws on folklore and wisdom from Japan, India, the Pacific, and the Americas. By translating those traditions into practical applications anyone can enjoy, Incense shows how different scents can bring energy, focus, or relaxation to daily life. Suggestions for arousing the senses abound, such as enhancing a meditation session with spicy clove or adding a rich and sensuous juniper aroma to a steamy bath. Incense also describes the variety of incense products available and explains their essential ingredients: flowers, herbs, and oils. Gorgeously rounded out with Susie Cushner's evocative photography, Incense is an elegant gift that soothes the soul and engages the senses.
Pie Contest in a Box is for farmers' market foodies, retro cocktail party lovers, competitive-cooking-show fans, block partiers, and just about everyone else who shares a hankering for good times and good pie. In the blue-ribbon tradition of county fairs, community cook-offs, and competitive cooking shows such as Iron Chef America, Top Chef, and Throwdown with Bobby Flay, Pie Contest in a Box represents a fun and inexpensive way to entertain. The kit features: * A Pie Contest Handbook, which orients judges to the history of pie, discusses why pie matters, outlines different categories of pie and official judging criteria, and includes prize-winning recipes * Pie Contest Judge Badges * Numbered Pie Toppers on Toothpicks * Pie Contest Scorecards * Pie Contest Prize Ribbons Pie Contest in a Box will have guests clamoring for a slice of blueberry or strawberry rhubarb, along with their scorecard and fork.
Acclaimed photographer Melba Levick captures the stunning architecture and colorful folk art of 21 magnificent inns and haciendas of Mexico. Includes an extensive directory listing and contact information for each location. 220 color photos.
A festive kit that “brings aspiring bakers, die-hard cookie lovers and anyone who adores cookie swaps together for a fun holiday experience” (MassLive.com). Christmas Cookie Contest in a Box has everything you need to host your own contest! It includes a link to download, customize, and print scorecards, judge badges, place cards, and prize ribbons. The accompanying handbook includes recipes from passionate, talented, professional, and semiprofessional bakers, along with photos of the cookies and personal stories behind these special cookie recipes. Showcasing a dozen winning Christmas cookie recipes, along with cookie swap tips from an expert baker, the book has chapters on a brief history of Christmas cookies, how to run the cookie contest, the art of judging a contest, baking tips, and a cookie tunes playlist. Recipes include: Berlinerkranser by Jessie Oleson, author of CakeSpy Presents Sweet Treats for a Sugar-Filled Life Pistachio Butter Cookies by Stacy Adimando, author of The Cookiepedia: Mixing, Baking, and Reinventing the Classics Chai-Spiced Meltaway Cookies by Jodi Liano. director of the San Francisco Cooking School Vegan Orange Ginger Cookies by Lorena Novak Bull, author of The Everything® Vegan Baking Cookbook Smile Cookies by Cindy Mushet, author of Baking Kids Love Gingersnap Thumbprints with Cranberry-Apricot Filling by Julia M. Usher, author of Cookie Swap and Ultimate Cookies Minty Chocolate Rounds by Valerie Peterson, author of Cookie Craft and Cookie Craft Christmas
The author of Pie Contest in a Box gets chili fans fired up with “a playful kit with judge and prize ribbons, scorecards and an instruction manual” (Statesman). Chili cook-offs, a fall tradition, have exploded in popularity over the last several years. Easy to organize and yummy to participate in, chili cook-offs are a perfect entertaining event. The booklet in Chili Cook-Off in a Box explains why chili cook-offs matter today, and describes the history of chili from pre-Columbian campfires to today’s vegan versions. It gives instructions on how to organize the event around themes, such as five-alarm, vegetarian, carnivore’s delight, red chili, green chili, etc., and has profiles of chili cook-off winners with prize-winning recipes and tips. Included in the ebook is a link to download and print the following items, which makes it easy to customize your own materials. Sheet to Track Entries (name, type of chili, designated number) Numbered Table Tents (so judges don’t know whose chili is whose) Scorecards (rating taste, texture, appearance, creativity) Judge Badges Prize Ribbons for Contest Winners “It would make a fun gift book kit for a chilihead, and certainly is a must-have for anyone hosting a chili throwdown.” —Shockingly Delicious
Acclaimed photographer Melba Levick captures the stunning architecture and colorful folk art of 21 magnificent inns and haciendas of Mexico. Includes an extensive directory listing and contact information for each location. 220 color photos.
Now that aromatherapy has become an everyday luxury and top-quality incense can be found in trendsetting boutiques and nationwide retailers everywhere, it's time for the first stylish volume on this ancient tradition. Touching on topics ranging from spirituality to romance to health and well-being, Incense draws on folklore and wisdom from Japan, India, the Pacific, and the Americas. By translating those traditions into practical applications anyone can enjoy, Incense shows how different scents can bring energy, focus, or relaxation to daily life. Suggestions for arousing the senses abound, such as enhancing a meditation session with spicy clove or adding a rich and sensuous juniper aroma to a steamy bath. Incense also describes the variety of incense products available and explains their essential ingredients: flowers, herbs, and oils. Gorgeously rounded out with Susie Cushner's evocative photography, Incense is an elegant gift that soothes the soul and engages the senses.
The author of Pie Contest in a Box gets chili fans fired up with “a playful kit with judge and prize ribbons, scorecards and an instruction manual” (Statesman). Chili cook-offs, a fall tradition, have exploded in popularity over the last several years. Easy to organize and yummy to participate in, chili cook-offs are a perfect entertaining event. The booklet in Chili Cook-Off in a Box explains why chili cook-offs matter today, and describes the history of chili from pre-Columbian campfires to today’s vegan versions. It gives instructions on how to organize the event around themes, such as five-alarm, vegetarian, carnivore’s delight, red chili, green chili, etc., and has profiles of chili cook-off winners with prize-winning recipes and tips. Included in the ebook is a link to download and print the following items, which makes it easy to customize your own materials. Sheet to Track Entries (name, type of chili, designated number) Numbered Table Tents (so judges don’t know whose chili is whose) Scorecards (rating taste, texture, appearance, creativity) Judge Badges Prize Ribbons for Contest Winners “It would make a fun gift book kit for a chilihead, and certainly is a must-have for anyone hosting a chili throwdown.” —Shockingly Delicious
Packed with colour photos, In a Mexican Garden captures Mexico's courtyard gardens, loggias, patios and swimming pools. An introduction highlights historical influences and folk art traditions of the distinctive Mexican style.
Pie Contest in a Box is for farmers' market foodies, retro cocktail party lovers, competitive-cooking-show fans, block partiers, and just about everyone else who shares a hankering for good times and good pie. In the blue-ribbon tradition of county fairs, community cook-offs, and competitive cooking shows such as Iron Chef America, Top Chef, and Throwdown with Bobby Flay, Pie Contest in a Box represents a fun and inexpensive way to entertain. The kit features: * A Pie Contest Handbook, which orients judges to the history of pie, discusses why pie matters, outlines different categories of pie and official judging criteria, and includes prize-winning recipes * Pie Contest Judge Badges * Numbered Pie Toppers on Toothpicks * Pie Contest Scorecards * Pie Contest Prize Ribbons Pie Contest in a Box will have guests clamoring for a slice of blueberry or strawberry rhubarb, along with their scorecard and fork.
A festive kit that “brings aspiring bakers, die-hard cookie lovers and anyone who adores cookie swaps together for a fun holiday experience” (MassLive.com). Christmas Cookie Contest in a Box has everything you need to host your own contest! It includes a link to download, customize, and print scorecards, judge badges, place cards, and prize ribbons. The accompanying handbook includes recipes from passionate, talented, professional, and semiprofessional bakers, along with photos of the cookies and personal stories behind these special cookie recipes. Showcasing a dozen winning Christmas cookie recipes, along with cookie swap tips from an expert baker, the book has chapters on a brief history of Christmas cookies, how to run the cookie contest, the art of judging a contest, baking tips, and a cookie tunes playlist. Recipes include: Berlinerkranser by Jessie Oleson, author of CakeSpy Presents Sweet Treats for a Sugar-Filled Life Pistachio Butter Cookies by Stacy Adimando, author of The Cookiepedia: Mixing, Baking, and Reinventing the Classics Chai-Spiced Meltaway Cookies by Jodi Liano. director of the San Francisco Cooking School Vegan Orange Ginger Cookies by Lorena Novak Bull, author of The Everything® Vegan Baking Cookbook Smile Cookies by Cindy Mushet, author of Baking Kids Love Gingersnap Thumbprints with Cranberry-Apricot Filling by Julia M. Usher, author of Cookie Swap and Ultimate Cookies Minty Chocolate Rounds by Valerie Peterson, author of Cookie Craft and Cookie Craft Christmas
From the origins of drinking to the use and abuse of alcohol in the present day, this global historical study draws on approaches and research from biology, anthropology, sociology and psychology. Topics covered include: the impact of colonialism alcohol before the world economy industrialization and alcohol globalization, consumer society, and alcohol. Gina Hames argues that the production, trade, consumption, and regulation of alcohol have shaped virtually every civilization in numerous ways. It has perpetuated the development of both domestic and international trade; helped create identity and define religion; provided a tool for oppression as well as a tool for cultural and political resistance; and has supplied governments with essential revenues as well as a means of control over minority groups. Alcohol in World History is one of the first studies to pull together such a wide range of sources in order to compare the role of alcohol throughout time and across both western and non-western civilizations.
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