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With basic sewing skills and simple step-by-step instructions, this title helps you learn to make your first quilt. It outlines the complete process in an easy-to-follow sequence, from selecting a design and choosing fabric to cutting pieces, assembling blocks, assembling the quilt top, and finishing your quilt.
In this, his first non-menu cookbook, the New York Times food columnist offers 100 utterly delicious recipes that epitomize comfort food, Tanis-style. Individually or in combination, they make perfect little meals that are elemental and accessible, yet totally surprisingand there's something to learn on every page. Among the chapter titles there's ';Bread Makes a Meal,' which includes such alluring recipes as a ham and Gruyere bread pudding, spaghetti and bread crumbs, breaded eggplant cutlets, and David's version of egg-in-a-hole. A chapter called ';My Kind of Snack' includes quail eggs with flavored salt; speckled sushi rice with toasted nori; polenta pizza with crumbled sage; raw beet tartare; and mackerel rillettes. The recipes in ';Vegetables to Envy' range from a South Indian dish of cabbage with black mustard seeds to French grandmotherstyle vegetables. ';Strike While the Iron Is Hot' is all about searing and quick cooking in a cast-iron skillet. Another chapter highlights dishes you can eat from a bowl with a spoon. And so it goes, with one irrepressible chapter after another, one perfect food moment after another: this is a book with recipes to crave.
Includes information on the on-line and social media opportunities for sales and marketing, as well as fresh advice and invaluable tips from successful crafters and artists.
Shows you how to create juices, ciders, wines, meads, teas, and syrups. Including recipes ranging from strawberry juice to pear cider, dandelion wine to spiced apple mead, citrus peel tea to kombucha, this title also helps you discover how to create your own backyard beverage garden and how to harvest ingredients for maximum flavour and quantity.
From geraniums to fuchsia, many of your favourite plants can be overwintered and enjoyed for season after season. This book shows you the simple techniques you need.
The long-awaited follow-up to Doug Tallamy's 'Bringing Nature Home', this book provides homeowners with inspiration and strategies for creating beautiful, wildlife-sustaining landscapes
Claire Roth has entered into a Faustian bargain with a powerful gallery owner by agreeing to forge the Degas in exchange for a one-woman show in his gallery. But as she begins her work, she starts to suspect that this long-missing masterpiece - the very one that had been hanging at the Gardner for one hundred years - may itself be a forgery.
Cooking with live fire goes way beyond the barbecue grill. This book helps you discover the pleasures of a variety of unconventional techniques, from roasting pork on a spit to baking bread in ashes, searing fish on a griddle, smoking turkey, making soup in a cast-iron pot, and baking pizza in a wood-fired oven, cooking bacon on a stick, and more.
Moss is often thought of a problem in gardens, but moss can provide a lush green backdrop to almost any landscape and are easy to keep healthy with regular maintenance. In this book Annie Martin shows you how.
The Trolley Problem is an ethical thought experiment dreamed up in 1967 by British philosopher Philippa Foot, and further developed by American thinker Judith Jarvis Thomson in the '70s. Since then, philosophers have devised a variety of iterations of the problem. This book explores these through the lens of a trial in the court of public opinion.
Collects 73 food garden plans from some of the author's favourite gardener superstars, including Amy Stewart, Amanda Thomsen, Barbara Pleasant, Jeff Lowenfels, Dave Dewitt, and Jessi Bloom. In this title, each plan is illustrated and includes a profile of the contributor, the inspiration behind the design, and a plant list.
Here is a book babies can really sink their gums into. Built for the way babies read, Indestructibles are printed on an amazing paperlike material that can t be ripped, torn, or punctured. Indestructibles are 100 percent safe and nontoxic, and if they get too funky, just throw them in the washing machine or dishwasher. They re made for baby to hold, grab, chew, pull, and bend, and are designed to create an even more special bond between reader and baby. Printed without words, the parent gets to make up the story, or just cuddle with baby while they explore together. The creators of Indestructibles are Amy Pixton, a mother of triplets, and her mother-in-law, Kaaren Pixton, an artist and children 's educator. "Mama and Baby!" is about mothers and babies of different species. Kaaren Pixton 's art is bright, swirling with color, and reminiscent of Eric Carle, and it attains an almost 3D richness on the special paperlike stock of the book.
Honey is one of nature's most versatile ingredients. Prized as a natural sweetener and also known for boosting energy, strengthening the immune system and alleviating ailments from insomnia to sore throats, it's a bonus that honey also tastes so good. This book gives honey bees their due with informative sidebars about bees and beekeeping.
Offers a tongue-in-cheek celebration of middle age. Presented in the form of a traditional fill-in baby book, this title is a suitable keepsake for both women ('Is it hot in here or is it just me?') and men ('remember, it's prostate, not prostrate'). It presents an irreverent take on the shared symptoms of growing older.
Offers instructions for everything from plant supports and a clothesline to a potting bench, a chicken coop, a hoop greenhouse, a cold frame, a beehive, a root cellar with storage bins, and an outdoor shower. In this title, most of the projects are suitable for complete novices, and all use just basic tools and standard building materials.
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