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 | Simple Deli Food Product# 460551966 Selling for $16.95 "'Simple Deli Food tempts the reader with dishes that incorporate aromatic spices and sauces, enticing meats and cheeses, grains and seeds, divine sugars and chocolates. This book is the key to lively cooking with inspirational flavors, simplicity and style." |
 | Remarkable Service SM : A Guide to Winning and Keeping Customers for Servers, Managers, and Restaurant Owners Product# 460553371 Selling for $29.95 "Topics include: *Dining room and kitchen organization and personnel *Reservations, greeting, and seating *Classic and modern styles of table service *Beverage and wine service *Money handling *Service challenges?Çô?Çôwhat to do when things go wrong *Front-of-the-house safety and sanitation Industry surveys consistently show that service is the number one reason that people come back to a restaurant?Çôor dine elsewhere. With competition increasing for today?ÇÖs dining dollar, restaurants must go beyond culinary excellence to ensure their success. They must offer Remarkable ServiceSM, the kind of service that makes guests feel comfortable, makes dining out enjoyable, and creates customer loyalty. This book offers unique, comprehensive coverage of the principles, standards, and practices that are the hallmark of truly Remarkable ServiceSM. Written by The Culinary Institute of America, which has been hailed by Time magazine as 'the nation?ÇÖs most influential training school for cooks,' it shares the knowledge and techniques necessary to exceed guest expectations through every part of the dining experience. Remarkable ServiceSM places detailed practical information within the framework of Nine Basic Principles of Hospitality and Service. These critical principles provide the foundation for building an outstanding customer service program in any setting, from informal to fine dining. Filled with invaluable real-life examples and important do?ÇÖs and don?ÇÖts, this book gives both new and veteran servers?Çôand their managers?Çôthe skills, confidence, and flexibility to bring Remarkable ServiceSM to virtually any situation?Çôand keep customers coming back for more." |
 | Betty Crocker's Healthy New Choices: A Fresh Approach to Eating Well Product# 460678523 Selling for $19.95 "With Betty Crocker, you can enjoy healthy eating every day! The 400 tempting recipes are full of real taste appeal, yet don't require extra effort or hard-to-find ingredients. Are these really recipes your family will eat? Absolutely! Whip up Spicy Chicken Chili, Mushroom and Spinach Lasagna, Asian Noodle Salad or Lemon Steak Diane and top off the meal with Brownie Trifle, Caribbean Bananas or Tira Mi Su Coffee dessert. This is the food you'll want to eat every day. Too busy to even think about changing your cooking habits? There's an entire chapter of express meals that are still healthy, and miles ahead of what you'll get from a takeout meal. No matter how hectic your life is, healthy eating is possible! There's also great information on wellness and easy changes to painlessly incorporate healthy eating into your lifestyle. And every recipe has complete nutrition information that satisfies everyone's nutrition needs. We have also flagged the recipes to show those that are low fat, low sodium, low cholesterol or high fiber, to help make menu planning a b" |
 | The Best of Italy: A Cookbook Product# 460680355 Selling for $16.95 "The Best of Italy offers more than 45 authentic, classic Italian recipes. Each simple gourmet dish is elegantly photographed to make this cookbook a wonderful gift for the lover of Italian cuisine and culture. Righter adds lively and informative introductions to each recipe to bring the book to life." |
 | The Working Cook: Quick Recipes for Busy People Product# 460680468 Selling for $34.95 "Understanding the demands of a busy lifestyle, this book shows how, with a minimum of time and effort, you can still eat well. Focusing on easy but tasty food for busy people, this collection of recipes offers meals for the way we live. The chapters include: Ultra-fast, Feeling Virtuous, Veggie, Indulge, Friends Coming Round, and It's the Weekend." |
 | Memories of a Cuban Kitchen: More Than 200 Classic Recipes Product# 460680614 Selling for $19.95 "Filled with reminiscences and evocative halftone photos of Randelman's childhood in pre-Castro Cuba, this book presents more than 200 traditional recipes for Cuban dishes, a cuisine that lusciously combines Spanish, Indian, African, Chinese, and Portuguese influences. 30 photos. 8-page color insert." |
 | Vegetarian Times Low-Fat & Fast: 150 Easy Meatless Recipes Product# 460680629 Selling for $16 "If you've been searching for a cookbook to help you put delicious meatless meals on the table in a hurry, then look no further. The editors of Vegetarian Times magazine, the leading authorities on the vegetarian lifestyle, have compiled this delicious collection of 150 recipes, all of which can be prepared in 30 minutes or less. In fact, many of the recipes are easy enough to complete in just 15 or 20 minutes. Not just easy, all of the recipes in Vegetarian Times Low-Fat and Fast are low in fat too. Of course, eating meatless meals is always healthful, but, as the Vegetarian Times editors explain, you still need to watch what you eat to stay fit and healthy. Light vegetarian cooking can be made simple by cutting back on eggs, using low-fat cheeses, sauteing with olive oil instead of butter, and trying healthy cooking techniques like grilling, broiling, roasting, and steaming, all of which bring out the best flavors in your food." |
 | American Brasserie: 180 Simple, Robust Recipes Inspired by the Rustic Foods of France, Italy, and America Product# 460680630 Selling for $32.5 "Inspired by the rustic foods of France, Italy, and America, these 150 simple, robust recipes encompass a wide selection of dishes, from soups to pastas to roasts to desserts. Two inserts of gorgeous color photographs capture the energetic atmosphere of the American brasserie, and each recipe is accompanied by a beer or wine recommendation." |
 | Betty Crocker's Picture Cookbook, Facsimile Edition Product# 460680659 Selling for $29.95 "Packed full of practical tips, useful hints and lavish color photography, this was the book that shaped cooking for generations, the book that people remember. Binder." |
| Betty Crocker's Healthy New Choices: A Fresh Approach to Eating Well Product# 460680684 Selling for $19.95 "With Betty Crocker, you can enjoy healthy eating every day! The 400 tempting recipes are full of real taste appeal, yet don't require extra effort or hard-to-find ingredients. Are these really recipes your family will eat? Absolutely! Whip up Spicy Chicken Chili, Mushroom and Spinach Lasagna, Asian Noodle Salad or Lemon Steak Diane and top off the meal with Brownie Trifle, Caribbean Bananas or Tira Mi Su Coffee dessert. This is the food you'll want to eat every day. Too busy to even think about changing your cooking habits? There's an entire chapter of express meals that are still healthy, and miles ahead of what you'll get from a takeout meal. No matter how hectic your life is, healthy eating is possible! There's also great information on wellness and easy changes to painlessly incorporate healthy eating into your lifestyle. And every recipe has complete nutrition information that satisfies everyone's nutrition needs. We have also flagged the recipes to show those that are low fat, low sodium, low cholesterol or high fiber, to help make menu planning a b" |
 | Champagne Cocktails Product# 460681227 Selling for $12 In the tradition of 'Shaken Not Stirred' comes an indispensable guide to champagne mixed drinks plus fun historical facts and toasts for the new millennium. Color photos. |
 | Little Cafe Cakes Product# 460686770 Selling for $15.95 "There is something very appealing about a small, individual cake. Enticing and charming, the versatility of the little cake means it can double as the perfect dessert. It's not surprising that smart little cakes are featuring on cafe menus all around the world. And it is not surprising that Julie Le Clerc is the creative genius behind these fabulous recipes with seriously good flavors." |
 | The Advanced Professional Pastry Chef Product# 460687879 Selling for $70 "Up-to-date, advanced techniques for the professional pastry chef and serious home baker The Advanced Professional Pastry Chef brings up-to-date coverage of the latest baking and pastry techniques to a new generation of pastry chefs and serious home bakers. This book covers advanced material and--like chef Bo's classic The Professional Pastry Chef: Fundamentals of Baking and Pastry, Fourth Edition (Wiley: 0-471-35925-4)--contains contemporary information to meet the needs of today's pastry kitchen. This volume contains nearly 500 recipes, which emphasize the techniques and presentations offered in top restaurants and bakeshops today. Topics covered in depth include decorated cakes, modernist desserts, wedding cakes and holiday favorites, sugar work, marzipan figures, and chocolate decorations. Illustrated step-by-step instructions demystify even the most complex techniques and preparations, while over 100 vivid color photographs bring finished dishes to life. Bo Friberg (Greenbrae, CA) is a Certified Master Pastry Chef and Executive Pastry Chef at the San" |
 | Vegetarian Times: Vegetarian Beginner's Guide Product# 460766002 Selling for $14.95 "Is there one book that can answer all of my questions about becoming a vegetarian? Yes, Vegetarian Times Vegetarian Beginner's Guide is the only book written for beginner vegetarians or anyone just thinking about becoming one. It's packed with information written by the editors of Vegetarian Times, the leading authorities on the subject. Below are just a few of the hundreds of questions this handy book will answer. Will I get enough protein if I don't eat meat? Do I have to eat salad every day? How does a vegetarian diet help to prevent disease? If I'm pregnant, is it safe to be a vegetarian? Will my vegetarian children get the nutrients they need from a meatless diet?" |
 | French Provincial Cooking Product# 460767661 Selling for $16 "First published in 1962, Elizabeth David's culinary odyssey through provincial France forever changed the way we think about food. With elegant simplicity, David explores the authentic flavors and textures of time-honored cuisines from such provinces as Alsace, Provence, Brittany, and the Savoie. Full of cooking ideas and recipes, French Provincial Cooking is a scholarly yet straightforward celebration of the traditions of French regional cooking." |
 | Chocolate Chocolate Product# 460768406 Selling for $45 "A luscious cookbook demonstrating the art of baking with chocolate blends practical information and instruction in a variety of baking techniques with more than two hundred taste-tempting recipes, essays on chocolate, and personal reminiscences." |