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Chicken Lo Mein Recipe – Chinese Food
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Thermos Foogo Leak-Proof Stainless Steel 10-Ounce Food Jar, Pink $12.00 Ideal for keeping meals deliciously hot or refreshingly cold while you’re on-the-go, the Thermos Foogo Phases Vacuum Insulated Food Jar (10 Ounces, Pink) offers superior insulation technology. Compact and portable, the Food Jar features a wide-mouth design, providing easy access for eating directly out of the jar. The TherMax double-wall vacuum-insulation keeps food cold for seven hours or hot for… |
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Stainless Steel Vegetable Cutters #K8444 100% Made in Japan!! $3.85 Set of 4 stainless steel cutters for vegetables and canapes. These cutters measure 1 inch in diameter and stand 1 1/2 inches tall. Great for carrots, zuchinni and yam slices!… |
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Thermos Nissan 12-Ounce Stainless-Steel Tea Tumbler with Infuser $15.50 .Vacuum Insulated Stainless Steel Tea Tumbler with Infuser. TherMax double wall vacuum insulation for maximum temperature retention. Unbreakable 18/8 stainless steel interior and exterior withstand the demands of everyday use. Leak-proof travel cover seals closed for carefree portability. Separate infuser and drink lids let you brew and enjoy, all in one container. Infuser lid lets you brew tea ri… |
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Two Weeks Notice (Widescreen) [DVD] (2004) DVD $2.24 You’d expect a cavalcade of cuteness from any pairing of Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant, but Two Weeks Notice admirably avoids the obvious. You get plenty of Bullock’s pratfalls and feisty sex appeal, and Grant’s snappy comebacks are never in short supply, but first-time writer-director Marc Lawrence (who wrote Bullock’s previous hit, Miss Congeniality) adds just enough antagonism to keep this… |
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12 Pack Kids Party Favor Super Songs CD (Packaged in carrying case with Stickers, Crayons and Coloring Book) $34.50 This 12 Pack Kids Party Favor Super Songs CD will be a big hit at your next birthday party. This party favor set includes 12 individual activity kits. Each kit has: 1 CD with 50 Super Songs that kids are sure to love (see track listing for entire list of songs), Stickers, Crayons and a Coloring Book all packaged in a convenient carrying case. This product is a perfect party favor to hand out at yo… |
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The Heart of the Dragon Episode 3 ; Eating ; How China Can Support a Population That Continues to Grow VHS looks at the methods of food production in use in China today, 57 minutes… |
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Chinese Garnishes [VHS] $24.95 Running time: approximately 31 minutes…. |
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Roger Hong’s Chinese Vedeo Cookbook Chicken $14.99 VHS tape includes demonstration of Hong’s cutting and boning instructions along with classic chinese chicken recipes… |
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Acupressure Mat | Acupuncture Mat for Back Pain Relief | #1 Back Pain Treatment | (nail bed or spike mat) (Green) $36.95 The Nayoya Acupressure Mat uses the benefits of acupuncture and acupressure to help the body repair itself, and heal itself from all kinds of stress such as back pain, fatigue, insomnia, high blood pressure, and muscular soreness. The Acupuncture points on the Nayoya Acupressure Mat stimulate the body to release endorphins, feel good hormones because they have a calming, soothing effect on the m… |
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10 Steps to a Vibrant Lifestyle $5.99 Are you ready to take the steps to live a healthier life?The following ten categories of health will make a huge improvement in your life. You will not only feel better physically, but you will also have that positive mental health that is so vital to your spirit.You’ll feel healthier, younger and more energetic if you pay attention to your lifestyle in all 10 areas…•Add Exercise•Healthy Eating•Skin Care•Antioxidants•Alternative Medicines•Heart Health•Sleep Importance•Positive Attitudes•Balance Your Life•Manage StressOnce you start paying attention to these vital 10 areas, you’ll immediately discover they are… …The 10 Steps to a Vibrant Lifestyle!Here’s some of what you’ll discover inside:•The hidden benefits of exercise.•Not sure whether to go for a run or ride your bike? Here’s the best strategy for adding exercise to your life.•What exactly are Pilates and do they live up to the hype?•Simple tricks for making exercise a fun, daily part of your lifestyle.•How to build a fitness routine in small steps, so you don’t burn out.•4 forms of Chinese exercise that can be fun to add to your daily routine.•Simple strategies for preventing arthritis.•A quick breakdown on managing the 5 food groups in plain English.•The simple science of losing weight explained.•Stop fad dieting to finally lose weight and stay there.•How to reduce sugar in recipes by two thirds and still keep a sweet taste.•An easy way to reduce salt in recipes without losing flavor.•3 causes of wrinkles and how to prevent them.•methods for treating wrinkles without cortisone.•Why does your body need antioxidants and |
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100 Challenging Crosswords $0.01 Enjoy hours of challenging crosswords—with none of that annoying “crosswordese.” Work your brain on 100 puzzles, and try to come up with a pair of related answers in each one—for example, FRIEDRICH (“Philosopher Nietzsche”) and FRIED RICE (“Chinese Food Dish”), which differ by only one letter. Perfect for taking on trips, when you’re spending time waiting, or when you just need to unwind. |
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100 Challenging Crosswords $5.71 Enjoy hours of challenging crosswords–with none of that annoying “crosswordese.” Work your brain on 100 puzzles, and try to come up with a pair of related answers in each one–for example, FRIEDRICH (“Philosopher Nietzsche”) and FRIED RICE (“Chinese Food Dish”), which differ by only one letter. Perfect for taking on trips, when you’re spending time waiting, or when you just need to unwind. |
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100 Classic Chinese and Thai Recipes: A Collection of Low-Fat, Full-Flavour Dishes from South-East Asia, All Shown Step-by-Step in More Than 380 Vibrant and Tempting Photographs $16.99 This beautifully photographed book is a wonderful kitchen guide to Chinese and Thai food and cooking, bringing together the nutritious and aromatic ingredients, culinary customs and the traditional recipes of these regions. The wide selection of dishes are all low in fat and are ideal to include as part of an everyday healthy and low-fat eating plan. |
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1000 Vegetarian Recipes $1.96 1,000 Vegetarian Recipes Have you been searching for a collection of delicious vegetarian recipes? What about easy-to-prepare vegetarian recipes, or those that are healthful? Then 1,000 Vegetarian Recipes is the book for you—no other vegetarian cookbook comes even close. Author Carol Gelles has spent years creating recipes for a variety of tastes and needs, whether you're a beginner vegetarian, long-time vegetarian, or someone trying to eat meatless meals just a couple of times each week for better health. If you're a vegan (a vegetarian who doesn't eat eggs or dairy products), you've probably been frustrated in the past by vegetarian cookbooks that don't address your needs. Again, no other cookbook offers you as many choices as 1,000 Vegetarian Recipes, with hundreds of vegan recipes throughout (all clearly marked with a "V" at the tops of the recipes). And many of the lacto-ovo vegetarian recipes include vegan variations. You probably already know that the vegetarian lifestyle is a healthy one, but if you're looking specifically for low-fat recipes, those dishes are specially marked with a "healthy heart" symbol for easy reference. In addition to the 1,000 recipes, Gelles offers a bounty of information on vegetarian food, including cooking charts for beans and grains; shopping lists for stocking the vegetarian pantry; a glossary of ingredients; a lesson on the health benefits of a meatless diet; and menu-planning advice, with menu suggestions for every taste—Chinese, French, Mexican, Indian, and more. Whether you already own a dozen vegetarian cookbooks, or this will be your first, 1,000 Vegetarian Recipes is the one cookbook a vegetarian can't do without. A Few of the Delicious Meatless RecipesOlive CaviarBlack Bean HummusCorn FrittersLeek and Wild Rice SoupStuffed Young EggplantsSpiced Couscous with Diced VegetablesSpringtime PastaBulgur with Summer |
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101 Chinese Recipes $3.99 01 Chinese Recipesby Aroona ReejhsinganiEverybody today seems to be crazy about Chinese food! But if the children want it the every second day,you cannot possibly afford heavy restaurant bills!Here is a handy solution –with a great variety of Chinese recipes to turn you into the world`s greatest mom and wife!This book brings you the finest Chinese recipes,–some you have tasted before,and many others which you have not–but would love to!Ranging from the hot favorites like Fried Rice Manchurian, Chilly Chicken to exotic delights like Cloud Swallows, Steamed bao-tse, Fragrant Chicken, Chinese Mixed Grill the book brings you many delightfully delicious dishes. friends disappears…Reviews:The author, Aroona Reejsinghani, is a renowned gourmet and has 125 cookery books to her credit.She could even claim to be the pioneer in popularizing Chinese cooking in India.She brought out her first book in 1972, when Chinese cooking was not so popular,and it created a major stir all over India.The salient features of the book:*Noodles — Lamb Chow, Yat Koi Mein, Chicken Mixed & Chow, China Town, Chinese Fried.*Desserts — Walnut Cakes, Three-sister`s, Almond jelly, Exotic Chinese.*Snacks — Turnip Patties, Prawns on Toast, Fried Lotus Stem or Bhei, Chinese Meat & Egg Cakes, Chiao-tzu with lamb stuffing, Spring rolls.*Fried Meat Cakes… and a long list!Glossary tables of equivalent regional language terms is included for ready reference to specific material.For an author bio and photo, reviews and a reading sample, visit www.pustakmahal.comFor addition information on publishing your books on iBook,iPhone And iPad please visit www.AppsPublisher.com |
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101 Things to Do with Ramen Noodles $6.43 Expand your ramen repertoire with an amazingly inventive and unique addition to the million-copy-selling “101″ series:101 Things to do with Ramen Noodles. Ramen is fast, easy, and filling, but what can be done to spruce it up and give it a whole new life? How about recipes like: Creamy Chicken Noodle Soup Summer Garden Soup Zucchini Salad Creamy Beef and Broccoli NoodlesRamen BurgersChicken AlfredoPork Chop RamenTuna Noodle CasseroleGarlic Noodle SauteBeer Noodles (the ultimate college crowd pleaser!)Chinese Veggie Noodles Corny Cheese Noodles As a student at the University of Northern Colorado, Toni Patrick came up with creative and quick ways to make ramen noodles. These recipes tasted great and fit into her tight budget and busy schedule. Even today, several yearsafter graduating, she still enjoys cooking with ramen noodles. Toni is also the author of 101 Things to Do with Mac & Cheese and 101 Things to Do with Canned Biscuits. She currently lives in Walden, Colorado. |
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14th-Century Chinese People $14.14 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 14th-Century Chinese Monarchs, Hongwu Emperor, Jayaatu Khan, Emperor Wenzong of Yuan, Temür Khan, Emperor Chengzong of Yuan, Ayurbarwada Buyantu Khan, Emperor Renzong of Yuan, Külüg Khan, Emperor Wuzong of Yuan, Ukhaantu Khan, Emperor Huizong of Yuan, Gegeen Khan, Emperor Yingzong of Yuan, Yesün Temür Khan, Emperor Taiding of Yuan, Khutughtu Khan, Emperor Mingzong of Yuan, Ragibagh Khan, Emperor Tianshun of Yuan, Jianwen Emperor, Rinchinbal Khan, Emperor Ningzong of Yuan, Song Lian, ni Wenjun. Excerpt: The Hongwu Emperor (Chinese: ; Wade-Giles: Hung-wu Ti; October 21, 1328 June 24, 1398), known variably by his given name Zhu Yuanzhang (Chinese: ; Wade-Giles: Chu Yuan-chang) and by the temple name Taizu of the Ming (Chinese: ) was the founder and first emperor (136898) of the Ming Dynasty of China. His era name, Hongwu, means “great military power”. In the middle of the 1300s, with famine, plagues and peasant revolts sweeping across China, Zhu became a leader of an army that conquered China, ending the Yuan Dynasty and forcing the Mongols to retreat to the Mongolian steppes. With his seizure of the Yuan capital Dadu (present-day Beijing), he claimed the Mandate of Heaven and established the Ming Dynasty in the year 1368. Zhu Yuanzhang was born in 1328 in a village in Zhongli (, modern day Fengyang, Anhui) as the youngest of eight sons. His family were poor peasants and he grew up under conditions of great hardship. Because his family did not have enough food, several of his siblings were “given away” by his parents. When he was 16 the Yellow River broke its banks and flooded the lands where his family was living. This was quickly followed by the plague in which his father, Zhu Shizhen (, original name Zhu Wusi ) died, followed |
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180 Best-Ever Chinese Recipes: A Fabulous Collection of Classic Dishes from All Over China and South-East Asia, Shown in 170 Stunning Photographs $10.38 This fabulous collection of 180 dishes celebrates the much-loved cuisine of China and South-east Asia. The specially selected recipes provide a wide variety of tasty and exciting meals, from much-loved Chinese classics, to less well-known dishes. |
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2007 animal deaths: 2007 food protein contamination, 2007 racehorse deaths, Chinese protein adulteration, 2007 pet food recalls $19.99 Source: Wikipedia,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by General Books LLC |
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2007 food protein contamination: Chinese protein adulteration, 2007 pet food recalls, Timeline of the 2007 pet food recalls, Melamine $14.14 Source: Wikipedia,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by General Books LLC |
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2008 British Television Programme Debuts $23.84 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Wallander, I’d Do Anything, Ross Kemp in Afghanistan, Survivors, Merlin, Are You an Egghead?, Lark Rise to Candleford, the One and Only, Beautiful People, Lost in Austen, Wild China, the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, Britannia High, the Palace, Ashes to Ashes, Dead Set, House of Saddam, Last Choir Standing, Being Human, Little Dorrit, Never Better, Around the World in 80 Gardens, Life in Cold Blood, Spooks: Code 9, Gladiators, the Inbetweeners, Bonekickers, Beat the Star, Fossil Detectives, Apparitions, Mistresses, Hole in the Wall, Police Interceptors, Bingo Night Live, Echo Beach, Country House Rescue, Brainbox Challenge, Rock Rivals, Moving Wallpaper, Headcases, the World’s Strictest Parents, Lily Allen and Friends, Thank God You’re Here, Battle of the Brains, the Supersizers…, Clone, Inspector George Gently, Maestro, Lab Rats, Duel, White, When Were We Funniest?, the Wrong Door, the Royal Today, Basil’s Swap Shop, Richard Hammond’s Engineering Connections, Britain’s Missing Top Model, the Invisibles, Don’t Forget the Lyrics!, City of Vice, the Baby Borrowers, a History of Scotland, Rory and Paddy’s Great British Adventure, Alan Carr’s Celebrity Ding Dong, Argumental, Casualty 1907, Parents of the Band, Catastrophe, Spin Star, Extreme Pilgrim, Sunshine, Teenage Kicks, the True Story, the What in the World? Quiz, the Family, Stephen Fry in America, Gordon Ramsay: Cookalong Live, Chinese Food Made Easy, Snog Marry Avoid?, Francesco’s Mediterranean Voyage, Honest, the Fixer, Empty, Fairy Tales, Celebrity Juice, the Last Millionaire, Britain From Above, Tony Robinson’s Crime and Punishment, the Art of Spain, the Five Thirty Show, the Dark Side of Fame With Piers Morgan, Who Dares Sings, Wogan’s Perfect Recall, the Wall, Nightwatch With Steve Scott, Mutual |
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2008 food protein contamination: 2008 Chinese milk scandal, Chinese protein adulteration, Fonterra, Melamine $14.14 Source: Wikipedia,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by General Books LLC |
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30 Secrets of the World’s Healthiest Cuisines: Global Eating Tips and Recipes from China, France, Japan, the Mediterranean, Africa, and Scandinavia $2.96 Discover the most delicious ways to eat healthier from around the world!We all know that eating healthier is easier said than done. New diets pop up every few months; the only problem is that the food choices are often too bland and there’s usually little variety in the dishes you can eat. 30 Secrets of the World’s Healthiest Cuisines is about to change all that. In a delicious departure from the nutrition-through-sacrifice school of cooking, this book celebrates the international and the flavorful with a healthy twist. You’ll find out how to use the most healthful nutritional principles and ingredients from the world’s major cuisines to create one fabulous, healthy global eating program.30 Secrets of the World’s Healthiest Cuisines blends the latest nutrition research with information about the culinary histories and traditions of a number of major countries and regions around the world. By incorporating this culinary wisdom into your diet, you can reduce your chances of developing a number of major diet-related diseases such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and osteoporosis. You can also feel better, look better, and be happier. Packed with practical tips to increase the disease-fighting power of your diet, this book will:Reveal the healthy Mediterranean eating secrets that can help you lower your risk of heart diseaseUncover the Chinese diet that has led to lower rates of cancer and diabetes in ChinaDivulge the truth about how the French often enjoy rich sauces, triple-fat cheeses, red wine, duck-liver pâté, and chocolate mousse and still stay thin and healthyExplain how Japanese dishes and drinks can potentially help you reduce your risk of cancer and heart diseaseExplore the wealth of vegetables and grains in the tasty foods of the west coast of AfricaAlong with the nutrition and health information featured in this book, a host of cooking professionals have contributed recipes to help you bring home |
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30 Secrets of the World’s Healthiest Cuisines: Global Eating Tips and Recipes from China, France, Japan, the Mediterranean, Africa, and Scandinavia $1.99 Discover the most delicious ways to eat healthier from around the world!We all know that eating healthier is easier said than done. New diets pop up every few months; the only problem is that the food choices are often too bland and there’s usually little variety in the dishes you can eat. 30 Secrets of the World’s Healthiest Cuisines is about to change all that. In a delicious departure from the nutrition-through-sacrifice school of cooking, this book celebrates the international and the flavorful with a healthy twist. You’ll find out how to use the most healthful nutritional principles and ingredients from the world’s major cuisines to create one fabulous, healthy global eating program.30 Secrets of the World’s Healthiest Cuisines blends the latest nutrition research with information about the culinary histories and traditions of a number of major countries and regions around the world. By incorporating this culinary wisdom into your diet, you can reduce your chances of developing a number of major diet-related diseases such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and osteoporosis. You can also feel better, look better, and be happier. Packed with practical tips to increase the disease-fighting power of your diet, this book will:Reveal the healthy Mediterranean eating secrets that can help you lower your risk of heart diseaseUncover the Chinese diet that has led to lower rates of cancer and diabetes in ChinaDivulge the truth about how the French often enjoy rich sauces, triple-fat cheeses, red wine, duck-liver pâté, and chocolate mousse and still stay thin and healthyExplain how Japanese dishes and drinks can potentially help you reduce your risk of cancer and heart diseaseExplore the wealth of vegetables and grains in the tasty foods of the west coast of AfricaAlong with the nutrition and health information featured in this book, a host of cooking professionals have contributed |
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324 $14.14 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 324, Battle of Chrysopolis, Battle of Adrianople, Battle of the Hellespont, List of State Leaders in 324. Excerpt: Zhang Bin (Chinese : ; died 323), courtesy name Mengsun (), formally Marquess Jing of Puyang (), was a key strategist for Shi Le , the founder of the Chinese /Jie state Later Zhao .Biography Zhang Bin’s father Zhang Yao () was a commandery governing during the early Jin Dynasty (265-420) . Zhang Bin was studious in his youth, and once, comparing himself to the great strategist Zhang Liang , said, “I believe my intelligence and judgment to be no less than Zhang Liang’s, but I have not met Gaozu (Liu Bang, the founder of Han Dynasty ).” He served on the staff of a Jin prince, but was not trusted, and so he resigned his post.Later, after various agrarian rebellions started against Jin rule during the late reign of Emperor Hui of Jin , Zhang happened to meet Shi, and believed that Shi was the most capable general he met, and so he joined Shi’s army. Initially, Shi did not consider him important, but after they became more acquainted, Shi began to value his advice more and more. In 311, when Shi, who was then a Han Zhao general who was winning many battles but failing to hold territory, considered capturing the region between the Yangtze River and the Han River , it was Zhang who advised him against the plan, apparently reasoning that Shi’s army was suitable for mobility on the plains, not the river- and lake-filled region near the Yangtze. In 312, when Shi’s army was facing a food shortage and worried about an attack from the Jin general Sima Rui (later Emperor Yuan), Shi’s other main strategist Diao Ying () suggested offering to declare loyalty for Jin, which Zhang told Shi would be impossible, given the great enmity that Jin forces had for Shi after his |
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4 World-Famous Chinese Green T $25.49 4 World-Famous Chinese Green T |
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400 Thai & Chinese: Delicious Recipes for Healthy Living: Tempting Spicy and Aromatic Dishes from South-East Asia Adapted Into No-Fat and Low-Fat Vers $16.14 400 Thai & Chinese: Delicious Recipes for Healthy Living: Tempting Spicy and Aromatic Dishes from South-East Asia Adapted Into No-Fat and Low-Fat Vers |
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A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts: A Collection of Deliciously Frightening Tales $14.44 According to Chinese tradition, those who die hungry or unjustly come back to haunt the living. Some are appeased with food. But not all ghosts are successfully mollified. In this chilling collection of stories, Ying Chang Compestine takes readers on a journey through time and across different parts of China. From the building of the GreatWall in 200 BCE to themodern day of iPods, hungry ghosts continue to torment those who wronged them. At once a window into the history and culture of China and an ode to Chinese cuisine, this assortment of frightening tales–complete with historical notes and delectable recipes–will both scare and satiate! |
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A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts: A Collection of Deliciously Frightening Tales $0.01 According to Chinese tradition, those who die hungry or unjustly come back to haunt the living. Some are appeased with food. But not all ghosts are successfully mollified. In this chilling collection of stories,Ying Chang Compestine takes readers on a journey through time and across different parts of China. From the building of the GreatWall in 200 BCE to themodern day of iPods, hungry ghosts continue to torment those who wronged them. At once a window into the history and culture of China and an ode to Chinese cuisine, this assortment of frightening tales—complete with historical notes and delectable recipes—will both scare and satiate! |
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A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts: A Collection of Deliciously Frightening Tales $9.99 According to Chinese tradition, those who die hungry or unjustly come back to haunt the living. Some are appeased with food. But not all ghosts are successfully mollified. In this chilling collection of stories,Ying Chang Compestine takes readers on a journey through time and across different parts of China. From the building of the GreatWall in 200 BCE to themodern day of iPods, hungry ghosts continue to torment those who wronged them. At once a window into the history and culture of China and an ode to Chinese cuisine, this assortment of frightening tales—complete with historical notes and delectable recipes—will both scare and satiate! |
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A Food Lover’s Guide to the Eight Great Traditions of Chinese Cuisine $16.19 Jo Burns,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Webster’s Digital Services |
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A Frequency Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese: Core Vocabulary for Learners $27.37 A Frequency Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese is an invaluable tool for all learners of Mandarin Chinese, providing a list of the 5,000 words and the 2,000 Chinese characters (simplified) most commonly used in the language. Based on a fifty-million-word corpus composed of spoken, fiction, non-fiction and news texts in current use, the dictionary provides the user with a detailed frequency-based list, as well as alphabetical and part-of-speech indexes.All entries in the frequency list feature the English equivalent and a sample sentence with English translation. The Dictionary also contains thirty thematically organized lists of frequently used words on a variety of topics such as food, weather, travel and time expressions.A Frequency Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese enables students of all levels to maximize their study of Mandarin vocabulary in an efficient and engaging way. It is also an excellent resource for teachers of the language.A CD version is available to purchase separately. Designed for use by corpus and computational linguists it provides the full text in a format that researchers can process and turn into suitable lists for their own research work. |
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A Shepherd in Combat Boots: Chaplain Emil Kapaun of the 1st Cavalry Division $17.95 Early in the Korean War Chinese forces surrounded troops of the 1st Cavalry Division. Try to escape, the American soldiers warned catholic chaplain Emil Kapaun. However, he refused to leave his wounded comrades and became a POW. His decision marked a turning point in the inspiring life of this young priest.Raised on a farm in Kansas, Kapaun served as pastor in his hometown until he became an army chaplain during World War II. The book describes the beginning of the Korean conflict and how Chinese forces surrounded Kapaun and other cavalrymen in the freezing hills of North Korea.Kapaun’s faith and courage on the battlefield and in prison set an example for hundreds of young American captives. When they were starving, he stole food for them. If the men needed encouragement, he defied prison rules and prayed with them. When the communist guards mocked his faith in God, the chaplain publicly defended his beliefs.When Kapaun became sick, the communists denied him medicine and watched him die in their vermin-infested “hospital.” However, they could not extinguish the memories of how he served other prisoners. The army awarded the chaplain the Distinguished Service Cross and the Vatican named him “Servant of God.” This book is a well-documented biography of an extraordinary person. |
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A Short Stint in Tibet: Captured by Chinese Horse Soldiers, a Couple is Taken on a Wild Journey of Body and Mind $29.33 Seeking adventure, a couple, Ernst and Emilie, embark on a trek across the Himalayas, from Nepal into western Tibet. After a clandestine mountain crossing at the source of the Brahmaputra River, the two lost explorers find themselves destitute with no map and meager supplies. Suddenly, they are captured by a bedraggled patrol of outcasts from the Chinese Army. Their trip turns into a wild odyssey as they become “prisoners” of this ragtag group of wacky characters.Dripping wet and shivering, we found refuge in a shack adjoining the collection of drowning huts from which we had escaped. It turned out to be the Tibetan version of an inn, a dank room with a dirt floor, one shaky iron table and two crude benches. Rain drummed on the corrugated tin ceiling and pissed through holes which made us, as soon as we sat down, keep shifting our bench to evade the worst waterfalls and the largest puddles. The tottering keeper, a clearly inebriated old man pointed in our Tibetan phrase book at “no food” and at “no drink”. “Nga amerika nay yin”, Emilie said. The Tibetan phrase book promised it meant: “We are Americans.” To judge from his reaction, it might as well have meant: “We found your son to be the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama.” |
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A Soup for the Qan: Chinese Dietary Medicine of the Mongol Era As Seen in Hu Sihui’s Yinshan Zhengyao: Introduction, Translation, Commentary, and Chinese Text. Second Revised and Expanded Edition $147 In the early 14th century, a court nutritionist called Hu Sihui wrote his Yinshan Zhengyao, a dietary and nutritional manual for the Chinese Mongol Empire. Hu Sihui, a man apparently with a Turkic linguistic background, included recipes, descriptions of food items, and dietary medical lore including selections from ancient texts, and thus reveals to us the full extent of an amazing cross-cultural dietary; here recipes can be found from as far as Arabia, Iran, India and elsewhere, next to those of course from Mongolia and China. Although the medical theories are largely Chinese, they clearly show Near Eastern and Central Asian influence. This long-awaited expanded and revised edition of the much-acclaimed A Soup for the Qan sheds (yet) new light on our knowledge of west Asian influence on China during the medieval period, and on the Mongol Empire in general. |
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A Spoonful of Ginger: Irresistible, Health-Giving Recipes from Asian Kitchens $18.95 A bestselling authority on Chinese cooking presents a groundbreaking cookbook with 200 delectable recipes based on the Asian philosophy of food as health-giving. in color. |
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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers $15 Brilliant and original, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers introduces a remarkable new writer whose breathtaking stories are set in China and among Chinese Americans in the United States. In this rich, astonishing collection, Yiyun Li illuminates how mythology, politics, history, and culture intersect with personality to create fate. From the bustling heart of Beijing, to a fast-food restaurant in Chicago, to the barren expanse of Inner Mongolia, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers reveals worlds both foreign and familiar, with heartbreaking honesty and in beautiful prose.“Immortality,” winner of The Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize for new writers, tells the story of a young man who bears a striking resemblance to a dictator and so finds a calling to immortality. In “The Princess of Nebraska,” a man and a woman who were both in love with a young actor in China meet again in America and try to reconcile the lost love with their new lives. “After a Life” illuminates the vagaries of marriage, parenthood, and gender, unfolding the story of a couple who keep a daughter hidden from the world. And in “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers,” in which a man visits America for the first time to see his recently divorced daughter, only to discover that all is not as it seems, Li boldly explores the effects of communism on language, faith, and an entire people, underlining transformation in its many meanings and incarnations.These and other daring stories form a mesmerizing tapestry of revelatory fiction by an unforgettable writer. |
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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers $11.99 Brilliant and original, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers introduces a remarkable new writer whose breathtaking stories are set in China and among Chinese Americans in the United States. In this rich, astonishing collection, Yiyun Li illuminates how mythology, politics, history, and culture intersect with personality to create fate. From the bustling heart of Beijing, to a fast-food restaurant in Chicago, to the barren expanse of Inner Mongolia, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers reveals worlds both foreign and familiar, with heartbreaking honesty and in beautiful prose.“Immortality,” winner of The Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize for new writers, tells the story of a young man who bears a striking resemblance to a dictator and so finds a calling to immortality. In “The Princess of Nebraska,” a man and a woman who were both in love with a young actor in China meet again in America and try to reconcile the lost love with their new lives. “After a Life” illuminates the vagaries of marriage, parenthood, and gender, unfolding the story of a couple who keep a daughter hidden from the world. And in “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers,” in which a man visits America for the first time to see his recently divorced daughter, only to discover that all is not as it seems, Li boldly explores the effects of communism on language, faith, and an entire people, underlining transformation in its many meanings and incarnations.These and other daring stories form a mesmerizing tapestry of revelatory fiction by an unforgettable writer. |
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ALOHA: Another World $15.47 “What, Where, and How Much” were the key concerns of the author’s life for the seventeen exciting years that he lived in the Far East. This epic journey started with him working for our Uncle Sam, sailing Chinese junks in the South China Sea. After leaving Uncle Sam, he started “smuggling” heavy boxes and people; money was hand-over-fist and a small fortune was banked.Honk Kong nightlife, with “Long Dress Dancers” and “Sing Sing Girls” was the tease of plenty of men, and every seaport town had its own specialty, offering “Silk and Lace” to the big spenders. You’ll be able to read and feel the night breeze of Singapore and see the steam coming off the food carts of Buogy Street, as people watch the “Playgirls on Parade.”Returning to Hawaii, where he had grown up in poverty on a sugarcane plantation, the author became a successful real estate developer, developing many projects, several of which changed the skyline of Honolulu. Romances along the way led to heartaches, the pain of which led him to his next pursuit: poetry…the Sun “Peeking” stole the night…”My Little Hummingbird” sat on air…and happiness was a new pair of shoes and a “Love Mate” I didn’t want to lose. |
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ALOHA: Another World $8.55 “What, Where, and How Much” were the key concerns of the author’s life for the seventeen exciting years that he lived in the Far East. This epic journey started with him working for our Uncle Sam, sailing Chinese junks in the South China Sea. After leaving Uncle Sam, he started “smuggling” heavy boxes and people; money was hand-over-fist and a small fortune was banked. Honk Kong nightlife, with “Long Dress Dancers” and “Sing Sing Girls” was the tease of plenty of men, and every seaport town had its own specialty, offering “Silk and Lace” to the big spenders. You’ll be able to read and feel the night breeze of Singapore and see the steam coming off the food carts of Buogy Street, as people watch the “Playgirls on Parade.” Returning to Hawaii, where he had grown up in poverty on a sugarcane plantation, the author became a successful real estate developer, developing many projects, several of which changed the skyline of Honolulu. Romances along the way led to heartaches, the pain of which led him to his next pursuit: poetry…the Sun “Peeking” stole the night…”My Little Hummingbird” sat on air…and happiness was a new pair of shoes and a “Love Mate” I didn’t want to lose. |
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Accidental Vegan $8.5 Eating vegan doesn’t have to be hard. These days, home cooks are seeking out simple recipes that unite hearty, satisfying taste with the perks of vegan food–it’s healthy, fresh, economical, lactose-free, ethical, and environmentally sustainable. Omnivorous chef Devra Gartenstein accidentally fell into the vegan world more than ten years ago, and she stuck around for the benefits to her body, her tastebuds, and the world around her. Never one to fuss in the kitchen, Devra has packed this new edition of her pioneering cookbook with more than 180 basic-ingredient, quick-instruction, maximum-flavor recipes. With appetizers, soups, mains, sides, and desserts inspired by Indian, Thai, Chinese, Middle Eastern, Mexican, Greek, and Italian cuisines, THE ACCIDENTAL VEGAN is sure to have vegans and nonvegans alike clamoring for more. |
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Across Asia on a Bicycle: The Journey of Two Americans Students from Constantinople to Peking $7.65 In June of 1890, two young men left on an epic journey. The day after graduating from Washington University, they set out to circle the world on bicycles. Over the next three years they would travel over 15,000 miles, completing what was at that time the “longest continuous land journey ever made around the world.”Their goal was to complete their college education by getting to know the people of the world face to face, unhampered by guides and translators. To do that, they chose to travel by a new invention, the modern bicycle. Everywhere they went, their bicycles opened doors, simulating a curiosity that served far better than any passport or letter of introduction would.This book, back in print for the first time in over a century, is their description of their trip across Asia in 1891-92. In many cases, these two young men provide us with one last glimpse of cultures that would soon be forever altered by the arrival of the rail and telegraph.The change in circumstance they experienced from one day to the next was often amazing. One day they might sleep in a bug-infested hovel and wash in a typhoid-infected ditch. The next they might find themselves being entertained by a Persian khan, catching fleeting glimpses of his harem, or being fed lavishly by a Chinese mandarin. Throughout their trip they talked with and bought food from the poorest of the poor. Yet at the end of their Asian journey, they were interviewed by Li-Hung Chang, the most powerful man in the world’s most populous nation.Along the way and almost incidentally, the two men became the first Americans to scale Mount Ararat in Turkey (16,940 feet or 5165 meters high). At that time on six other parties claimed to have climbed the mountain and the most recent ascent had been fifteen years earlier. |
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Airport Interiors: Design for Business $49.13 In the last decade, a great deal of excitement has been generated around the architecture of contemporary airports. It is, however, the inside rather than the outside of airport terminals that have undergone the most substantial design revolution. With increased security, passengers spend an increasing amount of time in airports airside awaiting flights. Airport operators have capitalised on this captive audience, becoming increasingly sophisticated in their provision of facilities, as suppliers of much more than essential amenities and mini shopping malls. Airlines also seek to express their competitive advantage through their lounges and adjacent spaces; and retailers and food and beverage providers are producing attractive, often localised spaces for visitors. The operators are keen to differentiate the quality of their terminals whether it is through pitching at a luxury goods market, with top name brands, or endowing their interior spaces with a unique sense of place. This book is not only one of the first titles to focus on airports’ interior design, but also to realise for both a design and business readership the financial and strategic importance of airport interior design.Airport Interiors features exemplary case studies from all over the world, including: the Malaysian luxury-goods retailer Valiram; duty-free retail in Bangkok’s Suvarnbhumi Airport; the UK restaurant chain Giraffe; leading lounge concepts from Virgin Atlantic; and the innovative airport retail outlets of Chinese brand Shanghai Tang. While providing designers with a unique understanding of business needs, the book also highlights to operators and retailers how high the design bar is set in this competitive field. |
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Alice, Let’s Eat: Further Adventures of a Happy Eater $0.01 “Trillin is our funniest food writer. He writes with charm, freedom, and a rare respect for language.”–New York magazineIn this delightful and delicious book, Calvin Trillin, guided by an insatiable appetite, embarks on a hilarious odyssey in search of “something decent to eat.” Across time zones and cultures, and often with his wife, Alice, at his side, Trillin shares his triumphs in the art of culinary discovery, including Dungeness crabs in California, barbecued mutton in Kentucky, potato latkes in London, blaff d’oursins in Martinique, and a $33 picnic on a no-frills flight to Miami. His eating companions include Fats Goldberg, the New York pizza baron and reformed blimp; William Edgett Smith, the man with the Naughahyde palate; and his six-year-old daughter, Sarah, who refuses to enter a Chinese restaurant unless she is carrying a bagel (“just in case”). And though Alice “has a weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a day,” on the road she proves to be a serious eater–despite “seemingly uncontrollable attacks of moderation.” Alice, Let Eat amply demonstrates why The New Republic called Calvin Trillin “a classic American humorist.”“One of the most brilliant humorists of our times . . . Trillin is guaranteed good reading.”–Charleston Post and Courier“Read Trillin and laugh out loud.”–Time |
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Alice, Let’s Eat: Further Adventures of a Happy Eater $11.99 “Trillin is our funniest food writer. He writes with charm, freedom, and a rare respect for language.”–New York magazineIn this delightful and delicious book, Calvin Trillin, guided by an insatiable appetite, embarks on a hilarious odyssey in search of “something decent to eat.” Across time zones and cultures, and often with his wife, Alice, at his side, Trillin shares his triumphs in the art of culinary discovery, including Dungeness crabs in California, barbecued mutton in Kentucky, potato latkes in London, blaff d’oursins in Martinique, and a $33 picnic on a no-frills flight to Miami. His eating companions include Fats Goldberg, the New York pizza baron and reformed blimp; William Edgett Smith, the man with the Naughahyde palate; and his six-year-old daughter, Sarah, who refuses to enter a Chinese restaurant unless she is carrying a bagel (“just in case”). And though Alice “has a weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a day,” on the road she proves to be a serious eater–despite “seemingly uncontrollable attacks of moderation.” Alice, Let Eat amply demonstrates why The New Republic called Calvin Trillin “a classic American humorist.”“One of the most brilliant humorists of our times . . . Trillin is guaranteed good reading.”–Charleston Post and Courier“Read Trillin and laugh out loud.”–Time |
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Alternative Medicine?: A History $21.95 Walk into your local health food shop or pick up the local paper, and youll see ads for meditation, acupuncture, herbal supplements, Tai Chi classes, homeopaths, faith healers, and Chinese herbalists. But what exactly is alternative medicine? Is the astonishing popularity of alternative and multicultural medicine really such a recent development? Comparing the medical systems of China, India, and the west (both mainstream and alternative), this volume ranges across four centuries and many continents, mapping the transmission of medical expertise from one culture to another and laying bare the roots of today’s distinctions between alternative, complementary, and orthodox medicine. Historian Roberta Bivens uses a wealth of illuminating and entertaining historical examples—from horse-racing English earls to desperate missionaries in 17th-century Indonesia, and from hypnotism in the British Raj to homeopathy in the American Wild West—to underscore the vital point that the cross-cultural transmission of medical knowledge and expertise, even alternative medical knowledge and expertise, is not a uniquely contemporary phenomenon, but has a long and fascinating pedigree. Through comparisons of different medical innovations and importations across different cultures, the book illuminates the twin processes of medical and historical change as seen through the eyes of the medical professionals and consumers of the day. It traces for example the responses in nineteenth-century India to two western alternative medicines (homeopathy and mesmerism) and one staple of mainstream western medicine (germ theory). Given the success of modern biomedical science, why are alternative and traditional treatments now so fashionable? This fascinating volume sheds light on this trend as it offers a sweeping comparative account of alternative medicine over four hundred years. |
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Alternative Medicine?: A History $37.95 Walk into your local health food shop or pick up the local paper, and youll see ads for meditation, acupuncture, herbal supplements, Tai Chi classes, homeopaths, faith healers, and Chinese herbalists. But what exactly is alternative medicine? Is the astonishing popularity of alternative and multicultural medicine really such a recent development? Comparing the medical systems of China, India, and the west (both mainstream and alternative), this volume ranges across four centuries and many continents, mapping the transmission of medical expertise from one culture to another and laying bare the roots of today’s distinctions between alternative, complementary, and orthodox medicine. Historian Roberta Bivens uses a wealth of illuminating and entertaining historical examples—from horse-racing English earls to desperate missionaries in 17th-century Indonesia, and from hypnotism in the British Raj to homeopathy in the American Wild West—to underscore the vital point that the cross-cultural transmission of medical knowledge and expertise, even alternative medical knowledge and expertise, is not a uniquely contemporary phenomenon, but has a long and fascinating pedigree. Through comparisons of different medical innovations and importations across different cultures, the book illuminates the twin processes of medical and historical change as seen through the eyes of the medical professionals and consumers of the day. It traces for example the responses in nineteenth-century India to two western alternative medicines (homeopathy and mesmerism) and one staple of mainstream western medicine (germ theory). Given the success of modern biomedical science, why are alternative and traditional treatments now so fashionable? This fascinating volume sheds light on this trend as it offers a sweeping comparative account of alternative medicine over four hundred years. |
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Alternative Medicine?: A History $22.99 Walk into your local health food shop or pick up the local paper, and youll see ads for meditation, acupuncture, herbal supplements, Tai Chi classes, homeopaths, faith healers, and Chinese herbalists. But what exactly is alternative medicine? Is the astonishing popularity of alternative and multicultural medicine really such a recent development? Comparing the medical systems of China, India, and the west (both mainstream and alternative), this volume ranges across four centuries and many continents, mapping the transmission of medical expertise from one culture to another and laying bare the roots of today’s distinctions between alternative, complementary, and orthodox medicine. Historian Roberta Bivens uses a wealth of illuminating and entertaining historical examples—from horse-racing English earls to desperate missionaries in 17th-century Indonesia, and from hypnotism in the British Raj to homeopathy in the American Wild West—to underscore the vital point that the cross-cultural transmission of medical knowledge and expertise, even alternative medical knowledge and expertise, is not a uniquely contemporary phenomenon, but has a long and fascinating pedigree. Through comparisons of different medical innovations and importations across different cultures, the book illuminates the twin processes of medical and historical change as seen through the eyes of the medical professionals and consumers of the day. It traces for example the responses in nineteenth-century India to two western alternative medicines (homeopathy and mesmerism) and one staple of mainstream western medicine (germ theory). Given the success of modern biomedical science, why are alternative and traditional treatments now so fashionable? This fascinating volume sheds light on this trend as it offers a sweeping comparative account of alternative medicine over four hundred years. |
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Alternative Therapies for Cancer and Common Ailments: A Practical Guide to the Healing Properties of Chinese Herbal Remedies and Health Food $15.64 Joseph P. Hou, Youyu Jin,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Authorhouse |
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American Heart Association Quick & Easy Meals: More Than 200 Healthy Recipes Plus Time-Saving Tips for Shopping, Planning, and Eating Well $26.99 If you’re like most other busy Americans, you’d love to prepare more healthy meals for your family but find it hard to make the time. The good news is that with a little planning and the clock-conscious recipes in American Heart Association Quick & Easy Meals, you can cook a nutritious dinner for your family faster than you can pick up take-out, buy a packaged meal at the grocery store, or get food delivered. You’ll also conserve money and greatly trim the amount of calories, saturated and trans fat, sodium, and cholesterol in your meals. This collection of more than 200 recipes will help you put a delicious and healthy meal on the table tonight—and every night—in just minutes. Many recipes, including more than 60 entrées, are ready in 25 minutes or less from start to finish, and American Heart Association Quick & Easy Meals also contains a wide variety of flavors and cuisines that appeal to today’s eclectic tastes. In this cookbook, you’ll find 50 new recipes, including:   • Edamame, Salmon, and Pasta Salad   • Chicken Biryani   • Chinese-Style Chicken Soup with Fresh Ginger   • Oven-Fried Zucchini with Salsa Dip   • Middle Eastern Spiced Beef   • Cranberry-Topped Meat Loaf   • Crustless Mushroom and Spinach Pie   • Vegetable, Bean, and Barley Stew   • Chutney Salmon   • Double Decker Pumpkin CupcakesTo manage mealtimes and meet your lifestyle needs, you can choose from dozens of entrée recipes that fall into one of the following categories:   • No Shopping |
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Amphetamine Alkaloids $14.14 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ephedra, from the plant Ephedra sinica, has been used as a herbal remedy in traditional Chinese medicine for the treatment of asthma and hay fever, as well as for the common cold. Known in Chinese as ma huang (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: má huáng), ephedra is a stimulant that constricts blood vessels and increases blood pressure and heart rate. Several additional species belonging to the genus Ephedra have traditionally been used for a variety of medicinal purposes and are a possible candidate for the Soma plant of Indo-Iranian religion. Native Americans and Mormon pioneers drank a tea brewed from an Ephedra, called Mormon Tea, but North American ephedras lack the alkaloids found in species such as E. sinica. Ephedra-containing dietary supplements have been linked to a high rate of serious side effects and a number of deaths, leading to concern from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and the medical community. However, initial efforts to test and regulate ephedra were defeated by lobbying and political pressure from the dietary supplement industry. Ultimately, in response to accumulating evidence of adverse effects and deaths related to ephedra, the FDA banned the sale of ephedra-containing supplements on April 12, 2004. Following a legal challenge by an ephedra manufacturer, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit upheld the FDA’s ban of ephedra in 2006. The sale of ephedra-containing dietary supplements remains illegal in the United States due to evidence of adverse ephedra-related effects. Following the FDA’s ban, the supplement industry has marketed “ephedrine-free” or “legal” ephedra products, in which the ephedra is replaced with o… |
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Amusement Parks in China: Window of the World, Happy Valley Beijing, World Chocolate Wonderland, Beijing Shijingshan Amusement Park $9.05 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Window of the World, Happy Valley Beijing, World Chocolate Wonderland, Beijing Shijingshan Amusement Park, Minsk World, Dalian Discovery Kingdom, Grand World Scenic Park. Excerpt: The Window of the World (Chinese: ; pinyin: Shìjiè zh Chung) is a theme park located in the western part of the city of Shenzhen in the People’s Republic of China. It has about 130 reproductions of some of the most famous tourist attractions in the world squeezed into 48 hectares (480,000 square meters). The 108 meter (354 ft) tall Eiffel Tower dominates the skyline and the sight of the Pyramids and the Taj Mahal all in proximity to each other are all part of the appeal of this theme park. There are also a wide selection of international restaurants and mini exhibitions on famous figures from world history. Window of the World allows you to eat Mexican food, see the Niagara Falls then wander around Angkor Wat. The site takes at least half a day to explore and every day ends with a firework and laser show. Admission is 120 yuan (about 18 US Dollars) (or 50 yuan after 7:40 pm). Persons between 65 and 69 are half price, while seniors 70 and over are admitted free (ID required). Children whose height is between 1.1 and 1.4 meters are also half price, with children under 1.1 meters free. Skiing and snow tubing are available at the “Alps Indoor Skiing”. In the evening, one can enjoy “Fervorous Paris Nights” at “Caesar’s Palace”. Spectacles include young bikini-clad women prancing on stage to the music of Tom Jones’ “Sex Bomb”. Since late 2004, when the Shenzhen Metro was opened, tourists have been able to reach the Window of the World conveniently via subway, using Line 1 at Shijiezhichuang Station. In his autobiographical graphic novel Shenzhen, Guy Delisle visits the … |
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Ancestral Memory in Early China $39.7 Ancestral ritual in early China was an orchestrated dance between what was present (the offerings and the living) and what was absent (the ancestors). The interconnections among the tangible elements of the sacrifice were overt and almost mechanical, but extending those connections to the invisible guests required a medium that was itself invisible. Thus in early China, ancestral sacrifice was associated with focused thinking about the ancestors, with a structured mental effort by the living to reach out to the absent forebears and to give them shape and existence. Thinking about the ancestors—about those who had become distant—required active deliberation and meditation, qualities that had to be nurtured and learned. This study is a history of the early Chinese ancestral cult, particularly its cognitive aspects. Its goals are to excavate the cult’s color and vitality and to quell assumptions that it was no more than a simplistic and uninspired exchange of food for longevity, of prayers for prosperity. Ancestor worship was not, the author contends, merely mechanical and thoughtless. Rather, it was an idea system that aroused serious debates about the nature of postmortem existence, served as the religious backbone to Confucianism, and may even have been the forerunner of Daoist and Buddhist meditation practices. |
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Ancient Herbs, Modern Medicine: Improving Your Health by Combining Chinese Herbal Medicine and Western Medicine $7 The best of Eastern and Western medicine in an integrative healing system for the mind, body, and spirit.Now, for the first time, a Western physician and a doctor of Oriental medicine combine the unparalleled technological advances of the West with the unmatched wisdom and healing touch Chinese herbal medicine provides for many diseases and conditions that elude modern medicine. Ancient Herbs, Modern Medicine demonstrates the many important, highly effective ways Chinese medicine and Western medicine can complement each other in treating everything from allergies and insomnia to mental illness and cancer. This accessible, comprehensive guide offers many informative and enlightening case studies and up-to-the-minute information on:• How integrative medicine combines the best of Western pharmacology and Eastern herbology• How integrative medicine helps fight the diseases and illnesses of our time, including allergies, asthma, and chronic fatigue syndrome, and eases and even reverses symptoms of arthritis, diabetes, depression, osteoporosis, AIDS, heart disease, and cancer–often without side effects• How Chinese medicine can help you recognize signs before an illnessbecomes a crisis• The importance of Western techniques in diagnosing serious diseases• Why Chinese medicine offers the most effective treatment for many chronic/recurrent illnesses • Restoring essential balance to the Five Energetic Systems–the Heart, Lung, Spleen, Liver, and Kidney Energies• The Eight Strategies of Herbal Therapy–how herbs work in your body Plus illuminating discussions of the basic principles of Chinese medicine, aswell as food remedy recipes, diagrams, glossaries of medical terms and herbs, resource listings, and much more to help you tailor an integrative health regimen that is right for you. |
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Ancient Herbs, Modern Medicine: Improving Your Health by Combining Chinese Herbal Medicine and Western Medicine $13.99 The best of Eastern and Western medicine in an integrative healing system for the mind, body, and spirit.Now, for the first time, a Western physician and a doctor of Oriental medicine combine the unparalleled technological advances of the West with the unmatched wisdom and healing touch Chinese herbal medicine provides for many diseases and conditions that elude modern medicine. Ancient Herbs, Modern Medicine demonstrates the many important, highly effective ways Chinese medicine and Western medicine can complement each other in treating everything from allergies and insomnia to mental illness and cancer. This accessible, comprehensive guide offers many informative and enlightening case studies and up-to-the-minute information on:• How integrative medicine combines the best of Western pharmacology and Eastern herbology• How integrative medicine helps fight the diseases and illnesses of our time, including allergies, asthma, and chronic fatigue syndrome, and eases and even reverses symptoms of arthritis, diabetes, depression, osteoporosis, AIDS, heart disease, and cancer–often without side effects• How Chinese medicine can help you recognize signs before an illnessbecomes a crisis• The importance of Western techniques in diagnosing serious diseases• Why Chinese medicine offers the most effective treatment for many chronic/recurrent illnesses • Restoring essential balance to the Five Energetic Systems–the Heart, Lung, Spleen, Liver, and Kidney Energies• The Eight Strategies of Herbal Therapy–how herbs work in your body Plus illuminating discussions of the basic principles of Chinese medicine, aswell as food remedy recipes, diagrams, glossaries of medical terms and herbs, resource listings, and much more to help you tailor an integrative health regimen that is right for you. |
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Angiogenesis, Functional and Medicinal Foods $209.95 The ability to regulate and manipulate the generation or remodeling of blood vessels is key to the successful treatment of many chronic diseases, both oncological and non-oncological. Several bioactive compounds present in human diets are now known to exert an inhibitive effect on the either the signaling or construction of new blood vessels. The identification and characterization of these anti-angiogenic molecules opens a new avenue for the research and production of functional and medicinal foods with far reaching implications for the food-based treatment of chronic degenerative disease. Drawing from an extensive list of esteemed international contributors, Anti-Angiogenic Functional and Medicinal Foods explores the history and scope of the use of conventional foods, nutraceuticals, and health products in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, India, Australia, and New Zealand. Recent advancements in proteomics, genomics, and toxicogenomics give us a far more detailed picture of the molecular basis of nutrition and systems toxicology. Explaining the role of angiogenesis in various chronic diseases, individual chapters consider endothelial cell responses, the mechanism of the angiogenic cascade, and the angiogenic function involved in tumors, cardiovascular disease, inflammatory arthritis, and obesity. A collection of chapters studies specific foods and their functional bioactive compounds such as the effects of edible berry anthocyanins, various Chinese medicinal foods, dietary flavonoids, probiotics, shark cartilage, EPA and DHA, and marine polysaccharides. The book concludes with a discussion of the challenges faced during the development and delivery of anti-angiogenic functional food products. Presenting the current research and state of the science, Anti-Angiogenic Functional and Medicinal Foods provides researchers, scientists, clinical nutritionists, and oncologists with a valuable reference to this important and growing mode |
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Animal Crackers: A Gene Luen Yang Collection $14.95 The early work of Gene Luen Yang, author of American Born Chinese, is collected in this special edition containing Gordon Yamamoto and the King of the Geeks, and Loyola Chin and the San Peligran Order, plus an all-new story by Yang. Animal Crackers: A Gene Luen Yang Collection tells two stories of two very different young people who encounter the extraordinary while living their ordinary lives. Gordon, a sweet but not very deep-thinking high school student, has his life as a bully disrupted when a tiny alien aircraft lodges in his nostril. Meanwhile, Loyola must question her surety in her intellect when a junk-food-fueled dream encounter with a powerful alien being forces her to ask if it’s better to be smart than virtuous. |
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Annie Chun’s All Natural Asian Cuisine, Soup Bowl, Chinese Chicken $3.49 All Natural Asian Cuisine, Soup Bowl, Chinese Chicken |
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Annie Chun’s Chinese Chicken Soup, 5.5 oz (Pack of 6) $22.97 Annie Chun’s Chinese Chicken Soup: All natural Asian cuisine No preservatives 100% all natural Ready in two minutes No MSG Low fat Dairy free; fish and shellfish free |
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Apple Pie $5.99 What could be a more fun and delicious way to celebrate American culture than through the lore of our favorite foods? That’s what John T. Edge does in his smart, witty, and compulsively readable new series on the dishes everyone thinks their mom made best. If these are the best-loved American foods-ones so popular they’ve come to represent us-what does that tell us about ourselves? And what do the history of the dish and the regional variations reveal? There are few aspects of life that carry more emotional weight and symbolism than food, and in writing about our food icons, Edge gives us a warm and wonderful portrait of America -by way of our taste buds. After all, “What is patriotism, but nostalgia for the foods of our youth?” as a Chinese philosopher once asked. Author Biography: John T. Edge, whose work has appeared in Gourmet and Saveur and has been featured in Best Food Writing for the last three years, is also the director of the Southern Foodways Alliance at the University of Mississippi. His many books include the James Beard Award- nominated cookbook A Gracious Plenty, and he is a finalist for the 2004 M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award from the James Beard Foundation. |
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Apple Pie 4th of July $12.73 Shocked that her parents are cooking Chinese food to sell in the family store on Fourth of July, a feisty Chinese-American girl tries to tell her mother and father how things really are. Full-color illustrations. |
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As China Goes, So Goes the World: How Chinese Consumers Are Transforming Everything $9.99 In this revelatory examination of the most overlooked force that is changing the face of China, the Oxford historian and scholar of modern Asia Karl Gerth shows that as the Chinese consumer goes, so goes the world. While Americans and Europeans have become increasingly worried about China’s competition for manufacturing jobs and energy resources, they have overlooked an even bigger story: China’s rapid development of an American-style consumer culture, which is revolutionizing the lives of hundreds of millions of Chinese and has the potential to reshape the world.  This change is already well under way. China has become the world’s largest consumer of everything from automobiles to beer and has begun to adopt such consumer habits as living in large single-occupancy homes, shopping in gigantic malls, and eating meat-based diets served in fast-food outlets. Even rural Chinese, long the laggards of consumerism, have been buying refrigerators, televisions, mobile phones, and larger houses in unprecedented numbers. As China Goes, So Goes the World reveals why we should all care about the everyday choices made by ordinary Chinese. Taken together, these seemingly small changes are deeper and more profound than the headline-grabbing stories on military budgets, carbon emissions, or trade disputes. |
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As China Goes, So Goes the World: How Chinese Consumers Are Transforming Everything $3.91 In this revelatory examination of the most overlooked force that is changing the face of China, the Oxford historian and scholar of modern Asia Karl Gerth shows that as the Chinese consumer goes, so goes the world. While Americans and Europeans have become increasingly worried about China’s competition for manufacturing jobs and energy resources, they have overlooked an even bigger story: China’s rapid development of an American-style consumer culture, which is revolutionizing the lives of hundreds of millions of Chinese and has the potential to reshape the world.  This change is already well under way. China has become the world’s largest consumer of everything from automobiles to beer and has begun to adopt such consumer habits as living in large single-occupancy homes, shopping in gigantic malls, and eating meat-based diets served in fast-food outlets. Even rural Chinese, long the laggards of consumerism, have been buying refrigerators, televisions, mobile phones, and larger houses in unprecedented numbers. As China Goes, So Goes the World reveals why we should all care about the everyday choices made by ordinary Chinese. Taken together, these seemingly small changes are deeper and more profound than the headline-grabbing stories on military budgets, carbon emissions, or trade disputes. |
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Asian Crops And Human Dietetics $104.95 Go beyond the nutritional value to discover the lesser known health benefits of certain Asian crops Several foods from the Asian culture that are not well known to other parts of the world have health benefits that stretch beyond mere nutritional value. Asian Crops and Human Dietetics comprehensively reviews the plants and spices in the Asian diet which have made significant beneficial contributions to daily health and nutrition. This text not only provides up-to-date summaries of the more familiar Asian food items, but also those that are less widely known. This extensive examination clearly discusses the latest evidence-based scientific studies that document the health benefits and nutritional information of Asian food items. Asian Crops and Human Dietetics conveniently groups the food crops into the food guide pyramid classification, including grains, vegetables, fruits, fats and oils, beans and nuts, spices, and herbal beverages and subsequents. This book closes the gap in knowledge about important and healthful dietary items not generally recognized in Western culture. Diligently researched and exhaustively referenced, this text provides the information as well as scientific evidence together in reader-friendly form. Lesser-known dietary items examined in Asian Crops and Human Dietetics include:Millets, such as finger millet and Kodo millet Bitter gourd Ivy gourd Bok Choy Alliums, such as leeks, scallions, and Chinese chive Green leafy vegetables, including chekup manis, vegetable drumstick, Ceylon spinach, and fenugreek Legumes, such as the winged bean Tubers, including elephant yam and taro Breadfruit Mangoes Litchi Tamarind Jackfruit Flaxseed oil Rapeseed oil Red gram Adzuki bean Cowpea Mung bean Herbs, such as Asafoetida, cardamom, and turmeric And more! Asian Crops and Human Dietetics is essential reading for professionals, educators, |
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Asian Flavors of Jean-Georges $40 Jean-Georges Vongerichten, chef and owner of 18 restaurants around the world, pioneered Asian-fusion cuisine and cooks this food better than anyone on the planet. In Asian Flavors of Jean-Georges, he presents dozens of recipes for reproducing the dishes that have made his restaurants–Vong, Spice Market, and 66–the hottest dining destinations in New York City.Jean-Georges began his love affair with Asian food when he became the chef de cuisine at the renowned Oriental Hotel in Bangkok at the age of twenty-three. His trips to the markets of Bangkok sparked a lifelong obsession with ingredients like ginger, lemongrass, curry pastes and powders, and all kinds of exotic fruits and vegetables. In 1992, when he came to New York to cook at Lafayette in the Drake Hotel, he was the first to combine the flavors of Thailand with French technique. The restaurant was a sensation, immediately earning four stars from the New York Times, and launching his dazzling career in the United States.In 1997, he opened an outpost of Vong in Hong Kong and discovered the world of authentic and refined Chinese cooking and ingredients. As he says, “Every meal in Hong Kong contain[s] a thousand flavors.” He opened 66 in New York to showcase his newfound passion for the Chinese kitchen.And then in 2003 he opened Spice Market, his homage to Asian street food, after five years of research and extensive travels through Southeast Asia (documented in the photos in this book). Once again, he translated Asian cuisine through a French sensibility for American diners. Spice Market instantly became his most popular restaurant and remains one of New York’s most sought-after reservations.Now Jean-Georges has brought together the best of his pan-Asian recipes in one exciting cookbook. The recipes reflect Jean-Georges’s extraordinary talent for creating intensely flavorful dishes inspired by simple home cooking and street food. The secret is his subtle and |
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Asian Masculinities: The Meaning and Practice of Manhood in China and Japan $195 This book shows how East Asian masculinities are being formed and transformed as Asia is increasingly globalized. The gender roles performed by Chinese and Japanese men are examined not just as they are lived in Asia, but also in the West. The essays collected here enhance current understandings of East Asian identities and cultures as well as Western conceptions of gender and sexuality. While basic issues such as masculine ideals in China and Japan are examined, the book also addresses issues including homosexuality, women’s perceptions of men, the role of sport and food and Asian men in the Chinese diaspora. |
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At Home & in the Mood $35 International chef Luke Mangan dishes up the ultimate compendium of both fine and accessible dining in this 320-page book. This book has stunning photography and easy-to-follow recipes for entertaining family and friends.Luke Mangan dishes up the perfect guide to entertaining at home. With easy-to-follow recipes from breakfast to dinner, Luke Mangan has created a compendium of food that is sure to delight any dinner guest. The easy-to-follow recipes combined with stunning photography cover everything from comfort food to fine dining.Recipes include Lemon and Ricotta Pancakes for breakfast, Chinese Shredded Duck Salad for something light and mouth-watering Orange Caramel Barbeque Pork Ribs for dinner. Luke doesn’t skimp on the drinks either! From his patented Wasabi Cocktail to Luke’s own tea blends, this book has something for everyone. |
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Authentic Recipes from Malaysia $12.29 Drawing on their multi-ethnic heritage, Malaysians have developed unique variations on Asian favorites like Malay satay, Chinese fried noodles, and Indian curry puff. |
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Bacon Cookbook $35 Crispy, salty, smoky, sweet—who can resist the allure of bacon? Certainly not food writer extraordinaire James Villas, who’s been beguiled by bacon since he was a boy. Now, in this paean to pork bellies, Villas offers 168 ways to savor the flavor of bacon—and proves once and for all that bacon makes every meal better.Ranging across America and around the globe, Villas gives you scores of intriguing and delicious ways to enjoy bacon that will take you well beyond familiar favorites such as Cobb salad, quiche Lorraine, and spaghetti alla carbonara (though you’ll find delectable versions of all of these dishes in the book). You can sample enticing American regional specialties like California Hangtown Fry and Iowa Bacon and Onion Casserole Bread, or feast on a wide range of toothsome international dishes, including Swiss Potato and Bacon Cake, Irish Hot Pot, Philippine Adobo, Chinese Lion’s Head, Equadorian Pumpkin Soup, and Portuguese Egg and Bacon Pudding. With recipes for appetizers, breakfasts, soups, salads, sandwiches, casseroles, stews, main courses, vegetables, pasta and rice, and even desserts, you’ll discover just how versatile—and forever satisfying—bacon can be.In recent years, the variety and quality of most supermarket bacon have improved immensely, and many premium American artisanal bacons, as well as delicious fo-reign ones, are now available at finer out-lets and online. Villas provides a complete taxonomy of today’s bacon, explaining varieties such as French ventrèche and German Speck and explicating the differences between American, Canadian, Irish, and Chinese lop yuk bacon. Best of all, he offers a complete list of sources to help you discover this world of bacon delights.If health concerns sometimes make you feel guilty about loving bacon, Villas urges you to relax. Yes, it’s high in sodium and fat, but if eaten in moderation or used as a flavoring agent, as it is in many recipes in the book, bacon is a |
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Barefoot Contessa Parties! Ideas and Recipes for Easy Parties That Are Really Fun $35 After more than twenty years of running Barefoot Contessa, the acclaimed specialty food store, Ina Garten published her first collection of recipes. The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook was an overnight sensation, but it’s the kind of success that can only be grounded in years of experience. In it, Ina shared her ideas for familiar food but with outstanding flavor and — most important of all — recipes that really work.Now, with Barefoot Contessa Parties! Ina shares secrets she has gleaned from her years not only as a caterer but as a dedicated party giver. The keyword here is fun. Ina’s parties are easy to prepare and fun for everyone, including the host. Forget those boring Saturday-night dinners that just won’t end. With Ina’s advice, you’re certain to have all your friends saying, “Wasn’t that fun!”Ina has packed Barefoot Contessa Parties! with plans for pulling off parties like a pro, stories about her own parties, and tips on assembling food (rather than cooking everything) and organizing like a caterer. In the spring you can invite your friends to a party where they all make their own pizzas. Come summer, it’s into the garden for a lunch with grilled lamb and pita sandwiches that guests assemble themselves. In the autumn, when it’s not Thanksgiving, Ina roasts a fresh turkey, which her friends enjoy with popovers and a creamy spinach gratin. And on a snowy winter’s day, everyone is invited for a lunch buffet with seafood chowder and butternut squash and apple soup.Ever since Ina published her first book, people write, e-mail, and stop her on the street to say how much they love the food. She’s reached new heights here with recipes like sour cream coffee cake—the ultimate breakfast treat. Salads? The red lettuce, balsamic onions, and blue cheese; Chinese chicken salad; and panzanella may be the best you’ve ever tasted. Filet of beef is easy to make for a fancy dinner with oh-so-good gorgonzola sauce, or |
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Barefoot Contessa Parties!: Ideas and Recipes for Easy Parties That Are Really Fun $22 After more than twenty years of running Barefoot Contessa, the acclaimed specialty food store, Ina Garten published her first collection of recipes. “The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook was an overnight sensation, but it’s the kind of success that can only be grounded in years of experience. In it, Ina shared her ideas for familiar food but with outstanding flavor and — most important of all — recipes that really work. Now, with “Barefoot Contessa Parties! Ina shares secrets she has gleaned from her years not only as a caterer but as a dedicated party giver. The keyword here is fun. Ina’s parties are easy to prepare and fun for everyone, including the host. Forget those boring Saturday-night dinners that just won’t end. With Ina’s advice, you’re certain to have all your friends saying, “Wasn’t that fun!” Ina has packed “Barefoot Contessa Parties! with plans for pulling off parties like a pro, stories about her own parties, and tips on assembling food (rather than cooking everything) and organizing like a caterer. In the spring you can invite your friends to a party where they all make their own pizzas. Come summer, it’s into the garden for a lunch with grilled lamb and pita sandwiches that guests assemble themselves. In the autumn, when it’s not Thanksgiving, Ina roasts a fresh turkey, which her friends enjoy with popovers and a creamy spinach gratin. And on a snowy winter’s day, everyone is invited for a lunch buffet with seafood chowder and butternut squash and apple soup. Ever since Ina published her first book, people write, e-mail, and stop her on the street to say how much they love the food. She’s reached new heights here with recipes like sour cream coffee cake–theultimate breakfast treat. Salads? The red lettuce, balsamic onions, and blue cheese; Chinese chicken salad; and panzanella may be the best you’ve ever tasted. Filet of beef is easy to make for a fancy dinner with oh-so-good gorgonzola sauce, or sliced into sandwiches and served with lobster rolls |
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Barker’s Grub: Easy, Wholesome Home Cooking for Your Dog $11.99 Canine Cooking That Will Have Them Begging for MoreWhich do you think your dog would prefer: dry kibble, mushy canned food, or a nice, nutritionally sound helping of Tuna Togetherness? Not surprisingly, most dogs would be happier — and healthier — with the latter, considering the dangerous preservatives, questionable ingredients, and mysterious flavoring agents often used in commercial dog food.That’s why Rudy Edalati cooked up Barker’s Grub, a cookbook filled with wholesome, easy-to-prepare meals for your mutt or your pedigreed pooch — and you’ll find all the necessary ingredients in your fridge or at the local supermarket. She includes not only fun everyday meals, but healing meals for specific health problems, as well as special diets for different life stages, such as:* Lo Mein Barking Style: the doggie alternative for Chinese takeout* Beef Puppy Food: just the right mix for a growing dog* Davie’s Juicy Jiggly-Wiggly Anemia Diet: a blood-boosting dish of liver, rice, and spinachBarker’s Grub is informative (there’s lots of canine nutritional information to chew on), inspiring, and just plain fun. The recipes are simple and quick — after all, it’s not just about health and longevity, it’s about making the most of the time you and your dog spend together. |
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Barker’s Grub: Easy, Wholesome Home Cooking for Your Dog $15 Canine Cooking That Will Have Them Begging for MoreWhich do you think your dog would prefer: dry kibble, mushy canned food, or a nice, nutritionally sound helping of Tuna Togetherness? Not surprisingly, most dogs would be happier — and healthier — with the latter, considering the dangerous preservatives, questionable ingredients, and mysterious flavoring agents often used in commercial dog food.That’s why Rudy Edalati cooked up Barker’s Grub, a cookbook filled with wholesome, easy-to-prepare meals for your mutt or your pedigreed pooch — and you’ll find all the necessary ingredients in your fridge or at the local supermarket. She includes not only fun everyday meals, but healing meals for specific health problems, as well as special diets for different life stages, such as:* Lo Mein Barking Style: the doggie alternative for Chinese takeout* Beef Puppy Food: just the right mix for a growing dog* Davie’s Juicy Jiggly-Wiggly Anemia Diet: a blood-boosting dish of liver, rice, and spinachBarker’s Grub is informative (there’s lots of canine nutritional information to chew on), inspiring, and just plain fun. The recipes are simple and quick — after all, it’s not just about health and longevity, it’s about making the most of the time you and your dog spend together. |
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Barron’s Traveler’s Language Guide: French $12.99 BARRON’S Traveler’s Language Guides • FRENCH • Find the right words and phrases for all travel situations, plus tips on enjoying an active and creative vacation, traveling with children, and traveling if you are physically handicapped. • Words, phrases and information on food and dining, the French people and their culture, renting a car, getting medical help in cases of illness or accident, and much more Filled with cross-cultural tips Features a French-English and English-French glossary plus a brief overview of French grammar • Color photos • Color-coded pages give you quick reference to specific topics • BARRON’S Traveler’s Language Guides available in Mandarin (Chinese) • French • German • Italian • Japanese • Russian • Spanish |
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Barron’s Traveler’s Language Guide: Italian $12.99 BARRON’S Traveler’s Language Guides • ITALIAN • Find the right words and phrases for all travel situations, plus tips on enjoying an active and creative vacation, traveling with children, and traveling if you are physically handicapped. • Words, phrases and information on food and dining, the Italian people and their culture, renting a car, getting medical help in cases of illness or accident, and much more • Filled with cross-cultural tips Features an Italian-English and English-Italian glossary plus a brief overview of Italian grammar • Color photos • Color-coded pages give you quick reference to specific topics • BARRON’S Traveler’s Language Guides available in Mandarin (Chinese) • French • German • Italian • Japanese • Russian • Spanish |
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Barron’s Traveler’s Language Guide: Japanese $12.99 BARRON’S Traveler’s Language Guides • JAPANESE • Find the right words and phrases for all travel situations, plus tips on enjoying an active and creative vacation, traveling with children, and traveling if you are physically handicapped. • Words, phrases and information on food and dining, the Japanese people and their culture, renting a car, getting medical help in cases of illness or accident, and much more • Filled with cross-cultural tips Features a Japanese-English and English-Japanese glossary plus a brief overview of Japanese grammar • Color photos • Color-coded pages give you quick reference to specific topics • BARRON’S Traveler’s Language Guides available in Mandarin (Chinese) • French • German • Italian • Japanese • Russian • Spanish |
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Barron’s Traveler’s Language Guide: Spanish $12.99 BARRON’S Traveler’s Language Guides • SPANISH • Find the right words and phrases for all travel situations, plus tips on enjoying an active and creative vacation, traveling with children, and traveling if you are physically handicapped. • Words, phrases and information on food and dining, the Spanish and Latino people and their culture, renting a car, getting medical help in cases of illness or accident, and much more • Filled with cross-cultural tips Features a Spanish-English and English-Spanish glossary plus a brief overview of Spaniosh grammar • Color photos • Color-coded pages give you quick reference to specific topics • BARRON’S Traveler’s Language Guides available in Mandarin (Chinese) • French • German • Italian • Japanese • Russian • Spanish |
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Bed $9.76 College students, recent graduates, and their parents work at Denny’s, volunteer at a public library in suburban Florida, attend satanic ska/punk concerts, eat Chinese food with the homeless of New York City, and go to the same Japanese restaurant in Manhattan three times in two sleepless days, all while yearning constantly for love, a better kind of love, or something better than love, things which–much like the Loch Ness Monster–they know probably do not exist, but are rumored to exist and therefore “good enough.” |
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Bed $14.95 College students, recent graduates, and their parents work at Denny’s, volunteer at a public library in suburban Florida, attend satanic ska/punk concerts, eat Chinese food with the homeless of New York City, and go to the same Japanese restaurant in Manhattan three times in two sleepless days, all while yearning constantly for love, a better kind of love, or something better than love, things which—much like the Loch Ness Monster—they know probably do not exist, but are rumored to exist and therefore “good enough.” |
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Beijing City of Emperors $3.99 Visit Beijing the seat of 24 Emperors and experience the highlights of Chinese culture, history and foods. Try the night Food markets and experience the full ceremony of Peking Duck. Walk the Great Wall of China and visit the site of the 2008 Olympic Games. |
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Bell Street Chapel Discourses $14.14 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:HOW RELIGIONS GROW. VERY intelligent, conscious, human being,” said Mr. Eddy, ” requires and must have a religion. Man himself, acting individually and collectively, has instituted every religion that ever existed or that now exists. The philosopher may observe that the rationality in the creeds of every religion of every age has corresponded to the degree of general intelligence existing in the human mind at the time of their adoption. And the creed, belief and general character of each and every religion corresponds with the supposed character of God and the supposed nature of man’s relations to God at the time of its adoption. God being invisible to our sense, the human mind has idealized Him in various forms and symbols. “As children we naturally conform to the belief of the character of God, of his laws, and of our relation to him, which our parents hold and assure us is the simple, solemn truth. We are all born into our religion as we are into all other conditions and faculties which grade us in creation. It is the will of God that mankind universally should be born into the love andaffection of their parents, rather than into any especial faith and belief in regard to himself. And he relies upon Mahometans, Jews, Chinese, Indians and Christians alike, to give sincerely to their children the best material and mental food they can command in all unselfish kindness. And that is just what is being done to-day in our world, has always been done, and will continue to be until the end of time. God will not interfere either to eradicate human errors or to increase human knowledge, save by and through the operation of laws fixed in the constitution of things. To man’s more or less evolved intelligence at every given period of human growth is left the ascertainment and |
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Betty Crocker Celebrate!: A Year-Round Guide to Holiday Food and Fun $0.99 Holidays are the perfect way to leave busy schedules behind and spend special time together with family and friends. And no matter what the time of year, there’s always something to celebrate, whether it’s Valentine’s Day in winter, Mother’s Day in spring, the Fourth of July in summer or Thanksgiving in fall. Now you can keep the good times going all year long–with the terrific recipes and ideas for festive food and fun in Betty Crocker Celebrate! It’s packed with tasty ways to enjoy seventeen favorite holidays, including New Year’s Eve, Valentine’s Day, Easter, Passover, Mother’s Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas and Kwanzaa. Complete holiday menus make party planning and prepping a snap, with creative possibilities for indoor and outdoor celebrations. Whether you want to put together a casual buffet or a sit-down meal, you’ll find something just right for you. In all, there are 140 delicious recipes to choose from, including hearty main courses and sweet treats in crowd-size portions. Who can resist a Ghostly Shepherd’s Pie for Halloween? Or a red, white and blue Flag Cake for the Fourth of July? From a Heart- warming Valentine’s Day Dinner to a Father’s Day Barbecue, there are menus your whole family will love. Need some tempting dinner choices to ring in the Chinese New Year? Whip up a batch of Spicy Chicken Wings or Stir-Fried Noodles with Cabbage and a little Pork-Fried Rice. Looking to give summer a savory send-off? Say goodbye to the beach on Labor Day with Seafaring Packets and a Quick Fruit Cobbler washed down with some refreshing Lemonade Tea. You’ll also find great possibilities for those big end-of-year occasions. There are two Thanksgiving dinners–one a do-ahead meal–with all the trimmings, plus fabulous feasts for the December holidays. And 100 full-color photos showcase finished dishes, serving ideas, |
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Betty Crocker’s New Chinese Cookbook $21.95 Betty Crocker Takes the Mystery Out of Making Chinese Food All you need to know is right at your fingertips Chinese Cooking Basics Complete Glossary of Ingredients Secrets of Cutting & Slicing Menus for Lunch, Dinner and Special Occasions The Way to Wok Guide to Basic Utensils Appetizers and Cold Dishes Barbecued Ribs, Almond Chicken, Pot Stickers, Stir-fried Wontons, Egg Rolls, Crispy Scallops Fish and Shellfish Steamed Sea Bass, Kung Pao Shrimp, Scallops with Pea Pods, Stir-fried Broccoli with Crabmeat, Shrimp with Garlic Sauce Vegetables Asparagus with Water Chestnuts, Zucchini and Potatoes in Curry Sauce, Tofu with Barbecue Sauce, Fun See Vegetables, Stir-fried Eggplants and Peppers Chicken and Duck Spicy Chicken with Broccoli, Chicken Almond Ding, Sichuan Chicken with Cashews, Lemon Chicken, Sesame Chicken with Fun See, Pressed Duck Noodles and Rice Cantonese Seafood Chow Mein, Rice Noodles with Curried Shrimp, Stir-fried Rice, Noodles with Sichuan Sauce Meats Sweet and Sour Pork, Mou Shu Pork, Shredded Pork with Sweet and Sour Sauce, Stir-fried Beef with Asparagus, Mandarin Beef, Shredded Veal with Ginger With Over 130 Delicious Recipes, Betty Crocker Makes Chinese Food Fast, Easy and Fun! |
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Betty Crocker’s New Chinese Cookbook $13.4 Betty Crocker Takes the Mystery Out of Making Chinese Food All you need to know is right at your fingertips Chinese Cooking Basics Complete Glossary of Ingredients Secrets of Cutting & Slicing Menus for Lunch, Dinner and Special Occasions The Way to Wok Guide to Basic Utensils Appetizers and Cold Dishes Barbecued Ribs, Almond Chicken, Pot Stickers, Stir-fried Wontons, Egg Rolls, Crispy Scallops Fish and Shellfish Steamed Sea Bass, Kung Pao Shrimp, Scallops with Pea Pods, Stir-fried Broccoli with Crabmeat, Shrimp with Garlic Sauce Vegetables Asparagus with Water Chestnuts, Zucchini and Potatoes in Curry Sauce, Tofu with Barbecue Sauce, Fun See Vegetables, Stir-fried Eggplants and Peppers Chicken and Duck Spicy Chicken with Broccoli, Chicken Almond Ding, Sichuan Chicken with Cashews, Lemon Chicken, Sesame Chicken with Fun See, Pressed Duck Noodles and Rice Cantonese Seafood Chow Mein, Rice Noodles with Curried Shrimp, Stir-fried Rice, Noodles with Sichuan Sauce Meats Sweet and Sour Pork, Mou Shu Pork, Shredded Pork with Sweet and Sour Sauce, Stir-fried Beef with Asparagus, Mandarin Beef, Shredded Veal with Ginger With Over 130 Delicious Recipes, Betty Crocker Makes Chinese Food Fast, Easy and Fun! |
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Beyond Booked Solid: Your Business, Your Life, Your Way–It’s All Inside $24.95 Praise for: Beyond Booked Solid “If you want a four-hour work week, this book is required reading.”—TIMOTHY FERRISS, bestselling author of The 4-Hour Workweek “If you liked The E-Myth, you’ll love Beyond Booked Solid. Port’s new book is required reading for all entrepreneurs.”—Michael E. Gerber, author of The E-Myth “Many business advice books are like certain kinds of Chinese food—you read them and an hour later you’re hungry again. By contrast, Beyond Booked Solid is like soul food. You read it, you come back for seconds, and finish it satisfied and happy, looking forward to the day when Michael Port writes his next book.”—Ben Dattner, PhD, Adjunct Professor of Organizational Psychology, New York University “In Beyond Booked Solid, Port offers you an opportunity to capitalize on one of the most underappreciated assets in business—leverage. And he shows you how to do it with authenticity.”—Keith Ferrazzi, bestselling coauthor of Never Eat Alone “Michael Port has bridged the gap between professional and personal success. His book generously shares tips and techniques that will help you manage a successful life, much more difficult than it sounds. This is the perfect complement to Book Yourself Solid. If you wish you had more time and happiness in your business life, this book will make it come true.”—Tim Sanders, author of Love Is the Killer App “Michael Port doesn’t just talk about this stuff. He lives it!”—Seth Godin, author of Meatball Sundae “If you want bigger revenues and profits, then Beyond Booked Solid is the book to read when you’re tired of thinking small. It’s a masterpiece because you will never think about your business (or your life) in the same way again. I highly recommend it for those who want to understand how to go from doing it all themselves to running a highly successful enterprise with no limit on what is possible.”—Dr. Tony Alessandra, |
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Big Book of Wok: 365 Fast, Fresh and Delicious Recipes $19.95 The wok is easily the most versatile cooking vessel ever invented. Its one-pan approach saves time and trouble—and makes clean-up simpler, too. But what gives woks their worldwide popularity is the unbeatable food they produce—as these 365 luscious dishes so richly prove. Wok-steamed fish delivers more taste, and wok-fried vegetables preserve more of their nutritional value than other methods. Better still, each of these tempting curries, stir-fries, and soups can be prepared in minutes. The lavishly illustrated recipes include green vegetable curry and spiced noodles, mussels in tomato broth, Hoisin duck with pancakes, and sesame and tahini spinach, and represent a range of great cuisines from Chinese and Indian to Thai, Vietnamese, and Japanese. |
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Biologically Based Therapies $31.4 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Flax, Omega-3 Fatty Acid, Chinese Food Therapy, Herbalism, Fasting, Orthomolecular Medicine, Ozone Therapy, Medicinal Clay, Curcumin, Plant Hormone, Helminthic Therapy, Beet, Urine Therapy, Phytotherapy, Catherine Kousmine, Oily Fish, Sweat Therapy, Uncaria Tomentosa, Star Anise, Eclectic Medicine, Gemmotherapy, Dr Myko San – Health From Mushrooms, Oxygen Bar, Urophagia, Parthenolide, Salvia Hispanica, Coffee Enema, Functional Medicine, Biochemic Cell Salts, Serratiopeptidase, Hagenia, Life Mel Honey, Apitherapy, Caprylic Acid, Calabar Bean, Oil Pulling, Coal Oil, Dit Da Jow, Galactagogue, Charcoal Biscuit, Home Remedy, Dousing, Commission E, Carminative, Phytoncide, Health Food, Ichthyotherapy, Bush Medicine, International Herb Symposium, Flax Lignans, Four Thieves Vinegar, Bôtchô, Tangawisi, Healing Cream. Excerpt: Apitherapy is the medical use of honey bee products. This can include the use of honey , pollen , propolis , royal jelly , and bee venom .Most claims of apitherapy have not been proved to the scientific standards of evidence-based medicine and are anecdotal in nature. A wide variety of conditions and diseases have been suggested by believers in the therapy as candidates for it, the most well-known being bee venom therapy for autoimmune diseases and multiple sclerosis .History The exact origins of apitherapy are difficult to pinpoint and can be traced back, in a general sense, to ancient Egypt, Greece and China. Use of honey and other bee products can be traced back thousands of years and healing properties are included in many religious texts including the Veda , Bible and Quran . These are mostly attributed to nutritional benefits of consumption of bee-products and not use of bee venom.The more modern study of apitherapy, specifically bee |
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Blowback $6.99 When France’s top chef, Marc Fraysse, summoned the world’s press to make a shattering announcement, rumors abounded that he was about to lose one of his three coveted Michelin stars.  Instead, on arrival at his remote restaurant on a volcanic plateau in central France, they were greeted with the news that the troubled genius had been murdered, and the message he intended to deliver was never made.  Seven years on, the identity of his killer also remains an enigma.  Enzo Macleod takes on his fifth cold case and delves into the big business and high stakes of French haute cuisine.  As winter sets in, and snow gathers along a volcanic horizon, he retraces long cold footsteps across a remote hilltop.  But unravelling the complex web of relationships that surrounded the brilliant and mercurial chef – a spurned lover, a jealous wife, an estranged brother, an embittered food critic—also leads to strange parallels with his own life.  And in opening up this celebrated cold case, he finds himself reopening old wounds from his past.An award-winning journalist at 21 in his native Scotland, Peter May left newspapers for television and screenwriting, creating three prime-time British drama series, and accruing more than 1000 television credits before moving to France to concentrate on his first love, writing novels.  He is the author of 15 novels including two series: The Enzo Files and The China Thrillers.  May won the French Prix Intramuros in 2007 for Cadavres Chinois à Houston (Snakehead) and is the only Westerner to become an honorary member of the Chinese Crime Writers’ Association. |
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Blowback $22.95 When France’s top chef, Marc Fraysse, summoned the world’s press to make a shattering announcement, rumors abounded that he was about to lose one of his three coveted Michelin stars.  Instead, on arrival at his remote restaurant on a volcanic plateau in central France, they were greeted with the news that the troubled genius had been murdered, and the message he intended to deliver was never made.  Seven years on, the identity of his killer also remains an enigma.  Enzo Macleod takes on his fifth cold case and delves into the big business and high stakes of French haute cuisine.  As winter sets in, and snow gathers along a volcanic horizon, he retraces long cold footsteps across a remote hilltop.  But unravelling the complex web of relationships that surrounded the brilliant and mercurial chef – a spurned lover, a jealous wife, an estranged brother, an embittered food critic—also leads to strange parallels with his own life.  And in opening up this celebrated cold case, he finds himself reopening old wounds from his past.An award-winning journalist at 21 in his native Scotland, Peter May left newspapers for television and screenwriting, creating three prime-time British drama series, and accruing more than 1000 television credits before moving to France to concentrate on his first love, writing novels.  He is the author of 15 novels including two series: The Enzo Files and The China Thrillers.  May won the French Prix Intramuros in 2007 for Cadavres Chinois à Houston (Snakehead) and is the only Westerner to become an honorary member of the Chinese Crime Writers’ Association. |
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Blowback $2.99 When France’s top chef, Marc Fraysse, summoned the world’s press to make a shattering announcement, rumors abounded that he was about to lose one of his three coveted Michelin stars.  Instead, on arrival at his remote restaurant on a volcanic plateau in central France, they were greeted with the news that the troubled genius had been murdered, and the message he intended to deliver was never made.  Seven years on, the identity of his killer also remains an enigma.  Enzo Macleod takes on his fifth cold case and delves into the big business and high stakes of French haute cuisine.  As winter sets in, and snow gathers along a volcanic horizon, he retraces long cold footsteps across a remote hilltop.  But unravelling the complex web of relationships that surrounded the brilliant and mercurial chef – a spurned lover, a jealous wife, an estranged brother, an embittered food critic—also leads to strange parallels with his own life.  And in opening up this celebrated cold case, he finds himself reopening old wounds from his past.An award-winning journalist at 21 in his native Scotland, Peter May left newspapers for television and screenwriting, creating three prime-time British drama series, and accruing more than 1000 television credits before moving to France to concentrate on his first love, writing novels.  He is the author of 15 novels including two series: The Enzo Files and The China Thrillers.  May won the French Prix Intramuros in 2007 for Cadavres Chinois à Houston (Snakehead) and is the only Westerner to become an honorary member of the Chinese Crime Writers’ Association. |
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Blowback $14.95 When France’s top chef, Marc Fraysse, summoned the world’s press to make a shattering announcement, rumors abounded that he was about to lose one of his three coveted Michelin stars.  Instead, on arrival at his remote restaurant on a volcanic plateau in central France, they were greeted with the news that the troubled genius had been murdered, and the message he intended to deliver was never made.  Seven years on, the identity of his killer also remains an enigma.  Enzo Macleod takes on his fifth cold case and delves into the big business and high stakes of French haute cuisine.  As winter sets in, and snow gathers along a volcanic horizon, he retraces long cold footsteps across a remote hilltop.  But unravelling the complex web of relationships that surrounded the brilliant and mercurial chef – a spurned lover, a jealous wife, an estranged brother, an embittered food critic—also leads to strange parallels with his own life.  And in opening up this celebrated cold case, he finds himself reopening old wounds from his past.An award-winning journalist at 21 in his native Scotland, Peter May left newspapers for television and screenwriting, creating three prime-time British drama series, and accruing more than 1000 television credits before moving to France to concentrate on his first love, writing novels.  He is the author of 15 novels including two series: The Enzo Files and The China Thrillers.  May won the French Prix Intramuros in 2007 for Cadavres Chinois à Houston (Snakehead) and is the only Westerner to become an honorary member of the Chinese Crime Writers’ Association. |
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Bobby Flay’s Grilling for Life: 75 Healthier Ideas for Big Flavor from the Fire $0.95 Grilling is the most basic method of cooking there is. It dates back to the time of cavemen — food plus fire equals good. But when it comes to healthy food from the grill, evolution has been slow, producing lots of nutritionally sound but incredibly bland recipes. Until now. Bobby Flay’s Grilling for Life is, first and foremost, about getting the biggest, boldest flavor possible from food and fire while making healthy choices all the way. Imagine a lifetime of Espresso Rubbed BBQ Ribs with Mustard-Vinegar Basting Sauce; Bricked Rosemary Chicken with Lemon; Chinese Chicken Salad with Red Chile-Peanut Dressing; Grilled Beef Filet with Arugula and Parmesan; Grilled Salmon with Lemon, Dill, and Caper Vinaigrette; and Garlic-Red Chile-Thyme-Marinated Shrimp. For food that is good for you and full of his signature big style and big flavor, Bobby Flay will teach you how to use herbs, spices, heart-healthy oils, citrus zests and juices, honey, and vinegars in place of sugary commercial sauces and marinades. He’ll show you how to enhance flavor by toasting nuts, seeds, and spices on the grill; roasting garlic in a covered grill to add to vinaigrettes and marinades; and grilling slices of lemon, lime, and grapefruit to serve on the side. Bobby believes that we all need a full and balanced diet to be happy and healthy, so the book has everything you need to keep grilling for life: veggies chock-full of fiber; delicious complex carbohydrates (the right carbs) that not only fight heart disease but break down slowly, leaving you feeling fuller longer; fish rich in omega-3 oils; and, of course, the full range of proteins. To sharpen your skills by the fire, Bobby Flay’s Grilling for Life includes the sections “Equipment” (a very short list); “Fahrenheit 101,” a temperature chart that helps you navigate rare, medium, and well-done; “Meals in Minutes,” offering suggestions for the time-challenged; and “Party Foods,” great |
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Bobby Flay’s Grilling for Life: 75 Healthier Ideas for Big Flavor from the Fire $16.99 Grilling is the most basic method of cooking there is. It dates back to the time of cavemen — food plus fire equals good. But when it comes to healthy food from the grill, evolution has been slow, producing lots of nutritionally sound but incredibly bland recipes. Until now. Bobby Flay’s Grilling for Life is, first and foremost, about getting the biggest, boldest flavor possible from food and fire while making healthy choices all the way. Imagine a lifetime of Espresso Rubbed BBQ Ribs with Mustard-Vinegar Basting Sauce; Bricked Rosemary Chicken with Lemon; Chinese Chicken Salad with Red Chile-Peanut Dressing; Grilled Beef Filet with Arugula and Parmesan; Grilled Salmon with Lemon, Dill, and Caper Vinaigrette; and Garlic-Red Chile-Thyme-Marinated Shrimp. For food that is good for you and full of his signature big style and big flavor, Bobby Flay will teach you how to use herbs, spices, heart-healthy oils, citrus zests and juices, honey, and vinegars in place of sugary commercial sauces and marinades. He’ll show you how to enhance flavor by toasting nuts, seeds, and spices on the grill; roasting garlic in a covered grill to add to vinaigrettes and marinades; and grilling slices of lemon, lime, and grapefruit to serve on the side. Bobby believes that we all need a full and balanced diet to be happy and healthy, so the book has everything you need to keep grilling for life: veggies chock-full of fiber; delicious complex carbohydrates (the right carbs) that not only fight heart disease but break down slowly, leaving you feeling fuller longer; fish rich in omega-3 oils; and, of course, the full range of proteins. To sharpen your skills by the fire, Bobby Flay’s Grilling for Life includes the sections “Equipment” (a very short list); “Fahrenheit 101,” a temperature chart that helps you navigate rare, medium, and well-done; “Meals in Minutes,” offering suggestions for the time-challenged; and “Party Foods,” great |
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Book of Cities $1.99 Ever wondered what people are doing in cities all over the world at any given moment? Piero Ventura’s charmingly illustrated children’s book—appreciated by both young and old—brings bustling scenes of major cities to life in intricate detail. This facsimile edition of Ventura’s original book, first published in 1975, provides a colorful, educational, and unique tour of major world cities. Delight in each city as you look for the London policeman holding up traffic, children shoveling the heavy snow of the side streets in Moscow, clerks waiting on customers in a huge Parisian department store, or the steam rising from the Chinese food cooking on a tiny houseboat in Hong Kong. The finely drawn illustrations and humorous details in Book of Cities are a celebration of the many ways people live, work, travel, and have fun in the major cities of the world. |
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Breakaway Cook: Recipes that Break Away from the Ordinary $29.95 Fusion cooking broke the rules first––now Gower’s breaking fusion’s rules with The Breakway Cook. Despite the explosion of farmers’ markets, ethnic grocers, and creative restaurants in America, lots of home cooks remain puzzled by the bewildering array of choices, and don’t have the confidence to break away from tradition. Eric helps home cooks everywhere approach unfamiliar ingredients from different global regions and combine them for some amazing results of flavor. “Breakaway” cooking pays homage to culinary traditions yet uses innovative techniques and ingredients to give home cooks a new approach to their dishes, marrying unintimidating flavors with the old standards. Sample his Miso Orange Pepper Roasted Chicken, or tease your tongue with his take on Fluffy Herby Eggs, and you’ll be convinced. It’s not fusion––it’s fusion that makes sense. And the cardinal rule is to season with authority. Don’t be afraid of the spice cabinet anymore, and use presentation to create a simple, appealing meal. Spend less time fussing about the preparation and clean–up, and more time enjoying food and its huge role in our daily lives. To further this quick and mindful approach to cooking, Eric will take us shopping in local and ethnic markets, teach the importance of table setting and presentation, and stress visual aesthetics, especially regarding pottery and ceramics.Eric helps you reconstruct your approach to the kitchen, highlighting the seasonings and essential ingredients or “Global Flavor Blasts,” such as tamarind, pomegranate molasses, miso, yuzu, green tea, Chinese plum sauce, mole, among many others, that will liberate your cooking and provide a lifetime of fantastic eating. Using Gower’s recipes as broad outlines, you can be creative as you go, and within his framework you will discover your own genius in the kitchen. We feel better when we eat better, and it’s easier to be productive, creative, and relaxed when the food part of |
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Breaking Down Chinese Walls; From a Doctor’s Viewpoint $14.14 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:Ill STORIES OF THE HOSPITAL AN old man and his wife who had been reduced to beggary by disease were found sitting at the gate of our medical compound. The woman, while a girl, had attracted the attention of a rich man by her beauty and had been taken by him as a secondary wife. From him she contracted disease which destroyed her beauty and, to a large extent, shut out the world from her. Her hearing was gone, articulation of speech was lost, one eye was destroyed and her face was left scarred and deformed. The rich man had lost all interest in her and sent her back to her parents. A few years later this old man, then a strong, active stone-mason, came through the town where her parents lived. He wanted a wife but had little money to spend. He could get her cheap and so took her for his wife. Her disease was transmitted to him ; he fell sick and his strength was taken away. For several years they had begged from door to door. It took them eight days to walk the twenty- five miles to our hospital. They sat at our gatebegging, not for money, but for healing. They had no money to pay for treatment or for food while being treated. It costs only one dollar a month to board the ordinary patient, so we decided to reward the faith that had brought them to us. The woman was beyond the reach of medicine but able to help herself. We could not give back to her lost hearing or lost tissue. So we turned our attention to her lamed and weakened husband. Slowly his strength came back and his sores were healed. He would sit in the chapel at the morning worship, but he seemed so ignorant that it did not seem possible for him to comprehend much of the Gospel story. On Sundays he would hobble over to the church services. One day he asked for baptism. Of course we were surprised. But when |
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Breath of a Wok: Unlocking the Spirit of Chinese Wok Cooking Through Recipes and Lore $35 When Grace Young was a child, her father instilled in her a lasting appreciation of wok hay, the highly prized but elusive taste that food achieves when properly stir-fried in a wok. As an adult, Young aspired to create that taste in her own kitchen. Her quest to master wok cooking led her throughout the United States, Hong Kong, and mainland China. Along with award-winning photographer Alan Richardson, Young sought the advice of home cooks, professional chefs, and esteemed culinary teachers like Cecilia Chiang, Florence Lin, and Ken Hom. Their instructions, stories, and recipes, gathered in this richly designed and illustrated volume, offer not only expert lessons in the art of wok cooking, but also capture a beautiful and timeless way of life. With its emphasis on cooking with all the senses, The Breath of a Wok brings the techniques and flavors of old-world wok cooking into today’s kitchen, enabling anyone to stir-fry with wok hay. IACP award-winner Young details the fundamentals of selecting, seasoning, and caring for a wok, as well as the range of the wok’s uses; this surprisingly inexpensive utensil serves as the ultimate multipurpose kitchen tool. The 125 recipes are a testament to the versatility of the wok, with stir-fried, smoked, pan-fried, braised, boiled, poached, steamed, and deep-fried dishes that include not only the classics of wok cooking, like Kung Pao Chicken and Moo Shoo Pork, but also unusual dishes like Sizzling Pepper and Salt Shrimp, Three Teacup Chicken, and Scallion and Ginger Lo Mein. Young’s elegant prose and Richardson’s extraordinary photographs create a unique and unforgettable picture of artisan wok makers in mainland China, street markets in Hong Kong, and a “wok-a-thon” in which Young’s family of aunties, uncles, and cousins cooks together in a lively exchange of recipes and stories. A visit with author Amy Tan also becomes a family event when Tan and her sisters prepare New Year’s dumplings. |
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Buddhist Peace Recipes $12.95 Taken mainly from the South Asian Buddhist countries, these recipes provide a range of tastes and flavours that disprove the myth that vegetarian food is bland and unappetizing. From Buddhist Chinese and Japanese cooking styles that vary from steaming, stir-frying to grilling and baking, the sublime aromas of Indian cuisine, the creativity of Thai cuisine, the harmonious fusion of Sri Lankan and Indonesian food, to the rustic ruggedness of the basic Tibetan diet, the 50 recipes in this book offer a delectable array of peace foods. The author explains the philosophy that lies behind the middle path of the Buddha and how the right foods enhance mental peace and ‘centre’ your life. A practical guide to peace food. |
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Burma Road $74.39 As the Imperial Japanese Army swept across China and South Asia at World War II’s outset — closing all of China’s seaports — more than 200,000 Chinese laborers embarked on a seemingly impossible task: to cut a 700-mile overland route — which would be called the Burma Road — from the southeast Chinese city of Kunming to Lashio, Burma. But with the fall of Burma in early 1942, the road was severed, and it became the task of American General “Vinegar Joe” Stilwell to reopen it, while keeping China supplied by air-lift from India and simultaneously driving the Japanese out of Burma as the first step of the Allied offensive toward Japan.In gripping prose, Donovan Webster follows the adventures of the American “Hump” pilots who flew hair-raising missions to make food-drops in China; tells the true story that inspired the famous film The Bridge on the River Kwai; and recounts the grueling jungle operations of Merrill’s Marauders and the British Chindit Brigades. Interspersed with portraits of the American General Stilwell, the exceedingly eccentric British General Orde Wingate, and the mercurial Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, The Burma Road vividly recreates the sprawling, sometimes hilarious, often harrowing, and still largely unknown stories of one of the greatest chapters of World War II. |
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Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II $14.99 As the Imperial Japanese Army swept across China and South Asia at World War II’s outset, closing all of China’s seaports, more than 200,000 Chinese laborers embarked on a seemingly impossible task: to cut a 700-mile overland route — the Burma Road — from the southwest Chinese city of Kunming to Lashio, Burma. But when Burma fell in 1942, the Burma Road was severed. As the first step of the Allied offensive toward Japan, American general Joseph Stilwell reopened it, while, at the same time, keeping China supplied by air-lift from India and simultaneously driving the Japanese out of Burma.From the breathtaking adventures of the American “Hump” pilots who flew hair-raising missions over the Himalayas to make food-drops in China to the true story of the mission that inspired the famous film The Bridge on the River Kwai, to the grueling jungle operations of Merrill’s Marauders and the British Chindit Brigades, The Burma Road vividly re-creates the sprawling, sometimes hilarious, often harrowing, and still largely unknown stories of one of the greatest chapters of World War II. |
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Canon of Vegetables: 101 Classic Recipes $25.95 Raymond Sokolov applies to vegetables the original concept of his book THE COOK’S CANON: 101 Classic Recipes Everyone Should Know, fusing imaginative recipes with a wealth of food lore. His more than 40 years’ experience as a cookbook author and food historian provide a wealth of background for vegetable recipes from around the world, from traditional American (succotash) to Chinese (Sichuan spicy tofu) as well as French (Spinach Mornay) and Italian (Pasta e faglioli). All the recipes are high points of the culinary imagination, great dishes in which vegetables are the featured ingredient. This is not a vegetarian cookbook. Many of the recipes include meat, but with the vegetables at center stage.For each vegetable discussed and each recipe, Sokolov provides historical and cultural background with many witty comments based on his wide reading in food history and his training as a classicist. Classic Comparisons: CHEZ PANISSE VEGETABLES by Waters, Harper, 1996, $35, 0060171472 (113,914cc, isis)VEGETABLES by Peterson, Morrow, 1998, $35, 0688146589 (27,191cc, isis) |
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Canon of Vegetables: 101 Classic Recipes $26 Raymond Sokolov applies to vegetables the original concept of his book THE COOK’S CANON: 101 Classic Recipes Everyone Should Know, fusing imaginative recipes with a wealth of food lore. His more than 40 years’ experience as a cookbook author and food historian provide a wealth of background for vegetable recipes from around the world, from traditional American (succotash) to Chinese (Sichuan spicy tofu) as well as French (Spinach Mornay) and Italian (Pasta e faglioli). All the recipes are high points of the culinary imagination, great dishes in which vegetables are the featured ingredient. This is not a vegetarian cookbook. Many of the recipes include meat, but with the vegetables at center stage.For each vegetable discussed and each recipe, Sokolov provides historical and cultural background with many witty comments based on his wide reading in food history and his training as a classicist. Classic Comparisons: CHEZ PANISSE VEGETABLES by Waters, Harper, 1996, $35, 0060171472 (113,914cc, isis)VEGETABLES by Peterson, Morrow, 1998, $35, 0688146589 (27,191cc, isis) |
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Carlos Digs to China $1.99 Carlos tries to dig to China to sample Chinese food (bilingual) |
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Carlos Digs to China Carlos Excava Hasta la China $1.99 Carlos tries to dig to China to sample Chinese food (bilingual) |
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Catering and Food Service Companies of Hong Kong: Maxim’s Catering, Mister Softee, Caf de Coral, Fairwood, Ajisen Ramen, Xen Coffee $13.57 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Maxim’s Catering, Mister Softee, Café de Coral, Fairwood, Ajisen Ramen, Xen Coffee, Café de Coral, Pacific Coffee Company, Aji Ichiban, Dai Pai Dong. Excerpt: Aji Ichiban item Japanese name item Kanji : / item Transliterations Aji Ichiban is one of the largest snack food franchises founded in Hong Kong . There are over 90 international locations in varying international destinations. Product Items sold vary by location and encompass a wide range of flavors from both East Asian, Japanese and American cuisines, including beef jerky, dried apricots, Skittles , chocolates, nonpareils, spicy dried fish , plum tablets, chili olives , fried and shredded squid , shrimp crackers, hot dog and hamburger shaped gummy candies, wasabi peas , etc. In addition to providing products based on gustatory appeal, many Aji Ichiban shops carry items that have ties to traditional Eastern remedies. The stores have small bowls of samples for most of the snack items – mainly dried fruit and seafood preparations – so that customers can taste the snacks before they buy them. The snacks are purchased by taking a bag and filling it up with food from the various stations, according to the cost. It is then weighed and you pay accordingly. International Locations United States In the United States , Aji Ichiban USA was founded in 2000 as an exclusive franchise and they have stores in New York City , in Chinatown around Manhattan and Queens, as well as in the Chinatowns in Boston , Chicago , Richardson, TX, and San Gabriel, CA and Rockville , Maryland a suburb of Washington, DC . Many Chinese political leaders have paid visits to these stores. References (URLs online) See also (online edition) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at An Ajisen Ramen restaurant |
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Charcuterie $14.14 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: A sausage is a food made from ground meat, both beef and pork. Also commonly included is ground pork fat (fatback), salt, herbs and spices. Typically the sausage is formed in a casing traditionally made from intestine, but sometimes synthetic. Some sausages are cooked during processing and the casing may be removed afterwards. Sausage making is a traditional food preservation technique. Sausages may be preserved by curing, drying, or smoking. Sausage making in HungarySausages are a result of economical butchery. Traditionally, sausage-makers put to use tissues and organs which are perfectly edible and nutritious, but not particularly appealing – such as scraps, organ meats, blood, and fat – in a form that allows for preservation: typically, salted and stuffed into a tubular casing made from the cleaned and turned inside-out intestine of the animal, producing the characteristic cylindrical shape. Hence, sausages, puddings and salami are amongst the oldest of prepared foods, whether cooked and eaten immediately or dried to varying degrees. The first sausages were made by early humans, stuffing roasted intestines into stomachs. As early as 589 BC, a Chinese sausage làcháng was mentioned consisting of goat and lamb meat. The Greek poet Homer, mentioned a kind of blood sausage in the Odyssey, and Epicharmus wrote a comedy titled The Sausage. Evidence suggests that sausages were already popular both among the ancient Greeks and Romans, and most likely with the illiterate tribes occupying the larger part of Europe. German Wurst: liver sausage, blood sausage and ham sausageSausage in Italy has its roots in Lucania, now known as Basilicata. Philosophers such as Cicero and Martial stated a kind of sausage called lucanica, actually widespread in Italy, w… More: |
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Charlie All Night $8.49 Dumped by her boyfriend and demoted from WBBB’s prime-time spot, radio producer Allie McGuffey has nowhere to go but up. She plans to make her comeback by turning temporary DJ Charlie Tenniel into a household name. And if he’s willing to help cure her breakup blues with a rebound fling, that’s an added bonus.Charlie just wants to kick back, play good tunes and eat Chinese food. He’s not interested in becoming famous. But he is interested in Allie. And after all, what harm is a little chemistry between friends?But suddenly their one-night stand has become a four-week addiction. Night after night on the airwaves, his voice seduces her…and all the other women in town. He’s a hit. It looks as if Charlie’s solved all Allie’s problems…except one. What is she going to do when he leaves Crusie has a gift for concocting nutty scenarios and witty one-liners… Genuine laughs.? ?People |
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Charlie All Night $5.4 Dumped by her boyfriend and demoted from WBBB’s prime-time spot, radio producer Allie McGuffey has nowhere to go but up. She plans to make her comeback by turning temporary DJ Charlie Tenniel into a household name. And if he’s willing to help cure her breakup blues with a rebound fling, that’s an added bonus.Charlie just wants to kick back, play good tunes and eat Chinese food. He’s not interested in becoming famous. But he is interested in Allie. And after all, what harm is a little chemistry between friends?But suddenly their one-night stand has become a four-week addiction. Night after night on the airwaves, his voice seduces her…and all the other women in town. He’s a hit. It looks as if Charlie’s solved all Allie’s problems…except one. What is she going to do when he leaves?“Crusie has a gift for concocting nutty scenarios and witty one-liners… Genuine laughs.” —People |
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Charlie All Night $46.74 Dumped by her boyfriend and demoted from WBBB’s prime-time spot, radio producer Allie McGuffey has nowhere to go but up. She plans to make her comeback by turning temporary DJ Charlie Tenniel into a household name. And if he’s willing to help cure her breakup blues with a rebound fling, that’s an added bonus.Charlie just wants to kick back, play good tunes and eat Chinese food. He’s not interested in becoming famous. But he is interested in Allie. And after all, what harm is a little chemistry between friends?But suddenly their one-night stand has become a four-week addiction. Night after night on the airwaves, his voice seduces her…and all the other women in town. He’s a hit. It looks as if Charlie’s solved all Allie’s problems…except one. What is she going to do when he leaves?“Crusie has a gift for concocting nutty scenarios and witty one-liners… Genuine laughs.” —People |
