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Stoves & Suitcases: Searching for Home in the World's Kitchens

by Cynthia D. Bertelsen

Take a girl with an iffy start in life. Mix in wanderlust and cooking. Add a dollop of yearning for home and belonging. Knead in a pinch of self-discovery. Let rise and ripen. The result is award-winning author Cynthia D. Bertelsen’s Stoves & Suitcases, a reflective saga that begins in an incubator. Where the author first discovers the world’s culinary diversity as nurses fed her sweetened-condensed milk formula. Later, cookbooks pique her wanderlust and her longing to be elsewher... more

Anne Marie's Family Favorite Recipes with a Caribbean Twist

by Anne Marie Herman

Anne Marie Family Favorite Recipes with a Caribbean Twist readers have created one of the best recipe swaps ever! Home cooks just like you share most popular dishes, and each is evaluated by cooking expert Anne Marie to ensure you it is easy to follow, tastes great and will cook up wonderfully in your kitchen.

Through the Garden Window - Family Memories

by Paula Morhardt

"This is a very original cookbook. It is part diary, part memory, and part recipe book. Occasionally, an author may include a sentence or two about where the recipe was found or how it was created, but Paula includes a short story about each of the recipes. This book is written the way home cooks talk about their recipes when they share them with a friend. The original recipes don’t include baking directions – not even the shorthand kind like “bake in a medium oven until golden brown.” The wo... more

A Meal That Appeals

by Paul Wills

'A Meal That Appeals' is a lighthearted, rhyming children's picture book about food. It's dinner time, the kitchen is full of food and the table is set. Toys have been put away, the TV’s off and hands are clean. Now it’s a simple case of deciding what to eat. Or is it? Sometimes kids just don't want what's being offered and the reasons aren’t always clear. Can everybody keep their cool, work out what the problem is and discover a meal that appeals today?

Just the Two of Us Desserts

by Sara Childs

Fast and easy desserts portioned for two. With a little more than flour, baking powder, salt and sugar you can make a cake, pie, cookies, brownie, cobbler or a crisp in less than a few minutes. Cookies can be enjoyed in 30 seconds, puddings and curds prepared in 2-3 minutes. With a food processor, ice cream or sorbet can be served in less than 3 minutes, or make a No-Bake strawberry fool in 2 minutes. no-bake desserts, brownies and cookies, cobblers and crisps, puddings, cakes, Ice Cream, She... more

Seven Pots of Tea: an Ayurvedic approach to sips & nosh

by Nandita Godbole

Rethink Tea... Rethink Chai. Tea is the second most consumed beverage in the world, after water. Ayurveda, derived from ancient Indian texts, offers many guidelines for a holistic, health-centered lifestyle – including food and beverages. Seven Pots of Tea is the first cookbook of its kind that allows readers to explore Ayurveda through tea, and vice-versa through dozens of simple recipes. Seven Pots of Tea combines holistic wisdom and health goals an easy, accessible format to improve ... more

The Sweetest Therapy

by Chase Cassine, LCSW

The Sweetest Therapy features a series of baking recipes, mental health, fun cultural facts about New Orleans History and African American culture are blended into this compact, easy-to-read book.

Home Bartending

by Vassilis - Antonis Issaris

After the Covid 19 Pandemic outbreak in 2020 our habits, activities, routine our very way of life was put into question. In the shade of this new emerging reality, each one of us was dwelliing on wether it was possible to live the closest to the old lifestyle, without having to sacriffice who we are and thus what we do, for the sake of safety. A product of such thought, is this book which aspires to serve as a detailed guide, for the ones not willing to give up on what they love doing the most o... more

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