No need to be a coffee has-bean. This completely revised and updated, sumptuously photographed book (over 80,000 previously sold!) is brimming with information on buying, drinking, and cooking with the worldâ€™s favorite libation. The New Complete Coffee Book includes a brief illustrated history and a survey of the myriad coffee beans, types of roasts, and brewing methods. Plus there are detailed descriptions of every coffee drink imaginable, in addition to the 40 delicious, internationally inspired food recipes (both sweets and savories) using coffee as a main ingredient. Wake up and smell the coffee! This book has it all.

The New Complete Coffee Book: A Gourmet Guide To Buying, Brewing, And Cooking

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Perry, Sara

Beverages & Wine

Diane Pub Co.

Features a brief history of chocolate, recipes for cookies, cakes, candies, pies, ice creams, and sauces, and tips for cooking and storing

The Chocolate Book

Chronicle Books LLC.

This companion volume to The Complete Coffee Book offers a refreshingly contemporary approach to the perennially popular subject of tea, with its stylish design, international sensibility, and full-color photographs. With over 60 recipes for hot and iced tea, as well as baked goods, desserts, and savory accompaniments to tea, The Tea Book includes such delights as Catalina Citrus Sun Tea, Whole Wheat Scones with Brandied Sweet Cream, and Tea Sandwich Classics. Additional sections covering tea history, lore, and paraphernalia, an international array of ceremonies and methods of preparation, and tips for choosing among the many kinds of teas make this charming title a worthy reference book, as well as a lovely and affordable gift.

The Tea Book

Soothing chamomile. Refreshing peppermint. Tangy rose hips. Prized since ancient times for their medicinal properties, herbal teasÑmellow, flavorful, and aromaticÑare enjoying a modern renaissance. The Book of Herbal Teas presents lovingly detailed profiles of 40 popular herbs and spices for making tea, complete with everything tea lovers need to know to grow, gather, blend, and brew them at home. Here, too, are tips on how to use their gentle healing powers to brighten a mood, ease a cold or flu, or bring deep, relaxing sleep. Suffused with a fascinating blend of history and lore and illustrated with lovely photographs, this charming and comprehensive volume offers a refreshing new take on enjoying favorite herbal teas to the fullest.

The Book of Herbal Teas: A Guide to Gathering, Brewing, and Drinking

Get ready for a renaissance of gingerbread! From the holiday classics -- candy-covered houses and gingerbread men -- to delicious waffles, biscotti, cookies, and cakes, Great Gingerbread offers a delectable new take on an age-old favorite -- just in time for the most festive time of year. But gingerbread is a great idea all year round. The beloved combination of ginger, cinnamon, and nutmeg that creates gingerbread's distinctive flavor can be used to make all kinds of irresistible treats: for a modern take on the classic cookie, Chocolate-Dipped Gingerbread Biscotti with tea on a spring afternoon; to make the most of summer fruit, a Peach Blueberry Crumble and Gingerbread Crisp; or for a lazy autumn brunch, Gingerbread Scones with Orange Honey Butter, or Gingerbread Pancakes with Golden Pear Compote and Maple Cream. Illustrated with ravishing color photographs, Great Gingerbread is brimming with delicious ideas to brighten any day of the year.

Great Gingerbread

Baking

Chronicle Books+

It's summer and the kids are home...for three whole months! What better time to relax together, whipping up delicious treats in the kitchen or dabbling in fun crafts indoors and out. Parents will find plenty of ideas and inspiration for magical summer days in Summertime Treats, the handbook to keeping families cool and creative during the best months of the year. From an afternoon with the kids making Shake-Rattle-and-Roll Ice Cream and Big Bug Bungalows to a fabulous Fourth of July Star-Spangled Celebration and a Memorial Day Tailgate Picnic, author Sara Perry suggests wonderful ways to please every member of the family—including parents and other grown-ups. Fully illustrated with photographs throughout and chock-full of tempting snacks, summer drinks, fun projects, and clever ideas, this antidote to the allure of the television lets parents and kids of all ages have a great time cooking and making things together. Summertime Treats is second in a series that began with Halloween Treats (0-8118-2197-8), books that blend whimsy and elegance in ways both adults and children will appreciate.

Summertime Treats: Recipes and Crafts for the Whole Family

Quick & Easy

In the same winning format as the popular Halloween Treats, Christmastime Treats offers a magical array of recipes and craft projects for the whole family. Fun decorations such as Little Keepsake Ornaments and a Starry Night Luminaria help little ones and grownups get in the spirit of things, while Advent Surprises and a Kissing Bouquet put a new twist on traditional holiday customs. Here are recipes for scrumptious treats like Snow White Bunnies and Hot Chocolate Heaven, plus menus for an array of holiday meals. With Christmastime Treats, families can create new holiday traditions and memories to last for many Christmastimes to come.

Christmastime Treats: Recipes and Crafts for the Whole FamilyA Holiday Celebrations Book

Cooking Education & Reference

Nothing says "I love you" like gifts made from the heart, and anyone struck with Cupid's arrow will find plenty of inspiration in Valentine Treats. So say it like you mean it with nostalgic Antique Valentines and a Sweetheart Candy Box. If that's not enough to sway the fickle, then let them hear the sweet Pitter Patter of your Pancakes, and dive into your Chocolate Cookie Truffles. Even the littlest cherubs will join in the fun with simple nosegays, no-fuss Peanut Butter with Love Sandwiches, and Pixie Postcards. Cupid's arrow will hit the bull's eye this holiday with the enchanting ideas in Valentine Treats.

Valentine Treats: Recipes and Crafts for the Whole Family

Special Diet

No need to be a coffee has-bean. This completely revised and updated, sumptuously photographed book (over 80,000 previously sold!) is brimming with information on buying, drinking, and cooking with the world’s favorite libation. The New Complete Coffee Book includes a brief illustrated history and a survey of the myriad coffee beans, types of roasts, and brewing methods. Plus there are detailed descriptions of every coffee drink imaginable, in addition to the 40 delicious, internationally inspired food recipes (both sweets and savories) using coffee as a main ingredient. Wake up and smell the coffee! This book has it all.

The New Complete Coffee Book: A Gourmet Guide to Buying, Brewing, and Cooking Revised and Updated

Happy Birthday! The latest installment in our popular Treats series will help families celebrate many happy returns with festive recipes and craft ideas. Kick off that special day with a Sparkling Cake Card, hang up a festive Party Piata, festoon a room with Revelers' Ribbon Streamers, and then sweeten the deal with a delicious Candyland Choo Choo Cake made with an irresistible frosted train of mini-loaf cakes. Birthday Treats offers up over a dozen mouthwatering cakes and confections, four complete birthday menus with accompanying recipes, plenty of tip-top party theme ideas, and more than twenty simple decorations and favors that are sure to delight everyone--from those who can hardly wait for their birthday to those who try hard not to remember it. In the colorful, winning tradition of all the Treats books, Birthday Treats inspires the whole family to join in the birthday fun.

Birthday Treats: Recipes and Crafts for the Whole Family

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