Learn to cook real French food without all the fuss.\nEver wanted to master the art of making crepes? Creme brulee? The perfect omelette? A Nicoise salad even your kids will love? French Cooking for Beginners teaches the basics of classic French cooking with simple, easy-to-follow recipes using fresh, easy-to-find ingredients, skipping the fussy, complicated approach of most French recipes and cookbooks. An abridged version of the original Let’s Cook French, this book also provides plenty of French language lessons to make your experience in the kitchen both educational and fun.\nWith an emphasis on fresh ingredients and hands-on preparation, French Cooking for Beginners offers home cooks a way to explore French culinary culture in their own kitchen. Recipes featured are authentic yet easy for cooks of all levels to make and includes starters, main courses, sides, and desserts such as: 
Eggs Jeanette Vichyssoise Cheese Fondue Beef Bourguignon Croque Monsieur Ham and Leek Quiche Salad Nicoise Apple Tarts Ratatouille 
Perfect for beginners who want to channel their inner Julia Child, you’ll discover how to make classic and timeless French food that will amaze and impress family and friends.

French Cooking for Beginners: Simple and Delicious Recipes for French Food for Any Meal (New Shoe Press)

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Pepin, Claudine

Cooking by Ingredient

New Shoe Press

Learn to cook authentic Italian food without all the fuss. Always wanted to make a pesto that your family begs you to make every week? Tiramisu that your neighbors dream about? But you don't have time for cooking classes or the lengthy and complicated recipes from other Italian cookbooks? Italian Cooking for Beginners, adapted from the best-selling Let's Cook Italian!, gives you the tools and recipes to start cooking classic Italian dishes at home with simple, easy-to-follow recipes for even the most inexperienced home cook. With an emphasis on fresh ingredients&nbsp;and&nbsp;hands-on preparation, chef and director of the cooking school "La Scuola della Cucina Italiana" Anna Prandoni presents recipes for authentic Italian starters, first and second courses, vegetables, desserts, and&nbsp;snacks. Simple classic recipes include: &nbsp; <ul> <li>Cheese Focaccia</li> <li>Potato Gnocchi</li> <li>Stuffed Zucchini</li> <li>Steak Pizzaiola</li> <li>Bruschetta</li> <li>Tiramisu</li> <li>Spaghetti Carbonara</li> <li>and more!</li> </ul> This is the perfect cookbook for the both the beginning home cook and those inexperienced with authentic Italian cooking. Impress your family and friends and make them happy by satisfying their appetites with delicious Italian classics that will leave them wanting more.

Italian Cooking for Beginners: Simple and Easy Recipes for Weeknights, Parties, Holidays, and More (New Shoe Press)

Prandoni, Anna

Making pasta at home is easy, fun, and satisfyingly delicious with this easy-to-follow, photo-illustrated guide\nEven if you have no experience at all, you can make Italian pasta like a professional chef in your own home kitchen with the Super Simple Handmade Pasta cookbook, adapted from the best-selling Making Artisan Pasta by James Beard Award–winning author Aliza Green. Perfect for the beginning cook, this book walks you through selecting ingredients and tools, how to use a pasta machine, and shaping, filling, and flavoring pasta—plus how to cook it perfectly and serving ideas. There is nothing complicated in these recipes—only delicious results!\nPerfect the classic egg semolina pasta and also learn how to make all sorts of flavored pastas, from the more common tomato spinach pastas to shaped noodles flavored with herbs and spices including basil, chives, pepper, or saffron. Also explore unexpected flavors like beet and sweet potato and even chocolate, all made by hand.\nSuper Simple Homemade Pasta features: 
Recipes for pasta doughs—Make your own pasta doughs with classic ingredients including buckwheat and whole wheat flour, roasted red pepper, spinach, squash, mushroom, chocolate, and more. Step-by-step photo instructions—Following the simple, clear instructions, learn to use a pasta sheeter, an extruder, and a cavatelli maker as well as roll, cut, shape, and stuff dough for gnocchi, lasagna, cannelloni, pappardelle, tagliatelle, ravioli, and dozens of other types of classic Italian pasta. Helpful tips—Expert advice and serving suggestions will ensure pasta so beautiful and delicious your family and guests will be clamoring for more. 
No need to serve dry, boxed, or frozen pasta again once you’ve easily mastered the recipes in Super Simple Homemade Pasta.

Super Simple Homemade Pasta: Make Spaghetti, Penne, Linguini, Bucatini, Tagliatelle, Ravioli, and More in Your Own Home Kitchen (New Shoe Press)

Green, Aliza

Learn to cook authentic Spanish food without all the fuss\nDo you wish you could cook real, traditional Spanish meals but don’t have time for cooking classes or the lengthy and complicated recipes from other Spanish cookbooks? Spanish Cooking for Beginners, adapted from the best-selling Let’s Cook Spanish!, is the perfect book for any busy home cook who wants to explore the flavors, language, and culture of Spain.\nThis simple-to-follow cookbook covers everything from churros to paella and optimizes them for your whole family to cook and enjoy together. With an emphasis on fresh ingredients and hands-on preparation, notable Spanish chef Gabriela Llamas presents recipes for tapas (small bites) and pinchos (skewered bites), meat and fish, vegetables and salads, as well as sweets—plus menu ideas to mix and match.\nSpanish Cooking for Beginners includes: 
30 of the most classic, traditional Spanish dishes—Impress your family and friends with delicious Vegetable Cocas (Spanish pizza), Chicken in Pepitoria (a traditional dish dating back to the Middle Ages), Cold Vegetable Soup (one of Spain’s most universal dishes), Torrijas (Spanish French toast), and more. Simple ingredients, easy-to-follow recipes—Easy-to-find ingredients and clear steps make cooking real Spanish food accessible to even the most inexperienced in the kitchen. Notes on Spanish culture—Discover the Spanish culinary traditions behind each flavorful dish, with notes on how and where the foods are served and enjoyed in Spain. 
With this accessible cookbook and cultural guide, you will become an expert at cooking the food of Spain!

Spanish Cooking for Beginners: Simple and Delicious Recipes for All Occasions (New Shoe Press)

Llamas, Gabriela

Quick & Easy

Learn the basics of decorating cakes with this super-simple guide for beginners\nDecorating your own cakes is both fun and easy with cake maven Autumn Carpenter at your side. In The Beginner’s Guide to Cake Decorating, adapted from her best-selling First Time Cake Decorating, you’ll learn everything about the basic tools you will need, hacks to make cake decorating easy, and how to plan and design your own cake style. This book is the only basic primer you will need to get started.\nOther books on cake decorating are often overwhelming, offering unattainable expert-level ideas and complicated instructions, but The Beginner’s Guide to Cake Decorating sticks to the basics so you get the results you want. You will be able to decorate cakes for any occasion, from baby showers to birthdays. With fuss-free instructions and no-fail results, you will not only impress your friends and family, but yourself too!\nThis accessible, easy-to-follow cake decorating reference features: 
All the information you need to get started—The book includes essential equipment and tools; recipes for cakes, fillings, frostings, icings, and fondants; introductory techniques; and hacks and shortcuts to make everything easier. A variety of methods and styles—Choose from a wide range of techniques, including piping, molding, hand modeling, stencils, and more, and styles from flowers to banners and ribbons to letters. Crystal-clear instructions—Photographic step-by-step projects will help you learn the basics so you can customize your own designs successfully. 
The best place to start your cake customizing exploration is this all-in-one beginner’s guide from one of cake decorating’s best teachers!

The Beginner's Guide to Cake Decorating: A Step-by-Step Guide to Decorate with Frosting, Piping, Fondant, and Chocolate and More (New Shoe Press)

Carpenter, Autumn

Baking

This super-simple guide to making candy features photo-illustrated step-by-step instructions and techniques for creating all kinds of yummy sweets.\nMaking your own homemade candy may sound complicated, but it’s easy and fun! Candy making in your home kitchen allows creative exploration that requires no experience and very little equipment, and the results can be used as inexpensive gifts or festive desserts for a range of occasions. The Beginner’s Guide to Candy Making, adapted from The Sweet Book of Candy Making, offers an easy approach, basic recipes that everyone will enjoy, and creative hacks that will make candy making easier than ever. Even the most inexperienced cooks and bakers can learn to make their favorite candies for their favorite people.\nInside, you’ll find: 
Candy-making basics, including equipment, simple ingredients, techniques, and candy hacks that cover lessons on pulling taffy, rolling truffles, filling peanut butter cups, and much more Amazing no-fuss recipes for hard candies, chewy caramels, tasty toffees, melt-in-your-mouth fudge, decadent truffles, chocolates, marshmallows, and nut candies to name a few Hacks and quick fix tips for fixing candy batch’s gone awry Perfect classics from Penuche Fudge to Lollipops Novel flavor combinations to try, such as Pistachio Marzipan Squares, Passion Fruit Marshmallows, Mango-Macadamia Nut Caramels, Lemon Meringue Lollipops, and more 
Ideas for gifting and decorating are included to make your candy gifts the talk of the neighborhood.

The Beginner's Guide to Candy Making: Simple and Sweet Recipes for Chocolates, Caramels, Lollypops, Gummies, and More (New Shoe Press)

LeBau, Elizabeth

Desserts

Clear, photo-illustrated instruction for learning the practical and artisanal craft of blacksmithing\nKeen on making your own custom cutlery? Want to make your own fireplace tools or even your own garden art? The Beginner’s Guide to Blacksmithing, adapted from The Backyard Blacksmith, introduces you to everything you need to know, from the tools and basic techniques to a variety of different approaches to this old-school trade. Whether your interest is practical, like fixing broken rails or tools, or artistic, like sculpture and decorative art made from metals, you will find all the instruction you need to be successful in this essential reference.\nThis easy-to-follow beginner’s guide features: 
Clear instructions that make learning easy—Like having a master blacksmith at your side, detailed, step-by-step, full-color exercises teach all the universal skills and techniques used to forge iron. Accessible content for absolute beginners—Learn to find and salvage the right kinds of steel, set up your shop, collect the essential tools, and work safely, then explore the properties and characteristics of hot metal and how to shape it successfully. Beautiful and functional projects—The book includes beautiful and functional projects organized by level of difficulty, allowing you to progress at your own pace, and master the skills you learned in earlier chapters. 
Blacksmithing is a rewarding craft that you can enjoy in your backyard or home workshop, and this book makes learning the basic skills easy and fun. Set yourself up for success with this indispensable guide.

The Beginner's Guide to Blacksmithing: The Complete Guide to the Basic Tools and Techniques for the Beginning Metal Worker (New Shoe Press)

Computers & Technology

Sims, Lorelei

Programming

With this absolute beginner’s guide, learn how to set up your backyard hives, select and raise bees, and harvest honey, with the added bonus of bringing pollinators to your yard and garden.\nYou’ve decided to try beekeeping—so where do you start? Beekeeping for Beginners, adapted from the best-selling The Backyard Beekeeper, covers everything you need to know, from selecting the right kind of hives, and finding and bringing bees home to your yard, right up to the collection and enjoyment of the glorious reward—golden honey. Rewarding and environmentally beneficial, reading this complete and introductory guide is the first step in your journey to becoming a successful beekeeper, whether you decide to have one hive or twenty-five.\nRenowned beekeeping expert Kim Flottum shares his vast knowledge from years of teaching beekeeping to all levels of enthusiasts for a no-fail approach to bringing a productive bee colony onto your property. Featuring diagrams and color photos, learning what you need to know to establish a vibrant bee colony is fun and easy.\nThe features that set Beekeeping for Beginners apart from other guides: 
Simplified approach―Aimed at the beginner, the book covers everything you need to know in uncomplicated and accessible language, accompanied by full-color illustrative photography. Up to date and organic―Learn details on the most current methods that make beekeeping sustainable and accessible even for the smallest yard and urban enthusiasts. Learn from an expert―Complete information from a trusted voice in the beekeeping community will give you the tools and knowledge you need to enjoy keeping bees with confidence. 
This guide offers detailed instruction for: 
Establishing and taking care of your new bees Stress-free hive management Site selection and management Safety and swarm control Types of hives including top bar hives Harvesting, collecting, and processing honey Keeping bees and hives healthy year-round in all climates Urban beekeeping Smokers 101 Pest and disease management Biodiversity and food for healthy hives 
Learn everything you need to know to start your colony with this straightforward, highly visual guide for beginning beekeepers.

Beekeeping for Beginners: Everything you Need to Know to Get Started and Succeed Keeping Bees in Your Backyard (New Shoe Press)

Engineering & Transportation

Flottum, Kim

Engineering

Manage inflammation naturally with 100+ simple recipes. Inflammatory reactions can have a debilitating effect&nbsp;on your daily life. Over time, inflammation can harm your organ functions, your energy levels, and your cognitive abilities--but most inflammation can be healed. The Easy Anti-Inflammatory Cookbook, adapted from Molly Thompson's The Anti-Inflammatory Diet Made Simple, is a collection of easy-to-make recipes with simple ingredients based on foods that are scientifically proven to reduce inflammation naturally. The right food choices can return your&nbsp;body function to its most efficient and ultimately&nbsp;eliminate symptoms associated with inflammatory disorders, including: digestive issues (leaky gut, bloating, gas, irritable bowel syndrome [IBS], constipation); headaches; hormone imbalances (irregular cycles, polycystic ovarian syndrome [PCOS]); autoimmune diseases (Hashimoto's disease, rheumatoid arthritis); skin issues (acne, psoriasis, eczema); mood disorders (anxiety, depression); trouble sleeping; and trouble losing weight. Delicious, and ranging from snacks to dinners, the recipes included offer something for everyone and&nbsp;introduce&nbsp;the staples of anti-inflammatory eating. Alongside the recipes are details on why the foods included work. You can mix and match your own ingredients for custom meals that offer the power of&nbsp;inflammation-fighting leafy greens, fermented foods, and healthy fats high in Omega-3. Bring relief to your plate with delicious recipes like: &nbsp; <ul> <li>Double Chocolate Banana Muffins</li> <li>Sweet Potato Waffle Breakfast Sandwich</li> <li>Blackened Chicken Tacos with Cilantro Lime Rice&nbsp;</li> <li>Chipotle Shrimp and Grits&nbsp;</li> <li>Kale Chorizo Artichoke Dip</li> <li>Turkey-Sage Swedish Meatballs with Creamy Spinach Gravy</li> <li>Roasted Carrot and Lentil Salad with Tahini Dressing</li> <li>Golden Turmeric Honey Latte&nbsp;</li> </ul> With the inflammation-fighting foods featured in these beginner-friendly recipes, you can: &nbsp; <ul> <li>Boost lifelong health</li> <li>Reduce inflammation</li> <li>Ease chronic pain</li> <li>Gain more energy</li> <li>Improve concentration</li> <li>Eliminate headaches and skin conditions</li> <li>Slow the aging process</li> </ul> And enjoy: &nbsp; <ul> <li>Easy meal planning, including meal plans, shopping lists, and substitution variations</li> <li>Simple, delicious, and hearty&nbsp;recipes featuring accessible and affordable ingredients</li> <li>Anti-inflammatory know-how, with lists and details on the ins and outs of anti-inflammatory eating</li> </ul>

The Easy Anti-Inflammatory Cookbook: Simple Recipes that Heal and Support Immune Health (New Shoe Press)

Thompson, Molly

Special Diet

Learn to weld, step by step, with this beginner’s guide.\nWelding for Beginners, adapted from Stephen Blake Christena’s Learn to Weld, has culled the absolute basics that are required to build a successful welding hobby and illustrated them in these pages. Both practical and inspiring, this book teaches you the basic equipment you will need, setting up your work area, techniques for beginners with project ideas for practicing your skills, dos and don’ts, and welding safety.\nIf you are inexperienced and want to start out strong—whether working in a home workshop, school workshop, blacksmith shop, or auto shop—this is the perfect reference. The projects illustrate the basic foundation techniques that every welder needs to know, while also helping you tackle problems and fix mistakes as well as shortcuts and level ups. Photographs and illustrations teach welding and clear, concise, easy-to-read text takes all the confusion out of the learning the processes.\nThis easy-to-use book includes: 
Welding techniques for simple practical repairs and small artisan home projects Safety and protective gear Workshop set-up plans Basic equipment and upkeep Basic welding types, including arc and MIG Common mistakes and troubleshooting Project ideas Instructive photos showing process details for successful results Tons of quick tips and welding hacks to give beginners a strong foundation to improve upon 
Get welding!

Welding for Beginners: Learn Everything You Need to Know to Weld, Cut, and Shape Metal in Your Home Studio (New Shoe Press)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Christena, Stephen Blake

Crafts & Hobbies

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