book reviews
The Global Pantry Cookbook by Ann Taylor Pittman and Scott Mowbray shows home chefs how to create tasty international dishes with ease by using flavors coming from a bottle, jar or can. The book incorporates more than 65 pantry items from around the world into recipes for main dishes, side dishes, snacks, salads, soups and desserts.
From lemongrass to miso, capers to chiles and chorizo to tahini, these global condiments can turn ordinary dishes into flavor-packed international cuisine. From Workman Publishing Co.
In the new picture book, Garden Walk by Virginia Brimhall Snow, kids can stroll through a garden and forest with Grammy and her grandkids, making discoveries around every turn. The fifth in this line- drawing series from Gibbs Smith Books, Garden Walk has beautiful illustrations and whimsical rhymes that will help young readers as they learn to identify different flowers, fruits, berries, trees, birds, insects and animals.
Drink Your Words by California native Carolyn Dismuke covers the 25 months she took off from her city job to travel throughout the state’s dozens of wine regions. She highlights the wide variety of wines found in the Golden State, the diverse personalities who make and
enjoy them and interesting details about vineyards. She even offers travel tips. It can serve as a helpful guide through California wine country but reads more like a memoir, written in a first-person, engaging narrative style. From Traveling Star.
Once Upon a Rind in Hollywood: 50 Movie-Themed Cheese Platters and Snack Boards for Film Fanatics features classic cheese boards and charcuterie to candy platters and cocktail pairings, all themed around movies. By the editors of Ulysses Press with food and photographs by Rachel Riederman, this punny cookbook provides thematic munchies to accompany a night of streaming classic movies. Organized by movie genre—romance, kids, action/dramas, horror and comedy—the book has boards with titles like “May the Fromage Be with You,” “Here’s Looking at You, Curd” and “Roquefort Horror Picture Show.”
The Vegetable Garden Problem Solver Handbook by Susan Mulvihill is a handy guide for beginning to expert home gardeners wanting organic solutions to diseases, pests and other common problems that plague their plants. Readers will learn how to give plants a healthy start, identify plant pathogens, troubleshoot pollination issues and weather-related disorders, and prevent ailments such as fruit cracking
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and leaf roll. It includes a quick-reference chart to help with identifying problems and finding solutions. From Cool Springs Press.
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