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Books to read if you're planning a vacation in "Cook", sorted by average review score:
The Sonnets
Published in Hardcover by Bulfinch Press (February, 1999)
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Classic poetry
A great find - It's both volumesThis edition of the sonnets is one of the most important and the description on Amazon is misleading - It is actually both volumes 24 and 25 bound together so you get the complete set It's hard to find this book so it is a great find in this version
Beautiful CollectionShakespeare's amazing Sonnets are compiled here in this wonderful volume, a great addition to anyone's bookshelf. If you love Shakespeare, then this is a must-have book.
Speech to Print: Language Essentials for Teachers
Published in Paperback by Paul H Brookes Pub Co (July, 2000)
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A must-read for teachersThis text has excellent information. This kind of information about language needs to be included in every college program that claims to be educating future teachers.
excellent information for the teacher of readingThis informative and scholarly text provides necessary background for students of the English language. It is esential information for anyone who would like to teach reading. Speech to Print presents the structure of the English language in a readable and knowledgeable format. The content in Speech to Print is a must for any teacher of reading.
Teaching Teachers About The Speech to Print ConnectionProfessors and teachers who are responsible for the instruction of pre- and inservice teachers will appreciate this excellent core text in the language foundations of reading. The author's unique background in reading science, teaching, and assessment have equipped her to provide the reader with knowledge of the language processes essential to teaching reading and spelling. Exercises are provided throughout the book and at the end of chapters that may be used to practice application of the concepts taught in the text. Professors with prior training in introductory level linguistics will be more comfortable with this text than those who do not have prior background in phonetics, phonology, grammar, morphology, and language as it relates to the teaching of reading and writing.Highly motivated teachers can use the text for self-teaching, however they would benefit from doing so in a small group of like-minded colleagues who can support each other as they work their way through the text.
Spur of the Moment Cook
Published in Hardcover by William Morrow (December, 1994)
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Take this Book Grocery Shopping!My absolute favorite cookbook. The recipes are original and distinctive and truly can be cooked at the spur of the moment. The leek and yellow raisin chutney and flank steak marinated in peppers in adobo sauce are only two examples that can be prepared in 20 minutes yet truly impress. I haven't found a cook book that's so consistent and also suprising.
The Absolute Best!This is my all time favorite cookbook! I have it in hard cover and am buying it for friends this year as gifts. It has the most delicious, easy recipes that will wow even the fussiest gourmand. The Sour Cream Onion Pie is incredible, the pasta dishes are easy and inspired. Even if I don't have the ingredients on hand, there is usually something in this book that gives me an idea that I can make from what is in my tiny kitchen. I highly recommend this book.
For my taste, this is her best cookbook to date.The chocolate, pine nut tart is yummy. The zuchinni risotto is to die for. Truly fits with my cupboard staple items. Humorous at times, well written, receipes are straight forward and well organized. The index is cross referenced. For the cook who enjoys cooking from stratch but is working outside the home--perfect.
Sunset cook book of breads
Published in Unknown Binding by Lane Pub. Co. ()
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Best bread book around, ANYWHERE!!!I have had this book for about 10 years or more, and it is the best book on bread I have found, and I have a lot of them. I came in here looking for it for a friend, and decided to put in my 2 cents.
If you are an expert bread baker or a novice, this is the book for you.
If you are an expert bread baker or a novice, this is the book for you.
Someone "borrowed" my copy and I NEED a replacementGreat book. My favorite recipe is Challah bread. Fortunately I had put that one in the computer before someone borrowed the book from my wife's desk at her work (without asking). If anyone can lead me to a copy of this book, I'd really appreciate it!
Excellent basic book for cooking both quick and yeast breadsI've had this book for over 15 years and make everyone's favorite banana bread from it (with modifications, of course!). Even good for junior bakers, because the quick breads are straight-forward, and there are tips, tricks and step-by-step instructions for baking success. Too bad it's out of print, but a revised printing with updated graphics would be great.
To Catch a Cook : An Angie Amalfi Mystery
Published in Mass Market Paperback by Avon (November, 2000)
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Terrific taleAn excellent mystery with lots of twists and turns. Characters you care about. This author should be in hard back on a best seller list! I nearly over looked this gem as it was in paperback. I read about a book per day and this was one of the best I have read in ages.
This series is an old familiar friend you want to readHomicide detective Paavo Smith grew up believing his mother was a good time girl, who always dumped him and his sister with her neighbor when she decided not to play mommy. The only thing he has that was hers is a cheap cameo broach, which he gives to his San Francisco girlfriend Angie Amalfi, who treasures the gift that comes from Paavo's heart. She wears it everyday until the broach falls out of the setting.
Angie takes it to a jeweler only to learn the piece is a valuable Russian antique that he wants to buy due to its museum-like quality. Angie refuses to sell it and the jeweler agrees to fix it. As soon as she leaves the store, the jeweler places a mysterious call that places everyone connected to the cameo in danger. Paavo's stepfather is in a hospital suffering from a coma after being shot in the head. The jeweler is dead. Numerous efforts to kill Paavo and Angie occur. Paavo believes the current vendetta is tied to something his parents did three decades ago that impacts the Russian Mafia today.
This work is a bit different than the previous Amalfi mysteries because for the first time Paavo accepts comfort and help from someone else. The audience learns more about the inner demons that have driven him for years. By Paavo learning the truth about his past, the healing process finally begins and his girlfriend Angie lovingly assists in the process. Jeanne Pence shows her talent as a mighty good mystery writer and adds a great human element that turns this tale into a fabulous drama.
Harriet Klausner
Current mystery & old family intrigue combineAngie Amalfi has messed up big time. She has lost the antique broach that once belonged to her significant other's mother. She knows her detective boyfriend will not be amused that he only thing he has to remember his mother by has vanished. She must have a replacement made and soon. To top it all off her apartment, Paavo's place and his stepfather's house have all been broken into. The result is his stepfather is in the hospital. When Angie learns that the jeweler has been murdered, she knows deep down that it's time to panic. The answers lie from Arizona to Russia, from family secrets to an unknown past, all leading to Paavo and his family and a recipe for disaster. TO CATCH A COOK is murder most baffling and nobody stirs a murderous brew like Joanne Pence, complete with colorful characters, and a recipe to die for, Pence serves up a murder so hot, a plot twist so unique that you'll be left dying for another sample. I simply cannot wait to read the next tasty culinary treat that Pence has penned. Pamela Cornwell James
Too Many Cooks: A Passover Parable
Published in Paperback by Kar-Ben Publishing (March, 2000)
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Too Many Cooks has all the RIGHT ingredients!Written with such zest for family participation during the Jewish Holiday of Passover! Lively pictures help weave the story of Bubbie's family as they perform the traditional tasks for Passover. Educational and fun at the same time! A real treat for young and old, which has always been the true test of great literature. "Too Many Cooks" is a great addition to your personal library collection.
My favorite bed time story!!!This is such a cool book that kids really love! My 3rd grade teacher read this book to us around Passover time last year when we were learning about Jewish Holidays. Everyone in my class just loved the book, and many of my friends went and bought it. Too Many Cooks has AWESOME illustrations in bright colors. This is a great book for kids of all faiths. Strongly recommended! A+!
Too Many Cooks-A Passover ParableThis appealing Passover book is truly a gem for young and old alike! Too Many Cooks offers a fun-filled glimpse into the rich traditions of the Seder preparation. Through the cute characterizations of familiar family members, this story will be reread at many Passovers over years to come!
Turned On : Eight Vital Insights to Energize Your People, Customers and Profits
Published in Hardcover by DIANE Publishing Company (01 April, 2000)
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It truely energizes you!A great book with stories that exemplify the main ideas contained in the book. Contains an "Insight to Action" after each chapter which helps you apply the concepts. If anyone is interested in finding ways to provide extaordinary service to customers, or become a better leader, read this book.
The One book that's as important as an new-employee manualThis is one of the most inspirational, motivating, and empowering management books available. After reading just a few pages, you find yourself picking up other copies to give to coworkers, clients, and friends.
Dow and Cook have found the ingredients to successfully attract, excite, and retain employees focused on customer-centric goals. Having read their insights, I now know why companies such as Marriott and Schwab are so successful. An excellent, must-read.
Great book.One of the most important things in life or
business is a sense of optimism and possibility.
This book helped me renew mine in a big way. I
recommend it highly.
Vegetarian Express Lane Cookbook : Hassle-Free Vegatarian Meals for Really Busy Cooks
Published in Paperback by Houghton Mifflin Co (April, 1999)
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I use this book ALL the time!I had been a vegetarian for a couple of years before I found this cookbook and boy, did it change the way I cook! I had been mostly relying on a couple of basic beans and rice type dishes and adapting my meat-based recipes. This book opened up a whole new world of possibilities. I use the recipes in it at least 5 days a week. There are plenty of them from different categories (grains, potatoes, pasta, etc.) so my family doesn't get bored (and I have 2 little children under 6). We all love the food prepared using these recipes. It's also given me some inspiration for coming up with dishes of my own. One of my favorite things about this book is the fact that Ms. Frischner makes suggestions about what to serve with each dish and often variations on the recipe or what to do with leftovers. This is a must have for EVERY kitchen whether you're vegetarian or not!
Learn how to cook!My mother gave me this book a year ago, when I left for my second year of college, and I didn't use it once. At the beginning of this summer, I promised myself that I would learn how to cook, since I will be cooking for myself at school this year. For the last month and a half, my grandma and I have teamed up every day to make a different, but always very tasty meal from this book. It's totally fun! At the beginning of the weak I check out the recipes I want to try, buy the ingredients, and I'm ready to cook after a day at work. One of the greatest things about these recipes is that the instructions are very thorough, which makes it hard to screw up. I made my first cake from scratch, and it turned out perfectly. Needless to say, I am very happy and am proud to say that I finally have some of the basic, but very necessary, skills of cooking down pat.
I'm not even vegetarian and I love it.Let me put it this way. I had to figure out what to eat for the next week and we were already over budget on food, so I couldn't spend much. I flipped through this book and easily found four recipes that were mostly made up of staples I already had. And most of her recipes are so quick to make there is no excuse not to cook. Even the longer recipes she has alternatives to make them shorter. Chapters are set up by food headings such as Rice; Beans; Vegetables; and Pizzas. She also has ways of sneaking in new vegetables such as kohlrabi and bok choy and turnips without anybody being the wiser (except the cook). An amazing cookbook.
The Way We Cook : Recipes from the New American Kitchen
Published in Hardcover by Houghton Mifflin Co (May, 2003)
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simple food, simple recipesI bought this book after reading a review of it. The recipes are simple and easy to follow. They do not use any ingredients that you cannot get at a regular supermarket. No recipe requires the cook to stand over the stove stirring or watching it cook. I highlighted all the recipes I want to try and easily have a month's worth of dinners. I'm so glad there's finally a cookbook for cooks who don't have time to cook!
A home cook's dreamI am a cook who needs a recipe. No experience at my mother's knee. (She worked.) At long last here is a cookbook of recipes that are not too complicated but that have a certain flair. They are, I would say, uncommon but uncomplicated. The onion tart, for instance, consists of onions and thyme, with a dollop of sour cream in its crust. Simple, yes; devoured by my guests, yes. I suggest one should read it through first, for the introduction and the chapter headings are very informative and present the authors' wonderful philospohy that the home cook should not try to duplicate restaurant presentations. This is a cookbook that informs, encourages, promises -- and delivers. Trust me, you will enjoy this cookbook. You can, with this collection of recipes, relax and enjoy cooking for family and for discerning guests. Julia, Silver Palate, and Joy will remain on my shelves, but "The Way We Cook" will remain on my counter!
Great Home-Cooked Food"The Way We Cook" contains a great collection of really authentic, home-cooked and "American" recipes. I keep it on my counter and refer to it whenever I have people over or when I'm in a rush and need to make my family supper or lunch quickly!
The photos are quite beautiful and help instruct along with the charming, personal and clearly-written recipes.
Thanks Sheryl Julian and Julie Riven for such a delightful new book!
The photos are quite beautiful and help instruct along with the charming, personal and clearly-written recipes.
Thanks Sheryl Julian and Julie Riven for such a delightful new book!
The Western Maryland Railway: Fireballs and Black Diamonds
Published in Hardcover by Garrigues House Pub (November, 1992)
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This is the FIRST Western Maryland Railway book to ownThis is the FIRST Western Maryland Railway book to own...it is a great introduction to the WM and really continues to provide the definitive story of the Western Maryland. I own the first edition (now out of print) and the newer edition which was updated in the 1990's. Despite having B&W photos (remember it is an older book), this remains my favorite work on the WM. You can read it many times over and never tire of it. Also a companion book, I recommend purchasing "Western Maryland Railway in the Diesel Era." Diesel Era has more detailed discussion of WM operations and features the highest quality photographs of WM that I know of. Between the two, you'll become an expert on the Western Maryland---a true legend of the American railroading industry.
RE: Second Edition (1992)Well written; the book includes many, many different and beautiful WM photos. A good reference as well as a joy to just read and enjoy the pictures. Even the beautiful dust cover pic (a WM steam train passing Confluence station on a lonely winter day against dark blue skies) makes you feel the rumble of the train against the winter silence. Includes additional material beyond 1st edition, this edition covering the WM saga up to 1992. I recommend this book as part of a West Virginia Railroading / Western Maryland Railway reference library. ISBN 0-9620844-4-1 (previously ISBN 0-8310-7139-7)
Comprehensive, well written history of the WM.This is a well written history of the Western Maryland Railway, covering the time from birth to being absorbed by the Chessie System. Background history during major decisions of the railroad is excellent, giving insight to the evolution of the company.
Illustrations and maps are plentiful, augmenting the text.
This is, in my opinion, the best book on the WM that I have read; it has earned a place in my personal collection. I constantly refer to it in my research, and often reread it for pleasure.
Titleless, identified only by numbers, these poems have vivid metaphors and imagery ("let not winter's ragged hand deface," "gold candles fix'd in heaven's air"). The tone of the poetry varies from one sonnet to the next; sometimes it focuses on old age, to love that "looks upon tempests and is not shaken," and simple expressions that can't really be interpreted any other way. Some of it is pretty well-known ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?/Thou art more lovely and more temperate") but most of them you won't have seen before.
Even if you're not normally a fan of poetry, the delicate touch of Shakespeare's words is worth checking into. Fantastic.