Product Description: Why Do Good People Suffer?Why, God? why has this happened to me? How can I make sense out of my life?The book of Job wrestles with the deep personal questions that confront us as we face illness, loss, disappointment, suffering and death...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A revised guide to baking whole-grain breads offers a step-by-step approach to the breadmaking process and includes recipes and baking guidelines for making bread from whole wheat, rye, oats, barley, corn, and other beans, grains, seeds, and nuts, and includes a new section on bread machines and original recipes. Original. 15,000 first printing.

Long considered the pastry chef's bible, The Professional Pastry Chef has now been completely revised to meet the needs of today's pastry kitchen. Bo Friberg, a Certified Master Pastry Chef and Instructor at The Culinary Institute of America at Greystone, has written a book that continues his tradition of excellence and commitment to the industry.Chef Friberg shares his recipes for such delicious desserts as Apple Tart Parisienne, Wild Strawberries Romanoff in Caramel Boxes, and Mocha Meringues. Not only has he devoted whole chapters to sugar work, decorations, sauces and fillings, but he has also included extensive information on mise en place and basic doughs. By simplifying the instructions for his complex recipes, he has made them easier than ever for the professional to execute.

Product Description: Carole Walter has had a love affair with baking since she was a child. That passion has flowered into a professional career that has taken Walter around the world to study baking and the culinary arts with renowned chefs in Austria, Denmark, France, and Italy, as well as in the United States...read more

Product Description: "Murfitt calms potentially nervous fingers by not only including step-by-step color photographs and text but also showing alternatives to traditional embellishments.--Booklist"A must have' for anyone with the slightest interest in cake decorating...read more

Describes the secret of making perfect pancakes and shares recipes for pancakes, crepes, potato pancakes, and toppings

A cookbook-travelogue offers more than two hundred delicious and unusual flatbread recipes, including Afghan naan, Indian chapattis, Middle Eastern pita, Mexican tortilla, and fougasse of France, along with complimentary meat and vegetable dishes. 20,000 first printing. $40,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Product Description: "A cooking book devoted exclusively to cooking with wholegrain flour is such an old idea it's brand new. Up to 1850 there was no other kind of cooking book." Cooking with Wholegrains is a return to the more natural, healthier ways of cooking from America's colonial days and later on, before the advent of synthetically enriched foods...read more

A thirtieth anniversary edition of the classic baking guide provides updated advice on baking, storing, and freezing a wide assortment of breads, in a volume that also includes chapters on croissants, flatbreads, brioches, and crackers. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

A delectable collection of old-fashioned, mouth-watering deserts, updated for today's tastes, also includes profiles of the various chefs, their recollections of favorite desserts, and excerpts from literature related to everyone's favorite meal. IP.

A richly illustrated guide to creating a variety of stunning specially cakes for any occasion introduces an array of baking and decorating techniques, shows how to create sugar flowers, and shares ideas for a variety of decorated cakes. Reprint. (view table of contents)

A collection of signature recipes from more than forty of the best-loved hotels, restaurants and country houses in Ireland. The recipes featured in this work celebrate the natural riches of the land and sea that surround the featured establishments - local seafood, freshwater fish, game, fruit, vegetables, herbs, and farmhouse cheeses.

Provides a variety of recipes for fruit cakes, bundt cakes, loaf cakes, and yeast cakes, and also offers baking techniques

Product Description: Whether it's a slice of warm bread and butter, a Thanksgiving pumpkin pie, or a piece of cake, baked goods have been among America's favorite comfort foods ever since the Pilgrims arrived. From the days of hand mixing and baking on the hearth to today's use of food processors and electric ranges, American cooks have created an amazing variety of breads and baked goods that are as distinctive as the cultures from which we came...read more

Product Description: The Cake Mix Doctor is in! And the prescription is simple: By doctoring up packaged cake mix with just the right extras--a touch of sweet butter here, cocoa powder there, or poppy seeds, vanilla yogurt, sherry, eggs, and grated lemon zest for the Charleston Poppy Seed Cake--even the least experienced baker can turn out luscious signature desserts, time after time...read more

Product Description: “More a story of the pleasures of real dessert-making than anything yet written.”—M.F.K. Fisher For this monumental collection, Richard Sax devoted more than a decade to searching out and perfecting more than 350 of the world’s most beloved desserts, “the ones made at home by mothers and grandmothers rather than by professional pastry chefs...read more

The James Beard Award-winning columnist for Bon Appetit introduces a collection of simple and sophisticated dessert recipes that can be prepared in less than half an hour, including such treats as Peanut Butter Mousse, Hot Fudge Pudding Cake, Raspberry-White Chocolate Souffle, and more.

One hundred new recipes for the bread machine covers everything from foccacia to breadsticks to pizza dough, as well as more traditional doughs, and offers practical instruction on how to shape and trim loaves. (view table of contents)

Product Description: From Deer Valley, the Utah ski resort renowned for cuisine and service, Executive Pastry Chef Letty Halloran Flatt offers 126 of the resort’s tried-and-true recipes for breakfast treats, homemade breads, cookies, and ice creams, as well as pies and tarts, elegant cakes, and one-of-a-kind desserts—a mouthwatering blend of Flatt’s years of experience and her penchant for fresh, natural flavors...read more

Product Description: A choclate lover's dream, this book is packed with 50 recipes for making cales, gateaux, and hot and cold desserts.

Steering clear of sugar, dairy products, and cholesterol, this collection of scrumptious dessert recipes promises everything from Blackberry Cobbler to Raspberry Sorbet for the health-conscious reader. Reprint. 10,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Offers information on choosing and storing ingredients and equipment, modifying a recipe, and selecting an accompaniment, and includes recipes for black chocolate espresso cake, pine nut lace cookies, and lemon anise churros. (view table of contents)

The Sicilian tradition of pastry making is celebrated here in loving photographs and more than one hundred superlative recipes for Cannoli, Biscotti, Cassata, Jasmine Ice, Sesame Brittle, and other treats. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)