Product Description: Get the most out of your spiralizer with these delicious and inspiring low-carb recipes!Nearly everyone loves a heaping bowl of delicious pasta-but nearly everyone, too, feels at least a twinge of guilt about eating one. Whether you're eating paleo, low carb, gluten free, or just trying to curb those excess empty calories, carbohydrate-packed pasta can't be high on your healthy-eating list...read more

Japanese cuisine is renowned for the beauty of its presentation. Among the key elements in this presentation style are mukimono--the decorative garnishes and carvings that add the final flourish to a dish. It might be a carrot round in the shape of a plum blossom. Or a scattering of cherry blossoms plucked from a radish. Perhaps a swallow, a butterfly, a ginkgo leaf or a cluster of pine needles. Whatever the motif, it will have been created to delight the eye and the palate with its shape, color, and taste. In The Decorative Art of Japanese Food Carving, internationally acclaimed chef Hiroshi Nagashima offers 60 edible garnishes and food carvings for home, party or professional use. Some are designed to be set on top of the food. Others are fashioned to hold the food--and sometimes, they simply are the food. Each is introduced in full color, with easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions, sample food arrangements, further ideas and secret, insider tips for successful presentation. Most are simple enough for the amateur chef to master, although a few are quite challenging and require much practice. Nagashima's instructions rely on household utensils found in a typical American kitchen--from knives to peelers to cookie cutters--and use familiar, easily attainable ingredients. The Decorative Art of Japanese Food Carving is more than a practical handbook, however. It is also an inspiration book, filled with creative suggestions and inventive ideas to enhance and transform the way we cook.

Product Description: If you've never opened a seed packet before and want to grow your food but don't know where to start, this book is for you. It gives advice on everything from planting seeds to harvesting your crops and dealing with problems—and it doesn't matter whether you have a whole garden or just a patio, a balcony, or a windowsill...read more

Product Description: Cafe Firenze Cookbook celebrates the best of Italian cuisine, coupling gourmet recipes by Top Chef Season 5 fan favorite Fabio Viviani with martini recipes by award-winning mixologist Jacopo Falleni. Viviani's recipes--the same that made him a top contender in the most popular cooking show currently on television--are healthy, easy to prepare, and incredibly tasty, and each one is paired with one of Falleni's fabulous and completely original drink recipes...read more

Kayaking on cabbage seas and driving a zucchini train are some of the fast-moving, wild and wacky food creations presented in a colorful book by the creators of How Are You Peeling? and Food for Thought. 25,000 first printing.

Brief text and photographs of carvings made from vegetables introduce the world of emotions by presenting leading questions such as 'Are you feeling angry?'

An extraordinary picture book from the co-creators of Play with Your Food features an abundance of lively food sculptures that are the epitome of human emotions, from pensive peppers to grimacing grapefruits. Reprint.

Product Description: Illustrated with over 370 beautiful color photos, John Gargone takes readers step-by-step through the process of creating garnishes that are stunning works of edible art. Follow the straight-forward, systematic instructions and you will produce displays that guests will never forget, including border garnishes, salad and table centerpieces, fruit displays ranging from bird cages to watermelon wedding vases, melon sculpture displays, and masterpieces in cheese, vegetables, and deli spreads...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A tongue-in-cheek tour of Hollywood offers humorous facts and sidebars alongside depictions of more than thirty elaborate vegetable sculptures that parody key scenes from such movies as Titanic, Apocalypse Now, and Star Wars. 30,000 first printing.

Describes how to find suggestions of faces and animals in fruits and vegetables, and provides instructions for carving and decorating fresh produce

Advancing the notion that food can be artful as well as nourishing, this collection of decorative culinary delights covers garnishing, clever knife cuts, croustades, and much more. (view table of contents)

Presents designs for carving pumpkins using the stem as a natural nose, and offers a collection of pumpkin-based recipes

Product Description: For the veteran carver or the newest devotee of the hobby, carving vegetables can be educational, fun, and surprising. We're not talking pumpkins here, but real carving, using woodcarving tools and techniques. Instead of wood, though, Tom uses sweet potatoes, which are firm enough to take the knife, and inexpensive enough to take a mistake or two...read more

Detailed easy-to-follow instructions for culinary bouquets consisting of flowers made from raw fruits and vegetables and other edibles are presented along with serving ideas, food suggestions, shopping tips, and information on gourmet gadgetry