Cookies Unlimited
Author: Nick Malgieri
Few things in life are as comforting as home-baked cookies, and popular cooking teacher and acclaimed author Nick Malgieri teaches how to make them right in this beautifully illustrated cookbook. Praise for his delectable recipes and flawless, easy-to-follow approach to baking, Malgieri has collected his favorite recipes from across the world to provide a range of more than 350 original and time-tested recipes for cookies for every occasion. From classics like peanut-butter drop cookies and gingersnaps to impressive French Tuiles, marbled chocolate biscotti, and spectacular gingerbread houses, Cookies Unlimited offers everything homebakers want to know about making cookies. Whether you've made one cookie or hundreds, this volume will help you to always keep that cookie jar full!
Library Journal
Cooking teacher Malgieri (Chocolate, How To Bake, etc.) offers more than 200 recipes for cookies of all sorts, from homey favorites like Cheesecake Brownies to more unusual sweet treats such as Ricotta Drops and Swiss Hazelnut Bars. Some are as American as Loaded with Chips Chocolate Chip Cookies; others are lesser-known European specialties, with a good number from Italy, reflecting Malgieri's heritage. Most are easy, as cookies should be, and the recipes are clearly written. A good companion to Holly Garrison's excellent Cookie Book (Macmillan, 1996), this is recommended for most baking collections. Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.
Internet Book Watch
Over four hundred recipes from around the world blends with familiar and unusual offerings, with color photos peppering presentations of how to bake effectively. Special hints for producing particular styles and varieties make for especially useful chapters which are organized by type of cookie for easy use.
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Bento Box in the Heartland: My Japanese Girlhood in Whitebread America
Author: Linda Furiya
Food is often that which makes sense of the seemingly senseless. In Bento Box in the Heartland, Linda Furiya proves just that by describing what it was like growing up as the only Asian family in rural Indiana. She tells a uniquely American story about girlhood, racism, assimilation, and the love of homemade food. It chronicles the bittersweet journey of Linda's Japanese-American attempts to blend into the culture of the small farm community of Versailles, Indiana. While Linda struggles, her experiences are put into perspective by her parent's personal stories of inspiration and courage.
Linda paints an endearing portrait of her parents. They consider a twelve-hour trip to Chicago just to replenish the pantry with Japanese items as the perfect Saturday outing, driving to Florida to cure their hankering for fresh fish as the perfect summer vacation, and maintaining their Japanese diets with gusto as the perfect anecdote for any challenge. While her parents appear oblivious to any racial reactions, Linda is completely aware.
Concluding every chapter with an appropriate Japanese recipe, Bento Box in the Heartland offers an insightful tale of a young Japanese-American being different, and gaining strength through childhood experience and the food of her homeland.
Publishers Weekly
When Furiya started eating lunches in the elementary school cafeteria, she was profoundly embarrassed by the rice balls her mom packed instead of a sandwich like all the other kids ate. She was already feeling self-conscious about being the only Japanese family in her 1960s Indiana hometown, and her parents' insistence on continuing to eat their native cuisine—they grew their own vegetables and drove for hours to visit big-city supermarkets that stocked Japanese imports—was frustrating because it intensified the differences between her and her classmates. But the exotic dishes were also a source of delight, and Furiya ends each chapter with a recipe for one of her favorite meals. There is more to the story than food, though, and she describes the anger she feels when shopkeepers make fun of her father's accent, or the amazement when her mother takes her back to Japan, with the same vividness she applies to recreating the sensations of her first taste of wasabi. Though she continues to chafe against her parents' emotional reticence, partly inspired by their arranged marriage, Furiya also comes to appreciate the values they handed down to her, and it's this love that dominates her nicely told story. (Jan.)
Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
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