Create you own backyard winery!

From breaking ground to savoring the finished product, Jeff Cox's From Vines to Wines is the most complete and up-to-date guide to growing flawless grapes and making extraordinary wine.

Wine connoisseurs, gardeners, and home winemakers will find the latest techniques in this fully revised and updated edition. With thorough, illustrated instructions, you'll learn how to:

-- Choose and prepare a vineyard site

-- Construct sturdy and effective trellising systems

-- Plant, prune, and harvest the perfect grapes for your climate

-- Press, ferment, age and bottle your own wine

-- Judge wine for clarity, color, aroma, body, and taste

Girl in the Kitchenby Stephanie Izard with Heather ShousePhotographs by Dan Goldberg Published by Chronicle BooksHardcover256 pages

Naked wine is wine stripped down to its basics?wine as it was meant to be: wholesome, exciting, provocative, living, sensual, and pure. Naked, or natural, wine is the opposite of most New World wines today; Alice Feiring calls them ?overripe, over-manipulated, and overblown” and makes her case that good (and possibly great) wine can still be made, if only winemakers would listen more to nature and less to marketers, and stop using additives and chemicals. But letting wine make itself is harder than it seems.

Three years ago, Feiring answered a dare to try her hand at natural winemaking. In Naked Wine,she details her adventure?sometimes calm, sometimes wild, always revealing?and peers into the nooks and crannies of today’s exciting, new (but centuries-old) world of natural wine.

The All-Natural Diabetes Cookbook won the 2007 Gourmand Best in the World Award in the category of Best Health and Nutrition Cookbook

The only whole food cookbook for people with diabetes—featuring 150 recipes

Eating with diabetes means eating healthy. But many cookbooks for people with diabetes substitute artificial sweeteners and processed foods at the expense of great flavor. Now if you want to make healthier choices, you don’t have to give up good food!

The All-Natural Diabetes Cookbook features 150 recipes that focus on whole foods and unprocessed ingredients. YOu can enjoy: Blanco Huevos Rancheros, Creole-Style Red Beans and Rice, Roasted Wild Salmon Fillet with Orange-Miso Sauce, Horseradish Pork Tenderloin on Naan with Arugula, and much,much more! YOu can do away with artificial ingredients that leave you feeling unfulfilled! Forget those “fat-free” products that are really just flavorless! Healthy eating is not only good, it’s also great tasting!

The Diet Rebel s Cookbook reveals the benefits of eating whole, natural foods as a regular part of your diet and includes traditional recipes and time-tested preparation tips that will help your body get the most out of what you eat. Learn how to use whole grains, natural sweeteners, fresh produce, and healthy meats on a daily basis, and you will impress your friends and family with recipes that are both delicious and healthy.

Sisters Megan and Jill Carle know all about leaving Mom's well-stocked kitchen to face an empty apartment fridge with little time to cook and very little money. From cheap eats to midnight sweets, the Carles teach starving students everything they need to know to cook and feed themselves well--and have fun while they're at it. Filled with mouthwatering home-style dishes and easy-to-make study-break snacks, COLLEGE COOKING shows how to impress a date, plan parties, and feed a household of roommates, making it the only textbook no student should be without.

When Daniel Duane became a father, this San Francisco surfer and climber found himself trapped at home with no clue how to contribute. Inept at so many domestic tasks, and less than eager to change diapers, he took on dinner duty. Duane had a few tricks: pasta, stir-fry … well, actually, those were his only two tricks. But he had a biographical anomaly: Chef Alice Waters had been his preschool teacher. So he cracked one of her Chez Panisse cookbooks and cooked his way through it. And so it went with all seven of her other cookbooks, then on to those of other famous chefs—thousands of recipes in all, amounting to an epic eight-year cooking journey.

Butchering whole lambs at home, teaching himself to make classic veal stock, even hunting pigs in Maui and fishing for salmon in Alaska, Duane so thoroughly immersed himself in the modern food world that he met and cooked with a striking number of his heroes: writing a book with Alice Waters; learning offal cookery hands-on from the great Fergus Henderson; even finagling seven straight hours of one-on-one private lessons from the chef he admires above all others, Thomas Keller.

Duane’s inimitable voice carries us through, with humor and panache, even through a pair of personal tragedies. Here is a writer who can make chopping an onion sound fun and fascinating. But there is more at stake in his wonderful memoir: In the end, Duane learns not just how to cook like a man, but how to be one.

• A peek into life at home with Tyler. He shares the dishes he likes to prepare for his family and friends when he's off the clock. 

• The table of contents is organized by occasion, such as his son's first birthday party, a romantic meal for two, Christmas dinner for the whole Florence family, and a simple meal for a rainy Sunday afternoon.

• Tyler's menus and recipes feature twists on comfort food classics and showcase his secret family recipes as well as his personal favorites.

• Menus and personal photos from Tyler's home-cooked meals and dinner parties.

• Beautiful food and lifestyle photos.

Alice's family plants a vegetable garden each spring, and this budding naturalist reports all she sees about how the plants grow, what insects come to eat the plants, and what birds and animals come to eat the insects.  It's the food chain, right in her own backyard!

While Alice's narrative is simple and engaging, science concepts are presented in more depth in sidebars by a pair of very knowledgeable (and highly amusing) chickens! Noted science writer Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld knows how to layer information to make it accessible to a wide range of readers and useful for educators. And illustrator Priscilla Lamont's funny, friendly paintings make this a garden everyone will want to explore.

Kids will eat up this wonderful book of backyard science—and perhaps they'll even be inspired to eat their vegetables!

An exciting and diverse collection of recipes specially developed for preparation in an electric skillet!

What Tom Vanderbilt did for traffic and Brian Wansink did for mindless eating, Jonathan Bloom does for food waste. The topic couldn’t be timelier: As more people are going hungry while simultaneously more people are morbidly obese, American Wasteland sheds light on the history, culture, and mindset of waste while exploring the parallel eco-friendly and sustainable-food movements. As the era of unprecedented prosperity comes to an end, it’s time to reexamine our culture of excess.

Working at both a local grocery store and a major fast food chain and volunteering with a food recovery group, Bloom also interviews experts?from Brian Wansink to Alice Waters to Nobel Prize?winning economist Amartya Sen?and digs up not only why and how we waste, but, more importantly, what we can do to change our ways.

Do you find you are serving the same meals week in and week out? Do you catch yourself staring at the contents of your fridge hoping for inspiration? Do you long for some original ideas to help you cook quick, healthy, and tasty meals for the whole family?

Give your family a food makeover: No more picky eaters! No more recipe ruts! Internationally bestselling author and leading authority on feeding children Annabel Karmel offers realistic ways to improve your whole family’s diet with her signature fresh, creative, and simple cooking style. Favorite Family Meals is packed with more than 150 mouthwatering and nutritious recipes that are fun to eat—and to make—plus practical tips for saving time and planning ahead.

Inside Favorite Family Meals, you’ll find:

• Shopping lists for the staple ingredients that will help you whip up healthy, delicious meals in no time

• Practical advice for making homemade frozen dinners so you don’t have to cook every day

• Easy-to-follow recipes that you and your kids will want to make together

• Tasty and original ways to spruce up school lunch boxes

• Irresistible ideas for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks that will make you excited to hear your kids say,

“I’m hungry!”

The Kraft Philadelphia Busy Family Recipes cookbook is your answer to the daily dilemma of "what's for dinner?" The collection of 90 recipes, which include Philadelphia Cream Cheese and other Kraft food products as ingredients, helps even the busiest cooks at mealtime. The 192-page spiral-bound cookbook has quick, innovative dishes for every taste, budget, and timetable.

Classic cheesecakes, no-fail desserts, make-ahead snacks, and crowd-pleasing casseroles are among the easy-to-prepare recipe selections. Here is a sampling of recipes from the Kraft Philadelphia Busy Family Recipes cookbook:

• Tomato-Basil Dip
• Roast Pork Tenderloin
• Chicken Pot Pie
• Meatloaf
• Mashed Potato Layer Bake
• Ice Cream Cheesecake
• Philadelphia Classic Cheesecake
• Chocolate-Raspberry Mousse

  Every recipe is accompanied by color photograph of the completed dish. Kitchen tips, nutrition information, and helpful hints are found throughout the cookbook. Look for the other cookbooks in the series, including Campbell's Busy Family Recipes, Kraft Foods Busy Family Recipes, and Crock-Pot Busy Family Recipes.

Put a little life back in your menus! This handy kitchen companion is chock-full of tips and recipes that your family is guaranteed to love. Along with loads of practical advice, Anitra Kerr, author of Simply Living Smart: Everyday Solutions for a More Organized You, presents page after page of delicious dinners that will soon become family favorites. Like the Sweet & Spicy Sesame Noodles with Jerk Chicken, the Barbecue Chicken Pizza, or the Brazilian Pork Salad with Tangerine Vinaigrette. So stop letting that food storage waste away on your pantry shelves! Begin celebrating your dinners with these simple, affordable recipes any cook can master.