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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Maryland

Your Step-by-Step Guide to Sensational Sets & Borders

Discover lots of exciting new ways to arrange your stash of blocks in fresh, creative settings, and then surround them with a dynamic pieced or plain border. More than 200 quilter's-eye-view photos and clear step-by-step directions will guide you each step of the way.

Here's a glimpse of what you'll learn:

* Simple solutions for dealing with blocks that aren't the same size
* How to size and fit borders so they never, ever ripple or wave
* Sashing strategies that instantly add pizzazz to your quilts
* An ingenious, time-saving way to join blocks together (cut your assembly time in half!)
* The secrets to custom-fitting a pieced border
* Dozens of clever ideas for straight and diagonal settings

And much, much more!

Sensational Sets and Borders

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Wisconsin

Sally Schneider

Maria Robledo

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

California

A collection of low-calorie recipes based on the foods and techniques the author encountered while working as a professional chef in France and Italy, covering all courses from appetizers to desserts, and including color photographs and nutritional information.

The Art of Low-Calorie Cooking

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Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

North Carolina

Sally Schneider was tired of doing what we all do--separating foods into "good" and "bad," into those we crave but can't have and those we can eat freely but don't especially want--so she created A New Way To Cook.

Her book is nothing short of revolutionary, a redefinition of healthy eating, where no food is taboo, where the pleasure principle is essential to well-being, where the concept of self-denial just doesn't exist.

 * More than 600 lavishly illustrated recipes result in marvelous, vividly flavored foods. You'll find quintessential American favorites that taste every bit as good as the traditional "full-tilt" versions: macaroni and cheese, rosemary buttermilk biscuits, chocolate malted pudding. You'll find Italian polentas, risottos, focaccias, and pastas, all reinvented without the loss of a single drop of deliciousness. Asian flavors shine through in cold sesame noodles; mussels with lemongrass, ginger, and chiles; and curry-crusted shrimp. Even French food is no longer on the forbidden list, with country-style pâtés and cassoulet.
   
 * Hundreds of techniques, radical in their ultimate simplicty, make all the difference in the world: using chestnut puree in place of cream, butter, and pork fat in a duck liver mousse; extending the richness of flavored oils by boiling them with a little broth to dress starchy beans and grains; casserole-roasting baby back ribs to render them of fat, then lacquering them with a pungent maple glaze.
   
 * Scores of flavor catalysts--quickly made sauces, rubs, marinades, essences, and vinaigrettes--add instant hits of flavor with little effort. Leek broth dresses pasta; chive oil becomes an instant sauce for broiled salmon; a smoky tea essence imparts a sweet, grilled flavor to steak; balsamic vinegar turns into a luscious dessert sauce.
   
 * Variations and improvisations offer infiinite flexibility. Once you learn a basic recipe, it's simple to devise your own version for any part of the meal. "Fried" artichockes with crispy garlic and sage can be an hors d-oeuvre topped with shaved cheeses, part of a composed salad, or as a main course when tossed iwth pasta. It's equally happy on top of pizza or stirred into risotto. And by building dishes from simple elements, turning out complex meals doesn't have to be a complex affair.
   
 * A wealth of tips and practical information to make you a more accomplished and self-confident cook: how to rescue ordinary olive oil to give it more flavor, how to make soups creamy without cream, how to freshen less-than-perfect fish.

So here it is, 756 glorious pages of all the deliciousness and joy that food is meant to convey.

A New Way to Cook

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Virginia

Your step-by-step guide to perfect piecing.

More than 270 color, step-by-step photos and crystal-clear directions from the experts make each and every sewing session fun and successful no matter what your skill level is.

Here's just a sampling of what you'll learn:

* How to sew accurate 1/4-inch seams every time
* Innovative tricks for strip and string piecing
* Secrets for perfectly matched seams
* Five simple ways to make triangle squares (and when to use each one)
* How to sew pucker-free set-in seams
* Tips that make paper foundation piecing easy
* Easy methods for perfectly smooth curved seams
* How hand piecing can save you time

And more!

Perfect Piecing

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#paperback #packedwithpatterns #hardtofind

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

South Dakota

Quick-Pieced Scrap Quilts

A guide to selecting fabrics and planning your scrap quilt.

Scrap Happy

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This is a wonderful, invaluable, and unique cookbook for anyone who wants both great recipes plus learn how to improvise off of them to make variations or brand new ones. Author guides you through the process of understanding the basic recipes, how to enhance or utilize the ingredients, how to turn accidentals into discoveries…so you’re no longer totally tied to the exact recipe as written. Chapters: Intro: How to Improvise, including learning what goes with what, flavors, pantry and equipment. Recipes: Sauces, Condiments, Seasonings; Hors D’oeuvres, Appetizers, Soups, and Salads; Vegetables & Beans; Fish & Shellfish; Poultry & Game; Breads, Grains & Pasta; Desserts. Resources for how to utilize ingredients for international flavors; Techniques: Long-keeping  Staples for your pantry and the Master Recipe List of every recipe in the book. Condition notes: book in excellent overall condition with inside pages clean, flat, tight and minor outside imperfections, jacket surface, wear/tear/light stain. See condition pics for all sides. #hardcover #cookbook #cooking #recipes #baking #improvisationalcook #sallyschneider #appetizers #mains #desserts 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New York

"Schneider weans home cooks off their training wheels and provides a springboard from which they can leap out of the box, craft their own distinctive dishes, and let their new instinctive and creative juices flow."
--Mario Batali

 

Everyday meat loaf, roast chicken, and cornbread become inspired new dishes in the hands of The Improvisational Cook. Sally Schneider, bestselling author of A New Way to Cook, encourages home chefs to be creative and daring, to "cook out of the box," in order to create their own culinary magic. Encouraging freedom from strict recipes and set lists of ingredients, The Improvisational Cook is the ideal cookbook for anyone who has ever considered pairing prosciutto with roasted peaches or putting parmesan on french fries.

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Sally Schneider

Sensational Sets and Borders

Sally Schneider

Sensational Sets and Borders

Sally Schneider; Maria Robledo

The Art of Low-Calorie Cooking

Sally Schneider; Maria Robledo (Photographer)

A New Way to Cook

Karen C. Soltys (Editor); Sally Schneider (Editor); Rodale Press Staff

Perfect Piecing

Sally Schneider; Liz McGehee (Editor); Stephanie Benson (Translator); Nicki Salvin-Wight (Translator)

Scrap Happy

Sally Schneider; Maria Robledo (Photographer)

The Improvisational Cook