Mindfulness Moments for Kids: Hot Cocoa Calm


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Part of the Mindfulness Moments for Kids series, this mindful breathing moment teaches kids to find peace and calm. With Hot Cocoa Calm, kids learn to how to take control of their emotions and breathe their way to calm. The perfect soothing read for bedtime before the winter holidays, this board book celebrates the peacefulness of the season. Best of all, it can be performed anywhere: in the backseat of a car, at home, or even at a child's desk at school. Mindfulness Moments for Kids offer easy-to-follow exercises that kids can use to manage their bodies, breathing, and emotions.




Hot Chocolate


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Featuring 60 luxurious hot chocolate concoctions and pairings, ranging from ancient Latin American originals and European café classics to comforting childhood treats. No longer just a simple, syrupy sweet drink, today's hot chocolates are brimming with extraordinary flavors like cayenne, vanilla beans, Nutella, buttered rum, pistachios, wasabi, peanut butter, and malted milk balls. Featuring white chocolate foam, marshmallow cream, and frozen and fondue versions, the 60 recipes presented in Hot Chocolate are setting trends in haute chocolate consumption. Contributed by the world's preeminent chocolatiers, including Vosges Haut-Chocolat, Serendipity 3, Citizen Cake, Fran's Chocolates, Scharffen Berger Chocolate, and many more, these imaginative modern variations are for the hip chocoholic of any age. A cup of hot chocolate is twice as rich in antioxidants as a glass of red wine. And, some would say, is just as intoxicating.




Edible Mosaic


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"An Edible Mosaic nudges the basic cook into the world of Middle Eastern cooking with simple, approachable recipes that jump off the page and into your kitchen. Faith turns creative combinations of real food and spices into beautiful dishes packed with flavor and nutrition. --Kath Younger, KatEats.com blog"




The 4-hour Chef


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Building upon Timothy Ferriss's internationally successful "4-hour" franchise, The 4-Hour Chef transforms the way we cook, eat, and learn. Featuring recipes and cooking tricks from world-renowned chefs, and interspersed with the radically counterintuitive advice Ferriss's fans have come to expect, The 4-Hour Chef is a practical but unusual guide to mastering food and cooking, whether you are a seasoned pro or a blank-slate novice.




My New Roots


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At long last, Sarah Britton, called the “queen bee of the health blogs” by Bon Appétit, reveals 100 gorgeous, all-new plant-based recipes in her debut cookbook, inspired by her wildly popular blog. Every month, half a million readers—vegetarians, vegans, paleo followers, and gluten-free gourmets alike—flock to Sarah’s adaptable and accessible recipes that make powerfully healthy ingredients simply irresistible. My New Roots is the ultimate guide to revitalizing one’s health and palate, one delicious recipe at a time: no fad diets or gimmicks here. Whether readers are newcomers to natural foods or are already devotees, they will discover how easy it is to eat healthfully and happily when whole foods and plants are at the center of every plate.




Encyclopedia of Chocolate


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The Valrhona cooking school presents everything the amateur or professional baker needs to learn about cooking with chocolate. One hundred fundamental techniques and more than a hundred recipes are explained with step-by-step photographs and clear instructions. Home chefs will learn chocolate basics (tempering, ganaches,pralines), baker’s secrets (marbling, faultless cake crusts, beating egg whites), and how to make candy fillings, decorations, doughs, cream and mousse bases, ice creams and sorbets, and sauces. Bakers can refer back to these building blocks as they progress with an increasing level of expertise through recipes from icing and cookie dough to macaroons and impressive mounted desserts. Recipes include the great classics (Black Forest cake, profiteroles), tarts and tartlets (chocolate-pear, nut caramel), shared delights, teatime treats (chocolate-vanilla waffles, brownies), iced desserts (chocolate cappuccino parfait, raspberry meringue with hot chocolate sauce), special-occasion splurges (dark chocolate fondue, hazelnut-praline Yule log), candies and confections (truffles, lollipops, chocolate-covered cherries), and savory dishes using chocolate. Visual dictionaries of basic equipment and commonly used ingredients, tips for conserving chocolate,a guide to cocoa content, a glossary, and detailed indexes complete the volume.




The Pioneer Woman Cooks


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Paula Deen meets Erma Bombeck in The Pioneer Woman Cooks, Ree Drummond’s spirited, homespun cookbook. Drummond colorfully traces her transition from city life to ranch wife through recipes, photos, and pithy commentary based on her popular, award-winning blog, Confessions of a Pioneer Woman, and whips up delicious, satisfying meals for cowboys and cowgirls alike made from simple, widely available ingredients. The Pioneer Woman Cooks—and with these “Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl,” she pleases the palate and tickles the funny bone at the same time.




Hot Chocolate For The Mind


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The new book, Hot Chocolate For The Mind is a collection of funny short stories and musings from Stand-Up Comedian Dwayne Perkins. Dwayne has traveled the world and luckily his sense of humor, keen observational skills, laptop and fingers were with him along the way. The native New Yorker, residing in Los Angeles and touring internationally brings inspiration and perspective to situations that would stump a lesser man. This is the book David Sedaris would've written if he was a straight Black man from Brooklyn doing stand-up in Dubai.A regular on Conan and Comedy Central, with this effort Dwayne expands his stand-up and paints pictures that keep you laughing long after you've read them. This collection of amusing musings leaves the reader with time-released comedy jewels.Just when you think you're safe you'll find yourself chuckling at the stranger in London who sprayed Dwayne with perfume while they stood in line at the pharmacy or the impromptu bake off Dwayne had with his roommate, or Dwayne's plan to become a stripper in order to better all mankind. Parallel to but more expansive than his stand-up, this book's positivity sneaks up on you. You pay for the laughs, the good vibes and inspiration are free. Some say this collection of comedy essays will make your teeth whiter. Others say it will make you grow a full inch. Dwayne hopes his anecdotes and philosophies warms your cockles while making you laugh so hard that soda comes out of your nose (drinking soda while reading this book is not recommended). It's fine time that a book left your mind in a better state than it found it in. "Hot Chocolate for the Mind" will fill you with goodness or at least help you laugh away your stress.This book won't teach you how to be a comedian but it will give you access into the inner workings of one of America's best comedic minds. "Hot Chocolate" seamlessly weaves from funny true stories to Dwayne's hilarious take on life. When you take a comic inspired by George Carlin, most compared to Bill Cosby but from the same streets as Chris Rock, you get a unique take on the world, you get stories that go down like warm pudding, you get, "Hot Chocolate For The Mind."From one of the top comedians working in America today comes one of the funniest books in a long time. Step You Should Take: 1.Click 'look inside' to get a sneak peek at this humorous book 2.See Dwayne live at some point in your amazing life3.Enjoy this excerpt about the time dominated his cousins in Connect Four: Pretty Sneaky Sis I spent most of last weekend playing Connect 4 with my 10 and 9 year old little cousins. There's no better confidence builder than pouncing on little kids. When the smoke cleared, my win-loss record was 57-2. The two losses? Well, one was dumb luck and the other should have an asterisk because my cousin put in 2 red pieces at a time. I called it cheating. She called it improvising. Well, she would have called it that if she knew that word. I rule.4. Buy Hot Chocolate for the Mind5.Explain to your friends why you're laughing through out the day6.Repeat step 4. (I kid but Step four is the most important step)7. Have a great day About the Author: Dwayne Perkins is an internationally touring stand-up comic. He resides in Los Angeles, CA but mentions his hometown of Brooklyn, NY as much as humanly possible.




Minimalist Baker's Everyday Cooking


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The highly anticipated cookbook from the immensely popular food blog Minimalist Baker, featuring 101 all-new simple, vegan recipes that all require 10 ingredients or less, 1 bowl or 1 pot, or 30 minutes or less to prepare Dana Shultz founded the Minimalist Baker blog in 2012 to share her passion for simple cooking and quickly gained a devoted worldwide following. Now, in this long-awaited debut cookbook, Dana shares 101 vibrant, simple recipes that are entirely plant-based, mostly gluten-free, and 100% delicious. Packed with gorgeous photography, this practical but inspiring cookbook includes: • Recipes that each require 10 ingredients or less, can be made in one bowl, or require 30 minutes or less to prepare. • Delicious options for hearty entrées, easy sides, nourishing breakfasts, and decadent desserts—all on the table in a snap • Essential plant-based pantry and equipment tips • Easy-to-follow, step-by-step recipes with standard and metric ingredient measurements Minimalist Baker’s Everyday Cooking is a totally no-fuss approach to cooking for anyone who loves delicious food that happens to be healthy too.




Cocktail Chemistry


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“Cocktail Chemistry offers the essential knowledge, techniques, and flair for creating perfectly mixed drinks at home.” —Bartender Magazine Enjoy clever, pop culture-inspired drinks with this collection of more than 80 recipes from the beloved Cocktail Chemistry YouTube channel. Have you ever seen a delicious-looking drink on your favorite movie or TV show and wondered how to make it? Well, now you can, with this collection of recipes from the creator of the popular Cocktail Chemistry YouTube channel Nick Fisher. Featuring recipes to recreate the classic White Russian from The Big Lebowski, the iconic martini from the James Bond movies, to drinks featured in Mad Men, The Simpsons, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Game of Thrones, The Office, Harry Potter, and more, Cocktail Chemistry will have you impressing your friends with your bartending skills in no time. In addition to recipes, Cocktail Chemistry includes everything you need to know to become a mixology expert, from how to make perfectly clear ice, delicious foams, and infusions, or how to flame a citrus peel. A must-have for all aspiring home mixologists and pop-culture buffs, Cocktail Chemistry will ensure you never have a boring drink again.