The definitive Peruvian cookbook, featuring 500 traditional home cooking recipes from the countrys most acclaimed and popular chef, Gastón Acurio. One of the worlds most innovative and flavorful cuisines, Peruvian food has been consistently heralded by chefs and media around the world as the "next big thing." Peruvian restaurants are opening across the United States, with 20 in San Francisco alone, including Limon and La Mar. Acurio guides cooks through the full range of Perus vibrant cuisin...

75 fail-proof recipes for pizza, focaccia, and calzone from the world's most trusted and bestselling Italian cookbook series.Making pizza at home has never been easier! The Silver Spoon Italian Cooking School: Pizza teaches everything you need to know about making not just fresh pizzas but foccacia, calzones, and savory pies at home. With the illustrated step-by-step instructions, readers learn to make basic pizza dough and classic pizza dishes such as a Margarita, Neopolitan, Quattro Formagg...

75 fail-proof recipes for delicious desserts from the world's most trusted and bestselling Italian cookbook series.Making desserts at home has never been easier! The Silver Spoon Italian Cooking School: Desserts teaches everything you need to know about making Amaretti Biscuits to a Strawberry Custard Tart to a Chocolate and Hazelnut Cake. With the illustrated step-by-step instructions, readers learn to make cookies and cakes, then advancing to pies and tarts and so many more.Readers build th...

75 fail-proof recipes for delicious ice-cream and gelati from the world's most trusted and bestselling Italian cookbook series.Italian Cooking School: Ice Cream is the latest addition to this fail-proof Italian cookbook series. Step-by-step instructions and photography guide readers through the preparation process and ensure success every time. Chapters cover ice creams, sorbets, frozen desserts and chilled desserts.Phaidon proudly presents the Italian Cooking School series from The Silver Sp...

100 delicious recipes featuring game and foraged ingredients showcase the pleasure of cooking from the woodsRespected French chef and writer Jean-François Mallet has assembled 100 delicious recipes featuring game and foraged ingredients, such as chestnuts, dandelion leaves, nettles, and wild strawberries. Organized into chapters based on food type - furred game (venison, wild boar, hare); feathered game (partridge, pheasant, quail); mushrooms, herbs, and snails; and nuts and berries - the re...

Compiled by Vefa Alexiadou, the grand dameof Greek cookery, Greece: The Cookbook isa valuable collection of more than 800 fresh,simple, and delicious dishes. Alexiadou hasselected recipes that show the breadth anddepth of Greece's culinary traditions, withsections dedicated to starters, soups andsalads, fish and shellfish, meat, and desserts.Straightforward instructions will appealto home cooks of all levels, while gorgeouscolour photographs throughout offer plentyof inspiration for culinary ...

An insider's guide to the world's greatest 'secret' gardens, green spaces, and pocket parks tucked away in cities around the globe Cities everywhere are graced with charming but little-known, off-the-beaten-track gardens and green spaces, offering urbanites in the know a chance to immerse themselves in nature. These often small, well-kept secrets are not as grand as those on the tourist trail but are equally delightful and rewarding to visit, if you know where to find them. Green Escapes is t...

Modernist Cuisine is an interdisciplinary team in Bellevue, Washington, founded and led by Nathan Myhrvold. The group includes scientists, research and development chefs, and a full editorial team-all dedicated to advancing the state of culinary art through the creative application of scientific knowledge and experimental techniques. The Photography of Modernist Cuisine is a feast for the eyes that serves up the beauty of food through innovative and striking photography. In the team's newest ...

A revised and updated edition of the most comprehensive survey published of Mapplethorpe's photography