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Cooking Wizardry For Kids Review

Cooking Wizardry For Kids
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This book is great! A fellow teacher of mine showed me this book that she uses every week for planning her lessons. The book explains how to make delicious food items and cool experiments. I have seen the children in great delight making their own frozen yogurt or taste testing honey that is made from different flowers. I enjoyed the book so much I intend to purchase it for my own collection and use it in my own classroom.

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Approximately 200 recipes for tasty, nutritious snacks and meals are devised so that kids can make them for themselves. There are also projects that teach fundamentals of food-related chemistry, nutrition, and making window gardens.

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Janice VanCleave's Chemistry for Every Kid: 101 Easy Experiments that Really Work Review

Janice VanCleave's Chemistry for Every Kid: 101 Easy Experiments that Really Work
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Janice VanCleave's Chemistry For Every Kid is a must have book for upper elementary/middle school science teachers. The experiments are easy to set up and the kids LOVE them! Janice has tackled tough Chemistry concepts and come up with simple experiments that the kids ACTUALLY understand! I have used the activities in this book numerous times and couldn't recommend this book highly enough. The way I use the activities in this book, along with the others in the series, is set them up as stations and have the kids rotate through them. You will not be disappointed with this purchase and your kids will love you for it.

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Cuisine and Culture: A History of Food and People (Wiley Desktop Editions) Review

Cuisine and Culture: A History of Food and People (Wiley Desktop Editions)
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I am a Chef/Instructor at a culinary school in Southern California. We use Cuisine and Culture for our food history class. This book reveals the author's true passion for food, and serves as the perfect complement to our World Civilization course. Not a dry textbook but an absorbing piece of literature, full of fascinating side-notes, dispels many urban legends, and provides historically accurate recipes that our students then make and bring into class. I especially like the time she spends on the 20th century, and her conjectures on the future of food. Definitely for anyone who loves food!

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An illuminating account of how history shapes our diets—now in a new revised and updated Third EditionWhy did the ancient Romans believe cinnamon grew in swamps guarded by giant killer bats? How did African cultures imported by slavery influence cooking in the American South? What does the 700-seat McDonald's in Beijing serve in the age of globalization? With the answers to these and many more such questions, Cuisine and Culture, Third Edition presents an engaging, entertaining, and informative exploration of the interactions among history, culture, and food.From prehistory and the earliest societies in the Fertile Crescent to today's celebrity chefs, Cuisine and Culture, Third Edition presents a multicultural and multiethnic approach to understanding how and why major historical events have affected and defined the culinary traditions in different societies. Now revised and updated, this Third Edition is more comprehensive and insightful than ever before. * Covers prehistory through the present day—from the discovery of fire to the emergence of television cooking shows * Explores how history, culture, politics, sociology, and religion have determined how and what people have eaten through the ages * Includes a sampling of recipes and menus from different historical periods and cultures * Features French and Italian pronunciation guides, a chronology of food books and cookbooks of historical importance, and an extensive bibliography * Includes all-new content on technology, food marketing, celebrity chefs and cooking television shows, and Canadian cuisine. Complete with revealing historical photographs and illustrations, Cuisine and Culture is an essential introduction to food history for students, history buffs, and food lovers. More to Explore From the book: Food Innovations During the Depression Timeline1929Popcorn in movie theaters1930Howard Johnson's-first restaurant franchise1930Ocean Spray Jellied and Whole Berry Cranberry Sauce1930Twinkies1931Joy of Cooking published1931General Mills markets Bisquick1932Frito's Corn Chips1933 Prohibition ends; soft drink manufacturers urge soda as mixers1933Miracle Whip dressing introduced at Chicago World's Fair1934Ritz Crackers (Nabisco) 1934Harry & David begin mail-order business for their pears1934Girl Scouts begin cookie sales1934Los Angeles Farmers Market opens at 3rd and Fairfax1935Alcoholics Anonymous founded1936Oscar Mayer Wienermobile rolled out1936John Tyson, truck driver, buys a chicken hatchery1937Pepperidge Farm begins; sells bread above market price1937Bama Pie Company incorporates; sells personal-size pies1937Toll House Cookies accidentally invented by Ruth Wakefield1937Parkay Margarine introduced1937 Spam1938 Lay's Potato Chips 1939Nestle makes Toll House Real Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels More to Explore From the book: Food Fable--How to Drink and Not Get Drunk The ancient Greeks loved wine and were always searching for ways to drink without getting drunk. Creative thinking led them to what they thought was the antidote to the downside of Diosnysus: drinking purple wine from a purple vessel made of semi-precious stone would cause the two purples to cancel each other out and negate whatever was in the wine that caused drunkenness. In Greek, the prefix 'a" means 'not," methyein means drunk (from methy--wine), so the Greek word for 'not drunk" became the name of the purple stone the vessel was made of--amethyst.

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The Cancer Survivor's Guide: Foods That Help You Fight Back Review

The Cancer Survivor's Guide: Foods That Help You Fight Back
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I recently purchased "The Cancer Survivor's Guide" for a course I was taking at Whole Foods Market in Sacramento, CA. I do not have cancer. I do not plan to get cancer. But then again, nobody does. My beloved, healthy, sister Debora died in 2007 from virulent cancer. I don't wish it on anyone.
While I was a patient of John McDougall in Santa Rosa undergoing his ten day program,my sister Debora was eating the "Atkins Diet." Five years later, I am alive and thriving and Debora is buried in a cemetery nearby.
Don't let this happen to you or your loved one.
I now have a weekly share of a vegetable crop in a C.S.A. farm nearby. I loved the Cancer Project Class. The recipes in this book are great. We got a chance to make several of them during the four week class. The Mashed Grains and Cauliflower on (p168) tasted great with mushroom gravy on top. I enjoyed the Black Bean Chili on (p121). I went into ecstasy over the Raspberry Salad Dressing on (p151) used on our green salad. The Sweet and Sour Stirfry on (p200) was an excellent dish and I learned to cook my root vegetables such as carrots and celery first as they take longer.
I toasted my brown rice prior to cooking it and there is a recipe for that in this book.
Enjoy the Gingered Melon(so easy to make) on (p218) as a wonderful dessert. Of course the Chocolate Mousse on (p215) is a tempting treat as well.
Whether you are looking to revise conventional recipes(p67), plan healthy cancer fighting meals that will slow down the course of cancer in your body, or if you just enjoy the taste of a good Roasted Red Pepper Hummus(p113)this book has an approach to healthy eating that we all can live with and enjoy.


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The Cancer Survivor's Guide explains how foods influence the hormones that fuel cancer and how a dietary change to a low-fat, plant-based diet can be beneficial to anyone diagnosed with cancer. Each section describes specific nutrients and how they work in your body, which foods are the best sources, recommended recipes, and offers simple, practical steps you can take during the week to increase consumption of these foods. Includes over 60 pages of recipes for satisfying and flavorful meals to help implement the recommendations.

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Why We Run: A Natural History Review

Why We Run: A Natural History
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Heinrich fans, take note: "Why We Run" is Heinrich's "Racing the Antelope," retitled and repackaged. Don't make my mistake and order this book thinking it is a new work. It isn't.
As to the book, I thoroughly enoyed "Racing the Antelope." Part autobiography (Heinrich is a very interesting person) part biology (presented in a very accessible way), part scientist at work, this book gets to the core of, well, why we (at least some of us) run.

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In Why We Run, biologist, award-winning nature writer, and ultramarathoner Bernd Heinrich explores a new perspective on human evolution by examining the phenomenon of ultraendurance and makes surprising discoveries about the physical, spiritual -- and primal -- drive to win. At once lyrical and scientific, Why We Run shows Heinrich's signature blend of biology, anthropology, psychology, and philosophy, infused with his passion to discover how and why we can achieve superhuman abilities.


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