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The Pure Kitchen offers readers and food lovers a unique but easy approach to fortifying their diets with whole, natural, pure foods. While eliminating gluten and dairy from your diet can be daunting in a world of packaged convenience foods and takeout, learning to cook at home is essential to adopting a healthy lifestyle. A diet rich in colorful fruits and vegetables, lean proteins, healthy fats and gluten-free whole grains is likely one of the healthiest around. From energizing breakfasts to mouthwatering desserts, The Pure Kitchen is chock-full of recipes, tips and tricks for eating well, living pure and maximizing good health.

Learn to eat pure with:

• Simple ways to successfully transition to a whole foods diet
• A guide to stocking the pure kitchen
• Lessons in label-reading and easily avoiding gluten and dairy
• Tips for menu planning, shopping, and charming the palates of picky eaters
• 100 scrumptious recipes free of gluten, dairy and refined sugar

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Mastering Artisan Cheesemaking - the forthcoming book by acclaimed cheesemaker Gianaclis Caldwell - is the book every cheesemaker will want as their guide, taking them from creating their first, simple cheeses to producing unique, masterpiece cheeses.

While there are increasing numbers of books out there on making cheese, none approach the intricacies of the science behind how milk becomes cheese in such easy-to-understand detail. Mastering Artisan Cheesemaking explores the complexity of fermentation, affinage (aging), and considerations for preparing each category of cheese variety.

The history, science, culture and art of making handmade cheese on a small scale receive a thorough examination. Caldwell provides comprehensive information on home-scale equipment and scaling for what makes most sense. She furnishes readers with everything they could hope to know about affinage and using oils, brushes, waxes and other alternative aging techniques.

The book contains extensive recipes that include hard numbers, as well as the concepts behind each style of cheese. There are beautiful photographs, profiles of other cheesemakers, a detailed troubleshooting guide, and an extensive appendix for quick reference in the preparation and aging rooms.

Caldwell acts as a tutor, guide and cheering section as readers follow the pathway to cheesemaking artisanship described in Mastering Artisan Cheesemaking. This enjoyable and easy-to-use book will thoroughly explain the craft and techniques that allow milk to be transformed into epicurean masterpieces. For everyone from the avid home hobbyist to the serious commercial artisan, Caldwell has created an irreplaceable resource.

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Created by cooks who are cookbook collectors, The Old Farmer's Almanac Everyday Cookbook is the perfect kitchen companion, featuring more than 425 recipes tested and updated for today's healthful tastes and busy times. This new 352-page cookbook includes timeless hints and tips, illustrations, and full-color photographs.

“I want to tell you how much I enjoy my Everyday Cookbook. I tried yet another delicious recipe from it this weekend. I made the baked scallops, which is a very simple recipe with a delicious outcome. As my husband said, ‘Restaurant Quality.’”—Kathy Ann R.

Like the Almanac, the Everyday Cookbook promises to be new, useful and entertaining, every day.

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Part travelogue, part epicurean manifesto, this lushly photographed collection of 90 recipes inspired by Europe's home bakers is a treasure. Dan Lepard, a highly regarded baker in Great Britain, traveled from Ireland to the Ukraine in search of the most authentic sources of grains and flavors. His intimate photographs take us on a mouthwatering journey into farmhouse kitchens and small bakeries where bread has been made for centuries. Interspersed with stories and images, the recipes feature helpful instructions and innovations that contemporary bakers will love, along with delectable pictures of the finished loaves.

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At 100 full-color pages each, the new GRIT Country Skills Series Set brings you the latest information on beekeeping, backyard chickens, backyard rabbits and homemade bread! You'll get 32 recipes for cooking with honey, more than 27 keys to a healthy flock, keys to a productive rabbitry, eight fail-proof no-knead bread recipes and much more!

The GRIT Country Skills Series Set includes:
GRIT's Guide to Backyard Bees and Honey
Catch the latest buzz with GRIT'S Guide to Backyard Bees and Honey. This new addition to GRIT'S Country Skills Series is filled with more than 75 keys to better beekeeping, beautiful color photos, recipes and more! Discover if you know your backyard bees, cooking with honey, build a honey extractor, read fail-proof beehive installation and much more!

GRIT's Guide to Backyard Chickens, 3rd Edition
GRIT is proud to introduce the 3rd edition of GRIT's Guide to Backyard Chickens. This invaluable guide covers almost everything for raising backyard chickens, from hatching chicks to pest control, from recycled coops to chicken-inspired recipes. Advice on barnyard chicken basics is included along with information on ducks, turkeys, guineas and more.

GRIT's Guide to Homemade Bread, 2nd Edition
A treasure trove of knowledge, this bread guide includes more than 31 keys to baking successful homemade bread. It covers outdoor bread ovens, bread machines, sourdough secrets, no-knead bread, gluten-free treats and more.

GRIT's Guide to Backyard Rabbits
GRIT's Guide to Backyard Rabbits, the first edition in the GRIT Barnyard Series, is packed with keys to raising and keeping backyard rabbits. The GRIT editors have compiled the best articles featuring meat rabbits, tanning hides, heritage rabbit breeds, show and pet rabbits, recipes and more. Enjoy rabbit facts, test your knowledge of rabbit breeds and learn about rabbit literature.

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A guide to raising chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys, with 27 recipes

Backyard poultry have gained popularity in recent years as some municipalities loosen regulations to allow homeowners to keep coops. Raising poultry is a sustainable activity, which in relatively little space produces fresh eggs and meat.

Eggs and Poultry is organized in five sections. The first four cover everything needed to successfully keep the most popular types of poultry: chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys. It discusses the pros and cons of each and provides all the information needed to start out, including building a shelter, planning runs and ponds, dealing with pests and problems, laying and breeding, incubating and hatching, slaughter, and plucking and drawing. Butcher skills are also illustrated.

The 80-page recipe section features 27 delicious dishes and explains the essentials of cooking with eggs and poultry, from deboning a chicken and other butcher skills to cooking methods such as coddling eggs. Recipes include Eggs Benedict, Smoked Eggs with Halloumi, Turkey Pie, Crispy Duck with Pancakes, Southwestern Fried Chicken, Confit Duck with Caramelized Orange and Fennel Salad, Lemon Pepper Chicken Nuggets, The Ultimate Turkey Burger and Goose Livers with Cider.

Eggs and Poultry is aimed directly at an audience who dream of, or are actually enjoying, the authors' made-at-home lifestyle. It is a beautiful and practical addition to the cookbook shelf.

About the Made at Home book series

A new series for living the good life!

Father-and-son team Dick and James Strawbridge have long lived the good life on their small acreage, and now they’re sharing their years of knowledge and experience with readers via their Made at Home series of books. This exciting collection draws on the invaluable wisdom they’ve gleaned while producing an abundance of good things to eat and drink: organic fruits and vegetables grown, juiced, fermented, and preserved; pigs smoked for ham, sausages, salamis, and bacon; a mixed flock of birds used for eggs and eating; and bees raised for honey. It's an enviable lifestyle driven by a desire to eat well every day.

And it doesn’t require a lot of space. Made at Home contains numerous adaptations to urban and suburban life. Plants are grown in small lots and pots, chickens are kept in backyard pens, and meat items are smoked in the backyard. It’s proof positive that anyone can live the good life.

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Through personal, engaging stories—of hand-rolled pasta and homemade chutney, local markets and backyard gardens, and wild mushrooms and foraged grape leaves—this book recounts in loving detail the memories, recipes and culinary traditions of people who have come to the United States from around the world. Chef and teacher Lynne Anderson has gone into immigrant kitchens and discovered the power of food to recall a lost world for those who have left much behind. The enticing, easy-to-prepare recipes feature specialties like Greek dolmades, Filipino adobo, Brazilian peixada, and Sudanese mulukhiyah. Together with Robin Radin’s beautiful photographs, these stories and recipes will inspire cooks of all levels to explore new traditions while perhaps rediscovering their own culinary roots.

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Bring a new dimension to your dishes with this culinary journey through the world of spice. With 100 inspiring recipes from the Far East, North Africa and South America, kitchen enthusiasts will indulge in such wonderful creations as Indian Fish Cakes with Coriander and Coconut Chutney, Vietnamese Star Anise and Lemongrass Chicken Claypot, and Chili and Basil Scallops. Key spices—25 in all!—are covered, with recipes using no more than five at a time. And simple techniques and easy-to-find ingredients deliver fantastic taste with minimum fuss.

Having eaten his way around the world, John Gregory-Smith now writes recipes and features for magazines and websites.

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Bread, bagels, pretzels, pizza crust, cookies and more! All of these delicious homemade creations can be found in GRIT's Guide to Homemade Bread, 3rd Edition. This guide includes more than 53 keys to successful bread making, outdoor bread oven plans, fail-proof no-knead breads, top bread machine tips and more.

The editors of GRIT have compiled some of the best homemade bread baking articles into one convenient 100-page guide. Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned baker you will find tips and advice from bread baking experts. Learn how bread works and the difference between the types of flours. Read about cooking gluten-free bread and using seven indispensable ingredients to make the transition easier. Find new recipes to put that stale bread to use in cakes, soups, puddings and more.

Articles include:

• Homemade Bread: Truly Easy and Delicious
• Whole Grain Guide
• Baking Bread in Five Minutes a Day
• Choosing a Grain Mill
• Cornmeal to Cornbread
• Biscuits and More
• Build an All-in-One Outdoor Over, Stove, Grill and Smoker