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Organic food is synonymous with premium quality, the deepest, richest taste, conscientious farming, and optimum health. It’s what we need to feed our kids, what we deserve to feed ourselves. And no one is doing more to popularize organic food than author Myra Goodman in Food to Live By.

A dazzling full-color cookbook, Food to Live By offers an utterly appealing, new casual style of cooking based on using the best ingredients, organic or otherwise. Easy to prepare, the more than 260 recipes make a deliciously persuasive case for using flavorful, fresh, organic foods as often as possible.

Take the Sweet Corn Chowder, which uses not only corn kernels for the soup, but also the stripped cobs to make a rich, herb-scented broth. Or Ginger Carrot Soup, which proves how even familiar vegetables take on a whole new intensity and character when raised organically. Plus, throughout are Farm-Fresh Ingredient boxes — on sorrel, corn, asparagus, artichokes — cooking and shopping tips, and health notes.

About the authors:

Myra Goodman and her husband, Drew, founded Earthbound Farm in 1984. She's been creating her own recipes and cooking with their organic food ever since their first raspberry crop.

Linda Holland is a California-based food writer whose pieces have appeared in The New York Times and Gourmet.

Pamela McKinstry is the consulting chef of Earthbound Farm; previously, she owned and operated several restaurants on Nantucket.

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The South's favorite grain is gaining popularity throughout the country as today's top chefs and home cooks reinvent this simple, satisfying grain into Glorious Grits. Inspired by an Alabama family whose gristmill supplies organic grains to top chefs across the country, Glorious Grits will appeal to both beginning and expert cooks wanting to tease the palate as well as add healthy whole grains to their diets. Enjoy a taste of the South with more than 100 fresh, flavorful recipes for stone-ground grits, cornmeal and polenta.

From breakfast to lunch to dinnertime and dessert, Glorious Grits offers spectacular possibilities for putting whole-grain goodness on the table.

About the author:

Susan McEwen McIntosh knows her grits! Born and raised in the South, McIntosh worked for several years with the food staff of Southern Living magazine. She's watched as her brother produced grits, cornmeal and polenta from organic corn in his busy gristmill. After talking with notable chefs from coast to coast, she knows the secrets of transforming old-fashioned grits into new and sophisticated dishes. Now this registered dietitian and author of the first Cooking Light® Cookbook combines her knowledge of nutrition with a passion for cooking to present creative grits, cornmeal and polenta recipes for Southern food enthusiasts across the country.

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Sensational Stevia Desserts has 82 fantastic low-carb desserts and variations to help you take sugar and artificial sweeteners out of dessert preparation forever by using stevia, an all-natural alternative. Whether you’re diabetic, on a low-carb or candida diet, hypoglycemic, or simply watching your sugar and artificial sweetener intake, this book is for you.

A natural alternative to sugar, aspartame, saccharin and sucralose, stevia makes desserts delicious, low-carb and lower in calories, without sacrificing flavor.

Author and former stevia business owner Lisa Jobs has perfected these dessert recipes and stresses more natural, healthy ingredients, reducing sugar intake and eliminating the need for artificial sweeteners. For the past 10 years, Lisa Jobs has developed and tested hundreds of stevia dessert recipes. Now, with the creation of Sensational Stevia Desserts, she is sharing them with you!

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Spice rubs and herb blends are some of the hottest elements of today's healthful cooking. Here are more than 100 tasty recipes from herb shops and herb farms across North America.

Why not add Kate's Savory Seasoning, Taos Lightning Chili Powder, and Fanny Couch's Pungent Curry Powder to the oregano and basil already on your herbal spice rack? Jazz up your family's favorite soups, salads, meats, vegetables and desserts with one of these homemade blends developed by specialty herb shops.

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First make dozens of vinegars with recipes that feature various herbs, spices, vegetables and flowers. Then put your vinegars to flavorful use in more than 100 recipes for everything from appetizers to entrees.

This book covers it all, including directions for buying, making and flavoring inexpensive, easy-to-make vinegars. There are recipes for using flavored vinegars and step-by-step instructions for growing flavorful herbs indoor and out. Also, gift packaging ideas and customized labels and household uses and hints for more than 100 home uses for vinegar.

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Jekka McVicar — whom Jamie Oliver dubbed the "queen of herbs" — has assembled a special collection of her top-50 favorite herbs. Each herb is described in detail, including its Latin and common names as well as:

• Its botanical features and varieties
• A history of the herb in cooking
• How to harvest and use the herb
• Non-culinary uses
• The most important and useful varieties of that herb
• Suggestions for using excess harvest

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• Stews
• Beverages
• Desserts
• Meat
• Poultry
• Seafood dishes
• Condiments and sauces

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Swedish Cakes and Cookies has become a modern classic since it was first published in 1945. Modernized and improved over the years, today's full-color edition, with beautiful photographs of each recipe, contains nearly 300 recipes. Some, such as Berry Muffins, Coconut Macaroons, Linzer Torte and Jelly Doughnuts, may be familiar, while others, such as German Lemon Cake, Almond Meringues, Truffle Tarts and Toffee Crunch Torte, are deliciously unique.

Gluten-free, egg-free and sugar-free recipes ensure that this book is accessible to all dessert lovers. Beginners and experts will be reminded that baking is both easy and enjoyable when they read the practical advice and step-by-step instructions in each section. Swedish Cakes and Cookies is an essential resource for any home baker, and for anyone who loves to meet with friends for coffee and cake.

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Lose the sugar with recipes for sweet and savory treats that use only natural sweeteners and seasonal products: no white sugar, corn syrup or chemical substitutes allowed. Bake everything from cookies and cakes to pies and pastries in innovative and delicious ways, using only healthy sweeteners. Locally produced sustainable whole foods, natural sweeteners, seasonal fruits and vegetables, and nuts and grains make these treats as good for you as they are for the planet.

Celebrity chefs from across America contribute their favorite recipes to this unique collection, which offers suggestions for delicious dairy- and gluten-free treats, along with vegan and low-fat variations. And every recipe (more than 100 in all!) has been tested and re-tested to perfection.

Plus, author Laura Martin demystifies the art of substituting natural sweeteners for refined products, so readers can use these sure-fire alternatives in their own favorite dishes!

About the author
Laura Martin has published 24 books over the last 30 years and written many articles for various periodicals and newspapers, including a weekly column for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Martin has appeared on TV and radio and has lectured and conducted workshops on various themes, including gardening and baking. She lives in Atlanta, Ga.

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Long before the Internet and high-speed travel connected us all, The Farmer’s Wife magazine gave hard-working rural women a place to find — and share — advice about everything from raising chickens to running a farm kitchen. One of the magazine’s most popular offerings was advice on cooking and baking, providing farm family recipes for making everything from basic bread to nourishing stews and delicious desserts. The Best of The Farmer’s Wife Cookbook brings together 400 easy-to-follow recipes and variations along with dozens of menus that originated in farm kitchens nationwide and appeared on the pages of the magazine between 1893 and 1939.

Readers will be able to prepare these foods easily and quickly, because the recipes have been updated to match the conveniences and ingredients of the modern kitchen. The Best of The Farmer’s Wife Cookbook is sure to satisfy readers in search of the flavors of farm country or those simply on the lookout for a piece of homegrown nostalgia.