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Get that great taste of wood-smoked food using the top of your kitchen stove.Contains everything you need to know about smoking foods at home, using a stovetop smoker.Chris serves up 36 master recipes for smoking everything from whole chickens to shrimp, plus 95 recipes for soups, salads, and sides that use smoked ingredients. There''s Tea-Smoked Duck; Smoked Eggplant Soup; and Fettuccine with Smoky Salmon, Peas, and Leeks to name just a few. The possibilities are limited only by your imagination and your love for smoky flavor. With Chris Styler''s tips, techniques, and pointers, smoking food is simple, fast, and the taste speaks for itself. Smokin'' -- it''s well, smokin''.

The Fab Four deliver with The Golden Girls Cookbook: Cheesecakes and Cocktails! Rose's The Fall of St. Olaf Pumpkin Cheesecake and Dorothy's Vodka and Black Underwear drink vie for your heart (and stomach) against Sophia's Double Fudge Amaretto Ricotta Cheesecake and Blanche's Big Daddy Mint Julep. With easy-to-follow tips, you'll learn how to make your cheesecake the star of any kitchen table and your drinks something talk about over, well, drinks. Welcome to 6151 Richmond Street, circa 1985, where joy and friendship abound, and the cheesecake is always ready for a late-night therapy session.

Relive the show's vibe with recipes and photos from the Golden Girls' kitchen. Innovative recipes by renowned chef Christopher Styler, and beautiful images from New York Times food photographer Andrew Scrivani. Learn how to cook Italian meals, like Sophia's Mussels Fra Diavolo, or the Secret Knish recipe Max Weinstock didn't want you to know. Check out the Southern food that helped make Blanche, well, Blanche, like Fried Chicken, Hoppin' John, and pecan pie. Dorothy brings her Brookly Deli-Style Whitefish Salad to the party, but also try one of her Classic Chocolate or Vanilla Malts. And what Golden Girls cookbook would be complete without Rose's favorite Scandinavian dishes, like St. Olaf Friendship cake-a simple, buttery treat! Come for all of that, but stay late into the night for some amazing cheesecakes. (Of course!) Filled with photos of the Girls and vignettes from the groundbreaking show, The Golden Girls Cookbook has something to deliver every fan, young and old, in this fun-filled and approachable cookbook. Also be sure to check out the Golden Girls Cookbook: Cheesecakes and Cocktails! volume, on sale now.

Who inspired Jamie Oliver to put a premium on fresh, 'naked' food? Who influenced Sylvia Woods' talent for titillating the sweet tooth? It just might have something to do with their mothers. Now, in this one-of-a-kind cookbook, America's top celebrity chefs divulge the cooking secrets that started it all. Mom's Secret Recipe File features endearing stories, approachable recipes, family cooking lore, valuable tips, and timeless advice from each chef/mother pair. The duos are featured in 'mini chapters' that begin with short introductions written by the chefs-a favorite memory about how their moms' cooking styles inspired their own-followed by four recipes from their moms' secret files.Mom's Secret Recipe File is not only a perfect Mother's Day gift, it's sure to become a cooking classic.