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How to Use an Air Fryer: Delicious, Easy, Practical Recipes, Cooking, Usage, and Purchasing Help for Any Air Fryer by Bradford M. Smith is an essential guide for both beginners and experienced cooks looking to master the art of air frying. This book covers: Introduction to Air Fryers: The science behind air frying and its advantages over traditional frying methods. Safety and Maintenance: How to clean and maintain an air fryer for optimal performance.

Want to stock your pantry with delicious homemade preserves, even if you’ve never picked up a canning jar in your life? Are you overwhelmed by the idea of water bath canning, unsure where to begin. Does the thought of preserving fail-safe homemade jams or sauces intrigue you, but you worry about safety and shelf life? Do you yearn to embrace self-sufficiency and enjoy the rewarding art of canning that turns your homegrown produce into delightful gifts?

To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture the true scope and significance of Africa’s most populous nation through words or images. Yet here, through personal essays from twenty-four of its writers, a more accurate...

Chinese takeaway restaurants may be located all over the world. Every major city has a Chinatown, and more and more stores are stocking Asian ingredients, making it simpler to prepare authentic Chinese recipes.

As Julia Child once said, “It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions.” Historically, she’s been right—and not just in the kitchen. Uniquely flourishing in just about every climate and culture around the world, onions have provided the essential basis not only for sautés, stews, and stir fries, but for medicines, metaphors, and folklore. Abundantly commonplace yet extraordinarily indispensable, the onion is Kurlansky's newest global food fixation as he sets out to explore how and why the crop reigns over Wales to Italy and everywhere in between.

Have you ever wanted to know how to raise chickens on your own? Are you curious as to how to keep a flock of backyard chickens? I wrote my audiobook, How to Raise Chickens in Your Own Backyard, all about chicken care and raising backyard poultry for healthy meat and eggs to provide for your family. I believe in the philosophy of natural chicken keeping.

Discover how to reset your body, revitalize your energy, and nourish your life with whole-food, plant-based eating. In this audio companion to Green Book Recipes, bestselling author and nutritionist Dr. Lila Navarro guides you through the principles, science, and practical tips behind high-protein vegan living.

Farming, growing your own crops, and raising animals have never been as easy as they are today. With modern technology and access to a plethora of knowledge and resources, farming cannot only be easy, but profitable as well - even for someone who has never stepped out of the city. In fact, you can do it from the comfort of your own home!

Food is the primary way andrea bennett connects with the world. They worked in the restaurant industry for a decade, and though they don’t eat much meat and can’t eat gluten, they take as much pleasure in food as Jeffrey Steingarten, Anthony Bourdain, or Guy Fieri. When they want to show someone they care, they cook them a meal. The essays in Hearty offer a snapshot of the North American cultural relationship to food and eating.

This action-packed survival guide is the ultimate outdoor companion for young explorers who want to learn how to thrive in the wild! Whether your child is camping, hiking, or just playing outside, The Wilderness Survival Handbook for Kids teaches essential life-saving skills through fun, hands-on learning. With step-by-step instructions, adventure missions, and real survival techniques, this audiobook helps build confidence, creativity, and a love for the outdoors.

When disaster strikes, will you be ready? If the grid went down tomorrow, could you power your home, feed your loved ones and keep them safe? This comprehensive audiobook transforms urban dwellers into prepared survivors, even with limited space and budget. Perfect for busy listeners who want to learn while commuting, exercising, or shopping for prepping supplies, this expertly narrated guide delivers practical emergency preparedness strategies you can implement immediately and to fast-track the essentials.

Taking listeners on a gastronomic journey from Paris and London to New York, Chicago and San Francisco, Lustful Appetites reveals how this preoccupation changed the ways we eat and the ways we are intimate—while also creating stigmas that persist well into our own twenty-first century.

The Chicken Chick's Guide to Backyard Chickens covers all aspects of keeping pet chickens in a beautifully illustrated, no-nonsense format. Kathy addresses everything needed to keep chickens simply, including coops, chick care, breed selection, chicken health, and beyond!

Healthy eating in 2025 shouldn’t feel like a struggle. If you want meals that are easy, delicious, and actually good for you, this super easy Mediterranean diet cookbook for beginners gives you the blueprint with time-saving meal prep tips and a shopping list. No complicated steps. No bland food. Just wellness wisdom healthy recipes packed with bold Mediterranean flavors—so you can eat better without overthinking it.

Chez Panisse opened its doors in 1971. Founded by Alice Waters, the restaurant is rooted in her conviction that the best-tasting food is organic, locally grown, and harvested in ecologically sound ways by people who are taking care of the land for future generations. The quest for such ingredients has always determined the restaurant’s cuisine, and over the course of 40 years, Chez Panisse has helped create a community of local farmers and ranchers.

In his lively, unprecedented close-up portrait of Ferran Adrià, award-winning food writer Colman Andrews traces this groundbreaking chef’s rise from resort hotel dishwasher to culinary deity, and the evolution of El Bulli from a German-owned beach bar into the establishment voted annually by an international jury to be “the world’s best restaurant”.

If you’ve ever wondered how to boost your gut health, improve your energy, and support your immune system without expensive supplements or synthetic drinks, you’re in the right place. Fermented Beverage Made Easy is your down-to-earth guide to brewing kombucha, water kefir, jun tea, and other probiotic-rich drinks at home—even if you’ve never fermented anything before. In this audiobook, you’ll discover just how simple, affordable, and rewarding it is to transform everyday ingredients into delicious drinks that naturally support your body.

Reduce, reuse and recycle – the nineteenth century way! This book is packed full of helpful hints and recipes from the early 1800s to the early 1900s, when the United States and Canada expanded their frontiers and intrepid pioneers set up frugal, self-reliant homesteads. It is not just for homesteaders or self-sufficiency purists – whether you live in a country cottage, a city apartment or a college dorm, this book contains a wealth of hints to help you save money, live a greener lifestyle and ‘downsize’.

From Darjeeling to Lapsang Souchon, from India to Japan-a fresh, concise, world-encompassing exploration of the way tea has shaped politics, culture, and the environment throughout history. From the fourth century BC in China, where it was used as an aid in Buddhist meditation, to the Boston Tea Party in 1773, to its present-day role as the most consumed substance on the planet, the humble Camellia plant has had profound effects on civilization.

Words to Eat By explores the remarkable stories behind five of our most basic food words, words which reveal fascinating aspects of the evolution of the English language and our powerful associations with certain foods. Using sources that vary from Roman histories and early translations of the Bible to Julia Child's recipes and Frank Bruni's restaurant reviews, Ina Lipkowitz shows how saturated with French and Italian names the English culinary vocabulary is, "from a la carte to zabaglione."