Recipes and Cooking

Home-Cooked Food Good For Children's Body
by eNotAlone.com
Young children weaned on healthy home-prepared food grow up to be leaner, compared to infants who are being fed commercial baby products, says a new research. The scientists from Britain found that children who eat fruits, vegetables and food cooked

The Right Stuff: Stocking the Refrigerator, Freezer, and Pantry
How to Cook Without a Book: Recipes and Techniques Every Cook Should Know by Heart
by Pam Anderson
Pam Anderson grew up watching her parents and grandparents make dinner every night by simply taking the ingredients on hand and cooking them with the techniques they knew. Times have changed. Today we have an overwhelming array of ingredients

A Welcome Gift
Block Parties & Poker Nights: Recipes and Ideas for Getting and Staying Connected with Your Neighbors
by Peg Allen
Across the country, folks are rediscovering potluck parties, progressive dinners, and other neighborhood gatherings as a way to forge bonds that endure long after the last dish is cleared away. From small, adults-only get-togethers to neighborhood

Recipes
The Language of Baklava
by Diana Abu-Jaber
Wash the bulgur and let it soak in water to cover for half-hour. Drain thoroughly and add the vegetables. Add the oil, lemon, salt and pepper. Mix well. Cover, and let the tabbouleh marinate in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.

Kitchen Purge
The Itty Bitty Kitchen Handbook: Everything You Need to Know About Setting Up and Cooking in the Most Ridiculously Small Kitchen in the World - Your Own
by Justin Spring
If your cluttered small kitchen makes you dread cooking even the simplest meal, it's time for you to reclaim that space - and your sanity! - with this practical and witty guide. Here you will learn how to: purge your kitchen of unnecessary, space-hogging

Library of Cookery
by Women's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
Without doubt, the greatest problem confronting the human race is that of food. In order to exist, every person must eat; but eating simply to keep life in the body is not enough. Aside from this, the body must be supplied with an ample amount of energy

Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery: A Manual of Cheap and Wholesome Diet
by A. G. Payne
We wish it to be distinctly understood at starting, that the present work is purely a cookery-book, written on the principles generally adopted by vegetarians; and as, until quite recently, there seemed to be in the minds of many some doubt

American Woman's Home
by Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe
There are but a few things on which health and happiness depend more than on the manner in which food is cooked. You may make houses enchantingly beautiful, hang them with pictures, have them clean and airy and convenient

The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet: Stored with all manner of rare receipts for preserving, candying and cookery
by Hannah Wolley
Take three Pints of Sack, three Pints of White Wine, one quart of the Spirit of Wine, one quart of the juice of Celandine leaves, of Melilot-flowers, Cardamum-seeds, Cubebs, Galingale, Nutmegs, Cloves, Mace, Ginger, two Drams of each; bruise them

Reform Cookery Book
by Mrs. Mill
Still the Food Reform movement goes on and expresses itself in many ways. New developments and enterprises on the part of those engaged in the manufacture and distribution of pure foods are in evidence in all directions.

A Handbook of Health
by Woods Hutchinson
While some of all classes of food may be eaten raw, yet we have gradually come to submit most of our foods to the heat of a fire, in various ways; this process is known as cooking. While cooking usually wastes a little, and sometimes a good deal

Asian Tuna or Swordfish Burgers
HeartSmart: The Best of HeartSmart Cooking
by Bonnie Stern
From the IACP award-winning author of Bonnie Stern's Essentials of Home Cooking comes the best of HeartSmart cooking, revised and updated with 75 brand-new recipes. For more than a decade, the partnership of Bonnie Stern and the Heart and Stroke

Making Fresh Juice
The Ultimate Smoothie Book: 130 Delicious Recipes for Blender Drinks, Frozen Desserts, Shakes, and More!
by Cherie Calbom
I use a lot of fresh juices in my smoothie recipes. You may think that's just because I'm known as the Juice Lady, but my love of fresh vegetable and fruit juices goes back many years before the Juice Lady was born.

Nutrition and the Elderly : Recipes for a Long, Healthy Life
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The Dietary Guidelines for Americans established by the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, in Washington, D.C., include the basic food groups that supply people with an adequate diet of minerals

Slow Cookers and Food Safety
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Opening the front door on a cold winter evening and being greeted by the inviting smells of beef stew or chicken noodle soup wafting from a slow cooker can be a diner's dream come true. But winter is not the only time a slow cooker is useful.

Recipes: Cancer Diet
by National Cancer Institute
Banana Milkshake, Fortified Milk, High-Protein Milkshake, Peanut Butter Snack Spread, Fruit and Cream. Pour liquid milk into a deep bowl. Add dry milk and beat slowly with beater until dry milk is dissolved (usually less than five minutes).

National Chicken
Cookoff: Recipe Fever in America
by Amy Sutherland
Thousands of entries have been screened, a hundred or so have been prepared, and fifty-one dishes have been given the thumbs-up. The cooks have been telephoned with the news: 'You're a contestant in the National Chicken Cooking Contest!'

Start Your Ovens
Cookoff: Recipe Fever in America
by Amy Sutherland
I had hardly turned my calendar to January 2000 when a hefty envelope from Pillsbury thumped on my desk at a newspaper in Portland, Maine. Inside was a voluminous press packet on the upcoming 2000 Pillsbury Bake-Off contest in San Francisco.

The Housewife's Dream
Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America
by Laura Shapiro
Theadora Smafield clasps her hands with joy: She has just won the Grand Prize in the very first Grand National Recipe and Baking Contest, better known as the Pillsbury Bake-Off.

Do Women Like to Cook?
Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America
by Laura Shapiro
For many years I have been thinking about the conjunction between women and cooking, an association so deeply rooted that over the centuries it has turned cooking into something tantamount to a sex-linked characteristic, less definitive than pregnancy