Welcome to New York City's most popular cooking class -- now in a book This vividly photographed manual is a peek inside culinary instructor Jennifer Clair's best-selling cooking class, where just six cooking techniques lay the groundwork for a solid culinary foundation. You'll learn the proper way to handle a chef's knife, cook meat to perfection, create impressive pan sauces, and prepare restaurant-worthy vegetable dishes. Plus, you'll discover which ingredients truly make a difference in a home kitchen (kosher salt, extra-virgin olive oil, and Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, to start).
The beloved memoirist and bestselling author of Population: 485 reflects on the lessons he's learned from his unlikely alter ego, French Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne.
From the author of Comeback Love and Wherever There Is Light, comes a novel about the life-changing journey of a young man who travels from New Jersey to Khrushchev's Russia and the beaches of Southern France as he finds love and discovers the long-hidden secrets about his heritage. In 1950s New Jersey, Michael Daniels launches a radio show in the storage room of his Russian-Jewish grandmother's candy store.
When you buy an old house, you get much more than a house. In all its quirks, its alterations, in fragments of memory and traces left behind, you get a bundle of small mysteries. Who used to live here? Why did they come here, and where did they go? Whose name is that written on the attic wall? When did that odd little bathroom get shoehorned in there, and what did the room look like before? If you're lucky, one or two of your house's mysteries might unfold into stories. Akum Norder was very lucky.
Intrigue Mystery Romance Coffee Find all this and more in "Dark and Bitter." "Dark and Bitter" is an anthology which contains eleven tales from writers in New York's capital region and beyond. These stories feature suspense, complex characters, intense situations, and much more that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Join us on this journey through the amazing works that writers in this area have to offer and learn why we all love our Dark and Bitter tales.
Questions of class and gender in Appalachia have, in the wake of the 2016 presidential election and the runaway success of Hillbilly Elegy, moved to the forefront of national conversations about politics and culture. From Todd Snyder, a first generation college student turned college professor, comes a passionate commentary on these themes in a family memoir set in West Virginia coal country.
Against the background of the history of Cuba-U.S. interconnectedness and in light of Obama's ini-tiative and Trump's election, Arnold August deals with the relationship between the two countries, delving into past and current U.S. aggression against Cuba's artistic field, ideology and politics. Based on twenty years of fieldwork in and investigation of Cuba, this book provides a unique perspective on the island's diverse approaches to the cultural war being waged by the U.S. and illustrates the heterogeneous nature of Cuban society.
n Don't F**k It Up: How Founders and Their Successors Can Avoid the ClichEs That Inhibit Growth, author and six-time second CEO Les Trachtman offers his expertise on the most effective ways to successfully hand off your company to a worthy successor. He also has advice for those who are inheriting a business and want to take it to the next level, as well as for boards who are dealing with these leadership transitions.
