Download or read book Cooking with Chocolate written by Magnus Johansson and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even experienced bakers can be intimidated by the demands of successfully working with chocolate, which requires an experienced touch and careful handling to achieve great results. You can teach yourself this complex and delicate art through hours of painful trial and error . . . or you can master the skills of cooking with chocolate with help from one of the greatest pastry chefs in Europe! Master chef Magnus Johansson has served desserts at Nobel Prize banquets and the birthday parties of Swedish royalty. Now he shares all of his tips, tricks, and recipes with you in this award-winning cookbook. While the results you’ll get from this collection are professional-caliber, the theme is simplicity: in every recipe, Johansson gives explanations of each step, helpful photographs to illustrate trickier techniques, and everything else you need to make successful chocolate desserts. The delicious recipes featured here include: Buttercream Cake with Raspberries and Chocolate Cream Almond Macaroons with Cocoa Nibs Chocolate-Dipped Brioche Sugar Cake with Chocolate Ripple Spicy Chocolate-Coated Hazelnuts Chocolate and Blood Orange Tart The recipes also include tips detailing all the processes and techniques for working with chocolate, such as tempering. Whether you are a dessert connoisseur looking to refine your skills with guidance from a master, or a beginner just starting on your journey into the world of chocolate desserts, Cooking with Chocolate has what you need!
Download or read book Chocolate Diamonds written by Alec Peche and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-07 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chocolate Diamonds is a murder mystery that is set in Europe. Dr. Jill Quint, vintner from California and consulting forensic medical examiner joins her three friends from Wisconsin in Antwerp, Belgium to enjoy their annual girlfriends' vacation. Jo's ancestry resides in this country and she is looking forward to exploring her heritage. They all plan to enjoy the museums of Belgium and the Netherlands, as well as the food and especially the beer of the region.A chance medical emergency pulls Jill and her friends into a homicide investigation assisting the Belgian Police and Interpol with uncovering something worth killing for in the diamond industry. Who was the woman in the restaurant that Jill and Marie performed CPR on, and why did she die in the hospital after they had her stabilized- it was just an unusual nut allergy?Angela, the photographer of the group of friends begins to capture faces of men who want to kill them or kidnap them and along the way she meets Nick who helps them stay alive. The friends do what they can to give Nick and Angela's budding relationship a chance.Jo learns to navigate European financial and tax records with the help of an accountant from Interpol. She is usually oblivious to the strangers around her, but on this vacation paying attention become a requirement as they have to run from several kidnap attempts.Marie has been exploring people's backgrounds worldwide in her day job in the US. Always a multi-tasker, she is a real sleuth at ferreting out the hidden facts and identities for anyone, all while standing in line to buy a ticket at a museum.Nathan, Jill's partner, doesn't want to miss out on the excitement. He joins the ladies in Brussels and plans to visit some of his wine clients while he is in that region. As a world class wine label artist, he has clients that he designs bottle labels for in most parts of the world. He soon finds opportunities to use his Hapkido skills disarming Jo's assailant, joining Nick in providing some security for the women.Diamonds are mined in many parts of the world, but the miners are not always treated fairly. Antwerp is the acknowledged diamond industry hub of the world. Many chocoholics believe that the best chocolate artists in the world reside in Belgium. Jill and her friends stumble upon the intersection of chocolate and diamonds in this murder mystery This is book two of the Jill Quint forensic pathologist series, a follow up to “Vials”, the first book in this murder mystery series. A third book in the series Is also available and features a murdered skier in a resort town in Colorado, and its title is “A Breck Death”.
Download or read book Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants written by Jill Soloway and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-09-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator and director of Transparent and Emmy-nominated writer for Six Feet Under comes a hilarious and unforgettable memoir. When Jill Soloway was just thirteen, she and her best friend donned the tightest satin pants they could find, poufed up their hair and squeezed into Candies heels, then headed to downtown Chicago in search of their one-and-only true loves forever: the members of whichever rock band was touring through town. Never mind that both girls still had braces, coke-bottle-thick glasses and had only just bought their first bras—they were fabulous, they felt beautiful, they were tiny ladies in shiny pants. Now that Jill is all grown up and a successful writer and producer, she can look back on her tiny self and share her shiny tales with fondness, absurdity, and obsessive-compulsive attention to even the most embarrassing details. From the highly personal (conflating her own loss of virginity and the Kobe Bryant accusations), to the political (what she has in common with Monica and Chandra), to the outrageously Los Angelean (why women wear huge diamonds and what they must do to get them), Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants is a genre-defying combination of personal essay and memoir, or a hilarious, unruly and unapologetic evaluation of society, religion, sex, love, and—best of all—Jill.
Download or read book The Diamond Secret written by Lenora Worth and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Inspirational romantic suspense"--Spine.
Download or read book The Perfect Cookie written by America's Test Kitchen and published by America's Test Kitchen. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featured in the New York Times book Review, Real Simple, Huffington Post, Forbes, Parade, and Southern Living. Portable, fun to make, easy to gift, and open to countless flavor variations, cookies are everyone's favorite sweet treat. America's Test Kitchen has years of experience making the very best cookies; in The Perfect Cookie, the test kitchen has collected all of that knowledge in one place for the definitive guide to cookie baking. This comprehensive anthology includes kitchen-tested, never-fail recipes for cookie jar classics, in addition to recipes for rich and chewy brownies, fruit-and-crumble-topped bars, quick no-bake confections, holiday favorites, and even candies like fudge and truffles; they're all included in this gorgeous package, with a full-page photo showing off every recipe. And, as only the test kitchen can, there are tips and tricks throughout the chapters, as well as an introductory section to get you started with insight on everything from what makes a cookie chewy versus crispy to what baking sheet you should buy so that your cookies bake evenly every time. The result? The perfect cookie.
Download or read book Three of Diamonds written by Anthony Horowitz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-05-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would Tim Diamond, the world's worst private detective, dowithout his quick-thinking brother Nick? The bumbling detective and his kid brother are at it again in these three hilarious, fast-paced mysteries. Whether it's finding out who flattened a philanthropist with a steamroller in The Blurred Man, outsmarting Parisian drug smugglers on a vacation gone miserably wrong in The French Confection, or catching the murderer behind a deadly class reunion in I Know What You Did Last Wednesday, there's never a dull moment with this crimesolving duo around. Find out if Nick can get to the bottom of these mysteries before Tim messes everything up, or worse, gets them both killed.
Download or read book Candy making at Home written by Mary Mason Wright and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Coal to Diamonds A Memoir written by Beth Ditto and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A raw and surprisingly beautiful coming-of-age memoir, Coal to Diamonds tells the story of Mary Beth Ditto, a girl from rural Arkansas who found her voice. Born and raised in Judsonia, Arkansas—a place where indoor plumbing was a luxury, squirrel was a meal, and sex ed was taught during senior year in high school (long after many girls had gotten pregnant and dropped out) Beth Ditto stood out. Beth was a fat, pro-choice, sexually confused choir nerd with a great voice, an eighties perm, and a Kool Aid dye job. Her single mother worked overtime, which meant Beth and her five siblings were often left to fend for themselves. Beth spent much of her childhood as a transient, shuttling between relatives, caring for a sickly, volatile aunt she nonetheless loved, looking after sisters, brothers, and cousins, and trying to steer clear of her mother’s bad boyfriends. Her punk education began in high school under the tutelage of a group of teens—her second family—who embraced their outsider status and introduced her to safety-pinned clothing, mail-order tapes, queer and fat-positive zines, and any shred of counterculture they could smuggle into Arkansas. With their help, Beth survived high school, a tragic family scandal, and a mental breakdown, and then she got the hell out of Judsonia. She decamped to Olympia, Washington, a late-1990s paradise for Riot Grrrls and punks, and began to cultivate her glamorous, queer, fat, femme image. On a whim—with longtime friends Nathan, a guitarist and musical savant in a polyester suit, and Kathy, a quiet intellectual turned drummer—she formed the band Gossip. She gave up trying to remake her singing voice into the ethereal wisp she thought it should be and instead embraced its full, soulful potential. Gossip gave her that chance, and the raw power of her voice won her and Gossip the attention they deserved. Marked with the frankness, humor, and defiance that have made her an international icon, Beth Ditto’s unapologetic, startlingly direct, and poetic memoir is a hypnotic and inspiring account of a woman coming into her own.
Download or read book No Ordinary Love written by J.J. Murray and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nurse Trina Woods never really expected to make the reality-show cut for Rich Man, Lucky Lady. She's used to losing in love, and past believing in fairy tales. So she's sure the handsome plain-talking man she encounters on her lunch break is just a shy eccentric...Until he turns out to be reclusive award-winning musician “Art E.” Soon his unique sensitivity and gentle ways are inspiring her to stand up for herself, take risks, and try one last time for her happy ending. Tony Santangelo's special way of seeing the world helps him make connections others don't—and turn them into mega-hit songs. But he never realized how lonely he was until he got a glimpse of Trina's honesty and caring nature—and went way out of his comfort zone to find her. Suddenly they’re the media's hottest new Cinderella story. And coping with his overprotective brother and overwhelming celebrity means he and Trina must face trouble head on, insist on their dreams, and write their own one-of-a-kind forever-after song...
Download or read book Moment of the Broken Covenant written by W.H. Blakley and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you do if you got the chance to live your life over again? Rick Deeter might just find out. Unsatisfied with his career choice and miserable with his home life, Rick knows that his current situation is a culmination of choices--some misguided, some due to his own naivety. Regardless of his motivation, he realizes that they were his decisions that brought him to this point. Then one day, on his evening commute as he laments his predicament, he says something. He thinks it's just a few rambling thoughts, but in fact, he has spoken the words of the Covenant. Now Rick has the chance to make those decisions over again. If he makes the right choices, he will get the life he has always dreamed of, but he also knows that one wrong decision will return him to the life he so desperately wants to escape.
Download or read book Brandstorm Surviving and Thriving in the New Consumer Led Marketplace written by Liz Nickles and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Branding has become ubiquitous, with new brands becoming word-of-mouth successes literally overnight, and many welcome the easy familiarity they bring to daily life. But now brand proliferation is threatening not only to stifle true choice in the marketplace, but to render hard-won brand identities - some decades in the making - meaningless. With today's unprecedented access to thousands of brands a day, via Twitter, Facebook, and the rest, the balance of brand power is shifting irrevocably away from the businesses behind them. In Brandstorm, branding guru Liz Nickles argues that, as a result, the brand is no longer a value proposition in itself, and that marketers and brand managers must stop the dilution and focus on meaningful, market-specific reinvention for those brands that can stand the test of time. She offers the success secrets behind leading brands like Ralph Lauren, Justin Bieber, and Revlon, and how to channel them today.
Download or read book Crystal Clear written by Jaya Saxena and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From amethyst to obsidian, Basic Witches author Jaya Saxena explores the multi-faceted meanings and history behind eleven popular crystals in this relatable personal essay collection. Highly prized for their beauty, crystals can take the shape of jewelry, household objects, and an array of self-care products. But it’s the ideas they stand for that draw people to their raw forms. Like astrology, tarot, and modern witchcraft, crystals help practitioners understand themselves and the wider world around them. In this collection of sharply observed essays, Jaya Saxena reflects on—and challenges—the ideas associated with eleven popular stones, including unconditional love (rose quartz), happiness and success (citrine), balance (amethyst), self-care (black tourmaline), purity (pearl), imposter syndrome (pyrite), toxic positivity (carnelian), change (opals), traditional concepts of marriage (diamonds), presentation versus identity (obsidian), and death (amber). The result is a deeply personal book with universal appeal, exploring how we assign meaning and power to crystals in order to give meaning and power to our lives.
Download or read book Blood Death In Paradise written by Susan Hart and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These further adventures of FBI agent Lili Foxworthy and her brilliant actor husband Peter von Rabenhorst, send them locally to an antique shop owner who is far from normal, then deep into the Mayan jungle for research and some R&R for a new play, End Game. This book is in large print 16 pt. type for easy reading.
Download or read book Ridley Plays 1 written by Philip Ridley and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains Ridley's first three plays, which heralded the arrival of a unique and disturbing voice in the world of contemporary drama. They are seminal works in the development of the 'in yer face' theatre that emerged in Britain during the mid-1990s.The three plays here all manifest Ridley's vivid and visionary imagination and the dark beauty of his outlook. They resonate with his trademark themes: East London, storytelling, moments of shocking violence, memories of the past, fantastical monologues, and that strange mix of the barbaric and the beautiful he has made all his own. The Pitchfork Disney was Ridley's first play and is now seen as launching a new generation of playwrights who were unafraid to shock and court controversy. This unsettling, dreamlike piece has surreal undertones and thematically explores fear, dreams and story-telling. The Fastest Clock in the Universe is a multi-award-winning play which caused a sensation when it premiered at Hampstead Theatre in 1992. An edgy and provocative drama, it is now regarded as a contemporary classic. Ghost from a Perfect Place is a scorchingly nasty blend of comedy, spectacle and terror where a monster from the past meets the monsters of the present. The volume contains the definitive version of the plays, plus an extended and updated introduction and three monologues (Bloodshot, Angry and Voosh), published here for the first time.
Download or read book Blood Money written by Margaret Sankey and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2022-10-15 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is convenient to think that bad guys are drumming up money for their activities far away and in shady back alleys, but the violent non-state actors (VNSAs) of the world are hiding in plain sight. They peddle knockoff sneakers, pass the hat at ethnic festivals, take a cut of untaxed booze sales, swindle senior citizens with bogus phone calls about needing bail in Mexico, and run money through mainstream banks to buy up rental properties (just to name a few). On a grand scale, their behavior erodes rule of law, creates moral injuries from corruption, and emboldens bad actors to steal and back violent tactics with impunity. Blood Money analyzes the ways in which VNSAs find money for their operations and sustainment, from controlling a valuable commodity to harnessing the grievances of a networked diaspora, and it looks at the channels through which they can flip the positives of globalization into flat, fast, and frictionless movement of people, funds, and materials needed to terrorize and coerce their opponents. Author Margaret Sankey highlights the mundane and everyday nature of these tactics, occurring under our noses online, in legitimate marketplaces, and with the aegis of intelligence services and national governments. While reforms attempt to curtail these options, their utility and efficacy as tools of finance have proved inadequate for sovereign states. VNSAs' defiance of rules and their capable adaptation and innovation make them extremely difficult to pin down or prosecute. Many security publications stress legislation and enforcement or frame illicit finance as a military or police problem. With Blood Money, Sankey points out the many ways VNSAs evade law enforcement, and she offers options for involving consumers and activists in exercising agency and choices in how they apply their money and where it goes. Blood Money also provides context for whole-of-government approaches to attacking underlying supports for illicit financing channels. How these groups finance themselves is key to understanding how they function and what actions might be taken to derail their plans or dismantle their structure.
Download or read book Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
