The Five Marias

The Five Marias
Author: Desirée Borba
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019-03-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9780368500602

My Portuguese grandmother is the best chef in the world. No, really. I spent a great deal of my childhood in my grandparents' kitchen, and eating my grandmother's food. Maybe it's the nostalgia; the longing for those days, years ago, when I would help her make linguiça, knead the dough to make one of her wonderful breads, or just gladly wait for dinner to be served and devour it enthusiastically. That might be it, but I think it's more than that. My grandmother and her four sisters have mastered the ability to create beautiful, delicious dishes while also evoking that nostalgia-or how the Portuguese would call it, "Saudade,"-by way of the foods they have been making their entire lives. This is a tribute to them and to their love for all of us.

Sweet Maria's Cookie Jar

Sweet Maria's Cookie Jar
Author: Maria Bruscino Sanchez
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2002-10-25
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1429941553

For a sweet snack or a delectable dessert, Maria Bruscino Sanchez, baker and author of three previous cookbooks, offers this cookie collection of family recipes, popular bakery treats, classics, and variations on familiar favorites. Cookies and cookie-lovers come in all shapes, sizes, and tastes, and this book has something for everyone, including Cappuccino Drops, Cheesecake Squares, Amaretto Biscotti, Chocolate Nutella Sandwiches, Italian Love Knots, classic Chocolate Chip, and a selection of low-fat, low-sugar, and gluten-free cookie recipes. Complete with information on ingredients, kitchen equipment, as well as baking tips and techniques, this collection of easy to make recipes is sure to produce tasty results. Whether you like your cookies dropped, rolled, filled, piped, or fried, Sweet Maria's Cookie Jar has the recipe you're looking for, and more than a few you'll be thrilled to discover.

Sweet Maria's Italian Cookie Tray

Sweet Maria's Italian Cookie Tray
Author: Maria Bruscino Sanchez
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1997-07-15
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9780312156701

Six years ago, Maria Bruscino Sanchez opened a bakery in her hometown of Waterbury, Connecticut, to satisfy the ever-increasing orders for her cookies and cakes, baked from handed-down recipes. Today, Sweet-Maria's is a booming business that has garnered terrific reviews, numerous baking awards, and a passionately devoted clientele. This book collects 65 of Maria's most asked-for recipes. Line illustrations.

The Infatuations

The Infatuations
Author: Javier Marías
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2013-08-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307960730

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE FINALIST • From the award-winning, internationally bestselling Spanish author of A Heart So White comes an immersive, provocative novel propelled by a seemingly random murder. "Sometimes startling, sometimes hilarious, and always intelligent ... Marías [has] a penetrating empathy."—The New York Times Book Review Each day before work María Dolz stops at the same café. There she finds herself drawn to a couple who is also there every morning. Observing their seemingly perfect life helps her escape the listlessness of her own. But when the man is brutally murdered and María approaches the widow to offer her condolences, what began as mere observation turns into an increasingly complicated entanglement. Invited into the widow's home, she meets—and falls in love with—a man who sheds disturbing new light on the crime. As María recounts this story, we are given a murder mystery brilliantly encased in a metaphysical enquiry, a novel that grapples with questions of love and death, chance and coincidence, and above all, with the slippery essence of the truth and how it is told.

Mindful Vegan Meals

Mindful Vegan Meals
Author: Maria Koutsogiannis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2018-06-12
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1624145752

Framed by her own personal struggle with bulimia and body dysmorphia, Maria Koutsogiannis' Mindful Vegan Meals traces the foods she ate to get her to the next stage of her recovery in a way that will inspire and help others with this large and growing problem as evidenced by her large social media following. Maria pairs stories of her recovery from bulimia and body dysmorphia with the recipes that kept her body nourished along the way, giving an intimate look at how she went from eating disorder to proclaiming her personal mantra: "Fear not. Food is your friend." Packed with vibrant and healthy recipes inspired by her journey, including milestone recipes like the first carbs she allowed herself to eat, Mindful Vegan Meals offers a hopeful look at life while overcoming an eating disorder.This book will have 75 recipes and 75 photos.

From My Kitchen to Yours

From My Kitchen to Yours
Author: Maria Goretti
Publisher: Om Books International
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2016
Genre: Cooking, Indic
ISBN: 9383202033

From My Kitchen To Yours: Food, Love And Other Ingredients celebrates how Maria Goretti lives her life, with memorable recipes from her mother’s East-Indian spreads, aromas from her grandmother’s kitchen, and the food that she has seen, touched and tasted over her many travels across India, and the world, as a VJ with MTV. Add to that, all those delicious dishes she has eaten at her friends’ homes, especially those sinful desserts that she loved, which she tried and tried till she got them right. Divided into monthly menus with soups, salads, starters, non-vegetarian and vegetarian main course dishes, and desserts, the recipes are simple and delicious. With a foreword by actress and politician Jaya Bachchan, the book presents a six-course meal layout for each month, and easy-to-make recipes with ingredients readily available in any home kitchen. It contains an array of both vegetarian and non-vegetarian recipes.

Thus Bad Begins

Thus Bad Begins
Author: Javier Marías
Publisher: Knopf
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2016
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101946083

**Named a Best Book of the Year by the Boston Globe and Los Angeles Times** From the internationally acclaimed author of The Infatuations comes the mesmerizing story of a couple living in the shadow of a mysterious, unhappy history--a novel about the cruel, tender punishments we exact on those we love. Madrid, 1980. Juan de Vere, nearly finished with his university degree, takes a job as personal assistant to Eduardo Muriel, an eccentric, once-successful film director. Urbane, discreet, irreproachable, Muriel is an irresistible idol to the young man. But Muriel's voluptuous wife, Beatriz, inhabits their home like an unwanted ghost; and on the periphery of their lives is Dr. Jorge Van Vechten, a family friend implicated in unsavory rumors that Muriel now asks Juan to investigate. As Juan draws closer to the truth, he uncovers only more questions. What is at the root of Muriel's hostility toward his wife? How did Beatriz meet Van Vechten? What happened during the war? Marías leads us deep into the intrigues of these characters, through a daring exploration of rancor, suspicion, loyalty, trust, and the infinitely permeable boundaries between the deceptions perpetrated on us by others and those we inflict upon ourselves.

Maria's Low Protein Cook Book

Maria's Low Protein Cook Book
Author: Maria Depenweiller
Publisher:
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2018-02-13
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9781773704012

This is a collection of creative low protein recipes with excellent photographs of the dishes for those who must maintain a protein-restricted diet for treatment of PKU or similar inherited diseases of protein metabolism. This book was created by a low protein cooking specialist and a professional home economist with hopes to make reader's lives a bit easier and to share personal culinary experience and expertise. Low protein diets may feel restrictive and full of limitations but with the right ingredients and some basic cooking skills, it is possible to have low protein fine dining at home. Time is valuable so most of the recipes are quick and hassle free. Learning to cook from scratch is the best way to gain full control of the diet and eat healthy and low protein food.

Written Lives

Written Lives
Author: Javier Marías
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780811216890

An affectionate and very funny gallery of twenty great world authors from the pen of "the most subtle and gifted writer in contemporary Spanish literature" (The Boston Globe).