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Parlor Games: Amusements And Entertainments for Everyone

Diane Pub Co, 2002

In the style of an old-fashioned book, this volume ''contains explanations of the most excellent games suited to the family circle, such as pantomimes, games with pen & pencil, games of thought & memory, riddles & conundrums & enigmas (with solutions), games of action, ruses & catch games, forfeits, & the little fortune-teller.'' The only apparatus required is ''good temper, good spirits, & gentleness, so that at any moment amusement for an ...

Love: A Book of Days
Roy Finamore

Stewart, Tabori, & Chang, 1989

Tasty: Get Great Food on the Table Every Day

8 reviews
Roy Finamore

Houghton Mifflin, 2006

excellent book - thoughtful author
this is available for a ridiculous price and worth, at least, five times as much. His name is not well-known, but his friends and clients are which certainly speaks well for him. I like the style of writing and the recipes, the few I've tried so far, have turned out very well. I also like the author's attitude. You have permission to enhance your result, if desired, without inciting his ...

Dessert FourPlay: Sweet Quartets from a Four-Star Pastry Chef
Johnny Iuzzini, Roy Finamore

Clarkson Potter, 2008

Consider the strawberry: its familiar flavor and texture; its fresh, sweet smell. Now imagine the same fruit distilled and carbonated for a refreshing soda, slow-roasted for a reinvented strawberry shortcake, made into a creamy strawberry ice cream and a chewy strawberry leather, and combined with coconut cream and crisp chocolate pastry. Alone, each dessert is a taste of paradise, but together this “fourplay,” or tasting, created by ...

One Potato, Two Potato

14 reviews
Roy Finamore, Molly Stevens

Houghton Mifflin, 2001

Colcannon, Pierogies, Vichysoisse, and Samosas oh my
If this is the kind of book an editor of other food writers can give us, then I wish more of these largely invisible literary yeomen would take up the pen to do their own material more often. This is an excellent example of my favorite kind of book. It deals exclusively with recipes based on a single main ingredient. This makes it the book to go to when you have that last pound of spuds in a ten ...

Parlor Games: Amusements and Entertainment for Everyone

1 review

Clarkson Potter, 2002

Gentle amusements of the past
Editor Roy Finamore has dished up a gem of a book with PARLOR GAMES. Made up of past-times from the days of your grandparents, PARLOR GAMES reads like a guide to the home entertainment systems of the Victorian era. No nintendo here, instead we have riddles and conundrums, pantomimes, and games with pencil and paper and brains. Its like having a number of board games in one book. Readers of ...

Antonios Tales from the Thousand and One Nights

1 review
Antonio Lopez

Stewart Tabori & Chang, 1985

A Thousand and One Nights
Antonio Lopez was the finest and perhaps the last fashion illustrator of the twentieth century, bringing flash, pizzaz and elegance to everything his pen, pencil or brush touched. To watch him draw was divine. Antonio Lopez' A THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS is an erotic tale in lush Bollywood color. Its pages are lavish with Antonio's generous line work and exquisite drawings. Swarthy men, sensual, ...

Fish Without a Doubt: The Cook's Essential Companion

9 reviews
Rick Moonen, Roy Finamore

Houghton Mifflin, 2008

WOW! Yum
Everything I've tried from this book so far has been unbelievably delicious. The citrus roasted lobster and citrus lobster salad are a home run. I wasn't too sure about the marinade ingredients (combining citrus juices with fish sauce and mint leaves?) but I recalled that the kitchen testers from Gourmet Mag. said everything was amazing, so I gave it a try and I'm glad I did. As far as the ...