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Fast Food My Way 52 reviews
Jacques Pepin
Houghton Mifflin, 2004
easy to prepare, tasty food, easy to understand
I can highly recommend this book. If you're a beginner at cooking but you want to impress people then this book is really for you! I'm really a novice when it comes to cooking. Whenever I announced that I wanted to cook at home then suddenly everybody said they would be busy and couldn't come home to eat...Even worse, I'm in love with a boy who is really picky at eating because his mum is really ...
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Salamandastron (Redwall) 136 reviews
Brian Jacques
Red Fox, 2007
Great!
At one time, this was my favorite redwall book. It was also the first redwall book I read all of. In this book, the fearless badger lord Urthstripe the Strong leads his army of long patrol hares in a battle against the cruel Ferahgo the Assasin. Read this book, it's great!
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Jacques Pepin's Complete Techniques39 reviews
Jacques Pépin
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2001
Not for beginners
This is not a book for beginners. This is a book for people who have some chops, but who want a reference manual.
Ignore everybody who complains about the photos: they will never produce meal after meal. They are too busy complaining.
This is a master-work.
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Chez Jacques: Traditions and Rituals of a Cook15 reviews
Jacques Pepin
Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2007
Chez Jacques
Wonderful, uncomplicated recipes beautiful photographs of dishes. Gorgeous photos of his artwork and graphics. Overall a lovely volume that you will find yourself using again and again.
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Jacques Pépin More Fast Food My Way7 reviews
Jacques Pepin
Houghton Mifflin, 2008
Great way to eat better
Not having seen the TV programs I bought the book based on some of Jacques Pepins prior work. The format and the menu suggestions are great!
The idea of using the supermarket as your prep cook is wonderful.
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The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen43 reviews
Jacques Pepin
Houghton Mifflin, 2004
Book for non-cooks too
My husband loves to cook, and enjoys Jacques Pepin. While I've watched the show to keep my husband company, I'm not much of a cook, but loved this book. It was interesting, entertaining and even got me to read some recipes (not my thing either!). I've since passed it on to a couple of other people that enjoyed it equally. I'm definitely glad we bought this and it has a permanent place in our ...
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Doomwyte: A Novel of Redwall2 reviews
Brian Jacques
Philomel, 2008
ABSOLUTELY AMAZING
Doomwyte is one of the best Redwall novels yet! It's a novel that anybody could love! It was filled with puzzles and action!
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Jacques Torres' A Year in Chocolate: 80 Recipes for Holidays and Special Occasions
Jacques Torres, Judith Choate, ...
Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2008
Let your New Year?s resolution be ?Eat more chocolate.? With Jacques Torres? A Year in Chocolate as your guide, you won?t have any difficulty sticking with it from January right on through December. From the elegant Poached Pears with Chocolate Fondue to serve on New Year?s Day and a festive Bûche de Noël filled with chocolate cream and ornamented with meringue mushrooms, to homemade Easter eggs and autumnal Pumpkin Seed Brittle, the ...
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Redwall (Tale of Redwall)764 reviews
Brian Jacques
Red Fox, 2006
First Novel I ever read
I started this series in 4th grade. I'm 24 now and I have read it over again about 4 times. This book was amazing when I was a child, and it still is. Brian Jacques does a fantastic job with his characters and scenery. The poems/riddles are great. The best of the series: Mattimeo. (3rd book)
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Eulalia! (Redwall)14 reviews
Brian Jacques
Philomel, 2007
eulaliaaaaaa
in my oppinion this book is one of the most action packed books i have ever read. it is a outstanding book full of friendship and bravery. yet again brian jacques catured my attention inthis thrilling tale of redwall abbey and salamandastron. i recommend this book to anyone who loves action.
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Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home54 reviews
Julia Child, Jacques Pepin
Knopf, 1999
Fool-proof-good-food
I'm a Foodie. I know about proper stocks and demi glace. But I tried the simplest recipe in this book-- Julia's simple (I must emphasize "simple") sautee of chicken and was astounded by the results. Here's what I did:
I bought a pack of chicken legs/thighs (a family pack for 5 bucks), I browned it, steamed it with some garlic and thyme, reduced the chicken stock and white wine into a sauce ...
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The Politics of Aesthetics3 reviews
Jacques Ranciere
Continuum, 2006
The Injunction of Aesthetics and Politics
Jacques Ranciere in The Politics of Aesthetics implicates aesthetics and politics as part of the same paradigm in a series of short essays and an interview. Ranciere poses three "regimes" in art: the 1) political/ethical, 2) poiesis/mimesis and 3) aesthetic. Using these regimes, Ranciere develops an acute sense of modernism and postmodernism on the basis that the former tried to represent the ...
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Mariel of Redwall131 reviews
Brian Jacques
Red Fox, 2007
excellent
I tutor/consult home school families. One 7th grader has had difficulty focusing on reading due to a reading disability. I purchased the dvd recording of the Redwall book to introduce him to a way to follow the book while listening to the dvd. He loves it! It is no longer a struggle for his mom to get him to read for the first time in his life. He is able to read, but he has always hated it ...
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High Rhulain (Redwall) 27 reviews
Brian Jacques
Puffin, 2008
Bally great book wot
I am a huge Jacques fan ad when I first read the series I read it in about six months. Personally I strongly disagree with the last reviewer who said that said Jacques is getting worse as he goes on. DONT LISTEN TO HIM. I agree that Jacques continues his repetitiveness but he has to doesnt he? Who would read these books if they always had bad guys winning and the main characters dying? I also ...
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The Bellmaker (Redwall)141 reviews
Brian Jacques
Red Fox, 2007
One of my favorite Redwall books
I recall this book from when I was younger, a lot younger, and I enjoyed it a lot back then. I recall reading it about six or seven times, and I just revisited it now almost nine years later.
What I liked then was that it was an easy, entertaining read - you get sucked right in to the wonderfully realized world of Redwall, which is consistently populated with interesting characters and its ...
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Jacques Pepin's Simple and Healthy Cooking15 reviews
Rodale Books, 1999
My Favorite Cookbook Yet!
I am very health conscious, so the title of this cookbook grabbed my attention. I did not even know who Mr. Pepin was. I purchased the cookbook on a whim, and have not been sorry, yet. I did not know healthy cooking could taste so good. As one reviewer said, it is all in the preparation and spices. I simply had no idea! I have made several recipes so far, and have not been disappointed. They are ...
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Interior Freedom4 reviews
Jacques Philippe
Scepter Publishers, 2007
Will become a Christian Spiritual Classic!
This is the third book by Father Jacques Philippe that I have read, and already I wish there were more than 4 available in English. I am certain he will go down in history as one of the spiritual masters like Brother Lawrence, C.S. Lewis and others. This book is written in such simple and accessible language, yet with a message so profound any believer could grow from encountering it.
Fr. ...
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The Short-Cut Cook: Make Simple Meals with Surprisingly Little Effort4 reviews
Jacques Pepin
William Morrow Cookbooks, 2001
Easy Access to Good Food
I began cooking from this book about 12 years ago, when it was first released in hardcover. I did not know Jaques Pepin's reputation, I simply wanted recipes one can do quickly. My bottom line on this book is that it succeeded in delivering on the promise of the book's title. I confess I was a little cynical about Pepin's book at first. Pierre Franey, a chef whose very very impressive pedigree I ...
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REVELATIONS: Alien Contact and Human Deception8 reviews
Jacques Vallee
Anomalist Books, 2008
An ironic title indeed!
After a long hiatus (about 23 years), this was the first book I read on the UFO phenomenon. And I don't think I could have picked a better one start with. Here was a researcher who shared my reservations over the fascination with conspiracies and hypnotic regression and who openly doubted the extraterrestrial hypothesis. This book presents an unsparing view of ufology in the '90's, Bill Cooper, ...
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Mattimeo (Tale of Redwall)215 reviews
Brian Jacques
Red Fox, 2006
EXCELLENT! 10/10!
This is either the best or the second best Redwall book. It's the direct sequel to the Original Redwall, so there will be a lot of familier characters. Complete with 3 huge battles, a cruel monster that lurks in the dark, and an evil slaver named Slager, this book is ultimate, and I highly reccomend it!
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