Cranston Public Library

"In Homemade Simple, veteran cookbook author Amanda Haas shares her joyful cooking manifesto: eat well, connect with loved ones, and integrate healthy, stress-free family meals into your busy life. With more than 100 recipes that maximize flavor in minimal time, Haas provides pantry must-haves, meal-planning ideas, prep and cook times, and tips for transforming recipes into gluten-free, vegetarian, vegan, and dairy-free dishes. Including a foreword...

"Ghosting the News tells the most troubling media story of our time: How democracy suffers when local news dies. Reporting on some of the news-impoverished areas in the U.S. and around the world, America's premier media critic, Margaret Sullivan, charts the contours of the damage but also surveys some new efforts to keep local news alive-from non-profit digital sites to an effort modeled on the Peace Corps. No nostalgic paean to the roar of rumbling...

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. The Interesting Narrative, published in 1789 to considerable acclaim, has been compared to Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and reviewed by Mary Wollstonecraft. Equiano's life and work took shape in an era of revolution, against slavery, against injustice, against tyranny. Moreover, Equiano's Narrative was deeply informed by the forces that have given the modern nation-state...

"The chilling tome that launched an entire genre of books about the sometimes gruesome but always tragic ways people have died in our national parks, this updated edition of a classic includes calamities in Yellowstone from the past sixteen years, including the infamous grizzly bear attacks in the summer of 2011 as well as a fatal hot springs accident in 2000 in which the Park Service was sued for negligence"-- "Covering the sometimes gruesome but...

Collects more than one hundred classic recipes for meals, snacks, desserts, and small plates, including chicken pot pie, asparagus and fontina quiche, overnight French toast, and fried chicken with sticky poppy seed jam. --

A new collection from David Sedaris is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris has inspired hilarious pieces, including Me Talk Pretty One Day, about his attempts to learn French. His family is another inspiration. You Cant Kill the Rooster is a portrait of his brother who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. And no one hones a finer fury in response to such modern annoyances as restaurant meals presented in ludicrous towers...

"From cookbook author Julia Turshen comes a new collection of simple yet inspired recipes, in her most personal and visually arresting book to date"--

Long celebrated as a versatile ingredient in cuisines across the globe, yogurt has recently emerged as a food of nearly unparalleled growth here in the United States. Rule takes yogurt farther than the breakfast table, lunchbox, or gym bag. She strips yogurt of its premixed accessories and brings it back to its pure, wholesome essence. Explore yogurt from every angle, learn how to read a label, and gain entry to the kitchens of cooks from around the...

Et si jardiner pouvait se faire avec moins d'effort, tout en limitant les impacts pour la planète et le portefeuille ? Dans ce nouveau livre, Serge Fortier vous prouve qu'il est facile et avantageux en tous points de revaloriser les matières organiques présentes dans notre environnement pour améliorer les conditions de culture de nos végétaux, qu'il s'agisse de plantes potagères, de fleurs, d'arbres, et même de pelouse. Destiné aux amoureux...

Now & Again includes 20 menus and more than 150 recipes for crave-worthy dishes such as meatloaf, enchiladas, roast chicken with sweet potatoes, vanilla semifreddo with honeyed strawberries, and double-baked potatoes with horseradish and cheddar. Throughout the book, the author's 'It's Me Again' mini-recipes transform leftovers into new, delicious recipes. -- Adapted from book cover.