Celebrate life with ZEST! This superb cookbook from acclaimed chef Michele Cranston shows you how to prepare the tastiest dishes using fresh ingredients and simple methods. You will relish the clean, refreshing flavors of these delicious appetizers, crisp salads, hearty soups, savory entrees, and scrumptious desserts. More than 200 delightful recipes will inspire you to make the most of fresh foods in delectable home-cooked meals. With gorgeous color photography by Petrina Tinslay, ZEST will make your mouth water.

Zest

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Cranston, Michele

Cooking Education & Reference

Whitecap Books

The ultimate companion for the cook who wants to master the basics. 
 Rustling up a stir-fry is easy, but making real stock or a good pizza dough is not. Kitchen is the essential toolbox that every cook needs to be successful. 
 From breakfast to lunch to dinner to dessert, this book is packed with the necessary techniques, classic recipes and essential tips for stress-free kitchen creativity. The more than 1,000 fabulous recipes include:
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<li>Pear and Walnut Salad</li> <li>Duck and Mango Rolls</li> <li>Leek and Chickpea Soup</li> <li>Lemon and Thyme Lamb Cutlets</li> <li>Peppered Beef with Pumpkin Mash</li> <li>Raspberry Ripple Cake</li> </ul>
 Beautifully photographed and produced, Kitchen will inspire and satisfy with its simple and fresh approach to food and entertaining.

Kitchen: The Best of the Best

Whitecap Books Ltd.

Luscious: Simply Delicious Food

Whitecap Books, Limited

Comfort: Real Simple Food

Quick & Easy

A recipe collection for cooks eager to make the best use of fresh produce and seasonal ingredients, with lighter fare for the summer months and heartier casseroles and soups for cooler weather.

marie claire Seasonal Kitchen

Entertaining & Holidays

With easy recipes that suit the modern lifestyle, FRESH explores the food of the four seasons, encouraging cooks to make the most of fresh produce in its prime. Indulge in summer stone fruits and crisp spring greens. Relish the earthy flavors of autumn vegetables and the comforting warmth of slow-cooked winter produce. Create food infused with the rich and varied flavors that reflect the changing moods of the year, from sweet coconut prawns in the spring to a rich onion soup on a chilly winter's evening. Michele Cranston presents recipes that celebrate freshness, flavor, and simplicity. The photography by Petrina Tinslay is, as always, original and evocative.

Fresh

Cooking by Ingredient

Graphic Arts Center Pub. Co.

Deliciously innovative and irresistible, this title is extraordinary in its simplicity. Marie Claire Zesty emphasizes a modern, fresh approach to food and entertaining. Marie Claire Zesty is filled with 185 mouthwatering recipes that are warm and inviting, hot and spicy, rich and chocolatey, and berry marvelous! Michele Cranston shares her helpful hints like what to look for when buying fresh ingredients and how to store them once you’re home from the grocery store. (Hint: Never, ever store tomatoes in the fridge!) The recipes are flanked by succulent and delicious photographs showcasing the finished dishes. From starters and sides like fresh mozzarella salad, and light meals like warm roast beef sandwiches topped with arugula and pesto, to hearty main courses like seared tuna with olive butter and warm red salad, and even desserts, chefs and novices will and lots of inspiration on these pages.

Marie Claire Zesty

Thunder Bay Press

Great food doesn't have to be complicated. Take seared lime salmon with poppy seeds for example — it couldn't be easier to prepare. Or delicately glazed mandarin cupcakes — they're easy and gorgeous. If you're craving light, simple food that doesn't skimp on fresh, vital flavors, then Marie Claire Easy is for you. The newest title in the innovative Marie Claire Cooking Series is filled with 185 delicious and easy-to-prepare recipes for starters and sides, light meals, main meals, sweets, drinks and basics. Created by chef and food writer Michele Cranston, Marie Claire Easy showcases a contemporary approach to cooking and entertaining, focusing on bright, clean flavors and crisp textures. Learn how to use fresh, flavorful ingredients like lemons, herbs, tropical fruit, noodles, scallops and jasmine tea to create simple and satisfying dishes like rustic leek and squash risotto, impressive fig rolls with pecorino, crispy citrus scallop won tons, and a smooth-as-silk mango lassi. Tantalizing photographs of each dish are beautifully presented alongside each easy-to-follow recipe. Cooks of all levels will find plenty of inspiration on every page!

Marie Claire Easy

Desire for exotic spices led to the discovery of the New World — and fortunately for palates everywhere — to a whole new way of cooking. And desire for deliciously spiced dishes will lead to gastronomic discoveries galore in Marie Claire Spicy, the inspirational new title in the popular "chunky" cooking series from Marie Claire. Chef and food writer Michele Cranston serves up another mouth-watering collection of recipes for every course, from starters and sides to sweets. (There's even a chapter devoted to creating spice-infused drinks!) These recipes reflect a simple, modern approach to cooking and entertaining that appeals to today's busy home chefs. Ms. Cranston demystifies key ingredients like rhubarb, figs and saffron, and explains how to use them effectively. (Tip: Toast your saffron before adding it to dishes to intensify its flavors and beautiful yellow color.) Irresistible photographs accompany equally irresistible dishes like taramasalata, tamarind duck salad, Moroccan lamb and honey-spiced figs. Discover how spices like paprika, turmeric and cinnamon together with aromatic ingredients like ginger, mint and basil can transform everyday meals into an exciting experience.

Marie Claire Spicy

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Zest

Kitchen: The Best of the Best

Luscious: Simply Delicious Food

Comfort: Real Simple Food

marie claire Seasonal Kitchen

Fresh

Zest

Marie Claire Zesty

Marie Claire Easy

Marie Claire Spicy