Pasta is so well-known for its ease of preparation, its healthful properties, and its inexpensiveness, that it's easy to forget how versatile it is. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cooking Pasta has sections dedicated to each kind of pasta, with more than 100 recipes ranging from your standard Penne all'Arrabbiata, to more complex dishes like Pappardelle with Veal and Fennel, and Orecchiette with Broccoli Rabe. But this is not just an Italian pasta book-recipes with Asian influence include Chicken Lo Mein and Udon with Sesame Sauce. With more than 100 recipes for the noodles themselves, soups, pasta salads, and much more, the book offers practical tips along with bits of food history. The book also clearly explains the ups and downs of dried pasta versus fresh, and all the methods for making it at home from scratch.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cooking Pasta: By Natalie Danford

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Danford, Natalie

Cooking by Ingredient

MacMillan Distribution

Critically acclaimed novelist and short story writer Richard Bausch continues the tradition of identifying the best young writers on the cusp of their careers in this year’s volume of Best New American Voices. Here are stories culled from hundreds of writing programs such as the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Johns Hopkins and from summer conferences such as Sewanee and Bread Loaf―as well as a complete list of contact information for these programs. This collection showcases tomorrow’s literary stars: Julie Orringer, Adam Johnson, William Gay, David Benioff, Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Maile Meloy, Amanda Davis, Jennifer Vanderbes, and John Murray are just some of the acclaimed authors whose early work has appeared in this series since its launch in 2000. The best new American voices are heard here first.

Best New American Voices 2008

Literature & Fiction

Kulka, John

United States

Mariner Books

Bestselling novelist and memoirist Dani Shapiro brings her expertise to this year’s volume of Best New American Voices. Now in its eleventh year, this series gathers the best fiction from hundreds of nominations submitted by writing programs such as the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Johns Hopkins, and from summer conferences such as Sewanee and Bread Loaf. Joshua Ferris, Julie Orringer, Adam Johnson, William Gay, Lauren Groff, Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Maile Meloy, Amanda Davis, and Nam Le are just some of the acclaimed authors whose early work has appeared in this series since its launch in 2000. Discover for yourself the dazzling variety of great fiction being produced in the top writers' workships--with a complete list of contact information included--and find the best new American voices here first.

Best New American Voices 2010 (Best American)

Comics & Graphic Novels

Manga

This exquisitely written novel asks a simple question: How well do we know our parents? One half of the story begins after the death of Luigi Bonocchio, an Italian immigrant whose daughter, Olivia, discovers a mysterious deed among his possessions. The deed is to a house in Urbino, Italy---the hometown he barely spoke of. Intrigued, Olivia travels there. At first she is charmed by the historic city, the relatives she’s not met before, and the young lawyer she’s hired to help her investigate the claim. But when Olivia tries to sort out the deed, she is met with a puzzling silence. Everyone in the town remembers her father, but they are not eager to tell his story. However, Luigi tells his part of the tale directly to the reader as the chapters alternate between Olivia’s search for the truth and Luigi’s account of his history. By the end of this skillfully constructed book, the reader understands both sides of a heartbreaking yet ultimately satisfying love story.

Inheritance

St.Martin's Press

This exquisitely written novel asks a simple question: how well do we know our parents? One half of the story begins after the death of Luigi Bonocchio, an Italian immigrant whose daughter Olivia discovers a mysterious deed among his possessions. The deed is to a house in Urbino, Italy---the hometown he barely spoke of. Intrigued, Olivia travels there. At first she is charmed by the historic city, the relatives she's not met before, and the young lawyer she's hired to help her investigate the claim. But when Olivia tries to sort out the deed, she is met with a puzzling silence. Everyone in the town remembers her father, but they are not eager to tell his story. However, Luigi tells his part of the tale directly to the reader as the chapters alternate between Olivia's search for the truth and Luigi's account of his history. By the end of this skillfully constructed book, the reader understands both sides of a heartbreaking, yet ultimately satisfying love story.

Inheritance: A Novel

St. Martin's: Griffin

For more than fifty years, customers have crowded into Veselka, a cozy Ukrainian coffee shop in New York City's East Village, to enjoy pierogi, borscht, goulash, and many other unpretentious favorites. Veselka (rainbow in Ukrainian) has grown from a simple newsstand serving soup and sandwiches into a twenty-four-hour gathering place, without ever leaving its original location on the corner of East Ninth Street and Second Avenue. Veselka is, quite simply, an institution.
The Veselka Cookbook contains more than 150 recipes, covering everything from Ukrainian classics (potato pierogi, five kinds of borscht, grilled kielbasa, and poppy seed cake) to dozens of different sandwiches, to breakfast fare (including Veselka's renowned pancakes), to the many elements of a traditional Ukrainian Christmas Eve feast.
Veselka owner Tom Birchard shares stories about Veselka's celebrity customers, the local artists who have adopted it as a second home, and the restaurant's other lesser-known, but no less important, longtime fans, and he offers a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to serve five thousand gallons of borscht a year and to craft three thousand pierogi daily---all by hand.
The Veselka Cookbook will delight anyone with an interest in Ukrainian culture, New York City's vibrant downtown, and the pleasures of simple, good food.

The Veselka Cookbook: Recipes and Stories from the Landmark Restaurant in New York's East Village

Birchard, Tom

Regional & International

Thomas Dunne Books

Presents an appealing collection of outstanding short stories by talented newcomers selected from submissions from a wide range of writing workshops around the United States and Canada.

Scribners Best of the Fiction Workshops 1997

Touchstone

Gathered from one hundred prominent writing workshops around the country, this current collection of short stories presents a wide variety of new voices, settings, and styles sure to interest any avid fiction reader. Original. 17,500 first printing.

SCRIBNER'S BEST OF THE FICTION WORKSHOPS 1999

Few countries around the world offer the variety of landscapes and ecosystems that the United States does, representing everything from desert to mountains to seashore to wide rolling plains. Equally fascinating American cities are full of ethnic enclaves, famous neighborhoods and landmarks recognizable around the world. The national park system of the United States comprises 84 million acres of land; the country is home to more than 17,000 museums large and small. filled with striking photographs, this book presents both impressive man made sights like the Brooklyn Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge when it was completed in 1883, and natural wonders like the 277-mile long Grand Canyon.
 More intimate settings are explored as well, including Pittsburgh's Andy Warhol Museum and the Live Oak Friends Meeting House in Texas with its single work of art, the meditative Skyspace. Brief text and captions provide background and history about subjects such as the great battles of the American Revolution and the inspirational activism of the civil rights era. From jazz to baseball to drive-ins, the inventive spirit of this relatively young nation never lets up, and this volume matches that energy.
 In this book, the 50 states have been arranged into the six commonly used, though unofficial, regions loosely grouped by geography and climate, though the individuality of each state cannot help but shine through.

America: An Amazing Place (Sassi Travel)

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Chartwell Books

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cooking Pasta: By Natalie Danford

Best New American Voices 2008

Best New American Voices 2010 (Best American)

Inheritance

Inheritance: A Novel

The Veselka Cookbook: Recipes and Stories from the Landmark Restaurant in New York's East Village

Scribners Best of the Fiction Workshops 1997

SCRIBNER'S BEST OF THE FICTION WORKSHOPS 1999

America: An Amazing Place (Sassi Travel)

The Veselka Cookbook: Recipes and Stories from the Landmark Restaurant in New York's East Village