Elevate your next gathering with this beautiful, helpful card deck that offers 50 creative ideas for styling and presenting food platters for any occasion--no cooking skills required! Everyone knows the cheese platter gets all the attention at the party, so why not make sure you get all the credit? With ideas for holidays, special days, game days, and every day, expert food stylist Meg Quinn gives you 50 drool-worthy ideas for boards that anyone can assemble at home. Just pick a card, collect and prep the ingredients following the list and tips on the back of the card, then reference the beautiful photograph on the front to arrange an abundant board. Here are quick-to-make meal boards for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, cheese boards both fancy and for the budget-minded, and even colorful dessert and candy boards. With ingredients lists, tips for swaps, and simple and optional recipes for elevating store-bought goods, you can look forward to styling a BYOHD (Build Your Own Hot Dog) board, an Italian antipasti platter, a vegan board, and so much more!

The Cheese Board Deck: 50 Cards for Styling Spreads, Savory and Sweet

QUINN, MEG

Smith, Shana

Reference

Clarkson/Potter

Learn how to expertly pair wine and cheese with this beautiful, accessible deck of 54 cards featuring 50 delicious combinations, from the author of The Cheese Board Deck. When creating The Cheese Board Deck, master food stylist Meg Quinn sought to teach you how to make the perfect cheese plate; and now, in The Wine and Cheese Board Deck, she demystifies the delectable combining of wine and cheese. This deck features a variety of cheeses and accoutrements and wines that go with them--from bold reds and dry whites to easy-drinking rosés and&nbsp;sparkling moscatos. Just pull a card from the deck, gather a few ingredients, follow the assembly, and enjoy! Meg simplifies the selection process by including plenty of substitutions and wines under $25 so you can tailor the pairings to your taste and budget. The informational cards provide a helpful primer on picking and tasting wine so you can learn how different wine profiles complement various cheeses, allowing you to create your own combinations. And each card offers a photograph on the front to guide your assembly and a simple recipe on the back with wine tasting notes. You'll find classic combos like Aged Cheddar Phyllo Bites with Cabernet Sauvignon and Spanish Cheese and Tapas with Rioja and more inventive pairings, including Cheesy Fondue with Pinot Gris and Deconstructed Mozzarella Stick with Lambrusco. With a variety of ideas for hosting friends or enjoying date night at home, The Wine and Cheese Board Deck makes entertaining easy and understanding wine satisfyingly simple.

The Wine and Cheese Board Deck: 50 Pairings to Sip and Savor: Cards

Fiedler, Jennifer

Spring is a very special time in the Desert Southwest. An astonishing variety of wildflowers, nurtured by the winter rains, can bloom in wondrous profusion and carpet the desert floor and mountainside slopes with glorious color. Indeed, each year thousands of visitors time their trips to the desert Southwest to coincide with wildflower season, and in a good year the spectacle can make front-page news. Author Meg Quinn is a recognized authority on plants of the desert Southwest and is in demand as a public speaker. In Wildflowers of the Desert Southwest, Meg Quinn helps even the most amateur botanist to identify more than eighty-five of the most common and showy species found in the Sonoran Desert. Each species is described in detail and depicted in full-color photographs in their natural habitat. Species are further organized by color for ease of identification. Quinn also includes tips for the best locations to look for specific wildflowers.

Wildflowers of the Desert Southwest

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

Rio Nuevo

The deserts of the American Southwest boast a remarkably diversity of drought-tolerant plant life, including many species found nowhere else on earth. And no group says desert quite like cacti. Their prickly nature notwithstanding, cacti and the desert habitats in which they reside are especially fragile. Indeed, Saguaro National Park and Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument were established primarily to protect the largest concentrations of these respective species. Others, such as the Pima pineapple cactus, are less conspicuous but also more rare and in need of special protection and conservation.

Cacti of the Desert Southwest

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Rio Nuevo Pubishers

Every summer in the American Southwest and northern Mexico the region's grasslands and mountain ranges are carpeted by an astounding variety of colorful wildflowers. Botanist and educator Meg Quinn identifies and describes more than eighty species of the most common and showy wildflowers native to the region's grassland and woodland habitats.

Wildflowers of the Mountain Southwest (Natural History Series)

Rio Nuevo Publishers