Do you need help making your food look as delicious as it tastes? Are you a “foodie” hungry for more tantalizing photos of your culinary creations? Do you have a food blog that you’d like to take to the next level, with better images and a stronger business strategy? Then this book is for you! In Food Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots, Second Edition, photographer Nicole Young returns to dish up the basics on everything you need to know to make great food images, from getting the right camera equipment to mastering the key photographic principles of aperture, ISO, and shutter speed. She offers tips on styling food using props, fabrics, and tabletops; and she explains how to improve your photos through editing after the shoot. This new edition features many brand-new images and examples, accompanied by up-to-date discussions on achieving good lighting and composition. In addition Nicole covers developments in the industry that have emerged since the publication of the first edition, such as the entry of mirrorless cameras on the scene, and more. She also provides a brand new post-processing section focusing on Photoshop Lightroom, showing how to improve your photos through sharpening, color enhancement, and other editing techniques. Beautifully illustrated with large, vibrant photos, this book offers the practical advice and expert shooting tips you need to get the food images you want every time you pick up your camera.

Food Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots

Arts & Photography

Young, Nicole

Photography & Video

Peachpit Press

This book has one goal: to teach you how to make great shots using your Canon EOS 60D. Starting with the top ten things you need to know about the camera—charging your battery, setting your ISO, reviewing your photos, and more—photography pro Nicole Young then carefully guides you through the modes of the camera, offering practical advice on choosing your settings, expert shooting tips, and end-of-chapter “challenges” to get you up and running with your EOS 60D. This book is for anyone who wants to upgrade from a point-and-shoot, or who wants to jump right into photography with the control and capabilities of a powerful DSLR. Canon EOS 60D: From Snapshots to Great Shots shows not only what makes a great shot work—but how to get that shot using your EOS 60D. Follow along with your friendly and knowledgeable guide, and you will: 
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<li>Learn the top ten things you need to know about shooting with the EOS 60D</li> <li>Use the EOS 60D’s advanced camera settings to gain full control over the look and feel of your images</li> <li>Master the photographic basics of composition, focus, depth of field, and much more</li> <li>Learn all the best tricks and techniques for getting great action shots, landscapes, and portraits</li> <li>Find out how to get great shots in low light</li> <li>Learn the basics of shooting video with your EOS 60D and start making movies of your own</li> <li>Fully grasp all the concepts and techniques as you go, with challenges at the end of every chapter</li> </ul>And once you’ve got the shot, show it off! Join the book’s Flickr group, share your photos, and discuss how you use your EOS 60D to get great shots at http://www.flickr.com/groups/canon60dfromsnapshotstogreatshots.

Canon EOS 60D: From Snapshots to Great Shots

Peachpit Pr

More than 400 taste-tempting recipes for a household blender. 
 More than five million blenders are sold each year in North America. Whether a blender is used to make wonderful mixed drinks or healthy baby food, it is one of the most widely used kitchen appliances. 
 The Blender Bible is a comprehensive compendium that features more than 400 great recipes: 
<li>100 mixed drinks</li> <li>100 baby foods</li> <li>100 soups, sauces and marinades</li> <li>100 other tempting recipes.</li> This cookbook gives a wide range of recipes to increase the use of this versatile and powerful machine, reflecting the latest research that baby food and mixed drinks each account for 40% of blender use. 
 Following in the successful tradition of The Juicing Bible and The Smoothies Bible this book offers a wide range of easy-to-use, kitchen-tested recipes. 
 The Blender Bible is the ideal recipe book for the basic kitchen reference library.

The Blender Bible

Chase, Andrew

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Robert Rose

This first edition has been replaced by the Revised and Expanded Second edition of Blender Baby Food (9780778802624) featuring over 175 recipes for healthy homemade meals. 
 Making nutritious, homemade baby food has never been so easy! 
 Baby food doesn't have to come in jars, and making your own at home is not difficult. Baby food is strained, puréed or mashed adult food - just a different version of the food you prepare for yourself. 
 Here are three good reasons to make baby food at home:
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<li>Knowing what's in it, therefore ensuring healthy and wholesome meals.</li> <li>Tailoring the texture to your baby's preferences.</li> <li>Shaping baby's tastes and helping him/her learn what fresh foods taste like.</li> </ol>
 Whether choosing to make all baby's food at home, or just some of it, the blender is a great way to offer new flavors in a baby-friendly texture. Once a child begins to eat table food, there is always an occasion for a fruit smoothie or a nutritious blended dip. 
 Here's a sampling of the deliciously easy recipes:
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Six Months and Older: Peach and Pear Bananarama, Melon Madness, Zucchini and Nectarines, Roasted Vegetable Purée</li> <li>
Eight Months and Older: Vegetable Paella, Humus for Beginners, Chicken with Red Peppers and Corn, Beefy Broccoli</li> <li>
Nine Months and Older: Lemon Raspberry Yogurt, Over the Top Applesauce, Spinach and Tomatoes with Ricotta, Fisherman's Pie</li> <li>
Twelve Months and Older: Orange Banana Smoothie, Very Berry Pears, Broccoli and Cauliflower Melt, Veggie Cream Sauce</li> </ul>
 All the recipes in Blender Baby Food are accompanied by suggested age guidelines. Also included are lots of great tips for making baby food, storage and freezing guidelines as well as the appropriate way to thaw and reheat food. Plus, none of the recipes calls for any of the salt, sugar, starches or fillers found in many commercially prepared baby foods. Blender Baby Food helps parents give their baby the best nutritional advantage.

Blender Baby Food: Over 125 Recipes for Healthy Homemade Meals

Day, Nadine

All you need are your blender and the recipes in this book. 
 Cocktails are back in vogue -whether for hosting a party or simply relaxing at home. But when unfamiliar bartending paraphernalia is involved, creating these concoctions can be daunting. A blender and the easy recipes from 400 Blender Cocktails are all that it takes to create truly delicious -- and sometimes decadent -- drinks that will amaze friends, colleagues and family members. The 400 recipes include cocktails for every occasion:
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<li>Holiday festivities will sparkle with a Cuban punch, a cranberry cooler, a coconut rum punch or a hot pink ginger.</li> <li>Long summer days will cool off quickly when sipping a frozen lichee daiquiri or a watermelon cosmo.</li> <li>Elegant affairs will be enhanced with an essence of pear martini, a gin fizz or a pineapple sparkler.</li> <li>Hangovers can be cured with a bitter morning or a hair of the clam.</li> </ul>
 In addition, there are valuable tips and techniques for turning any novice into a seasoned bartender. Also included are 40 alcohol-free drink recipes for other special occasions or special guests.

400 Blender Cocktails: Sensational Alcoholic and Non-alcoholic Cocktail Recipes

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

KENT, ALISON

Beverages & Wine

Making nutritious, homemade baby food has never been so easy. 
 This second edition (9780778802624) replaces the first edition (9780778801184). 
 Like the first edition, this new edition of Blender Baby Food guides readers through the process of making their your own baby food. The blender has proven to be an ideal way to offer new flavors in a baby-friendly texture. Even when a child begins to eat table food, there is always an occasion for a fruit smoothie or a nutritious blended dip. 
 There are three great reasons for parents to make their own baby food: <ul>1) The ingredients are all hand selected, assuring healthy and wholesome meals 2) Parents can easily tailor the texture to their baby's preferences 3) It will help shape a baby's tastes so he or she can appreciate fresh foods </ul>
 This new edition features 25 new recipes, information on the basics of feeding babies, color photos and a nutritional analysis for each recipe. The delicious and easy-to-prepare recipes are categorized according to age, making it easy and convenient to create meals that match a baby's progress and development, from six months through to twelve months and older. 
 The outstanding variety of flavors and textures includes: 
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<li>Cherried peaches</li> <li>Guacamole for beginners</li> <li>Squash and pepper risotto</li> <li>Lentil and rice pilaf</li> <li>Vegetable paella</li> <li>Cheesy beef casserole</li> <li>Over-the-top applesauce</li> <li>Orange banana smoothie</li> </ul>
 The book also includes meal plans, helpful tips and techniques and even advice on storing and freezing baby food. Using this comprehensive cookbook, parents will quickly discover that giving their baby the best nutritional advantage is its own reward.

Blender Baby Food: Over 175 Recipes for Healthy Homemade Meals

Love Me If You Must (Patricia Amble Mystery Series #1)

Literature & Fiction

United States

Revell

Patricia Amble might be down, but she's not dead--yet. As if she didn't already have enough questions about her mother's suicide, Tish is forced to confront one more. She is renovating a northern Michigan log cabin, one in which she spent her childhood summers. But what she finds doesn't speak of carefree vacations in the woods: a torn photo of her mother with the words "don't ask why" written across her face. Combined with mysterious relatives and a backwoods drug ring, this 26-year-old mystery may be more than she can handle. Tish must put the pieces all together or risk losing everything--including her life. Book 2 in the Patricia Amble Mystery series, Kill Me If You Can is a suspense-packed story of family secrets, long-distance romance, and the renovation of the heart.

Kill Me If You Can (Patricia Amble Mystery Series #2)

When readers last saw renovator Tish Amble she was running for her life, her boyfriend Brad left wounded and at the mercy of drug lords in northern Michigan. On Brad's advice, Tish heads for Del Gloria, California, to hide out with an old friend of his--professor Denton Braddock. Tish tries to start a normal life, enrolling in college and working on restoring a block of homes, but her past is catching up with her. Someone is sabotaging her work, and Brad hasn't called in months. Should she return to Michigan to find out what has happened? Or would a homecoming be more painful--and deadly--than she's ready for? Full of the fast-paced action and nail-biting suspense readers have come to expect from author Nicole Young, Kiss Me If You Dare is the thrilling conclusion to the Patricia Amble Mysteries.

Kiss Me If You Dare (Patricia Amble Mystery Series #3)

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Food Photography: From Snapshots to Great Shots

Canon EOS 60D: From Snapshots to Great Shots

The Blender Bible

Blender Baby Food: Over 125 Recipes for Healthy Homemade Meals

The Blender Bible

400 Blender Cocktails: Sensational Alcoholic and Non-alcoholic Cocktail Recipes

Blender Baby Food: Over 175 Recipes for Healthy Homemade Meals

Love Me If You Must (Patricia Amble Mystery Series #1)

Kill Me If You Can (Patricia Amble Mystery Series #2)

Kiss Me If You Dare (Patricia Amble Mystery Series #3)