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Good Spirits: What's Mixing With All Day Cocktails.

Aussie mixologists Shaun Byrne and Nick Tesar concocted this fresh collection of cocktails low on alcohol but high on sustainably grown seasonal fruits, veggies, herbs and nuts. Designed for “clean lifers” seeking healthy options, their recipes are meant to look and taste exciting while being easy on the liver.

All Day Cocktails by Shaun Byrne and Nick Tesar.
Hardie Grant Books, 2019.

Good Spirits Online
Cocktails
Beverage Supplies

What's Cooking with Green Kitchen Smoothies

Food bloggers David Frenkiel and Luise Vindahl share smoothie recipes, as well as breakfast ideas, energizers, desserts, and more in this collection of 50 new and uncommon beverages.

Recipes for Green Bowl, Sleeping-in Smoothie, Green Stamina Workout, the Warm Smoothie, and Apple Pie in a Glass are included along with Mocha Morning Bozz, Banana Snickers Shake, and an Avocado, Mango and Lime Smoothie. There are green smoothie options, fruit-only smoothies, nut butter based smoothies, and a variety of non-smoothie recipes as well. Many of the recipes are vegan and most are naturally sweetened with fruit.

Each recipe includes a photograph displaying the finished product. Introductory chapters outline the making of a good smoothie, explain what tools and ingredients to stock up on, and provide a variety of tips and tricks like freezing juices and nut milks rather than using ice.

Green Kitchen Smoothies
Healthy and Colorful Smoothies for Every Day
by David Frenkiel and Luise Vindahl
Hardie Grant, 2016

Juice
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A Fuel Economy Run.

from the Outrider Reading Group:

"Any race longer than 15 miles is a fuel economy run. You have got to think, the whole way, about being as gentle on the pedal as possible. When talking about fuel supplies, I use the analogy of a fuel tank which is being supplied by a trickle of fuel from the mobilization of fat. There is some evidence that this fat mobilization does not really get going at its maximum level at the start, so this is another reason for starting at a level pace." -

The Complete Distance Runner by Bruce Tulloh

Good Old Books
Outwriter Books & Travel
Outrider Reading Group

Exploring the Nature of... Tunas and Billfishes of the World.

Tunas and billfishes are peak predators of the oceans. Their speed, grace, unique physiology, and diversity makes them important both ecologically and socioeconomically. Vital sources of food and income for many maritime nations, these exhilarating fishes are also highly desired and avidly sought by big game fishers across the globe.

This volume focuses on three families of fishes: Scombridae, the mackerels and tunas; Istiophoridae, sailfish and marlins; and Xiphiidae, the Swordfish. The 61 in-depth species accounts describe these fish and their habitats, summarize their diet and reproduction, analyze current fisheries, and evaluate their conservation status.

Illustrated with full-color, scientifically accurate illustrations by Val Kells, along with range maps for each species, this book is an essential reference on these majestic inhabitants of the sea.

Tunas and Billfishes of the World 

by Bruce Collette and John Graves

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019

The Nature Pages
Nature Writing and Natural Histories
Fish and Seafood

A New Guide To... Bakery Design

As the baking industry has risen in exposure and profitability, so has the competition. It's increasingly clear that not just the quality of the food is attracting customers, but also the designs of bakeries that are creative and eye catching while still being functional. A well-designed store not only increases sales, but helps develop a brand identity. 

This book profiles fifty bakery designs from all over the world, with the designers responsible exhaustively examining their projects in order to illustrate the design process.

Bakery Design

by Athanasios Tzokas

Images Publishing, 2019

Outrider Reading Group
Pinterest
How To Do It

Book Stall Review: You Can Farm.

Less than a century ago farming was the most common profession in America; nowadays it's one of the most difficult fields to enter.

Joel Salatin, best known for his book "Pastured Poultry Profits," is on a mission to prove that it is possible to farm full-time in ways that are both enjoyable and lucrative.

You Can Farm

The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start and Succeed in a Farming Enterprise

by Joel Salatin

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Farm Direct
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Favorite Wisconsin Cheese Recipes

Known as "America's Dairyland" of its abundant dairy production, Wisconsin is famous for its cheese, especially cheddar. Locals have been cooking with cheese for almost two centuries now and have perfected these recipes included in Wisconsin Cheese: A Cookbook and Guide to the Cheeses of Wisconsin by Martin Hintz and Pam Percy

• Blueberry Ricotta Coffee Cake
• Wisconsin Three-Cheese Soup with Parmesan Croutons
• Wisconsin Buttermilk Blue and Asian Pear Salad
• Santa’s Wisconsin Cheese Delight
• Asiago Cheese Puffs
• Wisconsin Cheddar Scones with Smoked Turkey
• Hook’s Blue Cheese Cake
• Cherry Cheddar Crusted Pork Tenderloin
• Wisconsin Gruyère Fondue
• Fontiago Polenta with Tomato Basil Concassée
• Goat Cheese Fudge
• Milk Chocolate Cheesecake

Wisconsin Cheese

A Cookbook and Guide to the Cheeses of Wisconsin 

by Martin Hintz and Pam Percy

The Globe Pequot Press, 2008

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Cheese
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Now cooking with... Super Roots

Remedial food. It's a thing.
Got a tummy ache? There's chicken broth.
Feeling toxic? Try some Ginger Mapo Tofu.
Tired? Gado Gado.
Bloated? Bibimap Wraps.
This cookbook offers 60 health-enhancing recipes based on therapeutic dishes from the Far East cultures of Thailand, Malaysia, Korea, Indonesia and more.

Super Roots: 

Cooking with Healing Spices to Boost Your Mood by Tanita de Ruijt.

Hardie Grant, 2019.

The Book Stall
Cookbooks
Medicinal Plants and Seeds

testing Beehive Alchemy

This book is a continuation of Petra Ahnert's popular Beeswax Alchemy.

With this new book, readers learn about the benefits and attributes of beeswax, honey, propolis, and more alongside a full range of projects and techniques to process and harness the amazing gifts of bees. Inside, there are instructions to make hand dipped birthday candles, lip balm, the classic French dessert canele bordelais, Lithuanian honey spirits, honey butter, honey mustard, propolis salve, hair pomade and more.

Beehive Alchemy: Beehive Alchemy Projects and recipes using honey, beeswax, propolis, and pollen to make soap, candles, creams, salves, and more.

by Petra Ahnert

Quarry Books, 2018.

Travels with Foxfire

The Foxfire oral history project delivers another compendium of the collected wisdom of artists, craftsmen, musicians, and moonshiners in Southern Appalachia. In this volume we learn the secret origins of stock car racing, the story behind the formation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and how to gather wild ginseng.

More than thirty essays include the recipes of an award-winning cookbook writer along with profiles of bootleggers and bear hunters, game wardens and medicine women, water dowsers, sculptors, folk singers, novelists, record collectors, and even the world’s foremost “priviologist.”

Travels with Foxfire

Stories of People, Passions, and Practices from Southern Appalachia

by Phil Hudgins and Jessica Phillips

University Press of Kentucky, 2018

Rural Delivery

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Review: Bake Like a French Pastry Chef

Michel et Augustin is the pastry version of Ben & Jerry's in France, creating cookies and other desserts with a team of 100 employees in Paris, Lyon, and New York.

With the ambition of becoming "the first company on planet Earth to be 100% pastry-certified," this book compiles five years of employee training sessions to prepare for Certificat d'Aptitude Professionnelle exams that certify the ability to make good French pastries.

The lessons and recipes are divided into five pastry families (tarts, entremets, choux pastry, puff pastry and viennoiseries) with instructions on making doughs, creating fillings and exploring variations. There's a glossary of pastry terms from bain-marie and frangipane to pecher mignon and T45, an encyclopedia of essential ingredients, and a collection of templates for shaping Paris-Brest, Religieuse, Salambo pastries and more.

Bake Like a French Pastry Chef

Delectable Cakes, Perfect Tarts, Flaky Croissants, and More

by Michel de Rovira and Augustin Paluel-Marmont

Countryman Press, 2018

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Reading the History of California Wine

This book tells the 200-year story of the heady dream that wines as good as the greatest of France could be made in California. A dream dashed four times in merciless succession until it was ultimately realized in a stunning blind tasting in Paris. In that tasting, in the year of America's bicentennial, California wines took their place as the leading wines of the world.

Here is the complete and dramatic story of the ascendancy of California wine in vivid detail. It also looks at the larger story of California itself through its singular wine history.

Crush

The Triumph of California Wine

by John Briscoe

University of Nevada Press, 2018

Out of the Past
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History and American West Titles

Review: The Science of Enlightenment

This book is by American meditation instructor Shinzen Young, ordained in Japan as a monk in the Shingon tradition of Buddhism which attempts to reach eternal wisdom through symbolic gestures, mystical syllables, and mental concentration.

The title suggests a scientific study of meditation that reveals its inner workings and proves its benefits, but that's not what this volume is about. Young has collaborated with scientists looking at the effects of contemplative practice on brain waves and physiology, and makes mention of those studies when he describes his approach to teaching meditation as "informed by the spirit of science." But don't expect to find summaries of that research or references to peer-reviewed publications.

Instead, the author teaches the basics of meditation, explains various meditation practices, tells the history of Buddhism, relates inspirational tales, and uses scientific language to make meditative concepts more understandable and less mystical.

The Science of Enlightenment

How Meditation Works

by Shinzen Young

Sounds True, 2018

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A Guide To... Jewish Travel.

This concise, easy-to-use handbook is for the Jewish traveler, or anyone interested in Jewish history and culture. Jewish sites and resources in major metropolitan areas as well as small communities throughout the United States and Canada are featured. It includes a directory of synagogues, community centers, kosher restaurants, Judaica shops, lodgings, and Jewish establishments.

The Jewish Travel Guide: Museums, Shops, Restaurants, Landmarks, Hotels and Other Sites
by Betsy Sheldon.
Hunter Publishing, 2001

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Review: North Wild Kitchen

"My understanding of Norwegian cuisine went from an unfortunate stereotype (meat and boiled potatoes) to a world filled with berry-infused moose sausage, fermented trout, wild nettle soup, rhubarb juice made from birch sap, home-brewed beer, and traditional cheeses and porridges made on the farm," writes food blogger Nevada Berg in the introduction to this exploration of her adopted land's culinary traditions.

Norwegian cuisine has been shaped by centuries of trade and migration and has much in common with the palates of its Nordic neighbors and northern Europe, but what makes it authentic is its use of locally sourced foodstuffs and traditional methods of smoking, curing, and preserving foods in a challenging climate.

Eight chapters explore separate parts of Norway's culinary culture - foraging (Sankingen), fishing (Vann), farming (Seteren), harvesting (Innhostingen), hunting (Katen), preserving (Stabburet), outdoor cooking (Balet), and baking (Jernet, Takken, og Ovnen). Each chapter includes correspondingly traditional recipes along with newer dishes well embedded in the culture. Notes on ingredients and equipment are included along with thoughtful essays and descriptions of each dish.

North Wild Kitchen

Home Cooking from the Heart of Norway

by Nevada Berg

Prestel, 2018

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Now Exploring "Out of the Woods"

In this introspective collection of essays, Julia Corbett examines nature in our lives with all of its ironies and contradictions by integrating personal narratives with science and research.  Each essay delves into an overlooked aspect of our relationship with nature — insects, garbage, backyards, noise, open doors, animals, and language — and how we cover our tracks.

Out of the Woods leads to insights into the products, practices, and phrases we take for granted in our everyday encounters with nature and encourages us all to consider how we might re-value or re-imagine our relationships with nature in our everyday lives.

Out of the Woods

Seeing Nature in the Everyday

by Julia Corbett

University of Nevada Press, 2018

Book Notes Wild
Nature Writing and Natural Histories
The Nature Pages

Reading the History: Battle of the Bulge.

In the winter of 1944–1945 , Hitler sought to divide Allied forces in the heavily forested Ardennes region of Luxembourg and Belgium. He deployed more than 400,000 troops in one of the last major German offensives of the war, which became known as the Battle of the Bulge, in a desperate attempt to regain the strategic initiative in the West.

Hitler's effort failed for a variety of reasons, but many historians assert that Lieutenant General George S. Patton Jr.'s Third Army was ultimately responsible for securing Allied victory. Although Patton has assumed a larger-than-life reputation for his leadership in the years since World War II, scholars have paid little attention to his generalship in the Ardennes following the relief of Bastogne.

In this book, Captain John Nelson Rickard explores the commander's operational performance during the entire Ardennes campaign, through his "estimate of the situation," the U.S. Army's doctrinal approach to problem-solving. 

Advance and Destroy

Patton as Commander in the Bulge

by John Nelson Rickard Ph.D.

University Press of Kentucky, 2018

Out of the Past
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Artwork: General George S. Patton

Now Exploring "Elkhorn"

Driven by topophilia (love of place), former Kentucky Poet Laureate Richard Taylor focuses on the eight-mile stretch of the creek from the Forks of the Elkhorn to Knight's Bridge a few miles outside of Frankfort to provide a glimpse into the economic, social, and cultural transformation of Kentucky from wilderness to its current landscape. 

Taylor explores both the natural history of the region and the formation of the Forks community. He recounts the Elkhorn Valley's inhabitants from the earliest surveyors and settlers to artist Paul Sawyier, who memorably documented the creek in watercolors, oils, and pastels. Interspersed with photographs and illustrations ― contemporary and historic ― and intermixed with short vignettes about historical figures of the region, this book delivers a history that is by turns a vibrant and meditative personal response to the creek and its many wonders.

Elkhorn

Evolution of a Kentucky Landscape

by Richard Taylor

University Press of Kentucky, 2018

Book Notes Wild
Nature Writing and Natural Histories
The Nature Pages