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

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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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