Cookbooks from Harlow & Ratner

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Now You're Cooking: Everything a Beginner Needs To Know To Start Cooking Today
by Elaine Corn
Winner of both the Julia Child and James Beard awards as the best general cookbook of 1994. An upbeat, encouraging, information-packed guide for beginners of all ages. Its clear text and abundant illustrations demystify basic cooking techniques. 150 recipes. Two-color throughout, 6" x 9", 320 pages. ISBN 1-883791-00-6, hardcover, $24.95 (retail price includes free shipping)

Now You're Cooking for Company: Everything a Beginner Needs To Know To Have People Over
by Elaine Corn
The bestselling author of Now You're Cooking returns with all the information and moral support a beginning cook needs to entertain with confidence. The 120 company-special recipes include full menus for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Passover, and Easter. Two-color throughout, 6" x 9", 320 pages.
ISBN 1-883791-03-0, hardcover, $24.95 (retail price includes free shipping)

Contemporary Italian: Favorite Recipes from Kuleto's Italian Restaurant
by Robert Helstrom
Exuberant Italian cooking with a uniquely American accent, from the chef of one of San Francisco's most popular restaurants. The recipes include many of Kuleto's signature dishes, carefully adapted for the home kitchen. More than 80 color photos. 8" x 10", 176 pages. ISBN 0-9627345-7-8, cloth, $24.95 (retail price includes free shipping)

Beer Cuisine: A Cookbook for Beer Lovers
by Jay Harlow
This wide-ranging collection offers 78 recipes, from snacks and nibbles to elegant dinners for company. A few recipes use beer as an ingredient. Includes a summary of beer history and a guide to styles of beer. James Beard Award finalist. Quality paperback, 10" x 9-1/2", 132 pages, including 30 full-page color photos. ISBN 0-9627345-2-7, paper, $16.95 (retail price includes free shipping)

Everybody's Wokking
by Martin Yan
Companion book to the eighth season of the ever-popular public television series "Yan Can Cook." Yan makes healthful Chinese cooking simple and fun. 7-1/2" x 9", 176 pages, 35 pages of color photos.
ISBN 0-9627345-0-0, paper, $15.95 (retail price includes free shipping)

The Well-Seasoned Wok
by Martin Yan
Companion to the ninth season of "Yan Can Cook" on public television. Yan explores Chinese and Southeast Asian cooking and introduces his own East-West dishes. 7-1/2" x 9", 192 pages, 31 full-page color photos.
ISBN 0-9627345-5-1, paper, $15.95 (retail price includes free shipping)

More Vegetables, Please: Delicious Vegetable Side Dishes for Everyday Meals by Janet Fletcher
Award-winning California food writer Fletcher shares her love of fresh, seasonal vegetables in this mouth-watering collection. Includes 34 easy-to-cook vegetables from familiar to exotic and more than 200 ways to serve them, plus guides to buying, storing, cleaning, and cutting each vegetable. 7-1/2" x 9", 228 pages including 32 full-page color photos. ISBN 0-9627345-3-5, paper, $16.95 (retail price includes free shipping)

Once Upon a Bagel
by Jay Harlow
What will you eat on your bagel today? Harlow provides nearly 100 tasty possibilities, including flavored cream cheeses, home-smoked salmon, and such unusual toppings as satay-style chicken and sweet and sour eggplant. Includes a recipe for homemade bagels. Illustrated with whimsical drawings, 2-color throughout, 6" x 8", 120 pages. ISBN 1-883791-01-4, paper, $10.95 (retail price includes free shipping)

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The Microbrew Lover's Cookbook by Jay Harlow
More than 150 American and international recipes to go with various styles of North American craft-brewed beers, from delicate hefeweizens to hoppy pale ales and espresso-black stouts. The book also describes each of these styles and more, and explores the how and why of matching the right food to the right beer. Now out of print from the original publisher, but available from Harlow & Ratner in limited quantities.
Paper, 7-1/4" x 9", $19.95 (retail price includes free shipping)