Great Reads

We think the only thing more fun than preparing and eating amazing food is to read about it! Thus we thought it might be a nice to include some wonderful food-oriented books to explore. So curl up with a hot cup of herb tea and enjoy!

The Book of Green Tea, Diana Rosen (Storey Books, 1998)

Experience therapy in a cup and enhance your life with the great versatility and healthful benefits of this tea of the ancients. From bath salts to ice cream, this traditional Asian beverage can be used in dozens of ways to relax the mind, strengthen the body, and soothe the soul.

In The Book of Green Tea, you'll discover: Everything you ever wanted to know about green tea! This fun and informative book explains every aspect of green tea: where it grows, how it's processed, its history and lore, how to drink and cook with it, and how to use it for beauty and health purposes.

How to blend, brew, and appreciate more than 120 varieties of green tea

Up-to-date information on the health benefits of drinking green tea

Recipes for cooking with green tea and making green tea body-care products

Rich green tea history, poetry, lore, and traditions from around the world

Food Friends: Fun Foods That Go Together, Cece Bell
(All you cook’n grandparents out there will love giving this as a gift to your grandchildren!)

Where would bread be without butter? What would shoes do without socks? With cheerful quirkiness, Cece Bell illustrates the bonds that exist between special friends. In Busy Buddies, Brush finds Pencil and Paper, Fork and Knife, and lots of other busy buddies playing in the park.

But where is Brush's favorite buddy? And in Food Friends, Cake's surprise party brings in Bacon and Eggs, Cookies and Milk, Peanut Butter and Jelly, and other famous couples. Who could be the guest of honor? In two funny, lighthearted board books, little readers will love seeing familiar object duos spring to life--and guessing what the final pairings will be.

How To Eat: The Pleasures and Principles of Good Food, Nigella Lawson

How to eat is a book that addresses HOW to eat: part recipe collection, part culinary manifesto and part evocation of the pleasures of eating, it has hundreds of recipes and menus, but more than that, it encourages you to see cooking in context and, most important, to acquire a real understanding.

It covers kitchen basics, children's food, everyday cooking, weekend lunch, the last-minute dinner party - and much more. But at its heart, it is about a feeling for food, a book to be read as well as to be cooked from. HOW TO EAT is a book that wrests cooking back from the professional kitchens and the trendy menus to give confidence back to the ordinary, un-expert home cook.