Seafood Favorites of the Lowcountry is a collection of recipes taken from Taste of the Lowcountry cooking classes held at the Charleston Cooks! Maverick kitchen store in Charleston, South Carolina. The recipes feature the secrets behind this popular regional culinary draw and are perfect for anyone who enjoys regional southern cooking and delicious seafood to eat at home.

Featuring delicious seasonal recipes to help make the best use of homegrown produce, "The Kitchen Garden Handbook" is packed with imaginative, inspiring ideas, techniques, and expert advice to help readers harvest, preserve, and prepare crops successfully.

"What's exciting and clever about what Jekka has done with this book is that she's focused on a 'hit-list,' her top-50 cooking herbs of all time, and gives you delicious and exciting ways of using them." -- From the foreword.

Jekka McVicar -- whom Jamie Oliver dubbed the "queen of herbs" -- has assembled a special collection of her top-50 favorite herbs. Each herb is described in detail, including its Latin and common names as well as:

• Its botanical features and varieties
• A history of the herb in cooking
• How to harvest and use the herb
• Non-culinary uses
• The most important and useful varieties of that herb
• Suggestions for using excess harvest

Jekka's Herb Cookbook also features 250 original recipes that use her top-50 garden herbs. The recipes include:

• Salads
• Sandwiches
• Stews
• Beverages
• Desserts
• Meat
• Poultry
• Seafood dishes
• Condiments and sauces

There are international recipes, such as salsa verde, and familiar favorites, such as caraway seed cake. Extraordinary color illustrations highlight McVicar's knowledgeable and enthusiastic descriptions.

For cooks and herb gardeners, Jekka's Herb Cookbook is a fascinating guide to using herbs in practical and inspiring recipes.

Who doesn't love the traditional twice-fried potato, our hot and salty friend? This innovative cookbook offers recipes for every kind of fry imaginable, from Parmesan to pesto to sweet potato fries. Try something as familiar as Drive-in French Fries to those as exotic as Pataje Oorlog, a Dutch dish with three different sauces, or Chocolate Fries, a sweet french fry dessert. The book also includes recipes for non-potato fries, such as Fresh Green Bean Fries or Tempura Vegetables with Wasabi Garlic Aioli, and for more than a dozen dips and sauces, from Sweet Onion Mayonnaise to Ginger Soy Dipping Sauce.

Live a joyful, compassionate life, every day of the year with Colleen Patrick-Goudreau's guide,Vegan's Daily Companion! Mondays: For the Love of Food-- A celebration of familiar and not-so-familiar foods to spark enthusiasm for eating healthfully. Tuesdays: Effective Communication -- Techniques and tactics for speaking on behalf of veganism effectively and compassionately. Wednesdays: Optimum Health for Body, Mind, and Spirit -- Care and maintenance for becoming and remaining a joyful vegan. Thursdays: Animals in the Arts: Literature, Film, Painting -- Inspiration across the ages that reflects our consciousness of and relationship to non-human animals. Fridays: Stories of Hope, Rescue, and Transformation -- Heartening stories of people who have become awakened and animals have found sanctuary. Saturdays + Sundays: Healthful Recipes -- Favorite recipes to use as activism and nourishment.

The most extensive collection of taco recipes, with perfect pairings for salsas, relishes and beverages.

A spectacular taco bible, this cookbook delivers the best recipes ever. From the crucial choice of the right tortilla to the correct preparation of ingredients and toppings, Kelley Cleary Coffeen's recipes are fun, simple, delicious and economical.

She has included a taco for every member of the family and any and every guest, from authentic Mexican tacos to traditional Americanized tacos as well as an array of creative culinary tacos that have never been done before. Here is a sample of the offerings:

• Chicken and turkey tacos, such as pollo verde tacos, sonora chicken flautas, 10-minute chicken tacos
• Beef, roast and steak tacos, such as gingered short rib tacos, green chili stew tacos, tres taquitos with guacamole
• Pork and lamb tacos, such as Southern pulled pork tacos with honey mustard glaze, spicy chorizo tacos
• Coastal, veggie and meatless tacos, such as Cajun shrimp tacos, mahi mahi tacos with citrus salsa, artichoke & spinach tacos
• Dessert tacos, such as honey pecan tacos, apple caramel streusel flautas, cherry cheesecake cupitas
• Salsas, sauces, relishes and more, such as peach & red onion salsa, roasted tomato salsa, blue cheese & onion relish, guacamole

The taco recipes are complemented by recipes for cocktails that are the perfect accompaniment, such as pink Cadillac margarita, Mojito de Mexico, tequila grand and mesilla sangria. The book also includes recipes for authentic flour and corn tortillas, roasted and grilled meats and poultry, refried beans and 100 different vegetables, cheeses and salsas and other sauces. Everything needed to make outstanding taco meals can be found here.

Sandra Lee is a long-time spokeperson for Share Our Strength's Great American Bake Sale charity. Just look on the back of any package of Domino brand sugar and you'll find one of Sandra's recipes prominently displayed, promoting the cause. This book will be published and promoted in partnership with the Great American Bake Sale, giving it even greater reach than her books always enjoy, thanks to her two popular Food Network shows, Semi-Homemade Cooking and Money Saving Meals. Sandra's time-saving dessert recipes have long been favorites among her legions of loyal fans, who will be eagerly awaiting this publication. The estimated 120 recipes will all be photographed in gorgeous full-color.

This collection includes recipes from "Glamour's" archives, and each is paired with a charming, cheeky commentary about its life-enhancing qualities. These are real recipes for real women with real lives.