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Italianissimo: The Quintessential Guide to What Italians Do Best
What is it about Italy that inspires passion, fascination, and utter devotion? This quirky guide to the Italian way of life, with its fifty witty mini-essays on iconic Italian subjects, will answer that question as well as entertain and delight both real and armchair travelers. Topics range from expressive hand gestures to patron saints, pasta, parmesan, shoes, opera, the Vespa, the Fiat 500, gelato, gondolas, and more. History, folklore, superstitions, traditions, and customs are tossed in a delicious sauce that also includes a wealth of factual information for the sophisticated traveler:• why lines, as we know them, are nonexistent in Italy• why a string of coral beads is often seen around a baby’s wrist• what the unlucky number of Italy is (it’s not thirteen, unless seating guests at a table, when it IS thirteen–taking into account the outcome of the Last Supper)• why red underwear begins to appear in shops as the New Year approaches In addition to the lyrical and poetic, Italianissimo provides useful and indispensable information for the traveler: deciphering the quirks of the language (while English has only one word for “you,” in Italy there are three), the best place to find balsamic vinegar (in Modena, of course), the best gelato (in Sicily, where they first invented it using the snow from Mount Etna). There are also recommendations for little-known museums and destinations (the Bodoni museum, the Pinocchio park, legendary coffee bars).This is a new kind of guidebook overflowing with enlightening and hilarious miscellaneous information, filled with luscious graphics and unforgettable photographs that will decode and enrich all trips to Italy–both real and imaginary..
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The Quintessential Wedding Guide ... Maid of Honor
This book will not only inspire you as you prepare with the Bride for the big day, but it will also save you time and spare you anxiety by spelling out exactly what your duties are and how to fulfill them with flair, style and grace. The Maid of Honor or Matron of Honor at a wedding holds an important role. The Maid of Honor is part therapist, part party planner, part organizer and partly to blame for anything that can possibly go wrong - or at least that is how you may feel at time. Filling the role of Maid of Honor with style can be easier than you think. We have compiled some important information for you to be able to fill the role of Maid of Honor or Matron of Honor with dignity, grace and fun! Remember, a wedding is a happy time for all those involved. You should embrace the opportunity and make the most out of it. From the moment you are asked to be the Maid of Honor to the moment you receive your thank you note from the Bride you will be on a wild roller coaster. The Maid of Honor has many responsibilities - her duties are varied. But believe it or not, you are more than capable of handling all of your duties with ease with this resource. The expectations of the bride will be different for each wedding but don't worry we cover all of your potential responsibilities in this book!.
Price: $13.99
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Healing Multiple Sclerosis: Diet, Detox & Nutritional Makeover for Total Recovery
Multiple Sclerosis can now be healed and this book shows you how. Though MS is widely believed to be incurable, Boroch's breakthrough treatment protocol can dramatically restore patients to health. This landmark book describes her own tumultuous journey with MS: • Her quest for a cure • Case histories of those who have triumphed over MS • The real causes of MS • How to develop a personal treatment plan • Everything you need to bring about recovery, including a detailed and effective self-help treatment protocol • Delicious recipes and recommended foods, with two weeks of sample menus • A five-week nutritional makeover, recommended supplements and a daily sample supplement schedule • A list of recommended products • User-friendly charts and resources.
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Cooking: The Quintessential Art (California Studies in Food and Culture)
From its intriguing opening question--"How can we reasonably judge a meal?"--to its rewarding conclusion, this beautiful book picks up where Brillat-Savarin left off almost two centuries ago. Hervé This, a cofounder (with the late physicist Nicholas Kurti) of the new approach to studying the scientific basis of cooking known as molecular gastronomy, investigates the question of culinary beauty in a series of playful, lively, and erudite dialogues. Considering the place of cuisine in Western culture, This explores an astonishing variety of topics and elaborates a revolutionary method for judging the art of cooking. Many of the ideas he introduces in this culinary romance are illustrated by dishes created by Pierre Gagnaire, whose engaging commentaries provide rare insights into the creative inspiration of one of the world's foremost chefs. The result is an enthralling, sophisticated, freewheeling dinner party of a book that also makes a powerful case for openness and change in the way we think about food..
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Quintessential Dzogchen: Confusion Dawns as Wisdom
This hands-on guidebook adapts the Dzogchen path for the modern student while adhering to traditional principles. The book is based on the direct, accessible style of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche and offers a thorough grounding in how to study, contemplate, and meditate in this rich spiritual environment. Guided by an introductory teaching by Rinpoche, as well as 42 selected teachings from great Dzogchen masters, readers learn to access the pure, clear awareness that lies hidden under the constant flow of anxious thoughts..
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Starting with Ingredients: Baking: Quintessential Recipes for the Way We Really Bake (Starting With Ingredients)
Starting with Ingredients: Baking is Aliza Green’s follow-up to her first magnum opus, Starting with Ingredients. In this second volume, she shares her in-depth knowledge of baking ingredients From aged cheeses and alcohols to yeast and yogurt, this ambitious book features 62 chapters, each focusing on a single essential baking ingredient. More than 350 recipes explore each ingredient’s history, culture, and uses, demonstrating the broad range of culinary possibilities for each. The recipes are imaginative but accessible, clear, and easy-to-follow. Each chapter’s notes reflect Chef Green’s many years as a pioneering female chef in Philadelphia, her extensive travels, including a childhood spent living and traveling in places from Mexico to Brazil and Ireland to Israel, and working stints in kitchens from Bologna, Italy, to San Juan, Puerto Rico. Including more than 150 sidebars and other informative sections, Starting with Ingredients: Baking gives readers plenty of tips and facts about how foods look and behave differently in a variety of culinary scenarios. .
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You Know You're in Rhode Island When...: 101 Quintessential Places, People, Events, Customs, Lingo, and Eats of the Ocean State (You Know You're In Series)
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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Quintessential Phase (dramatization)
Panic! It's the last installment of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, with a brand new full-cast dramatization of Mostly Harmless, the final book in Douglas Adams' famous "trilogy in five parts." While frequent flyer Arthur Dent searches the universe for his lost love, Ford Prefect discovers a disturbing blast from the past at The Hitchhiker's Guide HQ. Meanwhile, on one of many versions of Earth, a blonder, more American Trillian gets tangled up with a party of lost aliens having an identity crisis.A stolen ship, a dramatic stampede, and a new and sinister Guide lead to a race to save the earth...again. Presented dramatized on 2 CDs..
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Uncle John's Quintessential Collection of Notable Quotables: For Every Conceivable Occasion (Uncle John's Bathroom Reader)
In 2004, Uncle John released a unique collection of quotations that are equal parts witty, wise, sublime, stupid, and mind-boggling ("I considered myself and still consider myself the hippest man on the planet." — Barry Manilow.) For this special edition, the Outhouse Staff scoured books, magazines, and the airwaves to include 90 all-new pages of insights and observations that have never appeared in a quotation book before. And not just quotations – there are also features like "Quotes and Their Consequences," new quizzes, and eye-opening new entries for Uncle John’s Quotationary (Love: "Being stupid together." — Paul Valery). And finally, to make it easier than ever to find that nagging, half-remembered quote, the book includes a by-subject index to go along with the existing by-name index. "This is a quotation book like no other, and you can quote me on that!" says Uncle John. .
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Quintessential Disney
Amidst the general magic and wonder of the animated Disney movies, there are moments that stick with us and come to define the movies they're drawn from. They are the moments that dazzle us with their beauty and their meaning Now, Quintessential Disney presents five of these iconic moments in all their wonder in a sophisticated three-dimensional presentation.Author Robert Tieman will select five pieces of original art from some of Disney's most classic films. Each piece of art will then be crafted into an elegant pop-up piece, suitable for display. These pop-ups will be contained in a case that opens at the center, so that the book frames the three-dimensional rendering for viewing. Intended for an adult audience, the pop-ups contained within Quintessential Disney will not only focus on classic Disney films, but also will be visually and structurally elaborate to fascinate even the most sophisticated Disney fan..
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