Books about Showstoppers from Amazon.com

The Food Network's Bob Blumer is called the Surreal Gourmet for good reason: he's an artist when it comes to creating dishes as fun and delicious to look at as they are to eat. Ceci n'est pas your ordinary party fare, but an array of 50 little mouthwatering masterpieces. With recipes such as Coconut Shrimp Lollypops (skewered shrimp with an amazing apricot dipping sauce), Chinese Snow Cones (wontons stuffed with chicken salad and ginger vinaigrette), and the ingenious and very adult S'more Shooters (amaretto hot chocolate with roasted marshmallows), guests will be abuzz about the food all the way home. Complete with tips and techniques, including shortcuts and prep times, as well as whimsical presentation ideas and Bob's quintessential suggestions for music to cook by, each cocktail bite is simple enough for the home cook and memorable enough to become addictive. With Surreal Gourmet Bites, the food will be the life of the party..
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Nick Malgieri, who taught us everything we need to know about baking in How to Bake, takes on chocolate, the world's favorite food. With the authoritative accessibility he brings to his teaching, Nick bridges the gap between the professional baker and the home cook. He knows techniques and ingredients and he teaches them with hand-holding efficiency. In ten chapters, Nick offers a primer on basics and every kind of chocolate from coca to chips and white chocolate (and why it isn't really chocolate in the strictest sense) to big dark slabs of the world's favorite luxury food and the many, many ways to enjoy it.

Information on storage, handling, and the fundamentals needed to create chocolate confections is clear and concise. Recipe sections include everything you need to know to turn the food of the gods into desserts for us mortals: cakes and cookies, creams and custards, ice creams, pies and pastries, sauces and beverages, truffles and pralines, dipped and molded chocolates, all adapted for the home cook.

Illustrated with four-color photographs throughout, all 380 luscious recipes will send a shiver of delight down the spine of every chocolate lover. Chocolate is definitive without being intimidating; it is a true home companion for anyone who wants to cook with chocolate.

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[SERIES INFO] Each book in this series begins with a two-color, eight-page foreword of history and photographs, followed by more than 300 pages of the best titles from the Warner Bros. Publications catalog. [THIS PRODUCT] Ultimate Jazz Showstoppers contains more than 100 standards that every jazz musician must have in their repertoire, including: Azure * The Days of Wine and Roses * Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me * Europa * A Foggy Day * The Girl from Ipanema * I Got Rhythm * It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) * Makin' Whoopee * Moonlight in Vermont * 'Round Midnight * Stairway to the Stars * Star Dust * Take Five * Watch What Happens and many more..
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It’s not just a street anymore—it’s a genre of its own, and it’s celebrated in Tom Shea’s Broadway’s Most Wanted™: The Top 10 Book of Dynamic Divas, Surefire Showstoppers, and Box-Office Busts. Part of Potomac's popular Most Wanted™ series, Broadway’s Most Wanted™ sings the praises of musical theater with a dash of whimsy thrown in. Shea honors those who have made musical theater what it is today—the good, the bad, and the ugly. Oh, the ugly! When a show hits gold, the world’s a wonderful place, but a bomb is just as precious and enjoyable in its own perverse way. With more than forty top-ten lists packed full of fun and facts, Shea shows you the best—and worst—that Broadway, off-Broadway, and the rest of the musical theater has to offer.

So while you learn about the amazing people behind the hit Bye Bye Birdie, including the incomparable Chita Rivera, you’ll also read about the ill-fated and laughable Bring Back Birdie, which quickly indicated why Broadway doesn’t do sequels (especially twenty years after the original). While chuckling over how Jimmy Durante and Ethel Merman bickered over top billing for 1936’s Red, Hot, and Blue—with the comical result of their names being written diagonally, crossing in an X—you’ll also find praise for Paul Ford, Stephen Sondheim’s rehearsal pianist, who helps the legendary composer bring his music to life. Musicals run the gamut of topics, and Shea waxes melodic on political, western, rock and roll, and comic-book musicals, plus so much more. They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway; Tom Shea shines just as brightly with Broadway’s Most Wanted™: The Top 10 Book of Dynamic Divas, Surefire Showstoppers, and Box-Office Busts..
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47 incredible Broadway selections from over 25 shows - from the classic to contemporary stage with recorded accompaniments. Songs include: All I Ask of You * Cabaret * Camelot * Climb Ev'ry Mountain * Comedy Tonight * Don't Cry for Me Argentina * Hello, Dolly! * I Dreamed a Dream * Maria * Memory * Oklahoma! * Seventy-Six Trombones * and many more!.
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Each book in this series begins with a two-color, eight-page foreword containing history and photographs, followed by more than 300 pages of the best titles from the Warner Bros. Publications catalog.

Ultimate Classic Rock Showstoppers features 88 unforgettable tunes from the American heartland. Titles include: Against the Wind
* American Woman
* Born to Run
* Cat's in the Cradle
* Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
* Evil Ways
* Go Your Own Way
* House at Pooh Corner
* Layla
* Lyin' Eyes
* Nights in White Satin
* What a Fool Believes and many more..
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Eighty-five chart-topping tunes like: Coming Out of the Dark
* The Dance
* From a Distance
* Here and Now
* (Everything I Do) I Do It for You
* It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday
* Masterpiece
* Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology/I Want You)
* More Than Words
* Show Me the Way
* U Can't Touch This..
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37 songs that bring the house down every time, including: Cabaret * Do You Hear the People Sing? * Don't Cry for Me Argentina * Everything's Coming Up Roses * Hello, Dolly! * I Am What I Am * Lambeth Walk * Memory * Oklahoma * and more..
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