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 By: Barbara Fairchild List Price: $34.95 Amazon Price: $20.55 Editorial Review: Full of fresh, delicious recipes that are fast enough for a weeknight, special enough for a weekend, Bon Appétit makes it easy to find just the right recipe and pull it together in no time at all. Forget about lukewarm takeout, and don't even think of reaching for tired leftovers?with The Bon Appétit Fast Easy Fresh Cookbook, you'll have more than 1,100 quick and easy recipes at your fingertips, all using fresh, readily available ingredients in inventive new ways. This is the perfect book for everyone who wants to create healthful, delicious, and exciting food every night of the week.Supermarkets and local farmers' markets are filled with diverse ingredients that add flavor, texture, and interest to your cooking. Use that qualilty as inspiration, and let this book be your guide as you use those ingredients to get dinner on the table in a flash. From Cilantro-Lime Crab Salad in Avocado Halves, Roasted-Garlic Beef Stew, and Linguine with Winter Pesto to Shrimp with Ginger-Herb Butter, Grilled Steak with Fresh Garden Herbs, and Peach Pie with Berry Jam, you'll find a wide range of flavorful dishes inside that take a fun, modern spin. For more than half a century, Bon Appétit has been the go-to source for straight-forward, sophisticated recipes, each with a contemporary twist. Now more than ever we also want to be conscientious about choosing responsibly sourced ingredients and healthy foods. The experts at Bon Appétit show how, in the most comprehensive collection?ever?of the magazine's best, most delicious, fast and easy recipes. As a cookbook, Fast Easy Fresh is unparalleled?every recipe is simple to use and has been tested with care by the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen. It will become your indispensable source for all the tips, hints, and tricks you need to keep you on top of your game. Eating local, eating better, eating fresh?it all starts here, in The Bon Appétit Fast Easy Fresh Cookbook. Amazon Exclusive: Tip's from Author Barbara Fairchild ? A World of Burgers ? Cookies 101 ? Do-It-Yourself Crostini Platter Exclusive Recipe Excerpts from The Bon Appétit Cookbook  By: Jacques Pepin List Price: $32.00 Amazon Price: $18.95 Editorial Review: From "a great teacher and truly a master technician" (Julia Child), a new cookbook full of faster-than-ever food, including dozens of elegant "minute" recipes Jacques Pépin Fast Food My Way was an immediate sensation, captivating cooks and critics, who called it "fabulous," "chic," and "elegant." Now America's first and most enduring celebrity chef does himself one better, with recipes that are faster, fresher, and easier than ever. Only Jacques could have come up with dishes so innovative and uncomplicated. "Minute recipes": Nearly no-cook recipes fit for company: Cured Salmon Morsels, Glazed Sausage Bits Smashing appetizers: Scallop Pancakes, zipped together in a blender (10 minutes) Almost instant soups: Creamy Leek and Mushroom Soup (7 minutes) Fast, festive dinners: Stuffed Pork Fillet on Grape Tomatoes (18 minutes) Stunning desserts: Mini Almond Cakes in Raspberry Sauce (15 minutes)  By: Martha Stewart Living Magazine List Price: $24.95 Amazon Price: $16.47 Editorial Review: No matter how busy you are, at the end of the day you want fresh, ?avorful meals that are easy to prepare. And you want lots of choices and variations?recipes that call for your favorite foods and take advantage of excellent (and readily available) ingredients. In the ?rst book from the award-winning magazine Everyday Food, you?ll ?nd all of that: 250 simple recipes for delicious meals that are quick enough to make any day of the week. 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With Everyday Food, even the busiest on-the-go cook can look forward to meals that bring freshness, nutrition, and a range of ?avors to dinner all week long.If you are a fan of Everyday Food magazine (and you should be), you will be wowed by Great Food Fast, a gorgeous full-color cookbook filled to bursting with recipes for fresh, flavorful food that is easy to prepare. Organized by season, Great Food Fast features simple recipes for year-round cooking, including no-cook pasta sauces, main-course soups, one-dish meals, and more. --Daphne Durham Great Food Fast Recipe Preview Pan-fried Shrimp with Green Curry Cashew Sauce Serves 4 Prep Time: 15 minutes Total time: 15 minutes You can purchase bottled Thai green curry sauce in most supermarkets, but this recipe proves how quick and easy it is to make your own. Refrigerate any leftover sauce, covered, for up to 3 days. 1 slice (1/4 inch thick) peeled fresh ginger 3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons roasted unsalted cashews 1/3 cup plain low-fat yogurt 1/4 cup packed cilantro leaves 1 tablespoon brown sugar 1 teaspoon curry powder Coarse salt and fresh ground pepper 1 1/2 pounds peeled and deveined large shrimp 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 In a food processor, pulse the ginger until finely chopped. Add the 3/4 cup cashews; process until smooth, 2 to 3 minutes. 2 Add the yogurt, cilantro, sugar, and curry powder; season with salt. Process until incorporated, 1 to 2 minutes, scraping down the sides as needed. Transfer to a serving bowl; sprinkle with the remaining cashews. 3 Season the shrimp with salt and pepper. Heat 1 tablespoon of the oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add half the shrimp; cook until opaque throughout, 2 to 3 minutes. Repeat with the remaining tablespoon oil and remaining shrimp. Serve the shrimp with the sauce.  By: Eric Schlosser List Price: $14.95 Amazon Price: $10.17 Editorial Review: Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. That's a lengthy list of charges, but Eric Schlosser makes them stick with an artful mix of first-rate reportage, wry wit, and careful reasoning. Schlosser's myth-shattering survey stretches from California's subdivisions, where the business was born, to the industrial corridor along the New Jersey Turnpike, where many of fast food's flavors are concocted. Along the way, he unearths a trove of fascinating, unsettling truths -- from the unholy alliance between fast food and Hollywood to the seismic changes the industry has wrought in food production, popular culture, and even real estate. On any given day, one out of four Americans opts for a quick and cheap meal at a fast-food restaurant, without giving either its speed or its thriftiness a second thought. Fast food is so ubiquitous that it now seems as American, and harmless, as apple pie. But the industry's drive for consolidation, homogenization, and speed has radically transformed America's diet, landscape, economy, and workforce, often in insidiously destructive ways. Eric Schlosser, an award-winning journalist, opens his ambitious and ultimately devastating exposé with an introduction to the iconoclasts and high school dropouts, such as Harlan Sanders and the McDonald brothers, who first applied the principles of a factory assembly line to a commercial kitchen. Quickly, however, he moves behind the counter with the overworked and underpaid teenage workers, onto the factory farms where the potatoes and beef are grown, and into the slaughterhouses run by giant meatpacking corporations. Schlosser wants you to know why those French fries taste so good (with a visit to the world's largest flavor company) and "what really lurks between those sesame-seed buns." Eater beware: forget your concerns about cholesterol, there is--literally--feces in your meat.Schlosser's investigation reaches its frightening peak in the meatpacking plants as he reveals the almost complete lack of federal oversight of a seemingly lawless industry. His searing portrayal of the industry is disturbingly similar to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, written in 1906: nightmare working conditions, union busting, and unsanitary practices that introduce E. coli and other pathogens into restaurants, public schools, and homes. Almost as disturbing is his description of how the industry "both feeds and feeds off the young," insinuating itself into all aspects of children's lives, even the pages of their school books, while leaving them prone to obesity and disease. Fortunately, Schlosser offers some eminently practical remedies. "Eating in the United States should no longer be a form of high-risk behavior," he writes. Where to begin? Ask yourself, is the true cost of having it "your way" really worth it? --Lesley Reed  By: Nigella Lawson List Price: $35.00 Amazon Price: $23.10 Editorial Review: The Domestic Goddess is back, and this time it's instant. Nigella and her style of cooking have earned a special place in our lives, symbolizing all that is best, most pleasurable, most hands-on, and least fussy about good food. But that doesn't mean she wants us to spend hours in the kitchen, slaving over a hot stove. Featuring fabulous fast foods, ingenious shortcuts, terrific time-saving ideas, effortless entertaining tips, and simple, scrumptious meals, Nigella Express is her solution to eating well when time is short. Here are mouthwatering meals, quick to prepare and easy to follow, that you can conjure up after a day in the office or on a busy weekend, for family or unexpected guests. This is food you can make as you hit the kitchen running, with vital advice on how to keep your pantry stocked, and your freezer and fridge stacked. When time is precious, you canít spend hours shopping, so you need to make life easier by being prepared. Not that these recipes are basic, though they are always simple, but it's important to make every ingredient earn its place, minimizing effort by maximizing taste. Here too is great food that can be prepared quickly but cooked slowly in the oven, leaving you time to have a bath, a drink, talk to friends, or help the children with their homework, minimum stress for maximum enjoyment. Nigella Express features a new generation of fast food, never basic, never dull, always doable, quick, and delicious. Featuring recipes seen on Food Networkís Nigella Express series. 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During World War II Thomas was a U.S. Army intelligence officer, and was awarded the Bronze Star for his work in breaking Japanese codes. After the war he went to work as a salesman for C.A. Swanson & Sons. In 1953, the company way overbought turkey for Thanksgiving; it had half a million pounds left over. What to do? Thomas came up with the solution: package it with side dishes as frozen dinners in aluminum trays. He even came up with a name for it: "TV Dinner". ("If it were today, we'd probably call it the 'digital dinner'," he said in 1999.) It was an immediate success: in 1954 Swanson sold 10 million of the dinners -- at 98 cents each -- in part because they took "only" half an hour to heat up. The company quickly expanded the line to other meals, which Thomas tested on his own family. In the late 1960s he helped adapt the meal to a new kitchen appliance: the microwave oven, which cut prep time to about 5 minutes. Thomas died July 18 from cancer at a hospice in Arizona. He was 83.