One part skill, two parts fun: Roker's holiday cookbook takes the sweat out of making a feast.Al Roker's Hassle-Free Holiday Cookbook: 125 Recipes for Family Celebrations All Year Long by Al Roker Scribner, November 2003 $27.95, ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 0-743-24952-6 The popular NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. Today show weatherman known for his sell-deprecating wit and his cheerful delivery shares his love of food and his skills in entertaining through this new book. He teams up again with Marialisa Calta, a veteran recipe creator and writer, who collaborated on his barbecue book last year. The result is a useful but humorous guide to taking the sweat out of feeding crowds throughout the year. Regulars of the morning news program and his Food Network specials on history through food, Roker on the Road, have no doubt noticed the huggable broadcaster has steadily whittled down his waistline. How he did it while preparing this thick holiday handbook is a testament to will power and modern science if media reports are reliable. While he provides many tips for healthier cooking, this hook is laden with temptations, ranging from red velvet cake A Red velvet cake is a type of rich and sweet chocolate cake (though it is often made without chocolate flavoring) which has a distinctive dark red or red-brown color. Common ingredients include buttermilk, butter, flour, cocoa powder, and often either beets, or red food coloring. (a chocolate one colored red and topped with a rich icing) to sweet potato poon poon n. Any of several trees of the genus Calophyllum, of southern Asia, having light hard wood used for masts and spars. [Sinhalese p and twice-fried plantains with green salsa. Roker describes his own culinary influence as "Caribbean/American genetic" cuisine cultivated in Queens, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , under the tutelage of two parents who liked to cook. While he draws on his Bahamian roots and his wife's southern heritage, he presents a wide range of recipes with many ethnic origins for a thoroughly modern and truly American cuisine from apple pie to zucchini. He credits his mother as a master of multitasking multitasking Mode of computer operation in which the computer works on multiple tasks at the same time. A task is a computer program (or part of a program) that can be run as a separate entity. and delegation to her six children, in addition to just being a good cook. It is to her, perhaps, that we owe one the book's major contributions: its emphasis on organization of the entertainment process. Most useful are the numerous boxes and guides on what to have on hand (see his ideas for 10 things to put on a cracker) and how to get the food to table without experiencing a meltdown. The book is arranged by occasions with well-organized menus for special days, ranging from the Caribbean observance of the very British Boxing Day (December 26) and the St. Lawrence Day Barbecue (August10) to the children's Halloween party and a Man-Pleasing Father's Day meal. To get started now, see Roker's menu for a quick and easy Christmas brunch and no-holds-barred crown pork roast with fruit stuffing and roast beef tenderloin with cracked pepper crust Christmas dinner. Maybe in his next book, Roker will share the diet tips we might need after a few of those meals. For now, this serves as a good basic reference for a beginner or advanced cook. New Soul Cooking: Updating a Cuisine Rich in Flavor and Tradition by Tanya Holland, Ellen Silverman (Photographer) Stewart, Tabori & Chang, October 2003 $30.00, ISBN 1-584-79289-2 The host of Melting Pot Soul Kitchen on the Food Network puts a modern spin on the rich heritage of southern cooking. Holland, who cooked at Bobby Flay's Mesa Grill and other New York restaurants, is co-owner of Le Theater, a French/multiethnic restaurant in Berkeley, California. This book offers 90 selections infused by the soulful flavors of the African Diaspora and the new South, including chowder chowder, stew of fish or shellfish with potatoes, onions, and pork (usually salt pork), thickened with crumbled hard bread. The name chowder seems to have originated from the French word chaudière with black eyed peas This article is about the American hip hop group. For the vegetable, see Black-eyed pea. The Black Eyed Peas are an American hip hop group from Los Angeles, California, who have enjoyed worldwide pop success. The group is currently composed of will.i.am, apl.de. and country ham, a pecan-encrusted boneless Bone´less a. 1. Without bones. Adj. 1. boneless - being without a bone or bones; "jellyfish are boneless" chicken breast, Jamaican curried oxtail ox·tail n. The tail of an ox, especially when used for food. ox  tail and fried oysters. All the dishes are artfully presented, as illustrated in crisp, bright, minimalist photographs. Even if you can't boil greens, this one would make an absorbing "kitchen-counter book." Other books by the author: Al Roker's Big Bad Book of Barbecue: 100 Easy Recipes for Backyard Barbecue Scribner, June 2002 $27.95, ISBN 0-743-22864-2 Don't Make Me Stop This Car: Adventures in Fatherhood Fireside, June 2001 $12.00, ISBN 0-684-86894-6 Angela P. Dodson has edited and written food articles for numerous publications. |
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