Showing posts with label Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

The Comfort Table by Katie Lee Joel

Nothing is more comforting than a home-cooked meal. And the best home cooking starts with fresh ingredients found close to home with foods that are local, seasonal, and organic. Raised in her grandmother's Southern kitchen, Katie Lee Joel comes from a "family of great cooks and big eaters." And she knows exactly what appeals to the home cook: recipes that are delicious, easy to follow, quick to prepare, and made with readily available seasonal ingredients. The Comfort Table is a perfect example of how the table becomes this gathering place where ideas, laughter, memories and love are shared and brought together by fantastic dishes like the ones you'll find in this book.

In The Comfort Table, Katie dips into her archive of family recipes and updates all the classics from her childhood growing up in West Virginia, and also creates some inventive new favorites. This mouthwatering assortment of more than 125 recipes includes Southern staples like Fried Green Tomatoes, Chicken and Dumplings, Peach Cobbler, Meatloaf, and the quintessential Pulled Pork BBQ, which stand alongside contemporary classics like Roasted Carrot and Ginger Soup, Citrus-Tarragon Mahi-Mahi, and Dijon and Pistachio-Crusted Rack of Lamb.

But The Comfort Table is about more than just good old-fashioned home cooking. It's about sharing delicious, healthful meals -- made with love -- for friends and family. Katie's rich assortment of recipes for starters, salads, soups, entrees, side dishes, breads, breakfast, desserts, and drinks, is accompanied by entertaining tips and anecdotes to delight the modern foodie. The Comfort Table is a comprehensive, unpretentious, refreshingly accessible guide to creating unforgettable meals for occasions big and small.

Get The Comfort Table (Hardcover) by Katie Lee Joel, Paula Deen, and Miki Duisterhof from Amazon for $16.50. Click here to Order.

Other Cooking related recommended titles

Y'all Come Eat by Jamie Deen, Bobby Deen, and Melissa Clark (Hardcover) - $16.47
The Perfect Recipe for Losing Weight and Eating Great by Pam Anderson (Hardcover) - $17.82
The Food You Crave: Luscious Recipes for a Healthy Life by Ellie Krieger (Hardcover) - $16.80
Martha Stewart's Cookies: The Very Best Treats to Bake and to Share (Martha Stewart Living Magazine) by Martha Stewart Living Magazine (Paperback) - $14.97
Simply Delicioso: A Collection of Everyday Recipes with a Latin Twist by Ingrid Hoffmann and Raquel Pelzel (Hardcover) - $21.45
Top Chef by Dan Cutforth, Jane Lipsitz, Shauna Minoprio, and Rich Buhrman (Video Downloads) - $1.99 per episode

Also coming up this April is Yum-o! The Family Cookbook by Rachael Ray (Hardcover) for $15.30 Pre-Order Now to get an additional 5% discount.


Friday, February 22, 2008

Download Free Books from Amazon

Amazon since October 2007 is holding a contest Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award  in association with Penguin Group, Hewlett Packard, CreateSpace and BookSurge. The aim of the contest is to promote manuscripts from Unknown/Unpublished authors. 5000 Books, which was the maximum number allowed, were selected for the first round and most of the books participating are available for free download.

Interested to read some? Below is the list of Top 25 books receiving highest raking. Only four categories found place here as they received the most attention. I will post more highly rated books from various other categories later, till then here are Top 25.

Sci-Fi & Fantasy :
Electra Lucas: Crisis in Space by Keith Zabalaoui
Static Mayhem by Edward Aubry
Subspace by Justin Robinson

General Literature:
Stealing Karma by Aneesha Capur
Precarious by Hope Coulter
Between the Wind and Water by Lisa Preston
The Last Aloha by Gaellen Quinn
The Speed of Life by Yanina Gotsulsky
Honor's Ghost by Voula Grand
The Morning Come by Maria D. Laso
Hungry by Susan Heeger
Only Salt Remains by Meryl McQueen
Earth: The Musical by Janice Kleinschmidt
Rhythm by Robin Meloy Goldsby
The VW Boarding House by Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli
Continental Drift by Christopher Scott Grimaldi
Girls, Girls, Out by Lockie Hunter
The Secret Madonna by J R Lankford
Here with the Saints by Paula Younger

Mystery Thriller & Suspense:
Fresh Kills by Bill Loehfelm
It Whispers by Joanne T. Lewis
hattered Remains by Lynn K. Coulter
Dissonance by Lynn C. Lewis
Deadly Mistake by Douglas L. Perry

Historical Fiction:
The Last Aloha by Gaellen Quinn