This book is meant to help everyone learn cooking basics as well as those who have some kitchen time under their belt. If you are just starting out or need new recipes, then buy the book. You may even learn some mistakes even the professionals or myself may make. Easy to read with easy-to-follow directions. If you are anything like the author and love to cook, you will enjoy this book.

A paradigm-shifting book that helps cooks think on their feet, create brilliant dishes from ingredients on hand, and avoid wasting food. For more than two decades, Ronna Welsh has been empowering home cooks and chefs with radically simple strategies for cooking creatively and efficiently. In this sweeping masterwork with 400 recipes, she shows how to make varied, impromptu, economical, and delicious meals by coaxing the most flavor from common ingredients. The Nimble Cook teaches optimal prep methods, like the perfect way to dry and store greens--forget the salad spinner--for a salad made in seconds to pair with a vinaigrette composed of refrigerator door condiments. It provides hundreds of "starting point" recipes to transform basic dishes into luxurious ones, like an onion jam for burgers; a cheese stock for decadent risotto; or a mix of salt and whirred bay leaves that takes roasted shrimp or fish from ordinary to extraordinary. Welsh teaches nimble cooks irresistible uses for parts that otherwise go to waste, whether cucumber peels in kimchi or apple cores in a sweet-and-sour syrup for a bourbon cocktail. Graceful illustrations throughout provide further inspiration, making this book an essential addition to any creative cook's kitchen.

High schoolers Nanaya and Minori are classmates, best friends, and roommates. Though the two are as different as night and day, they do just about everything together! But what drew them together in the first place? Find out in the second volume of the sweet slice-of-life yuri series, Our Wonderful Days!

Daniel Boulud is a pioneer of our contemporary food culture-from the reinvention of French food to the fine dining revolution in America. A modern man with a classical foundation and a lifetime of experience, Boulud speaks with passion about the vocation of creating food. Part memoir, part advice book, part recipe book, this updated edition celebrating of the art of cooking will continue to delight and enlighten all chefs, from passionate amateurs to serious professionals.

When he returned to the city, he was prepared to take good care of his brother's sister and make up for the pain in his heart. However, after receiving the old man's order, he became the personal bodyguard of the beautiful CEO.See how the little bodyguard dominates China and walks the world.

Charlie Miller moved to Montana to help her friend Merry, and she did so happily, knowing there were more men than women in the west. She expected to meet someone and live happily ever after. When she’s still alone three years later, she seriously contemplates writing to her sister Elizabeth, hoping she’ll find a husband for her. A chance meeting with a stranger in a snowstorm changes all her plans. Abel Burton takes a chance and heads to Mistletoe, Montana, to meet a local artist. Meeting Charlie is just a side benefit—one that will change him forever. When he returns home, he takes his new bride with him. He worries that his sister-in-law will get in the way of his happiness when she immediately treats Charlie as her servant. Will the two of them get past the interference caused by the other woman’s presence? Or will they lose their chance for true love?

Mail Order Menace: Ernestine Miller moves west to escape her past as a member of the demon horde, only to find her groom has died. She starts a boarding house and meets Clifford Solomon, who falls for her. Mail Order Memories: Mary Brown responds to an ad for a mail-order bride, and when she arrives she realizes she is marrying her childhood sweetheart who thought she had died. He must learn to trust his new bride or regret it forever. Mail Order Miller: Doris Miller asks her sister Elizabeth to match her as a mail-order bride to escape her past with the demon horde. She marries widower Harvey Butler, struggling with his troublesome children. Mail Order Marm: Schoolteacher, Frederica felt unfulfilled in Salmon, Oregon. When her friend suggested a mail order husband for pregnant Gretchen, Frederica envied her. Darryl, from Massachusetts, agreed to marry Gretchen but unexpectedly wed Frederica instead. Now they must adjust to their sudden marriage. Mail Order Melancholy: Gretchen Jensen loves a man who's dead, and she's pregnant with his child. Shunned by the town, she refuses to marry her mail-order groom. Reginald Lindon returns after six months to find everyone thinks he's dead. His mother and Gretchen tell conflicting stories about his farewell letter. Mail Order Machinations: Esther's life changes when she discovers her father's embezzlement. Her fiancé ends the engagement, and her sister convinces her to marry a rancher in Montana, where no one knows her. Brody is taken with Esther when she arrives, but shocked to find out she brought her sister along. Mail Order Marvel: Coral, who is much different than other young ladies, accompanies her sister Esther to Montana as a mail order bride. She hopes to quickly find a husband and not burden the newlyweds. Jackson, a teacher in rural Montana, agrees to meet Coral, realizing a wife would simplify his life. Though initially put off by her boldness, he agrees to marry her. Mail Order Mother: Caroline Casey, a romantic from a privileged background, becomes a mail-order bride to find love and make a difference out west. She aims to help two motherless girls and their father, Andrew Dawson, who is struggling with his daughters' behavior. Andrew expects a housekeeper, not realizing Caroline's true intentions. Mail Order Miscreant: Charlie moved to Montana to find love in a region with more men than women. After three years, still single, she considers asking her sister Elizabeth for help. A chance encounter during a snowstorm with Abel Burton changes her plans. He brings her home as his bride but worries about his sister-in-law treating Charlie poorly. Mail Order Mommy: Berniece Johnson seeks a better life than marriage to an abusive old man, but her parents disagree. She turns to matchmaker Elizabeth Miller for help, and soon finds herself on a train to meet a potential husband in Missoula, Montana. Kane Burton, a recent widower with an infant daughter, reluctantly seeks a new wife through mail-order. He initially sees Berniece as a mere servant, but she proves to be more than that.

Big changes are afoot for Hitsuji, Hatoyama, and Hinata! Hatoyama has been tapped to be the manager of a cafe on the verge of closure, and Hinata has made his very first friend! As always, Hitsuji is ready to support both of them as much as he can. But when Hatoyama takes a break from the cafe one night to bring Hitsuji an umbrella, the young teacher's worst fear comes true -- one of his colleagues catches them together! Will their relationship finally be exposed?

After a great cataclysm shook the foundations of modern society and caused it to crumble, the survivors scrambled to rebuild it. Seven thousand years later, Alice stirs in her hospital bed, with little to no memory of her past. The tale begins here, where the gears of time start to turn. The clock is ticking, and although Alice is none the wiser, she will be the key to cut the strings of fate and end this broken, endless waltz.