Alice Waters, the iconic food luminary, presents 200 new recipes that share her passion for the many delicious varieties of vegetables, fruits, and herbs that you can cultivate in your own kitchen garden or find at your local farmers’ market. A beautiful vegetable-focused book, The Art of Simple Food II showcases flavor as inspiration and embodies Alice’s vision for eating what grows in the earth all year long. She shares her understanding of the whole plant, demystifying the process of growing and cooking your own food, and reveals the vital links between taste, cooking, gardening, and taking care of the land. Along the way, she inspires you to feed yourself deliciously through the seasons. From Rocket Salad with Babcock Peaches and Basil to Moroccan Asparagus and Spring Vegetable Ragout to Chicken with 40 Cloves of Garlic, Alice shares recipes that celebrate the ingredients she loves: tender leaf lettuces, fresh green beans, stone fruits in the height of summer, and so much more. Advice for growing your own fruits and vegetables abounds in the book—whether you are planting a garden in your backyard or on your front porch or fire escape. It is gleaned from her close relationships with local, sustainable farmers.

Following up on his bestselling diet plan, VB6, the incomparable Mark Bittman delivers a full cookbook of recipes designed to help you eat vegan every day before 6:00 p.m.--and deliciously all of the time. Whether you call it flexitarian, part-time veganism, or vegetable-centric, the plant-based, real-food approach to eating introduced in Bittman's New York Times bestselling book VB6 has helped countless people regain their good health, control their weight, and forge a smarter, more ethical relationship with food. VB6 does away with the hard and fast rules, the calorie-counting, and the portion control of conventional diets; it's a regimen that is designed to be easy toa dopt and stick to for a lifetime. When Bittman committed to a vegan before 6:00 pm diet, he quickly realized that everything about it became easier if he cooked his own meals at home. In The VB6 Cookbook he makes this proposition more convenient than you could imagine. Drawing on a varied and enticing pantry of vegan staples strategically punctuated with "treat" foods (including meat and other animal products), he has created a versatile repertoire of recipes that makes following his plan simple, satisfying, and sustainable. Breakfasts, the most challenging meal of the day for some vegans, are well represented here, with a full range of hot cereals, whirl-and-go-dairy free smoothies, toast toppers, and brunch-worthy entrees. Lunches include hearty soupls, sandwiches, beans, grains, and pastas to pack along wherever the day takes you, and more than a dozen snack recipes provide the perfect afternoon pick-me-up to banish the vending-machine cravings that can undo a day of eating well. Dinners are flexitarian, focusing on vegetable-forward meals that are augmented by a range of animal products for fullest flavor, satisfaction, and nutrient density. A chapter devoted entirely to "building blocks"--make-ahead components you mix and match--ensures that a flavorful and healthy meal is never more than a few minutes away. If you've thought of trying a vegan diet but worry it's too monotonous or unfamiliar, or simply don't want to give up foods you love to eat, Bittman's vegan and flexitarian recipes will help you cook your way to a new, varied and quite simply better way of eating you can really commit to...for life.

Written by an expert user of Visual Basic as a design tool since the 1.1 version, this book covers all of the essential aspects of client/server development for Visual Basic 6, including security issues, the architecture of the Internet and Intranets in relation to VB6, and more. The CD-ROM includes valuable SQL statements that generate the database schemas and populate the table for Microsoft Access, SQL Server, Oracle 7.X and 8.0 and Sybase SQL Anywhere. Cover title

1. Web Fundamentals -- 2. Windows DNA: a framework for building applications -- 3. An Overview of Building Windows DNA Applications with Visual Basic -- 4. Client-Side Programming with Visual Basic -- 5. Building Client-Side ActiveX Controls -- 6. Dynamic HTML Applications -- 7. Integrating Web Browsing Using the WebBrowser Objects -- 8. Getting Started By Understanding ASP -- 9. Building Server Components in Visual Basic -- 10. Advanced Visual Basic Server Components -- 11. Interfacing With Server Services in Visual Basic --12. Introducing Webclasses and IIS Applications -- 13. The Fundamentals of IIS Applications -- 14. Advanced Webclass Techniques -- 15. Meet RDS -- 16. A Guide to XML -- Case Study 1. Message Board Part 1 -- Case Study 1. Message Board Part 2 -- Case Study 2. Web Based Document Management -- Case Study 3. DHTML Applications -- Case Study 4. CGI Integration.

This guide to day-by-day Visual Basic 6 programming tips and techniques is not merely a syntax summary, but a detailed reference on creating code structures with VB6 code and data elements. Includes a tear-out, quick-reference card summarizing the VB6 language.

In the tradition of Java in a Nutshell, this book boils down the essentials of VB and VBA, and includes undocumented areas essential to everyday programming.

* Provides a good foundation for Microsoft Access and Visual Basic database programming * Offers thorough coverage of object-oriented programming, including how to create data handling classes and ActiveX controls for code reusability * Covers DAO, ADO, ASP, and SQL, and demonstrates how to take data mining to the next level

Microsoft .NET marks a huge advance in software development. However, organizations have invested heavily in their existing software infrastructure. Consequently, a lengthy transition period will be necessary in which the new .NET platform must interoperate with old systems. There are major areas of incompatibility between the COM and .NET technologies. These prevent a simple automated strategy from migrating VB6 code into Visual Basic .NET. This book investigates these incompatibilities and shows you how to work around them. We start by covering COM interoperability in detail, and then broaden the focus to examine a range of issues that must be handled in order for VB6 and COM code to run on .NET.

Are you looking for a new way to challenge your students with Visual Basic 6.0? Try Programming Games with Visual Basic 6.0. Students will learn important programming concepts while creating, fun thought-provoking games like Minesweeper, Hangman, and Memory. This book is a perfect companion to Zak's best selling title, Programming with Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 and Ekedahl/Newman's, Programing with Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, An Object-Oriented Approach.