A delicious journey through Italy and a celebration of the relationship between family and food. Moving from the Italian Piedmont to the Maremma and then to Le Marche, chef Teresa Lust interweaves portraits of the people who served as her culinary guides with cultural and natural history in this charming exploration of authentic Italian cuisine. We learn how to prepare bagna cauda—a robust dipping sauce of anchovies, garlic, and olive oil—with Lust’s relatives outside Torino. We learn about making hand-stretched grissini, Italy’s iconic breadstick, the secrets of whipping up zabaione, a classic dessert of ethereal foam made with egg yolks, sugar, and marsala. Then there is acquacotta, a rustic soup that nourished generations of the area’s shepherds and cowhands. In the town of Camerano, an eighty-year-old woman reveals the art of hand-rolling pasta with a three-foot rolling pin. Underpinning Lust’s travels is our journey from chef to cook, mirroring the fact that Italians have been masters of home cooking for generations, so they are an obvious source of inspiration. Today, more and more people are rediscovering the pleasures of cooking at home, and Lust’s account—and wonderful recipes—will help readers bring an Italian sensibility to their home tables.

"Food is not merely about calories and minimum daily requirements and metabolic pathways. At its very heart, food is about people." --from Pass the Polenta Likewise, people are at the heart of this warm, personal collection of food- and family-inspired essays by former professional chef and food historian Teresa Lust. An Italian immigrant grandmother who plucked chickens in the backyard; an introverted mushroom forager who collected chanterelles in the woods; a German auntie who learned to knead bread in a wooden bucket; an unassuming wine shop owner who, after closing, offers a bottle of Châteauneuf-du-Pape and a delightfully unpretentious way to value a wine--all are key ingredients in the zesty culinary heritage that Teresa Lust lovingly serves up. Like the creamy, sweet polenta that wooed her father into her mother's robust Italian family, this book is filled with a myriad of rich flavors, history, kitchen tips, and recipes. Lessons in life learned at the stoves of the many seasoned cooks in Lust's world, these wonderful true stories are an expression of art and love, family and self, soil and the seasons.

The New York Times–bestselling author of The Forest Feast returns with a gorgeously illustrated volume of 100 new vegetarian recipes for entertaining. When food photographer Erin Gleeson left New York City to live in a cabin in the woods of northern California, she embarked on a culinary adventure of vegetable-centric, seasonal cooking. In The Forest Feast Gatherings, she shares simple, healthy recipes that are easy enough to prepare after a long day at work, yet impressive enough for a party. Along with her visually stunning photography and watercolors, Erin handwrites each recipe to create diagram-like, step-by-step instructions that are vibrant, unique, and east to cook from. She also offers guidance on hosting casual yet thoughtful get-togethers from start to finish. The book offers 100 new, innovative vegetarian recipes that serve 60 to 8, along with some fan favorites from the blog, arranged in a series of artfully designed menus that are tailored around specific occasions—whether a summer dinner party, a laid-back brunch, a vegan and gluten-free gathering, or holiday cocktails.

Christ Voice Bible consists of 11 books: 555 pages (1) Loving Guides of the Christ Voice: Encouragement, Guidance, and Truths. 36 chapters addressed to us as sons and daughters. (2) In the Spirit of the Christ Voice: Offerings of the Holy Days spoken directly to us at Christmas, and on Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter. 34 chapters. (3) The Rules of Existence: The Christ Voice defines the Rules, the Destinies, Facts, Wishes, and Order. Man states Responses, Acts of Growth, and Reflections. There are 214 rules altogether. (4) The Peace Letters: 12 epistles appeal for peace and ask of us what is required for this state to exist. (5) Harvest of the Spirit: Confessions, Avowals, and Prayers, 179 entries in these diaries. (6) The Book of Myra: A tribute to woman: how feminine principles bring us closer to the divine. (7) A Book of Quests: 27 chapters explore our lifelong Quest in the language of both the mind and heart. (8) Notebooks: Arcs of Knowing in 95 maxims. The Buddha speaks to us on Easter morning.A Dream of the Prophet Muhammad. Auras: 60 succinct spiritual truths. Yearnings: 38 heartfelt equations. Elegy Voice Poems: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Francis Kennedy. As Spirit We Arise. A Fable of Three Stones. Commentary on Love. The Fool and the Moralist. The Garden of Alternatives. Symposium on Logic. Man and Woman. The Quiet. I am Woman. Baptism through Evolution. Marriage Prayer. The Warning. Knowing. Love's Expression. (9) Christ Voice, the Awakening: Early expressions of the Christ Voice. Admonitions to us all; also with instructions and encouragement for the soul of the writer: 122 entries. (10) Teachings of James: 101 statements of faith and knowledge.(11) Wisdom Guides of the Christ Voice: We are addressed as sons and daughters, mature and capable of understanding the higher truths. 26 guides.

Gideon’s People is the story of an American Indian community in the Housatonic Valley of northwestern Connecticut. It is based on some three decades of nearly uninterrupted German-language diaries and allied records kept by the Moravian missionaries who had joined the Indians at a place called Pachgatgoch, later Schaghticoke. It is supplemented by colonial records and regional political, social, and religious histories and ethnographies. As such, it represents the only comprehensive, thoroughly contextualized description of a Native people in southern New England and adjacent eastern New York for the mid-eighteenth century. The Moravians’ diaries report on the day-to-day activities in the community, including house-building, the production of material goods, hunting, fishing, and farming. We are told of marriages, births, deaths, disease, and the calamity of alcohol abuse. The unavoidable interactions with surrounding Indians and close-by colonial farmers and townspeople are offered in detail, along with the sometimes contentious relations with local and colonial authorities. And there is the omnipresence of the missionaries’ religious message to the Indians, frequently accepted and then tested by the inevitable temptations and, more than once, spurned. But we also learn of the struggles of the Moravians to feed and clothe themselves at a distance from their congregation in Bethlehem and their endeavors, often marked by conflict and deep personal pain, to lead their Native flock to the Lamb.