Making your own soda is easy, inexpensive, and fun. Best of all, you can control the sweetness level and ingredients to create a drink that suits your individual taste. In this guide to all things fizzy, Andrew Schloss presents a handful of simple techniques and recipes that will have you recreating your favorite commercial soft drinks and experimenting with new flavor combinations. Try your hand at Pomegranate Punch, Sparkling Espresso Jolt, Slightly...

In an age where time is as precious as good food, enter Homemade in a Hurry, the secret to having more of both. With over three hundred recipes, from appetizers, soups, and salads to main courses, side dishes, and desserts, cooking from scratch is made easier with shortcuts for those who demand more-a LOT more-in less time. By jump-starting the cooking with high-quality prepared ingredients such as pesto, curry cooking sauces, and pre-chopped vegetables-all...

Add your favorite flavors and sweeteners to vodka, brandy, whiskey, and rum to make delicious homemade liqueurs. Andrew Schloss shows you simple techniques for making liqueurs using standard kitchen equipment, providing hundreds of recipes for blending your own flavored spirits with cinnamon, chocolate, honey, peaches, or anything else that might suit your fancy. Learn how easy it is to make your own versions of Baileys, Triple Sec, and Kahlúa, or...

The New York Times bestselling authors of Mastering the Grill present 400 recipes that focus on the joy of great ingredients. Fire It Up shows today's cooks how to buy, prepare, and grill more than 290 ingredients from beef and pork to chicken, fish, vegetables, fruit, and more. Handy charts explain different cuts, best grilling methods, and perfect doneness. Insider tips throughout the volume solve dozens of dinnertime dilemmas, while gorgeous color...

This comprehensive grilling guide features 350 surefire recipes, hundreds of tips and techniques, as well as how-to illustrations and mouthwatering photos. Grilling is a science, and it's only, when you understand the science of grilling that you can transform it into an art. In Mastering the Grill, acclaimed cookbook authors and veteran grill masters go beyond the usual advice to teach you the secrets-and science-of grilling. This extensive guide...

The New York Times bestselling author of Mastering the Grill presents more than 80 delectable recipes that celebrate the art of slow cooking. This tantalizing book explores time-honored methods that yield tender, delicious meals with little hands-on cooking time. More than eighty recipes cover everything from slow-simmered soups and stews to hearty braised meats and a lemon cheesecake that cures to a creamy custard in a warm oven overnight. A chapter...

Tahini is much more than one of the building blocks of hummus. Made from pressed roasted sesame seeds, it's a healthy, vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free, and low-sugar superfood rich in Omega fatty acids, protein, and calcium. Although tahini's historical roots are in the Middle East, Amy Zitelman-cofounder of Soom Foods, the brand-named best tahini by New York magazine-goes beyond borders in these one hundred recipes that range from dips to desserts. This...