When Kevie's mother has a baby, Kevie, his older brother, and their father make soup for when the new baby comes home.

"250 of master chef Jacques Pépin's classic and timeless recipes for unexpectedly polished and satisfying meals with minimal prep and cleanup"-- "You don't need a kitchen brigade, decades-honed skills, or expensive ingredients to cook and eat like master chef Jacques Pépin. Just like the rest of us, he doesn't always have as much time or energy as he'd like to put together a satisfying meal. With this collection of 250 recipes for surprisingly...

The James Beard Award-winning and New York Times magazine columnist shares the irresistibly informal food she makes for her husband and friends-- Greenspan's food is powerfully cookable, her recipes instant classics. Here she invites readers into her kitchen to savor the dishes that she makes all the time. Each one has a small surprise that makes it special, yet the dishes are practical, made with common ingredients from the supermarket, farmers'...

"For the first time, trusted and beloved cookbook author Ina Garten, the Barefoot Contessa, answers the number one question she receives from cooks: Can I make it ahead? If you've ever found yourself stuck in front of the stove at your own party, scrambling to get everything to the table at just the right moment, Ina is here to let you in on her secrets! Thanks to twenty years of running a specialty food store and fifteen years writing cookbooks,...

Barbara Kingsolver has entertained and touched the lives of legions of readers with her critically acclaimed and bestselling novels The Bean Trees, Animal Dreams, and Pigs in Heaven. In these twenty-five newly conceived essays, she returns once again to her favored literary terrain to explore the themes of family, community, and the natural world. With the eyes of a scientist and the vision of a poet, Barbara Kingsolver writes about notions as diverse...

"If you would have told a young John Stamos flipping burgers at his dad's fast-food joint that one day he'd be a household name and that, at the height of his success, he'd be living alone, divorced, with no kids, high on a cocktail of forgetting, he might've asked, "You want fries with that?" John burst onto the scene in General Hospital, propelling him into the teen idol stratosphere, a place that's often a point of no return. But Stamos beat the...

Young readers will have a hopping good time in this hilarious story about a witch who is having a hard time wrangling a bunch of frogs into her frog soup until she comes up with a surprising solution.

Bring the Mediterranean--from Italy and Greece, to Morocco and Egypt, to Turkey and Lebanon--into your kitchen with more than 500 fresh, flavorful recipes. This comprehensive cookbook brings the famously healthy Mediterranean diet to home cooks with a wide range of classic and inspired recipes, many fast enough to be made on a weeknight, using powerhouse Mediterranean ingredients available at your local supermarket.

Young Phineas Quinn is suspicious of the vegetable soup his mom serves for lunch. Phin declares he won't slup a single spoonful until he knows where his soup comes from! Much to Phin's surprise, a man in a flying tomato balloon shows up to answer this stirring question!

Country music star Trisha Yearwood shows how delicious foods and wholesome dishes can be part of the same balanced lifestyle. After years of enjoying decadent Southern comfort food, Trisha's culinary philosophy is evolving: "I have adopted an 80/20 rule: 80 percent of the time I make good choices; 20 percent of the time I let myself splurge a little." Surprisingly virtuous or just a little bit sinful, recipes include dairy-free Angel Hair Pasta with...