Harumi Kurihara, Japan's most popular cooking expert, earned raves from critics and home cooks around the world for her award-winning English-language debut, Harumi's Japanese Cooking. Now she returns with a second-and more intimate- collection written specifically with the Western palate in mind. Harumi's Japanese Home Cooking presents seventy [Read More]

Spend any amount of time in the outdoors and you have probably found that mealtime is full of trade-offs. Do you choose foods that fuel your body or foods that satisfy your taste buds? Do you spend the extra time to prepare a real meal or grab a protein bar on the go? Freezer Bag Cooking™ minimizes these trade-offs by changing the concepts of tra[Read More]

Japanese food was virtually unknown in many Western cities in the 1980s, when Shizuo Tsujii wrote Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art. M.F.K. Fisher's introduction eloquently sets the stage for Tsujii's classic work. It may be the most thought-provoking piece ever written about Japanese food for non-Asians, pointing out how food and even the physic[Read More]

Do you want to eat really well—not just once in a while, but all the time—but you don't know where to begin? Are you tired of pizza—as much as you like it—and broke from buying takeout? Do you love good food—the straightforward, homemade kind—but feel challenged to set up a kitchen, shop for decent equipment and groceries, and tap [Read More]

WHEN YOU KNOW A RATIO, IT’S NOT LIKE KNOWING A SINGLE RECIPE, IT’S INSTANTLY KNOWING A THOUSAND. In Ratio, Michael Ruhlman, recognized as one of the great translators of the chef’s craft for both home cooks and culinary professionals, shows how cooking with ratios will unchain you from recipes and set you free. Ratio is the truth of cooking: [Read More]

Can you find a tape measure, an ugly shirt and something that begins with the letter C -- all somewhere inside of your house' The Scavenger Hunt Board Game is a classic kid's game of search and find and can be played anywhere. Generates and enhances creative thinking and teamwork. Voted in the "Top 5 Games of the Year" by San Francisco Chronicle 20[Read More]