In Everyday Thai Cooking, Katie Chin--a chef hailed as the ` Asian Rachel Ray` by her many fans--shares her recipe secrets along with tips, tools, & techniques that enable you to easily bring delectable homemade Thai dishes to your table! As the daughter of award-winning restaurateur Leeann Chin, Katie`s heritage has been deeply rooted in the cultivation of fine Thai cuisine. Katie has since taken the culinary world by storm as a well-respected food writer, television personality, & now published author. Katie is a success among the cooking community, however, her true reward stems from her success at home. As working mother of toddler twins, Katie realized a need for simple, easy & delicious Thai recipes that call for accessible ingredients & Everyday Thai Cooking delivers just that. This Thai cookbook offers basic recipes for staple dishes that include both homemade & store-bought options. From appetizers to desserts, each step-by-step recipe lists preparation times (most within thirty minutes) & alternates for less accessible ingredients. Illustrated with mouthwatering color photographs, Everyday Thai Cooking features more than 100 simple recipes for delicious Thai food. Favorite Thai recipes include: Crunchy Siam Spring Rolls Tom Yum Goong Crispy Mango Chicken Shaking Beef Fragrant Coconut Fish in Banana Leaves Mee Krob ...

Everyman Guides aim to provide the tourist with illustrated & encyclopaedic information on the area they cover, including customs & traditions. As well as featuring the usual information of what to see & where to go, the guides look particularly at nature, history, architecture, skills of everyday life & how the location has been viewed by writers & artists. Suggested itineraries are provided, alongside practical information to do with what to do & where to stay during your trip. Appendices generally contain a bibliography & list of illustrations, & guides feature map sections to place visitor points of interest. ...

The Everyman Map Guide series comprises a range of practical guide books incorporating large scale maps to a number of international cities & regions. Including a unique binding method, each district, neighbourhood, area or region has an accompanying fold-out page with a large scale overview map which is fully indexed. Each Map Guide also has details of more than 100 shops, restaurants, bars, clubs, markets & other local attractions, in addition to more practical guidance, listed underneath & on the reverse of the fold-out map. All of the main attractions also have accompanying illustrations, & there are also transport maps & a street index to help visitors find their way around. ...

Everyman London 2017 The Everyman Map Guide to London combines key sights with clear, large-scale, fold-out maps all neatly bound in to a handy pocket-sized guide. Its unique, innovative format is highly user-friendly & easy to read while on the move, making it the ideal companion for weekends & short breaks. The Everyman Map Guide to London 2017
Includes:: * A lively introduction to the city on the first page.* A double-page feature at the front of the guide highlighting the 10 sights you should not miss.* A double-page feature at the back recommending 10 must-have experiences unique to the city.* A new ` Day trips` section detailing excursions within an hour of the capital.*

Includes:: 10 fold-out maps & 2 fold-out spreads each featuring practical information, transport information & hotels.* Details, by area, of more than 100 sights & some 180 addresses: restaurants, cafes, theatres, music venues, shops, markets, galleries, cultural venues & more.* A listing of the best places to stay, from budget accommodation to luxury hotels.* Excellent value for your money.


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I travelled from King`s Cross to Berwick-on-Tweed in a sleeper on the night express for no other reason than that I like to read in bed &, at the same time, feel that I am being rushed forward at a tremendous speed. In this series of pen-portraits of Engl&, commissioned by ” The Daily Mail” in the 1930s, Victor Canning vividly conjures the pattern & colour of the `great fabric of English Life` from Cumberland to Cornwall. His heartwarming, humorous & often irreverent observations of sleepy villages, pastoral scenes & busy industries provide a delightful insight into life between the wars. ...

The breathtaking new novel from the multi-award-winning author of THE OTHER H&. `A cracker` Stylist, 10 Exciting Books in 2016 ` His best book to date` Esquire, 10 best novels of 2016 Guardian Literary Highlight of 2016 Independent Best Book to read in 2016 Irish News Top Picks for 2016 Washington Post 20 Books We Can`t Wait to Read in 2016 When war is declared, Mary North leaves finishing school unfinished, goes straight to the War Office, & signs up. Tom Shaw decides to give it a miss
- until his flatmate Alistair unexpectedly enlists, & the conflict can no longer be avoided. Young, bright & brave, Mary is certain she`d be a marvelous spy. When she is
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- made a teacher, she instead finds herself defying prejudice to protect the children her country would rather forget. Tom, meanwhile, finds that he will do anything for Mary. & when Mary & Alistair meet, it is love, as well as war, that will test them in ways they could not have imagined, entangling three lives in violence & passion, friendship & deception, inexorably shaping their hopes & dreams. In a powerful combination of both humour & heartbreak, this dazzling novel weaves little-known history, & a perfect love story, through the vast sweep of the Second World War
- daring us to understand that, against the great theatre of world events, it is the intimate losses, the small battles, the daily human triumphs, that change us most.



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` Beautiful, kaleidoscopic.. .everyone should be watching Megan Bradbury from now on` Eimear Mc Bride, Baileys Prize-winning author of A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing New York: A city that inspires. A city that draws people in. A city where everyone is watching, waiting to see what will happen next. 1967. Robert Mapplethorpe knows he is an artist. From his childhood home in Queens he yearns for the heat & excitement of the city, the press of other people`s bodies. He wants to be watched, he wants to be known. 1891. Walt Whitman has already found fame, & has settled into his own sort of old age. Still childlike, still passionate, he travels with his friend & biographer Bucke to the city he has always adored, the scene of his greatest triumphs & rejections. 1922. Robert Moses is a man with a vision. Standing on the edge of Long Island he knows what it could become. Walking down a street in Brooklyn he sees its future. He is the man who will build modern New York. 2013. Edmund White is back in New York. It`s the city of his youth, of his life & loves. He remembers days of lazy pleasure, nights of ecstasy & euphoria. But years have gone by since then. Everyone is Watching is a novel about the men & women who have defined New York. Through the lives & perspectives of these great creators, artists & thinkers, & through other iconic works of art that capture its essence, New York itself solidifies. Complex, rich, sordid, tantalizing, it is constantly changing & evolving. Both intimate & epic in its sweep, Everyone is Watching is a love letter to New York & its people
- past, present & future.
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Tacos are the beating heart of Mexico`s food scene. Take your pick from over 65 authentic recipes for these little pocket rocket ...

From eagles to falcons & talons to beaks, ” Everything Birds of Prey ”introduces readers to the world`s most ferocious fliers. With stunning visuals & energetic, impactful design, readers won`t stop until they`ve learned everything there is to know about birds of prey. ...

John Barlow, a self-confessed glutton, finds himself in a meat-lover`s dream in northern Spain. Galicia, the misty-green north-west corner, reveres & consumes every part of the pig. This starts Barlow thinking about the nature of our relationship with food
- what`s delicious, what`s nasty & what sort of obligation we have to the animals we eat. Over the course of one glorious, bilious year, Barlow tries the patience of his vegetarian wife as he goes the whole hog & vows to eat everything but the squeal, from cocido in a cantina to a chorizo feast at Carnival, from ribs to roast ham, all washed down with local wine
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