The comprehensive guide to chocolate & candy making for professionals & serious home cooks Chocolate & candy making is more popular & accessible than it has ever been. This book combines artisan confectionery techniques with straightforward explanations of the theory science & formulas at work. Fundamental information

Includes:: ingredient function & use chocolate processing & artisan production techniques. Professionals & home enthusiasts will find formulas & variations for gorgeous & delectable confections including dairy-based centers crystalline & non-crystalline sugar confectionery jellies nut centers & aerated confections. Expanding on the award-winning first edition this new revision provides the same comprehensive content foolproof formulas & step-by-step instructions readers expect along with the very latest information & guidelines. Revised to include 30 percent new recipes & formulas more than 250 photos & 27 illustrations Features new sections on opening a professional bakeshop packaging & marketing & American-style layered candy bars Written by Certified Master Baker Peter Greweling one of the world's top names in confections & author of Chocolates & Confections at Home with The Culinary Institute of America from Wiley

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Full of easy delicious recipes with simple step-by-step illustrated instructions. Children will love helping to make these tasty treats including peppermint creams chocolate fudge & marshmallow crunch.

Includes:: gift-wrapping ideas to make homemade chocolates & sweets into the perfect handmade gift. Each recipe is explained with simple step-by-step picture instructions & photos of the finished results.

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Sometimes the choice is too hard to bear... Nikki Grant is only twenty-one when she discovers she's pregnant. Despite her parents' disappointment & anger she welcomes the news with joy. The baby will complete the happy home she shares with the man she adores Spencer James. Baby Zac arrives & is perfect in every way. & with Spencer's career taking off they are ready to make the big move to London. & then on a day like any other Nikki suddenly finds her life turned upside down by tragedy. As she becomes evermore embroiled in a world she cannot escape the love between Nikki & her son is put to the kind of test no mother should ever have to face... ...

Travis Parker has everything a man could want: a good job; loyal friends; his dream home in small-town North Carolina. In full pursuit of the good life he believes that a serious relationship with a woman would only cramp his style. That is until Gabby Holland moves in next door. Despite Traviss attempts to be friendly she seems to have a chip on her shoulder about him. But something compels Travis to get to know his new neighbour. His persistent efforts lead them both to make tough decisions the consequences of which neither could have foreseen. The Choice confronts us with that most heart-wrenching question of all: how far would you go to keep the hope of love alive? ...

Choose from two very relaxing & body enhancing ayurvedic packages that when you walk away from your experience you will have a deep sense of calm well-being & refreshment. Choose between the Raj package where you will have an initial consultation followed by Abhyanga; a relaxing full body massage with gentle choreographed rhythmic massage uses a variety of techniques to enhance skin tone detoxify & revitalise your entire body to induce deep relaxation. It uses warm herb-infused oils specifically tailored to your individual needs. The combination of herbalised oils & gentle warmth make this massage a deeply restful & rejuvenating experience. Then enjoy Shirodhara a stress-relieving oil flow; this treatment offers one of the most divine & tranquil experiences available. After a relaxing massage of the head & neck you lie face up while a warm stream of oil is carefully poured onto the middle of your forehead or your third eye". The herbal oil blended specially for your constitution often engenders a powerful meditative experience reflected in a new sense of calmness & serenity that you will not have experienced before. Or perhaps choose the Shanti package where after an initial consultation it will be followed by either an Abhyanga massage (see description above) Marma Abhyanga; this body oil treatment utilises traditional herbal oils to restore dosha balance through vital energy points. Marma are positions on the body where flesh veins tendons bones & joints meet. It is at these points where herbal oil can most effectively rebalance the system for optimum health. The magical experience of marma therapy uses warm essential oils customised to you to stimulate the vital energy points for restoration & rejuvenation awakening your inner healing system or a Vishesh Deep Tissue massage followed by a shankara facial; cleanse & purify with this rejuvenating facial therapy designed to awaken your inner beauty. Gentle extensive exfoliation & thorough extractions highlight this treatment in which a customised serum & mask soothe irritation & enhance cellular renewal. The treatment concludes with a nurturing hand & foot massage. Finish your treatment with Hast Abhyanga; an indulgent treatment awakens the vital energy areas in your hands wrists & arms. It is a rejuvenating experience that releases deeply felt tension & leaves you relaxed & balancedand then finally Pad Abhyanga; a traditional treatment awakens the vital energy areas in your soles feet calves & shins. It is a rejuvenating experience that releases deeply felt tension & leaves you relaxed & balanced. At the end of your treatments you will be given a customised bag which will include massage oil skincare products & ayurvedic tea." ...

In the gentle precinct of Aldminster Cathedral crisis loomed. The urbane & worldly Dean (Purdey guns & the regular arrival of a delivery van from Berry Brothers) wanted nothing so much as to restore & beautify his beloved Cathedral
- even if it meant sacrificing the Choir School to pay for it. Alexander Troy Headmaster of the school a conscientious man somewhat out of his depth with his elusive & poetical wife (once seen walking barefoot in the dew across the Cathedral Close) was determined that nothing & no-one
- certainly not the overbearing Dean
- should destroy the Choir. As the rift widened into machiavellian

Dimensions many others found themselves caught in the schism
- Leo Beckford brilliant but wayward organist repelling the adoration of the Dean's dreadful daughter
- the gentle left-wing Bishop trying to soothe the angry protagonists
- Sally Ashworth mother of the leading chorister fighting loneliness & an erring & absent husb&. Each frail & human dilemma took its part in the greater turmoil of Chapter & Close & the final battle for the survival of the Choir.







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Those melodies the pitch harmonies & Rhythms those are the maps & guides to the Promised L&. Not on this earth but elsewhere... Determined to make his mark like those before him Pharus is hell-bent on being the best choir leader in the schools fifty-year history. First he must gain the respect of his peers but hes an outsider in a world steeped in rites & rituals a community that demands he conform. Tarell Alvin Mc Craneys piercing new play set in an all boys all black American prep school scores a gospel refrain of the politics of minority & masculinity. Choir Boy" premiered at the Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court London in September 2012. It was commissioned by & is a co-production with Manhattan Theatre Club & was supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation." ...

The hugely popular Gareth Malone recounts the heart-warming stories & transformations behind the award-winning BBC2 series The Choir including the new series Sing While You Work. For the first time Gareth reveals everything he has learned from working with so many groups of memorable people including the record-breaking Military Wives & latest series of The Choir being shown this Autumn. Gareth was an unknown Choirmaster when he arrived on British TV screens five years ago. Boyish irrepressible & determined Gareth took on a collection of kids from the most unlikely comprehensive & turned them into a talented performing choir. This was the beginning of a national love affair with a bow-tied & undeniably charming young man & it was also the start of a national rediscovery of the joy to be found in choirs. Since then each series of The Choir has gone on to even more demanding challenges taking young offenders to Glyndebourne regenerating disparate & far from affluent communities & finally in an extraordinarily emotional journey Gareth took a group of women whose partners were serving in Afghanistan to a Christmas Number One. This Autumn in a new four-part series Gareth will be challenging four new Choirs to compete against each other. This is his memoir of a period in which he transformed the lives of thousands but also gained a lifetime's worth of experience in human frailty & strength. Written with real joy emotion & amusement the twenty chapters each deal with an individual moment
- both break-throughs & disasters
- or an individual character that has contributed to this extraordinary adventure. Whether he is explaining the importance of biscuits or the role of the elderly in a community undertaking remembering the scrappy kid who never quite delivered or the mother who had most to prove this is an incredibly moving journey. It is his adventure...and ours.

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They are the Choirboys
- the patrol squad of the LA Police attempting to stay sane in an insane world. The Choirboys are five sets
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Victor Mancini has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mothers hospital care: pretend to be choking on a piece of food in a restaurant & the person who saves you will feel responsible for you for the rest of their lives. Multiply that a couple of hundred times & you generate a healthy flow of cheques week in week out. Victor also works at a theme park with a motley group of losers cruises sex addiction groups for action & visits his mother whose Alzheimers disease now hides what may be the startling truth about his parentage. ...