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A serial arsonist has struck again, torching a New Orleans bar and killing fifteen people, including the wife of a Mafia crime boss. His next victim is a beautiful socialite set aflame in her Mercedes. Detective Teresa Vincent is assigned the case and she teams up with Fire Marshall Cort Gamble, the sexy creole who is tops on the list of New Orleans most eligible bachelors. Cort is rumored to have mob connections, but it's his connection to Terri that's too hot to forget-a past as sultry as a Louisiana summer night. Now they're shadowing a killer with an unfathomable motive of revenge: to finish off every woman Cort ever loved in a trial by fire.
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i dont think 5 stars are enough!!.......2006-06-07
i just finished reading the book, which i started reading yesterday and omg its amazing, before reading this book you should read jessica hall's "into the fire"
this book is so amazing! i couldnt put it down, jessica hall is such a good writer, i cant even begin to describe how amazing the experince was when reading this book!
"Heat" doesn;' begin to describe this.......2006-06-01
If you only buy one book this year, make this the one. Hall has done it again, only better. If you loved Into the Fire, you'll definitely want Heat of the Moment. The chemistry between fire marshal Cort and detective Teri is so combustible it leaps off the pages. With an isolated night of passioj still simmering between them, these two are determined to rub each other the wrong way. But when Teri is picked to pay Cort's girl friend in order to capture a serial killer who's after the women in his life, the chemistry between them really heats up. And I guarantee you, aftewr you read this book, you'll never look at a Harley the same way again. If you love exotic cities like New Orleans, dark heroes and heroiones who crawl into your heart and stay there, and a fast-paced story of suspense, this is the book for you.
Miss Congeniality meets Back Draft.......2006-05-08
Estranged from her family, Terri Vincent is a tough talking, curse spewing, no-nonsense homicide detective in New Orleans. When her partner is away on his honeymoon, she takes the time to put in for a temporary transfer to the Organized Crime Unit. Mostly to avoid sexy fire marshal Cort Gamble, with whom she had a steamy one night stand months earlier.
But the OCU is determined to link them together, when some suspicious arson cases that resulted in deaths are linked to Cort, and the mafia. Her assignment is to get close to Cort and find out if he is dirty or not.
The chemistry between Terri and Court is scorching. Everyone around them seems to know what both of them are trying to ignore. When it is determined that the arsonist is targeting women who love Cort, Terri is asked to pose as his lover. Soon the two are sharing close quarters as well as repeats of past transgressions (who thought you could do that on a motorcycle).
Author Hall uses chemistry and some really great secondary characters (like Cort's mother Elizabet and her best friend, wise-cracking make-over guru, Andre) to move the story along. The end was a little off for me. After such a great build up, we really deserved a more believable ending. This is a sequel to "Into the Fire," which I did not realize until after I got into the book. It can stand on its own, but you may want to read the other one first for background.
MY KIND OF BOOK! GREAT CHARACTERS AND GOOD SUSPENSE.......2006-01-14
I love this book - I hate romantic suspense where the female is so unbelievably perfect - like her as a gritty heroine and I am partial to books where the characters have a lot of animosity - until near the end - highly recommended - liked her other book I read as well. Great writing!
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Really 4 1/2 stars .......2006-01-08
Just think Miss Congeniality and this is what youve got. Terri is a humorous smart ass, tomboy cop who comes from the Bayou and Cort is a reserved Alpha Male who comes from a wealthy family. Both try to fight their feelings for each other between finding a murderer and having sexy interactions.
I love love love Terri, she is sooo damn funny, (and not in that generic humorous way that most authors try to fork off on readers , this is good writing)I found myself trying to remember her wisecracks and saving them for myself. Hall is able to develop such a rich character in Terri when it seems some authors dont bother with the effort. Usually you get the virtuous cinderalla who says and does all she needs to do in order to keep the story going. Terri's character was not like that, youll love this story not only for its sexual chemistry and action but also for Terri, great `character, my favorite.
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Heat of the Moment.......2006-11-10
Bomb tech Liam O'Rourke had earned the nickname Love'em and Leave'em Liam until he met her. After that disastrous one night stand Liam spent months trying to find her but he only knew her first name. Little did he know two years later he would be saving her life. Photographer Kate Chabeau has been receiving threats that tend to disintegrate after opening, now those have upgraded to a bomb in her car. Liam is the last person Kate expected to see in her final moments, luckily Liam has the best hands in the Western Hemisphere. Liam and his devoted K-9 partner, Murphy are now in charge of protecting Kate from the bomber who is hunting her. Can Kate overcome her fear of fierce dogs? Can Liam keep Kate alive while fighting the passion that never died out?
'Liam and Murphy have only twenty-four hair-raising hours to accomplish their most difficult mission: diffuse Kate's mistrust and win her heart... before their time runs out.'
Third in the series and this one is exciting. It's a great story filled with passion and adventure and I couldn't put it down. Diana Duncan has a wonderful way of getting you into the minds of the characters and the adventures they take you on. I love this series and can't wait to hear Grady's story!
Another O'Rourke winner.......2006-08-30
This book keeps up the the same excellent quality as the other three books about the O'Rourke brothers. I enjoyed every page & couldn't put it down until the I finished it. She really keeps the bad guys hidden. Never would have suspected who it turned out to be. Am looking forward to the book about Grady. These books will become a permanent part of my Library.
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Heat of the Moment (Black Lace)
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Amber, Sue and Diane - three women from an English market town - are successful in their businesses, but all want more from their private lives. When they become involved in The Silver Banner - an English Civil War re-enactment society - there's plenty of opportunity for them to fraternise with handsome muscular men in historical uniforms. Thing is, the fun-loving Cavaliers are much sexier than the Puritan Roundheads, and tensions and rivalries are played out on the village green and the bedroom. Great characterisation and oodles of sexy fun in this story of three friends who love dressing up for a romp.
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Not exactly scorching.......2003-08-12
Hazel is supposed to love sex but the voice in the novel is very dull and ho hum, quite jevenile in fact, and she has a active fantasy life but there is little actual heat in what she does. Bum fixations are getting kind of passe. Skip this one unless you are really hard up and don't mind grammar errors and dumb heroines.
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o.k. read.......2001-08-01
this book starts off nicely, it grabs your attention. Molly Sinclair has come to a small town in west Texas trying to find the man responsible for her father's death, who used to work in the oil fields. She suspects Chet Delaney, the hero, and keeping her identity a secret, decides to get to know him to drag information out of him. Halfway through the book, you want her real identity to be revealed. The author knows how to drag it on.
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HEAT OF THE MOMENT.
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Heat Of The Moment
Philippa Blake
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A first class novel of family secrets and tragedy. Michael's passage through life has been as exemplary as it was predictable : Eton, Cambridge and a promising career in the city. All thats missing is a suitable wife, a girl with breeding and good sense who will second him in everything. And then Michael meets and falls for Olivia. Frank, headstrong and unconventional, she turns his well ordered life upside down. Suddenly Olivia disappears, and Michael abandons his city life to go in search of her. The journey ahead demands a courage and tenacity he didn't know he possessed as he follows a trail of torment and personal tragedy. Ultimately, he must unravel a terriblefamily secret to discover what happened in the heat of the moment all those years ago.
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The Heat of the Moment
Kay Gregory
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- 4.5 stars-ignore the bad reviews-this IS worth your time
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The White Tribunal
Paula Volsky
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Release Date: 1998-08-03 |
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In a land pockmarked with the grim relics of a long-ago war live a people consumed by the fear of magic. Those suspected of sorcery die at the hands of the infamous White Tribunal. And death and terror will reign until a young man pawns his soul for the temporary power to destroy his murdered father's false accusers.
Now, disguised as a foreigner and with his time measured by the sands of a magical hourglass, Tradain liMarchborg enters the capital city of Lis Folaze, stronghold of the White Tribunal's power. Here his path will cross that of the beautiful Glennian liTarngrav, whose own mission will lock them together in a vortex of love, revenge, death, and enchantment that could save a land...or thrust them both--as Tradain's hourglass sands run out--into eternal torment.
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4.5 stars-ignore the bad reviews-this IS worth your time.......2007-03-03
I'm going to be real honest here and admit that the reviews I read for this book made no sense for me-I bought it purely because of who the author is. Turns out that was a good decision because this just might be the best of Paula Volsky's books.
As basically every other reviewer has said, the premise of this book is based on the "Count of Monte Cristo"-now I said the premise-the whole book is not, and I say that having read the aforementioned book. The main character, Tradain, is the youngest son of a noble family. At the beginning of the book he's out exploring the ruins of an old house-the mansion of an old sorcerer killed by a mob for his crimes (hint hint HINT!!!!!) predictably for Tradain, he's followed by young Glennian, a noble daughter of another house, the daughter of his father's best friend who in spite of the fact that she's a musical prodigy and completely eidetic (photographic memory) tends to follow him like a puppy. The girl warns him her father is leaving the country the next day in fear of the white tribunal (a sort of witch hunting agency/inquisition for sorcerers.) Surprise, surprise when in the middle of the night our hero wakes up to his whole family (except the stepmom) being arrested by the soldiers of the light-even him, even though at 13, he's a minor.
The next part is almost strait out of "Count of Monte Cristo", we have a prison on a rock in the water, an old, old man with helpful intentions, a secret stash of power with great consequences behind it-and a never ending quest for revenge. But the thing about revenge is, if you let it consume your life, if it become the only thing you are, the only thing you care about, what happens when you finish your work?
Throw in a short time line measured by a magic hourglass (it shows how much power our hero has expended) a romance, a country in uprising against unfair use of the justice system and what do you get-a good book. Is at as tightly written as "illusion"-no, it's not. And as usual with Volsky, the romance needs serious editing, but it's also not as bland in spots as "The Grand Ellipse." And the religion is just fascinating!
You see sorcerers get their power from beings that the people in this book call "malevolence's" these are considered to be of the same species as their god, who is seen as an anomaly among the species who fights against these evil gods to protect humanity. Humans can barter their souls to the evil gods and get magical power-but it's limited and illegal and seen as hurting the good god. Just keep in mind while you're reading this book that all religion is based on the assumption that you can place total faith in something can that can never be proved-only in the case you can reach out and communicate with the gods-if you happen to be a sorcerer. So only those who commit acts abhorred by society can really know anything-true or false-about the accepted religion.
Interested yet?
Ignore the bad reviews, this is worth your time. Four point five stars.
A bit surprised..........2005-07-21
This was the first Paula Volsky book that I read, and I am a little surprised at the reviews of it seen here. It was a good book(although a bit convoluted at times). It is definitely a good read for a cold wintry day when you can sit and read without distractions. Hope my rating helps because its definately worth more than 3 stars.
Unoriginal.......2005-02-20
Standard formula for Paula Volsky books: 1) Choose a major historical event, 2) Change the name of the country that event occurred in to something vaguely fantasy-sounding, 3) insert one each of two dimensional major female and male characters, 4) add some sort of "deity" or quasi-mystical sorcery of some sort so she can say she's written something original.
That was the way the first few books went and while they were readable, they weren't anything worth looking at twice. This book is different. Not because it's better, but because it adds a twist to the "formula." Instead of just ripping off a historical event, this one hacks the plots of two popular works. Basically, mix the Spanish Inquisition with "Faust" and "The Count of Monte Cristo" and you have the major body of this book. No effort required on the author's part. All she added were poorly developed major characters and another one of her "Awareness," deity-like beings that have never fit in well with the worlds she "creates" in any of the books.
This book is still readable and if you're still in high school, then I suppose this will seem novel and original to you. If, however, you know your history and did a bit of reading in the classics, then there's nothing here you haven't seen before.
on characters.......2004-11-13
i feel like all of the people who said that the characters are flat weren't thinking of real people.
One problem I have is that Tradain sort of *is* the book. We get a veiw of thrid person limited from the antagonists almost soley when we are watching his magic. I think that if there were atleast a prologue building Gnaus as a character, and highlighting his break from liMarchborg and liTarngrav that would have improved out sense of the character. More history on how and why the witch-hunts grew so visious, and why people were so afraid to come out against them might have been nice too. Maybe she was afraid of ripping off illusion.
As far as complaints about Tradain.... what kind of character would you expect after what he goes through? I'm familiar (to a degree) with the psych of trauma. He shows some of the traits beautifully.
The person who suggested that reading the Compte of Monet Crisco may have been right that you need some sort of background that most people don't have to appreciate this book.
As far as Glennian goes I don't attribute her offer to Xyleel to the budding romance... I attributed it to her ideals, and her demonstrated impulsitivity.
That she doesn't, on her own, recognize Kwieseldt for the treachery he committed makes sense based on numerous theories across various feilds of psych and soc. Even if she did think about it she would probably just have assumed that he agreed with someone else's statement to avoid getting himself thrown in the pot-- much against his will. Some fuel for his paranoia did included that he had been among the most loyal of servants.
I think people didn't like this book because it didn't have a happy ending.
All that aside, I just plain LIKE the book, though i would have given it a 4 if there weren't so many horribly negative reviews.
Caveats all over the place, but I like it anyway.......2001-02-08
The strange thing is, reading the editorial review I couldn't disagree - the thing about "characters by the numbers" is close to being right. Except for one thing: Paula Volsky wrote a good book here, and a rational one.
What's good? The plot - not especially original, perhaps - is that of the innocent wronged. The difference is, unlike the Count of Monte Cristo, the innocent, when he comes to take his revenge, doesn't enjoy it. The first object of his vengeance (incidentally, I wouldn't have bothered with this one) never understands what she did, or why vengeance should be called for. In the second case, though the person involved originally behaved badly, Tradain misses the point of the man's personal redemption, but still feels guilty. As he should.
One comment here - I felt that Volsky could have done a great deal more with the redemption of a human soul here than she did. And Tradain missing the point, or ignoring it, weakened the denoument. It could have been done better, yes, but I was glad to see it done at all.
Another of those quibbles - our heroine, Glennian, somehow doesn't figure out that her guardian is the one who betrayed her family? Huh? This girl's supposed to be a genius, or close to it. Nope, sorry, Paula, you blew that one.
The ironic tone is nice. When your main subject matter is the destruction of the innocent under horrific circumstances, a little distance is necessary. The demonstration, through Aestine and Drempi, of how people end up coerced into supporting the witch-hunt is neatly done. Neither of these two characters is especially strong, and perhaps Volsky slights the process of deliniating character. I would complain that even our main character lacks complexity, except that Volsky deliberately demonstrates how stunted he becomes in solitary confinement. I'm not thrilled, but I enjoyed it so much that I decided that I'd just let it slide while reading it.
Let's not pretend that I didn't like it most because I detest mass hysteria, and the witch-craze makes me more than a little ill. The Tribunal is ugly and deserves its end. The premier jurist, a self-righteous monster, actually was fairly convincing.
The best moments are little sketches: in the years Tradain has been imprisoned, the number of sorcery-repelling charms on the gates of the city have increased from one to six. The fear doesn't diminish, but grows. The White Tribunal takes more and more, and is never satisfied.
Over all, recommended.
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"This book documents Pere Fomrguera's Chronos project, in which he took subjects whose ages ranged from two to seventy-five at the project's beginning, and photographed them once a month over a ten-year period."
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Photos stop time to show life's motion.......2001-04-02
Catalan photographer Pere Formiguera's stunning Cronos isn't about sex. And it's a good thing, too, because otherwise this hefty photographic study might not have, as it has seemed to, flown under Western censors' radar screens.
Formiguera's repeated photographs of family and friends, many nude, chronicle his subjects in the same pose and setting over ten years-- showing, variously, the blooms of pubescence, adulthood, and the gentler transformations of middle and old age.
But on another level, sex is the only topic of this book, which contains exquisite images of the adolescent male, perhaps the human avatar of time's rupture. Birth, puberty, aging, and death are each and together fundamentally sexual: single-celled asexual creatures just divide, never growing, coming of age, declining, or really dying. Being sexual we are "clocks of meat," as poet Allen Ginsberg said famously. Like a strobe, Formiguera's magnificent photos stop the clock precisely to show life's motion.
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Bondades de cronos
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Bondades de Cronos trata sobre las complejidades de la feminidad desde su más radical intimidad. La primera parte, Caos, es un tributo al (des) orden y su simbología. Poemas dimensionales, segunda parte del poemario, representan un proceso de indagación que culmina en la aceptación de la multiplicidad del yo y la fragmentación del sujeto. Especimenes, la última parte, afirma esa multiplicidad en una serie de textos de independencia solo aparente.
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- Three excellent stories which capture the wonder of Sci-Fi.
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Letters to Atlantis: Time travel has allowed Roy?s consciousness to enter the mind of the heir to Atlantis?s throne, and what he found disturbed him. How could such an advanced city exist at this time? The rest of the world was, as Roy?s partner, Lora, discovered in her travels, a dark, barbaric land still thawing from the ice age. Roy knew the island?s fate?according to legend, it would vanish into the sea. But if Roy was in an Atlantis unlike anything the researchers had predicted, then what were its secrets? And when would it be destroyed?
PROJECT PENDULUM: The nature of time mechanics requires that the two travelers? masses be precisely matched; for that reason, the first time travelers must be a pair of identical twins. For paleontologist Sean Gabrielson, the chance to journey back to the age of dinosaurs was worth any risk. For his physicist brother, Eric, the chance to see ninety-five million years in the future was equally irresistible. What neither planned on, however, was how the inhabitants of those times would react to their presence. . . .
THE TIME HOPPERS: In the 25th century, the only escape from suffocation in a totally controlled environment is to "hop" backward through time. However, since time-hopping rearranges the past on which the structure of current existence is based, it must be stopped?but not too quickly. For the history of the 1970s includes the arrival of hoppers who have not yet left the 2490s?and whose departure must be stopped!
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Three excellent stories which capture the wonder of Sci-Fi........2001-09-30
I don't know what is it about modern science fiction, but I haven't read a fantasy or a science fiction book in a quite while which gave me this feeling of wonder. If you don't know what I mean, try reading the "Time Machine" by H.G. Wells.
Nevertheless, this book somehow managed to capture this long lost feeling - and not only once, but three times! Time Travel stories have always been a favorite of mine, so I was delighted to find a collection of three medium sizes time travel stories.
The first story, "Letters from Atlantis" tells about Roy, who is sent 20,000 years back in time. However, Roy does not travel physically - only his mind makes the journey. Upon getting to the past he finds himself inside the mind of the prince of Atlantis (which hasn't been destroyed yet) - and what he sees greatly surprises him... I'm not going to reveal any of the plot, just that it's a good story - even though it's my least favorite of the three.
The second story, "Project Pendulum", is definitely my favorite one. It tells about twin brothers who are sent to a journey through time. However, since matter has to be preserved, whenever one is in the future, the other must be exactly in an identical "amount of time" in the past (So, for example, when the first brother is 50 years in the future, the other brother is exactly 50 years in the past). The way their journey works, is that they increase their interval by 10. The first brother is being sent 5 minutes forward, when the second brother is sent 5 minutes backward, and then the first brother goes 50 minutes forward, and so on: 500 minutes, 5000 minutes, 50,000 minutes, etc. This interval goes to 90 million years in the future and in the past, which is when their journey ends. As you can imagine, since the brothers explore a myriad of timelines, every jump is a story of its own. Robert Silverberg really managed to do it well - he kept every jump interesting while still not repeaeting himself.
The third story, "The Time Hoppers", has a definite Asimovian feel to it. If you liked Isaac Asimov's "The End of Enternity" you will definitely love this story. The story tells about Quellen - a lowly crime investigator living in the 25th century. Appaerntly, the 25th century turns into quite a dystopia. Too many people and too few jobs cause most people to live unemployed and in quite bad conditions. Many have found that the best way to escape this is to jump into the past. However, the government isn't all too happy about this, so assigns Quellen to investigate how this is accomplished and put a stop to this.
Three different stories, all quite different, but all good - I recommend this book to all time travel lovers, and even if you're not really a fan of this sub-genre, you will still probably like these stories.
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Inspired by the success of their James Beard Award-winning work, Onions, Onions, Onions, authors Fred and Linda Griffith now take on another stinky favorite: garlic. Shunned for centuries even in France and Italy because of its strong flavor and odor, garlic was considered a low-class seasoning, only winning wide acceptance in cooking outside working-class kitchens after World War II. Garlic, Garlic, Garlic provides detailed guidance for buying, storing, and preparing garlic, and explains the pros and cons of using a garlic press. There are also 200-plus recipes, many for ethnic dishes rich in garlic. There is Brandade, the creamy French dish made with salt cod, and Spanish Sopa de Ajo, a pungent peasant soup of garlic, bread, and oil with poached eggs. Even cozy macaroni and cheese is punctuated with three pressed, plump cloves of garlic. Dessert is not forgotten- -how about ice cream topped with golden, caramelized Honey-Poached Garlic Sauce for something really different? While only experienced cooks may want to attempt dishes like Veal Brisket Roasted with Garlic, Onions, and Plums, any garlic lover with modest skills can whip up the Special Marinara Sauce or grill the Flank Steak with Balsamic Vinegar Marinade.
The authors delve deep into garlic trivia, exposing quirky garlic lore and beliefs--including the revelation that six heads of this odoriferous cousin to the lily were discovered in King Tut's tomb. And for real garlic junkies, the dates and locations of every garlic festival in the U.S. and Canada are all here. --Dana Jacobi
Book Description
Cover-to-cover fun, jam-packed with recipes and garlic lore, this testimony to the power of garlic is perfect for all lovers of "the stinking rose." In the past decade, garlic consumption has doubled. Garlic is respected not only in gourmet circles but in medical circles as well, for scientific studies have found that it helps lower cholesterol and may ward off colds and even cancer. Garlic, Garlic, Garlic is handsomely illustrated, and sidebars throughout present garlic-powered recipes, profile growers and festivals, give results of taste tests of more than fifty varieties, and explore the role of garlic in movies, songs, and literature, offering every serious and zany fact about garlic that you'd ever want to know. It's the same lusty combination that made Onions, Onions, Onions a bestseller.
Customer Reviews:
Great recipes once past the basics.......2002-11-09
This and other Griffith books are for cooks who are past the neophyte stage and want to dine in style. If you know about Julia Child, I am sure you will approve of them. Their recipes have appeal that far transcends garlic (or onion or whatever) lovers--they are for those who appreciate imaginative food that brings delight to the dinner table.
A Great Cookbook for Garlic Lovers.......2001-12-29
Like many of my cookbooks, this was something I found on the shelf in a bookstore, looked through it, and immediately knew I had to have it.
Since then, it's received quite a bit of heavy use - there are a few certain recipes that the book falls right open to, they've been used so much. Others have yet to be tried, but they look just as delicious and appealing as others.
There is plenty of information on selecting and storing garlic, along with preparing it, and even a selection of trivia and stories, making it more than just a list of recipes using the wonderful ingredient. They also recommend some kitchen tools to make it easier to work with garlic - the garlic peeler they recommend is truly magnificent.
The recipes cover the entire range of foods, from simple appetizers and salads, to fancy main courses - to even a few desserts. I regularly hunt down new recipes I have yet to try, and have not been disappointed with any to date. And the Pork Chops with stuffing recipe in here has become my favorite method of cooking pork.
The recipes are also easy to read and follow - no confusing ingredient listings or unclear instructions.
Great recipes and fun garlic trivia.......1999-01-13
I was pleasantly surprised to find that the authors have real taste and are not merely garlic loving maniacs. Their food is very good (their Brandade was heavenly) and I really enjoyed reading the garlic trivia. This a fun, yet serious cookbook.
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