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This 304 page cookbook offers 225 easy-to-make recipes. There are recipes with zucchini as the main ingredient and many illustrate ways to subtly incorporate this delectable vegetable into a dish.

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Discover 85 recipes for homemade cheeses and other dairy products, including teaching basic cheese-making techniques that employ the freshest ingredients and offer the satisfaction of turning out coveted delicacies. Home Cheese Making includes step-by-step recipes are cheddar, Gouda and a 30-minute mozzarella. Other dairy recipes include yogourt, keifer, sour cream and buttermilk.

About the author:

Ricki Carroll is the founder of the New England Cheesemaking Supply Company, in Ashfield, Massachusetts, which has been offering cheese support and expertise since 1978.

Recommended Product for Wiser Living: Today, more than ever before, our society is seeking ways to live more conscientiously. To help bring you the very best inspiration and information about greener, more sustainable lifestyles, MOTHER EARTH NEWS is recommending books and products to its readers. For more than 30 years, MOTHER EARTH NEWS has been North America’s “Original Guide to Living Wisely,” creating books and magazines for people with a passion for self-reliance and a desire to live in harmony with nature.

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In this 231-page book, author Ben Watson explores the cultural and historical roots of cider. He introduces us to the different styles of cider and gives complete instructions on how to make them at home with minimal time and equipment. This is sure to interest not only apple aficionados, but anyone who appreciates good food and drink. As seen in the Seed Savers Exchange catalog.

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This 215-page book by a leading expert on Amish cooking highlights traditional and contemporary recipes adapted from the kitchens and pantries of Amish cooks. Delicious and savory recipes fill this book with some of the best food you'll find anywhere.

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This collection of tried-and-true recipes represents the culinary skills of Old Order Mennonite and Amish cooks throughout North America. Many of these dishes have been handed down from generation to generation. This 368-page book also offers some of the stories, spiritual nuggets, and "chit-chat" that exemplify the Plain People's way of life.

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A unique collection of nutrition and historical information regarding the sweet potato in a variety of civilizations, such as the Inca, Aztec and Chinese. More than 100 mouth-watering sweet potato recipes that reflect modern lifestyles also are included in this 224 page book.

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This 336-page book compiles more than 15 years of groundbreaking work into an accessible food reference, filled with the flavors, preparations and lessons of the world's great cusines and cooks. An eclectic resource to be sampled or savored, The Oldways Table is a treasury of great recipes, a dietary guide and an informed tribute to the worlds' most influential food traditions.

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Simple grains yield rich breads that range from the mystically light to the substantially chewy. These breads offer incontestable food value and flavor, and will satisfy and delight those sensitive to nutritional concerns.

The very act of bread baking itself provides a welcome diversion from the computer screen or office — and a gratifying result, no matter one’s other occupations!

Two sisters, whose family has operated a mill for two generations producing stone-ground flours, provide these recipes from family and neighbors in West Virginia.

Here are more than 180 recipes for breads, sweet rolls, international grain dishes and desserts. Each recipe is explained in thorough detail for novice as well as experienced baker.

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From best-selling author, Wanda E. Brunstetter, comes the must-have cookbook of the season. Her Amish Friends Cookbook collection is a treasure trove of recipes and interesting facts from the heart of Amish country. Recipes are divided into sections including breads and rolls, desserts, main dishes, sides, jams, jellies and more! You'll find only the best of home cooking between the pages of this delightful book.