Food

[close] Once in a while, a book comes along that changes how you think, feel, and act every day.In Eat Move Sleep, #1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Rath delivers a book that will improve your health for years to come. While Tom’s bestsellers on strengths and well-being have already inspired more than 5 million people in the last decade, Eat Move Sleep reveals his greatest passion and expertise.

Quietly managing a serious illness for more than 20 years, Tom has assembled a wide range of information on the impact of eating, moving, and sleeping. Written in his classic conversational style, Eat Move Sleep features the most proven and practical ideas from his research. This remarkably quick read offers advice that is comprehensive yet simple and often counterintuitive but always credible.

Eat Move Sleep will help you make good decisions automatic — in all three of these interconnected areas. With every bite you take, you will make better choices. You will move a lot more than you do today. And you will sleep better than you have in years.More than a book, Eat Move Sleep is a new way to live. [close]

[close] Eating Right in America chronicles the dietary reform movements that have shaped ideas about good nutrition and public health in the United States for more than a century. Charlotte Biltekoff's narrative begins in the late nineteenth century and culminates in accounts of two early-twenty-first-century phenomena, the alternative food movement and the campaign against obesity. Analyzing the history that she relates, Biltekoff contends that despite their scientific origins, dietary ideals are also cultural, subjective, and political. The primary aim of teaching people to "eat right" may be to improve health, but the process inevitably involves shaping certain kinds of subjects and citizens, a dynamic that is often overlooked because of our focus on the scientific aspects of dietary advice. [close]

[close] Anyone who has strolled around Venice in search of something to eat will surely have come across cicchetti. They are served in bars, bàcari, and other eateries from late morning onward and are the Venetian equivalent of Spanish tapas and French canapés; irresistible little snacks of every imaginable configuration.

Cicchetti is for those of you in love with Italy and Italian food. Many people find sitting around a table with friends and family to be one of the great joys in life. This book will help bring what wonderful Italian tradition home with regional recipes from all over Italy prepared in irresistible bite-sized portions.

"Small plates" have become popular for both restaurants and now home cooking. From tapas of Spain to the mezze of the Middle East and the canapes of France, finger food allows us to eat almost anything guilt free. The smaller bite-size portions make even the most fattening ingredients consumed without concern.

This book will teach you all about this Venetian tradition while delivering a unique collection of dishes that span the entire country. In no time you'll be serving your friends irresistible little snacks on sticks or on bread with an ombra, as aperitif or for lunch on a plate with a glass of crisp soave. [close]