Healthy Thai Cooking or Garlic Testament

Healthy Thai Cooking

Author: Owen

Healthy Thai Cooking offers dozens of delicious and healthful recipes, each one accompanied by a complete nutritional profile. Recipes include savory snacks such as Steamed Fish Dumplings; restorative soups and bright salads; light fish and poultry main courses like Steamed Mussels with Basil and Green Curry with Chicken; tasty and satisfying vegetarian offerings; an arsenal of sauces, relishes, and pickles; and, to perfectly punctuate the meal, a selection of Thai sweets that are guaranteed to give brownies a run for their money. Also featured in the book are 80 stunning full-color photographs designed both to help you achieve the finished product, and to give you imaginative ideas for presentation and serving accompaniments.

Interesting textbook: La conducción y la Dirección en Enfermería

Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm

Author: Stanley G Crawford

From his small farm high in the Sangre de Cristo mountains, the award-winning author of Mayordomo explores the vivid mysteries of earth, wind, water, seed, bulb, and stalk. Autumn tillings, parakeet-blue winter days, and rich, hectic weeks in summer when garlic, basil, flowers, and vegetables are harvested for markets in Taos and Santa Fe--each season transforms both the landscape and the remarkable plant, top-setting garlic, that has become Stanley Crawford's passion. Sizing up the gap between textbook farming and learning from the land itself, Crawford here explores the intimate, exhilarating relationship that develops between a farmer and the earth that slowly yields to his labors. Crawford was an "over-educated" Anglo writer who came to live in a small Hispanic village in northern New Mexico. There he learned from neighbors how to shape adobe bricks from mud and with them build a house; learned the complex, humbling arts of plowing and fertilizing. Discovering the original life cycle of garlic, selling his organic produce in Los Alamos, where the first atomic bombs were constructed, and raising a magpie are some of the adventures of this contemporary Thoreau. These are woven into a wry, lyrical, and thoroughly engrossing exploration of what it means to live on, and with, the land. Threaded with the history and culture of a plant prized since ancient times, A Garlic Testament is soul food not just for gardeners, but for all who hunger after a way of life that nourishes both body and spirit.

Publishers Weekly

More than 20 years ago, Crawford ( Mayordomo ) and his wife Rosemary settled in a mountain valley an hour outside of Santa Fe. They made the adobe bricks with which they built a house and started both to raise a family and to work what is now a four-acre farm. While the author writes that they ``were a little too old to be hippies, though we tried,'' the couple's turning to the land was a thoughtful, considered move. This elegant and unsentimental account of how Crawford learned to grow his principal crop, garlic, and what that process has revealed about himself and his place in the world is probing. An eloquent paean to physical effort and to the land he cares for and depends on, his chronicle is a treasure trove of planting lore, from the autumn planting of garlic cloves to the winter-long ``hibernation,'' the sighting of first shoots in spring, the formation of seed stalks in early summer, the harvesting soon after, and the less satisfying process, to him, of selling his produce, including statice and squash, at farmers' markets in Santa Fe and Los Alamos. Crawford's keen observations, penned in well-hewn prose, are as reflectively nurtured and pungently powerful as his crop of choice. (Mar.)