Betty Crocker ultimate Bisquick cookbook : hundreds of new recipes plus back-of-the-box favorites. <641.5 B565> is the latest cookbook from Betty Crocker. Check it out today to see all the wonderful recipes, and ideas for your next meal.

The End of Food<363.8 R646e> is a very scary thought for all of us, but if you are in the Food industry it could mean less oportunities.

In The End of Food “Paul Roberts turns his attention to the modern food economy and finds that the system entrusted to meet our most basic need is failing.” “In this carefully researched, vivid narrative, Roberts lays out the stark economic realities behind modern food and shows how our system of making, marketing, and moving what we eat is growing less and less compatible with the billions of consumers that system was built to serve.” “Comprehensive in scope and full of fresh insights, The End of Food presents a lucid, stark vision of the future. It is a call for us to make crucial decisions to help us survive the demise of food production as we know it.”–BOOK JACKET.  Check it out today

Take a break from all that cooking and READ about cooking, with a little side of murder. A Catered Halloween  mixes culinary fun with mystery murder. Check it out today!

Look for it in the fiction section on the fourth floor

If you have a creative spirit and want to try your hand at cake and cupcake decorating, Cake Art is for you. Chefs from the CIA’s prestigious Baking and Pastry faculty describe the various techniques and provide easy-to-follow instructions so the home baker can create beautiful cakes and cupcakes. Cake decorating is an activity that can be enjoyed by everyone and children can help with 8 of the 27 projects included in Cake Art.

Around the World in 80 Dinners<641.59 J32a 2008> Chronicles the travels of two veteran cookbook authors (Cheryl and Bill Jamison). Some stops include;Bali, Australia, Thailand, India, China, South Africa, and Brazil. Check out this amazing tale of a culinary adventure through the world.

“There’s a double shot of skepticism in this account of Starbucks’ ascendancy as a permanent fixture in the global landscape written by Clark, a Portland-based journalist, who’s been mulling over Starbucks ever since the coffeehouse chain opened three branches in his small Oregon hometown. His coverage begins with a Seattle trio who set out to emulate the high-quality coffee of the California-based Peet’s chain, before Howard Schultz took over the company and laid plans for its massive expansion. While Clark grudgingly admires Starbucks’ ability to repackage coffee as beverage entertainment for a hyperprosperous society in search of emotional soothing, there’s a lot he doesn’t like about the company. He’s convinced that Starbucks diminishes the world’s diversity by ruthlessly outmaneuvering local competition on a global scale, and dubs the baristas’ work as a textbook McJob. Even the quality of the coffee, he says, has gone downhill. Though Clark loses some of his focus by trying to rope in so many arguments against Starbucks, overall, his dubious perspective on one of the modern world’s most ubiquitous icons is just frothy enough to prove entertaining.” (Nov. 5)
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“Business journalist Blumenthal, like most people, is mystified by the stock market. Just why is it, she wonders, that seemingly good news can send a stock plummeting and bad news can send it skyrocketing again? Here she shows how money is made and lost, by following one of America’s hottest growth stocks, Starbucks, through a year of rapid store openings, fancy new products, and clever promotions, revealing how the many players–big and small investors, company management, analysts, and the media–propel its shares up and down. Blumenthal pulls back the curtain on the stock market to expose its quirks and inner workings, from the power of a penny of earnings and the unexpected impact of a stock split to the image-enhancing effects of a brand of bottled water.”–From publisher description.

Did you ever think those cooking contest are a joke? Well to Ellie Mathews a software development manager thought the same thing, that is until she won the million-dollar prize from the famous Pillsbury bake-off contest. Read about how she did (and find the winning recipe) in Ungarnished Turth (641.5092 M429u).

In this E-book, available through Netlibrary, Sherrie Inness tries to explain how the gendered relationship to food developed over the twentieth century, and why has it proven so enduring.Â

Cooking Up U.S. History: Recipes and Research to Share With Children (Available through Netlibrary) is a great way to teach kids history in a way that really speaks to them