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Bestselling cake decorating author and world-renown sugarcraft teacher, Lindy Smith shows you how to create remarkable wedding cakes with the minimum of fuss. The wedding cake is the centre of any bride's big day, and having a design that is contemporary yet doesn't cost the earth is high on the agenda. This book will show you how to create a wide range of styles for modern wedding cakes, using the latest trends in cake decorating and wedding design, for a DIY wedding cake book like no other! Designs include a popular Zentangle-inspired cake, mosaics, metallics, beads, fringes, frills, and more. A section on making edible paper flowers means you can mix and match the blooms on your cakes and create beautiful cake flowers that will not wilt on the big day. Broken down into manageable stages by Lindy's trademark high number of step photographs, readers will be bursting to try these exciting and contemporary cake decorating techniques. With achievable wedding cake designs and accessible cake decorating techniques, this book covers the whole process of making a wedding cake–from conception to construction to decoration and even demolition!

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Create breathtakingly beautiful lace cakes with acclaimed cake designer and bestselling author Zoe Clark. Features 12 elegant and exquisite lace cake designs for weddings and special occasions in a variety of colorways. Innovative new products such as Sugarveil and Cake Lace are explored, along with established techniques including embossing, applique, piping and brushwork. Each main cake is presented alongside a smaller spin-off idea, showing you how the effects can also be applied to cookies, mini cakes and fondant fancies to complement the theme. Tried and tested recipes, informative step-by-step photography, practical instructions and helpful tips make this the definitive guide to lace cakes.

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From, Lindy Smith, the author of the international bestsellers The Contemporary Cake Decorating Bible and Creative Colour for Cake Decorating , this is the definitive guide to mini cakes. It is perfect for beginners and more experienced cake crafters alike with 30 projects providing detailed step-by-step instructions supported by beautiful and helpful photography, making mini cakes achievable for all.

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Ruth Clemens, finalist on BBC's highly successful TV series The Great British Bake Off , shares her delicious bread recipes, fitting for all occasions. Each of the 30 recipes shows you how to get confident with straightforward doughs, to progress to pre-ferments and experiment with further methods. Along with clear step-by-step instructions, the recipes are crammed with tips and tricks to ensure that you'll be turning out delicious homemade loaves in next to no time.

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Chic & Unique Vintage Cakes : Bestselling cake decorating author Zoe Clark shows you how to take inspiration from your favourite vintage clothing, furniture, items and keepsakes to create stunning vintage cake designs. From elegant tiered lace and floral cakes to amazing jewellery box and carousel shaped novelty cakes, each of the 10 incredible cake designs is accompanied by two smaller designs for vintage-inspired cupcakes, cookies, fondant fancies and more. Includes all the cake recipes you need, and simple step by step instruction for all the essential cake decorating techniques, from covering cakes and stacking tiered cakes, to piping royal icing and stenciling. Zoe even breaks down advanced suspension techniques into easy to follow steps so that you can create stunning shaped novelty cake designs at home. Includes a wide range of cake decorating projects so you'll be sure to find something to suit your own experience level, whether you are a beginner or a cake design expert!

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Cake decorating is the perfect way to celebrate at any time of the year, and this book is packed with colorful cake designs for every occasion. Features 10 chapters each with a stunning main cake design and two co-ordinating smaller treats, including cupcakes, minicakes, cookies, fondant fancies and chocolates. Step-by-step illustrated instructions cover every essential technique, such as making sugar flowers, piping and stencilling.

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A New York Times and Food & Wine Best Wine Book of 2019Italy’s Native Wine Grape Terroirs is the definitive reference book on the myriad crus and the grand cru wine production areas of Italy’s native wine grapes. Ian D’Agata’s approach to discussing wine, both scientific and discursive, provides an easy-to-read, enjoyable guide to Italy’s best terroirs. Descriptions are enriched with geologic data, biotype and clonal information, producer anecdotes and interviews, and facts and figures compiled over fifteen years of research devoted to wine terroirs. In-depth analysis is provided for the terroirs that produce both the well-known wines (Barolo, Chianti Classico, Brunello di Montalcino) and those not as well-known (Grignolino d’Asti, Friuli Colli Orientali Picolit, Ischia). Everyday wine lovers, beginners, and professionals alike will find this new book to be the perfect complement to D’Agata’s previous award-winning Native Wine Grapes of Italy.

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The concept of <I>terroir</I> is one of the most celebrated and controversial subjects in wine today. Most will agree that well-made wine has the capacity to express &ldquo;somewhereness,&rdquo; a set of consistent aromatics, flavors, or textures that amount to a signature expression of place. But for every advocate there is a skeptic, and for every writer singing praises related to <I>terroir</I> there is a study or a detractor seeking to debunk <I>terroir</I> as myth.&#160;<I>Wine and Place</I>&#160;examines <I>terroir</I> using a multitude of voices and points of view&mdash;from winemakers to wine critics, from science to literature&mdash;seeking not to prove its veracity but to explore its pros, cons, and other aspects. This comprehensive anthology lets readers come to their own conclusions about<I> terroir</I>.

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With a uniquely balanced combination of salty, sweet, sour, and spicy flavors, Thai food burst onto Los Angeles&rsquo;s and America&rsquo;s culinary scene in the 1980s. <I>Flavors of Empire</I> examines the rise of Thai food and the way it shaped the racial and ethnic contours of Thai American identity and community. Full of vivid oral histories and new archival material, this book explores the factors that made foodways central to the Thai American experience. Starting with American Cold War intervention in Thailand, Mark Padoongpatt traces how informal empire allowed U.S. citizens to discover Thai cuisine abroad and introduce it inside the United States. When Thais arrived in Los Angeles, they reinvented and repackaged Thai food in various ways to meet the rising popularity of the cuisine in urban and suburban spaces. Padoongpatt opens up the history and politics of Thai food for the first time, all while demonstrating how race emerges in seemingly mundane and unexpected places.

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&ldquo;An important new book on Chianti Classico: Winners of the Andr&eacute; Simon 2013 award for their book&#160;The World of Sicilian Wine, Nesto and Di Savino have produced the investigative, scholarly and detailed book that Chianti Classico has long deserved. Nesto and Di Savino are brilliant historic investigators. . . . A must-read for anyone seriously interested in wine.&rdquo;&mdash;Walter Speller,&#160;JancisRobinson.com This book tells the story of the ancient land named Chianti and the modern wine appellation known as Chianti Classico. In 1716, Tuscany&rsquo;s penultimate Medici ruler, Cosimo III, anointed the region of Chianti, along with three smaller areas in the Florentine State, as the world&rsquo;s first legal appellations of origin for wine. In the succeeding centuries, this milestone was all but forgotten. By the late nineteenth century, the name Chianti, rather than signifying this historic region and its celebrated wine, identified a simple Italian red table wine in a straw-covered flask. &#160; In the twenty-first century, Chianti Classico emerged as one of Italy&rsquo;s most dynamic and fashionable wine zones. Chianti Classico relates the fascinating evolution of Chianti as a wine region and reveals its geographic and cultural complexity. Bill Nesto, MW, and Frances Di Savino explore the townships of Chianti Classico and introduce readers to the modern-day winegrowers who are helping to transform the region. The secrets of Sangiovese, the principal vine variety of Chianti, are also revealed as the book unlocks the myths and mysteries of one of Italy&rsquo;s most storied wine regions. The publication of Chianti Classico coincides with the three hundredth anniversary of the Medici decree delimiting the region of Chianti on September 24, 1716.Winner of the following awards: 2016 Andr&eacute; Simon Food &amp; Drink Book Award: Drink Books Category 2017 International Organization of Vines and Wine: Jury Award, Monographs 2017 International World Cookbook Awards:&#160;Sustainable, For the Public Category 2017 Gourmand International World Cookbook Awards: Drink Special Awards Category &#160;

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