Roost Books

Heirloom: Time-Honored Techniques, Nourishing Traditions, and Modern Recipes

Where cooking and baking traditions meet contemporary flavors—120 deeply nourishing, seasonal recipes and a guide to the plants and traditional preserving techniques that inspire them.Sarah Owens is a horticulturalist, baker and a cook with an insatiable curiosity for global food traditions. Her reverence for plants fuels her passion for bringing out their best flavors in the kitchen. In …

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Prep: The Essential College Cookbook

A simple guide to one of life’s most essential skills: cooking.   New to the kitchen? Living on your own for the first time? Don’t be intimidated! This useful guide has everything you need to cook yourself real meals with real food. Centered around 10 basic lessons to get you comfortable in the kitchen, this book will …

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Japanese Home Cooking: Simple Meals, Authentic Flavors

The essential guide to Japanese home cooking–the ingredients, techniques, and core recipes–for seasoned cooks and beginners who are craving authentic Japanese flavors.The art of Japanese cooking lies in the twin appreciation of ingredients and process. Using high-quality, in-season ingredients in simple preparations is the way of Japanese home cooking that Sonoko Sakai promotes in this book of essential …

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Double Awesome Chinese Food: Irresistible and Totally Achievable Recipes from Our Chinese-American Kitchen

Wildly inventive Chinese-American home cooking from the siblings behind Boston’s acclaimed Mei Mei restaurant.Too intimidated to cook Chinese food at home but crave those punchy flavors? Not anymore. Put down that takeout kung pao chicken and get in the kitchen! Full of irresistible recipes that marry traditional Asian ingredients with comforting American classics and seasonal ingredients, Double Awesome …

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Coco Cake Land: Cute and Pretty Party Cakes to Bake and Decorate

Create your very own cute and crafty party cakes–cake decorating designs from Lyndsay Sung, creator of Coco Cake Land.Make the cutest cakes in town with Coco Cake Land! With a colorful, vintage-meets-modern aesthetic that is inspired by kawaii cute, the thirty cake decorating projects in this book offer a fun and playful approach to making cakes that even …

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More with Less: Whole Food Cooking Made Irresistibly Simple

A sophisticated, yet simple take on cooking with whole foods—filled with creative combinations that use fewer ingredients to elevate everyday fare into something extraordinary.This is not your average healthy cookbook. This is slow food fast. This is high-impact flavor in ten ingredients or less. This is clean eating for the modern palate and schedule. …

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Simply Vibrant: All-Day Vegetarian Recipes for Colorful Plant-Based Cooking

A colorful take on whole foods cooking–everyday dishes that are seasonal, clean, and nourishing, from the author of The Vibrant Table.With everyday recipes inspired by the seasons and practical preparations, Anya Kassoff leads the way to colorful, internationally-flavored foods that delight the palate and the eyes. This book offers a modern way to eat—breaking the boundaries between sweet …

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Radiant: The Cookbook

Turn your pantry into a storehouse of beauty fuel — and you’ll begin to radiate health from the inside out.Discover the unadulterated, exquisite flavors and healing magic of whole foods. With a passion for kitchen alchemy using ingredients that will make you positively glow, chef and nutritionist Malfalda Pinto Leite will show you how you have everything you …

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Southern from Scratch: Pantry Essentials and Down-Home Recipes

A guide to Southern scratch cooking—150 recipes for pantry essentials and modern twists on traditional recipes.Build a from-scratch Southern pantry with 50 essential recipes, then discover the versatility and flexibility of cooking from your larder with 100 more recipes for fresh takes on Southern favorites. Learn how to make the most of local ingredients with recipes for pickles …

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Tasty. Naughty. Healthy. Nice.: Whole Food Made Sinfully Delicious-Over 135 Recipes for Gluten-Free, Sugar-Free, and Dairy-Free Eating

Energy-boosting recipes for glowing health from the “queen of guilt-free gobbling.”Like many of us, Susan Jane White spent a long time fighting her body, riding the wheat-sugar-dairy merry-go-round, thinking her diet couldn’t possibly be the reason she felt so ill. Once she liberated herself from that circuit, she discovered a whole world of fabulous ingredients to explore.  Tasty. …

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