Chocolate Chip Sweets: Celebrated Chefs Share Favorite Recipes
Tracey Zabar and Ellen Silverman
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A delectable collection of innovative chocolate chip recipes by world-renowned chefs, pastry chefs,...
Cooking with Chocolate: Essential Recipes and Techniques
Frederic Bau and Clay McLachlan
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This comprehensive, practical, and heavily illustrated reference offers the essential building...
Marcus at Home
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Marcus Wareing is a brilliant chef. His restaurant group Marcus Wareing Restaurants includes three...
Good Ideas: How to be Your Child's (and Your Own) Best Teacher
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We live in a world surrounded by all the stuff that education is supposed to be about: machines,...
Bostonian916 (449 KP) rated Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) in Movies
Aug 5, 2020
The primary actors in this movie could make baking bread interesting. Yet somehow, the great Ridley Scott found a way to admonish them to caricatures of their potential.
I don't recall a time where I was more disappointed in a movie. From a visualization standpoint, it was actually very good. From every other standpoint, it was rubbish.
I understand very clearly that any time a film gets made from source material that there will be exception. There is no way to convey everything that can be stated in words onto film. I get that. I actually advocate for not comparing movies to their source material too heavily for this reason. However, the source material should somewhat be represented on some level. In this case, it was not. Not remotely.
In addition to that glaring gaff, the way that the story is actually told is done so in such a muddled way that there isn't a way to actually follow it with any sense of logic whatsoever. Nothing is tied together and things happen completely arbitrarily as if only to extend the length of an already sleep movie.
Maybe I'm missing something, but from what I can see this movie should have stayed on the cutting room floor. To call this an abomination would be a disservice to the word itself.
Dog Days
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George is very angry. His wife has upped and died on him, and all he wants to do is sit in his...
Trigger Warning: domestic abuse Trigger warning: self harm Trigger warning: suicide Trigger warning: homophobia Brighton UK Grief
Seashells , Spells and Caramels
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A magical French island. A dead contestant. An aspiring baker must clear her name before she gets...
Mayhawke (97 KP) rated The Quiche of Death (Agatha Raisin, #1) in Books
Feb 7, 2018
A self-made woman who sells her business and retires early to her dream-cottage in the Cotswolds (furnished by an expensive interior decortator, naturally).
Agatha suddenly finds herself in a completely alien environment. In a effort to make her mark on the village and announce her arrival, she plots to win the village Quiche baking contest. Her plan is simple - she will enter, as her own work, a quiche bought from a top-class delicatessan in London. Unfortunatly for Agatha, the judge dies after eating it and her deception is uncovered. Worse she finds herself being held responsible for his death.
And this is when you start finding your self falling for her. From the moment the plot is hatched the reader can't fail to know the outcome, but rather than feeling righteous indignation on the part of the other contestants you can only feel sympathetic embarrasment for the situation you know Agatha is going to find herself in.
Convinced that she can redeem herself in the eyes of those around her Agatha sets off to solve a crime the police insist hasn't happened.
Highly enjoyable and amusing, you will alternate between wanting to throttle her and offer her a shoulder to cry on.
Life Awheel: The 'Auto'biography of W de Forte
Richard Skelton and Wilberforce De Forte
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Born in Shropshire soon after the end of the First World War, venerable motoring writer W de Forte...