Meeting Women is a frank, funny, and refreshingly down-to-earth guide for men who want to meet women in the real world — not on dating apps, not through manipulation, and not by following some phony pickup artist script.Drawing on decades of personal experience, author Al Dente cuts through the nonsense with practical, street-tested advice on how to approach women confidently and respectfully — on the street, at the gym, in coffee shops, at the dry cleaner, at the museum, ...

"Al Dente" von Christian Tennert und Johan Wölber ist ein innovatives Kochbuch, das die Prinzipien einer mundgesunden Ernährung auf genussvolle Weise vermittelt. Die Autoren, beide Zahnmediziner, legen den Fokus auf Rezepte, die nicht nur gut schmecken, sondern auch die Zahngesundheit fördern. Das Buch enthält eine Vielzahl von Rezepten, die frei von zugesetztem Zucker und Weißmehl sind und stattdessen auf ballaststoffreiche, nährstoffdichte Zutaten setzen. Es bietet eine spannende Mischun...

Pasta, pizza, parmesan cheese – we have Italy to thank for some of our favourite foods. Home to a dazzling array of wines, cheeses, breads, vegetables and salamis, Italy has become a mecca for foodies. Outside Italy, cities around the world are home to Michelin-starred Italian restaurants and television chefs extol the virtues of Italian cuisine, presenting it as a model of fresh and healthy eating. Taking readers across the country’s regions and beyond, Al Dente explores how Ital...

You've just spent the better part of a decade establishing yourself in the brutally competitive but incredibly invigorating Los Angeles "lowbrow / underground" art scene. You've gained some traction, you're in lots of exciting art shows, and you're even selling art and gaining regular collectors. Then one day, a quirk of fate and a change of work circumstances drop you into a quiet, sleepy little town on the central coast of California, where the "art scene", such as it is, is defined by r...

Un tueur en série terrorise la ville de Châteauroux. En quelques mois, quatre jeunes femmes ont été retrouvées mortes chez elles. Le rituel est toujours le même : la victime est allongée sur le ventre, le menton posé sur un coussin, le crâne entièrement rasé. Telle une chrysalide figée entre la chenille et le papillon. Celui que la presse surnomme « Le Tondeur » a encore frappé. Lui donner un visage… C’est l’obsession du lieutenant Le Loubecq, par ailleurs empêtrée dans sa vie chaotique de...

When Al Dente and Kris Blaze first arrived on the central coast of California, they were fresh off a year-long sabbatical in the desert after spending the previous infinity of years immersed in the L.A. underground arts scene. To go from a world occupied by transvestite hookers and striving blond famewhores and such, then to the deep desert all full of coyotes and cucharachas, and finally to the sleepy little coast with its retiree hobby-artists and miles of pastoral plein-air paintings-- ...

So what happens if you are a solid decade into the career of your dreams, and all of a sudden, technology changes, and suddenly not just your job but practically the entire industry vanishes in the space of just a few short years, and there you are at "middle age" having to start all over again at the bottom in a new career? It happened to me, and it felt a lot like jumping in a metaphorical kayak and riding that river of crap 'till you get back to solid ground. It's about more than just '...

From USA Today bestselling author Jennifer L. Hart comes a holiday novella that proves 'tis the season for pasta and mayhem...Chef Andy Buckland is determined that nothing will interrupt her first Christmas with her new man and her last holiday spent in her childhood home. But when the family recipe book disappears from their southern pasta shop, the Bowtie Angel, and Aunt Cecily threatens to put "The Eye" on the entire population of Beaverton, North Carolina if it isn't returned, ...

For exactly 5 years, The Gallery At The End Of The World in Altadena, CA was the center of the world for a ragtag group of young artists who met there and strode together into the wilderness of the L.A. "underground" art scene. There was nothing overly dramatic about how it all ended. The lease just ran out and owners decided to sell the building we were in. Now it's 5 years later and that same building remains empty and weeds have overtaken the Padio and the old stage where bands used to ...

FIRST IN THE NEW CULINARY MYSTERY SERIES!--WINNER OF THE AGATHA AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVELThe town of Jewel Bay, Montana—known as a Food Lovers' Village—is obsessed with homegrown and homemade Montana fare. So when Erin Murphy takes over her family’s century-old general store, she turns it into a boutique market filled with local delicacies. But Erin’s freshly booming business might go rotten when a former employee turns up dead…Murphy’s Mercantile...

From the bestselling author of The Misadventures of the Laundry Hag series, Jennifer L. Hart, comes a new mystery series of mouthwatering proportions...Pretty please with spaghetti on top?Andy Buckland has always dreamed of being a chef. But after a live studio audience is stricken with food poisoning during her debut cooking show, she finds herself blacklisted in the culinary community. The only job open to her is working in her family's southern pasta shop, and, to make m...

The grand opening of a gourmet market is soured by foul murder in this mystery full of "fast fun, delightful characters" ( Library Journal).London's gourmet detective is contemplating an empty bank account and, worse, an empty stomach, when a phone call solves both problems at once. Over lunch, Desmond Lansdown, world-renowned actor and burgeoning restaurateur, hires the detective for a chef-hunt, sending him to Italy to eat until he can ...