The definitive Southern cookbook from renowned food writer James VillasFrom James Villas comes this definitive Southern cookbook, featuring fascinating Southern lore, cooking tips, and 388 glorious recipes for any occasion. It includes traditional favorites, delicious regional specialties, and new recipes from some of the South's most famous and innovative chefs, like Louis Osteen and Paul Prudhomme.Comprehensive and authoritative, the book features favorit...

A world tour of beloved ground meat recipes from award-winning author James VillasGround meats are easily affordable and amazingly versatile—and common in almost every cuisine. Ground beef, pork, poultry, and seafood are staple ingredients across continents and cultures, but they've rarely been given the respect they deserve.With favorites like the classic American hamburger and steak tartare, croquettes and crab cakes, From the Ground Up collects ...

A nose-to-tail guide to the very best Southern pork recipes, from award-winning food writer James VillasThough beef, poultry, and fish all have their place in Southern cuisine, one animal stands snout and shoulders above the rest—the mighty pig. From bacon to barbecue, from pork loin to pork belly, James Villas's Pig: King of the Southern Table presents the pride of the South in all its glory. 300 mouth-watering recipes range from the basics like sausages,...

Hush puppies, fried chicken, crab cakes—fried food is the soul of Southern cooking and has only grown in popularity in recent years. Like every one of James Villas’s cookbooks, this one is impeccably researched, with flawless recipes, history, and culture. It is filled with gorgeous color photos sure to tempt even health food fanatics, with crispy, crunchy delights in chapters featuring eggs and cheese, seafood, breads, and Southern staples like grits, rice, and potatoes. Today’s deep frye...

Crazy for Casseroles is the final word on American casseroles. Acclaimed food writer James Villas is a man on a mission, presenting all manner of casseroles from every corner of America that feature meat, poultry, game, seafood, or vegetables, plus appetizer, breakfast, bread, and dessert casseroles. All can be prepared ahead of time and popped in the oven for warm-up, which makes them ideal for entertaining, potluck, or weeknight dinners. They can be simple and homey, like Texas Beef Hash...

James Villas has been obsessed with biscuits his entire life. Now that he's grown up, he has sampled and baked countless batches himself, which makes him eminently qualified to present the very best recipes in Biscuit Bliss. He shares 101 foolproof recipes for fresh and fluffy biscuits in just minutes.

In his beguiling and powerful new novel, the award-winning author of Dancing in the Lowcountry serves up a story of friendship, Southern food, dreams, and determination.Loretta Crawford grew up in a family where lives are small and appetites are big, and where the cure for what ails you can usually be found in a plate of hot biscuits or a slice of rich pound cake. The results show all too clearly on her 5'4", 280-pound frame. Until one day, Loretta realizes she's had enoug...

La timida Kassia Andrakis è abituata a una vita discreta e di basso profilo. Non le sembra quindi possibile che il miliardario Damos Kallinikos si interessi a lei! Tuttavia, non appena entra nel suo mondo ne rimane inebriata, e il desiderio che legge nei suoi occhi le dona una sconosciuta fiducia in se stessa.Ora, Damos dovrà scegliere cosa gli interessa davvero: la vendetta, o la passione?

A classic account of the villa—from ancient Rome to the twentieth century—by “the preeminent American scholar of Italian Renaissance architecture” (Architect’s Newspaper)In The Villa, James Ackerman explores villa building in the West from ancient Rome to twentieth-century France and America. In this wide-ranging book, he illuminates such topics as the early villas of the Medici, the rise of the Palladian villa in...

Questo cofanetto contiene 8 romanziAppuntamento con il principe di L. HallIlaria sostituisce la cugina in un appuntamento... e si trova sposata con il principe Frediano! Dovrebbero divorziare, ma tra loro c’è fuoco puro...Un’irrinunciabile offerta di T. PammiNasir ha represso i sentimenti che provava per Yana, ma vederla con sua figlia riaccende la fiamma...Perdono greco di J. JamesNonostante il tempo ...

Sonnenschein, Sabotage und eine Prise Liebe in der Villa Limoncello.Izzie Jenkins kann ihr Glück kaum fassen: Ein Leben in der Toskana! Wenn das Schicksal dir die Villa Limoncello schenkt, fragst du nicht lange nach, sondern feierst mit hausgemachten Köstlichkeiten.Gemeinsam mit dem charmanten Chefkoch Luca Castelotti will sie ihr erstes Projekt "Pasta & Malerei" starten. Doch der Traum wird zum Albtraum, als ihr Event sabotiert wi...

Willkommen in der Villa Limoncello – wo Träume auf unerwartete Weise wahr werden.Als Isabella Jenkins Knall auf Fall ihren schicken Londoner Job verliert, sucht sie das Weite - und landet in der sonnenverwöhnten Toskana. Ein paar Wochen in der Villa Limoncello, inmitten von sanften Hügeln und malerischen Weinreben, sind genau die Ablenkung, die sie jetzt braucht.Doch Italien weckt bittersüße Erinnerungen in Izzie. Und als sie auf einen mürr...