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Grow a garden inside! Houseplants bring life and color to any room, and with the right care you can successfully cultivate everything from succulents and bonsai to foliage, flowers, and fruit. Here is everything you always wanted to know about houseplants packed into one easy-to-use volume. Horticulturist David Squire provides simple, step-by-step instructions on choosing the right plants and helping them thrive, with tips on propagation, repotting,...
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Welcome houseplants into your space and use them to make beautiful home decor projects that showcase your plants and your creativity.
It's time to change the way we think about houseplants. For too long we have overlooked potted plants and failed to appreciate the many benefits they can bring into our homes: improved air quality, natural decor, brilliant colors, and a greener lifestyle, just to name a few.
Living Decor is a manual to introducing...
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Secrets of the Houseplant Hunters
Terrain's plant experts travel the world in search of the most unusual and interesting houseplants. In this inspiring and practical guide, they share their favorite specimens: exotic and eclectic ferns, like the skeleton fork, a primitive (and unfussy) predecessor to the family; new aroids to feed that monstera obsession; and adventurous trailing plants like dischidia, which is found cascading from tree branches...
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"The complete guide to 'greening' your space, with ideas and inspiration for adding plants to every room in your home, plus a directory of versatile, easy-to-care-for specimens."--
Chapman walks readers through everything they need to know to bring houseplants into their home. She begins with the basics of choosing and caring for plants, with emphasis on the easiest-to-care-for varieties. Then she guides readers through the home room by room, explaining...
85) Fruits of Bali
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Learn the essentials of tropical Balinese fruits with this useful and portable reference book. Bali's Succulent Tropical Fruits make a vivid and lasting impression on every visitor. Fruits of Bali is a field guide to this cornucopia of exotic shapes, tastes, and smells-providing photographs and descriptions of some 50 varieties, as well as fascinating botanical and background information and tips on buying and preparing the fruits yourself. Even familiar...
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Dinner ready and waiting when you want it - it's all possible with your slow cooker and Betty Crocker! Betty Crocker's Easy Slow Cooker Dinners gives you 50 slow cooker dinners recipes -- from succulent meats and fantastic poultry, to simmering one-pot meals including vegetarian options, as well as heartwarming soups and stews. Plus, you'll find tips and techniques for the best way to use a slow cooker - including extra-special shortcuts, cleaning...
87) The Chess Player
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A newlywed couple buys a second-hand apartment. In the storage room there are belongings of the owner, who died ten years ago, and the intermediary of the sale (a friend of the current owner) tells them that once they buy the apartment, they can get rid of those effects. Before closing the deal, she gives them a succulent discount with only one condition: they will have to keep the trunk with three locks that is in the storage room until the owner...
88) Plants That Poke
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What do cacti, roses, and succulents have in common? They're all plants that poke! This book explores these plant species and more, providing an in-depth look at this important plant defense. Readers learn about the function of thorns and burs, and how they're successful in keeping enemies and predators away. Written to support elementary science curricula, this volume covers concepts that are important for young science students, including survival...
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An entertaining homage to a Sunday-supper staple packed with thirty recipes (some from notable chefs), as well as tips, stories, photos, and illustrations.
Food writer, cookbook author, and brisket zealot Stephanie Pierson contends, "Some foods will improve your meal, your mood, your day, your buttered noodles. Brisket will improve your life."
Brisket is so easy to warm up to, no wonder everyone loves it. Families pass brisket recipes down like...
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Beyond its crowded highways, Long Island serves up a plentiful, eclectic bounty with a side of history. Enticing appetites from Nassau to Montauk, food writer and Long Island native T.W. Barritt explores how immigrant families built a still thriving agricultural community, producing everything from crunchy pickles and hearty potatoes to succulent Long Island duckling. Experience the rise and fall of Long Island's bustling oyster industry and its reemergence...
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WARNING: This book may tickle your funny bone.
This practical guide to gardening will help you think organically and sustainably about self-sufficiency. You will learn to do many fun things you never thought possible.
+New techniques and tips
+How to grow fruits and veggies
+Solar energy systems and how to choose wisely
+Seeds and seedlings
+Vermiculture (worms)
+Composting tips and techniques
+Container gardening
+Succulents-beautiful,...
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Lonely Planet's New England is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Mount spectacular summits and drive ocean roads, tantalize your taste buds with succulent seafood and sweet maple syrup, and relish history and high culture – all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of New England and begin your journey now!
The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet's New...
93) Food and Feast in the World of the Blue Bells Chronicles: a Gastronomic Historic Poetic Musical R
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Warning: This is Not a Cookbook!
Food and Feast does, however, contain over two hundred recipes—medieval recipes in their original medieval form, medieval recipes in modern terms, traditional Scottish recipes, modern midwest American, recipes for eating in the wilderness, and even exotic and slightly dangerous recipes, drawn from scenes in the acclaimed Blue Bells Chronicles.
In an eclectic mix, Food and Feast also digs into tasty morsels of history,...
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The complete beginner's guide to selecting and maintaining the right plants for all of your spaces!
Plants are like people-they feel at home in certain spaces and not in others. House Plants for Every Space explains how to select the right plants for your home or office depending on the available light, the design you want, the size of the space, and the amount of time you have to maintain your greenery.
Authors Etsuhiro Mashita and Momoko Sato,...
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Festive doesn't have to mean expensive. Milk Street Cook Catherine Smart shows host Christopher Kimball how to turn economical beef eye-round into a succulent holiday roast as she makes Prune, Peppercorn and Fresh Herb-Rubbed Roast Beef. Then, a British favorite gets a transatlantic twist as Milk Street Cook Erika Bruce gives us the rundown on Rye-on-Rye Sticky Toffee Pudding. Milk Street Cook Lynn Clark shows Chris how to make Skillet-Charred Brussels...
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This collection of succulent and tantalizing recipes covers a wide range of topics. From gluten-free to seafood, beef, and pork main entrees, and deserts and sauces, each recipe is designed to be easy and fun with a splash of education thrown into the mix. You'll also find some artistic designs for visual effects that should spark your creative juices. The Unknown Chef is all about creating a great guide to mouth-watering meals, keeping the preparation...
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Here, for the first time in English, is an absolutely authentic, definitive, and most distinctive collection of Vietnamese recipes. Among the somewhat unusual and fascinating ingredients (available most anywhere) are such succulents as bamboo shoots, Chinese cabbage, mushrooms, water chestnuts, bean sprouts, coconut, pineapple, shrimp, and an interesting vermicelli called "bean threads" or "long rice." And when it comes to dried lily flowers, Chinese...
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Introducing Petiscos: A Taste of Portugal - a culinary journey through the vibrant and flavorful world of Portuguese small plates, known as petiscos. Delve into the heart and soul of Portuguese cuisine as you explore the rich tapestry of flavors, colors, and aromas that define this gastronomic tradition.Petiscos, akin to Spanish tapas or Italian antipasti, are small, shareable dishes bursting with regional ingredients and bold flavors. In this cookbook,...
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Marrying simplicity and succulence, steak is a food everyone can understand, and one of the very few to inspire genuine craving. Steak is William Rice's avocation, his passion, and he's researched different preparations and flavors of steak from all over the world. A collection of over 140 recipes, steak lover's cookbook is divided between fancy uptown cuts (e.g., tenderloins, porterhouses, ribs) and the plainer but just as tasty downtown cuts (skirt,...
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Grapes are among the most desirable and best-known fruits, prized for their beauty, their succulence and varied flavors, their noble metamorphosis into wine, and their more utilitarian roles as sources of fresh juice and tasty jellies. For most growers, the triumph of harvesting fragrant clusters of dusky-bloomed grapes in rose, blue-black, amber, purple, or light red bunches is its own reward-a test of gardening skill.
In Great Grapes, you'll learn...
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