Books with author Richard Curtis

The Empty Stocking - a brilliantly funny Christmas story by Richard Curtis and Rebecca Cobb. In this fantastically funny and heartwarming story by Richard Curtis, scriptwriter of Four Weddings and a Funeral and Love Actually, it's Christmas Eve and there's one very important question on everyone's mind - have YOU been good this year? For twins Sam and Charlie this is a big worry. Charlie has been especially naughty and everyone is sure that she won't get any presents AT ALL. But when Santa makes a mistake, it's up to Charlie to put things right... Rebecca Cobb graduated from Falmouth College of Arts in 2004. She has collaborated with the Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson and Orange-Prize-winner Helen Dunmore. Rebecca has been shortlisted for the 2013 Waterstones Prize and the prestigious Kate Greenaway Award.

Mod GourmandAn easy to learn progression for creating favorite dishes that people really want to eat, integrating contemporary & classical tools and techniquesWhether you've cooked for years, or never at all, Mod Gourmand is your guide to becoming an outstanding contemporary cook. Everything you need to know is explained, including the building blocks for creating your own recipes, a step by step cooking system for converting your ideas into reality, and how to use the affordable contemporary culinary tools that make it possible. You’ve probably searched through book after book to find that missing nugget of information that will truly be the key to elevating your cooking to the level you’ve longed for. Unfortunately, you may have been disappointed to find that many books on cooking still only rehash techniques using the same old appliances that have been around for 50 years or more.Perhaps you’ve looked with curiosity at Modernist cooking on television. But the presentation was focused on the avant-garde aspects and failed to convince you of the practicality of trying it in your own home. Dinners consisting of 72 thimble-sized courses, exotically flavored and infused into dollops of foam, aeriated bubbles, and jelly beans were just not the answers you were looking for.Mod Gourmand is a 21st-century method of cooking designed to enable you to create, not just cook, the dishes you really enjoy. Mod Gourmand is an easy to learn step by step approach that teaches you to create virtually any entrée, side dish, soup, or sauce that you can imagine. Each step is carried out in a specific order that eliminates most of the disappointments experienced with cooking methods of the past. With each step, you will know what you are doing, why you are doing it, and what needs to happen before moving on to the next step. A principal reason that Mod Gourmand works so well is that it focuses on the optimal temperature for each step using the fine-tuned precision of contemporary 21st-century culinary tools. The Mod Gourmand method is specifically designed to integrate Sous-Vide and Induction technology to produce results that most home cooks find impossible to achieve using the technology of the previous century. Alternatives are presented for perfectly browning your meat as well, including the use of the Searzall device which enables you to brown the outside without elevating the perfect optimal temperature below the surface.Mod Gourmand also teaches you to view food items by the role they play in creating a dish. By doing so, you can confidently make substitutions and customize any dish to be your own. Handy charts and simple formulas assist you in creating your own recipes.Mod Gourmand includes over 50 recipes, each with the exact temperature setting for every step. Included are favorites for Beef, Pork, Fish, Chicken, Lamb, and Shellfish entrees, in addition to popular soups and side dishes. Each recipe can serve as a template for you to develop your own recipes. Mod Gourmand FeaturesStep-by-Step approach to create, not just cook, the dishes you really enjoy.Introduce affordable 21st-Century culinary equipment into your kitchen, providing you with better temperature precision resulting in better outcomes.View ingredients by the role they play in a recipe, enabling you to make substitutions with confidence.Easy to learn guidelines for constructing a recipe in your head - no need to take a notebook to your favorite restaurant.Over 50 recipes that can be used as templates to design your own creations.Pick up a copy and get started today!

Mod GourmandAn easy to learn progression for creating main and side dishes that people really eat, integrating contemporary & classical appliances and techniquesWhether you've cooked for years, or never at all, Mod Gourmand is your guide to becoming an outstanding contemporary cook. Everything you need to know is explained, including the building blocks for creating your own recipes, a step by step cooking system for converting your ideas into reality, and how to use the affordable contemporary culinary appliances that make it possible. You’ve probably searched through book after book to find that missing nugget of information that will truly be the key to elevating your cooking to the level you’ve longed for. Unfortunately, you may have been disappointed to find that many books on cooking still only rehash techniques using the same old appliances that have been around for 50 years or more.Perhaps you’ve looked with curiosity at Modernist cooking on television. But the presentation was focused on the avant-garde aspects and failed to convince you of the practicality of trying it in your own home. Dinners consisting of 72 thimble-sized courses, exotically flavored and infused into dollops of foam, aeriated bubbles, and jelly beans were just not the answers you were looking for.Mod Gourmand is a 21st-century method of cooking designed to enable you to create, not just cook, the dishes you really enjoy. Mod Gourmand is an easy to learn step by step approach that teaches you to create virtually any entrée, side dish, soup, or sauce that you can imagine. Each step is carried out in a specific order that eliminates most of the disappointments experienced with cooking methods of the past. With each step, you will know what you are doing, why you are doing it, and what needs to happen before moving on to the next step. A principal reason that Mod Gourmand works so well is that it focuses on the optimal temperature for each step using the fine-tuned precision of contemporary 21st-century culinary tools. The Mod Gourmand method is specifically designed to integrate Sous-Vide and Induction technology to produce results that most home cooks find impossible to achieve using the technology of the previous century. Alternatives are presented for perfectly browning your meat as well, including the use of the Searzall device which enables you to brown the outside without elevating the perfect optimal temperature below the surface.Mod Gourmand also teaches you to view food items by the role they play in creating a dish. By doing so, you can confidently make substitutions and customize any dish to be your own. Handy charts and simple formulas assist you in creating your own recipes.Mod Gourmand includes over 50 recipes, each with the exact temperature setting for every step. Included are favorites for Beef, Pork, Fish, Chicken, Lamb, and Shellfish entrees, in addition to popular soups and side dishes. Each recipe can serve as a template for you to develop your own recipes. Mod Gourmand FeaturesStep-by-Step approach to create, not just cook, the dishes you really enjoy.Introduce affordable 21st-Century culinary equipment into your kitchen, providing you with better temperature precision resulting in better outcomes.View ingredients by the role they play in a recipe, enabling you to make substitutions with confidence.Easy to learn guidelines for constructing a recipe in your head - no need to take a notebook to your favorite restaurant.Over 50 recipes that can be used as templates to design your own creations.For less than a fast-food combo meal you can pick up a copy and get started today!

The lives of the working class in West Virginia—a train engineer, an epileptic, coal miners and outlaws, the fragile and dispossessed—are explored in this powerful yet tender collection of six short stories and a novella. They depict an isolated world of hardship, human endurance, and hard-won dignity and are a lyrical rendering of times and places now largely gone—but the stirring clarity of people and landscape can persist in the reader's imagination.

A snowy day, a deserted school and the teacher you least want to see. Welcome to Snow Day, the most magical day of the year . . . When Danny goes to school one quiet, snowy morning, the last thing he expects to find is a deserted school and his least favourite teacher. But that's exactly what he does find. And what starts as the worst day imaginable, ends as the most life-affirming and magical day of the year. An incredibly moving story about finding friendship in the most unexpected of places.

The Empty Stocking is a brilliantly funny Christmas story by Richard Curtis and Rebecca Cobb. In this fantastically funny and heartwarming story by Richard Curtis, scriptwriter of Four Weddings and a Funeral and Love Actually, it's Christmas Eve and there's one very important question on everyone's mind - have YOU been good this year? For twins Sam and Charlie this is a big worry. Charlie has been especially naughty and everyone is sure that she won't get any presents AT ALL. But when Santa makes a mistake, it's up to Charlie to put things right... Richard Curtis is an award-winning and international film-director and scriptwriter, and the creator of Four Weddings and a Funeral, Love Actually, Notting Hill and Mr Bean. Rebecca Cobb graduated from Falmouth College of Arts in 2004. She has collaborated with the Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson and Orange-Prize-winner Helen Dunmore. Rebecca has been shortlisted for the 2013 Waterstones Prize and the prestigious Kate Greenaway Award.

Boxing's biggest stars speak to head writer of Boxing Digest magazine, Richard Scurti! "Who hit them the hardest?" "Their best knockouts?" "What got them started in boxing?" It's all here! Sixteen-full length interviews are included in this book, with everybody from; Sugar Ray Leonard to Oscar De La Hoya to Sylvester Stallone! They're all here...full-length and...Complete! The new book by Richard Scurti, is packed with premiere hard to find interviews! With the hottest stars in boxing today like; Oscar De La Hoya, Sugar Ray Leonard and Sylvester Stallone! Plus, interviews with some all-time great fighters like; Ricky Hatton, Diego Corrales, Micky Ward, Christy Martin and Kostya Tsyzu! This book is a Must-Buy for every boxing fan out there in the world' today! Pick one up this Christmas or the upcoming holidays! For the Boxing Fan in your family!! WWW.MYSPACE.COM/RICHARDSCURTI

It's Saturday morning and Charles is still asleep. He should be on his way to Angus and Laura's wedding! Charles is always going to other people's weddings and he is always late. He's worried that he will never find the right person to marry. Then he meets Carrie and suddenly love is in the air! Four Weddings and a Funeral is one of the most successful British films ever made. It is a very funny tale of friendship, love and marriage in 1990s England.