Books published by publisher Childrens Press International

In this second volume, the author continues to share his decades of experience with professional tips and trade secrets from restaurants around the world. In addition to dozens of restaurant-tested recipes (each one with highly detailed step-by-step directions), this volume contains a wealth of information on such topics as producing your own dried seasonings from unexpected ingredients, technical aspects of braising, a lot about molecular flavor chemistry, microwave oven physics (and why you should care), mastering the art of cooking perfect steaks (including an original chart that will change how you think about cooking meat), a guide to spices from India and the reasons for toasting spices in different ways, a dozen common food myths debunked, selecting wines for cooking, some interesting food history, and more.

The author shares over 40 years of his experience with professional tips and trade secrets, as well as a fascinating history of Russian cuisine explained for the first time in English. This is a comprehensive guide to more than 150 instructional cooking videos on YouTube by the author from around the world, as well as additional recipes and methods never before revealed.

In this third installment the author expounds on the principles of organic chemistry as it relates to food science, interwoven with more than 50 detailed recipes, most of which have accompanying online videos. This unusual book fills a niche that is sorely missing in the literature. Namely, how specific flavors are produced by chemical reactions during cooking and how those reactions can be manipulated to improve results. There are diagrams, tables and explanations covering over 25 different topics. If you have ever wondered about such things as what the exact differences are between types of onions, or what bay leaves actually do at the chemical level, or what makes foods a certain color and what that color indicates, or why fresh tomatoes are sometimes combined with puréed tomatoes in sauces, or the science of how flambéing changes the flavor profile of a dish, or why stocks have to be simmered at a specific temperature for optimum results, and many other such questions, here are the scientifically accurate answers presented in clear language. The text is also sprinkled with tidbits of food history and a humorous take on life in restaurant kitchens. Perhaps even more valuable for chefs and serious cooks, the author introduces a never before seen method for producing your own tertiary flavorings, which are those psychologically tantalizing additives that are the trade secrets of commercial food manufacturers. Only instead of using bottles of chemicals, here this is accomplished using only natural foods, ordinary kitchen equipment and a brilliant novel technique. There is also an extensive glossary of terms relating to beers and wines at the back of the book. If you are an aspiring chef, you absolutely need this book. Understanding food chemistry has never been more important than in this age of molecular gastronomy. This isn't just dry theory. You will be able to make use of these methods in any commercial or home kitchen immediately.

This colorful, rhyming picture book takes us on an entertaining trip through a lively classroom. Silly Little Scissors is making mischief in her class while the children beckon her to join them in their cutting lessons. But Silly really doesn’t believe anyone wants her friendship until the children finally convince her that she really IS important. Discover a delightful story that will add value and fun to your scissors skills lessons.

Josie Burns and her little sister, Emily, are coping with the loss of their brother Andy, who disappeared from his bed in the middle of the night six years ago. Forced to move to Maine to live with two great aunts after their parents separate, they discover that a shared dream and a mysterious cupboard hidden in the basement hold the key to their brother's whereabouts. A foreign land that exists in a different time and the sinister man who rules it draw the sisters closer to an answer...and to a secret that will change their lives forever.

The Mysterious Case of the IWs is about one of the most challenging facts of life-death. Death is a multilayered and puzzling event faced by everyone. It happens to the young and old, weak and strong, healthy and afflicted. The book, although written in a language suitable for young readers, is also for parents and children, teachers and students, caregivers and patients, and all individuals searching for answers to this final mystery of life. The story can be read to young children, discussed with older ones, presented in classrooms, studied in groups, and portrayed in dramatic and multimedia formats.