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In his frequently asked questions book, Odenwald doe s an excellent job at answering technical and rather pseudoscience sorts of questions. However, while Odenwald does show he knows what he's talking about, his writing style and organization leave much to be desired.

The cosmos are very perplexing, as well as awe-inspiring, and its wonderful how this book packages this very scientific information in a friendly and approachable way. Many people like myself, who are not scientists but who yearn to learn the basic theories, look up at the night sky and wonder how planets, stars and galaxies came to be and exist. This book is a great Cosmic Companion which guides you through the stars in a comprehesible fashion: although space terminology can get complex, it is easy to follow along with Dr. Odenwald's voice of the book. If you love interesting details about the heavens, then this book is perfect for you: you'll ingest this neat info so quickly, that your mind will be like a miniature black-hole, and the details will be unable to escape from your mind's event horizon. It's a wonderful book that I feel can be used to teach younger students many important and fascinating facts; I say this as an experienced teacher and journalist. It helps us to understand the ever chaotic cosmos a whole lot better.

This reference consists of 365 questions submitted by the public and Odenwald's answers, taken from the author's "Ask the Astronomer" internet website. These questions cover topics from the solar system to galaxies to the Big Bang. The general reader may find this easy to read reference an enjoyable way to learn about these topics.

Pasqual's is kitty-corner across Water Street from the St. Francis Hotel in Santa Fe; we time our trips to get into town late at night, but before the St. Francis' bar closes, so we can check in, grab a quick drink, and then roll out of bed the next morning and hit Pasqual's for breakfast. Tamal dolce, big mug of coffee, newspaper, see if the rocking horse is still in the second floor window of the store across the street (hasn't moved in four years, so far, and counting.) We love Pasqual's, its food, its Ann-Arbor-in-the-Southwest feeling ... and the cookbook is a nice souvenir thereof. The recipes? Well, plan on mail-ordering a lot of different kinds of chile powder unless you live in New Mexico. Great stuff, though, if you have the ingredients and the patience.

I make a point of visiting Cafe Pasqual's each time I am come to Santa Fe. This cookbook is excellent . The recipes are concise and delicious and the artwork in the book is beautiful. I only wish they had a second cookbook focusing strictly on the killer breakfast menu at the Cafe. Hmm...

I just happened to walk into Pasqual's Restaurant in Santa Fe and experienced one of the best authentic Mexican meals in town.
The cookbook reflects the author's philosophy of fresh ingredients, pure flavor and originality.

I loved this book. The pictures and reviews definitely got me psyched for my upcoming trip to Rome. And, when in Rome, I had the best caffe and granita I could imagine.

But...the book refers to a map, that I couldn't find in my copy. A map would've been very helpful.

Reading Cafe Life Rome is almost as good as being there. The beautiful photos and the wonderful stories about each of these family-run Cafes and their owners transport you to the Eternal City with its sweet way of life.
An essential part of any trip to Rome is to visit the cafes, relax, enjoy the superb coffee, watch the Romani and soak up their world. This book helps you to find the best cafes in any area of the Centro Storico and should you care to, find one to make your own.

Ready for La Dolce Vita? I recommend this book to help you find it

This is more than a wonderfully descriptive book on cafes and bars. The layout of the book sets an ambiance that makes you want to pack your bags to fly to Rome immediately. Reading this book, I traveled to Rome and loved it.

This was a really fast-paced, modern book. But it went way too fast and was really short. Someone is hacking computers at the new Ch@t Cafe!

U have to read this book i have read almost every nancy drew book and this is my fav! its got hot topics and creative features pick it up today nad u wont be able to put i it down Must Read!

I love Nancy Drew books, and have read many of them. If you want to read a book that is exciting and will keep you interested, this is the one to get. It discusses some modern trends and is very easy to relate to. Just Beware: once you start reading you won't be able to put the book down! Happy Reading!

Catholic order operates restaurants all over the world under name of Franciscan mond named Brother Juniper.

Here is little selection of everything from soup to dessert, and between. Some caught my attention that are delicious: Lemon Walnut Muffins, Tuna Cheese Grinder,Spanish Lentil and Sausage Soup,.

Received free. Likely would not have paid for it. Interesting tales with recipes.

I discovered only one of the many dimensions of this truly amazing man, Peter Reinhart, a few years ago while trying to learn to bake bread. After meeting him in his bread classes, I became a "Reinhart Groupie"---for he truly is amazing!---as is this book.

Published in 1994, he has described in vivid verbiage in this book his continuous quest for the best in all things, including but certainly not limited to food and all its components as they relate to each other and to the human body and soul.

The recipes in this book are absolutely outstanding! Peter's commentary is even more so, reflecting his unfailing faith in God, his spiritual journey, and his understanding of the communion between the joy and comfort of good food and the human spirit.

It's a good read! It's also a great cookbook with fantastic recipes you will die to try before you finish reading even one!

And if you ever have an opportunity to attend one of his classes, by all means do so---even if it's just to meet the man. You will never forget him or be quite the same again.

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I love cookbooks. They are as exciting and gripping as novels. But, very few cookbooks are made to be read like a novel-but this one is. Before each recipe is a short essay by the author explaining the addition of or the history behind each recipe or group of recipes. Some of the stories are wildly funny, such as the author's quest for the perfect barbecue sauce...

The recipes really shine, though. The only weak part of this cookbook is the section on soup (although, the Lentil-Spinach-Chorizo Soup is one of my all-time favorite soups). Otherwise, this cookbook has definitive recipes for some popular food: the Hummus, Baba Ghanouj, and Tabbouleh. The Tuna Salad (in connection with the Tuna Grinder in the sandwich section) is stellar, as is the Coleslaw. But, the very best recipe in the book: Caesar Salad with the accompanying croutons. Once you try these recipes, you will never, ever look at other recipes for these foods! Be warned, however: Br. Peter Reinhart LOVES garlic. This is not a book for people who are squeamish about garlic!

"Namaste" is a divine salutation. It is the original. Café Spice Namaste, is also an original. Modern Indian Cooking that tantalizes the taste buds and make the palate sing. I had the opportunity this year to have the author cook directly from his book, and have since tried a few on my own. Cyrus Todiwala is the real thing marrying flavors that bring the dishes to live. The first recipe I tried from his book was the Murghi Na Farcha - Curried Chicken Fried in Egg. The chicken leg was flavored with cinnamon, cloves, chilies, and cardomom and then dipped in egg and fried searing in the juices and flavors. The tomato gravy had just the right bite and enhanced the chicken. The Akoori on toast is a spicy scrambled egg that is very time consuming to make and is filled with fresh ginger, garlic, chili, raisins and many other flavors.

The ingredients in most of the recipes are readily available at most markets and very few required more than basic skills. The dishes themselves lend to an upscale palate, yet they are so easy and so tempting to make for all palates. The Shinanio Chi Salade (mussel Cocktail), Dudhia Bataer (Quails Fried in Milk Butter), Tantia Ani Shingdaney Chi Usli (Egg & Peanut Salad), Patrani Machchi (Fish in Banana Leaf with Green Coconut Chutney), Machli Kay Tikkay (Monkfish Tikka), Kharu Gos (Lamb with Whole Spices & Onions), Jungli Soover Ni Seek Boti (Venison Kebabs), Bhareli Bhindi (Stuffed Okra), Watana Ussal (Chickpeas with Coconut), Shahi Tukra (Fried Bread in Saffron Milk), Parsee Pav Makhan Nu Pudding (Rich Parsee-Style Bread & Butter Pudding), and a variety of the Lassi drink are just a small sampling of these recipes.

The book is well laid out with some succulent and tempting pictures of the dishes that should be welcomed into every kitchen. All of the recipes fit on their pages and no page needs to be turned to continue. The print is easy to read and the book is filled with anecdotes and stories along with many helpful tips.

This book should be welcomed into your kitchen to help recreate the energy this book provides.

Recommended: 3 ½ pots of of 5

"Namaste" is a divine salutation. It is the original. Café Spice Namaste, is also an original. Modern Indian Cooking that tantalizes the taste buds and make the palate sing. I had the opportunity this year to have the author cook directly from his book, and have since tried a few on my own. Cyrus Todiwala is the real thing marring flavors that bring the dishes to live. The first recipe I tried from his book was the Murghi Na Farcha - Curried Chicken Fried in Egg. The chicken leg was flavored with cinnamon, cloves, chilies, and cardomom and then dipped in egg and fried searing in the juices and flavors. The tomato gravy had just the right bite and enhanced the chicken. The Akoori on toast is a spicy scrambled egg that is very time consuming to make and is filled with fresh ginger, garlic, chili, raisins and many other flavors.

The ingredients in most of the recipes are readily available at most markets and very few required more than basic skills. The dishes themselves lend to an upscale palate, yet they are so easy and so tempting to make for all palates. The Shinanio Chi Salade (mussel Cocktail), Dudhia Bataer (Quails Fried in Milk Butter), Tantia Ani Shingdaney Chi Usli (Egg & Peanut Salad), Patrani Machchi (Fish in Banana Leaf with Green Coconut Chutney), Machli Kay Tikkay (Monkfish Tikka), Kharu Gos (Lamb with Whole Spices & Onions), Jungli Soover Ni Seek Boti (Venison Kebabs), Bhareli Bhindi (Stuffed Okra), Watana Ussal (Chickpeas with Coconut), Shahi Tukra (Fried Bread in Saffron Milk), Parsee Pav Makhan Nu Pudding (Rich Parsee-Style Bread & Butter Pudding), and a variety of the Lassi drink are just a small sampling of these recipes.

The book is well laid out with some succulent and tempting pictures of the dishes that should be welcomed into every kitchen. All of the recipes fit on their pages and no page needs to be turned to continue. The print is easy to read and the book is filled with antidotes and stories along with many helpful tips.

This book should be welcomed into your kitchen to help recreate the energy this book provides.

Recommended: 3 ½ pots of of 5

Thoroughly enjoyed the book, having met THE CHEF and eaten at his fine establishment in London. The food was absolutely superb, and the recipes given in the book taste very close to the real thing. Very highly recommended.......

Daniel Young has two different purposes at work in this book, and they don't always seem to go together so well. On the one hand, he wants to give us a representative sampling of café cuisine, so we can recreate at home the tastes and smells of the Paris café experience. And here, I think, he succeeds admirably.

At the same time, however, he is also attempting to present us with something of a portrait of café culture -- a celebration, in the words of the introduction, "of what makes this institution so worth preserving." No less, the author hopes that after reading his book, we "should be prepared to choose a regular Parisian café to call your own." Frankly, I don't think he achieves this second goal nearly so well.

This book is divided, in standard cookbook fashion, by categories of food -- appetizers, entrees, and so on. Cafés are presented within each section based on the representative recipe Young has chosen from its menu. If more than one selection comes from a given café, however, they appear on different pages, sometimes widely separated. While the virtue of this approach is unmistakable for a cookbook, it does make it a bit more difficult to consider any given café.

While the writing about each café is generally pretty good, I didn't find the text-heavy layout and two-color photography particularly inviting. And for a book that's supposed to help us choose a café or two of our own, I was very disappointed that there were so few photos ... and that the ones that there were, were so often less than evocative. If Daniel Young's descriptive writing could be combined with the wonderful photography of Marie-France Boyer's "The French Café" (Thames & Hudson, 1994), *that* would be a book to treasure.

In all, your opinion of this book will be colored by what you hope to get out of it. If, like some of the other reviewers on this page, you want to cook authentic and memorable café offerings in your own home, then this is probably just what you're looking for. But if you're searching for something that captures the mystique and romance of the café culture, then "The Paris Café Cookbook," while unquestionably a good start in that direction, will still leave a bit more to be desired.

The recipes from the book are truly delightful. I've made several of them over the past two years. This book is well-written and does justice to a cook outside France, by providing reasonable substitutions. Once while in Paris, I decided to compare the recipe results against the actual dishes at the cafes in the book. Surprisingly, the food tasted and looked very similar. The desserts are especially delicious - Mousse au Chocolat, Profiteroles au Chocolat, Peach Cake with Strawberry Sauce, Creme Brulee, Pear Clafoutis ... ummm!

I live in Paris and know hundreds of restaurants, but Dan Young's wonderful book has led me to wonderful places I never would have found, or have passed by dozens of times without a thought of going inside. I've never had a bad meal with Mr. Young's book, and every new choice is an adventure. As he says in his introdion: finding a greate expensive restaurant is easy, but finding value and wonderful food is a real art. Eat well!

I got this book for Christmas a few years back, and didn't really open it for a while. I wish I'd opened it sooner -- everything I've tried has been good. My boyfriend, who's new to cooking anything other than roasted meat, has found all the beginner-starred recipes to be simple and fairly fool-proof. Most of the dishes we've tried have a down-home, comfort food feel, and are quite filling.

One note: most things we've made have been a little on the bland side -- I'd suggest doubling all spice amounts for anything that's supposed to be spicy. Also, almost everything has needed a little extra salt, but that's easily remedied by a shaker on the table.

Having been vegetarian for several years, I am always looking for new books to add to my collection. All the recipes that I've tried in this book have been pretty good, but by far the best feature in my mind is the muffin recipes. They are all honey sweetened, which is great for those who can't/don't do sugar. But this is the only cookbook I have where the muffins turn out like those huge ones you find in the store. Every single muffin recipe I've tried has come out of the oven overflowing the muffin cups and tasting great. This is definitely worth the money if you are a muffin lover!

This is my favorite cookbook! After sitting down at each meal I found myself saying "yum . . . this tastes like gourmet food . . .!! My spouse loves all the recipes and is thrilled when ever I'm thumbing through the book looking for stuff to cook. I want to thank Ginny for publishing such a wonderful cookbook. I have wanted to thank her personally, but I haven't gotten around to writing a letter. Hopefully she will see this review.

This book is mostly about cafes of the past. Very interesting reading if you're a fan of Sartre, Hemmingway, etc., & the book has plenty about those writers' cafe haunts & habits. But there's not much about what these cafes are like today or what modern cafes are the big literary hangouts.

The book, "Cafes of Paris," offers American tourists the cheapest and, I believe, the most entertaining and comfortable way to experience Paris, especially with the weak U.S. dollar. You can sit in a coffee shop for hours - reading and enjoying Paris street life - all for the price of a cup of coffee. Inexpensive lunches can be shared with friends in the cafe's casual atmosphere. The book is extremely well organized for the sight-seer; cafes are indexed by tourist attraction and arrondissement with the nearest metro stop and the price of a cup of coffee available at a glance. And if you aren't going to Paris, read the humorous anecdotes, descriptions of the decor, and the literary history of cafe life for a vicarious mini-vacation. Revised in 2000, prices have gone up but the richness of Paris cafe life will never be out of date.

I first had the pleasure of reading the Cafes of Paris guide book just last year as a young woman travelling to Paris for the first time. Since the book was written by my high-school English/Spanish teacher, Christine Graf, the greatest Spanish/English/French teacher of all time, it naturally was a masterpiece!! I recommend that everyone buy this book because she is forced to make her living as a school teacher, and the book is truly wonderful and has vital information for anyone who ever travels to Paris or dreams of travelling to Paris(the city of lights!!!)

I love her show and her recipes always look amazing. I couldn't wait to receive the book, and then the first three recipes I made (with expensive ingredients) all flopped! I'm a bit apprehensive about using it again. I have, however, used it for ideas, and I greatly enjoyed reading it.

When we ordered this book, we had great expectations as we were avid watchers of her show. We were not disappointed. This book was one of the best cookbooks I have used. Our monthly dinner parties shine as a result of the ideas and inspirations I have received as a result from reading this book. My husband has never regretted buying me this book. And our circle of friends always look to us for recipes and guidance. I like the idea of using seasonal motifs. We live in the southwest and hope she focuses on our regional cuisine in the future. Terri and Terry Farmer

Capril the book was great it got me to be a profesinal chef. I cook delicious food know.