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A hilarious holiday tale about the highs and lows of eating one very special Three Kings Day dessert: the Rosca de Reyes, a sweet bread with a figurine of the baby Jesus hidden inside! Marta is finally old enough for her own slice of the special, sneaky dessert she loves so much--la Rosca de Reyes. The colorful crown of sweet bread is so tempting, but Marta knows the truth--there's a baby hiding in the dessert: el Nįo Dios. Marta can't help but wonder...
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A look at the deeper meaning behind our food choices: from the prioritization of convenience over health to the ways food at work affects our happiness; from the American obsession with "having it our way" at Starbucks, Chipotle and other chains that individualize the eating experience to the fascinating dynamic between highbrow food culture--artisan this and small-batch that--and the lowbrow, such as Taco Bell's sale of 100 million Doritos Locos...
65) Leopold the Lion
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Jack and Ella are thrilled to take a friendly lion as their pet, but when Leopold the Lion grows chubby and despondent, they must seek a way to make him healthy again.
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#1 New York Times bestselling author of Women Food and GodThere is an end to the anguish of emotional eating—and this book explains how to achieve it. Geneen Roth, whose Feeding the Hungry Heart and When Food Is Love have brought understanding and acceptance to tens of thousands of readers over the last two decades, here outlines her proven program for resolving the conflicts at the root of overeating. Using simple techniques developed in her...
67) Don't eat that
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Gertie is trying to earn a merit badge when she encounters a hungry bear with no idea what he should eat, but helping him is harder than her guidebook makes it seem.
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When Elizabeth Bard, a New Yorker raised on Twizzlers and instant mac and cheese, fell for a handsome Frenchman and moved to Paris, she discovered a whole new world of culinary delights. First in Paris, then in a tiny village in Provence, Elizabeth explored the markets, incorporating new ingredients and rituals into her everyday meals and routines. After 15 years of cooking in her own French kitchen, making French friends--and observing her slim and...
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The former First Lady, author of Becoming, and producer and star of Waffles + Mochi tells the inspirational story of the White House Kitchen Garden and how gardens can transform our lives and the health of our communities.
Early in her tenure as First Lady, despite being a novice gardener, Michelle Obama planted a kitchen garden on the White House’s South Lawn. To her...
Early in her tenure as First Lady, despite being a novice gardener, Michelle Obama planted a kitchen garden on the White House’s South Lawn. To her...
70) Taking up space
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Score! Middle Grade Sports Books (SCPL-YS)
Mental Health Awareness Month 2022
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Twelve-year old Sarah is used to being the star on her basketball team, playing with her best friends, but suddenly she finds that her body is changing and she does not understand why she cannot keep up on the court, plus she does not understand why her mother has gotten so weird about food, binging on candy while forgetting about dinner, and she really does not understand why she told Benny, her crush, about her mother--but when Benny offers to teach...
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"From the author of Paris to the Moon--one man's quest for the meaning of food in a time obsessed with what to eat. Never before have we cared so much about food. It preoccupies our popular culture, our fantasies, even our moralizing--"You still eat meat?" How could the land of Chef Boyardee have come so far overnight? And where can we possibly go from here? Locating the roots of our foodways in France, Adam Gopnik traces our rapid evolution from...
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Carly has invited her friends over for lunch. Her mother provides everyone with fruits and vegetables. The children get to work making all kinds of silly faces with their food. In the end, it all just looks so delicious that they can't help but eat their healthy creations! Children will love these imaginative illustrations as the children make all kinds of crazy faces. Readers will also learn the importance of eating healthy food in this fun and nutritious...
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An outline for a clear, balanced, sustainable plan to change eating habits forever. Over the last three years, the Hartwigs' underground Whole30 program has quietly led tens of thousands of people to weight loss, improved quality of life and a healthier relationship with food.
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"A rollicking exploration of the history and future of our favorite foods When we humans love foods, we love them a lot. In fact, we have often eaten them into extinction, whether it is the megafauna of the Paleolithic world or the passenger pigeon of the last century. In Lost Feast, food expert Lenore Newman sets out to look at the history of the foods we have loved to death and what that means for the culinary paths we choose for the future. Whether...
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"Anyone who's tried to lose weight through sheer will power knows how difficult, if not impossible, it can be. In this practical and paradigm-shifting book, Dr. Jean Kristeller presents a new alternative--a program for weight loss based on her successful Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training Program. Instead of frustration, deprivation, backsliding, guilt, and a lack of results, The Joy of Half a Cookie provides simple, proven ways to lose weight...
77) How we eat
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"Celebrates all the different ways we eat (such as with spoons, chopsticks, and GI tubes), helping families and educators discuss ability, culture, and food"--Back cover.
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The bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses charts an enlightening history of humanity through the foods we eat.
Throughout history, food has done more than simply provide sustenance. It has acted as a tool of social transformation, political organization, geopolitical competition, industrial development, military conflict and economic expansion. An Edible History of Humanity is an account of how food has...
Throughout history, food has done more than simply provide sustenance. It has acted as a tool of social transformation, political organization, geopolitical competition, industrial development, military conflict and economic expansion. An Edible History of Humanity is an account of how food has...
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Mexican food and the culture of its people are deeply connected. Readers explore this connection through insightful main text and fact boxes that highlight how geography, festivals, daily life, and food have been linked throughout Mexican history. Maps help readers visualize where certain ingredients come from, and colorful photographs depict Mexicans and the foods they enjoy in engaging detail. As readers learn, they are invited to take that knowledge...
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