Black Sticky Rice Pudding (Kao Niow Dahm)
Place in heat proof bowl with room enough for the rice grains to expand about a third more than uncooked bulk. Steam rice--place bowl in large pot, put trivet on bottom along with 2" water. When rice is cooked and still hot add 1/2 the coconut ... [... more]
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Excuses For Travellers
 Chronique amazon.fr: À l'écoute de ce troisième opus signé Mojave 3, les noms qui viennent immédiatement à l'esprit comme autant d'influences se bousculent : de Red House Painters à American Music Club en [... more]
CDN$20.99
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Spooky Encounters
From Amazon.com: The Mr. Vampire films of the 1980s may be the most familiar examples of a unique Hong Kong subgenre, the knockabout horror comedy. But here, as elsewhere, the true pioneer turns out to be the Fat Dragon, Sammo Hung. He worked out all the [... more]
CDN$11.98
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I Am A Cat
Don't Be Put Off: I picked up I AM A CAT while browsing one day and almost put it back because I didn't feel like reading a book of its heft (it's over 600 pages) at that moment. But I read the first few pages and realized I had a gem and finished the [... more]
CDN$27.95
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The Woman of Rome: A Novel
of risotto and regret..: Frankly this book brought Sticky to new depths of sadness and depression as Adriana (the titular Woman of Rome) abandoned all hope and care and sunk to prostitution and risotto. It is the latter which saddened Sticky the most, [... more]
CDN$28.00
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A Year in a Vegetarian Kitchen: Easy Seasonal Dishes for ...
Practical, Smart, Seasonal Vegetarian Dishes: On several counts, this is a better than average vegetarian cookbook by veteran author and Cooks Illustrated executive editor, Jack Bishop. The most outstanding virtue of the book is that, true to the title, [... more]
CDN$39.95
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The New Glucose Revolution
From Amazon.com: Forget the high-carb, low-carb debate. The glycemic index (GI)--a measure of carbohydrate quality based on how quickly a food raises blood-glucose (blood sugar) levels--is the dietary key to health, say the authors. Contrary to other [... more]
CDN$23.95
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The Vietnamese Cookbook
From Amazon.com: One page of deliciousness after another is what you'll find once you crack the cover of Diana My Tran's The Vietnamese Cookbook. Tran has a couple of qualifications above and beyond her Vietnamese heritage as underpinnings to this book: [... more]
CDN$17.50
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Afghan Food Cookery
easy and authentic: Having lived in Afghanistan many,many years ago this book was a great way to fulfill my nostalgic yearnings. I've often thought of Afghan food as the ultimate "comfort" food, but since I had a cook while I lived in Kabul, I [... more]
CDN$14.50
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What You Never Knew About Fingers, Forks, & Chopsticks
Taught me a thing or two!: I did not realize the history of eating utensils was so interesting. I did become intrigued when I lived in Thailand and learned to eat their way with a fork and spoon or watched Europeans with their forks and knives. I am [... more]
CDN$21.99
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Mr. Vampire
funny, but needs more action: The quintessential "hopping vampire" movie. The plot revolves around an undertaker and his assistants, who are called in to deal with a corpse that is in danger of turning into a "vampire" - it was buried [... more]
CDN$11.98
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The New Glucose Revolution: The Authoritative Guide to ...
From Amazon.com: Forget the high-carb, low-carb debate. The glycemic index (GI)--a measure of carbohydrate quality based on how quickly a food raises blood-glucose (blood sugar) levels--is the dietary key to health, say the authors. Contrary to other [... more]
CDN$20.95
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