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Margaritas are among today's most fashionable cocktails, thanks to the increasing popularity of tequila. Use this book to learn the basics of a great-tasting margarita, blended or on the rocks, and how to choose a good tequila to make it with. Then go beyond the traditional Mexican margarita to add flavoured liqueurs, fruit and other mixers.

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Move over sandwiches! The new portable meal is here, and it is called a wrap. A wrap is a tortilla or other flatbread folded around enough goodies to be a complete meal. A wrap holds a much greater variety and quantity of food than a sandwich or burrito. They've become so popular, now wraps are available in the frozen-food sections of supermarkets, as well as at fast-food and other restaurants. When you make your own wraps, you control your ca...

Dozens of toppings and spreads accent recipes for more than 60 varieties of bagels! Author Dona Meilach includes careful instructions for making bagels with the bread machine, heavy-duty mixer and food processor and describes bagel ingredients thoroughly. An introductory section gives the legends of the bagel and describes the many types of bagel paraphernalia available.

This idea-packed compendium presents the work of todays top wood artists in over 500 photos. More than 130 artists from nine countries are showcased, including furniture makers, turners, and sculptors who borrow ideas and techniques from one another to create their art. Their disciplines have blurred as furniture makers use sculpture and turnings in their work, as turners make furniture and sculpture, and as sculptors throw purism to the winds...

Here is an exceptional insight into the unique ironwork created by todays artist-blacksmiths. Over 250 color photographs display details of contemporary iron objects, including flowers, grape clusters, leaves, small and large animals that attest to the blacksmiths role as a sculptor. There are amazing scrolls, folds, twists, textures, and weaves not normally associated with the hard material. With heat, hammer, talent, and muscle, the modern a...

All the fascinating properties of iron and other metals can be creatively explored with 52 color plates and 717 b/w photos and drawings and detailed text. The author discusses the ironworking shop, forge and tools, including anvils, vises, hammers, tongs, punches, centrifugal blowers and machine tools. Forging procedures are explicitly shown.

Explore and create modern stone sculpture, with 357 photos of examples by today's top sculptors and step-by-step instructions for creating your own. Descriptions of stone types, how to select and transport it, how to carve with hand tools and electric or pneumatic power tools, and the methods of finishing the work.

Dive into tantalizing, eye-catching objects dubbed teapots, but be warned, serving tea is not necessarily their purpose. Though many artists are making functional, traditional teapots, other artistic adventurers are brewing up whimsical sculpture. Explore unique designs and materials. With the usual image of a ceramic or silver teapot in ones minds eye, how do you confront a teapot made with holes around the body? Or one made of woven fabrics,...

This new book showcases a vast array of ironwork commissioned for new commercial and residential building projects. Traditional styles in modern settings and designs that reach for new visual impact help to redefine ironworks status in our current society. There are over 375 spectacular examples from more than 100 of todays top blacksmiths, supplemented with historical works from 15 countries, some derived from old French and English ironwork....

Here is a beautiful new look at art jewelry that has a new look. These are todays top art jewelers whose work is often shown in art galleries and museums. Chapters present contemporary designs in gold, silver, mixed metals, found objects, glass, enamel work, and imaginative jewelry pieces that go beyond tradition. Over 540 color photographs and lots of detailed information will inspire jewelry designers and collectors alike.

Over 400 ideas for unusual fireplace designs reflect historical styles from Renaissance to Post-Modern. Fire screens, hoods, doors, andirons, grates, tongs, pokers, shovels, brooms, and their stands emerge as significant decorative items in today's homes. You will marvel at the artistry, variety, and craftsmanship.

This revised edition retains all the techniques and inspiration of the original edition that helped many artists find the answers they needed for creating sculpture. New chapters update the history of direct metal sculpture over the past quarter century. One chapter explains the impact public art programs are having on culture in our cities. There are also sections on the impact of the computer, exploring the importance of computer aided desig...

This important new book tackles the burgeoning revival of the blacksmith's art. Author Dona Meilach has brought together over 500 works by nearly 200 artist-craftsmen from sixteen countries to illustrate the unprecedented activity in modern ironwork that has led to its blossoming into a serious art form. You'll learn several techniques using hot and cold forming with the results clearly shown. You'll be able to recognize how a fence, railing, ...

Here is an exciting foray into the world of the artist-blacksmith. Dona Z. Meilach discovers the growing numbers of men and women who revel in lighting up a forge and shaping hot, malleable iron into beautiful, useful objects. Blacksmiths today make both monumental and modest architectural accompaniments, from public art to an infinite number of items we encounter every day. With this book, you will gain an appreciation of the medium and its c...