Leave it to Lee Bailey to come up with a stylish book chock-full of tasty recipes for packable, make-aheadable food. Lee has always shown his readers how to put together delicious and elegant meals that make eating at home a special experience. Now eating away from home -- in the office, on a picnic in the park, or at the beach -- an be just as good with a little help from Lee Bailey's Portable Food. Here is a variety of recipes for foods that travel so well they taste better once they've reached their final destination than they did when they were first made in the kitchen back home: Orzo and Vegetable Salad, Chicken Enchiladas with Andouille Sausage, Onion Parmesan Breadsticks, and Southern Fried Pecan Chicken, a new and tempting twist on an old classic. This is a far cry from the usual soup and sandwich, although you'll be happy to find innovative versions of those here as well, like sumptuous Smoked Salmon or Olive and Sun-Dried Tomato sandwich spreads and wholesome soups like Potato and Red Pepper or a Summer Tomato that perfectly embodies the flavors of the season. Or you can leave the utensils at home and try a little savory pie with any number of delectable fillings: lamb with port wine, prunes, and walnuts; eggplant, zucchini, tomatoes, and fresh basil: or simple sausage and cheese. Muffins, rolls, and pickles round out this "hands on" meal. And Lee never forgets dessert: take your pick from a sweet selection that includes an apple and cherry tart, Lemon Crisps, Pecan Coconut Biscotti, Shasta Mountain Brownies, and more. So pack it up now and hit the open road with wonderful food that tastes good and travels well. Portable Food makes entertaining away from home easierand more delicious than ever before.

All of Lee Bailey's fabulous recipes from such bestselling cookbooks as Country Weekends, Southern Food, Portable Food, and Country Desserts--plus more than 100 new ones--are now in one elegant volume, complete with menu suggestions and tips for entertaining. 20 photos.

IACP AWARD FINALIST • The expert baker and bestselling author behind the Magnolia Network original series Zoë Bakes explores her favorite dessert—cakes!—with more than 85 recipes to create flavorful and beautiful layers, loafs, Bundts, and more. “Zoë’s relentless curiosity has made her an artist in the truest sense of the word.”—Joanna Gaines, co-founder of Magnolia NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME OUT Cake is the ultimate symbol of celebration, used to mark birthdays, weddings, or even just a Tuesday night. In Zoë Bakes Cakes, bestselling author and expert baker Zoë François demystifies the craft of cakes through more than eighty-five simple and straightforward recipes. Discover treats such as Coconut–Candy Bar Cake, Apple Cake with Honey-Bourbon Glaze, and decadent Chocolate Devil’s Food Cake. With step-by-step photo guides that break down baking fundamentals—like creaming butter and sugar—and Zoë’s expert knowledge to guide you, anyone can make these delightful creations. Featuring everything from Bundt cakes and loaves to a beautifully layered wedding confection, Zoë shows you how to celebrate any occasion, big or small, with delicious homemade cake.

The Flickering Mind, by National Magazine Award winner Todd Oppenheimer, is a landmark account of the failure of technology to improve our schools and a call for renewed emphasis on what really works. American education faces an unusual moment of crisis. For decades, our schools have been beaten down by a series of curriculum fads, empty crusades for reform, and stingy funding. Now education and political leaders have offered their biggest and most expensive promise ever—the miracle of computers and the Internet—at a cost of approximately $70 billion just during the decade of the 1990s. Computer technology has become so prevalent that it is transforming nearly every corner of the academic world, from our efforts to close the gap between rich and poor, to our hopes for school reform, to our basic methods of developing the human imagination. Technology is also recasting the relationships that schools strike with the business community, changing public beliefs about the demands of tomorrow’s working world, and reframing the nation’s systems for researching, testing, and evaluating achievement. All this change has led to a culture of the flickering mind, and a generation teetering between two possible futures. In one, youngsters have a chance to become confident masters of the tools of their day, to better address the problems of tomorrow. Alternatively, they can become victims of commercial novelties and narrow measures of ability, underscored by misplaced faith in standardized testing. At this point, America’s students can’t even make a fair choice. They are an increasingly distracted lot. Their ability to reason, to listen, to feel empathy, is quite literally flickering. Computers and their attendant technologies did not cause all these problems, but they are quietly accelerating them. In this authoritative and impassioned account of the state of education in America, Todd Oppenheimer shows why it does not have to be this way. Oppenheimer visited dozens of schools nationwide—public and private, urban and rural—to present the compelling tales that frame this book. He consulted with experts, read volumes of studies, and came to strong and persuasive conclusions: that the essentials of learning have been gradually forgotten and that they matter much more than the novelties of technology. He argues that every time we computerize a science class or shut down a music program to pay for new hardware, we lose sight of what our priority should be: “enlightened basics.” Broad in scope and investigative in treatment, The Flickering Mind will not only contribute to a vital public conversation about what our schools can and should be—it will define the debate.

When a missing surfboard proves to have hidden depths, twelve-year-old super-sleuth Steve Brixton must go undercover—and underwater—to tackle a puzzling tangle of mysteries. Steve Brixton’s finally gotten a hang of this super-sleuth thing. After a few months of busting bad guys he finally has his own office—even if it’s a bit small, and outside, and okay, used to be a doghouse. So when someone asks him to help track down a board stolen by a local surf gang, it’s just a matter of slipping into a neon wetsuit and blending in with the surfers—right? But when the assignment goes all wrong, Steve is going to have to test his wits against pirate smugglers, thick-necked goons, and a sixth-grader who just wants his gym shorts back—all with the help of the tips and tricks he learned from his beloved Bailey Brothers books, of course!

Lee Bailey's first book -- a winner of the Tastemaker Award for Best Cookbook of the Year -- combines extraordinary full-color photographs with mouth-watering recipes, all geared to the country weekend. Here are clear, easy-to-follow recipes, style hints, and full menus for everything from a simple back porch meal to dinner beneath a breathtaking sunset. A lifestyle classic, Lee Bailey's Country Weekends is an invitation to browse, to dream, or to create an unforgettable feast.