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Grandbaby Cakes
Modern Recipes, Vintage Charm, Soulful Memories By J O C E LY N D E L K A D A M S
G isbn:
978-1-57284-173-4
Trade Cloth September 2015
7.5 x 10 $22.95
Praise for Grandbaby Cakes
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If this glorious book doesn’t make you want to drop everything you’re doing and go bake a cake right now, then I don’t know what will.” —Ree Drummond, #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Pioneer Woman Cooks
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randbaby Cakes is the debut cookbook from award-winning food blogger Jocelyn Delk Adams, a fresh, new voice in home baking. This book collects 50 classic cake recipes, many featuring contemporary twists, along with the author’s gorgeous photography, family snapshots, and heartwarming memories of her family’s generations-old love of baking. Much like Jocelyn’s popular food blog of the same name, Grandbaby Cakes was written to honor the author’s grandmother (affectionately called “Big Mama”), whose innovative baking creations inspired and sweetened Adams’s childhood. The bold, eclectic, and sophisticated recipes in this book are based on Big Mama’s own centerpiece desserts, giving each cake something familiar mixed with something new. Jocelyn’s website gets more than 170,000 unique monthly visitors, and she partners with brands such as Pillsbury, KitchenAid, and Safest Choice eggs.
Strayhorn An Illustrated Life
Edited by A . A LYC E C L A E R B AU T and D AV I D S C H L E S I N G E R
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his collection of essays, photographs, interviews, and ephemera celebrates the legacy of Billy Strayhorn, one of the most important—yet underappreciated—contributors to 20th-century American music. Released in commemoration of Strayhorn’s centennial, this luxurious coffee-table book offers intimate details of the composer’s life from musicians, scholars, and Strayhorn’s closest relatives. Strayhorn is perhaps most well known for the 28 years he spent working in collaboration with Duke Ellington, but that doesn’t begin to describe Strayhorn’s contributions to music—not to mention the inspiring story of his personal life. Featuring contributions from Strayhorn’s biographer David Hajdu, film director Robert Levi, music scholar Walter van de Leur, as well as a foreword by jazz artist Ramsey Lewis, this collection will be treasured by jazz aficionados everywhere.
isbn:
978-1-932841-98-5
Trade Cloth 9.25 x 11.25 November 2015 $35
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Billy Strayhorn was always the most unselfish, the most patient, and the most imperturbable, no matter how dark the day. I am indebted to him for so much . . . .”
—Duke Ellington
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The Chicago Tribune Book of the Chicago Bears
A Decade-By-Decade History
Edited by C H I C A G O T R I B U N E S TA F F
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BOOK OF THE
CHICAGO BEARS A DECADE-BY-DECADE HISTORY
isbn
: 978-1-57284-177-2
Trade Cloth September 2015
9.5 x 11 $35
This first-ever photo-driven collection from the Chicago Tribune draws on nearly a century of sports reporting. The comprehensive history and high-end package make it a perfect gift for the sports lover in your life.
Introduction by D O N P I E R S O N
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he Chicago Tribune Book of the Chicago Bears is a photo-driven coffee-table volume that details the storied history of the city’s favorite team. This handsome collection displays nearly 100 years of Bears history, collecting vintage and contemporary photography, original reporting, gameby-game records, Hall of Fame player profiles, and more—all carefully curated by the Chicago Tribune sports staff. The book begins when Bears founder George Halas moved the Decatur Staleys to Chicago in 1921 and ends with the Bears we know and love—in spite of everything—today. With an introduction from the Tribune’s longtime Hall of Fame football reporter Don Pierson, who covered the Bears for 38 years, this book is a collector’s item that provides fans with a comprehensive account of an NFL franchise with fans across the country. 1940s
1940s
Perfection is difficult to achieve, even to approach, in football or in any phase of life. But on the sunny afternoon of Dec. 8, 1940, in Washington, a Bears team quarterbacked by second-year pro Sid Luckman reached perhaps as close to perfection as any team before or since. With Luckman operating the new T-formation that coach George Halas had installed and hired him to direct, the Bears won the National Football League championship, beating the Washington Redskins 73-0. Ten different Bears scored the team’s 11 touchdowns. Late in the game, officials asked Halas if he would please run or pass on extrapoint tries. The supply of footballs was running low due to PAT’s kicked into the stands. Many years after the game, Luckman recalled, “That was the greatest football game ever played. Everything we did was right. Everything they did was wrong.” Early in the game, Redskins quarterback Sammy Baugh hurled a long pass to Charlie Malone, who was open behind the Bears’ defense. Malone dropped the ball. “Would the outcome have been different if Malone caught that pass?” Baugh was asked. “Yeah,” Baugh replied. “The score would have been 73-7.”
George McAfee (5) runs the famous “T-Formation” for a Bears touchdown during the fabled 73-0 victory over the Washington Redskins on Dec. 8, 1940.
“The remarkable thing about that game,” recalled Bears Hall of Fame halfback George McAfee on Sunday night, “was that Washington beat us 7-3 just a few weeks earlier. “We were an angry bunch of Bears. The Washington owner (George Marshall) said in the paper that we were crybabies, and Halas put the clippings up in our locker room. “Sid was very quick and smart. He was friendly and cheerful to us, a great guy. Of course, he had to be. We blocked for him.”
“That was the greatest football game ever played. Everything we did was right. Everything they did was wrong.” —QUARTERBACK SID LUCKMAN
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Dinner at Home
Kitchen-Tested Recipes to Enjoy with Family and Friends Edited by J E A N M A R I E B R O W N S O N
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inner at Home collects more than 100 recipes and stories from JeanMarie Brownson’s Chicago Tribune column of the same name. Twice a month since 2007, Brownson has been sharing inventive, easy-tomake recipe ideas that readers adore. Now, the best of her columns have been carefully handpicked to create her newest cookbook, which is full of recipes Brownson developed for weekday family dinners at home as well as for parties with friends and loved ones. JeanMarie Brownson is the culinary director of the Rick Bayless-founded Frontera Foods and Frontera Media Productions. She has also co-authored three books with Bayless.
isbn:
978-1-57284-178-9
Trade Cloth November 2015
8.5 x 10 $29.95
The Eli's Cheesecake Cookbook
Remarkable Recipes from a Chicago Legend
By S C H U L M A N, L A N E , W O R T H I N G T O N, and M O L E S
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ublished to coincide with the 35th anniversary of Eli’s Cheesecake, this book captures the glory of this globally celebrated interpretation of one of America’s favorite desserts with 40 distinct cheesecake recipes and stories. Eli’s Cheesecake began more than 35 years ago, rising to prominence first as a featured item at one of Chicago’s most popular restaurants—Eli’s the Place for Steak. From that first cheesecake creation to President Obama’s 50th birthday cake, this book details the storied history of one of the nation’s most famous desserts.
isbn:
978-1-57284-182-6
Trade Cloth December 2015
8 x 10 $25
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New Prairie Kitchen
Stories and Seasonal Recipes from Chefs, Farmers, and Artisans of the Great Plains By S U M M E R M I L L E R
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ew Prairie Kitchen profiles influential chefs, farmers, and artisans who live and work in Nebraska, Iowa, and South Dakota. Featuring more than 50 seasonal recipes created by award-winning chefs, this beautiful cookbook emphasizes the old-meets-new cuisine of the Great Plains.
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A love letter to the heartland.” —Taryn Huebner, private chef for Oprah Winfrey
isbn:
978-1-57284-167-3
Trade Cloth May 2015
8.5 x 10 $29.95
Foodies who are always one step ahead of culinary trends will appreciate these hearty, healthy recipes and stories from a region that often flies under the radar.
Passion for Pizza
A Journey Through Thick and Thin to Find the Pizza Elite By W H I T S O N, G J E S T E L A N D, W I D É N, and H A N S E N
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his cookbook features 50 recipes for pizzas, crusts, and unique topping combinations, as well as over 60 profiles of chefs, restaurateurs, Italian pizzaiolis, and producers. As a handsome, full-color history book and travel guide, Passion for Pizza is a tribute to the people and places that make pizza one of the world’s favorite foods.
isbn:
978-1-57284-160-4
Trade Cloth March 2015
8.5 x 10.5 $29.95
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The behind-the-scenes stories and rich photography make this more than just another pizza cookbook—it’s a perfect gift for the pizza lover who is interested in the history and craft of pizza making.
Holiday Cookies
Chicago Portraits
Edited by C H I C A G O T R I B U N E S TA F F
Foreword by R I C K KO G A N
isbn:
978-1-57284-164-2
isbn:
978-1-57284-165-9
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A collection of the best recipes from the Chicago Tribune’s annual holiday cookie contest, featuring delicious traditional and contemporary recipes as tested by the newspaper’s award-winning food writers.
Striking portraits capture well-known Chicagoans, celebrity visitors, and unknown locals. This expansive collection builds on the lauded Humans of New York project, showing that the art of photojournalism is alive and well in our great American cities.
Indian for Everyone
A Century of Progress
By A N U P Y S I N G L A
Edited by C H I C A G O T R I B U N E S TA F F
isbn:
978-1-57284-162-8
isbn:
978-1-57284-183-3
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Best-selling Indian cookbook author Anupy Singla demystifies the Indian home-cooking experience with more than 100 healthy recipes from India’s varied regional traditions. Publishers Weekly calls it “an impressive and useful addition to the canon.”
This collection is drawn from the Chicago Tribune’s vast historical archives of rare (and in many cases, previously unseen) photographs that document the 1933-34 Chicago world’s fair—an invaluable witness to how Depression-era Americans viewed themselves and the future of the nation. 2015 GIFT GUIDE 7
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