The story centers on a thrilling softball game between the Muskrats and the Cardinals, engaging young readers with the excitement of the sport. As the game unfolds, children will learn essential skills and facts about softball, such as batting, fielding, and running the bases. The vibrant illustrations enhance the experience, making it an educational and entertaining read for aspiring young athletes.
This new Artisanal Kitchen book highlights summertime with more than 30 recipes for succulent barbecue, grilled meats, and sides, as well as lessons and tips from Brooklyn pitmaster Joe Carroll.
The book offers a comprehensive guide to nutrition and cooking for both adults and kids, featuring a detailed table of contents, a food pyramid for healthy eating, and practical cooking and measuring tips. It includes a list of essential utensils and tools, along with informative sidebars that provide nutrition notes. A glossary and index enhance usability, while a curated book list and safe web resources at FactHound.com offer further learning opportunities.
Featuring a comprehensive guide to nutrition and cooking, this book includes essential sections like notes for both adults and kids, a detailed table of contents, and a food pyramid for healthy eating. It provides practical cooking and measuring tips, a list of necessary utensils, and informative sidebars with nutrition notes. Additionally, a glossary and index enhance usability, while a curated book list and safe web resources at www.FactHound.com offer further exploration into the subject.
Discover kid-friendly Chinese recipes that make cooking fun! From eight treasures pudding to dim sum dumplings, this book encourages young chefs to create delicious dishes that will delight the whole family. Perfect for inspiring a love of cooking!
This volume from the popular School of Country Guitar series covers basic chords and accompaniment styles. Featured throughout are fills and runs made famous by the first generation of recorded country musicians.
The ukulele is an effective solo instrument carrying both the melody and chords when playing specially arranged music. This book includes 28 beautiful classic melodies arranged for solo ukulele. These arrangements sound wonderful played by musicians of all levels. Some arrangements are suited to beginners while others will be best played by more advanced players. Regardless of your previous experience, these arrangements, even played at slow tempos, will produce an attractive full sound.
Joe Carroll makes stellar barbecue and grilled meats in Brooklyn, New York, at his acclaimed restaurants Fette Sau and St. Anselm. In Feeding the Fire, Carroll gives us his top 20 lessons and more than 75 recipes to make incredible fire-cooked foods at home, proving that you don’t need to have fancy equipment or long-held regional traditions to make succulent barbecue and grilled meats. Feeding the Fire teaches the hows and whys of live-fire cooking: how to create low and slow fires, how to properly grill chicken (leave it on the bone), why American whiskey blends so nicely with barbecued meats (both are flavored with charred wood), and how to make the best sides to serve with meat (keep it simple). Recipes nested within each lesson include Pulled Pork Shoulder, Beef Short Ribs, Bourbon-Brined Center-Cut Pork Chops, Grilled Clams with Garlic Butter, and Charred Long Beans. Anyone can follow these simple and straightforward lessons to become an expert.
If you have ever heard the sound of rhythm guitar in a good western swing band, you may have wondered how the guitarist achieved that unique chordal sound.While the song might be a simple one--playable with only two or three chords--the western swing guitarist changes chords every two beats, providing a driving and harmonically interesting background for the singers and instrumentalists. This book is designed for intermediate players who have a basic understanding ofopen chords. It begins with study of the Texas fiddle back-up style and thechords used to enhance this music. The chords and progressions explained inthis book can be used in many types of music in addition to western swing and would serve as an excellent transition from open-string folk chords to more of ajazz approach. Includes access to online audio.
This book and accompanying audio include 21 beautiful songs, old-time tunesand Christmas melodies arranged as duets for two ukuleles. The individual parts are single note melodies designed to allow players of all skill levels to play together. The pieces are arranged so the first ukulele plays the melody and the second ukulele plays the harmony above it. Regardless of your previousexperience, these arrangements, even played at slow tempos, will produce anattractive full sound. Includes access to online audio.