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The South Beach Diet Parties and Holidays Cookbook: Healthy Recipes for Entertaining Family and Friends

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Great Food and Still Losing Weight!
South Beach Diet over Christmas
Great Ideas for Holidays and Gatherings!
Something that FINALLY works!
Best Cookbook I Have Ever Bought!

The South Beach Diet Parties and Holidays Cookbook: Healthy Recipes for Entertaining Family and Friends
Arthur Agatston
Manufacturer: Rodale Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1594864446
Release Date: 2006-10-03

Book Description

The famed Miami Beach cardiologist who has helped millions of people worldwide to lose weight and eat healthier with his best-selling South Beach Diet books now addresses the special challenge that can undermine anyones willpowerthe irresistible lure of diet-busting dishes at festive occasions. As the more than 20 menus and 150 easy, all-new recipes in this cookbook prove, theres no need to give up favorite holiday and party dishes to stay on the South Beach Diet. Dr. Agatston explains that healthy entertaining is not a matter of deprivation, but of simply making as many good choices as possible. His new book provides those choices, putting a healthy twist on favorite entertaining meals for every occasion, whether its a family Christimas Eve dinner, a Thanksgiving feast, a Passover seder, a football fest in front of the TV, or a backyard barbeque with the neighbors.

Customer Reviews:

Great Food and Still Losing Weight!.......2007-05-22

This cook book is wonderful! Recipes are easy and taste really good. Friends have said "I thought you were on a diet" after eating a holiday or special occasion meal with us. I tell them I am still ona diet and have this wonderful cookbook with meal ideas and recipes that makes a person think otherwise!

South Beach Diet over Christmas.......2007-04-01

If you've found it hard to keep to a diet plan during Christmas or Thanksgiving, this book will solve your problems. Easy and delicious recipes based on the South Beach diet.

Great Ideas for Holidays and Gatherings!.......2007-03-15

The South Beach Diet may have revolutionized how we eat, but when it comes to entertaining, most of us fall back into old food habits. Now there's a no-brainer way to entertain, with recipes and menus that can satisfy the most skeptical guests. Really a winner, and easy to use.

Something that FINALLY works!.......2007-01-20

As long as you have the determination to "stick with it" and lose weight, this program, and this book, will make getting there a breeze! How tough can it be to stay on a diet, when you're allowed to eat all kinds of delicious, "sinful" foods??? For the first time in my life, I am 2 pounds lighter than before the holidays started; and, I didn't have to give up the joy of eating... I highly recommend this book and the program it represents. Recipes are not difficult and the results are most rewarding. Furthermore, you cannot beat the price at Amazon and the book was in my house, two days after I placed the order...

Best Cookbook I Have Ever Bought!.......2007-01-16

This is the first cookbook I have bought where I can see myself actually trying every recipe in it. Dr. Agatston has broken the book into specific holidays and events (Easter, Thanksgiving, Football parties, showers, etc.), but of course feel free to mix and match recipes based on what your preferred tastes are. The recipes that I have tried so far have been easy and delicious. The best part is at the end of every recipe, he tells you what you can prepare ahead of time, from hours before your event to days before your event. Each recipe is labeled as to which phase of the South Beach Diet it pertains, just as in his other books. This cookbook is too good to save just for holidays and parties. I'm planning on using it year-round for my family's everyday meals.

Friends to the End: The True Value of Friendship

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Loved this book.......
Book: Friends to the end
Friends to the End: The True Value of Friendship
FRIENDS TO THE END
Captures the Savory Moments with Cuteness and Wisdom

Friends to the End: The True Value of Friendship
Bradley Trevor Greive
Manufacturer: Andrews McMeel Publishing
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0740747010

Book Description

Friends and life. Life and friends. The two are so tightly interwoven it's impossible to imagine one being remotely worthwhile without the other. As Bradley Trevor Greive points out, "There are very few truly solitary creatures on this planet. And most of them have serious personal hygiene issues." What makes friends so special? What does our choice of friends say about us? What sparks the best friendships and keeps them burning? In Friends to the End: The True Value of Friendship, BTG uses his trademark witty narrative illustrated with irresistible animal photos to explore the daily magic we experience through our friends. Best described as a cross between his famously successful Dear Mom and The Blue Day Book, Friends to the End examines themes such as why we can't live without friends, how great friendships grow from humble beginnings, how to identify different types of friendship, what to do when good friends turn bad, and why it's all so worthwhile. "When I think back to all the really great or the horrendously bad times in my life," says BTG, "I can't help but think about how my friends made the former all the more enjoyable and the latter at least survivable. I want this book to help people appreciate friendship for all it is and all it can be."Friends to the End promises to have the same cultural impact achieved by his previous books. His modern classics The Blue Day Book and Dear Mom have been New York Times best-sellers and made the author a household name in more than 35 countries. BTG's seven previous volumes have sold more than seven million copies worldwide.

Customer Reviews:

Loved this book..............2007-05-19

This book was a joy to read with both of my dearest friends. We all got more than a few good laughs at some of the pictures and captions. I would recommend this book as a gift for a good friend.

Book: Friends to the end.......2007-03-19

Received product in excellent condition, though stated were used, I think there were very new. Really sweet book. Something to send to those friends you want to let know how terrific they are.

Friends to the End: The True Value of Friendship .......2007-02-15

It came in great condition and I'm sure both of the friends that I got it for will enjoy it.

FRIENDS TO THE END.......2007-01-10

This is a wonderful and heartfelt book.

The wording and the photographs were exactly what I was looking for.

Captures the Savory Moments with Cuteness and Wisdom.......2006-05-29

This book is a cute and wise display of every facet of friendship. It covers not only the fun and intimate rewards of friends, but also those areas that rub us raw and make us want to go running away screaming. Doing so with the marvelous pictures captures the savory moments and makes beautiful light of the joy in long-standing friends.

I bought this for an entire circle of friends as momentos for whom I wanted something very special to capture the depth we had just gained with each other in working through difficulty and refinement with each other. It was absolutely perfect as a treasure gift.

You will love this book, and the pictures will leave you roaring with laughter, yet cooing with sentiment.

Stephanie S. Sawyer, author and reviewer

Vital Friends: The People You Can't Afford to Live Without

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Thinking about friends
Friends At Work
Not disquieting at all
Vital Friends
Very Interesting look at relationships and control.

Vital Friends: The People You Can't Afford to Live Without
Tom Rath
Manufacturer: Gallup Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1595620079
Release Date: 2006-08-01

Book Description

What's the quickest way to ruin a friendship? Do great friendships have anything in common? Are close friendships in the workplace such a bad thing?

These are just a few of the questions that #1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Rath asked when he embarked on a massive study about the impact of friendships. Along with several leading researchers, Rath pored through the literature, conducted several experiments, and analyzed more than 8 million interviews from The Gallup Organization's worldwide database.

His team's discoveries produced Vital Friends, a book that challenges long-held assumptions people have about their relationships. And the team's landmark discovery - that people who have a "best friend at work" are seven times as likely to be engaged in their job - is sure to rattle the structure of organizations around the world.

Drawing on research and case studies from topics as diverse as management, marriage, and architecture, Vital Friends reveals what's common to all truly essential friendships: a regular focus on what each person is contributing to the friendship - rather than the all-too-common approach of expecting one person to be everything.

The book includes a unique ID code that provides access to the Vital Friends Assessment and website. This groundbreaking test reveals which friends play each of the eight vital friendship roles in your work and life.

Tom Rath's fast-paced and inviting storytelling takes a mountain of important research and makes it remarkably accessible and applicable. By the time you finish reading Vital Friends, you'll see your coworkers, family, friends, and significant other in a whole new light.

Customer Reviews:

Thinking about friends.......2007-05-28

My book club read Vital Friends last week. The men responded well to it; the women seemed lukewarm. All of us liked the book's values.

Rath's survey study reveals surprising connections between productivity and policies promoting friendship at work. Rath also developed a structure for analyzing dynamic components common among friends, a structure available on-line.

Our book club men found the analysis especially revealing when applied to their personal lives. Our women were less inspired, perhaps because thinking about friendship was not such uncharted territory.

I liked Vital Friends much better after talking about the issues it raises. The bottom line: thinking aloud about friendship is important to both private and public well-being.

Friends At Work.......2007-05-09

Learn how valuable your friends are, and then go one step further by developing friendships with your co-workers.

Not disquieting at all.......2007-03-13

I disagree with the reviewer who liked the book but found it disquieting. Rath simply shows the value of friendships at work. The part the reviewer found disquieting was where Rath shows how the friendships can be used in productivity. He is not, in any way, fostering the idea that we become friends with someone because of what they can do for us at work. He is encouraging business leaders to create an environment where natural friendships are encouraged and showing them that such an environment will reward them as well because their happy and content employees will produce more and better work results and will not be out of work due to illness.

Vital Friends.......2007-02-22

After reading it and completing the Vital Friends survey, our executive team is doing a book study with this book. I highly recommend it for teams that must be colloborative and your core business depends on productive dialogue and innovation.

Very Interesting look at relationships and control........2007-01-22

I enjoyed this book, it really goes into great detail about friends, personalities and what types of friends we are and have. I especially liked the research on friendship in the workplace and reading about some larger companies policies on no friendships and even having a toll free "tattle" line for other employees to rat out employees that are friendly, and then how some companies encourage friendship, and how. All in all, a good read with some good information on how to be a better friend as well as have better friends.

NOT "Just Friends": Rebuilding Trust and Recovering Your Sanity After Infidelity

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Stability, Hope and Self-Love When Your Mind is Spinning
Great book
so totally amazing!!!
Read this book!
THE must-read book on affairs

NOT "Just Friends": Rebuilding Trust and Recovering Your Sanity After Infidelity
Shirley Glass , and Jean Coppock Staeheli
Manufacturer: Free Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0743225503

Book Description

You're right to be cautious when you hear these words:
"I'm telling you, we're just friends."

Good people in good marriages are having affairs. The workplace and the Internet have become fertile breeding grounds for "friendships" that can slowly and insidiously turn into love affairs. Yet you can protect your relationship from emotional or sexual betrayal by recognizing the red flags that mark the stages of slipping into an improper, dangerous intimacy that can threaten your marriage.

Customer Reviews:

Stability, Hope and Self-Love When Your Mind is Spinning .......2007-06-18

I am a very private person, even in my pain. However, the help this book provided me in the time of my crisis was irreplaceable and as I feel there may be others who are experiencing what I experienced or have gone through the pain of either emotional or sexual infidelity with their partners, my need to praise and review this book went beyond me and my need for privacy in order to possibly help someone else. From cover to cover it was as if Dr. Glass was reading my mind, the mind of my spouse, had already anticipated his and my actions and was uncovering the layers of the betrayal partner with precision, which as I unearthed more information, shined clear through like an xtray into her character and actions. This book helped me to calm my mind and spirit and understand the many angles that are created to birth the possibility of an affair into existence. My husband and I suffered some set backs, mostly related to the aspect of "lies of omission" and/or our being separated for four months, but Dr. Glass' book was with me and later us(he later agreed to read the book) each step with timely precision. Although it has been over three years since the disclosure of my spouse's emotionally intimate betrayal, which itself lasted for almost three years, I still find solice in Dr. Glass' work when "triggered" by certain reminders or behavior in myself or from my husband. She was a definite godsend to me at a time I thought my implicit trust was my own undoing. I literally cried when I found out she had passed. I felt her work blessed me that much. After 15 years of marriage, both I and my husband attempt to be vigilent in using many of the ideas and suggestions Dr. Glass puts forth in her book to maintain proper "windows" and "walls" with regards to our opposite sex relationships/friendships. Yes, it takes time to heal, learn to love your partner again and refocus on your relationship/marriage if it is truly what you want. I would also recommend this book as a gift to newly married couples or those embarking on an agreed long-term committed relationship. Lastly, as I recently learned the betrayal partner in my saga married just this year, I can only say that I hope if by chance she reads this, she has grown with integrity and has come to understand what it will take to keep her marriage safe, close and loving. Be forewarned, you(SBRDP)do not ever want to experience the pain and hurt which you caused me and my family not so long ago. ASE

Great book.......2007-05-15

I believe this book is wonderful and I enthusiastically recommend it. It is very readable, her opinions are well documented, her advice plausable and helpful. Her advice is non-judgemental. Sorry to hear of her recent death - she has helped many people.

so totally amazing!!!.......2007-05-12

This book is the absolute perfect, perfect, perfect book for anyone dealing with recovering from infidelity! It is worth more than any of the money we have spent in paying a therapist. She covers everything so thoroughly and helps the deceived partner to find a way to finally heal while also helping the involved partner to understand the depth of what they have done while also finding a way to rebuild their partner and themselves. It was a godsend!

Read this book!.......2007-05-12

Excellent book. Extremely helpful in explaining and understanding things from both sides. I highly recommend this book for anyone who has been through this experience. It perfectly describes many issues and how to heal.

THE must-read book on affairs.......2007-04-18

This is the book that can benefit all the 3 parties in love triangle. I respect the author's thorough research, her calm tone. It's _the_ book looking for answers to your "why", "why me", "how could he do this to me", "what should I do" questions.

How To Start A Conversation And Make Friends: Revised And Updated

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Wasted time and money
A complete waste of time and money
Very Basic
Reviews by Nan Kilar and Bobby Miller
Good starting grounds

How To Start A Conversation And Make Friends: Revised And Updated
Don Gabor
Manufacturer: Fireside
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ASIN: 0684868016

Book Description

For nearly twenty years, small-talk expert Don Gabor has helped thousands of people communicate with wit, confidence, and enthusiasm with his bestseller How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends. This new edition brings the art of having a conversation up to date.

By following the simple and dynamic guidelines in this easy-to-read book, you'll be ready to strike up a great conversation with anyone anywhere! And you'll learn how to keep the conversation going by asking the right questions, using body language effectively, and avoiding conversation pitfalls. Packed with charts, hundreds of opening lines, real-life examples, FAQs, helpful hints, and solid professional advice, How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends shows you how to:

Customer Reviews:

Wasted time and money.......2007-01-18

If you can open your mouth and words come out. Then you already do as this book say's. Very little info, if any at all. One star because he took the time to write something.

A complete waste of time and money.......2007-01-04

I bought this book on the strength of several other reviews and its rating, but I don't think I have ever been so disappointed in a book in my life. This should be titled, "The Absolute Moron's Guide to Conversation". There is nothing in here that anyone with the most rudimentary social skills doesn't already know.

Wow, I didn't know that I shouldn't call people when they are in a movie theater, or that discussing death is poor social etiquette at a party. And what isn't obvious is patently ridiculous.

I teach English conversation skills to non-native speakers and was hoping that I could find some tips that would help my students. Sadly, even my least skilled students would find this book far beneath them.

Very Basic.......2006-04-24

I recommend you not buy this book or cd. I listened to the CD and it was too elementary.

Reviews by Nan Kilar and Bobby Miller.......2006-03-29

I don't know what kind of verbal tight spots you find yourself in on a regular basis, but here's hoping not too many. As a political activist and writer who has been tagged by the media as "one of America's most controversial authors", I'm nearly always on the hot seat wherever I go, bathroom being about the only exception.

Gabor's book has performed equally well as a shield and a peace dove at the same time. He suggests that if you want to be a good conversationalist, you must first be a good listener. Think about that for a second. Naturally, if you really don't care what the other person thinks about you and your opinion, do as I used to do--just jump into the conversation without the slightest knowledge of the other person's beliefs and opinions. Talk about not winning friends and influencing people--that'll get the job done. Add to that the fact that most people won't tell you to your face that they think you're an obnoxious jerk; they just tell everyone else. This book will teach you how to ask closed and open-ended questions, and that alone is worth the price of the book.

Good starting grounds.......2006-01-16

This is a good book to start from if you have recognized, like myself, that your conversation skills could use some improvement.

It goes over a lot of basics, some of which is very helpful, but also a lot of what you could find by just a simple Google search. You will come across some nuggest of wisdome such as: You will rarely be able communicate with someone about important ideas, unless you first go through the motions of "ritual questions" to establish rapport and trust. I know this is one area that I always had problems with. However, some parts of the book just made me roll my eyes , like the sample "real life" conversations and some of the suggested opening questions.

All in all, worth reading, because it is a very quick and easy read, at a reasonable price. However, for a much more valuable and substantial advice I recommend "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie.

How to Be a Friend: A Guide to Making Friends and Keeping Them (Dino Life Guides for Families)

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Great book for Kids
GREAT!
A fun read!
Kid's Review
Autism Spectrum lifesaver..

How to Be a Friend: A Guide to Making Friends and Keeping Them (Dino Life Guides for Families)
Laurie Krasny Brown
Manufacturer: Little, Brown Young Readers
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ASIN: 0316111538

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Written and illustrated by the creators of the popular Dino Life Guides for Families, this book uses precise language and humorous illustrations to offer specific ways to be a friend and specific ways not to be one. A special section on how to deal with bosses and bullies has valuable information for young children going forth in the world and encountering these situations for the first time.

Customer Reviews:

Great book for Kids.......2007-02-22

I enjoyed the book. It will help my students become better friends with personal ideas and reasons.

GREAT!.......2007-01-10

Reinforces the criteria and requirements that kids need to know to be a "GOOD" friend in easy to understand examples.

A fun read!.......2007-01-04

I bought this book to find out how to help my 10 year old with some basic friendship issues. This book was VERY basic and geared for a younger child, but I feel that it is a great book for any parent. My daughter read it also and said that she thought it was very helpful, but a little too "kiddy" for her taste.

Kid's Review.......2006-10-19

I actually give this book four and half stars. I liked it a lot and it had lots of good advice about how to be a good friend. It described how I feel when I feel shy. I am five and almost three quarters and my sister who is two liked it also.
Jacob (with help from his mom)

Autism Spectrum lifesaver.........2006-04-12

.. and should be listed as such. My daughter loves this book, she is very intent as we read it, which means she is taking it in. She has been diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, which is a high-functioning form of autism. These kids have difficulty with social situations, and they are visual learners, so this is awesome.

Average customer rating:

Good for the worrisome parent
Hopelessly Out of Date and Out of Touch
Your 3 year old: Friend or Enemy
EASY READ
Good book, a bit generic but helpful

Your Three-Year-Old: Friend or Enemy
Louise Bates Ames , and Frances L. Ilg
Manufacturer: Dell
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0440506492
Release Date: 1980-08-15

Customer Reviews:

Good for the worrisome parent.......2007-06-27

I have a VERY active 3-year-old little girl. I've always been troubled by making sure she's operating within the normal parameters of her age. And this book certainly helped put my mind at ease. As many reviewers have said, this is not a book for people seeking parenting "advise" per se, but is excellent at outlining the typical range of behaviors for the age. As must have for the nervous parent

Hopelessly Out of Date and Out of Touch.......2007-06-14

I was very disappointed in this book after hearing so many good things about the series. It is hopelessly out of date to the point that it offended me after only 10 pages. The book assumes that the father is this distant person with little to no involvement in parenting. I just don't think that's true any more for many families. To me this attitude just reinforces stereotypes that only mothers can be good parents. Bleh!

Your 3 year old: Friend or Enemy.......2007-05-19

I too am shocked that there are people who don't like this book. Yes, some of the advice is outdated, but the general behavioral info is spot on. I've looked for more updated information on behavior and advice & have found none to compare with providing concise insight into the WHY of behavior. Just understanding why my child was acting a certain way put a whole new spin on how I deal with issues. The days that it seems my child turned into a stranger, I could say "ah ha!" this book told me this may happen. I do love, love, love this book & have recommended it over and over.

EASY READ.......2007-04-13

Great book that was easy to read. Helpful information that was very reassuring to new parents with a very common sense approach. Have purchased additional copies for friends and all of them have also found the book helpful.

Good book, a bit generic but helpful.......2007-03-06

I bought this book because I began dating a person with a child (3 yrs old, go figure) and being that I had absolutely no idea what parenting was, I thought this could lead me in the right direction. Well, it did however there were many unanswered questions. I had trouble diagnosing inconsistent sleep patterns in the child as well as erratic behavior within a two hour period. The book failed to even mention these as symptoms of a larger scale change in the child's life... ME! I bought another book in child psychology that helped.
I did however, become much more educated on children's stability vs. unstable periods and what to expect, how to ask and what options to give the kid. Somehow, I even gave a pointer here and there to friends who were and had been parents for a while.

Choosing a Jewish Life: A Handbook for People Converting to Judaism and for Their Family and Friends

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useful information
1st book
Cannot be the only book you read....
If you are Considering Converting
A nice place to start

Choosing a Jewish Life: A Handbook for People Converting to Judaism and for Their Family and Friends
Anita Diamant
Manufacturer: Schocken
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ASIN: 0805210954
Release Date: 1998-02-24

Book Description

Married to a convert herself, Anita Diamant provides advice and information that can transform the act of conversion into an extraordinary journey of self-discovery and spiritual growth.

Here you will learn how to choose a rabbi, a synagogue, a denomination, a Hebrew name; how to handle the difficulty of putting aside Christmas; what happens at the mikvah (ritual bath) or at a hatafat dam brit (circumcision ritual for those already circumcised); how to find your footing in a new spiritual family that is not always well prepared to receive you; and how not to lose your bonds to your family of origin. Diamant anticipates all the questions, doubts, and concerns, and provides a comprehensive explanation of the rules and rituals of conversion.

Customer Reviews:

useful information.......2007-02-17

This book has a lot of useful information for conversion. The only drawback was that it was written for people converting for a partner who is Jewish. Not all people convert for this reason so it is not a one size fits all conversion book.

1st book.......2007-02-08

This is the first book on the "conversion process" I read. I know some people take issue with Diamant, but this book was a great introduction to the subject. It made the whole thing seem approachable and possible. It really helped me.

Cannot be the only book you read...........2006-12-17

I give this book five stars but I want to say that it cannot be the only book a potential convert reads. The reason I give it such a high rating is because it is a nice primer for the process and how to deal with Christmas. Most people on their way to Jewry are told "okay, by the way, no more Christmas" but this book deals with how psychologically hard it can be to forfeit up something so engrained in the American psyche as Christmas.
The potential Jew must also get themselves an introduction to Hebrew, a good Tanakh, an introduction to Talmud (Everyman's Talmud is very good) and a good book on how to live an observant Jewish life (To be a Jew is good for this). Converts must also ask their rabbi if there is any other books the rabbi would like them to read.
This book is indespinsable because of how it clearly describes what a hafat dam brit or mikvah are like and also the importance of a convert's Hebrew name. Many converts have no idea what a real mikvah will be like and I LOVE the way this book goes into it.
Overall I definately believe everyone going into Reform, Conservative or Reconstructionist Judaism should read this. It does have a very evident slant towards Reform but I find it WONDERFUL and I am most likely going to go through a conservative conversion.

If you are Considering Converting.......2006-08-06

I purchased this book because I find the writer to be fine author and, at first blush the book was directed towards Jews-by-choice and the complexities of conversion.

The book is an interesting and informative read but is written from the perspective of individuals who convert as a result of their relationships to Jews-by-Birth. Much of the information can be extrapolated to conversion for other reasons however, my thoughts and desires regarding conversion do not have any basis in my husband's beliefs. Quite the contrary - as life's mysteries would have it, I introduced him to Christianity. My exploration of Judaism is based on my own spiritual journey and from that perspective, the book is interesting and informative but does not address the complex questions of the individual who seeks a spiritual connection sans a partner who is similarily motivated.

A nice place to start.......2006-01-04

This is a good general guidebook to begin with; it's informative and valuable without being too brief or too long. However, one shouldn't feel that one should only ever read this one conversion book, since there are so many other good ones out there, as well as ones that go into more in-depth and detailed territory than this one. It's not meant to be the be-all and end-all on this subject. There's a lot of valuable information in here, such as choosing a Hebrew name, adapting to a whole new personal history and outlook on life, the types of conversion ceremonies, which denomination you'd like to convert through, the wedding ceremony, and how to tell your family and friends about your decision. And yes, this book is written from a Progressive standpoint, but as Ms. Diamant points out in the introduction, that's not meant as an insult to the Orthodox world, but rather because, not only is it not her territory, but also because there is such a large gulf between the Orthodox and Progressive circles of Judaism when it comes to "who is a Jew." If someone were interested in an Orthodox conversion, s/he would have gone to a book like Maurice Lamm's 'Becoming a Jew,' not a conversion guidebook specifically geared towards those of more Progressive persuasions.

However, I do agree that this books really seems to work from the assumption that the reader is converting because of a romantic relationship. I was 18 years old and single when I had my first (Reform) conversion, and was 24 and still single when I completed my second (Conservative) conversion some years later. I respect that there are a number of people out there who come to want to convert for their own reasons even though the initial catalyst was a romantic relationship, but a growing number of people who convert are indeed single, and always have been. While Ms. Diamant does address that fact that not everyone converts because of a relationship, most of the book really seems biased towards people who are converting for marriage. I just wish there had been more material addressing those of us who are single and who converted for spiritual, not romantic, reasons.

The Twelve Steps for Christians: Based on Biblical Teachings

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The Twelve Steps for Christians.......2007-05-14

I was very pleased that the book was written by a group that remained anonymous and that they kept very focused on maintaining the integrity of the original 12-Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. This is not a Christianizing of the Steps. Rather it is the 12-Steps standing on their own, but cross validating the fundamental truths that are found in both Christianity and the 12-Steps. After all, the 10 Commandments and the 12-Steps have the same author. And that author is not Moses or Bill W. but a higher power God, that can free us from all of our various forms of self-will run riot.

Book / DVD Review.......2007-03-19

Great product - Well worth the price - Has helped me understand addiction and the recovery process.

12 Steps for Christians.......2006-08-03

Have purchased many of this title for a prison Bible Study group I do volunteer work with. Although I haven't personally read it, the members of the study group speak highly of it and frequently request more copies.

An invaluable tool for Christians.......2006-05-30

As an educator and a therapist, I have recommended this book to my Christian clients/patients and students. My clients report that the book has enhanced their recovery as they can tie their Step work to Biblical teachings. My students, particularly those who are not in recovery but are learning about substance abuse, have reported that the text has given them a base from which to understand the Steps more deeply and allowed them to feel more comfortable about their ability to use the Steps in their ministries.

The Twelve Steps for Christians.......2002-01-08

My husband and I previously read this book and were very impressed. We are both in recovery and were avid believers in Jesus Christ. All of the traditional recovery books were vague in their spirituality, and we could relate and grow from this book. We currently use this book in our ministry, which is a recovery ministry in our church. We see many other people being blessed from it as well. I think people that have not had to deal with different addictions/bondages in their lives, could benefit from the steps/tools that are available in this book!

Rao's Recipes from the Neighborhood: Frank Pelligrino Cooks Italian with Family and Friends

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The titular neighborhood of Frank Pellegrino's Rao's: Recipes from the Neighborhood is Manhattan's East Harlem, home to an Italian immigrant population. The area also boasts Rao's, Pellegrino's Southern Italian restaurant that was discovered by local "worthies" and is now New York City's toughest reservation. The book, a follow-up to the bestselling Rao's Cookbook, offers 125 recipes for the kind of fare offered Rao's, and by Pellegrino's extended family and neighbors--dishes like Pizza Rustica, Penne Rigate with Cauliflower, Veal Milanese, and My Mother's Stuffed Calamari. This deeply satisfying, utterly unpretentious cooking is easy to do, but must be handled with care to avoid debasing an already hybrid cuisine. The book scores in this, offering exemplary versions of Old-to-New World dishes, and is neighborhood-authentic down to the use of American convenience products like garlic powder. Readers will also relish the wide recipe range, which includes sweets such as Simple Ricotta Cheesecake and Noni's Chocolate Ravioli, as well as Pellegrino's headnotes, which reveal who made what when. (Of the contributor of Wedding Soup, for example, he says, "his grandmother and my grandmother ... both came to America in 1911 in the same ship.") This flavorsome background, plus homey photos and other memorabilia like Our Kitchen Table make this modest book particularly welcome. --Arthur Boehm

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With Rao's Cooks For The Neighborhood, Frank Pellegrino-of New York's celebrated East Harlem restaurant Rao's-returns to what he knows best: authentic Italian food. With over one hundred recipes and beautifully illustrated with both full-color and vintage black amp; white photographs, Rao's Cooks For The Neighborhood is Pellegrino's tribute to the place he grew up and the women who taught him how to cook. From Ida's baked chicken to Rose Milano's Spaghetti Frittata, everything a home cook needs to reproduce their favorite home-style meals is in this book. This classic cookbook is filled with newly discovered recipes of generations past, as well as holiday cooking, kitchen secrets, and some of the favorite menu items from Rao's. It's a love story devoted to Italian family cooking and its heritage. Every single dish is easy to prepare and satisfying to eat. Rao's Cooks For The Neighborhood will be eagerly awaited by readers who loved The Rao's Cookbook, but will also attract new fans who have come to know Rao's through the successful national brand of sauces sold throughout the U.S.

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Great book!.......2007-01-09

I love this book! It brings me right back to Brooklyn, and reminds me so much of my roots. In our home there was always cooking, good food and lots of family and friends. These recipes are the same good cooking, simple Italian cooking to enjoy. I also have Rao's other cookbook which I also enjoy. Bought this for my son for Christmas and then had to get one for myself. Get this and enjoy!

Can't put it down..........2006-03-21

This book completely revitalized my interest in cooking. I was growing tired of the highly complex, noveau recipes requiring obscure ingredients, and the end result was hardly worth the wait. Instead, these recipes accentuate the essence of Italian cooking - simplicity and quality ingredients. A great meal doesn't have to take all day to prepare and cook, and shouldn't require more than a handful of ingredients. Most of these recipes can be prepared with minimal effort after work and are great for family style cooking all week long, leaving great left-overs that only taste better with each re-heating. Cancel the magazine subscriptions and try this book. You will not be dissapointed with these recipes that haven't fallen short for over 100 years. Even the mediocre recipes are better than most.

Rao's Recipes from the Neighborhood.......2005-08-26

If you love Italian food and love to cook, nothing beats the
Rao's cook books. The recipes in this book are quite simple and easy to follow and even a novice cook can make a great meal.

A glimpse inside one of NYC's legendary eateries.......2004-12-20

Rao's has been a top eatery in New York City for decades. It's atmosphere was, is, and always will be a "rat pack" type of atmosphere, with a long line of people hoping for a seat to open up in one of the most intimate in-demand spots in the city.

Now, co-owner and actor Frank Pellegrino has put his restaurants' most popular dishes in book form, so that people crazy about traditional Italian fare can take a stab at making it themselves.

Boasting friends like actor Danny Aiello (who wrote the book's preface) and former New York Times food critic Mimi Sheraton (who wrote the forward), Pellegrino's book is part cookbook, part family album, as he takes a look at his childhood, his family, and the part that Rao's, owned then by his aunt and uncle Anna and Vincent Rao, played as he grew up around the neighborhood in it's East Harlem location.

The book is divided into chapters, each covering a specific type of food, and each is filled with family photographs, reminiscences from other members of his family and Frank's wide array of friends, as well as the recipes that made Rao's famous, sure to set the mouth watering. Some of the dishes Rao's is renowned for, such as Fettuccine Alfredo, boiled stuffed lobster, and the restaurants well-known homemade Marinara Sauce, are often less complicated than one tasting the dishes at the restaurant would probably believe. Each of those recipes, as well as all of the others, are explained in enough detail that it should be fairly simple to make near-Rao quality Italian fare in the average kitchen.

Although a bit pricey for its smallish size (a mere 197 pages), the book is nonetheless well worth it's price. The simple step-by-step instructions make this a great book for the beginning Italian cook, or for that matter, an experienced one as well.

If you're looking to take a stab at authentic Italian cuisine, New York Style, then look no further. Pellegrino offers up a cookbook filled with food, family, and style just too hard to resist.

Excellent Survey of Italian-American recipes. Pricy.......2004-12-18

`Rao's Recipes From the Neighborhood' appears to be a publication by restaurateur / actor Frank Pellegrino of his family's scant 196 page cooking scrapbook from the last two generations of the Rao / Pellegrino family which have lived in New York City, for a list price of $40 bucks a pop.

Before you get the notion that this is a cranky review of negatives and hit the `Not Influenced' button, let me say that this book really succeeds in giving us something interesting and useful, if not entirely new. It is certainly good enough to give it four stars, and the only thing keeping it from five is its relatively high price.

On the face of it, this appears to be a brand name rip-off, cashing in on the success of the restaurant, the original cookbook of restaurant recipes, and the Rao line of supermarket products. However, this book is not similar to other culinary publishing rip-offs such as the Alton Brown blank book and the Mark Bittman subdivision of his book into three booklets.

I will say that St. Martin's Press has used the lucre they expect to get for this price to good effect. The design of the book is crisp, the photography is good, all photographs are CAPTIONED and appear at an appropriate place in the text, and not much of the precious 196 pages are taken up with poorly written family stories.

The first thing to notice is that these are NOT recipes from the restaurant, Rao. They are recipes from Frank Pellegrino's friends and family labeled in a 72-point font with the name of the famous restaurant and forwarded by family friend and restaurant reviewer Mimi Sheraton, who put Rao's on the map with a three star rating in a New York Times restaurant review. So, this book is borrowing luster from the restaurant rather than serving as a promotion for same restaurant. The restaurant doesn't need the business, as I suspect not even Donald Trump or Bill Clinton could get a reservation at one of their eight (8) tables.

And, the recipes are really very good and most are exceptionally simple, but many are sophisticated when they have to be. This simplicity is all to a good cause, since the heart of the Italian genius with food is to create a pantry of exceptional ingredients, then don't mess them up. (Pellegrino does an homage to this principle in his introductory section on pantry items.) Sometimes, you can only appreciate this quality when you look at non-Italian interpreters such as London's River Café and Jamie Oliver. The simplicity really shines in recipes such as the Puttanesca sauce where the constant problem of not burning the garlic is solved simply with nary a need for a cautionary note by simply not adding the garlic until after the anchovies and olives have been added. As no ingredient is left out, I am hard pressed to believe this will taste any worse than the very fussy (but very good) version from `Cooks Illustrated' magazine.

When a cookbook is good, that quality usually shows itself on the first or second recipe and this book proves this rule. Even though this is a book of `Italian-American' recipes, the very first recipe is a perfect implementation of a classic unfussy Italian `Brodo di Pollo' which is made with coarsely chunked vegetables, is simmered for a scant hour and 15 minutes, and retains the poached chicken meat for some other purpose. The recipe even includes an optional enhancement I do not recall seeing elsewhere, with a thickening of the stock by adding a puree of the cooked carrots, leeks, and celery.

Another application of pure Italian culinary tradition is in the recipe for the wedding soup, where each green is carefully blanched separately, blanching water is saved as a later ingredient, cannellini beans are carefully pureed, and savories are gently sautéed, all before making the final assembly. Marcella Hazan could not have done it better. Aside from the opening chapter on soups, there are chapters on Salads; Egg Dishes; Pizza, Calzone, and Bread; Pasta, Rice, Polenta, and Sauces; Seafood; Chicken; Meats; Vegetables; and Desserts. While the bread chapter does not match the depth of understanding provided by a specialist's book by, for example, Peter Reinhart or Carol Field, it is really pretty good.

The biggest question one faces when considering getting this book is `Do I really need another Italian or Italian-American cookbook?' There is simply very little here which is new. I would definitely recommend this book in preference to Rocco DiSpirito's book he did with his mom. A perfect example is their Puttanesca recipes which Pellegrino does in 15 minutes with basic ingredients and which Rocco does in 20 minutes, needing a prepared sauce that takes additional time to make.

And, I would consider this book the equal to John Mariani's book as a source for `Italian-American' recipes (but without Mariani's excellent historical perspective and wine notes). It is also as good as `Eleanora's Kitchen' by Eleanora Scarpetta, and maybe just a touch better, as it is a choral work rather than just a solo effort. As a definitive presentation of `Italian-American' cuisine, it is not quite as good as Lydia Bastianich's excellent PBS series tie-in book. When I compare the Italian-American classic sausage and peppers from all books, I find Bastianich' version to be by far the most tasty (although I have a sneaky suspicion that her recipe has more to do with her northern Italian origin than it has to do with Mulberry street in Manhattan).

If you have no `Italian-American' cookbooks, this volume is an excellent purchase, especially if you can get a good discount.

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