Eva's Kitchen Confidence

((Just came across this media release from Eva Kende. This book is worth checking out.))

For Immediate Release January 5, 2005.

Just in time to aid you in your New Year's Resolution to reduce grocery costs and improve nutrition in your daily life! Eva's Kitchen Confidence is now available in Wire-O bound paperback format. Get the paperback with the flick of your mouse or choose any ebook version less money. Choose the .prc version to synchronize with that new Palm that Santa brought you and have this handy guide at your fingertips!

Book Information: Paperback: 160 pages Binding: Wire-O ISBN: 1584952423 $14.20 USD All versions can be ordered from http://www.diskuspublishing.com/ekco.html

In today's hurried society, one often finds the meal provider, now days just as often a male, caught in a guilt ridden quandary, trying to balance good nutrition, budget and the constrains of time, bounded by career, children's activities and some semblance of family life. If you recognize your life in the above statement, Eva Kende wrote a cookbook just for you! Male or female meal provider -sounds better than cook- will find a lot of information to learn to create meals without exact recipes, how to substitute with what's on hand, be creative and shake off the fear of cooking, so that they can prepare a quick nutritious meal with confidence for their family or entertain friends with poise. Eva's Kitchen Confidence is more than a cookbook. - It's a friend in your kitchen that understands your problems, sympathizes and gives you the tools to success.

"This is not your typical cookbook as the introduction to this book best explains: 'Cooking is not just following recipes: To cook well and enjoy doing it, it is absolutely essential to understand the basic methods, so that you can apply them to those recipes surreptitiously torn from magazines at the doctor's office, collected from friends or contained in the glossy cookbooks on your shelf. Understanding the methods will give your cooking flair and flexibility. Thus you will eventually develop a style of your own.' As the readers are admonished to get their 'nose out of the recipe and into the pot,' Kende teaches cooking through the senses. The eyes look for color and texture. The nose must be aware of odors, both for blending of ingredients and for detecting any burning. The ears listen to the food cook, where hissing tells the heat is too high. The sense of touch is needed for texture, while taste is essential to assure the flavour. Where was this book when I was a newlywed so totally lost and insecure in the kitchen? After 27 years, I have developed the style of my own, yet I still learned new things from 'Eva's Kitchen Confidence.' This book belongs in every kitchen." Reviewed by Angie Mangino -- * * * * Outstanding book, engrossing, a classic

Elisabeth Burton of The Blue Iris Journal says: "Eva's Kitchen Confidence is a gourmet smorgasbord of information. Whether you're a gourmet chef or a neophyte who doesn't know one end of a meat thermometer from another, this user-friendly primer on the fine art of food preparation should have a place in your cookbook collection. Or perhaps even in place of your cookbook collection, because Eva Kende's emphasis is definitely on the art of food preparation. Cooking, she stresses throughout Eva's Kitchen Confidence, should be fun--an adventure, not a chore limited by rules, regulations and recipes. The trick, she explains, is to know not just how ingredients go together but why. Once you've mastered that, you're free to change the colors, textures and media and create your very own culinary masterpieces. Starting with a list of the basic equipment needs, Kende goes on to discuss the science of cookery, surrounding the mechanics with words of encouragement, cheerful quotes and helpful reminders. Kende not only wants you to have fun in the kitchen, she wants you to have fun learning how to do it.

Have a wedding coming up? Tuck a copy of this book into a basket of kitchen utensils selected from the clearly described list. Know someone who just moved into their first apartment and who is living on Mickey D's and canned soup? Drop off a box of staples picked from another well-designed list and a copy of Eva's Kitchen Confidence. And don't forget a copy for yourself."

Eva Kende learned to cook at the age of thirteen and has been learning since. Feedback from readers of her bestselling cookbook, Eva's Hungarian Kitchen, convinced her that there is a large segment of population that is intimidated by cooking from scratch. To help instil confidence into the timid and to pass on the secrets and confidences that most cookbooks do not tell, she wrote Eva's Kitchen Confidence. Eva, a retired biochemist, lives in Canmore, Alberta, Canada, in the Rockies with her husband John. She divides her time between her family, traveling and writing on any subject that stirs her emotions.

DiskUs Publishing established in 1996 is one of the oldest and most respected royalty-paying electronic publishers. Recently, they branched out to provide some of their books in paperback format.

Subject: Eva's Kitchen Confidence is now available in paperback Contact author: Eva M. Kende, 403-678-5821, ekende@telus.net www.telusplanet.net/public/ekende DiskUs Publishing: www.diskuspublishing.com Contact: Marilyn Nesbitt, publisher, MLNESBITT@aol.com