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Author: Elaine Louie Publisher: Hyperion Books – 265 pages Book Review by:  Laxmi Chaandi This book is a collection of recipes spanning 25 cuisines around the world contributed by some 90 chefs and cooks. Organized alphabetically by names of dishes, this is an easy-to-use cookbook. At the top of each recipe is the name of its contributor, typically a chef in a particular restaurant, along with a list of foods, ingredients and preparation directions, and how many people the dish would serve. The title The Occasional Vegetarian means the book is intended for meat eaters who occasionally want to eat vegetarian or vegan food. Vegans do not eat seafood, eggs or dairy products like butter or cheese (made with cow’s milk) and sometimes not even honey. Typically, vegetarians eat all this but avoid meat and seafood. There is no strict distinction of course between vegans and vegetarians. If you ask different people who call themselves vegetarian, some will tell you they do not eat eggs and seafood but others will tell you they eat one of these two types of food but not the other. Vegetarians do not eat meat and seafood for nutritional reasons but many, such as hundreds of millions of Hindus, the reason is religious. For the guidance of readers, each recipe is marked if it is for vegans. But this is not always the case,...

Author: Scott Ginsberg Publisher: NametagTV.com – 427 pages Book Review by Paiso Jamakar The basic message of this book is: become easily approachable to maximize the opportunities available to you to further your career or your business. And, to become a better person overall. The book also helps you think about yourself and leverage your unique personal qualities to create your own brand. This helps people to easily identify you with something when they see you. For example, when people see this book’s author Scott Ginsberg, how do they react? “Oh, he is the nametag guy!” This book is collection of sayings for each day of the year that imparts messages and values – the do’s and don’ts – to further yourself, your uniqueness and the overall image you need to project to the world. The purpose may be commercial – to make money – or it could be just to make yourself known, to achieve your personal goals, and in that process, help others as well in achieving theirs. The book’s back cover describes Scott Ginsberg as someone who made a career for himself by wearing a nametag every day (he blames this on his parents).He is the creator of NametagTV.com. He writes a lot, having become an award-winning blogger and author of thirteen books. He likes to talk in public too, and is described as a professional...

Authors: Leslie Dashew, Sam Lane, Joe Paul, Darrell Beck and William Roberts Publisher: Aspen Family Business Group. 216 pages Book Review by Ramu Nakliba A very large number of Asian Indian families own businesses. According to the US Census of 2000, about seven out of every 10 Asian-Indian families in the United States own a business. For this reason alone, this book is important. How to avoid conflicts and nurture the business to growth and smooth succession is the main theme of this book. Among other needs and “how-to’s” this book shows you to: Work fruitfully in a family-owned business with co-owners and co-workers. Make the family business grow so it can employ non-family employees Avoid conflicts and manage egos so that there is harmony in the business Discuss long-term goals of the family and the business and achieve them Figure out your own role and others’ roles in the family business Ensure the family business is kept intact and it keeps on making money The authors cover a wide range of topics and questions that inevitably arise in running a family business. Among them are how to assess the value of the family business, sort out the various issues and seek help in doing so if needed. One of the first and most important tasks in growing a family business is to understand it carefully: how money is...

Author: Jim Moorhead Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Press – 214 pages Book Review by:  Paiso Jamakar Americans face four major problems in their lives, states the author of this book Jim Moorhead. Those four crisis-level problems are the four D’s: downsizing, divorce, disability, and debt. Employees look at their colleagues in cubicles in their offices but they are not aware how much pain and stress they are in. One of their fellow employees will be laid off soon, and another will have to move out of her home due to a failed marriage. A third coworker, in a different department who is disabled, is weeping because she barely makes ends meet and has no career-advancement prospects. Still a fourth colleague is so behind in her mortgage payments due to past long-term unemployment that she does not have the money to make her next payment. Except for disability, the other three problems are a result of the ongoing ‘Great Recession’ in the United States that began in December 2007 and continues to worsen. This is evidenced by numerous economic measures despite the misinformed ‘feel good’ reports of alleged lower unemployment by the major news media. These four personal issues are impacting the bottom lines of businesses where these individuals are employed, causing losses of about $75 billion a year, due to lower productivity caused by employees’ hidden grief, according to...

Authors:  Jere and Emilee Gettle, with Meghan Sutherland Publisher: Hyperion Books – 227 pages Book Review by Laxmi Chaandi Recent books (such as notably, The China Study) on the harmful effects upon health of eating meat, have led many hundreds of thousands of people in the United States to become vegetarians. As a consequence it is no surprise that I have been noticing in produce sections of supermarkets the availability of ever-larger varieties of fruits, grains and vegetables. Some U.S. families have also begun growing some of their food at home. Studies sow that the number of households growing food crops increased 20 percent from 2008 to 2009. By 2010, there was a 400 percent growth of farmers markets in America compared to 1994. And, as more families are eating organically-grown food, they’re moving away from vegetables and fruits that have been treated with pesticides, other toxic chemicals and harmful preservatives. They are also avoiding genetically-modified foods. So, books like this one, on growing your own food in natural ways from pure seeds are becoming increasingly more valuable and popular. This is a large-size book with full-color photographs of a large range of vegetables – leafy ones, from the ground, and other types – as well as varieties of succulent fruit, farm scenes and farmers’ markets. Viewing the photos, you can almost taste the sweet, juicy, dark-pink inside portion...