This title features delicious, no-fuss dishes using just four ingredients or less, from breakfast and snacks to main courses and desserts, all shown in 500 fabulous photographs. This unbeatable recipe collection is a must-have for every busy cook - each delicious recipe can be put together from either 1, 2, 3 or 4 key ingredients. Here are over 500 fabulous fuss-free ideas for quick and easy brunches, appetizers, lunches, vegetarian dishes, meaty mains, fish and shellfish, party snacks, al fresco food, breads, bakes, cakes, desserts and more. It features recipes that represent a range of international cuisines, from Chinese and Indian to Italian and Portugese; choose from Grilled Oysters with Heather Honey, Thai-style Rare Beef and Mango Salad, and Rose Petal Sorbet. Emphasis is placed on fresh, healthy ingredients and all recipes are accompanied by full nutritional advice. This fantastic collection is ideal for the food-loving cook with little time to spare. More than 500 superb recipes show that if you don't have hours to shop or devote to preparation it does not mean missing out on tasty, home-prepared meals. From classic brunches to tempting soups and appetizers, plus all kinds of main course dishes and desserts, every recipe tastes sensational but requires only a few ingredients. For a quick lunch, try Baked Leek and Potato Gratin, or Haddock with Fennel Butter for an appetizing supper. With over 500 lovely images to inspire, this is the must-have resource to preparing healthy, home-cooked and delicious food.

Whether you adore vegetarian food or simply need to whip up an exciting meal for a vegetarian visitor, this is the book for you. What is more, you won't need a long list of complicated ingredients to prepare enticing recipes such as mushroom stroganoff, mixed bean and tomato chilli, creamy red lentil dahl and passion fruit souffle. With just a few basic items from the storecupboard and four or less ingredients for each recipe, you can make more than 170 delicious dishes. The recipes may be simple, but they don't compromise on quality, and this instructive cookbook shows you how to get the maximum flavour out of the few ingredients that you need to buy. It also advises you on how to benefit from the many excellent ready-made products available on the market, such as pastry, stock or curry paste. With these handy time-saving ingredients, you can create lavish home-made meals with minimum fuss.

This book presents over 400 fabulous dishes requiring only three or four ingredients illustrated by over 1500 stunning colour step-by-step photographs. It simplifies shopping, cuts preparation time, and is perfect for the modern cook who loves good food but has less time to spend making it. It provides a practical introduction to minimalist cooking, with advice on choosing ingredients and tips on how to achieve maximum taste. It includes recipes for every type of occasion - breakfasts and brunches, light lunches and midweek family meals, relaxed al fresco dining, elegant entertaining and sumptuous desserts. Perfect for today's busy modern cook, this book shows how to achieve maximum flavour with minimum effort. Every recipe tastes sensational but requires just three or four ingredients, saving money and saving time on planning, shopping and preparation. There is something suitable for all occasions, and each recipe has easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions to ensure perfect results every time. A nutritional breakdown of every recipe is also included, so you can plan meals for any kind of diet. Quick dishes include stuffed baby squash, or chicken scallops with lemon and Serrano ham. For those with a sweet tooth, there are four chapters filled with indulgent delights such as passion fruit creams. Beautifully photographed with over 1500 step-by-step pictures, this is the only cookbook for anyone who demands superb results, but wants to spend less money in the supermarket and less time in the kitchen.

Everyday meals made easy: 330 fuss-free recipes using just four ingredients or less, all shown in over 350 colour photographs. With just a few basic items from the storecupboard and four or less ingredients for each recipe, you can make more than 330 delicious dishes, from firm family favourites to more exotic temptations. This title includes breakfasts, appetizers, soups, pasta, rice, main courses, salads, vegetable and side dishes, preserves and pickles. It features a host of cuisines from around the world including African, American, Chinese, Indian, Italian, Portuguese and Mexican. Choose from Cinnamon Toast, Eggs Benedict, Dressed Crab with Asparagus, Tandoori Chicken, Rosemary-Scented Lamb, Warm Chocolate Zabaglione and Orange and Pecan Scones. At-a-glance nutritional notes provide a clear breakdown of calorific values as well as fat, fibre and cholesterol content of each recipe. From a relaxed weekend brunch or speedy supper to a more elaborate dinner for entertaining friends, there's a tasty recipe to suit all occasions. The recipes may be simple, but they don't compromise on quality, and this instructive cookbook shows you how to get the maximum flavour out of the few ingredients that you need to buy. It also advises you on how to benefit from the many excellent ready-made products available on the market, such as pastry, stock or curry paste. With these handy time-saving ingredients, you can create lavish home-cooked meals with a minimum fuss. With today's hectic lifestyles, few of us have time to spend hours in the supermarket or kitchen, but with this versatile family cookbook you will amaze yourself and friends at how quickly and easily you are able to prepare fresh, tasty food.

This fantastic collection is ideal for the food-loving cook with little time to spare. More than 500 superb recipes show that if you don't have hours to shop or devote to preparation it does not mean missing out on tasty, home-prepared meals. From classic brunches to tempting soups and appetizers, plus all kinds of main course dishes and desserts, every recipe tastes sensational but requires only a few ingredients. For a quick lunch, try Baked Leek and Potato Gratin, or Haddock with Fennel Butter for an appetizing supper.With over 500 lovely images to inspire, this is the must-have resource for preparing healthy, home-cooked and delicious food.

This irresistible book offers an amazingly innovative approach to food that is perfect for the modern cook. Each of the 200 recipes tastes sensational but requires just three ingredients or less, which means that you can save time on all the planning, shopping and preparation but still create truly memorable meals. Enjoy the warming comfort of oven-baked porcini risotto, or whip up stir-fried chicken with Thai basil in minutes. For those with a sweet tooth, there are two whole chapters filled with indulgent delights. Whatever your mood, and no matter what the occasion is, you will find a no-fuss recipe to suit.

January 1888. Vera Arti carries The Communist Manifesto in Armenian through Istanbul's streets, unaware of the men following her. The police discover a shipload of guns, and the Imperial Ottoman Bank is blown up. Suspicion falls on a socialist commune that Arti's friends organized in the eastern mountains. Investigating, Special Prosecutor Kamil Pasha encounters a ruthless adversary in the secret police who has convinced the Sultan that the commune is leading an Armenian secessionist movement and should be destroyed, along with the surrounding villages. Kamil must stop the massacre, but he finds himself on the wrong side of the law, framed for murder and accused of treason, his family and the woman he loves threatened. The Winter Thief explores the dark obsessions of the most powerful and dangerous men of the dying Ottoman Empire, as well as the era's mad idealism.

Constantinople, May 1453. In the dying days of the Byzantine Empire, Isaak Metochites and his family are entrusted with a silver reliquary carved with the figure of a weeping angel and the inscription: Behold the Proof of Chora, Container of the Uncontainable. Four hundred years later, magistrate Kamil Pasha is plagued by thefts of antiquities from mosques and churches and a series of murders in which the bodies bear the same distinctive mark. Sources lead Kamil to a hidden sect descended from Abyssinian slaves living in an abandoned cistern in Istanbul's gritty underworld. The reemergence of the forgotten reliquary sets off a brutal race between those sworn to protect it and those who will stop at nothing to gain its explosive secret.

Rich in sensuous detail, this first novel brilliantly captures the political and social upheavals of the waning Ottoman Empire. The naked body of a young Englishwoman washes up in Istanbul wearing a pendant inscribed with the seal of the deposed sultan. The death resembles the murder by strangulation of another English governess, a crime that was never solved. Kamil Pasha, a magistrate in the new secular courts, sets out to find the killer, but his dispassionate belief in science and modernity is shaken by betrayal and widening danger. In a lush, mystical voice, a young Muslim woman, Jaanan, recounts her own relationships with one of the dead women and her suspected killer. Were these political murders involving the palace or crimes of personal passion? An absorbing tale that transports the reader to nineteenth-century Turkey, this novel is also a lyrical meditation on the contradictory desires of the human soul. Reading group guide included. Includes the first chapter of the next Kamil Pasha novel.

Winner of the William A. Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology The emergence of an Islamist movement and the startling buoyancy of Islamic political parties in Turkey--a model of secular modernization, a cosmopolitan frontier, and NATO ally--has puzzled Western observers. As the appeal of the Islamist Welfare Party spread through Turkish society, including the middle class, in the 1990s, the party won numerous local elections and became one of the largest parties represented in parliament, even holding the prime ministership in 1996 and 1997. Welfare was formally banned and closed in 1998, and its successor, Virtue, was banned in 2001, for allegedly posing a threat to the state, but the Islamist movement continues to grow in popularity. Jenny White has produced an ethnography of contemporary Istanbul that charts the success of Islamist mobilization through the eyes of ordinary people. Drawing on neighborhood interviews gathered over twenty years of fieldwork, she focuses intently on the genesis and continuing appeal of Islamic politics in the fabric of Turkish society and among mobilizing and mobilized elites, women, and educated populations. White shows how everyday concerns and interpersonal relations, rather than Islamic dogma, helped Welfare gain access to community networks, building on continuing face-to-face relationships by way of interactions with constituents through trusted neighbors. She argues that Islamic political networks are based on cultural understandings of relationships, duties, and trust. She also illustrates how Islamic activists have sustained cohesion despite contradictory agendas and beliefs, and how civic organizations, through local relationships, have ensured the autonomy of these networks from the national political organizations in whose service they appear to act. To illuminate the local culture of Istanbul, White has interviewed residents, activists, party officials, and municipal administrators and participated in their activities. She draws on rich experiences and research made possible by years of firsthand observation in the streets and homes of Umraniye, a large neighborhood that grew in tandem with Turkey's modernization in the late 20th century. This book will appeal to anthropologists, sociologists, historians, and analysts of Islamic and Middle Eastern politics.

With just a few basic items from the storecupboard and four ingredients for each recipe, you can make appealing meals. Whether it's a midweek supper, a brunch or a dinner for friends you will find a selection of tasty yet effortless recipes in this book, and find out how to get the maximum taste out of the few ingredients you use.

This fantastic collection is ideal for the food-loving cook with little time to spare. More than 500 superb recipes show that if you don't have time to shop or to devote hours to preparation it does not mean missing out on delicious, home-prepared meals. From classic brunches to tempting soups and appetizers, plus all kinds of main course dishes and desserts, every recipe tastes sensational but requires only a few ingredients. You will be amazed at the range of tasty meals that can be created from four ingredients or even fewer. Try a classic pasta course such as Spaghetti with Raw Tomato and Ricotta sauce, Lamb Chops with Mint Jelly Crust, or Roast Chicken with Herb, Cheese and Lime Stuffing. Among the fuss-free ways to prepare fish and shellfish are Roasted Cod Wrapped in Prosciutto or a succulent Prawn and Potato Stew. Vegetarians are well catered for, with options ranging from Spicy Chickpea Samosas to Roasted Acorn Squash with Spinach and Gorgonzola. Quick-fix breads and bakes combine storecupboard basics with sweet and savory twists, with must-have recipes such as All-butter cookies or Orange and pecan scones. Finally, there is a superb range of sumptuous desserts - from Raspberry Brulee to White Chocolate Brownie Torte - plus an incredible array of easy pickles, preserves, sauces, breads, smoothies and stylish drinks. With over 500 color images to inspire, this is the must-have resource for preparing healthy, home-cooked and delicious food with the minimum amount of effort.

An investigation of the processes of globalization in the context of Istanbul - one of the oldest and grandest of world cities. Istanbul is usually identified as a battleground between East and West, between Islam and secularism. Yet the authors argue that beyond these cliches lies a complex reality shaped by an ongoing struggle over the soul of the city and the identity of its inhabitants. Istanbulites try to accommodate, understand, challenge and shape the sweeping transformations that globalization has brought to their city. Explaining the course of the conflicts and the compromises involved in maintaining a precarious urbanity, this volume focuses on the fields of struggle ranging from politics to heritage, humour to music, public space to housing.