Guest chefs: From world-renowned chefs such as Colin Cowie to Michael Lomonaco, Ming invites guests to test out the versatility of his master recipes by creating a new dish. – Food and wine pairings: Selecting the perfect bottle of champagne, wine, or beer to accompany a meal is a challenge faced by most. Ming provides guidance on making the best choices. – Side trips: Ming goes on the road to uncover the secrets behind selecting the best ingredients, from the sweetest caramel to the freshest shrimp and local lobster. Master recipes: Garlic Ginger Stir Fry Sauce, Miso-Shallot Vinaigrette, Lychee Cranberry Salsa, Master Dashi Broth, Master Vegetarian Broth, and Kaffir Lime Shallot Sambal.
Grade levels: Adult
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Sugihara – Conspiracy of Kindness
In the fall of 1939 Hitler’s murderous wave was sweeping through Eastern Europe. In the face of the Nazi onslaught, Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara made a decision that would change his life and thousands of others. With no possible hope for reward and at great risk to his family and career, Sugihara acted on his innermost beliefs and used his diplomatic power to rescue desperate Jewish refugees.
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Here’s Looking at You
Here’s Looking At You! is an entertaining, thought-provoking, and positive look at the many choices Americans are making to celebrate themselves by shaping, designing, and adorning their bodies. While other films have focused on the freakish aspects of body art, Here’s Looking At You! challenges audiences to think about adornment as a spectrum–a sliding scale on which each of us has some position we occupy. This is a warm and joyful celebration of the diversity and beauty of body art, capturing a full range of personal aesthetic expression–regardless of age, race, or economics.
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The French Chef with Julia Child 2
This special collection presents 18 of Julia Child’s kitchen classics from her groundbreaking series. In her signature style and with bloopers intact, Julia demonstrates such classic recipes as crêpes suzette, omelette gratinée, pâté de campagne, bûche de Noël and many more. Disc 1 – Starters, Sauces and Sides: Cooking Vegetables, Vegetable Adventures, Elegance with Eggs, More about Potatoes, Terrines and Patés, The Hollandaise Family
Disc 2 – Main Courses: French Crepes I, Cooking Your Goose, Roast Suckling Pig, Fish in Monk’s Clothing, Cheese Souffle, Sole Bonne Femme
Disc 3 – Breads and Desserts: French Crepes II, Buche De Noel, Croissants, Gateau in a Cage, French Bread, VIP Cake: Le Prantome
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Walking the Bible
Both a heart-racing adventure and an uplifting quest, Walking the Bible presents one man’s epic journey–by foot, jeep, rowboat, and camel– through the greatest stories ever told. From crossing the Red Sea to climbing Mount Sinai to touching the burning bush, Bruce Feiler’s inspiring odyssey will forever change your view of history’s most legendary events.
The stories in the first five books of the Bible, also known as the Torah, come alive as Feiler searches across three continents for the stories and heroes shared by Christians and Jews. You’ll visit the slopes of Mount Ararat, where Noah’s ark landed, trek to the desert outpost where Abraham first heard the words of God, and scale the summit where Moses received the Ten Commandments. A once-in-a-lifetime journey, Walking the Bible offers new insights into the roots of our common faith and uncovers fresh answers to the most profound questions of the human spirit. 168 min on 2 DVDs. -
Misunderstood Minds: Understanding Kids Who Struggle To Learn
You feel like the luckiest person alive: your seven-year-old is a bright, social, athletic child with countless friends. His potential seems unlimited, his future success unquestionable. Then one day a teacher calls you to tell you that your child can’t read. Misunderstood Minds illustrates the emerging view that specific identification and customized management of learning problems is the key to success for the millions of children struggling in school. Misunderstood Minds features leading experts in the field of learning problems, including Mel Levine, M.D., G. Reid Lyon, Ph.D., Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. and Richard D. Lavoie, M.A. M.Ed.
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Apollo 13: To the Edge and Back
The gripping, true story of the catastrophic flight of the Apollo 13 and the heroic struggle to bring the astronauts back alive. With first-hand accounts from the pilots, their families and the people of mission control, it documents a thrilling struggle against time and all odds and serves as a reminder that, in the words of James Lovell, “We do not realize what we have on Earth until we leave it.”
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Julia Child – America’s Favorite Chef
Julia Child was not a natural-born cook – when she married, she could barely boil an egg. But she fell in love with French food, and soon enrolled at the Cordon Bleu where she learned the great tradition of Classical French cuisine. Later, with two French women, she devoted years to writing a manuscript finally published as Mastering the Art of French Cooking which became a culinary classic and sold over one million copies. This is the story of Julia’s two great loves-love for her husband Paul and for cooking. Through an interview with Julia herself, filmed in her fabled kitchen, and rare images from the photo collection of Paul Child and from family photo albums, Julia Child is revealed as few have seen her before in this tribute and testament to a great American icon.
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The French Chef with Julia Child – DVD
Cooking legend and cultural icon Julia Child, along with her pioneering public television series, The French Chef, introduced French cuisine to American kitchens. In her passionate and sometimes breathless way, Julia forever changed the way we cook, eat, and think about food. Now chefs of all ages and abilities can share Julia’s love of fine French food and learn to cook some of her most-loved dishes with this special collection of 18 episodes from her original 1960s series, The French Chef. Bon appetit! (7:20 hrs on 3 DVDs)
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They Made America – DVD
From the introduction of the steamboat to the advent of on-line shopping, Americans have always been endlessly inventive and eminently practical. They Made America examines innovation in America through the stories of the resourceful men and women whose ideas and inventions have transformed the world. Based on author and journalist Harold Evans’s book, They Made America also explores the political, social, economic, and environmental forces that make the United States an incubator for so much radical and far-reaching creativity. (4 hrs on 2 DVDs)