HI, OUR NAME IS ARTISAN AND WE ARE BLENDAHOLICS

April 23, 2014 Kara Leibowitz

Healthy fast food has a new superhero! Tess Masters (aka, The Blender Girl) is bringing health-consciousness to foodies with style. On her wildly popular recipe blog, she shares easy plant-based recipes that anyone can whip up quickly using a blender. Tess’s much-anticipated debut cookbook, The Blender Girl, presents a solution to time-starved lives with what she calls a “phenomenal machine.” The versatility of recipes creates mouth-watering masteries. Tess offers 100 gluten-free, vegan recipes that are healthy whole-food concoctions to nourish our bodies as well as send our taste buds on a rollercoaster of flavors.

Tess’s lively, down-to-earth approach has attracted over a million fans looking for quick and fun ways to prepare healthy food. She relies on natural flavors and sweeteners, while incorporating many recipes that are also raw and nut-, soy-, corn-, and sugar-free. The Blender Girl offers not only recipes, but food education with nut-milk cheat sheets, soaking and sprouting charts, and nutrient guides. Tess doesn’t stop with just traditional blender creation – she takes it to a whole new level with snacks, salads, soups, appetizers, and desserts proving that just because it's blended it doesn't mean you have to check your teeth at the door.

Pick up a copy of The Blender Girl and you might just become a blendaholic too. In fact, we guarantee it.

The Chopped Cookbook: Winning Strategies for Inspired Weeknight Dinners

April 10, 2014 Kara Leibowitz

If you've ever looked in your fridge, hoping for inspiration to strike, let The Chopped Cookbook help you shake up weeknight dinners. Just as each basket on Chopped has many appetizing possibilities, so too, do the contents of your refrigerator.

By showing you how to spin your favorite ingredients into 188 fun, doable, and delicious recipes - including go-to guides for making pan sauces and dressings, four-ingredient market baskets that can take you in boundless tasty directions, and ways to reinvent simple pasta dinners - the culinary masterminds at Food Network set you up for mealtime victory every night. Pick up a copy of The Chopped Cookbook and never let the question "what's for dinner?" stump you again.

Rachel Zoe is not Judging your Outfit

March 27, 2014 Kara Leibowitz

An unparalleled fixture in the fashion world, Rachel Zoe is recognized as one of the most influential forces in fashion today. If you happen to see her out on the street, don't worry. She's not judging your oufit. In her new book, LIVING IN STYLE: Inspiration and Advice for Everyday Glamour, she is helping you apply her chic sensibilities to your own life and define glamour on your own terms.

Of particular importance to Rachel is inspiring moms to take an extra five minutes for themselves each day. She suggests that whether it's styling your hair in a chic bun or putting red lipstick on, a little extra effort each day will leave you smiling more and feeling happier. Rachel says, "its important that we remind ourselves that we're strong women and we need to feel good about ourselves and just because you're a mom...it doesn't mean that your identity has to go out the window."

LIVING IN STYLE is a must-have for anyone looking to add a little glamour into their everyday life. From entertaining, home design and travel to, beauty, and, of course, fashion, Rachel offers trusted tips and advice, and gives readers insight on every aspect of living in style. It instantly became our style bible....we know it will be yours too.