James Peterson

From America's favorite cooking teacher, multiple award-winner James Peterson, an invaluable reference handbook. Culinary students everywhere rely on the comprehensive and authoritative cookbooks published by chef, instructor, and award-winning author Jim Peterson. And now, for the first time, this guru-to-the-professionals turns his prodigious knowledge into a practical, chockablock, quick-reference, A-to-Z answer book for the rest of us. Look elsewhere...

Let me ask you a question...When your personal life is going poorly, how well do you perform in your professional life? Not too great I'm assuming. Let me ask you a different question. When your personal life is going well, how well do you perform professionally? Near peak performance I'm guessing. Notice how drastically different the results are. These questions are what brought this book to life. There are many decisions that shape our destiny....

Prison Industrial Complex For Beginners is a graphic narrative project that attempts to distill the fundamental components of what scholars, activists, and artists have identified as the Mass Incarceration movement in the United States. Since the early 1990s, activist critics of the US prison system have marked its emergence as a "complex" in a manner comparable to how President Eisenhower described the Military Industrial Complex. Like its institutional...