STACKS presents Home & Crafts - Fall & Winter 2020

Crafts & Projects

The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing &

Journaling

John Muir Laws

A potent combination of art, science, and boundless

enthusiasm, the latest art instruction book from John

Muir Laws is a how-to guide for becoming a better artist

and a more attentive naturalist. In straightforward text

complemented by step-by-step illustrations, dozens of

exercises lead the hand and mind through creating

accurate reproductions of plants and animals as well as

landscapes, skies, and more. Take look before your next

walk around the neighborhood.

The Stencil Graffiti Handbook

Tristan Manco

With current political and cultural climates across the

globe growing more uncertain, a new generation of artists,

designers, and communicators are using stencil art on the

walls of towns and cities to voice thought-provoking

messages and ideas. Exploring the medium’s applications

within grassroots activism and the contemporary craft

scene, Tristan Manco returns to the streets and brings this

thriving art form to life.

Sacred Knots

Lise Silvia Gomes

Oakland based artist and writer Lise Silvia Gomes has

written a bright and vibrant guide to contemporary knot

making. It offers a meditative break from our busy lives,

calming the mind in a tactile and engaging way. Through

a journey of creative exercises and projects, this book

offers tools to form a knotting practice that will fuel

creativity and inspire mindfulness.

Craftland Japan

Uwe Röttgen with Katharina Zetti

In Japan, there has never been a clear distinction

between art, craft, and design. This voyage to Japan’s

remote studios features twenty-five craftspeople whose

products are intended for everyday life, yet are suitable

for museum display. This book is a celebration of how

Japan’s union of craft, design, materiality, and landscape

continue to flourish in contemporary interpretation,

however much the world around them has changed.

You Are an Artist

Sarah Urist Green

You don't have to know how to draw well, stretch a canvas, or

mix a paint color. This book is for anyone who wants to make

art, regardless of experience level. The only materials you'll

need are what you already have on hand or can source for

free. Full of insights, techniques, and inspiration from art

history, this book opens up the processes and practices of

artists and proves that you, too, have what it takes to call

yourself one.

Making Comics

Lynda Barry

Yet another beautiful, indispensable book from Lynda

Barry helps us tune into the early childhood feeling that

drawing is easy, and a great way to communicate. Open it

up and come back to the joy of doodling.

Interiors & Architecture

Everything: A Maximalist Style Guide

Abigail Ahern

Abigail Ahern guides us through the change in the world

of interiors as the pendulum swings away from

minimalism and over to our increasing desire for self-

expression and optimism. Readers will learn how to break

the "rules" of interior design, play fast and loose with

different periods in a single room, and have fun.

Maximalism allows us to dip into color palettes and any

decade or style, with the effect of stirring up emotions and

creating a bedazzling space we never want to leave.

The Lives of Others

Simon Watson

Since the 1990s, Watson has been one of the most prolific

chroniclers of remarkable interiors and portraits. The

photographer has documented rooms of note in cities, atop

mountains, and by the sea. I’ll be honest and say I only

recognized one name on the list of room owners, but that’s

probably how they like it. This book is a joy to browse

through, with lush photography on gorgeous matte paper.

A Field Guide to American Houses

Virginia Savage McAlester

A classic staff favorite! The fully expanded, updated, and

freshly designed second edition of the most

comprehensive and widely acclaimed guide to domestic

architecture: in print since its original publication in

1984, and acknowledged everywhere as the unmatched,

essential guide to American houses.

The Great Indoors

Emily Anthes

In this wide-ranging, character-driven book, science

journalist Emily Anthes takes us on an adventure into the

buildings in which we spend our days, exploring the

profound, and sometimes unexpected, ways that they

shape our lives. Drawing on cutting-edge research, she

probes the pain-killing power of a well-placed window and

examines how the right office layout can expand our social

networks.

The Poetics of Space

Gaston Bachelard

Since its initial publication in 1958, The Poetics of Space has

been a muse to philosophers, architects, writers,

psychologists, critics, and readers alike. The rare work of

irresistibly inviting philosophy, Bachelard’s seminal work

brims with quiet revelations and stirring, mysterious

imagery.

Simply Living Well

Julia Watkins

In this timely and motivational guide, author Julia

Watkins shares rituals, recipes, and projects for living

simply and sustainably at home. For every area of your

household—kitchen, cleaning, wellness, bath, and garden—

Julia shows you how to eliminate wasteful packaging,

harmful ingredients, and disposable items. Practical

checklists outline easy swaps and sustainable upgrades for

common household tools and products.

Gardening & Plants

Wild at Home

Hilton Carter

With this book, you will be armed with the know-how you

need to care for your plants, where to place them, how to

propagate, how to find the right pot, and much more, and

most importantly, how to arrange them so that they look

their best. Combine sizes and leaf shapes to stunning

effect, grow your own succulents from leaf cuttings, create

your own air plant display, and more.

Gardening with Drought-Friendly Plants

Tony Hall

An essential guide to growing and maintaining plants best

suited to our changing climate of warmer, drier summers.

Drawing on his two decades of experience working with

drought-friendly and Mediterranean plants, gardening

expert Tony Hall profiles more than two hundred species

and cultivars that are suitable for all types of planting

environments, whether a large outdoor plot or a small

indoor pot.

The Kinfolk Garden

John Burns

Anchored around the idea of nature as nourishment, The

Kinfolk Garden explores lush gardens and plant-filled homes

around the world and introduces the inspiring people who

coax them into bloom. Through visits to friends old and new,

the Kinfolk team learns the secrets to a good garden, and

what good a garden can do for our self-care, creativity and

communities.

Iwígara: The Kinship of Plants & People

Enrique Salmón

The belief that all life-forms are interconnected and

share the same breath—known in the Rarámuri tribe as

iwígara—has resulted in a treasury of knowledge about

the natural world, passed down for millennia by native

cultures. Discover in these pages how the timeless

wisdom of iwígara can enhance your own kinship with

the natural world.

The Half-Acre Homestead

Lloyd Kahn & Lesley Creed

Starting with a vacant half-acre piece of land in

Northern California, Lloyd and Lesley built their own

home, created a garden with vegetables and fruit, and

raised chickens, bees, and goats (all by hand). Lloyd,

the former shelter editor of the Whole Earth Catalog,

has published seven books on owner building,

showcasing hundreds of builders, and this is his first

book on his own work.

The Gardens of Eden

Gestalten with Abbye Churchill

Step into innovative little gardens created on small

terraces and city rooftops, as well as in the suburbs and

countryside.This book presents spaces that are more

imaginative, diverse, and sustainable. Learn how to grow

food in the city, get creative with native plants, and design

greener corners within urban areas. The Gardens of Eden

looks at fascinating examples around the world, teaching

what you can do for nature while revealing what a garden

can do for you.

Cooking &

Food Writing

In Bibi’s Kitchen

Hawa Hassan with Julia Turshen

Grandmothers from eight eastern African countries

welcome you into their kitchens to share flavorful

recipes and stories of family, love, and tradition in this

transporting cookbook -meets- travelogue. The women,

and the stories behind the recipes, come to life. With

evocative photography shot on location by Khadija

Farah, and food photography by Jennifer May, In Bibi's

Kitchen uses food to teach us all about families, war,

loss, migration, refuge, and sanctuary.

Ottolenghi Flavor

Yotam Ottolenghi & Ixta Belfrage

Yotam teams up with Ottolenghi Test Kitchen’s Ixta Belfrage

to reveal how flavor is created and amplified through 100+

super-delicious, plant-based recipes.Discover how to unlock

new depths of flavor by pairing vegetables with sweetness,

fat, acidity, or chile heat, and learn to identify the produce

that has the innate ability to make dishes shine.

Matty Matheson: Home Style Cookery

Matty Matheson

Matty returns with 135 of his absolute favorite recipes to

cook at home for his family and friends, so you can cook them

for the people you love. Home Style Cookery is his definitive

guide to mastering your kitchen, covering everything from

pantry staples (breads, stocks, and pickles) to party favorites

(dips, fried foods, and grilled meats), to weeknight go-tos

(stews, pastas, salads), and special occasion show-stoppers

(roasts, smoked meats, and desserts).

Old World Italian

Mimi Thorisson

Mimi explores the beautiful coasts and countrysides of

Italy in this lavishly photographed cookbook featuring

simple, authentic recipes inspired by the country's

devoted producers and rich food heritage.

Modern Comfort Food

Ina Garten

Home cooks can always count on Ina’s dependable, easy-to-

follow instructions, with lots of side notes for cooking and

entertaining—it’s like having Ina right there beside you,

helping you all the way. In Modern Comfort Food, Ina

Garten shares 85 new recipes that will feed your deepest

cravings. Many of these dishes are inspired by childhood

favorites—but with the volume turned way up.

Vegetable Kingdom

Bryant Terry

Food justice activist and author Bryant Terry breaks down the

fundamentals of plant-based cooking in Vegetable Kingdom,

showing you how to make delicious meals from popular

vegetables, grains, and legumes. These recipes are enticing

enough without meat substitutes, instead relying on fresh

ingredients, vibrant spices, and clever techniques to build

flavor and texture.

The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of

American Cooking

Marcus Samuelsson with Osayi Endolyn and

Yewande Komolafe

Black cooks and creators have led American culture forward

with indelible contributions of artistry and ingenuity from the

start, but Black authorship has been consistently erased from

the story of American food.Driven by a desire to fight against

bias, reclaim Black culinary traditions, and energize a new

generation of cooks, Marcus shares his own journey alongside

150 recipes in honor of dozens of top chefs, writers, and

activists—with stories exploring their creativity and influence.

La Buvette: Recipes & Wine Notes from Paris

Camille Fourmont with Kate Leahy

The owner of a beloved Paris wine shop, bar, and café shares

the secrets of effortless French entertaining in this lushly

photographed book. She also introduces some of Paris’s best

wine and food makers in intimate portraits. Included are fifty

recipes for easy and delicious snacks and full meals perfect

for impromptu grazing-style entertaining

Lemongrass & Lime: Southeast Asian Cooking at Home

Leah Cohen with Stephanie Banyas

Growing up half-Filipino, Leah Cohen never thought food

from her mother's side would become her life's work. But

after working in Michelin-starred restaurants and then

competing on Top Chef, Cohen was still searching to define

what made her food hers. She found the answer in Vietnam,

Thailand, Myanmar, Singapore, Indonesia, and yes, the

Philippines, as she rediscovered the deliciously sweet,

pungent, and spicy flavors of her youth and set out to take

them back with her to New York.

East: 120 Vegan & Vegetarian Recipes

Meera Sodha

Meera Sodha's stunning new collection features brand-

new recipes from a wide range of Asian cuisines. This

cookbook is a collaboration between Sodha and the East

Asian and South East Asian home cooks and gourmet

chefs who inspired her along the way. There are

noodles, curries, rice dishes, tofu, salads, sides, and

sweets, all easy to make and bursting with exciting

flavors.

The Full Plate

Ayesha Curry

Ayesha Curry knows what it's like to have so much on your

plate you can barely think about dinner. But she also knows

that finding balance between work and family life starts with

gathering around the table to enjoy a home-cooked meal. You'll

find 100 recipes that are flexible and flavorful and come

together in less than an hour.

The French Laundry, Per Se

Thomas Keller

Bound by a common philosophy, linked by live video, staffed by

a cadre of inventive and skilled chefs, the kitchens of Thomas

Keller’s celebrated restaurants—The French Laundry in

Yountville, California, and per se, in New York City—are in a

relationship unique in the world of fine dining. Ideas bounce

back and forth in a dance of creativity, knowledge, innovation,

and excellence. It’s a relationship that’s the very embodiment

of collaboration, and of the whole being greater than the sum of

its parts. And all of it is captured in The French Laundry, Per

Se, with meticulously detailed recipes for 70 beloved dishes.

Rebel Chef: In Search of What Matters

Dominique Crenn

Almost thirty years after moving to San Francisco from

France, Crenn was awarded three Michelin Stars for her

influential restaurant Atelier Crenn, and became the

first female chef in the United States to receive this

honor. Reflecting on the years she spent working in the

male-centric world of professional kitchens, Crenn tracks

her career from struggling cook to running one of the

world’s most acclaimed restaurants,and speaks out on

restaurant culture, sexism, immigration, and climate

change.

Chile Peppers: A Global History

Dave DeWitt

For more than ten thousand years, humans have been

fascinated by a seemingly innocuous plant with bright-

colored fruits that bite back when bitten.Dave DeWitt,

a world expert on chiles, travels from New Mexico

across the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia

chronicling the history, mystery, and mythology of

chiles around the world and their abundant uses in

seventy mouth-tingling recipes.

Dessert Person

Claire Saffitz

In Dessert Person, readers will find Claire’s signature spin

on sweet and savory recipes like Babkallah (a babka-Challah

mashup), Apple and Concord Grape Crumble Pie,

Strawberry-Cornmeal Layer Cake, Crispy Mushroom

Galette, and Malted Forever Brownies. She outlines the

problems and solutions for each recipe as well as practical

do’s and don’ts, skill level, prep and bake time, step-by-step

photography, and foundational know-how.

Eat A Peach

David Chang

Full of grace, candor, grit, and humor, Eat a Peach chronicles

Chang’s switchback path. He lays bare his mistakes and

wonders about his extraordinary luck as he recounts the

improbable series of events that led him to the top of his

profession.

Snacking Cakes

Yossy Arefi

With little time and effort, these single-layered cakes are

made using only one bowl (no electric mixers needed) and

utilize ingredients likely sitting in your cupboard. They’re

baked in the basic pans you already own and shine with only

the most modest adornments: a dusting of powdered sugar, a

drizzle of glaze, a dollop of whipped cream.

Baking at the 20th Century Cafe

Michelle Polzine

Polzine, one of San Francisco’s best pastry chefs, pays homage

to the foundational desserts of Central and Eastern Europe,

while lightening and modernizing the recipes through her

California lens. Her fruit desserts, nut-based desserts, and

chocolate treats—many of them gluten-free—are smart,

interesting, foolproof, and deliver big flavor.