Titles by Joey Green

In this book of astonishing kitchen secrets, Joey Green explains inventive ways to avoid and salvage cooking disasters, store and prepare ingredients, keep appliances running smoothly, clean cookware, and prepare food-based folk remedies. These ingenious kitchen hacks may sound quirky and unusual at first, but they really do work—and you’ll love putting them to the test. You’ll learn how to revive hardened brown sugar with a slice of bread, slice cake with dental floss, clean a copper pot with catsup, rescue burnt gravy with peanut butter, and much, much more! Last-Minute Kitchen Secrets presents the unique and impeccably researched tips arranged by category. Flip to any page and you’ll discover a fascinating and surprising kitchen tip, along with detailed step-by-step instructions and photographs that explain how to put each tip into action in just minutes. Overflowing with interesting sidebars and boxes, loaded with “Strange Facts,” and jam-packed with little-known cooking tips, this handy book reveals amazingly simple tricks of the trade, clever shortcuts, and ingenious secrets that can turn cooking disasters into gourmet-level rescues, using nothing but what you’re most likely to have on hand. This perfect combination of simplicity and ingenuity makes a great gift and a practical guide for anyone looking for simple ways to cook up some magic.

The golden days of complimentary in-flight champagne and cushy sleeping car coaches on the Orient Express are largely behind us. Say hello to $50 “leg room upgrade” fees and bedbug-infested hotels. What’s a weary, frustrated traveler to do? Ask Joey Green for advice, that’s what! A lifelong world explorer, Green has collected more than a hundred of his best travel hacks to rescue your hard-earned vacation using common, easily-found products. Some of the tips may seem goofy at first but work in a pinch. Insert tampon ear plugs and ignore the stares—enveloped in silence, you can enjoy reading this book’s numerous entertaining sidebars and fascinating pieces of travel trivia, comforted in knowing that you will never see, or hear, those fellow passengers ever again.

 

This indispensable handbook that gives you detailed instructions on how to perform 50 science experiments to explore the properties of the elements. You’ll learn how to conjure up a genie from a bottle (Mn, Manganese), shoot flames from a cornstarch-powered torch (O, Oxygen), cook up ghastly green eggs (S, Sulfur), and much more. The Electric Pickle is also sprinkled with mind-bending scientific facts and entertaining sidebars about historic experiments and less common, often dangerous, elements.