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Laurence Meredith

    Meredith Laurence, known as the Blue Jean Chef®, is a culinary innovator dedicated to empowering home cooks. She champions the idea that comfort in the kitchen is the foundation for enjoyable and successful cooking, aiming to make culinary exploration as relaxed as wearing a favorite pair of jeans. Through engaging television demonstrations and online content, she shares her expertise, offering practical guidance on cooking techniques and kitchen essentials. Her approach demystifies cooking, encouraging readers and viewers to expand their skills and embrace the joy of preparing food.

    Delicious Under Pressure: Over 100 Pressure Cooker and Instant Pot (Tm) Recipes
    Original VW Bus
    VW Bus
    Original VW Beetle
    Volkswagen Transporter
    Essential Mercedes SL
    • 2015

      Delicious Under Pressure, The Blue Jean Chef Meredith Laurence's second pressure cooker cookbook is full of easy, flavorful, and unexpected pressure cooker recipes, making a pressure cooker a must-have appliance. The book covers the basics of pressure-cooking as well as offers more advanced recipes for more experienced cooks. The result is delicious and the bonus is time, with all these recipes taking one third of the time of traditional cooking methods. Recipes include Tortilla soup, Spinach and Three Cheese Manicotti, Hunter's Beef Stew, Pork Carnitas, Thai Coconut Mussels, Portobello Mushroom and Zucchini Moussaka, Beets and Potatoes with Bacon, Blueberry Polenta with Bananas and Maple Syrup, and Brown Sugar Bourbon Bread Pudding, including all-new chapters on Vegetarian Main Courses and Breakfast Dishes. Don’t settle for the same old pressure cooker foods. Get Delicious Under Pressure.

      Delicious Under Pressure: Over 100 Pressure Cooker and Instant Pot (Tm) Recipes
    • 2011

      A restorer's guide to the VW Bus. Considered to be the definitive source of advice on correct original and authentic specifications and equipment, drawn from factory records, parts lists and catalogues, as well as the accumulated knowledge of the most respected restorers.

      Original VW Bus
    • 2000

      Audi quattro

      • 200 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      The full story of the Classic Quattros from Audi, the first car to combine performance and four-wheel drive in a commercially successful package. Its success in rallying during the 1980s ensured good publicity and healthy sales. Since then the Audi range has had a quattro variant for every model, and they continue to be leaders in their field.

      Audi quattro
    • 1999

      Original VW Beetle

      • 144 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      No automobile is more recognizable than the Volkswagen Beetle. Introduced as an affordable motor vehicle for postwar Germany, the little Beetle grew to iconic status in both the automotive world and the world of pop culture. This year-by-year, full-color tribute to the "People's Car" begins with the first models in 1945 and goes on to cover the Beetle's 33-year production run in Germany, it's continued manufacture in Mexico starting in 1978, and the introduction in Spring 1998 of the New Beetle -- a car that reasserted the model's popularity, posted remarkable sales and, like its forebear, transcended the automotive world to become a pop culture sensation.

      Original VW Beetle
    • 1998

      It would be a mistake to think that only Volkswagen's Beetle has captured the imagination of the motoring public. The Transporter -- or VW Bus -- was designed to incorporate many of the Beetle's tried-and-true features in a capable and roomy commercial vehicle. What was a purely utilitarian transport in the 1950s and '60s has become an icon of the '90s, as owners rebuild tired Transporters for a new generation. Author Meredith charts the full history of the transporter from 1949 to the present.

      Volkswagen Transporter
    • 1997

      A concise illustrated history of the 1960s roadsters which were among the most desirable of their era. The author analyses in depth the conception, design, and production history of the cars together with complete specifications and performance figures, special editions, and body styles. Advice is provided for buyers and owners.

      Essential Mercedes SL
    • 1996

      Das Buch beleuchtet vier Modellphasen im Werdegang der klassischen SL-Familie. Höchste Qualität und Authentizität waren die Basis für die sorgfältige Auswahl der abgelichteten Fahrzeuge und Garantie für ein Referenzwerk allererster Güte.

      Mercedes SL