If you judge Mexican food by local restaurants you would miss incredible variety of moles for Oaxaca, for example. The

stews of Hunan province are not served in Chinese restaurants and African food is hard to find outside of large cities.

But traveling to all these regions to sample these wonderful cuisines is impossible, so we turn to cookbooks. A newer and

faster and cheaper way to do that now is to download an Ebook from someone who is familiar with these foods and has tested

each recipe. You can print each recipe as needed and keep rest in a file on your computer.

Here is one recipe from Hot & Spicy Soups & Stews From Around

World

Note: This Stew is Hot! Adjust amount of chiles to your tastes

Ingredients:

• 1 ½ lb. boneless chicken breasts, cut into bite size pieces
• 1 inch piece ginger, peeled and chopped
• ½ tbsp. paprika
• 1 tsp. each ground nutmeg, coriander, cinnamon, and allspice
• 2 tbsp. vegetable oil
• 1 14 oz. can tomato pieces
• 2 habanero or Scotch bonnet chiles, finely chopped
• 1 onion, chopped
• 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
• 3 cups chicken stock
• 1/4 cup chunky peanut butter
• 2 sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into bite size pieces
• 5 dried chiles, soaked for 2 hours in hot water
• 2 tbsp. red wine vinegar
• parsley for garnish

With a gourmet cup of coffee costing almost as much as a luncheon sandwich these days, more and more people are making their coffee at home from an "old fashioned" drip coffee machine. Thanks to Starbucks and other vendors out there, coffee from a can or a jar just doesn't work anymore. Coffee has become second most valuable item of international trade, just behind petroleum. Worldwide, coffee lovers drink 2.25 billion cups a DAY! To satisfy that thirst, world's coffee growers, each year, produce about 6 million tons of green coffee beans and ship them to thousands of coffee roasters around globe. People who drink coffee range from those interested only in caffeine "buzz," to true aficionado, who, like wine connieseurs, are concerned with color, taste, quality and aroma.

Whether you order a cup a "joe", some hot "java" or a caffe macchiato, primary ingredient remains coffee bean. Coffee begins on a tree in a warm climate where rainfall is about 50 inches a year, soil is well drained and preferably volcanic (this is why Hawaiian Kona coffee is so highly prized). The fruit of coffee plant is called a "cherry" and is appropriately red in color. The heart of cherry, generally two beans, is separated from husk by hand and then air and sun dried. Separating bean from its outer husk, called "hulling" is done either mechanically or by hand. These green beans, as they are now known, have a shelf life of about two years.