Mar 11


Brighter Minds Top Chef

List Price: $19.99 Publisher: Brighter Minds
Salesrank: 8203
Released: 2008-11-06
Our Price: $12.99
Platform: Windows Vista
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Features:

  • Find out if YOU have what it takes to be the next TOP CHEF!
  • Complete 45 unique challenges to be the last chef standing
  • Know your flavors and pick ingredients that not only fit the challenge but will create a culinary masterpiece
  • Race the clock! Any good chef knows that multitasking is a must in the kitchen
  • At the Judges’ Table, flavors and execution count. See if you make the cut!

    Customer Reviews:
    Learn while you play…
    This game is lots of fun. The other reviewers have described the game play very well, so I won’t go into that. This game is pretty true to the Top Chef format. You actually learn quite a bit about food while playing the game. It would’ve been nice if you could’ve built your own character chef. One aggravating thing is that not all of your food items are always available in your characters pantry, I think that, that really limits game play. Otherwise, great game.

    Top Chef: The Game: Please Pack Your Knives…
    This game may be fun for people who like to cook and know their herbs, flavors, textures, etc. But for those of us who are not educated in the culinary arts, it is mind boggling. I LOVE the show, but the computer game was not my favorite.

    Compete against fifteen worthy opponents in 30 quickfire and 15 elimination challenges
    Rated E for Everyone by the ESRB, Top Chef: The Game is a computer game on CD-ROM compatible with Windows and the Macintosh. Based on the hit culinary competition television show, and featuring the voices of host Padma Lakshmi and head judge Tom Colicchio, Top Chef: The Game allows players of all kitchen skill and experience levels to compete against fifteen worthy opponents in 30 quickfire and 15 elimination challenges. The player must choose the right ingredients and balance their flavors, all while keeping a close eye on the clock, in this fast-paced cooking competition simulation. Especially recommended for anyone who has enjoyed games like “Cooking Mama” but is interested in playing a title with stiffer competition!

    Addictive game for Top Chef fans!
    Now is your chance to really be a Top Chef (even if like me - you don’t really cook)! With 15 “episodes” that have you compete in both quick fire and elimination challenges matching up appropriate ingredients as quick-as-you can, this is a perfect (and addictive) gift for any Top Chef fan. Here’s the upsides, downsides and tips for this game I’ve found:

    Upsides:

    1. Challenges escalate in toughness - while teaching you what you need to succeed in future ones (tip: read all the dialogue at scorings, between contestants and by “Anna” your chef when she’s thinking about a challenge to get tips on how to succeed!)

    2. It’s true to the Top Chef format. What’s available in your pantry to use for each challenge changes, and it rates each of your dishes from 1 to 5 stars. (It shows and describes your final dish — and there’s a great deal of odd satisfaction that occurs when you creat a 5-star one)

    3. Great on-going playability. Most of the challenges require you to make multiple dishes. So, while it seems like only 15 episodes, you literally have to create 100’s of dishes. Even when you succeed through all the levels - you’ll want to play again!

    Downsides:

    1. Graphics are a bit simple. In this day and age, the graphics will seem antiquated to some, “Anna” the chef representing you does wierd things like chop “soy sauce”, Tom and Padma have a set of standard responses they make when judging your dishes.

    2. Two of the power-ups (special powers) are tricky and hard to use, it takes a little while to master them. There’s a video tutorial on the Top Chef Game site at Bravo that’s also helpful.

    3. The “Classic Combos” which give you a lot more points are sometimes not all that intuitive - sure red and green peppers seem like a natural - but what’s a “savory rich item” that goes with something “sweet and tart” that’s actually available in your pantry? But, someone has helpfully put together a list of all of the classic combos they’ve made available on Bravo’s game site.

    Top Notch Top Chef
    I was so happy to see this game on Amazon. I am a real cooking nut and I love anything that supports my hobby. Top Chef, The Game was fun, challenging and easy to play; it kept me interested and I was surprised to have learned some new ideas as well.

    My young adult children were interested in playing, in spite of their limited cooking experience. I think I will be making “starter gourmet cooking baskets” for the holidays and will be sure to include a Top Chef game in each! This would also make a great gift for that 50’s to 60’s party you get invited to for your baby boomer friends or think of including it with a shower gift for young newlyweds.

    Whatever the occasion, what could be better than a great get together with food and fun!

  • Mar 11


    Cruising America’s Waterways: Lake Champlain and the Champlain Canal
    by R
    starring Jonathan Edwards, Crewmember Nancy, Captain Marc

    List Price: $21.95 Publisher: Bennett Marine Video
    Salesrank: 135599
    Released: 2003-01-01
    Our Price: $19.99
    Availibility: 1

    Features:

  • Bennett DVD Lake Champlain & The Champlain Canal For the Intermediate Sailor!

  • Mar 11


    KitchenAid Five-Ply Stainless-Steel Clad 8-Quart Stockpot with Lid

    List Price: $245.00 Publisher: KitchenAid
    Salesrank: 159468
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    Features:

  • Five-ply construction with aluminum core and stainless steel surface
  • Deep draw lid for a tight seal, fast cooking, and minimal rattling
  • Even heat distribution throughout the pot
  • Oven-safe to 500 degrees F
  • Dishwasher safe

  • Mar 11


    Calico Critters Living Room Accessories Set

    List Price: $24.99 Publisher: International Playthings
    Salesrank: 13970
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    Features:

  • Light Up Fireplace
  • Living room Accessories Set

    Customer Reviews:
    must have
    what kind of house doesn’t have a TV, piano, and fireplace? Not a house my critters want to live in! TV channels change and light up. Piano keys press, and fireplace lights up.

    Calico Critters Living Room
    This accessories is a must for your Calico Critters house. The Piano is so adorable and comes with sheet music.

    The Television lights up with changing screens so the Critters can choice between 4 shows to watch.

    The fireplace lights up as well so it gives a really cozy glow.

    You will really enjoy this. If you have a bigger Critter house, you can even split the items up into different rooms.

  • Mar 11


    Curse of the Bayou (Cynthia’s Attic)
    by M

    List Price: $6.00 Publisher: Quake
    Our Price: $4.80
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    Mar 10


    Taking Your Ipod Touch to the Max
    by E

    List Price: Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc
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    Mar 10


    Norman Rockwell Picture Frame by Kodak - 5″ x 7″

    List Price: $21.99 Publisher: Kodak
    Salesrank: 432521
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    Features:

  • Kodak Collectible Picture Frame from 2000 series
  • Individually numbered under a Limited Production
  • Features artwork from the “Norman Rockwell Saturday Evening Post” collection
  • Can hold pictures 5″ x 7″
  • Has a fold-out stand & a hanging hook for a variety of locations

  • Mar 10


    Cobra Fashion Jewelry Body Animal Dangle Belly Ring

    List Price: $47.97 Publisher: Pugster
    Salesrank: 93025
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    Features:

  • Metal: SURGICAL STEEL
  • Other: 12 GAUGE
  • Stones: RHINESTONE
  • Pugster Cobra Dangle Belly Ring

  • Mar 10


    Mozart: Flute Concerto No. 1; Flute & Harp Concerto; Andante

    List Price: $16.98 Publisher: Deutsche Grammophon
    Salesrank: 36885
    Released: 1990-04-06
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    Tracklisting:
    1. 1. Allegro maestoso
    2. 2. Adagio ma non troppo
    3. 3. Rondo: Tempo di Menuetto
    4. 1. Allegro
    5. 2. Andantino
    6. 3. Rondeau: Allegro

    Customer Reviews:
    Subtle, lively, glowing
    I found this disc to be something really special. There’s more music in every bar than in the whole works of many another composer. And the performers go to town with it. Radiant solo performances and fine recording. This is what Mozart is all about.

    Clarity and Transcendence
    This recording remains, for me, the definitive expression of Mozart’s flute concertos. The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, with Susan Palma-Nidel, performs with great clarity and precision, and in so doing, achieves a level of transcendence not heard in other recordings. Ms. Palma-Nidel balances both delicacy and strength in her performance, providing a subtle and enhancing tension. This is a fundamental and glorious recording.

    Try this instead…
    I have four versions of the flute and harp concerto by Mozart, including this one,but the one version I find to be superior is the Hickox rendition on Hyperion, which Amazon offers. The warmth of the playing, the perfect tone of the sound, and the obvious care in production on that cd highlights the indifference of the playing on this one.

    Very good!
    As much as I like this CD, I’ve heard a few other versions of these concertos that are slightly better. The cadenzas were a little more virtuostic and the performances were slightly better. You could check out the flute concertos on the Laserlight label. That’s a good one, although the Vienna Mozart Ensemble sound on the Flute & Harp concerto was like inside a small room. James Galway, on another CD, made one of the best renditions of the flute concertos (specifically the CD with Sir Neville Marriner). If you were to get one of the 2 CDs I just mentioned, only be aware that they don’t have the Adagio for Flute and Orchestra. I don’t mean to say that this Deutsche Grammophon CD should be avoided. The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra usually makes very fine recordings. The performance is very good. The sound is distinctive. If you do get this CD, chances are, you might decide to keep it.

    Mozart: Flute Concerto, K313; Andante for Flute & Orchestra
    This is the quintessential recording of the Mozart Orchestral Flute Repertoire. Ms. Palma has been a member of the renowned Orpheus Chamber Orchestra since 1980 and is one of the leading flutists in the World. Her incomparable tone, phrasing and understanding of these pieces, coupled with the usual Orpheus magic make this THE version of these pieces to own. Ms. Palma’s tone is her calling card, enabling her to convey the beauty of the pieces with the coolness and ease of a jazz artist. She avoids the tight, perfunctory “perfect” reading most flutists project and the cadenzas (which she composed herself) are marvelous. A beautiful recording by Deutsche Grammaphon

    Mar 9
    FIX YOUR THINKING
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    FIX YOUR THINKING
    by P

    List Price: $1.99 Publisher: Philip Smith
    Released: 2009-05-21
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