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The Champagne Taste/ Beer Budget Cookbook Gourmet meals at budget prices from Woodrow Wilson’s kitchen A great meal doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg. For the cost of burgers out, you can dine on filet mignon at home. Let The Champagne Taste/Beer Budget Cookbook show you the way. Page after page of gourmet recipes that are easy to prepare. Whether it’s an intimate dinner for two, or having the boss over for the first time, you’ll be proud to serve from The Champagne Taste/Beer Budget Cookbook. Enjoy restaurant quality meals without the quality restaurant prices. One meal eaten in rather than eaten out will pay for the book. With the money you’ll save cooking with The Champagne Taste/Beer Budget Cookbook, you could serve filet mignon every night. Better yet, the money you won’t be spending will add up as fast as an executive’s paycheck. Best of all, the government hasn’t figured out how to tax those benefits…yet. The Champagne Taste/Beer Budget Cookbook is about more than just eating well and saving money. With instructions like "marinate significant other, set aside" and "open the beer, drink half" the book puts fun back into the kitchen. Read an excerpt. Watch the movie Buy the book The Champagne Taste/Beer Budget Cookbook is available in print or electronic form from the publisher or your favorite on-line bookstore. Buy it at Booklocker.com, or Amazon.com, or Barnes and Noble, or BooksAMillion, or Powells.com Media please see the attached Press kit.	DEAD ASTRONAUTS Interstellar travel is beyond human science. With today’s technology, it would take years to reach any but the nearest neighbor planets. Interesting places like Titan and Enceleladus are far away. Even those are just local hops compared to travel to the stars. If Moses had launched the lost tribe of Israel in a rocket as fast as an Apollo capsule, they would already be a quarter of a light year away. It would be another eighty thousand years before they reached the nearest star. At ten times that fast, they’d be more than half way there. They would still have a few thousand years to go. Even at a hundred times that fast, the journey would take almost a millennium. The technology to go that fast is a long way off. Somebody out there somewhere might have it today. What if aliens from a neighboring star tried to come here? A lot can go wrong in a thousand years. In Dead Astronauts, an interstellar probe decelerates into earth orbit. Nothing happens. An astronaut team discovers why. Its crew died in transit. Exposed to whatever killed the aliens, can NASA let the explorers come home? Quarantined and running out of air, how can they survive? Dead Astronauts is available from your favorite on-line book dealer. You can buy it from my publisher here today. You can also buy it from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or Books-a-Million. Enjoy the story, but don’t eat the food. The kitchens of NASA aren’t as good as yours. The book tours alien foods and kitchens. The Champagne Taste/Beer Budget Cookbook presents the kind of food the astronauts dream of coming home to.
The buzz about the cookbook Angela Hoy, BookLocker publisher, e-mail, July 19, 2009 I already ate dinner but, now that I've thumbed (well, clicked) through your book a bit, I'm starving! ;) Gloria Uhler, “divaonline” January 14, 2010 www.domestic-divaonline.com … a mix of science and clever kitchen mechanics! North County Times, September 17, 2009 …a cookbook for those who like fine-dining restaurants but can't afford the prices. .... Wilson "reverse-engineered" some of the best dishes he's been served at top restaurants to figure out the ingredients and proportions. …. "The Champagne Taste/Beer Budget Cookbook" includes recipes for dishes such as bacon-wrapped, crab-stuffed shrimp; pork medallions stuffed with blue cheese; onion-stuffed sirloin; meatball stew; smoked turkey; and more. Del Mar Times, October 9, 2009 Chemist/cook writes book … "for people who want to eat well despite these hard economic times." The recipes are simple enough to be a joy to cook, and good enough to be a joy' to serve … Toast of the Town, September 2009 Bon Appétit by Larry Knight …[This book] will bring scrumptious pleasures to the most discerning palate at a fraction of the cost of your restaurant meal. …. The Coast News, February 19. 2010 RECIPE FOR SUCCESS by Bianca Kaplanek … features more than 100 recipes with easy-to-follow and entertaining instructions such as “open the beer, drink half.” … Del Mar Times & Solana Beach Sun, April 2, 2010 Woodrow Wilson likes cooking up fun … and talking about it! Wilson brings his creativity out of the laboratory and into the kitchen. …[He] produces new taste sensations. His best are presented in his "The Champagne Taste/Beer Budget Cookbook," More reviews

Woodrow Wilson is a Cal Tech Ph.D. and a research scientist who puts real science into fiction. He has detonated rocket fuel, incinerated nerve gas, and studied twelve thousand mile per hour impacts in the laboratory; he has modeled weapon effects, industrial explosions, and high energy lasers in his computer; he has contributed to military programs in medical defense, counterproliferation and counterterrorism. He has a hundred stories to tell.

Born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts and raised under the star of Sputnik, Wilson was educated for the space race. He earned a Bachelor's in Chemistry from Temple University in Philadelphia then a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from Cal Tech in Pasadena. His government contract research in military, medical, and environmental sciences has taught him how big problems are attacked and how bureaucracy makes them bigger.

From his home near the beach north of San Diego, Wilson explores the world from the ocean's depths to near-earth orbit and beyond. His protagonists face pressure and pollution, mortality and morbidity. Wilson knows the citizens of the medical and scientific communities are more than just white lab coats; they're people facing loneliness and insecurity, divorce and infidelity. Read more about them.

Wilson shares his California home with his wife. He enjoys cooking and the couple host dinner parties for two or four—filled with garlic and laughter. Check below for a favorite simple recipe—check back for others from time to time.

He is the father of two sons and the grandfather of four grandsons. His son Chuck is a civil engineer and Bill is classical guitarist. Visit Bill’s website for samples of his music. Both sons make their homes nearby so the family gets together regularly.

Now a Toastmaster, Wilson has achieved Advanced Communicator and Advanced leader status delivering speeches on history, science and engineering. Wilson is available as a speaker for Toastmasters and other functions. See some of his favorite topics. He is past president of the Encinitas Toastmasters club and now Area Governor. Visit the club’s web site, or drop in to a meeting any Thursday night you are in town. There’s a great Toastmasters club near you no matter where you live. Check the Toastmasters International site for the closest ones.

Updated August 26, 2010

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