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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.) by Barbara Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver Staff Pick After 25 years in the Arizona desert, in 2004, Kentucky-bred Barbara Kingsolver moved back to the Appalachians, to a Virginia farm just hours from her childhood home. Family called. "Returning," she explains in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, "would allow my... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Updated Edition) by Anthony Bourdain Publisher Comments When Chef Anthony Bourdain wrote "Don't Eat Before You Read This" in The New Yorker, he spared no one's appetite, revealing what goes on behind the kitchen door. In Kitchen Confidential, he expanded that appetizer into a deliciously funny, delectable... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Stealing Buddha's Dinner by Bich Minh Nguyen Publisher Comments As a Vietnamese girl coming of age in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Nguyen is filled with a rapacious hunger for American identity, and in the pre-PC-era Midwest (where the Jennifers and Tiffanys reign supreme), the desire to belong transmutes into a passion... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States (P.S.) by Pete Jordan Publisher Comments Dishwasher is Pete Jordan's amusing memoir of his itinerant dishwashing extravaganza. For 12 years, I was the most prolific dishlicker of them all. From 1989 - 2001, I dished my way around the country, unwittingly searching for direction. From a bagel... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Emperor of Wine: The Rise of Robert M. Parker, JR., and the Reign of American Taste (P.S.) by Elin Mccoy Publisher Comments This is the story of how an American lawyer raised on Coca-Cola caused a revolution in the way wines around the globe are made, sold, and talked about. The world's most influential wine critic, Robert M. Parker, Jr., has dominated the international wine... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Oysters of Locmariaquer (P.S.) by Eleanor Clark Publisher Comments On the northwest coast of France, just around the corner from the English Channel, is the little town of Locmariaquer (pronounced "loc-maria-care"). The inhabitants of this town have a special relationship to the world, for it is their efforts that... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen & Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean (P.S.) by Trevor Corson Publisher Comments In this intimate portrait of an island lobstering community and an eccentric band of renegade biologists, journalist Trevor Corson escorts the reader onto the slippery decks of fishing boats, through danger-filled scuba dives, and deep into the churning... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Immoveable Feast: A Paris Christmas (P.S.) by John Baxter Publisher Comments A witty cultural and culinary education, Immoveable Feast is the charming, funny, and improbable tale of how a man who was raised on white bread—and didn't speak a word of French—unexpectedly ended up with the sacred duty of preparing the... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Families of the Vine: Seasons Among the Winemakers of Southwest France (P.S.) by Michael S Sanders Publisher Comments Author Michael Sanders spent two years in the vineyards of southwest France with three families whose destinies are determined each year, every year, by the soil, the weather, and the quality of the grape, and shared with them the hopes of spring, the... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $3.98 Used - Trade Paper
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Story of Sushi (08 Edition) by Corson Publisher Comments Everything you never knew about sushi—its surprising origins, the colorful lives of its chefs, and the bizarre behavior of the creatures that compose it Trevor Corson takes us behind the scenes at America's first sushi-chef training academy, as... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Five Quarters of the Orange (P.S.) by Joanne Harris Publisher Comments When Framboise Simon returns to a small village on the banks of the Loire, the locals do not recognize her as the daughter of the infamous woman they hold responsible for a tragedy during the German occupation years ago. But the past and present are... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser Staff Pick "What we eat has changed more in the last forty years than in the last forty thousand," Schlosser observes, yet most Americans know very little about how that food is made, where, by whom, and at what cost. Fast Food Nation traces the industry's... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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