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Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton Staff Pick Hamilton is the chef-owner of acclaimed NYC restaurant Prune. Her memoir is compelling, harrowing, beautifully written, and utterly charming, whether she's invoking memories of fields of fireflies or gritty kitchen realities. Anthony Bourdain loves this... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $11.20 Sale - Trade Paper 
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An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace by Tamar Adler Publisher Comments Modeled on M.F.K. Fisher’s How to Cook a Wolf — written in 1942 during wartime rations to convince readers that good eating was always possible — An Everlasting Meal teaches how to cook well regardless of circumstance, offering a... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines by Anthony Bourdain Publisher Comments The only thing "gonzo gastronome" and internationally bestselling author Anthony Bourdain loves as much as cooking is traveling. Inspired by the question, "What would be the perfect meal?," Tony sets out on a quest for his culinary holy grail, and in the... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell Staff Pick Finally, someone willing to admit just how dirty a kitchen can get! Powell's story is at once a comic tale of struggling to find one's balance in the adult world, and a witty exploration of why — and how — we cook. Gastronomes, as well as those more... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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Sweet Life in Paris (09 Edition) by David Lebovitz Publisher Comments Like so many others, David Lebovitz dreamed about living in Paris ever since he first visited the city in the 1980s. Finally, after a nearly two-decade career as a pastry chef and cookbook author, he moved to Paris to start a new life. Having crammed all... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Beard on Food: The Best Recipes and Kitchen Wisdom from the Dean of American Cooking by James Beard Publisher Comments In Beard on Food, one of America's great culinary thinkers and teachers collects his best essays, ranging from the perfect hamburger to the pleasures of oxtails, from salad dressing to Sauce Diable. The result is not just a compendium of fabulous recipes... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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Apron Anxiety: My Messy Affairs in and Out of the Kitchen by Alyssa Shelasky Publisher Comments “Hot sex, looking good, scoring journalistic triumphs . . . nothing made Alyssa love herself enough until she learned to cook. There's a racy plot and a surprising moral in this intimate and delicious book.” --Gael Greene, creator of... (read more) Your price: $14.00 New - Trade Paper
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How Italian Food Conquered the World by John F. F. Mariani Publisher Comments Not so long ago, Italian food was regarded as a poor mans gruel—little more than pizza, macaroni with sauce, and red wines in a box. Here, John Mariani shows how the Italian immigrants to America created, through perseverance and sheer... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - 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: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, a Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese by Brad Kessler Publisher Comments Goat Song is the story of a year in the life of a couple who abandoned their one-bedroom apartment in New York City to live on seventy-five acres in Vermont and raise Nubian goats. In poetic, reverent detail, Brad Kessler explores our ancient... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table by Ruth Reichl Publisher Comments At an early age, Ruth Reichl discovered that "food could be a way of making sense of the world....If you watched people as they ate, you could find out who they were." Her deliciously crafted memoir, Tender at the Bone, is the story of a life determined,... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Culinary Intelligence: The Art of Eating Healthy (and Really Well) by Peter Kaminsky Publisher Comments For many of us the idea of healthy eating equals bland food, calorie counting, and general joylessness. Or we see the task of great cooking for ourselves as a complicated and expensive luxury beyond our means or ability. Now Peter Kaminsky—who has... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise by Ruth Reichl Staff Pick With characteristic wit and aplomb, Ruth Reichl takes us behind the scenes of life as a restaurant critic — dining on the finest cuisine in the city, juggling the politics of the newspaper, and becoming a master of disguise. As funny as Tender at the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Book Club Cookbook: Recipes and Food for Thought from Your Book Club's Favorite Books and Authors by Judy Gelman Publisher Comments “Part cookbook, part celebration of the written word, [The Book Club Cookbook] illustrates how books and ideas can bring people together.” —Publishers Weekly "We are what we eat, they say. We can eat what we read, too... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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How to Cook a Wolf by M F K Fisher Publisher Comments Written to inspire courage in those daunted by wartimes shortages, How to Cook a Wolf continues to rally cooks during times of plenty, reminding them that providing sustenance requires more than putting food on the table. M. F. K. Fisher knew that the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Grail: A Year Ambling and Shambling through an Oregon Vineyard in Pursuit of the Best Pinot Noir Wine in the Whole Wild World by Brian Doyle Publisher Comments A self-described "wine doofus" spends a year in a small Oregon vineyard, chronicling the creative and chaotic labor as the winemakers chase after the perfect pinot noir.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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My Life in France by Julia Child Publisher Comments Julia Child single handedly awakened America to the pleasures of good cooking with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef, but as she reveals in this bestselling memoir, she didn't know the first thing... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Food of Love by Anthony Capella Publisher Comments A fantastic book makes you feel like youre there in Italy --Jamie Oliver In Anthony Capellas delicious debut novel, Laura, a twentysomething American, is on her first trip to Italy. She; s completely enamored of the art, beauty, and, of course, food that... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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How to Cook Like a Man: A Memoir of Cookbook Obsession by Daniel Duane Publisher Comments When Daniel Duane became a father, this San Francisco surfer and climber found himself trapped at home with no clue how to contribute. Inept at so many domestic tasks, and less than eager to change diapers, he took on dinner duty. Duane had a few tricks:... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser Publisher Comments Fast food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American cultural imperialism abroad. That's a lengthy list of charges, but here Eric Schlosser makes them stick... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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