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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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Food Rules: An Eater's Manual by Michael Pollan Publisher Comments Read the interview and watch the video with Michael Pollan Michael Pollan, our nation's most trusted resource for food-related issues, offers this indispensible guide for anyone concerned about health and food. Simple, sensible, and easy to use, Food... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - 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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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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A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table by Molly Wizenberg Staff Pick A Homemade Life combines my favorite elements: memoir, travel writing, food writing, recipes, a beautiful love story, and quirky family anecdotes, along with all the things that make the Orangette blog one of my online obsessions. Molly Wizenberg weaves... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan Staff Pick True or false: One out of every four items for sale in the average American supermarket contains corn? (Think, think, think...) Believe it or not, it's true. If this unsettles you — or just plain doesn't make sense — pick up a copy of Michael Pollan... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan Publisher Comments Michael Pollan's lastbook , The Omnivore's Dilemma, launched a national conversation about the American way of eating; now In Defense of Food shows us how to change it, one meal at a time. Pollan proposes a new answer to the question of what we should... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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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The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister Publisher Comments A "heartbreakingly delicious" national bestseller about a chef, her students, and the evocative lessons that food teaches about life. Once a month, eight students gather in Lillian's restaurant for a cooking class. Among them is Claire, a young woman... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Below Stairs: The Classic Kitchen Maid's Memoir That Inspired "Upstairs, Downstairs" and "Downton Abbey" by Margaret Powell Publisher Comments Brilliantly evoking the long-vanished world of masters and servants portrayed in Downton Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs, Margaret Powells classic memoir of her time in service, Below Stairs, is the remarkable true story of an indomitable woman who... (read more) Your price: $22.99 New - Hardcover
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The Man Who Changed the Way We Eat: Craig Claiborne and the American Food Renaissance by Tom Mcnamee Publisher Comments In the 1950s, America was a land of overdone roast beef and canned green beans—a gastronomic wasteland. Most restaurants relied on frozen, second-rate ingredients and served bogus “Continental” cuisine. Authentic French, Italian... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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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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On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen by Harold McGee Publisher Comments Harold McGee's On Food and Cooking is a kitchen classic. Hailed by Time magazine as "a minor masterpiece" when it first appeared in 1984, On Food and Cooking is the bible to which food lovers and professional chefs worldwide turn for an understanding of... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $27.50 Used - Hardcover
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Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky Publisher Comments Mark Kurlansky, the bestselling author of Cod and The Basque History of the World, here turns his attention to a common household item with a long and intriguing history: salt. The only rock we eat, salt has shaped civilization from the very beginning... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - 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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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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Tea Shop Mysteries #09: The Silver Needle Murder by Laura Childs Publisher Comments When the Charleston Film Festival opens with a bang?the real-life murder of a famous director?Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is pulled into an investigation as perilous as any big-screen thriller.... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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