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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.)
by Barbara Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver  
Powells.com 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...
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
by Barbara Kingsolver and Camille Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp
Powells.com 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...
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Kitchen Confidential Updated Ed: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
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...
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A Cook's Tour
by Anthony Bourdain
Publisher Comments Bourdain crisscrosses the world, sampling local delicacies from the sublime to the bizarre. Throughout his travels, Bourdain discovers again and again the importance of community, kinship, and the power of food to bring people together....
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Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany (Vintage)
by Bill Buford Publisher Comments A highly acclaimed writer and editor, Bill Buford left his job at The New Yorker for a most unlikely destination: the kitchen at Babbo, the revolutionary Italian restaurant created and ruled by superstar chef Mario Batali. Finally realizing a long-held...
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Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
by Julie Powell
Powells.com 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...
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Alice Waters and Chez Panisse: The Romantic, Impractical, Often Eccentric, Ultimately Brilliant Making of a Food Revolution
by Thomas Mcnamee Publisher Comments In an authorized biography-the story of Alice Waters, Chez Panisse, and the San Francisco 1970s counterculture food revolution that invented "American cuisine" Not so long ago it was nearly impossible to find a cappuccino or a croissant in this country...
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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...
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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,...
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My Life in France
by Julia Child and Alex Prud'homme
Powells.com Staff Pick An inspiring look at the life and times of the culinary genius, Julia Child's My Life in France is a good-humored memoir of her influential and transformative early experiences in France with her then new husband, Paul. Julia's devotees, as well as those...
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The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food
by Judith Jones
Powells.com Staff Pick Judith Jones has lived an amazing life, and she shares it with the reader in a straightforward and almost matter-of-fact way. Jones has been in all of our kitchens, whether it was through her own recipes or the many cookbooks she has edited and helped...
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Making of a Chef : Mastering Heat At the Culinary Institute of America (99 Edition)
by Michael Ruhlman Publisher Comments Now in paperback, the eye-opening book that was nominated for a 1998 James Beard Foundation award in the Writing on Food category. In the winter of 1996, Michael Ruhlman donned hounds-tooth-check pants and a chef's jacket and entered the Culinary...
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Serve the People: A Stir-Fried Journey Through China
by Jen Lin Liu Publisher Comments As a freelance journalist and food writer living in Beijing, Jen Lin-Liu already had a ringside seat for China’s exploding food scene. When she decided to enroll in a local cooking school—held in an unheated classroom with nary a measuring...
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California Studies in Food and Culture #22: M. F. K. Fisher Among the Pots and Pans: Celebrating Her Kitchens
by Joan Reardon Synopsis From her very first book, Serve It Forth, M.F.K. Fisher wrote about her ideal kitchen. In her subsequent publications, she revisited the many kitchens she had known and the foods she savored in them to express her ideas about the art of eating. M.F.K...
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My Life in France
by Julia Child and Alex Prud'homme
Powells.com Staff Pick An inspiring look at the life and times of the culinary genius, Julia Child's My Life in France is a good-humored memoir of her influential and transformative early experiences in France with her then new husband, Paul. Julia's devotees, as well as those...
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Climbing the Mango Trees
by Madhur Jaffrey Publisher Comments Whether acclaimed food writer Madhur Jaffrey was climbing the mango trees in her grandparents' orchard in Delhi or picnicking in the Himalayan foothills on meatballs stuffed with raisins and mint, tucked into freshly baked spiced pooris, today these...
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Finding Betty Crocker: The Secret Life of America's First Lady of Food
by Susan Marks Publisher Comments IN 1945, FORTUNE MAGAZINE named Betty Crocker the second most popular American woman, right behind Eleanor Roosevelt, and dubbed Betty America's First Lady of Food. Not bad for a gal who never actually existed. "Born" in 1921 in Minneapolis, Minnesota...
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Roasting in Hell's Kitchen: Temper Tantrums, F Words, and the Pursuit of Perfection
by Gordon Ramsay Publisher Comments From the author of "In the Heat of the Kitchen" comes this new meditation on life as "the Simon Cowell of the food world." The explosive, outspoken star chef tells the story of his rise in kitchen ranks....
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Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
by Ruth Reichl
Powells.com 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...
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Paula Deen: It Ain't All about the Cookin'
by Paula Deen Publisher Comments Do you know the real Paula Deen? You may think you know the butter-loving, finger-licking, joke-cracking queen of melt-in-your-mouth Southern cuisine. You may have even visited The LadyandSons to taste for yourself the down-home delicacies that made her...
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