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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything across Italy, India and Indonesia
by Elizabeth Gilbert  
Powells.com Staff Pick Not long after her thirtieth birthday, on the heels of an ugly divorce, Elizabeth Gilbert traveled for a year, to Italy, India, and finally Indonesia. In Italy she wanted to explore the art of pleasure (pasta, wine, handsome men speaking a beautiful...
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan
Powells.com Staff Pick I talked about this book every morning at the water cooler and every evening at dinner. Pollan takes a possibly dry subject — agriculture — and makes it epic. Recommended by Beth, Powells.com (See all of our Staff Top 5s of 2006)...
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser
Powells.com 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...
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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 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...
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Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink
by David (edt) Remnick Publisher Comments Since its earliest days, The New Yorker has been a tastemaker–literally. As the home of A. J. Liebling, Joseph Wechsberg, and M.F.K. Fisher, who practically invented American food writing, the magazine established a tradition that is carried...
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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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A History of the World in Six Glasses
by Tom Standage
Powells.com Staff Pick Like Nathaniel's Nutmeg, Longitude, and other enjoyable histories that explore the indelible influences of a singular topic, Tom Standage takes the subject of beverages and purposes that the ages have each had their signature drink. Here he explores the...
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Five Quarters of the Orange
by Joanne Harris
Publisher Comments In her bestselling and critically acclaimed novel Chocolat, Joanne Harris told a lush story of the conflicts between pleasure and repression. Now she delivers her most complex and sophisticated work yet, an unforgettable tale of mothers and daughters, of...
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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 (06 Edition)
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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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...
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The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation
by Mark Kurlansky
Publisher Comments The Basque History of the World is the illuminating story of an ancient and enigmatic people. Signs of their civilization existed well before the arrival of the Romans in 218 B.C., and though theories abound, no one has ever been able to determine their...
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Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
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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The Last Chinese Chef
by Nicole Mones Publisher Comments The Last Chinese Chef is the transporting story of how the sensual, romantic elements of haute Chinese cuisine become the perfect ingredients to lift the troubled soul of a grieving American woman. For food writer Maggie McElroy, it's been a year of...
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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 English Breakfast Murder
by Laura Childs Publisher Comments It is a truly exhilarating experience for Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning-helping Charleston's Sea Turtle Protection League shepherd hundreds of tiny green loggerheads safely into the sea. But just as she's about to celebrate all her hard work...
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Roasting in Hell's Kitchen: Temper Tantrums, F Words, and the Pursuit of Perfection
by Gordon Ramsay Publisher Comments Everyone thinks they know the real Gordon Ramsay: rude, loud, pathologically driven, stubborn as hell. Now, for the first time, the world's most famous — and infamous — chef tells the inside story of his life: his difficult childhood, his...
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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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United States of Arugula : Sun Dried, Cold Pressed, Dark Roasted, Extra Virgin Story of the American Food Revolution (06 Edition)
by David Kamp Publisher Comments The wickedly entertaining, hunger-inducing, behind-the-scenes story of the revolution in American food that has made exotic ingredients, celebrity chefs, rarefied cooking tools, and destination restaurants familiar aspects of our everyday lives...
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Salt: A World History
by Mark Kurlansky
Powells.com Staff Pick I like salt. When I was younger and less self-conscious about eating a chip made from a potato paste, I used to lick each side of a Pringle until I found the saltier one, and put that side tongue-down so I could get the maximum salt intake. Salt is...
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