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Alice Waters & Chez Panisse: The Romantic, Impractical, Often Eccentric, Ultimately Brilliant Making of a Food Revolution by Thomas Mcnamee Publisher Comments The first authorized biography of "the mother of American cooking" (The New York Times) This adventurous book charts the origins of the local "market cooking" culture that we all savor today. When Francophile Alice Waters opened Chez Panisse in Berkeley... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Perfectionist: Life and Death in Haute Cuisine by Rudolph Chelminski Staff Pick In 2003 Bernard Loiseau's suicide made international headlines. The celebrated French chef's restaurant was rumored to potentially lose a coveted Michelin star, and the Gault Millau guidebook had recently lowered its rating. In a compelling look at the... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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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... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears in Paris at the World's Most Famous Cooking School by Kathleen Flinn Publisher Comments A delightful true story of food, Paris, and the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. In 2003, Kathleen Flinn, a thirty-six-year-old American living and working in London, returned from vacation to find that her corporate job had been eliminated. Ignoring her... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Jamie Oliver Effect: The Man, the Food, the Revolution by Gilly Smith Publisher Comments By the age of eight, Jamie Oliver was already cooking in his parents' pub and restaurant. By the age of 22, his foul mouth and mischievous image in the kitchens of The River Café won him his own TV series, The Naked Chef... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Stand Facing the Stove: The Story of the Women Who Gave America the Joy of Cooking by Anne Mendelson Publisher Comments A New York Times Notable Book... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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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... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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A Covert Affair by Jennet Conant Publisher Comments Bestselling author Jennet Conant brings us a stunning account of Julia and Paul Childs experiences as members of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in the Far East during World War II and the tumultuous years when they were caught up in the McCarthy... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Conversations with William F. Buckley JR. (Literary Conversations) by William F Iii Meehan Publisher Comments Conversations with the conservative founder of the National Review, host of television's The Firing Line, and author of fifty-seven books of fiction and... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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From Vilayur to Baltimore: A Lifelong Journey of Learning & Discovery by Gopal Dorai Synopsis Dorai's personal journey of achievement spans across several decades and is educational as well as entertaining. His touching honesty allows readers the opportunity to experience America through an immigrant's eyes. Vividly depicted and overflowing with... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The J.F.K. Jr. scrapbook by Stephen Spignesi Publisher Comments Admirers will discover the many sides of this elusive man in both his public and private incarnations. Color photographs throughout.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.40 Used - Trade Paper
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Eating (10 Edition) by Jason Epstein Publisher Comments Jason Epstein, legendary publisher of Norman Mailer and Vladimir Nabokov, editor of such great chefs and bakers as Alice Waters and Wolfgang Puck, takes us on a culinary tour through his eventful life. From the great restaurants of postwar Paris... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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They Call Me Baba Booey by Gary Dell'abate Publisher Comments One of pop culture’s great enduring unsung heroes: Gary Dell’Abate, Howard Stern Show producer, miracle worker, professional good sport, and servant to the King of All Media, for the first time tells the story of his early years and reveals... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs. Beeton by Kathryn Hughes Publisher Comments In Victorian England there was only one fail-safe authority on matters ranging from fashion to puddings to scullery maids: Beetons Book of Household Management. In this delightful, superbly researched biography, award-winning historian Kathryn Hughes... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Hardcover
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Byron and the Websters: The Letters and Entangled Lives of the Poet, Sir James Webster and Lady Frances Webster by John Stewart Synopsis Arguably the most offensive, despised, and ridiculed dandy of the Regency period, Sir James Webster-Wedderburn would likely be forgotten were it not for an affair between his wife and his close friend, the poet Lord Byron. This unique work lays out the... (read more) List Price $50.25 Your price: $16.00 Used - Trade Paper
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I'm No Saint: A Nasty Little Memoir of Love and Leaving by Elizabeth Hayt Publisher Comments Itís Sex and the City for the post-marriage crowd in an eye-opening memoir of one womanís journey from wife and mother to sexy single. Elizabeth Hayt embarked upon wifehood with reservations. Once there, she found herself drowning in an ocean of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.75 Used - Hardcover
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Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods-My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine by Noelle Howey Publisher Comments Throughout her childhood in suburban Ohio, Noelle struggled to gain love and affection from her distant father. In compensating for her fathers brusqueness, Noelle idolized her nurturing tomboy mother and her conservative grandma who tried to turn her... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $1.75 Used - Trade Paper
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Crazy in the Kitchen: Foods, Feuds, and Forgiveness in an Italian American Family by Louise Desalvo Publisher Comments During Louise DeSalvo's childhood in 1950s New Jersey, the kitchen becomes the site for fierce generational battle. Louise's step-grandmother insists on recreating the domestic habits of her Southern Italian peasant upbringing, clashing with Louise's... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Wars, Women & Other Wonders by Philip Rushlow Publisher Comments Here is a book written without the slightest nod to political correctness. It assumes that the reader and writer are equals in every way: intelligence, experience and the ability to exert common sense. The author is not trying to sell anything or prove... (read more) List Price $27.75 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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A Writer's Life by Gay Talese Publisher Comments The inner workings of a writer's life, the interplay between experience and writing, are brilliantly recounted by a master of the art. Gay Talese now focuses on his own life —the zeal for the truth, the narrative edge, the sometimes startling... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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