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A Memoir
Written by Marcus Samuelsson and Veronica Chambers
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $16.00
JAMES BEARD AWARD NOMINEE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY VOGUE • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“One of the great culinary stories of our time.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times
It begins with a simple ritual: Every Saturday afternoon, a boy who loves to cook walks to his grandmother’s... Read more >
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A Memoir of Forty Years in Food
Written by Raymond Sokolov
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $25.95
Four decades of memories from a gastronome who witnessed the food revolution from the (well-provisioned) trenches—a delicious tour through contemporary food history.
When Raymond Sokolov became food editor of The New York Times in 1971, he began a long, memorable career as restaurant critic, food historian, and author. Here he traces...
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A Memoir of Forty Years in Food
Written by Raymond Sokolov
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: May 14, 2013
Price: $13.99
Four decades of memories from a gastronome who witnessed the food revolution from the (well-provisioned) trenches—a delicious tour through contemporary food history.
When Raymond Sokolov became food editor of The New York Times in 1971, he began a long, memorable career as restaurant critic, food historian, and author. Here he traces...
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The Remarkable Life of Julia Child
Written by Bob Spitz
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $16.00
A Time, Washington Post, and NPR Best Book of the Year
The stunning story of how Julia Child transformed herself into the cult figure who touched off a food revolution that has gripped the country for more than fifty years. Spanning Pasadena to Paris, acclaimed author Bob Spitz reveals the history behind... Read more >
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Reflections and Recipes from the House That Herring Built
Written by Mark Russ Federman
Foreword by Calvin Trillin
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $25.95
WITH 8 PAGES OF FULL-COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND BLACK-AND-WHITE IMAGES THROUGHOUT
The former owner/proprietor of the beloved appetizing store on Manhattan’s Lower East Side tells the delightful, mouthwatering story of an immigrant family’s journey from a pushcart in 1907 to “New York’s most hallowed shrine to the miracle of caviar, smoked salmon, ethereal...
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Reflections and Recipes from the House That Herring Built
Written by Mark Russ Federman
Foreword by Calvin Trillin
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $13.99
WITH 8 PAGES OF FULL-COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND BLACK-AND-WHITE IMAGES THROUGHOUT
The former owner/proprietor of the beloved appetizing store on Manhattan’s Lower East Side tells the delightful, mouthwatering story of an immigrant family’s journey from a pushcart in 1907 to “New York’s most hallowed shrine to the miracle of caviar, smoked salmon, ethereal...
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A Memoir
Written by Eddie Huang
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $26.00
“Long before I met him, I was a fan of his writing, and his merciless wit. He’s bigger than food.”—Anthony Bourdain
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Eddie Huang is the thirty-year-old proprietor of Baohaus—the hot East Village hangout where foodies, stoners, and students come to stuff their faces with delicious Taiwanese street food late into the... Read more >
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A Memoir
Written by Eddie Huang
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $12.99
“Long before I met him, I was a fan of his writing, and his merciless wit. He’s bigger than food.”—Anthony Bourdain
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Eddie Huang is the thirty-year-old proprietor of Baohaus—the hot East Village hangout where foodies, stoners, and students come to stuff their faces with delicious Taiwanese street food late into the... Read more >
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A Memoir
Written by Eddie Huang
Read by Eddie Huang
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $35.00
“Long before I met him, I was a fan of his writing, and his merciless wit. He’s bigger than food.”—Anthony Bourdain
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Eddie Huang is the thirty-year-old proprietor of Baohaus—the hot East Village hangout where foodies, stoners, and students come to stuff their faces with delicious Taiwanese street food late into the... Read more >
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A Memoir
Written by Eddie Huang
Read by Eddie Huang
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $17.50
“Long before I met him, I was a fan of his writing, and his merciless wit. He’s bigger than food.”—Anthony Bourdain
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Eddie Huang is the thirty-year-old proprietor of Baohaus—the hot East Village hangout where foodies, stoners, and students come to stuff their faces with delicious Taiwanese street food late into the... Read more >
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The Remarkable Life of Julia Child
Written by Bob Spitz
Format: Trade Paperback, 1008 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $30.00
It’s rare for someone to emerge in America who can change our attitudes, our beliefs, and our very culture. It’s even rarer when that someone is a middle-aged, six-foot three-inch woman whose first exposure to an unsuspecting public is cooking an omelet on a hot plate on a local TV station. ... Read more >
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The Remarkable Life of Julia Child
Written by Bob Spitz
Format: Hardcover, 576 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $29.95
It’s rare for someone to emerge in America who can change our attitudes, our beliefs, and our very culture. It’s even rarer when that someone is a middle-aged, six-foot three-inch woman whose first exposure to an unsuspecting public is cooking an omelet on a hot plate on a local TV station. ... Read more >
The Remarkable Life of Julia Child
Written by Bob Spitz
Format: eBook, 576 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $11.99
It’s rare for someone to emerge in America who can change our attitudes, our beliefs, and our very culture. It’s even rarer when that someone is a middle-aged, six-foot three-inch woman whose first exposure to an unsuspecting public is cooking an omelet on a hot plate on a local TV station. ... Read more >
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The Remarkable Life of Julia Child
Written by Bob Spitz
Read by Kimberly Farr
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $50.00
It’s rare for someone to emerge in America who can change our attitudes, our beliefs, and our very culture. It’s even rarer when that someone is a middle-aged, six-foot three-inch woman whose first exposure to an unsuspecting public is cooking an omelet on a hot plate on a local TV station. ... Read more >
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The Remarkable Life of Julia Child
Written by Bob Spitz
Read by Kimberly Farr
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $30.00
It’s rare for someone to emerge in America who can change our attitudes, our beliefs, and our very culture. It’s even rarer when that someone is a middle-aged, six-foot three-inch woman whose first exposure to an unsuspecting public is cooking an omelet on a hot plate on a local TV station. ... Read more >
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A Memoir
Written by Marcus Samuelsson and Veronica Chambers
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2012
Price: $27.00
JAMES BEARD AWARD NOMINEE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY VOGUE • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“One of the great culinary stories of our time.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times
It begins with a simple ritual: Every Saturday afternoon, a boy who loves to cook walks to his grandmother’s house and...
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A Memoir
Written by Marcus Samuelsson and Veronica Chambers
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: June 26, 2012
Price: $11.99
JAMES BEARD AWARD NOMINEE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY VOGUE • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“One of the great culinary stories of our time.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times
It begins with a simple ritual: Every Saturday afternoon, a boy who loves to cook walks to his grandmother’s...
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A Memoir
Written by Marcus Samuelsson
Read by Marcus Samuelsson
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: June 26, 2012
Price: $40.00
JAMES BEARD AWARD NOMINEE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY VOGUE • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“One of the great culinary stories of our time.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times
It begins with a simple ritual: Every Saturday afternoon, a boy who loves to cook walks to his grandmother’s house and...
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A Memoir
Written by Marcus Samuelsson
Read by Marcus Samuelsson
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 26, 2012
Price: $20.00
JAMES BEARD AWARD NOMINEE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY VOGUE • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“One of the great culinary stories of our time.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times
It begins with a simple ritual: Every Saturday afternoon, a boy who loves to cook walks to his grandmother’s house and...
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My Messy Affairs In and Out of the Kitchen
Written by Alyssa Shelasky
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: May 22, 2012
Price: $14.00
“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 Insatiable-Critic.com and author of Insatiable: Tales from a Life of Delicious Excess
Apron... Read more >
My Messy Affairs In and Out of the Kitchen
Written by Alyssa Shelasky
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: May 22, 2012
Price: $9.99
“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 Insatiable-Critic.com and author of Insatiable: Tales from a Life of Delicious Excess
Apron... Read more >
A Delicious Tour of French Food and Culture with Honore'de Balzac
Written by Anka Muhlstein
Format: eBook, 200 pages
On Sale: February 14, 2012
Price: $19.95
“Tell me where you eat, what you eat, and at what time you eat, and I will tell you who you are. ”This is the motto of Anka Muhlstein’s erudite and witty book about the ways food and the art of the table feature in Honoré de Balzac’s The Human Comedy... Read more >
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Tasting Notes from a Marriage
Written by Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 2, 2011
Price: $11.99
“I am deeply inspired by this heartwarming story of how two people found love and—even better—a way to get paid for drinking wine.” —Dave Barry
Internationally renowned journalists Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher present a captivating memoir about falling in love with each other and with wine.
She grew up... Read more >
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A Delicious Tour of French Food and Culture with Honore'de Balzac
Written by Anka Muhlstein
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $19.95
"Tell me where you eat, what you eat, and at what time you eat, and I will tell you who you are." This is the motto of Anka Muhlstein’s erudite and witty book about the ways food and the art of the table feature in Honoré de Balzac’s The Human Comedy... Read more >
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On Becoming a Chef at the Culinary Institute of America
Written by Jonathan Dixon
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 3, 2011
Price: $14.99
Millions of people fantasize about leaving their old lives behind, enrolling in cooking school, and training to become a chef. But for those who make the decision, the difference between the dream and reality can be gigantic—especially at the top cooking school in the country. For the first time in the... Read more >
