Cooking with Italian Grandmothers
Recipes and Stories from Tuscany to Sicily
Written by Jessica Theroux
Introduction by Alice Waters
Format: Hardcover, 250 pages
On Sale: September 28, 2010
Price: $40.00
American chef Jessica Theroux spent a year traveling throughout Italy, cooking and talking with Italian grandmothers, learning their secrets and listening to their stories. The result is a charming and authentic collection of recipes, techniques, anecdotes, and photographs that celebrate the rustic and sustainable culinary traditions of Italy’s most experienced home...
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The Man Who Ate Everything
Written by Jeffrey Steingarten
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: October 27, 1998
Price: $16.95
Winner of the Julia Child Book Award A James Beard Book Award FinalistWhen Jeffrey Steingarten was appointed food critic for
Vogue, he systematically set out to overcome his distaste for such things as kimchi, lard, Greek cuisine, and blue food. He succeeded at all but the last: Steingarten is "fairly...
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The New Portuguese Table
Exciting Flavors from Europe's Western Coast
Written by David Leite
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: August 18, 2009
Price: $32.50
Winner of the IACP 2010 Julia Child Award for First Book
Nestled between the Atlantic Ocean and Spain, Portugal is today’s hot-spot vacation destination, and world travelers are enthralled by the unique yet familiar cuisine of this country.
The New Portuguese Table takes you on a culinary journey into the soul of this...
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Real Snacks
Make Your Favorite Childhood Treats Without All the Junk
Written by Lara Ferroni
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $19.95
For readers of
Salt, Sugar, Fat who want to make favorite snack foods more healthfully at home, here are recipes for wholeseome homemade Twinkies, Ding-Dongs, Doritos, and Cheez-Its, all with gluten-free and vegan variations! Make everyone's favorite childhood snacks with whole grains and natural sweeteners full of wonderful flavors and nutrients...
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Beard On Bread
Written by James Beard
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: February 7, 1995
Price: $16.95
Since the early 1970s, more than 250,000 bread lovers have relied on Beard on Bread to show them exactly how to make the most out-of-this-world breads imaginable. Now, this classic collection of 100 scrumptuous bread recipes is available in a new trade paperback edition featuring more than 90 illustrations by Karl...
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Marinades, Rubs, Brines, Cures and Glazes
Written by Jim Tarantino
Format: Trade Paperback, 360 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2006
Price: $21.99
In this revised and expanded edition of his best-selling book, grilling guru Jim Tarantino explains the art and science of marinades and presents more than 400 savory, sweet, and spicy recipes. Featuring 150 brand-new recipes and sections on brines, cures, and glazes, this marinating bible is chock-full of ideas for preparing...
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Secret Ingredients
The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink
Edited by David Remnick
Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
On Sale: November 3, 2009
Price: $18.00
A sample of the menu: Woody Allen on dieting the Dostoevski way • Roger Angell on the art of the martini • Don DeLillo on Jell-O • Malcolm Gladwell on building a better ketchup • Jane Kramer on the writer’s kitchen • Chang-rae Lee on eating sea urchin • Steve Martin...
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The Feast Nearby
How I lost my job, buried a marriage, and found my way by keeping chickens, foraging, preserving, bartering, and eating locally (all on $40 a week)
Written by Robin Mather
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: May 24, 2011
Price: $12.99
Within a single week in 2009, food journalist Robin Mather found herself on the threshold of a divorce and laid off from her job at the Chicago Tribune. Forced into a radical life change, she returned to her native rural Michigan.
There she learned to live on a limited budget while...
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The Supper of the Lamb
A Culinary Reflection
Written by Robert Farrar Capon
Introduction by Deborah Madison
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: July 2, 2002
Price: $16.00
From a passionate and talented chef who also happens to be an Episcopalian priest comes this surprising and thought-provoking treatise on everything from prayer to poetry to puff pastry. In
The Supper of the Lamb, Capon talks about festal and ferial cooking, emerging as an inspirational voice extolling the benefits and...
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Two Dudes, One Pan
Maximum Flavor from a Minimalist Kitchen
Written by Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: August 26, 2008
Price: $24.95
Just one pan? No problem! You’ll need only a single skillet, or a roasting pan, or a Dutch oven to make any of the 100 knockout recipes that have made this team the hottest culinary duo west of the Rockies.
Today their catering business and restaurant are the toast of Los...
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The Native Foods Restaurant Cookbook
Written by Tanya Petrovna
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2003
Price: $24.95
When people ask Tanya Petrovna, "Are you a strict vegetarian?" she replies, "No, I'm a fun vegetarian!" As head chef of the popular Native Foods chain of restaurants in Southern California, Tanya treats her customers to a vegan cuisine that is so tasty, satisfying, and hearty that it draws praise from...
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Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone
Written by Deborah Madison
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 27, 2010
Price: $21.99
What Julia Child is to French cooking and Marcella Hazan is to Italian cooking, Deborah Madison is to contemporary vegetarian cooking. At Greens restaurant in San Francisco, where she was the founding chef, and in her two acclaimed vegetarian cookbooks, Madison elevated vegetarian cooking to new heights of sophistication, introducing many people...
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The Joy of Gluten-Free, Sugar-Free Baking
80 Low-Carb Recipes that Offer Solutions for Celiac Disease, Diabetes, and Weight Loss
Written by Peter Reinhart and Denene Wallace
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2012
Price: $15.99
The first gluten-free baking book from legendary bread maker and James Beard Award-winning author Peter Reinhart, with 80 world-class recipes suitable for wheat sensitive, diabetic, and low-carb/low-sugar dieters.The first gluten-free baking book from legendary bread maker and James Beard Award-winning author Peter Reinhart, with 80 world-class recipes suitable for wheat sensitive, diabetic, and low-carb/low-sugar dieters.Amazing...
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Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics
Fabulous Flavor from Simple Ingredients
Written by Ina Garten
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $18.99
Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics is the essential Ina Garten cookbook, focusing on the techniques behind her elegant food and easy entertaining style, and offering nearly a hundred brand-new recipes that will become trusted favorites.
Ina Garten’s bestselling cookbooks have con-sistently provided accessible, subtly sophisticated recipes ranging from French classics made...
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The Big Oyster
History on the Half Shell
Written by Mark Kurlansky
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $16.00
“Part treatise, part miscellany, unfailingly entertaining.”
–The New York Times “A small pearl of a book . . . a great tale of the growth of a modern city as seen through the rise and fall of the lowly oyster.”
–Rocky Mountain NewsAward-winning author Mark Kurlansky tells the remarkable story of New York...
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The Complete Robuchon
Written by Joel Robuchon
Translated by Robin H. R. Bellinger
Format: Hardcover, 832 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $40.00
An incomparable culinary treasury: the definitive guide to French cooking for the way we live now, from the man the
Gault Millau guide has proclaimed “Chef of the Century.”
Joël Robuchon’s restaurant empire stretches from Paris to New York, Las Vegas to Tokyo, London to Hong Kong. He holds more Michelin stars...
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Fat
An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, with Recipes
Written by Jennifer McLagan
Photographed by Leigh Beisch
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2008
Price: $32.50
For all of history, minus the last thirty years, fat has been at the center of human diets and cultures. When scientists theorized a link between saturated fat and heart disease, industry, media, and government joined forces to label fat a greasy killer, best avoided. But according to Jennifer McLagan, not...
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