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The New Taste of Chocolate
A Cultural & Natural History of Cacao with Recipes
Written by Maricel E. Presilla

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: November 24, 2009
Price: $35.00

<div>More than two hundred years ago, the great Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus christened the cacao tree Theobroma cacao, “food-of-the-gods cacao.” Truly, chocolate is the closest thing we mortals have to ambrosia. But not all chocolate is created equal, a fact we instinctively know when we bite into an exceptional piece of... Read more >

The Taste of Sweet
Our Complicated Love Affair with Our Favorite Treats
Written by Joanne Chen

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: March 24, 2009
Price: $13.95

Dismissed as déclassé by gourmands, blamed for the scourge of obesity, and yet loved by all, the taste of sweet has long been at the center of both controversy and celebration. For anyone who has ever felt conflicted about a cupcake, this is a book to sink your teeth into. In... Read more >

The New American Cooking

Written by Joan Nathan

Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: February 18, 2009
Price: $35.00

Joan Nathan, the author of Jewish Cooking in America, An American Folklife Cookbook, and many other treasured cookbooks, now gives us a fabulous feast of new American recipes and the stories behind them that reflect the most innovative time in our culinary history.

The huge influx of peoples from all over Asia--Thailand... Read more >

Climbing the Mango Trees
A Memoir of a Childhood in India
Written by Madhur Jaffrey

Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2008
Price: $14.95

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 childhood pleasures evoke for her the tastes and textures of growing up.

This... Read more >

Milk
The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages
Written by Anne Mendelson

Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Price: $29.95

Part cookbook—with more than 120 enticing recipes—part culinary history, part inquiry into the evolution of an industry, Milk is a one-of-a-kind book that will forever change the way we think about dairy products.

Anne Mendelson, author of Stand Facing the Stove, first explores the earliest Old World homes of yogurt and kindred... Read more >

The Taste of Sweet
Our Complicated Love Affair with Our Favorite Treats
Written by Joanne Chen

Format: eBook
On Sale: March 18, 2008
Price: $13.95

Dismissed as déclassé by gourmands, blamed for the scourge of obesity, and yet loved by all, the taste of sweet has long been at the center of both controversy and celebration. For anyone who has ever felt conflicted about a cupcake, this is a book to sink your teeth into. In... Read more >

In the Devil's Garden
A Sinful History of Forbidden Food
Written by Stewart Lee Allen

Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.95

Deliciously organized by the Seven Deadly Sins, here is a scintillating history of forbidden foods through the ages—and how these mouth-watering taboos have defined cultures around the world.

From the lusciously tempting fruit in the Garden of Eden to the divine foie gras, Stewart Lee Allen engagingly illustrates that when a pleasure... Read more >

The Ghirardelli Chocolate Cookbook
Recipes and History from America's Premier Chocolate Maker
Written by Ghiradelli Chocolate Company
Photographed by Leigh Beisch

Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2007
Price: $19.99

America is experiencing a chocolate renaissance, and the epicenter is in the San Francisco Bay Area, where Ghirardelli has long been the standard-bearer for great chocolate. Domingo Ghirardelli first began making chocolate drinks for miners during the Gold Rush. In the more than 150 years since, the chocolatiers who have carried... Read more >

Climbing the Mango Trees
A Memoir of a Childhood in India
Written by Madhur Jaffrey

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $14.95

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 childhood pleasures evoke for her the tastes and textures of growing up.

This... Read more >

My Life in France

Written by Julia Child and Alex Prud'Homme

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $15.00

Julia Child singlehandedly created a new approach to American cuisine with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef, but as she reveals in this bestselling memoir, she was not always a master chef.


Indeed, when she first arrived in France in 1948 with... Read more >

The Story of Tea
A Cultural History and Drinking Guide
Written by Mary Lou Heiss and Robert J. Heiss

Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2007
Price: $32.50

Whether it's a delicate green tea or a bracing Assam black, a cup of tea is a complex brew of art and industry, tradition and revolution, East and West. In this sweeping tour through the world of tea, veteran tea traders Mary Lou Heiss and Robert J. Heiss chronicle tea's influence... Read more >

Climbing the Mango Trees
A Memoir of a Childhood in India
Written by Madhur Jaffrey

Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $25.00

Today’s most highly regarded writer on Indian food gives us an enchanting memoir of her childhood in Delhi in an age and a society that has since disappeared.

Madhur (meaning “sweet as honey”) Jaffrey grew up in a large family compound where her grandfather often presided over dinners at which forty or more... Read more >

My Life in France

Written by Julia Child and Alex Prud'Homme

Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: April 4, 2006
Price: $25.95

In her own words, here is the captivating story of Julia Child’s years in France, where she fell in love with French food and found ‘her true calling.’

From the moment the ship docked in Le Havre in the fall of 1948 and Julia watched the well-muscled stevedores unloading the cargo to... Read more >

My Life in France

Written by Julia Child and Alex Prud'Homme
Read by Flo Salant Greenberg

Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 4, 2006
Price: $13.98

In her own words, here is the captivating story of Julia Child’s years in France, where she fell in love with French food and found her “true calling.”

From the moment the ship docked in Le Havre, en route to Paris, in the fall of 1948, Julia had an awakening that changed... Read more >

My Life in France

Written by Julia Child and Alex Prud'Homme

Format: eBook
On Sale: April 4, 2006
Price: $15.00

Julia Child singlehandedly created a new approach to American cuisine with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef, but as she reveals in this bestselling memoir, she was not always a master chef.


Indeed, when she first arrived in France in 1948 with... Read more >

The New American Cooking

Written by Joan Nathan

Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2005
Price: $35.00

Joan Nathan, the author of Jewish Cooking in America, An American Folklife Cookbook, and many other treasured cookbooks, now gives us a fabulous feast of new American recipes and the stories behind them that reflect the most innovative time in our culinary history.

The huge influx of peoples from all over Asia--Thailand... Read more >

Boulevard
The Cookbook
Written by Nancy Oakes, Pamela Mazzola and Lisa Weiss

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2005
Price: $50.00

Every once in a while a restaurant changes a city's dining scene forever. In San Francisco, that restaurant is Boulevard. In 1993 Nancy Oakes first breathed life into a glorious but forgotten beaux arts building —a survivor of the 1906 earthquake —with her gutsy and ebullient cooking. Just a decade later... Read more >

An Exaltation of Soups
The Soul-Satisfying Story of Soup, As Told in More Than 100 Recipes
Written by Patricia Solley

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: December 28, 2004
Price: $16.00

Throughout history and around the world, soup has been used to bring comfort, warmth, and good health. A bowl of soup can symbolize so much—celebrations, major life passages, and the everyday. Inspired by Patricia Solley’s website, SoupSong.com, and organized according to function—soups to heal the sick, recover from childbirth, soothe a... Read more >

The Devil's Cup
A History of the World According to Coffee
Written by Stewart Lee Allen

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2003
Price: $14.95

In this captivating book, Stewart Lee Allen treks three-quarters of the way around the world on a caffeinated quest to answer these profound questions: Did the advent of coffee give birth to an enlightened western civilization? Is coffee, indeed, the substance that drives history? From the cliffhanging villages of Southern Yemen... Read more >

In the Devil's Garden
A Sinful History of Forbidden Food
Written by Stewart Lee Allen

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: March 4, 2003
Price: $13.95

Deliciously organized by the Seven Deadly Sins, here is a scintillating history of forbidden foods through the ages—and how these mouth-watering taboos have defined cultures around the world.

From the lusciously tempting fruit in the Garden of Eden to the divine foie gras, Stewart Lee Allen engagingly illustrates that when a pleasure... Read more >

The Jane Austen Cookbook

Written by Maggie Black
Edited by Deirdre Le Faye

Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2002
Price: $19.95

Jane Austen wrote her novels in the midst of a large and sociable family. Brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews, friends and acquaintances were always coming and going, which offered numerous occasions for convivial eating and drinking. One of Jane’s dearest friends, Martha Lloyd, lived with the family for many years... Read more >

The Curiosities of Food
Or the Dainties and Delicacies of Different Nations Obtained from the Animal Kingdom
Written by Peter Lund Simmonds and P.L. Simmonds
Introduction by Alan Davidson

Format: Hardcover, 372 pages
On Sale: June 22, 2001
Price: $16.95

Originally published in London in 1859, this rare treasure of culinary history was recently brought to light in the award-winning Oxford Companion to Food, whose author, Alan Davidson, used it as a primary reference in researching some of the more obscure foodstuffs consumed across the globe. Davidson writes that "[CURIOSITIES] is... Read more >

The New Taste of Chocolate
A Cultural and Natural History of Cacao with Recipes
Written by Maricel E. Presilla

Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2000
Price: $32.50

Cacao importer and chocolate expert Maricel Presilla takes chocoholics to new territory—to the almost primeval plantations of Latin America, where the world's first, and today's finest, cacaos are grown. Presilla, who is at the forefront of the revolution in fine chocolate making, explains that the flavor and quality of chocolate depend... Read more >