Blue Plate Special
An Autobiography of My Appetites
Written by Kate Christensen
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $26.95
That the greatly admired novelist Kate Christensen has turned to the memoir form after six novels makes this book an event. Readers of memoirs of high literary quality, particularly those with food themes—most conspicuously Ruth Reichl's Comfort Me with Apples and Gabrielle Hamilton's Blood, Bones, and Butter—as well as admirers of...
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Blue Plate Special
An Autobiography of My Appetites
Written by Kate Christensen
Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $13.99
That the greatly admired novelist Kate Christensen has turned to the memoir form after six novels makes this book an event. Readers of memoirs of high literary quality, particularly those with food themes—most conspicuously Ruth Reichl's Comfort Me with Apples and Gabrielle Hamilton's Blood, Bones, and Butter—as well as admirers of...
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Blue Plate Special
An Autobiography of My Appetites
Written by Kate Christensen
Read by Tavia Gilbert
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $20.00
That the greatly admired novelist Kate Christensen has turned to the memoir form after six novels makes this book an event. Readers of memoirs of high literary quality, particularly those with food themes—most conspicuously Ruth Reichl's Comfort Me with Apples and Gabrielle Hamilton's Blood, Bones, and Butter—as well as admirers of...
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Eat the City
A Tale of the Fishers, Foragers, Butchers, Farmers, Poultry Minders, Sugar Refiners, Cane Cutters, Beekeepers, Winemakers, and Brewers Who Built New York
Written by Robin Shulman
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $15.00
New York, the city of money, glass, and concrete, seems like no kind of place to produce food. Yet in this smart, funny, and beautifully written book, Robin Shulman places today's urban food production in the context of hundreds of years of history, tracing the changing ways we live and eat. As...
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Steal the Menu
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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Steal the Menu
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 Juice
Vinous Veritas
Written by Jay McInerney
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $15.95
A generous new collection by the acclaimed novelist who, according to Salon, is also "the best wine writer in America."
For more than a decade, Jay McInerney's vinous essays have been praised by restaurateurs ("educational and delicious at the same time" —Mario Batali), by esteemed critics ("brilliant, witty, comical, and often shamelessly...
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White Bread
A Social History of the Store-Bought Loaf
Written by Aaron Bobrow-Strain
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $17.00
How did white bread, once an icon of American progress, become “white trash”? In this lively history of bakers, dietary crusaders, and social reformers, Aaron Bobrow-Strain shows us that what we think about the humble, puffy loaf says a lot about who we are and what we want our society to...
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Cooking for Gracie
The Making of a Parent from Scratch
Written by Keith Dixon
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $14.00
For years, Keith Dixon sustained himself through rough days by dreaming about lavish recipes he’d attempt when he got home—Thai curries, Indian raitas, Sichuan noodles. All that changed when his daughter, Gracie, was born. Keith and his wife adapted to life with a newborn as all parents do: walking around in...
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Eat the City
A Tale of the Fishers, Foragers, Butchers, Farmers, Poultry Minders, Sugar Refiners, Cane Cutters, Beekeepers, Winemakers, and Brewers Who Built New York
Written by Robin Shulman
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $26.00
New York is not a city for growing and manufacturing food. It’s a money and real estate city, with less naked earth and industry than high-rise glass and concrete. Yet in this intimate, visceral, and beautifully written book, Robin Shulman introduces the people of New York City - both past and...
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Eat the City
A Tale of the Fishers, Foragers, Butchers, Farmers, Poultry Minders, Sugar Refiners, Cane Cutters, Beekeepers, Winemakers, and Brewers Who Built New York
Written by Robin Shulman
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: July 10, 2012
Price: $11.99
New York is not a city for growing and manufacturing food. It’s a money and real estate city, with less naked earth and industry than high-rise glass and concrete. Yet in this intimate, visceral, and beautifully written book, Robin Shulman introduces the people of New York City - both past and...
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How to Eat a Small Country
A Family's Pursuit of Happiness, One Meal at a Time
Written by Amy Finley
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: July 3, 2012
Price: $14.00
"
How to Eat a Small Country shares a few key traits with Elizabeth Gilbert’s
Eat, Pray, Love in particular an infectiously likeable narrator and mouthwatering descriptions of European food. But Finley’s memoir is less precious, more honest, and ultimately more rewarding." -- Boston Globe
A professionally trained cook turned stay-at-home mom, Amy Finley decided...
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Jasmine and Fire
A Bittersweet Year in Beirut
Written by Salma Abdelnour
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $14.00
As Beirut exploded with the bombs and violence of a ruthless civil war in the ’80s, a nine-year-old Salma Abdelnour and her family fled Lebanon to start a new life in the States. Ever since then— even as she built a thriving career as a food and travel writer in New...
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Jasmine and Fire
A Bittersweet Year in Beirut
Written by Salma Abdelnour
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $9.99
As Beirut exploded with the bombs and violence of a ruthless civil war in the ’80s, a nine-year-old Salma Abdelnour and her family fled Lebanon to start a new life in the States. Ever since then— even as she built a thriving career as a food and travel writer in New...
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Apron Anxiety
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...
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