From the legendary editor who helped shape modern cookbook publishing—one of the food worldÕs most admired figures—an evocative and inspiring memoir.
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Full of terroir and flavor, svelte personalities, and keen insight into the trade, these irresistible essays are for anyone enthralled by the manifold pleasures of wine.
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Climbing the Mango Trees is both an enormously appealing account of an unusual childhood and a testament to the power of food to evoke memory. And, at the end, this treasure of a book contains a secret ingredientÑmore than thirty family recipes recovered from MadhurÕs childhood, which she now shares with us.
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Here is a charming, beautifully illustrated tour de table: a food lover's companion that, with an entry for each day of the year, takes us from a Twelfth Night cake in January to a champagne dinner on New Year's Eve. Life Is Meals is rich with culinary wisdom, history, recipes, literary pleasures, and the authors' own memories of successes and catastrophes.
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An indispensable, richly informative, and always entertaining sourcebook on Provence by the writer who has made the region his own.
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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.'
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Eating and drinking and the rituals that go with them are at least as important as loving in most people's lives, yet for every hundred anthologies of poems about love, hardly one is devoted to the pleasures of the table. Eat, Drink, and Be Merry abundantly fills the gap.