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Hardcover : $23.95 Buy	French Fried The Culinary Capers Of An American In Paris Harriet Welty Rochefort Thomas Dunne Books "When I think of the French paradox, I remember a lunch with an eighty-five-year-old French woman who was trim and slim and as agile as a twenty-year-old. Her...

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The Potato

How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World

Larry Zuckerman North Point Press

The Potato tells the story of how a humble vegetable, once regarded as trash food, had as revolutionary an impact on Western history as the railroad or the...

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Trade Paperback : $18.99 Buy	The Inquisitive Cook Anne Gardiner; Sue Wilson; The Exploratorium Staff Holt Paperbacks In a light, anecdotal, but highly informative style, seasoned cooking writers reveal the unexpected and always practical science of the kitchen. Covered are...

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The Making of a Chef

Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute of America

Michael Ruhlman Holt Paperbacks

Now in paperback, the eye-opening book that was nominated for a 1998 James Beard Foundation award in the Writing on Food category. In the winter of 1996,...

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Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	An Alphabet for Gourmets M.F.K. Fisher North Point Press In Alphabet for Gourmets, M.F.K. Fisher arranges a selection of her essays in a whimsical way that reveals the breadth and depth of her passion. From A for...

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Outlaw Cook

John Thorne, with Matt Lewis Thorne North Point Press

In essays ranging from his earliest cooking lessons in a cold-water walk-up apartment on New York's Lower East Side to opinions both admiring and acerbic on...

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Simple Cooking

John Thorne North Point Press

John Thorne's classic first collection is filled with straightforward eating, home cooking, vigorous opinions, and the gracefully intelligent writing that...

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Trade Paperback : $30.00 Buy	South Wind Through the Kitchen The Best of Elizabeth David Elizabeth David; Compiled by Jill Norman North Point Press An irresistible, charming, and inspired selection from the work of one of this century's great food writers. Like M.F.K. Fisher and Julia Child, Elizabeth...

Trade Paperback : $13.00 Buy	Serve It Forth M.F.K. Fisher North Point Press In Serve It Forth, her first book, M. F. K. Fisher takes readers on an animated journey through culinary history, beginning with the honey-loving Greeks and...

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Far Flung and Well Fed

The Food Writing of R.W. Apple, Jr.

R. W. Apple Jr. ; Foreword by Corby Kummer St. Martin's Griffin

Celebrated journalist R. W. (“Johnny”) Apple was a veteran political reporter, a New York Times bureau chief and an incisive and prolific writer. But the role...

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Trade Paperback : $14.95 Buy	Ham Biscuits, Hostess Gowns, and Other Southern Specialties An Entertaining Life (with Recipes) Julia Reed St. Martin's Griffin Julia Reed spends a lot of time thinking about ham biscuits. And cornbread and casseroles and the surprisingly modern ease of donning a hostess gown for one’s...

Trade Paperback : $15.99 Buy	Talking with My Mouth Full Crab Cakes, Bundt Cakes, and Other Kitchen Stories Bonny Wolf; Foreword by Scott Turow St. Martin's Griffin “As reassuring as a big bowl of buttery mashed potatoes…a delicious read.” —Library Journal What and how do American families really eat? Bonny Wolf...

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The Man Who Ate the World

In Search of the Perfect Dinner

Jay Rayner Holt Paperbacks

“A hilarious and insightful journey into the world of restaurant meals.”—Mario Batali "Nobody goes to restaurants for nutritional reasons. They go for the...

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Mouth Wide Open

A Cook and His Appetite

John Thorne with Matt Lewis Thorne North Point Press

Ever since his first book, Simple Cooking, and its acclaimed successors, Outlaw Cook, Serious Pig, and Pot on the Fire, John Thorne has been hailed as one of...

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The Year of Eating Dangerously

A Global Adventure in Search of Culinary Extremes

Tom Parker Bowles St. Martin's Griffin

"A bracingly funny writer…Whether he's choking down dog stew in Korea or sipping cobra bile in China, Parker Bowles imbues his odyssey with self-deprecatory...

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Pot on the Fire

Further Confessions of a Renegade Cook

John Thorne with Matt Lewis Thorne North Point Press

Pot on the Fire is the latest collection from "the most enticingly serendipitous voice on the culinary front since Elizabeth David and M.F.K. Fisher"...

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Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	The Gastronomical Me M.F.K. Fisher North Point Press In 1929, a newly married M.F.K. Fisher said goodbye to a milquetoast American culinary upbringing and sailed with her husband to Dijon, where she tasted real...

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Change Comes to Dinner

How Vertical Farmers, Urban Growers, and Other Innovators Are Revolutionizing How America Eats

Katherine Gustafson St. Martin's Griffin

A fascinating exploration of America’s food innovators, that gives us hopeful alternatives to the industrial food system described in works like Michael...

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Locavore U.S.A.

How a local-food economy is changing one community, a chapter from the book Change Comes to Dinner

Katherine Gustafson St. Martin's Griffin

In 1950, at least 70 percent of Montana's food was grown in Montana. Many states used to have robust local-food economies, but that has changed drastically...

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