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 The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four MealsBest Price: $8.49 The Omnivore's Dilemma should be required reading for every single American, period. American... |  The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese FoodBest Price: $12.99 What a great adventure it must have been to do the research for this book. Of course, speaking... |  On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the KitchenBest Price: $23.33 This is the most thorough scientific explanation on the subject. Excellent; should be... |  The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious RevolutionBest Price: $21.25 A was expecting a lot more Alice and less recipes. And the recipes are all pretty pedestrian,... |  Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and DrinkBest Price: $17.28 In praising Secret Ingredients, I'm torn between praising the writing style or the content more... |
 The Splendid Table's How to Eat Supper: Recipes, Stories, and Opinions from Public Radio's Award-Winning Food ShowBest Price: $22.37 Just when you thought the last thing the world needed was another book on weeknight cooking,... |  The Silver SpoonBest Price: $25.32 There are so many cookbooks out there!! It seems that every day a few new cookbooks are... |  Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany (Vintage)Best Price: $8.00 The success of the Food Network has shown the affinity Americans have for cooking. It might be... |  My Life in FranceBest Price: $5.43 This was a wonderful memoir about Julia Child. I especially found it interesting that she fell... |  The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and BonesBest Price: $8.40 this book is great a must read for anyone with intrest in the food industry |
 My Last Supper: 50 Great Chefs and Their Final Meals / Portraits, Interviews, and RecipesBest Price: $20.90 This is a "must" for all the gastronomes out there! This is not "required"... |  Kitchen Table Wisdom 10th AnniversaryBest Price: $8.65 Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal I was given a copy of this book by a colleague many... |  Alice Waters and Chez PanisseBest Price: $7.50 ...book about a woman and her restaurant - constantly on the verge of going broke in the early... |  Molecular Gastronomy: Exploring the Science of Flavor (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)Best Price: $18.99 After reading the Italian translation a coupe of years ago, I was so much hoping for an English... |  No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty StomachBest Price: $19.99 If you're new to the works of Anthony Bourdain as well as his Travel Channel TV show "No... |
 Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the TableBest Price: $3.20 I loved reading Tender at the Bone. I felt like I had found a new girlfriend and I was 19 again... |  Roast Chicken And Other StoriesBest Price: $14.00 I read an article about this book and thought it was a novel; only when I ordered and received... |  American Pie: My Search for the Perfect PizzaBest Price: $17.44 I won't say too much about the book since so many people have already described the book so... |  My Bombay Kitchen: Traditional and Modern Parsi Home CookingBest Price: $17.34 Anyone who loves parsi must get this book. I enjoyed preparing and serving the dishes to my... |  Things Cooks Love: Implements, Ingredients, RecipesBest Price: $21.95 I really enjoyed this book. It was so much more than pretty pictures like most of the cookbooks... |
 Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in ChinaBest Price: $16.47 A new memoir by the most talented and respected British food writer of her generation. ... |  What Einstein Told His Cook: Kitchen Science ExplainedBest Price: $13.95 Full of trivia as well as little morsels of fact everyone wonders about. Completely worth the... |  The Man Who Ate EverythingBest Price: $5.93 Mr. Steingarten should be awarded for writing this book. I searched in vain for an email... |  The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking SchoolBest Price: $8.58 I bought this book based on the glowing reviews it received on this site. After all, it... |  The Story of Tea: A Cultural History and Drinking GuideBest Price: $19.47 This is, hands down, the most authoritative text on tea to date. It is in the same league as... |
 He Said Beer, She Said Wine: Impassioned Food Pairings to Debate and Enjoy -- From Burgers to Brie and BeyondBest Price: $12.40 He Said Beer, She Said Wine succeeds on so many levels. Marnie and Sam provide the precise... |  Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human EvolutionBest Price: $11.27 Spirit This book is a clear and cogent discussion around the most amazing substances ever to... |  The Hamburger: A History (Icons of America)Best Price: $14.96 What do Americans think of when they think of the hamburger? A robust, succulent spheroid of... |  Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans TableBest Price: $11.99 If you read only one book about New Orleans, it should be this one. Sara Roahen's love of the... |  A Geography of Oysters: The Connoisseur's Guide to Oyster Eating in North AmericaBest Price: $12.47 It is salty, sultry and seductive and it is always cause for a celebration." Rowan... |
 I'm Just Here for the Food: Food + Heat = CookingBest Price: $15.00 I love this book. This is not a typical cookbook. This book teaches you the principles of... |  Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India (Vintage)Best Price: $8.30 Madhur Jaffrey is a personal favorite - I loved her reading of Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance... |  Beard on Food: The Best Recipes and Kitchen Wisdom from the Dean of American CookingBest Price: $15.29 There was a time when we had real chefs and food writers in America - authentic professionals... |  Kitchen Mysteries: Revealing the Science of Cooking (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)Best Price: $14.00 In culinary science, dominated by Harold McGee's lucid and entertaining "On Food and... |  The Art of EatingBest Price: $12.63 I thought this book was interesting. Our book group also read "The Omnivore's... |
 On Cooking: A Textbook of Culinary Fundamentals (4th Edition) Textbook onlyBest Price: $75.35 If you are interested in cooking you will love this book. Anything and everything that has to... |  Japanese Cooking: A Simple ArtBest Price: $26.49 I wanted a book with a lot of information and recipes. Too many cook books are filled with... |  Imbibe!: From Absinthe Cocktail to Whiskey Smash, a Salute in Stories and Drinks to "Professor" Jerry Thomas, Pioneer of the American Bar Featuring the OriginaBest Price: $12.97 This is perhaps the best cocktail book written since The Fine Art Of Mixing Drinks, astoundingly... |  Food: The History of Taste (California Studies in Food and Culture)Best Price: $24.91 I don't typically purchase hardbacks - other than coffee table books, I'll wait for paperback,... |  The United States of Arugula: The Sun Dried, Cold Pressed, Dark Roasted, Extra Virgin Story of the American Food RevolutionBest Price: $6.75 This is half of a great book on how food evolved in America in the last 50 years, full of... |
 Spice: The History of a TemptationBest Price: $8.41 This is a good intro book, but it could certainly be better. The main problems with this book... |  How to Eat: The Pleasures and Principles of Good FoodBest Price: $11.63 Nigella Lawson's "How to Eat" isn't the kind of book you might typically expect from a... |  Becoming a ChefBest Price: $15.48 This book takes you in-depth into the life and passion of a chef using well-known chefs as... |  The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken: A Search for Food and FamilyBest Price: $15.18 Schenone has written a mesmerizing meditation on food that is a mystery, a memoir and a love... |  Southern Belly: The Ultimate Food Lover's Companion to the SouthBest Price: $1.63 John T. Edge, "the Faulkner of Southern food" (the Miami Herald ), reveals a South... |
 A History of the World in 6 GlassesBest Price: $7.95 My 15 year old son had to read this book for a class at school, and I decided to take a look at... |  Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary UnderbellyBest Price: $11.85 INFORMATIVE AND HILLAROUSLY FUNNY, I HAD TROUBLE PUTTING IT DOWN AND WISHED IT WAS LONGER. WHAT... |  The Gallery of Regrettable FoodBest Price: $13.70 I have the feeling that Lileks could write about garden grubs with the same caustic wit and... |  The Tenth Muse: My Life in FoodBest Price: $11.47 Initially I found this memoir a disappointment. Ms. Jones has done as much as anyone alive to... |  Gastroanomalies: Questionable Culinary Creations from the Golden Age of American CookeryBest Price: $14.78 Mildly amusing. It's easy to write satire about things that are of that age -- but in fact most... |
 The Seventh Daughter: My Culinary Journey from Beijing to San FranciscoBest Price: $21.95 I have not yet tried any recipes -- they all look fantastic -- but this book is worth buying for... |  The Ghirardelli Chocolate Cookbook: Recipes and History from America's Premier Chocolate MakerBest Price: $11.45 Ghiradelli (pronounced: gear-a-deli) chocolate was originally founded by an Italian immigrant,... |  Peace, Love, & Barbecue: Recipes, Secrets, Tall Tales, and Outright Lies from the Legends of BarbecueBest Price: $10.98 Good reading and good recipes. Nice job by one of BBQ's true legends. If you can only afford... |  A Moveable Thirst: Tales and Tastes from a Season in Napa Wine CountryBest Price: $5.91 While this is the 93rd book on wines that I've read since October of 2006, it also ranks as one... |  The True History of Chocolate, Second EditionBest Price: $12.95 Good book, well researched, but not much different to other books written on this subject.... |
 The Food Snob's Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Gastronomical KnowledgeBest Price: $7.28 The foodie mystique unmasked. This book has all the trivia that a real foodie needs to know,... |  Will Write for Food: The Complete Guide to Writing Cookbooks, Restaurant Reviews, Articles, Memoir, Fiction and MoreBest Price: $4.69 In a profession without a road map, this book is essential. A skilled editor, Jacob's tone is at... |  The Berghoff Family Cookbook: From Our Table to Yours, Celebrating a Century of EntertainingBest Price: $18.50 Was one of my favorite restaurants and I was surprised that the book had all my favorite recipes... | ||
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