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 Best Food Writing 2000 (Best Food Writing)Best Price: $5.43 This is my favorite volume of the Best of Food Writing series so far (late 2003). It introduced... |  Crazy in the Kitchen: Food, Feuds, and Forgiveness in an Italian American FamilyBest Price: $5.00 I usually do not put aside a book before finishing it. In this case, I got about a third of the... |  The Taste Is in My Mouth a Little... Lincoln's Victuals and PotablesBest Price: $39.95 Written by an internationally recognized and award-winning scholar especially known for his... |  Food and Cooking in Victorian England: A History (Victorian Life and Times)Best Price: $35.95 I do NOT work for any book company that's trying to pump sales of a book & I found this book... |  Estonian Tastes And Traditions (Hippocrene Cookbook Library)Best Price: $14.00 I expected authentic Estonian recipes; what I got was an Americanized version of recipes cooked... |
 Culture of the ForkBest Price: $8.75 Constantinople went Muslim on May 29, 1453. America went Spanish on October 12, 1492. Months... |  The Eaten Word: The Language of Food, the Food in Our LanguageA fascinating study of the link between food and language. Incredible. I laughed, cried, danced... |  The Cooking Club Cookbook: Six Friends Show You How to Bake, Broil, and BondBest Price: $3.50 I don't have a cooking club and I've never made all of the recipes in a chapter for a dinner... |  Encarnaci?n's Kitchen: Mexican Recipes from Nineteenth-Century California (California Studies in Food and Culture)Best Price: $2.98 Until recent history, women rarely wrote their own stories for the history books, men did. This... |  Mountain Spirits: A Chronicle of Corn Whiskey from King James' Ulster Plantation to America's Appalachians and the Moonshine LifeBest Price: $8.85 The people of Scotland and Ireland have long been known for their whiskey (whisky if you are a... |
 Fabulous Feasts: Medieval Cookery and CeremonyBest Price: $16.99 I cook, a lot. I am a historical interpreter and a 15th century re-enactor, and I love the taste... |  Good Old Days in the Kitchen (Good Ole Days)Best Price: $5.95 Good old days in the kitchen is a compilation of stories from readers which center around food... |  Bruculinu, America: Remembrances of Sicilian-American Brooklyn, Told in Stories and RecipesBest Price: $55.00 I grew up in this neighborhood during the time he speaks about, and it was exactly as he... |  Chocolate Fads, Folklore, & Fantasies: 1,000+ Chunks of Chocolate InformationBest Price: $3.95 Chocolate Fads, Folklore & Fantasies is the low-cal answer to satisfying chocolate cravings.... |  The Self-Published Cook: How to Write, Publish and Sell Your Own CookbookBest Price: $274.55 If I had to choose two main books which discuss publishing a cookbook, this would be one of... |
 Wines of the South of France: From Banyuls to St. Raphael (Classic Wine Library)Best Price: $26.86 Known for its dramatic landscapes, the south of France is home to some of the most vibrant and... |  The Taste of America (The Food Series)Best Price: $12.29 What a delight to find this amazing classic back in print, in a reprint edition with new... |  Terrors of the Table: The Curious History of Nutrition (Core Texts)Best Price: $5.15 Vitalism is a profoundly science-ejected concept, though many CAM or 'natural health' cabals... |  Food Finds: America's Best Local Foods and the People Who Produce ThemBest Price: $1.99 Extremely well written survey of various small out-of-the-way artisan specialty food... |  The Book of Tea (Book Of...)Best Price: $189.31 Saw this book on the counter of a wonderful new tea shop in Boston, and stayed for two hours... |
 Tea: The Drink That Changed the WorldBest Price: $13.75 A study of the phenomenon as well as the commodity, this is a comprehensive survey of the drink... |  La Varenne's Cookery: The French Cook, The French Pastry Chef, The French ConfectionerBest Price: $65.05 These three books by Francois Pierre de la Varenne (c. 1615-1678), who was chef to the Marquis... |  Consider The Eel: A Natural And Gastronomic HistoryBest Price: $2.86 Sure eels are slimy and weird, but that doesn't mean you can't learn to love them! Read this... |  A Late Dinner: Discovering the Food of SpainBest Price: $5.00 Vivid and richly textured, A Late Dinner is a delightful journey through Spain and Spanish... |  The Three Chimneys: Recipes & Reflections from the Isle of Skye's World Famous RestaurantBest Price: $24.52 Visiting Scotland last summer, we were lucky enough to reserve a table at this remote and... |
 The Ivy - The Restaurant and Its RecipesBest Price: $33.31 I love this book. If you're looking for a cookbook - this isn't it. But if you're looking for... |  Burgundy Stars: A Year in the Life of a Great French RestaurantHow can Echikson--let alone his publisher--make so many mistakes? Starting with the French word... |  Mariage Freres: French TeaBest Price: $31.50 Only the French can take tea to an exaulted level. Revel in the details about the various types... |  M.F.K. Fisher and Me: A Memoir of Food and FriendshipBest Price: $3.83 Yes, when a personality rivets one - and haven't we all been there - any close up look into... |  The Wines of Argentina, Chile, And Latin America (Classic Wine Library)Best Price: $19.76 This book, published by Faber & Faber, is poorly structured and edited-not up to the usually... |
 Rover's: Recipes from Seattle's Chef in the HatBest Price: $14.99 Ever since I first dined at Rover's, 12 years ago, it has been my favorite restaurant, and the... |  ApplesBest Price: $12.87 Frank Browning's Apples is fascinating. Until I read the book, I never knew the complexity of... |  Harvest of the Cold Months: The Social History of Ice and IcesBest Price: $25.27 A seminal food writer, Elizabeth David brought Mediterranean cuisine to English readers and... |  From Hardtack to Homefries: An Uncommon History of American Cooks and MealsBest Price: $2.88 Some of the history here was interesting.... although she drones on and on about Eleanor... |  Kitchen Essays (Persephone Classics)Best Price: $10.20 "Three cheers to Persephone Books for publishing this witty, sharp writer, nostalgic but... |
 Between Two Fires: Intimate Writings on Life, Love, Food, and FlavorBest Price: $3.95 I totally enjoyed this book, though I had to read it twice to really let it all sink in. At... |  Chateau LatourBest Price: $44.50 Love this book. I wanted to get my husband some nice coffee table style books for the top of our... |  The Ungarnished Truth: A Cooking Contest MemoirBest Price: $1.80 This book was a delight to read. I cook, but not as a compulsive, over-enthusiastic chef. Thus,... |  Van Gogh's Table at the Auberge Ravoux: Recipes From the Artist's Last Home and Paintings of Cafe LifeBest Price: $15.00 In Vincent Van Gogh's brief 37 years, he resided in at least 38 locations spread among four... |  Kitchen Science: A Guide to Knowing the Hows and Whys for Fun and Success in the KitchenBest Price: $6.95 Howard Hillman's "Kitchen Science" and Robert Wolke's "What Einstein Told His... |
 A Chef in ProvenceBest Price: $14.98 I worked for Chef Loubet in Bonnieux at his restaurant Bastide de Capelongue. He is a man who... |  Sweet Dough PieBest Price: $7.13 You've never read a cookbook quite like this one! Featuring just one recipe, H. Kent Aguillard's... |  Stories And Recipes of the Great Depression of the 1930's, Volume IV (Stories & Recipes of the Great Depression)Best Price: $17.95 This book has older recipes that dont use a lot of artifical or convience foods. Also included... |  Romancing the Stove: Celebrated Recipes and Delicious Fun for Every Kitchen GoddessBest Price: $7.40 Who ever reads a cookbook? I used my cookbooks to find recipes and skip through all the fluff. ... |  Candy: The Sweet HistoryBest Price: $6.77 I saw Beth Kimmerle on a Food TV special about candy and thought she had an amazing job. A candy... |
 Forklore: Recipes and Tales from an American BistroBest Price: $20.99 Forklore is a collection of recipes and stories from Ellen Yin, one of the leading... |  A Revolution in Taste: The Rise of French Cuisine, 1650-1800Best Price: $21.12 Modern French habits of cooking, eating, and drinking were born in the Ancien Regime, radically... |  Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century (Modern Library Food)Best Price: $10.00 This is a "must read" for anyone who fancies themself a chef, professional or... |  A History of Wine in America: From Prohibition to the PresentBest Price: $56.78 A History of Wine in America is the definitive account of winemaking in the United States,... |  Rooted in America: Foodlore of Popular Fruits and VegetablesBest Price: $16.95 This book is a fascinating study of the historical and cultural contexts for everyday foods. ... |
 Feast or Famine: Food and Drink in American Westward ExpansionBest Price: $39.95 This first comprehensive account of food and drink in the winning of the West describes the... |  The Provence Of Alain DucasseBest Price: $27.93 A very pretty coffee table book with very little substance, kind of like a dumb supermodel. |  Eating for Victory: Healthy Home Front Cooking on War Rations (Official Wwii Info Reproductns)Best Price: $12.82 Food rationing was introduced in England in January 1940 after supply ships were attacked by... |  Cook Until Desired TendernessBest Price: $1.98 This book is unique, refreshing, and fun. Sugar's insights are intriguing, novel,... |  The Philosopher Fish: Sturgeon, Caviar, and the Geography of DesireBest Price: $1.37 In THE PHILOSOPHER FISH, Richard Adams Carey has written an epic chronicle of the sturgeon--a... |
 Gatherings and CelebrationsBest Price: $10.00 Not-too-complicated recipes are preceded by a description of the occasion surrounding each... |  Food: A Taste of the Road (Travelers' Tales)Best Price: $10.95 As a new, first-time parent, I expected that my poor, sleep-deprived brain wouldn't be fully... |  The Cheeses of Vermont: A Gourmet Guide to Vermont's Artisanal CheesemakersBest Price: $8.65 Henry Tewksbury spent the better part of his career as Peter Tewksbury in California, where he... |  Art of the Inner Meal: Eating as a Spiritual PathBest Price: $16.00 The author's study of the food traditions of 4 major religions and the use as a path to a more... | |
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