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 Retro Diner: Comfort Food from the American RoadsideBest Price: $7.98 It's a colorful, fun-to-read book with a lot of basics. Meatloaf, biscuits, stuff that's good... |  Caviar: The Strange History and Uncertain Future of the World's Most Coveted DelicacyBest Price: $4.79 I know nothing about caviar or sturgeon, but subject matter aside, this is one of the most... |  Endless Feasts: Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet (Modern Library Food)Best Price: $6.79 The best of writing from the Gourmet Magazine of the 60's and 70's. Writing from the Goumet we... |  Food Wine Budapest (The Terroir Guides)Best Price: $14.87 I bought this book for an upcoming trip to Budapest, because I am a foodie and I want to know... |  Good Bread Is Back: A Contemporary History of French Bread, the Way It Is Made, and the People Who Make ItBest Price: $16.75 Good Bread Is Back is a beautifully illustrated book for foodies and Francophiles alike. Widely... |
 A Mediterranean Feast: The Story of the Birth of the Celebrated Cuisines of the Mediterranean from the Merchants of Venice to the Barbary Corsairs, with More than 500 RecipesBest Price: $22.27 This is one of those cookbooks you buy for pleasure. Not to cook from, but to actually learn... |  Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well (Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library)Best Price: $29.68 The product was recommended to me by a friend from Italy who said her mother had one of the... |  The Curious Cook: More Kitchen Science and LoreBest Price: $49.95 I loved his first book On Food and Cooking and I enjoyed this one. I made my living in the... |  The Foods of Israel TodayBest Price: $21.14 Foods of Israel Today is a fantastic book. My husband and chef did not want to return the... |  Alcoholica Esoterica: A Collection of Useful and Useless Information As It Relates to the History andConsumption of All Manner of BoozeBest Price: $6.96 This was a fun book to read and reread from cover to cover. Each chapter was entertaining and... |
 Dori Sanders' Country Cooking: Recipes and Stories from the Family Farm StandBest Price: $4.94 I stumbled upon Dori Sanders one day, picking up a copy of Clover on a whim. What I discovered... |  City Tavern Cookbook: Two Hundred Years Of Classic Recipes From America's First Gourmet RestaurantBest Price: $4.84 Have you ever been to Philadelphia? If so, have you dined at City Tavern? If not, you might... |  Dee's Mighty Cookbook: Tasty Cuisine for Flourless and Sugarless LivingIf you have seen this book in a health food store, you may have dismissed it as something that... |  Wine Food & FriendsBest Price: $3.00 I have already commented on the virtues of this book which influenced me to prefer it over the... |  Gordon Ramsay: The BiographyBest Price: $12.89 If this biography was a dish on one of the episodes of Hell's Kitchen, Chef Ramsay would have... |
 The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 7: Foodways (New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture)Best Price: $12.38 I have the original "Encyclopedia of Southern Culture," and I am delighted to see that... |  Monet's Table: The Cooking Journals of Claude MonetBest Price: $13.48 This is the most spectacular cook book I have ever seen, splashed with the colours of Monet's... |  The Wines of Hungary (Classic Wine Library)Best Price: $10.87 This is a stellar book on the most difficult of the major wine producing countries to study (up... |  The Breakfast Cereal GourmetBest Price: $8.50 Cereal. It's not just comfort food or for breakfast anymore. The "Breakfast of... |  Arab/American: Landscape, Culture, and Cuisine in Two Great DesertsBest Price: $10.96 The landscapes, cultures, and cuisines of deserts in the Middle East and North America have... |
 Sound Bites: Eating on Tour with Franz FerdinandBest Price: $5.98 This collection is great for people who are into food, but not "foodies". I.e.,... |  Adventures of an Italian Food Lover: With Recipes from 254 of My Very Best FriendsBest Price: $13.99 "Adventures Of An Italian Food Lover: With Recipes From 254 Of My Very Best Friends"... |  Best Food Writing 2005 (Best Food Writing)Best Price: $1.99 Established food writers as well as newcomers who are passionate about foods grace the pages of... |  Cafe BeaujolaisBest Price: $49.98 I have owned this book for almost twenty years and it is a great breakfast cookbook. |  Endangered Recipes: Too Good to Be ForgottenBest Price: $11.85 just a wonderfully written, delightful recipe boodk. I savored each page for it's stories, ... |
 Choice Cuts: A Savory Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout HistoryBest Price: $4.08 This collection of essays is a must-read for anyone who loves food and loves reading about food. |  Cultural Foods: Traditions and TrendsBest Price: $49.00 I bought this book as I am studying to become a Nutrition Assistant, one of the possible job... |  Great American Beer: 50 Brands That Shaped the 20th CenturyBest Price: $10.70 Gave a little idea of the original beer brewers and what happened to the other ones. What... |  Michael Broadbent's Vintage WineBest Price: $17.38 There is no other referance book like it. Admittedly a very personalized review of wines that... |  The Big Oyster: History on the Half ShellBest Price: $12.60 I'll grant that Mark Kurlansky did his homework.He provides an extensive Bibliography and the... |
 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... |  Guinness: The 250 Year Quest for the Perfect PintBest Price: $5.93 This a great addition to any Guinness Enthusiast's collection!! It's a very informative book... |  All the Presidents' Pastries: Twenty-Five Years in the White House, A MemoirBest Price: $12.47 Roland did a perfect job detailing every event he baked for. Without favoring or dishing any... |  Second Helpings of Roast ChickenBest Price: $16.47 Like Mr. Hopkinson, I am Bury born and bred. My mother shopped at the same tripe shop as his... |  The Lewis & Clark Cookbook: Historic Recipes from the Corps of Discoveryand Jefferson's America (Lewis & Clark Expedition)Best Price: $2.94 My husband and I love this cookbook. It's our go-to book for really delicious fare. We make... |
 Savage Barbecue: Race, Culture, and the Invention of America's First FoodBest Price: $13.75 Barbecue is a word that means different things to different people. It can be a verb or a noun.... |  The Medieval Kitchen: Recipes from France and ItalyBest Price: $14.48 This book is as good as all the other reviewers say, but didn't they eat breakfast in the Middle... |  Turquoise: A Chef's Travels in TurkeyBest Price: $31.50 With terrain from rugged mountains to idyllic coastline Turkey has become a sought-after travel... |  Wine AppreciationBest Price: $59.50 I also took Dr. Vine's class at Purdue and worked for his enologist, Ellie Harkness. Dr. Vine's... |  The Way of Tea: The Sublime Art of Oriental Tea DrinkingBest Price: $5.66 The Way of Tea is a very nice primer about, as it states, "the sublime art of oriental tea... |
 Cheeses of the WorldBest Price: $20.00 This is a large scale book fit for your coffee table. The photographs are gorgeous, with the... |  Cornbread Nation 1: The Best of Southern Food WritingBest Price: $7.87 I truly could not put this book down. My daughter gave this book to me for my birthday last... |  Clementine in the Kitchen (Modern Library Food)Best Price: $7.06 I don't need to recount the synopsis: a tr?s jolie vignette of the life of an ex-pat American... |  Backstage with Julia: My Years with Julia ChildBest Price: $4.50 I picked up this boook as I had enjoyed other books about Julia Child and this did not... |  Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its CookingBest Price: $18.74 Though being terribly fond of food, I have absolutely no interest in its preparation. Having... |
 Wine from Grape to GlassBest Price: $25.60 I manage an online multimedia class on Wine Appreciation and this book is the benchmark. ... |  The Reach of a Chef: Professional Cooks in the Age of CelebrityBest Price: $6.09 When Ruhlman sticks to descriptions of the working of a restaurant kitchen, the food, and the... |  From Here, You Can't See Paris: Seasons of a French Village and Its RestaurantBest Price: $2.93 Sanders has captured the life in a small French village and its wonderful restaurant. My wife,... |  Noble Rot: A Bordeaux Wine RevolutionBest Price: $12.95 This book covered the latest changes in Bordeaux in the wine business with emphasis on the... |  Bavarian Lager: Beerhall Helles History, Brewing Techniques, Recipes (Classic Beer Style Series, 17.)Best Price: $8.66 Dornsbusch has written in my opinion one of the best of the Classic Beer Series. Bavarian... |
 Extreme Cuisine: The Weird & Wonderful Foods that People EatBest Price: $10.00 Fascinating reading! In my travels I thought I had seen a lot of strange culinary customs but... |  Salt: A World HistoryBest Price: $19.94 Salt is an intriguing book with personal adventures and comical thoughts of the effect that the... |  Altbier: History, Brewing Techniques, Recipes (Classic Beer Style Series, 12)Best Price: $7.50 Being a homebrewer for 4 years, I have found that Brewers Publications' Classic Beer Styles... |  Remembrance of Things Paris: Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet (Modern Library Food)Best Price: $8.59 What a great opportunity to learn more about the Paris I love, and French food which I do not... |  Unmentionable CuisineBest Price: $22.05 That's all it is. A 30 year old cookbook. Although the publication is a reprint the statistics... |
 Real Women Eat ChilesBest Price: $12.29 I am an individual who not only uses cook books but actually reads them from cover to cover. ... |  Fine Preserving M F K Fishers Annotated |  White Dog Cafe Cookbook: Multicultural Recipes And Tales Of Advenutre From Philadelphia's Revolutionary RestaurantBest Price: $11.90 It is rare that I feel the need to write a cookbook review. I own quite a few cookbooks, and... | ||
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