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 Peeling the Wild OnionBest Price: $21.86 I am particularly partial to Jr. League Cookbooks, and this one was okay, but guess since I am a... |  Ray's Boathouse: Seafood Secrets of the Pacific NorthwestBest Price: $23.76 Not only is this a beautiful book but very informative about the Pacific Northwest's bounty of... |  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... |  Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery and Booke of SweetmeatsBest Price: $27.00 I stumbled upon this book when I was visiting Mt. Vernon for the first time a few years ago. It... |  Clementine in the Kitchen (Modern Library Food)Best Price: $7.04 I don't need to recount the synopsis: a tr?s jolie vignette of the life of an ex-pat American... |
 Feast: Why Humans Share FoodBest Price: $17.24 Jones has real talent as an essayist, but as a science writer he sacrifices clarity and... |  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. ... |  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... |  Vanilla: The Cultural History of the World's Favorite Flavor and FragranceBest Price: $3.25 Vanilla is the only member of the orchid family, a family consisting of 90,000+ types, that has... |  Scotch Ale (Classic Beer Style Series)Best Price: $7.07 Scotch ale can be very different from English ale, and is typically higher gravity, lower... |
 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... |  Sherry: Mitchell Beazley Classic Wine LibraryBest Price: $17.27 If you REALLY want to know about sherry then purchase this. Sherry is difficult to learn about... |  Cafe BeaujolaisBest Price: $49.98 I have owned this book for almost twenty years and it is a great breakfast cookbook. |  Six Thousand Years of Bread: Its Holy and Unholy HistoryBest Price: $8.88 This is a very interesting book which sets forth the impact that bread has throughout history,... |  How to Feed Friends and Influence People: The Carnegie Deli...A Giant Sandwich, a Little Deli, a Huge SuccessBest Price: $6.00 Not quite a "must read" for deli lovers and lovers of New York City, but close... ... |
 The Ungarnished Truth: A Cooking Contest MemoirBest Price: $2.58 This memoir, "The Ungarnished Truth" was a delightful surprise. Ellie Mathews tells it... |  Eating in Italy: A Traveler's Guide to the Hidden Gastronomic Pleasures of Northern ItalyBest Price: $6.95 I have this book and didn't find it terribly interesting. When I went to Italy, I didn't stay in... |  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... |  Many Beautiful Things: Stories and Recipes from Polizzi GenerosaBest Price: $6.41 I happened to pick this book up while needing something to read on a traveling layover. I... |  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... |
 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... |  Gordon Ramsay: The BiographyBest Price: $12.92 If this biography was a dish on one of the episodes of Hell's Kitchen, Chef Ramsay would have... |  Roman Cookery: Ancient Recipes for Modern KitchensBest Price: $8.94 I got this book to compliment my other cookbook "A Taste of Ancient Rome". It's a... |  A Bite Off Mama's Plate: Mothers' and Daughters' Connections through FoodBest Price: $8.07 A Bite off Mama's Plate is a trip through time and into every woman's heart. Each chapter will... |  Rover's: Recipes from Seattle's Chef in the HatBest Price: $10.00 Ever since I first dined at Rover's, 12 years ago, it has been my favorite restaurant, and the... |
 Fragrant Rice: My Continuing Love Affair with BaliBest Price: $11.71 I enjoyed this book although I often wondered why. Were the occassional strange sentence... |  The Philosopher's Kitchen: Recipes from Ancient Greece and Rome for the Modern CookBest Price: $14.95 Because of my interest in ancient Greece, I received this book not once, but twice, as a... |  The Food Lover's Guide to the Gourmet Secrets of ParisBest Price: $27.28 Beautiful photography, informative and great food and site to visit and shop at. Many places I... |  The Unprejudiced Palate: Classic Thoughts on Food and the Good Life (Modern Library Food)Best Price: $7.62 It's intimidating to weigh in here with a less than stellar review (if three stars qualify as... |  Bruculinu, America: Remembrances of Sicilian-American Brooklyn, Told in Stories and RecipesI grew up in this neighborhood during the time he speaks about, and it was exactly as he... |
 Everybody Eats There: Inside The World's Legendary RestaurantsBest Price: $0.01 "Everybody eats there" is the best dinner party gift I have ever come across. Well... |  The Artful Eater: A Gourmet Investigates the Ingredients of Great FoodBest Price: $14.96 The best book on food, eating, etc, I have ever read. There are 18 chapters on 18 different... |  A Stew or a Story: An Assortment of Short WorksBest Price: $3.60 If you like food you wiil love this book. It's not the recipes, it's the love that oozes out of... |  The Taste of Sweet: Our Complicated Love Affair with Our Favorite TreatsBest Price: $12.47 About: Chen writes about all things sweet. Sugar, fake sugar, how we taste sweetness, the... |  Beer: A History of Brewing in ChicagoBest Price: $10.96 Excellent book that ties all the stories/legends one might have heard while living in... |
 Resource Guide for Food WritersBest Price: $23.35 This book is extremely thorough - a wealth of information. Gary Allen certainly did 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... |  The Measure of Her Powers: An M.F.K. Fisher ReaderBest Price: $6.71 This book of autobiographical essays is the best introduction to the writings of M.F.K. Fisher... |  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... |  The Food Lover's Guide to Seattle (Food Lovers' Guide to Seattle)Best Price: $3.13 I am a dislocated Appalachian that took the food bull of Seattle by the horns, but that was... |
 Raising Steaks: The Life and Times of American BeefBest Price: $17.16 In Raising Steaks, Betty Fussell saddles up for a spirited ride across America on the trail of... |  The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism from 1600 to Modern TimesBest Price: $11.18 Readers, take note of a few things - Though the author comes up eventually in favor of cutting... |  Favorite Recipes From QuiltersBest Price: $4.97 The most used cookbook in my house---my daughter recently moved out and said that is the one... |  Tea: The Drink That Changed the WorldBest Price: $18.67 A study of the phenomenon as well as the commodity, this is a comprehensive survey of the drink... |  Soul of a ChefBest Price: $48.55 Here, Ruhlman returns to continue the journey that began with The Making of a Chef, albeit this... |
 Bitter Harvest : A Chef's Perspective on the Hidden Danger in the Foods We Eat and What You Can Do About ItBest Price: $19.95 This book focuses on sustainability, safety, and nutrition in the food we eat. There are a lot... |  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... |  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 Classical CookbookBest Price: $12.00 Excellent book for both its recipes (easy to follow with directions given for both the English... |  Two for the Road: Our Love Affair with American FoodBest Price: $2.47 I had read and heard exerpts from this book in different media, and was happy to finally find... |
 Beeton's Book of Household Management, 1861 (Southover Historic Cookery & Housekeeping Series)Best Price: $39.96 The original edition of this book was owned by my grandmother and when I saw it here at... |  The World Is a Kitchen: Cooking Your Way Through CultureBest Price: $4.69 It was an honor to contribute an essay to "The World Is a Kitchen," and the joy grows.... |  Eat This!: 1,001 Things to Eat Before You DietBest Price: $2.86 This book serves well if you want to learn about US region cooking, if you are traveling and... |  The Cambridge World History of Food (2-Volume Set)Best Price: $137.31 This is a tremendously expensive reference that one should expect to be trustworthy. But it... |  Union Oyster House Cookbook: Recipes and History from America's Oldest RestaurantBest Price: $7.24 Now for the very first time, America's oldest restaurant offers its history and traditional... |
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