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 Exotic Brew: The Art of Living in the Age of EnlightenmentBest Price: $20.93 a very decadent look at the lifestyle of EM Italians. I enjoyed the authors style. He really... |  Crazy About Crockery: 101 Easy and Inexpensive Recipes for Less Than $.75 a serving (Crazy about Crockpots!)Best Price: $6.70 Perfect find. We need all the help we can get to save money and make easy meals in this busy world. |  The Cooking Club Cookbook: Six Friends Show You How to Bake, Broil, and BondBest Price: $4.17 I don't have a cooking club and I've never made all of the recipes in a chapter for a dinner... |  Vanilla: Travels in Search of the Ice Cream OrchidBest Price: $3.84 I'm ashamed to admit that the only reason I picked up this book was because of Ecott's last... |  Food and Cooking in Victorian England: A History (Victorian Life and Times)Best Price: $35.96 I do NOT work for any book company that's trying to pump sales of a book & I found this book... |
 Galatoire's: Biography of a BistroBest Price: $79.99 Enjoyable walk through the long run of Galatoire's. Recommended for anyone who has eaten there... |  Ladyfingers and Nun's Tummies: A Lighthearted Look at How Foods Got Their NamesBest Price: $12.51 What naughty joke is tucked inside every loaf of pumpernickel ? Why do we call it a Tootsie... |  Food in Medieval Times (Food through History)Best Price: $50.91 If Scully, Henisch, Bober and Flandrin are household words in your kitchen, you can skip this... |  A Stew or a Story: An Assortment of Short WorksBest Price: $8.49 If you like food you wiil love this book. It's not the recipes, it's the love that oozes out of... |  Eat My Words: Reading Women's Lives Through the Cookbooks They WroteBest Price: $14.26 In "Eat My Words: Reading Women's Lives Through the Cookbooks They Wrote" folklorist... |
 Amarcord: Marcella RemembersBest Price: $20.90 |  The Three Chimneys: Recipes and Reflections from the Isle of Skye's World-famous RestaurantBest Price: $20.00 The Three Chimneys on the Isle of Skye is one of the world's finest restaurants. Award-winning... |  Her Fork in the Road: Women Celebrate Food and Travel (Travelers' Tales Guides)Best Price: $7.99 I love this book. I often pick up books from the Travelers Tales series and this one delivered... |  SPAM: A Biography: The Amazing True Story of America's "Miracle Meat!"Best Price: $4.49 Spam is a luncheon loaf loved by millions and despised by just as many. It's also a food staple... |  Red Wine With Fish: The New Art of Matching Wine With FoodFor anyone seriously interested in pairing food and wine, this is the authoritative book on the... |
 Cheeses of the WorldBest Price: $23.98 This is a large scale book fit for your coffee table. The photographs are gorgeous, with the... |  Candy: The Sweet HistoryBest Price: $7.49 I saw Beth Kimmerle on a Food TV special about candy and thought she had an amazing job. A candy... |  A Goose in Toulouse and other Culinary Adventures in FranceBest Price: $7.71 When I stumbled across this book by pure accident, I read through it from cover to cover... |  All-American Frank:: A History of the Hot DogBest Price: $18.15 Hot dogs were ranked as America?s third-favorite food in 1994 behind pizza and sandwiches. Every... |  Encarnaci?n's Kitchen: Mexican Recipes from Nineteenth-Century California (California Studies in Food and Culture)Best Price: $2.95 Until recent history, women rarely wrote their own stories for the history books, men did. This... |
 Pot on the Fire: Further Exploits of a Renegade CookBest Price: $34.99 I really enjoyed John Thorne's other books, but when I read this one I was bored. He has been... |  Van Gogh's Table: At the Auberge RavouxBest Price: $1.64 This lovely book, a perfect blend of art and cuisine, will satisfy any reader, from the most... |  The Original Fannie Farmer 1896 Cookbook: The Boston Cooking SchoolBest Price: $24.84 |  The Inquisitive Cook (Accidental Scientist)Best Price: $2.95 When I first began reading "The Inquisitive Cook", I was disappointed at its very... |  American Vintage : The Rise of American WineBest Price: $3.69 One of my favorite wine writers is Thomas George Shaw, a very experienced London wine merchant,... |
 Cook Until Desired TendernessBest Price: $2.00 This book is unique, refreshing, and fun. Sugar's insights are intriguing, novel,... |  Fashionable Food: Seven Decades of Food FadsBest Price: $12.26 The reviewer (below) who faulted this book for its inconsistencies has a point. I've noticed the... |  Civil War CkbkBest Price: $15.00 Simple foods from a by gone era that are easy to prepare, and interesting to learn about while... |  How to Feed Friends and Influence People: The Carnegie Deli...A Giant Sandwich, a Little Deli, a Huge SuccessBest Price: $4.00 Not quite a "must read" for deli lovers and lovers of New York City, but close... ... |  The Wines of Hungary (Classic Wine Library)Best Price: $14.00 This is a stellar book on the most difficult of the major wine producing countries to study (up... |
 Caviar: The Definitive GuideBest Price: $4.89 This is a nice book but "The Definitive Guide" subtitle is misleading. This hardcover... |  Grandma's Wartime Baking Book: World War II and the Way We BakedBest Price: $25.12 The previous reviewer did a wonderful job in summarizing the chapters of this book so I will... |  Better Than Homemade: Amazing Food That Changed the Way We EatBest Price: $1.99 This is a retro treat aimed squarely at baby boomers that get a nostalgic rush every time they... |  Food Finds: America's Best Local Foods and the People Who Produce ThemBest Price: $2.30 Extremely well written survey of various small out-of-the-way artisan specialty food... |  The Court of Two Sisters Cookbook: With a History of the French Quarter and the Restaurant by Mel LeavittBest Price: $10.84 The history was very inviting to read. I plan to revisit this section before another visit to... |
 Three Sheets to the Wind: One Man's Quest for the Meaning of BeerBest Price: $15.35 This is the first review I've written on a book... actually on anything. But, I HAD to write... |  The Search for Sushi: A Gastronomic GuideBest Price: $15.42 This is a very nice sushi guide,in Japan and out of it with great advices for places to go eating.. |  Dinner Roles: American Women and Culinary CultureBest Price: $19.94 Who cooks dinner in American homes? It's no surprise that “Mom” remains the... |  The Chocolate Connoisseur: For Everyone With a Passion for ChocolateBest Price: $1.25 I read other posted reviews of this book, then checked it out of the library. Far from being... |  A Revolution In Eating: How the Quest for Food Shaped America (Arts and Traditions of the Table)Best Price: $8.93 The colonization of the United States did not happen in one particular way by any particular set... |
 The Great Book of PearsBest Price: $12.76 Beautiful book in every way - the layout, the artwork, the photographs, the research...and the... |  Fading Feast: A Compendium of Disappearing American Regional Foods (Nonpareil Book, 75.)Best Price: $7.77 This book would be a great gift for anyone who enjoys food and travel. Sokolov's visits with... |  The Historical Cookbook of the American Negro: The Classic Year-Round Celebration of Black Heritage from Emancipation Proclamation Breakfast Cake to Wandering Pilgrim's StewBest Price: $16.00 I love this book for the history and recipe authenticity. To capture the true flavor, sometimes... |  Czechoslovak Culture: Recipes History and Folk ArtsBest Price: $0.60 My ancestry includes Bohemian and there are a plethora of items that cite Czech roots and only a... |  Cuisines of the Southwest: An Illustrated Food HistoryBest Price: $10.25 |
 Wife of the ChefBest Price: $2.68 I'm a chef's wife too and she nails it! Thank goodness we don't run a restaurant together but it... |  Beer & Food: An American HistoryBest Price: $13.95 The timeless combination of America's favorite frothy beverage, with its solid gastronomic... |  Cooking in Europe, 1250-1650 (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series) (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series)Best Price: $45.00 Ever get a yen for hemp seed soup, digestive pottage, carp fritters, jasper of milk, or frog... |  Jamie Confidential: The Biography of Britain's Best-Loved ChefBest Price: $5.47 Jamie Oliver just might be the most popular chef in the world. In just four frantic years,... |  The Food Lover's Guide to Seattle (Food Lovers' Guide to Seattle)Best Price: $0.48 I am a dislocated Appalachian that took the food bull of Seattle by the horns, but that was... |
 Charlemagne's Tablecloth: A Piquant History of FeastingBest Price: $4.73 I enjoyed this book very much. Should be interesting to not only folks that enjoy period... |  Pass the Polenta: And Other Writings from the KitchenBest Price: $6.67 If you love food and cooking, you will adore this well-written and fascinting book. It has some... |  The Food Lover's Guide to the Gourmet Secrets of RomeBest Price: $27.28 I just returned from Rome having read Diane Seed's book prior to my departure. Armed with my... |  Meals and Recipes from Ancient Greece (J. Paul Getty Museum)Best Price: $14.50 Ancient Greek literature contains a wealth of culinary information on everything from etiquette... |  Art, Culture, and Cuisine: Ancient and Medieval GastronomyBest Price: $15.87 I feel in love with this book. This book is well written, keep it in mind it is much more of an... |
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