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 The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious RevolutionBest Price: $20.01 I love this book- it is one of the first guides I reach for in the kitchen when I want to get... |  The Splendid Table's How to Eat Supper: Recipes, Stories, and Opinions from Public Radio's Award-Winning Food ShowBest Price: $17.99 This is the first (and only) cookbook we've ever had which is as much fun to read as a... |  Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and DrinkBest Price: $18.64 I got this book from the library and I was very disappointed. Over the years I have read many... |  Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany (Vintage)Best Price: $5.99 Anyone who has ever worked at a continental-style restaurant should read this book. I picked... |  Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home RemediesBest Price: $4.00 A delightful little book, Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate is almost a modern-day fairy... |
 Mediterranean Summer: A Season on France's Cote d'Azur and Italy's Costa BellaBest Price: $7.35 You don't have to be a sailor or chef to enjoy this book. David Shalleck firmly placed me in... |  Molecular Gastronomy: Exploring the Science of Flavor (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)Best Price: $19.76 As a biochemist, I enjoyed reading this book. The connection of science and cooking is very... |  The Man Who Ate EverythingBest Price: $3.95 Mr. Steingarten should be awarded for writing this book. I searched in vain for an email... |  The Art of EatingBest Price: $11.86 No other writer combines a knowledge of cuisine, history, and social place with such lyricism... |  No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty StomachBest Price: $19.66 This book content is composed of mostly still photos from the television show. There is not... |
 The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness, and the Making of a Great ChefBest Price: $8.80 Interesting story. I like Bourdain, and so I picked this up thinking it might be more of a... |  Alice Waters and Chez PanisseBest Price: $8.46 I just finished the book and although I was engaged in the story the first half of the book, the... |  The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking SchoolBest Price: $1.55 while it is true that certain aspects of this story might strike some readers as unfair or... |  Kitchen Mysteries: Revealing the Science of Cooking (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)Best Price: $14.10 This book contains what the title says it does, however it is not compehensive like On food and... |  The Man Who Ate the World: In Search of the Perfect DinnerBest Price: $11.00 The book was a good read, but it takes a while to get started. Some parts just put me to sleep.... |
 Japanese Cooking: A Simple ArtBest Price: $25.00 This is the only Japanese cookbook you will ever need. As other reviewers have already... |  The True History of Chocolate, Second EditionBest Price: $12.80 I was very disappointed at how the author managed to taint a fascinating story with his own... |  How to Cook a WolfBest Price: $11.15 Ms. Fisher was writing in Europe during WW2; due to wartime rationing and shortages, the wolf... |  Mes Confitures: The Jams and Jellies of Christine FerberBest Price: $18.73 Christine Ferber's artisanal jams at Au Relais des Trois Epis are to die for! This book... |  How to Eat: The Pleasures and Principles of Good FoodBest Price: $3.86 Like many others I bought this book because I'm a fan of Nigella's tv shows. I loved her... |
 The Hamburger: A History (Icons of America)Best Price: $13.87 The history of the hamburger would seem to be a relatively mundane and fairly well known issue.... |  The Tenth Muse: My Life in FoodBest Price: $11.00 I received this book as a Christmas present. The author is a young American who falls in love... |  Home Cooking: A Writer in the KitchenBest Price: $4.85 my very best childhood friend gave me this book last year as a present. i loved reading it. i... |  The Food Snob's Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Gastronomical KnowledgeBest Price: $7.00 The foodie mystique unmasked. This book has all the trivia that a real foodie needs to know,... |  Things Cooks Love: Implements, Ingredients, RecipesBest Price: $12.50 This is a really helpful cookbook which describes cooking implements as well as ingredients both... |
 The United States of Arugula: The Sun Dried, Cold Pressed, Dark Roasted, Extra Virgin Story of the American Food RevolutionBest Price: $5.93 David Kamp sets his treatise, THE UNITED STATES OF ARUGULA, at that precise moment in time when... |  Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful EatingBest Price: $7.53 This book was more about Jane's views on food than on food itself. Good book if you are a fan... |  A Geography of Oysters: The Connoisseur's Guide to Oyster Eating in North AmericaBest Price: $13.96 "A Geography of Oysters" is the guide that I've been looking for. I love raw oysters,... |  Between Meals: An Appetite for ParisBest Price: $7.91 Did anyone ever love Paris, or at least eating in Paris, like Liebling. I share his love for the... |  An Omelette and a Glass of Wine (The Cook's Classic Library)Best Price: $6.94 My mother introduced me to the wonders of Elizabeth David 50 years ago! In her English country... |
 El Bulli 2003-2004Best Price: $220.47 I apologize in advance to all my fellow foodies for stating a minority (and probably politically... |  More Home Cooking: A Writer Returns to the KitchenBest Price: $7.37 I heartily agree with those previous reviewers who enjoyed curling up with "More Home... |  French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and CorkscrewBest Price: $1.85 "It was a pleasure just to be alive." ~ Peter Mayle, on his experience in France ... |  The Perfectionist: Life and Death in Haute CuisineBest Price: $4.98 I agree with virtually all of the reviews, but I found the writing style incredibly irritating. ... |  It Must've Been Something I AteBest Price: $7.99 I made it through about 5 or 6 of the essays in the book. I was expecting a book about food, but... |
 Life Is Meals: A Food Lover's Book of DaysBest Price: $13.99 I love reading cookbooks and cooking magazines so this book was a bit of a change of pace. But... |  The Best Wine Bars & Shops of Paris: Fifty Charming and Notable CavistesBest Price: $10.10 In this guide, you will find everything from establishments that have been serving Paris for a... |  How to Be a Better Foodie: A Bulging Little Book for the Truly EpicuriousBest Price: $7.90 If you're wondering what to get your foodie friends for the holidays, you may want to consider... |  American Food Writing: An Anthology: With Classic RecipesBest Price: $17.98 I was very excited about this book, intending to curl up with it and enjoy reading it. But this... |  The Gastronomical MeBest Price: $6.00 Fisher recounts her life through her intimate association with food, growing up, travelling... |
 Delizia!: The Epic History of the Italians and Their FoodBest Price: $5.32 This is one of those books that is ideally read when you need a break from heavy thinking, but... |  Best Food Writing 2006 (Best Food Writing)Best Price: $5.26 I like to read during my lunch hour at work, and usually choose something food-related to take... |  The Taste of Conquest: The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of SpiceBest Price: $10.51 It's why Venice treacherously overthrew the Byzantine Empire with the Fourth... |  The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet NationBest Price: $11.15 This book is amazing. I'm a food writer and thought I knew a ton about the modern history of... |  Schott's Food and Drink MiscellanyBest Price: $4.00 I cannot recommend these Schott's books enough. They are fabulous gifts because they're just so... |
 Confessions of a French Baker: Breadmaking Secrets, Tips, and RecipesBest Price: $5.93 I am a home baker with a few bread baking books "under my belt". I also love books... |  Consider the OysterBest Price: $6.03 M.F.K. Fisher wrote this conversational treatise -if that is not a contradiction in terms- about... |  Alice, Let's Eat: Further Adventures of a Happy EaterBest Price: $4.85 In this book, his quirkyness really comes to the fore. I cannot get enough of him! |  Best Food Writing 2005 (Best Food Writing)Best Price: $2.33 Established food writers as well as newcomers who are passionate about foods grace the pages of... |  Time Out Cheap Eats in London (Time Out Guides)Best Price: $6.50 Although, originally we felt that its origanization into different areas would be helpful, we... |
 One Hundred & One Beautiful Towns in Italy: Food and Wine (101 Towns)Best Price: $27.75 This book was a birthday gift for a dear friend who has visited Italy several times and who... |  From Here, You Can't See Paris: Seasons of a French Village and Its RestaurantBest Price: $3.71 Sanders has captured the life in a small French village and its wonderful restaurant. My wife,... |  Gordon Ramsay: The BiographyBest Price: $15.52 I agree with previous reviewers. This is short attention span writing. It jumps from one topic... |  Mouth Wide Open: A Cook and His AppetiteBest Price: $10.99 I always appreciate the careful reviews of Mr. Marold. I see he has fallen into Mr. Thorne's... |  Beard on Food: The Best Recipes and Kitchen Wisdom from the Dean of American CookingBest Price: $13.00 James Beard has been an inspiration for me since I found my first cookbook of his at a garage... |
 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... |  The Amateur Gourmet: How to Shop, Chop, and Table Hop Like a Pro (Almost)Best Price: $7.74 First of all, I'm a huge fan of the blog. So I was ecstatic when one of the funniest blogger I... |  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... | ||
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