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The Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking

Marcella Hazan · 716 pages

Here--in one volume--the authentic, delicious recipes and foolproof techniques that made Marcella Hazan's masterpieces, The Classic Italian Cookbook and More Classic Italian Cooking, the most acclaimed, consulted and enjoyed cookbooks in their field. Revised throughout--updated and expanded with a revision of all recipes to reduce the fat content, new entries, and 50 new recipes.

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Good Eats: The Early Years

Alton Brown · 396 pages

Award-winning Food Network TV series, Good Eats, goes from screen to page with this classic cookbook from Alton Brown, packed with all the tidbits, tricks, and science found in the show’s first six seasons.

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Around My French Table: More than 300 Recipes from My Home to Yours

Dorie Greenspan, Alan Richardson · 537 pages

A James Beard Award winner offers personable recipes for French home cooking, presenting more than three hundred recipes for hors d'oeuvres, salads, soups, meat dishes, fish, vegetables, and desserts, with a separate section on making dough, vinaigrettes, and sauces.

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Make the Bread, Buy the Butter: What You Should and Shouldn't Cook from Scratch -- Over 120 Recipes for the Best Homemade Foods

Jennifer Reese · 299 pages

"A lively, frugal-chic answer to the question "Make or Buy" about 120 different food staples"-- "Does becoming part of the home cooking movement mean cooking everything from scratch? According to Jennifer Reese, known as The Tipsy Baker to her online foodie following, there are plenty of products that you should buy at the store. Make your own bread, for instance, but buy the butter--making butte

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French Provincial Cooking

Elizabeth David · 526 pages

[No. 1] Mediterranean food -- [no. 2] French country cooking -- [no. 3] Italian food -- [no. 4] French provincial cooking -- [no. 5] Summer cooking.

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Jamie's America

Jamie Oliver · 364 pages

America – A country of many contrasts. For me, it presented the ultimate food trip to explore places, ingredients, food culture & traditions. I wanted to get to the heart of great American food, to get past the junk and super-sized portions. I set off on what I knew would be a completely inspiring trip. I wasn't wrong ... from New York to New Orleans, the energy of Los Angeles to the big skies of

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Deep Run Roots: Stories and Recipes from My Corner of the South

Vivian Howard · 564 pages

"Vivian Howard, the star cocreator of PBS's A CHEF'S LIFE, celebrates the flavors of North Carolina's coastal plain in more than 200 recipes and stories,"--Amazon.com.

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The Breath of a Wok

Grace Young, Alan Richardson · 256 pages

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The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook

Deb Perelman · 336 pages

"The long-awaited cookbook from the food blogging phenom, Deb Perelman -- home cook, mom, photographer, and celebrated author of SmittenKitchen.com." --

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The Way to Cook

Julia Child · 528 pages

A one-of-a-kind, brilliant cookbook which has sold half a million copies. Julia blends classic techniques with free-style American cooking, emphasizing lightness, freshness and simpler preparations. More than 800 recipes and 600 color photographs.

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My Paris Kitchen: Recipes and Stories

David Lebovitz

"A collection of stories and 100 sweet and savory French-inspired recipes from Chez Panisse pastry chef turned popular food blogger David Lebovitz, reflecting the way modern Parisians eat today and featuring lush photography taken around Paris and in David's Parisian kitchen. French cooking has come a long way since the days of Escoffier. The culinary culture of France has changed and the current

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Franklin Barbecue: A Meat-Smoking Manifesto

Aaron Franklin, Jordan Mackay · 213 pages

A complete meat- and brisket-cooking education from the country's most celebrated pitmaster and owner of the wildly popular Austin restaurant Franklin Barbecue - winner of Texas Monthly's coveted Best Barbecue Joint in Texas award. When Aaron and Stacy Franklin opened up a small barbecue trailer on the side of an Austin, Texas, interstate in 2009, they had no idea what they'd gotten themselves in

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The Taste of Country Cooking

Edna Lewis · 304 pages

Recipes for specific dishes and entire meals from the cooking tradition of the author's Virginia Piedmont farming village, originally settled by freed slaves, are interspersed with reminiscences of her childhood.

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Lidia's Italy

Lidia Matticchio Bastianich, Tanya Bastianich Manuali · 364 pages

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The Silver Spoon

Clelia D'Onofrio, Giovanna Mazzocchi · 1,263 pages

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The Book of Jewish Food: An Odyssey from Samarkand to New York

Claudia Roden · 616 pages

In more than 800 glorious recipes interwoven with stories, reminiscences, and history, Claudia Roden traces the fascinating development of Jewish cooking over the centuries. The recipes - many of them never before documented - are the treasures garnered by the author during almost fifteen years of traveling around the world, tasting, watching, collecting recipes, talking to cooks and food sellers,

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Notes from the Larder: A Kitchen Diary with Recipes

Nigel Slater · 532 pages

In this companion to the bestselling Kitchen Diaries, Britain's foremost food writer returns with quietly passionate, idiosyncratic musings on a year in the kitchen, alongside more than 250 of his simple and seasonal recipes. Beloved author Nigel Slater shares his thoughts on topics as various as the kitchen knife whose every nick and stain is familiar, how to make a little bit of cheese go a long

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Jerusalem

Yotam Ottolenghi, Sami Tamimi · 320 pages

A collection of 120 recipes exploring the flavors of Jerusalem from the New York Times bestselling author of Plenty.

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Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asia

Jeffrey Alford, Naomi Duguid · 368 pages

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Summer Kitchens

Olia Hercules · 352 pages

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