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Notes from the Larder: A Kitchen Diary with Recipes

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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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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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Pok Pok: Food and Stories from the Streets, Homes and Roadside Restaurants of Thailand

Andy Ricker, J.J. Goode · 295 pages

"A guide to bold, authentic Thai cooking from Andy Ricker, the chef and owner of the wildly popular and widely lauded Pok Pok restaurants. After decades spent traveling throughout Thailand, Andy Ricker wanted to bring the country's famed street food stateside. In 2005 he opened Pok Pok, so named for the sound a pestle makes when it strikes a clay mortar, in an old shack in a residential neighborho

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Ivan Ramen: Love, Obsession, and Recipes from Tokyo's Most Unlikely Noodle Joint

Ivan Orkin · 211 pages

"The end-all-be-all guide to ramen from Ivan Orkin, the iconoclastic New York-born owner of Tokyo's top ramen shop. While scores of people line up outside American ramen powerhouses like Momofuku Noodle Bar, chefs and food writers in the know revere Ivan Orkin's traditional Japanese take on ramen. Ivan Ramen chronicles Orkin's journey from dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker to the chef and owner of one o

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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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Down Home with the Neelys: A Southern Family Cookbook

Patrick Neely, Gina Neely, Paula Disbrowe

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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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Diners, Drive-ins and Dives: An All-American Road Trip . . . with Recipes!

Guy Fieri, Ann Volkwein

Food Network star Guy Fieri takes you on a tour of America's most colorful diners, drive-ins, and dives in this tie-in to his enormously popular television show, complete with recipes, photos, and memorabilia.Packed with Guy's iconic personality, Diners, Drive-ins and Dives follows his hot-rod trips around the country, mapping out the best places most of us have never heard of. From digging in at

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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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Noma: Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine

Rene Redzepi · 354 pages

Milk skin with grass -- The perfect storm -- René's diary -- Portrait of a Nordic chef -- Time and place -- The weather recipes -- The raw materials -- Everyone at Noma.

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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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