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Include books by the same authorBarefoot Contessa Family Style: Easy Ideas and Recipes That Make Everyone Feel Like Family
Ina Garten · 272 pages
In Barefoot Contessa Family Style, Ina Garten explains that sharing our tables with those we love is too essential to be saved just for special occasions u and it's easy to do if you know how to cook irresistible meals with a minimum of fuss.
Silver Palate Cookbook
Julee Rosso, Sheila Lukins · 452 pages
Contains recipes developed by the founders of The Silver Palate gourmet food store in New York, covering all courses from appetizers to desserts, and includes tips on cooking and entertaining.
Cook with Jamie
Jamie Oliver · 450 pages
I can't tell you how long I've dreamt about writing this book. It's the biggest book I've ever done, and I've really tried to make it a timeless, modern-day classic. Whether you're a student, a young couple, an established cook or a novice, I'll take you through a whole load of simple and accessible recipes that will blow the socks off your family and any guests you might have round for dinner. Th
Top Secret Restaurant Recipes: Creating Kitchen Clones from America's Favorite Restaurant Chains
Todd Wilbur · 322 pages
In 1996, Americans spent over $100 billion gobbling up meals at full-service American restaurant chains, inspiring Todd Wilbur to change his focus from cracking the recipes for convenience store foods to cloning the popular dishes served at these sit-down stand-bys. Wilbur's knock-offs, absolutely indiscernible from the originals, are selected from national and regional chains, many drawn from a l
Nigella Kitchen: Recipes from the Heart of the Home
Nigella Lawson · 518 pages
The Professional Chef
Culinary Institute of America · 1,232 pages
"Named one of the five favorite culinary books of this decade by Food Arts magazine, The Professional Chef is the classic kitchen reference that many of America's top chefs have used to understand basic skills and standards for quality as well as develop a sense of how cooking works. Now, the ninth edition features an all-new, user-friendly design that guides readers through each cooking technique
Super Natural Cooking: Five Delicious Ways to Incorporate Whole and Natural Foods into Your Cooking
Heidi Swanson · 215 pages
Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food
Jeff Potter · 458 pages
Are you an innovative cook, accustomed to expressing your creativity instead of just following recipes? Are you interested in the science behind what happens to food while it’s cooking? Do you want to learn what makes a recipe work so you can improvise and create your own dish? More than just a cookbook, [Cooking for Geeks][1] inspires you to be inventive in the kitchen and piques your curiosit
Beard on Bread
James Beard · 228 pages
Everything you need to know about breadmaking including 100 of James Beard's favourite recipes with variations.
Authentic Mexican: Regional Cooking from the Heart of Mexico
Rick Bayless, Deann Groen Bayless · 384 pages
The Frugal Gourmet on Our Immigrant Ancestors: Recipes You Should Have Gotten from Your Grandmother
Jeff Smith · 539 pages
Featuring the cuisine of thirty-five different ethnic groups, this collection of more than four hundred recipes encompasses easy-to-prepare dishes ranging from appetizers to desserts.
Smoke and Pickles: Recipes and Stories from a New Southern Kitchen
Edward Lee · 292 pages
"Chef Edward Lee's story and his food could only happen in America. Raised in Brooklyn by a family of Korean immigrants, he eventually settled down in his adopted hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, where he owns the acclaimed restaurant 610 Magnolia. A multiple James Beard Award nominee for his unique patchwork cuisine, Edward creates recipes--filled with pickling, fermenting, frying, curing, and s
Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, with Recipes
Jennifer McLagan · 232 pages
Duck fat. Caul fat. Leaf lard. Bacon. Ghee. Suet. Schmaltz. Cracklings. Jennifer McLagan knows and loves cooking fat, and you'll remember that you do too once you get a taste of her lusty, food-positive writing and sophisticated comfort-food recipes. Dive into more than 100 sweet and savory recipes using butter, pork fat, poultry fat, beef fat, and lamb fat, including Slow Roasted Pork Belly with
The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook: Stories and Recipes for Southerners and Would-be Southerners
Matt Lee, Ted Lee · 604 pages
Two brothers describe their culinary coming-of-age in Charleston, South Carolina, in a cookbook that features recipes for such dishes as fried chicken, crab cakes, pecan pie, and buttermilk-sweet potato pie, accompanied by helpful hints and substitution tips.
Persiana: Recipes from the Middle East & Beyond
Sabrina Ghayour · 240 pages
A celebration of the foods and flavors of the regions near the southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea. Ghayour presents recipes for modern and accessible Middle Eastern dishes,
The New Midwestern Table: 200 Heartland Recipes
Amy Thielen · 399 pages
"Thielen applies her professionally honed cooking skills to the classic Midwestern dishes she grew up with in northern Minnesota while also unearthing local gems across the region. In a warm, impassioned voice, she reveals how the Midwest is responsible for much of what we consider our American food heritage. The cuisine is generous, thrifty, intuitive, seasonal, and intimate: "Each cook here is a
Paris Sweets: Great Desserts from the City's Best Pastry Shops
Dorie Greenspan · 224 pages
The prize-winning author of Baking with Julia (more than 350,000 copies sold), among other cookbook classics, celebrates the sweet life with recipes and lore from Paris's finest patisseries.Like most lovers of pastry and Paris, Dorie Greenspan has always marveled at the jewel-like creations displayed in bakery windows throughout the City of Light. Now, in a charmingly illustrated tribute to the ca
Baking Yesteryear: The Best Recipes from the 1900s to the 1980s
B Dylan Hollis · 256 pages
A decade-by-decade cookbook that highlights the best (and a few of the worst) baking recipes from the 20th century Friends of baking, are you sick and tired of making the same recipes again and again? Then look no further than this baking blast from the past, as B. Dylan Hollis highlights the most unique tasty treats of yesteryear. Travel back in time on a delicious decade-by-decade jaunt as
Thai Food
David Thompson · 673 pages
"Thai cooking is a paradox," writes Australian restaurateur David Thompson in his comprehensive and aptly named "Thai Food". It uses robustly flavored ingredients--garlic, shrimp paste, chilies, lemongrass--and yet when they are melded during cooking they arrive at a sophisticated and often subtle elegance. Pursuing this transformation in depth, his book presents hundreds of recipes that celebrate
Happy Snacking, Don't Die!: Foraging and Vegan Recipes with Black Forager (A Cookbook)
Alexis Nikole Nelson · 272 pages
Cravings: Recipes for All the Food You Want to Eat
Chrissy Teigen · 240 pages
Model and TV personality Chrissy Teigen demonstrates how to make cooking a part of a fashion-forward lifestyle, sharing one hundred recipes ranging from personal creations and her Thai mother's classics to dishes taught to her by chef friends.