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EveryDayCook

Alton Brown · 224 pages

"My name is Alton Brown, and I wrote this book. It’s my first in a few years because I’ve been a little busy with TV stuff and interwebs stuff and live stage show stuff. Sure, I’ve been cooking, but it’s been mostly to feed myself and people in my immediate vicinity—which is really what a cook is supposed to do, right? Well, one day I was sitting around trying to organize my recipes, and I realize

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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

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The Naked Chef

Jamie Oliver · 249 pages

Offers a simple approach to food preparation and features more than 120 recipes that combine bold flavor and fresh ingredients.

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How It All Vegan!: Irresistible Recipes for an Animal-Free Diet

Tanya Barnard, Sarah Kramer · 232 pages

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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

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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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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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The Moosewood Cookbook: Recipes from Moosewood Restaurant, Ithaca, New York

Mollie Katzen · 229 pages

The original MOOSEWOOD COOKBOOK is one of the most influential and beloved cookbooks of our time. It introduced millions to a more healthful, natural way of cooking. With its friendly, conversational quality it became a treasured companion of generation or two. Now, as our interest in the foods we eat and our knowledge of nutrition have changed, we welcome this revised edition. It is complete wit

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How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food

Mark Bittman · 914 pages

A definitive, one-stop vegetarian cookbook showcases more than two thousand different recipes and variations for simple meatless meals, including salads, soups, eggs and dairy, vegetables and fruit, pasta, grains, legumes, tofu and other meat substitutes.

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Baking: From My Home to Yours

Dorie Greenspan · 528 pages

Greenspan, coauthor of books with culinary icons such as Julia Child (Baking with Julia), Daniel Boulud and Pierre Hermé, shares her favorite recipes in this tantalizing collection, which covers all the baking bases, from muffins, cookies and brownies to spoon desserts, pies and cobblers. Instructions are clear and easy to follow, and Greenspan uses everyday ingredients readily available to the ho

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The Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook

Tarek Malouf · 154 pages

Key lime pie, carrot cake, marshmallow cupcakes, pumpkin pie, rocky roads, oat and raisin cookies, brownies, blueberry muffins and New York cheesecake – delicious recipes from London's favourite bakery.

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The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science

J. Kenji Lopez-Alt · 962 pages

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Tender: Volume I: A Cook and His Vegetable Patch

Nigel Slater · 628 pages

With over 400 recipe ideas from the cook's garden, *Tender* is the definitive guide to vegetables from Britain's finest food writer.

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River Cottage Veg Every Day!

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall · 415 pages

Why don't we eat more veg? They're healthy, cost-effective and, above all, delicious. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall believes that it is time to put this to rights, as he explains in this brilliant new book.

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Home Cheese Making: Recipes for 75 Delicious Cheeses

Ricki Carroll · 251 pages

Here are 85 recipes for cheeses and other dairy products that require basic cheese making techniques and the freshest of ingredients, offering the satisfaction of turning out a coveted delicacy. --publisher.

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More-With-Less: A World Community Cookbook

Doris Janzen Longacre · 384 pages

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The Barbecue! Bible

Steven Raichlen · 576 pages

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Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning: Traditional Techniques Using Salt, Oil, Sugar, Alcohol, Drying, Cold Storage, and Lactic Fermentation

Deborah Madison, Centre Terre Vivante · 197 pages

More than 250 easy and enjoyable recipes featuring locally grown and minimally refined ingredients, this book is an essential guide for those who seek healthy food for a healthy world.

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Fannie Flagg's Original Whistle Stop Cafe Cookbook

Fannie Flagg · 214 pages

Shares recipes and observations about food and life.

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The Family Meal: Home Cooking with Ferran Adrià

Ferran Adria · 383 pages

A collection of simple, tasty and affordable receipes for the dishes that the staff at elBulli eats every day. Shows the reader the step-by-step secrets of how to plan, prepare and cook everyday meals in the easiest way possible.

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The Food52 Cookbook: 140 Winning Recipes from Exceptional Home Cooks

Amanda Hesser, Merrill Stubbs, Food52

"The best recipes come from talented home cooks! On Food52.com (named "Best of the Web" by Saveur), bestselling author Amanda Hesser and food writer Merrill Stubbs have curated the first-ever online community cookbook, the basis for this gorgeous full-color book filled with more than 125 delicious seasonal recipes from the country's most inventive home cooks"--

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The River Cottage Bread Handbook

Daniel Stevens · 223 pages

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The Pollan Family Table: The Best Recipes and Kitchen Wisdom for Delicious, Healthy Family Meals

Corky Pollan, Lori Pollan, Dana Pollan, Tracy Pollan · 334 pages

"In The Pollan Family Table, Corky, Lori, Dana, and Tracy Pollan invite you into their warm, inspiring kitchens, sharing more than 100 of their family's best recipes. For generations, the Pollans have used fresh, local ingredients to cook healthy, irresistible meals. Michael Pollan, whose bestselling books have changed our culture and the way we think about food, writes in his foreword about how t

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