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Vegetable Literacy: Cooking and Gardening with Twelve Families from the Edible Plant Kingdom

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Chez Panisse Vegetables

Alice Waters · 344 pages

Recipes from the famous Berkeley, California restaurant.

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The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just a Quarter Acre!

Carleen Madigan · 367 pages

**From a Quarter of An Acre, You Can Harvest:** 1400 Eggs 50 Pounds of Wheat 60 Pounds of Fruit 2000 Pounds of Vegetables 280 Pounds of Pork 75 Pounds of Nuts **The Indispensable Guide to Food Self-Sufficiency** Learn How To: -milk a goat -prime a fruit tree -dry herbs -make dandelion wine -bake whole-grain bread -tap a maple tree -make fresh mozzarella -brew beer -mill grains

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Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health

Jo Robinson · 407 pages

"Approximately 10,000 years ago our ancestors began to domesticate animals for food and choose plants to grow in their gardens. The choices we have been making ever since then about what to feed those animals and what plants to grow have had a huge impact on our diets. In Pasture Perfect Jo explained the benefits of eating meats, eggs, and dairy products from animals raised on pasture – their nati

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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Barbara Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp, Camille Kingsolver · 384 pages

Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat."As the U.S. population made an unprecedented mad dash for the Sun Belt, one carload of us paddled against the tide, heading for the Promised Land where water falls from the sky and green stuff grows all around. We were about to begi

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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 Be a Domestic Goddess: Baking and the Art of Comfort Cooking

Nigella Lawson · 374 pages

Recipes, baking, domesticity (in a good way).

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The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook

Ina Garten · 255 pages

For more than twenty years, Barefoot Contessa, the acclaimed speciality food store, cooked and baked extraordinary dishes for enthusiastic customers in the Hamptons. For many of those years, people tried to get the exuberant owner, Ina Garten, to share the secrets of her store.

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Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food

Jessica Seinfeld · 208 pages

It has become common knowledge that childhood obesity rates are increasing every year. But the rates continue to rise. And between busy work schedules and the inconvenient truth that kids simply refuse to eat vegetables and other healthy foods, how can average parents ensure their kids are getting the proper nutrition and avoiding bad eating habits? As a mother of three, Jessica Seinfeld can speak

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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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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.

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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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Everyday Food: Great Food Fast

Martha Stewart · 384 pages

A collection of dishes that can be prepared with fresh ingredients in thirty minutes or less, including main dish salads, vegetable risottos, no-cook pasta sauces, grilled kabobs, and roasts.

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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 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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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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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

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Well Fed: Paleo Recipes for People Who Love to Eat

Melissa Joulwan · 174 pages

A collection of information about the paleolithic, or paleo, diet, a diet of pure, unprocessed food that does not include grain, sugar, legumes, or dairy, as well as recipes that follow this lifestyle.

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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

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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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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

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