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English
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Tracking his own strange and unexpected voyage from journeyman cook to globe-traveling professional eater and drinker, and even to fatherhood, Bourdain takes no prisoners as he dissects what he's seen, pausing along the way for a series of confessions, rants, investigations, and interrogations of some of the most controversial figures in food.
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
xvi, 1040 p. : ill ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
More than 100 hors d'oeuvre recipes; an equal number of vegetable dishes; 200 desserts--21 chapters in all, touching all courses and including stops at breakfast and brunch specialties; breads and crackers; plus sauces, salsas, and preserves. With engaging introductions to each chapter by Ruth Reichl, entertaining headnotes, indispensable information about ingredients and techniques, hundreds of tips from Gourmet's test kitchens, and an extensive...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xiii, 250 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Reviving the inspiring message of M. F. K. Fisher’s How to Cook a Wolf — written in 1942 during wartime shortages — An Everlasting Meal shows that cooking is the path to better eating.
Through the insightful essays in An Everlasting Meal, Tamar Adler issues a rallying cry to home cooks. In chapters about boiling water, cooking eggs and beans, and summoning respectable meals from empty cupboards, Tamar weaves philosophy and instruction into...
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Publisher
Voracious, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
viii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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"Food and words--we rely on both to sustain our daily lives. We begin each morning hungry for nourishment and conversation, and our happiest moments and fondest memories are often filled with ample servings of both. Food historian Judith Tschann celebrates this glorious intersection of linguistic and culinary affinities with Romaine Wasn't Build in a Day, a decadent romp through the history of food words"--
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Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Jim Harrison was one of this country’s most beloved writers, a muscular, brilliantly economic stylist with a salty wisdom. He also wrote some of the best essays on food around, earning praise as “the poet laureate of appetite” (Dallas Morning News). A Really Big Lunch, to be published on the one-year anniversary of Harrison’s death, collects many of his food pieces for the first time — and taps into his...
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
353 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Crossing class and color lines, and spanning the nation (Montana has its huckleberry, Pennsylvania its shoofly, and Mississippi its sweet potato), pie -- real, homemade pie -- has meaning for all of us. But in today's treadmill, take-out world -- our fast-food nation -- does pie still have a place? As she traveled across the United States in an old Volvo named Betty, Pascale LeDraoulec discovered how merely mentioning homemade pie to strangers made...
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Language
English
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"In an effort to help us reconnect with the food that sustains our lives, David Moscow has spent four years going around the world, meeting with rock-star chefs, and sourcing ingredients within local food ecosystems -- experiences taking place in over twenty countries that include milking a water buffalo to make mozzarella for pizza in Italy; harvesting oysters in Long Island Sound and honey from wild bees in Kenya; and making patis in the Philippines,...
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Publisher
Sounds True
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xviii, 226 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Making your love manifest, transforming your spirit, good heart, and able hands into food is a great undertaking,” writes renowned chef and Zen priest Edward Espe Brown, “one that will nourish you in the doing, in the offering, and in the eating.” With No Recipe: Cooking as Spiritual Practice, Brown beautifully blends expert cooking advice with thoughtful reflections on meaning, joy, and life itself. Reading Brown’s witty and engaging collection...
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Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xiv, 321 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recipes and cookbooks, meals and mouthfuls have framed the way Candace Walsh sees the world for as long as she can remember, from her frosting-spackled childhood to her meat-eschewing college years to her post-college phase as a devoted Martha Stewart's Entertaining disciple. In Licking the Spoon, Walsh tells how, lacking role models in her early life, she turned to cookbook authors real and fictitious (Betty Crocker, Martha Stewart, Mollie Katzen,...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Bill Buford turns his ... attention from Italian cuisine to the food of France. Baffled by the language, but convinced that he can master the art of French cooking, ... he begins what becomes a five-year odyssey by shadowing the esteemed French chef Michel Richard in Washington, D.C. But when Buford (quickly) realizes that a stage in France is necessary, he goes ... to Lyon, the gastronomic capital of France. Studying at Institut Bocuse, cooking...
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