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  • The Essential New York Times Cookbook: The Recipes of Record (10th Anniversary Edition)

    by Amanda Hesser ...
    A KCRW Top 10 Food Book of 2021A Minnesota Star Tribune Top 15 Cookbook of 2021A WBUR Here & Now Favorite Cookbook of 2021The James Beard Award–winning and New York Times best-selling compendium of the paper’s best recipes, revised and updated.Ten years after the phenomenal success of her once-in-a-generation cookbook, former New York Times food editor Amanda Hesser returns with an ... ... Read more

    $39.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

    **An NPR 2023 "Books We Love" Pick • A Food & Wine Best Food of 2023 • A Financial Times Best Food and Drink Book of 2023 • One of Smithsonian's Ten Best Books About Food of 2023The world’s most sophisticated gastronomic culture, brilliantly presented through a banquet of thirty Chinese dishes.**Chinese was the earliest truly global cuisine. When the first Chinese laborers began to settle abroad, ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Cook's Own Book, and Housekeeper's Register

    Series series American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection
    Published in Boston in 1833, the Cook’s Own Book, and Housekeeper’s Register is believed to be the first alphabetically-arranged culinary encyclopedia. The book was one of the most popular cookbooks of the 19th century and had at least a dozen different printings before 1865.It started the alphabetical listing with Aberdeen Crulla and Alamode Beef and ended with Yeast, Potato and Zests. Besides ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Beard on Food

    The Best Recipes and Kitchen Wisdom from the Dean of American Cooking

    by James Beard ...
    The return of a classic food book: James Beard's own selection of his favorite columns and recipes, distilling a lifetime of culinary knowledge into one volume.In Beard on Food, one of America's great culinary thinkers and teachers collects his best essays, ranging from the perfect hamburger to the pleasures of oxtails, from salad dressing to Sauce Diable. The result is not just a compendium of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Culinary History of Taipei

    Beyond Pork and Ponlai

    Series series Big City Food Biographies
    There is a compelling story behind Taiwan’s recent emergence as a food destination of international significance. A Culinary History of Taipei is the first comprehensive English-language examination of what Taiwan’s people eat and why they eat those foods, as well as the role and perception of particular foods.Distinctive culinary traditions have not merely survived the travails of recent ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Cheesemonger

    A Life on the Wedge

    by Gordon Edgar ...
    Witty and irreverent, informative and provocative, Cheesemonger: A Life on the Wedge is the highly readable story of Gordon Edgar's unlikely career as a cheesemonger at San Francisco's worker-owned Rainbow Grocery Cooperative. A former punk-rock political activist, Edgar bluffed his way into his cheese job knowing almost nothing, but quickly discovered a whole world of amazing artisan cheeses. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Sweet as Sin

    The Unwrapped Story of How Candy Became America's Favorite Pleasure

    RECOMMENDED BY SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE AS A "BEST BOOK ABOUT FOOD OF 2016"!READERS WITH AN INTEREST IN THE HISTORY OF FOOD AND AMERICANA WILL SAVOR THIS CULTURAL HISTORYThere's more to candy than its sugary taste. As this book shows, candy has a remarkable history, most of it sweet, some of it bitter. The author, a food historian and candy expert, tells the whole story-from the harvesting of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Matty Matheson: A Cookbook

    Known from Viceland and Just a Dash, the acclaimed chef shares personal stories and memories of the food that defined him in this bestselling cookbook.Matty Matheson is known as much for his amazing food as his love for life, positive mental attitude, and epic Instagram account. This debut cookbook is about Matty’s memories of the foods that have defined who he is. With a drive to share his zest ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Magick of Food

    Rituals, Offerings & Why We Eat Together

    by Gwion Raven ...
    Delight Your Senses and Your Soul with a Feast of Recipes, Rituals, and SpellsDiscover a magickal collection of lore, recipes, and practices from modern and ancient cultures of the world. The Magick of Food reveals how to transform the mundane task of fueling your body into an opportunity for deep nourishment and connection to loved ones and the divine. This powerful book provides detailed ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Chop Suey, USA

    The Story of Chinese Food in America

    by Yong Chen ...
    Series series Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
    American diners began to flock to Chinese restaurants more than a century ago, making Chinese food the first mass-consumed cuisine in the United States. By 1980, it had become the country's most popular ethnic cuisine. Chop Suey, USA offers the first comprehensive interpretation of the rise of Chinese food, revealing the forces that made it ubiquitous in the American gastronomic landscape and ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • America Eats!

    On the Road with the WPA - the Fish Fries, Box Supper Socials, and Chittlin' Feasts That Define Real American Food

    by Pat Willard ...
    Pat Willard takes readers on a journey into the regional nooks and crannies of American cuisine where WPA writers-including Eudora Welty, Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, and Nelson Algren, among countless others-were dispatched in 1935 to document the roots of our diverse culinary cuisine. America Eats!, as the project was entitled, was never published. With the unpublished WPA manuscript as her guide ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Kitchen Confidential

    Anthony Bourdain, host of Parts Unknown, reveals "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine" in his breakout New York Times bestseller Kitchen Confidential.Bourdain spares no one's appetite when he told all about what happens behind the kitchen door. Bourdain uses the same "take-no-prisoners" attitude in his deliciously funny and shockingly delectable book, sure to delight ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Eating While Black

    Food Shaming and Race in America

    Psyche A. Williams-Forson is one of our leading thinkers about food in America. In Eating While Black, she offers her knowledge and experience to illuminate how anti-Black racism operates in the practice and culture of eating. She shows how mass media, nutrition science, economics, and public policy drive entrenched opinions among both Black and non-Black Americans about what is healthful and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Cornbread Nation 7

    The Best of Southern Food Writing

    How does Southern food look from the outside? The form is caught in constantly dueling stereotypes: It’s so often imagined as either the touchingly down-home feast or the heartstopping health scourge of a nation. But as any Southern transplant will tell you once they’ve spent time in the region, Southerners share their lives in food, with a complex mix of stories of belonging and not belonging and ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Eat Race Win

    The Endurance Athlete's Cookbook

    The endurance athletes guide to eating. Following the successful Grand Tour Cookbook, Hannah Grant brings you the year round must-have food and nutrition bible. Thousands of people around the globe have praised her easy to follow, healthy and tasty recipes. Hannah has, in collaboration with Physiologist Dr. Stacy Sims Ph.D, created EAT, RACE, WIN; a modern classic sports nutrition and hydration ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Japanese Superfoods

    Learn the Secrets of Healthy Eating and Longevity - the Japanese Way!

    Discover the secrets of Japanese superfoods and learn how you can incorporate them in your daily meals!Yumi Komatsudaira grew up in her family's seaweed shop, snacking on the green treats on which her family built their health-based culinary business. Now she shares the secrets of healthy eating that have guided the Japanese for ages.Superfoods are the life-giving ingredients that our bodies need ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Food and Feasts of Jesus

    The Original Mediterranean Diet, with Menus and Recipes

    Series series Religion in the Modern World
    The New Testament is filled with stories of Jesus eating with people—from extravagant wedding banquets to simple meals of loaves and fishes. The Food and Feasts of Jesus offers a new perspective on life in biblical times by taking readers inside these meals. Food production and distribution impacted all aspects of ancient life, including the teachings of Jesus. From elaborate holiday feasts to a ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • A Guide to Modern Cookery

    by A. Escoffier ...
    The original text was printed for the use of professional chefs and kitchen staff; Escoffier's introduction to the first edition explains his intention that Le Guide culinaire be used toward the education of the younger generation of cooks. This usage of the book still holds today; many culinary schools still use it as their culinary textbook.Its style is to give recipes as brief descriptions and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Apple

    A Global History

    by Erika Janik ...
    Series series RB-Edible
    Gravenstein. Coe’s Golden Drop. Mendocino Cox. The names sound like something from the imagination of Tolkien or perhaps the ingredients in a dubious magical potion rather than what they are—varieties of apples. But as befits their enchanting names, apples have transfixed and beguiled humans for thousands of years.Apple: A Global History explores the cultural and culinary importance of a fruit ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit

    How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit

    2012 IACP Award Winner in the Food Matters categorySupermarket produce sections bulging with a year-round supply of perfectly round, bright red-orange tomatoes have become all but a national birthright. But in Tomatoland, which is based on his James Beard Award-winning article, "The Price of Tomatoes," investigative food journalist Barry Estabrook reveals the huge human and environmental cost of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Whole Okra

    A Seed to Stem Celebration

    by Chris Smith ...
    2020 James Beard Award WinnerWith recipes for gumbos and stews—plus okra pickles, tofu, marshmallow, paper, and more!"A love song long overdue. It is anything and everything you wanted to know about this hallmark ingredient."—Michael W. Twitty, author of The Cooking GeneChris Smith’s first encounter with okra was of the worst kind: slimy fried okra at a greasy-spoon diner. Despite that dismal ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Core of an Onion

    Peeling the Rarest Common Food—Featuring More Than 100 Historical Recipes

    An Eater Best Food Book of 2023**A Smithsonian Best Food Book of 2023From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cod and Salt,a delectable look at the cultural, historical, and gastronomical layers of one of the world's most beloved culinary staples-featuring original illustrations and recipes from around the world.As Julia Child once said, “It is hard to imagine a civilization ... ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Desi Kitchen

    by Sarah Woods ...
    Join Sarah Woods on a mouth-watering celebration of British and South Asian fusion recipes, featuring the Desi communities who created them'I've longed for a book like this. A fascinating read with glorious recipes' DIANA HENRY'An evocative visual feast that speaks to your very heart. The mouth-watering recipes leap off the page and I am left wanting to bookmark nearly every dish' LARA LEE, author ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Mango and Peppercorns

    A Memoir of Food, an Unlikely Family, and the American Dream

    A powerful memoir of resilience, friendship, family, and food from the acclaimed chefs behind the award-winning Hy Vong Vietnamese restaurant in Miami.Through powerful narrative, archival imagery, and 20 Vietnamese recipes that mirror their story, Mango & Peppercorns is a unique contribution to culinary literature.In 1975, after narrowly escaping the fall of Saigon, pregnant refugee and gifted ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 USD