Clarkson Potter, May 2018. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed memoir from cultural icon and culinary standard bearer Alice Waters recalls the circuitous road and tumultuous times leading to the opening of what is arguably America's most influential restaurant. When Alice.....
Pantheon, November 1992. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. The first volume of reminiscences by one of America's best-loved writers. "Vintage Fisher. . . . (Her diaries and stories) bathe her youth and beauty in a golden light like the stuff of Gustave Dore engravings.....
Harpercollins, July 2006. Trade Paperback. A new copy. An updated and revised edition of Anthony Bourdain's mega-bestselling Kitchen Confidential, with new material from the original edition Almost two decades ago, the New Yorker published a now infamous article, "Don't Eat before You Read This," by then little-known chef Anthony Bourdain.....
Random House, October 2007. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Since its earliest days, "The New Yorker "has been a tastemaker literally. As the home of A. J. Liebling, Joseph Wechsberg, and M.F.K. Fisher, who practically invented American food writing, the magazine established a tradition.....
Ballantine Books, March 2003. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Deliciously organized by the Seven Deadly Sins, here is a scintillating history of forbidden foods through the ages--and how these mouth-watering taboos have defined cultures around the world. From the lusciously tempting fruit in the Garden of Eden to.....
Springer, 2000. Hardcover. A near fine copy; no dust jacket. A kitchen is no different from most science laboratories and cookery may properly be regarded as an experimental science. Food preparation and cookery involve many processes which are well described by the physical sciences. Understanding the chemistry and physics of.....
Simon & Schuster, January 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good price clipped dust jacket.
Random House UK, October 2011. Hardcover. A very good copy in a price-clipped dust jacket. Former owner's gift inscription on half-title page. Insightful and entertaining by turns, this is a magnificent tour of nearly a thousand years of English cuisine, peppered with surprises and seasoned with Clarissa Dickson Wright's characteristic.....
Three Rivers Press, October 2001. Trade Paperback. A very good copy; no dust jacket. Man's fascination with food has produced a huge body of literature, from poetry to cookbooks, but it has also yielded engravings, drawings, paintings, advertisements, and colorful labels, all for an eager audience of gourmands, chefs, and.....
Ecco Pr, January 1987. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Vintage, March 2010. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Weaving together memories, recipes, and wild tales of years spent in the kitchen, Home Cooking is Laurie Colwin's cookbook manifesto on the joys of sharing food and entertaining. "As much memoir as cookbook and as much about eating as cooking.".....
Borealis Books, September 2008. Hardcover. Very good in wrappers (paperback). For two hundred years, a rogues' gallery of chefs, line cooks, and dishwashers have slaved away, largely unseen, to serve the dining public. Their pedigrees reach back to the first restaurants during the reign of France's Louis XVI and extend.....
Harvest, September 2022. Hardcover. A new copy. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From legendary chef Jacques Pepin, a book celebrating his lifelong love of chickens--featuring dozens of his celebrated paintings, a treasure trove of poignant and often humorous stories, and sprinkled with recipes throughout. Chicken may not be an extravagant.....
Clarkson Potter, May 2018. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed memoir from cultural icon and culinary standard bearer Alice Waters recalls the circuitous road and tumultuous times leading to the opening of what is arguably America's most influential restaurant. When Alice Waters opened.....
Penguin (Non-Classics), January 2003. Trade Paperback. "Kurlansky finds the world in a grain of salt." - New York Times Book Review An unlikely world history from the bestselling author of Cod and The Basque History of the World In his fifth work of nonfiction, Mark Kurlansky turns his attention to.....
HarperOne, May 1996. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). An eloquent piece of nature writing by a young author with a farmer's calluses and a poet's soul, "Epitaph for a Peach" is about saving a peach, saving a farm, saving a family, saving a way of life--it is a......
Anchor, October 2007. Trade Paperback. A new copy. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Julia's story of her transformative years in France in her own words is captivating ... her marvelously distinctive voice is present on every page." (San Francisco Chronicle). Although she would later singlehandedly create a new approach to American cuisine.....
University of California Press, September 2013. Hardcover. A good copy in a good dust jacket. In this authoritative and immensely readable insider's account, celebrated cookbook author and former chef Joyce Goldstein traces the development of California cuisine from its formative years in the 1970s to 2000, when farm-to-table, foraging, and.....
Melville House, August 2019. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The New York Times Bestseller The brilliant intellect and candor of Anthony Bourdain is on full display in this collection of interviews from throughout his remarkable career, with an introduction from The New Yorker's Helen Rosner. Anthony Bourdain always downplayed his.....
Melville House, June 2012. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Revised and Expanded Edition For anyone attempting to make sense of the world food crisis, or understand the links between U.S. farm policy and the ability of the world's poor to feed themselves, Stuffed and Starved is indispensable. --Michael.....
Little, Brown and Company, May 2014. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The next stage in the food revolution: a radical way to select fruits and vegetables and reclaim the flavor and nutrients we've lost. Ever since farmers first planted seeds 10,000 years ago, humans have been destroying the.....
Palgrave Macmillan, September 2003. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Some people think that a cookbook is just a collection of recipes for dishes that feed the body. In Eat My Words: Reading Women's Lives through the Cookbooks They Wrote, Janet Theophano shows that cookbooks provide food for the.....
Voice, February 2011. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). "Starting with charred fried rice and ending with flaky pineapple tarts, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan takes us along on a personal journey that most can only fantasize about--an exploration of family history and culture through a mastery of home-cooked dishes. Tan's.....
Simon & Schuster, January 2015. Trade Paperback. A New York Times bestseller Named one of The Economist's Books of the Year 2014 Named one of The Wall Street Journal's Top Ten Best Nonfiction Books of 2014 Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2014 Forbes's Most Memorable Healthcare Book of 2014.....
Penguin, August 2007. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Outstanding . . . a wide-ranging invitation to think through the moral ramifications of our eating habits. --The New Yorker One of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year and Winner of the James Beard Award Author.....