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.....
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.....
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.....
Penguin (Non-Classics), January 2003. Trade Paperback. A new copy. "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.....
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.....
Basic Books, September 2010. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The groundbreaking theory of how fire and food drove the evolution of modern humans Ever since Darwin and The Descent of Man, the evolution and world-wide dispersal of humans has been attributed to our intelligence and adaptability. But in.....
William Morrow Cookbooks, September 1998. Hardcover.
Three Rivers Press, April 2009. Trade Paperback. The rivetingly strange story of the world's most expensive bottle of wine, and the even stranger characters whose lives have intersected with it. The New York Times bestseller, updated with a new epilogue, that tells the true story of a 1787 Château Lafite.....
Grove Press, March 2018. Trade Paperback. "A Really Big Lunch showcases Harrison's enthusiastic, funny, and uncompromising views on how to eat, drink, and live well . . . His writing is bodily, bawdy, sharp. The more we have of his voice, the better."--Boston Globe A national bestseller and an Amazon.....
Grove Press, March 2018. Trade Paperback. "A Really Big Lunch showcases Harrison's enthusiastic, funny, and uncompromising views on how to eat, drink, and live well . . . His writing is bodily, bawdy, sharp. The more we have of his voice, the better."--Boston Globe A national bestseller and an Amazon.....
W.W. Norton & Co., May 2002. Hardcover. Do you wish you understood the science of foods, but don't want to plow through dry technical books? What Einstein Told His Cook is like having a scientist at your side to answer your questions in plain, nontechnical terms. Chemistry professor and syndicated.....
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, April 2009. Trade Paperback. Kingsley Amis was one of the great masters of comic prose, and no subject was dearer to him than the art and practice of imbibing. This volume brings together the best of his three out-of-print works on the subject: 'On Drink', 'Every Day.....
Penguin Books, March 2017. Trade Paperback. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' PICK "Thrilling . . . [told] with gonzo élan . . . When the sommelier and blogger Madeline Puckette writes that this book is the Kitchen Confidential of the wine world, she's not.....
Friends of the Bancroft Library, (1975). Unknown. 84 pages. Some B/W illustrations.
Riverhead Hardcover, January 2013. Hardcover. "NPR" Best Books of 2013 "BookPage" Best Books of 2013 "Library Journal" Best Books of 2013: Memoir "Flavorwire "10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2013 A vivid, funny, and poignant memoir that celebrates the distinct lure of the camaraderie and community one finds drinking in bars.....
Tarcher, May 2003. Trade Paperback. Journey to five continents and see the world of sustainability and conscious eating with new eyes--featuring 100 pages of plant-based recipes to better nurture ourselves and the planet Thirty years ago, Frances Moore Lappé started a revolution in the way Americans think about food and.....
Thomas Dunne Books, December 2007. Hardcover. OYSTERS ARE SEXY. LET'S AGREE ON THAT RIGHT AWAY.But there's much more to the oyster than simply its legendary power as an aphrodisiac. And that's what you'll find inside this charming field guide to oysters by oyster purveyor and champion shucker Patrick McMurray. Rich.....
Random House Trade Paperbacks, April 2004. Trade Paperback. Shoba Narayan's Monsoon Diary weaves a fascinating food narrative that combines delectable Indian recipes with tales from her life, stories of her delightfully eccentric family, and musings about Indian culture. Narayan recounts her childhood in South India, her college days in America.....
Random House Trade Paperbacks, January 2007. Trade Paperback. "Part treatise, part miscellany, unfailingly entertaining." -The New York Times "A small pearl of a book . . . a great tale of the growth of a modern city as seen through the rise and fall of the lowly oyster." -Rocky Mountain.....