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  • Women in the Kitchen

    Twelve Essential Cookbook Writers Who Defined the Way We Eat, from 1661 to Today

    by Anne Willan ...
    Culinary historian Anne Willan “has melded her passions for culinary history, writing, and teaching into her fascinating new book” (Chicago Tribune) that traces the origins of American cooking through profiles of twelve influential women—from Hannah Woolley in the mid-1600s to Fannie Farmer, Julia Child, and Alice Waters—whose recipes and ideas changed the way we eat.Anne Willan, multi-award ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • 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

  • Garlic and Sapphires

    The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise

    by Ruth Reichl ...
    **Author of Save Me the Plums Ruth Reichl’s iconic, bestselling memoir of her time as an undercover restaurant critic for The New York Times"Expansive and funny." —Entertainment Weekly**Ruth Reichl, world-renowned food critic and former editor in chief of Gourmet magazine, knows a thing or two about food. She also knows that as the most important food critic in the country, you need to be ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Fannie Farmer 1896 Cook Book

    A classic bestseller for over a century, the Fannie Farmer 1896 Cook Book contains an incredible offering of 1,380 recipes, from boiling an egg to preparing a calf’s head. Farmer’s instructions also go beyond recipes to include how to set the table for proper tea, full menu ideas for holiday dinners, housekeeping tips, and so much more. This book is known for pioneering the standardization of ... Read more

    $7.99 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 Food of a Younger Land

    A portrait of American food from the lost WPA files

    Recommended by Chef José Andrés on The Drew Barrymore Show!A remarkable portrait of American food before World War II, presented by the New York Times-bestselling author of Cod and Salt.Award-winning New York Times-bestselling author Mark Kurlansky takes us back to the food and eating habits of a younger America: Before the national highway system brought the country closer together; before chain ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Crying in H Mart

    A Memoir

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the indie rock sensation known as Japanese Breakfast, an unforgettable memoir about family, food, grief, love, and growing up Korean American—“in losing her mother and cooking to bring her back to life, Zauner became herself” (NPR). • CELEBRATING OVER ONE YEAR ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LISTIn this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Upstairs Delicatessen

    On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

    by Dwight Garner ...
    Garner gathers a literary chorus to capture the joys of reading and eating in this comic, personal classic.Reading and eating, like Krazy and Ignatz, Sturm und Drang, prosciutto and melon, Simon and Schuster, and radishes and butter, have always, for me, simply gone together. The book you’re holding is a product of these combined gluttonies.Dwight Garner, the beloved New York Times critic and the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Making of a Chef

    Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute of America

    "Well reported and heartfelt, Ruhlman communicates the passion that draws the acolyte to this precise and frantic profession."—The New York Times Book ReviewJust over a decade ago, journalist Michael Ruhlman donned a chef's jacket and houndstooth-check pants to join the students at the Culinary Institute of America, the country's oldest and most influential cooking school. But The Making of a Chef ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Raw Dog

    The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs

    by Jamie Loftus ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES AND INDIE BESTSELLER!Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique—comedian Jamie Loftus's debut, Raw Dog, will take you on a cross-country road trip in the summer of 2021, and reveal what the creation, culture, and class influence of hot dogs says about America now.A Best Book of the Year from NPR and Vulture. Featured in: NPR Weekend Edition • Bon ... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Champagne

    The Essential Guide to the Wines, Producers, and Terroirs of the Iconic Region

    by Peter Liem ...
    Winner of the 2018 James Beard Foundation Cookbook Award in "Reference, History, Scholarship"Winner of the 2017 André Simon Drink Book AwardWinner of the 2018 International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) Cookbook Award for "Wine, Beer & Spirits"From Peter Liem, the lauded expert behind the top-rated online resource ChampagneGuide.net, comes this groundbreaking guide to the modern ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Gin: How to Drink it

    by Dave Broom ...
    Written by the Fortnum & Mason Drinks Writer of the Year 2020.Updated with more than 80 new gins.With more gin brands available than ever before, you need to know how to choose and get the most out of the brands you buy, understanding their flavours so you drink them in the most delicious way possible.Award-winning spirits writer Dave Broom has tested thousands of gins from all over the world to ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Milk Street: Cook What You Have

    Make a Meal Out of Almost Anything (A Cookbook)

    Make a meal out of almost anything.Stop shopping and start cooking what you have. Your pantry's possibilities are endless. Milk Street will help you transform whatever you already have into bright, bold meals from around the world.Got a can of chickpeas? It can become anything from a quick hummus to a curry spiked with sweet carrots, from a garlicky chickpea soup to a bowl of crispy canned beans ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Wild Vine

    A Forgotten Grape and the Untold Story of American Wine

    by Todd Kliman ...
    A rich romp through untold American history featuring fabulous characters, The Wild Vine is the tale of a little-known American grape that rocked the fine-wine world of the nineteenth century and is poised to do so again today.Author Todd Kliman sets out on an epic quest to unravel the mystery behind Norton, a grape used to make a Missouri wine that claimed a prestigious gold medal at an ... Read more

    $11.99 USD $7.99 USD

  • Girly Drinks

    A World History of Women and Alcohol

    *A Finalist for the Spirited Award for Best New Book on Drinks Culture, History or Spirits**A Guardian Best History and Politics Book of 2022*“At last, the feminist history of booze we’ve been waiting for!” —Amy Stewart, author of The Drunken BotanistThe James Beard Award-winning history of women drinking through the agesStrawberry daiquiris. Skinny martinis. Vodka sodas with lime. T... ... Read more

    $19.49 USD $16.99 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

  • Eat This Poem

    A Literary Feast of Recipes Inspired by Poetry

    A literary cookbook thatcelebrates food and poetry, two of life's essential ingredients.In the same way that salt seasons ingredients to bring out their flavors, poetry seasons our lives; when celebrated together, our everyday moments and meals are richer and more meaningful. The twenty-five inspiring poems in this book—from such poets as Marge Piercy, Louise Glück, Mark Strand, Mary Oliver, Billy ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • American Cheese

    An Indulgent Odyssey Through the Artisan Cheese World

    by Joe Berkowitz ...
    From the author of Away with Words, a deeply hilarious and unexpectedly insightful deep-dive into a cultural and culinary phenomenon: cheese.“Who knew it was possible to enjoy reading about cheese as much as eating it? Remarkably entertaining, deeply insightful, and downright hilarious, American Cheese goes far beyond the plastic yellow slices we all know, and some love, revealing a community as ... Read more

    $13.49 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

  • Diet for a Small Planet

    The Book That Started a Revolution in the Way Americans Eat

    The book that started a revolution in the way Americans eatThe extraordinary book that taught America the social and personal significance of a new way of eating is still a complete guide for eating well in the twenty-first century.Sharing her personal evolution and how this groundbreaking book changed her own life, world-renowned food expert Frances Moore Lappé offers an all-new, even more ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Meathooked

    The History and Science of Our 2.5-Million-Year Obsession with Meat

    by Marta Zaraska ...
    One of the great science and health revelations of our time is the danger posed by meat-eating. Every day, it seems, we are warned about the harm producing and consuming meat can do to the environment and our bodies. Many of us have tried to limit how much meat we consume, and many of us have tried to give it up altogether. But it is not easy to resist the smoky, cured, barbequed, and fried ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Best Food Writing 2013

    Edited by Holly Hughes ...
    Best Food Writing is the place where readers and food writers meet to celebrate the most delicious prose of the year-serving up everything to whet your appetite from entertaining blogs to provocative journalism. This year's edition includes food writing stars (Michael Pollan, Pete Wells, and Jonathan Gold) as well as intriguing new voices (Matt Goulding and Erin Byers Murray) and celebrated chef ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • We've Always Had Paris...and Provence

    A Scrapbook of Our Life in France

    Patricia Wells, long recognized as the leading American authority on French food, and her husband, Walter, live the life in France that many of us have often fantasized about. After more than a quarter century, they are as close to being accepted as "French" as any non-natives can be. In this delightful memoir they share in two voices their experiences—the good, the bad, and the funny—offering a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD