Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking D...
Julie PowellNearing 30 and trapped in a dead-end secretarial job, Julie Powell resolved to reclaim her life by cooking, in the span of a single year, every one of the 524 recipes in Julia Child's legendary Mastering the Art of French Cookin...
Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking D...
Julie PowellNearing 30 and trapped in a dead-end secretarial job, Julie Powell resolved to reclaim her life by cooking, in the span of a single year, every one of the 524 recipes in Julia Child's legendary Mastering the Art of French Cookin...
Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger
Nigel Slater‘My mother is scraping a piece of burned toast out of the kitchen window, a crease of annoyance across her forehead. This is not an occasional occurrence. My mother burns the toast as surely as the sun rises each morning.’‘Toast...
Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Co...
Paula H. DeenDo you know the real Paula Deen? You may think you know the butter-loving, finger-licking, joke-cracking queen of melt-in-your-mouth Southern cuisine. You may have even visited The Lady & Sons to taste for yourself the down-home...
Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant F...
Patricica VolkThis funny and charming memoir tells about a bigger-than-life New York family that owned fourteen restaurants, including Morgen's in the garment district. Sharing life and good food for three generations, the family exhibited a voraci...
Spiced: A Pastry Chef's True Stories ...
Dalia JurgensenA clever and affectionate glimpse at the truth about what goes on behind that swinging door, full of "great insider stuff" (Anthony Bourdain) Life in a restaurant kitchen is strenuous and exciting, while its inhabitants ar...
Twain's Feast: Searching for America'...
Andrew BeahrsOne young food writer's search for America's lost wild foods, from New Orleans croakers to Illinois prairie hens, with Mark Twain as his guide. In 1879, Mark Twain paused during a European tour to compose a fantasy menu of the Ameri...
Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadverten...
Gabrielle HamiltonNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBefore Gabrielle Hamilton opened her acclaimed New York restaurant Prune, she spent twenty hard-living years trying to find purpose and meaning in her life. Blood, Bones & Butter follows an unconventional jour...
A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes ...
Molly WizenbergWhen Molly Wizenberg's father died of cancer, everyone told her to go easy on herself, to hold off on making any major decisions for a while. But when she tried going back to her apartment in Seattle and returning to graduate school, ...
You can't tell the story of Chez Panisse, Berkeley's famed restaurant, without relating that of its diminutive founder, proprietor, and sometime chef, Alice Waters. This is what Thomas McNamee does most handily in his Alice Waters and...
Life, on the Line: A Chef's Story of ...
Grant Achatz"One of America's great chefs" (Vogue), Grant Achatz, shares how his drive to cook immaculate food fueled his miraculous triumph over tongue cancer. By 2007 chef Grant Achatz had been named one of the best new chefs in Ame...
Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventur...
Ruth ReichlIn this delightful sequel to her bestseller Tender at the Bone, Ruth Reichl returns with more tales of love, life, and marvelous meals. Comfort Me with Apples picks up Reichl's story in 1978, when she puts down her chef's toque and em...
Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the...
Ruth ReichlAt an early age, Ruth Reichl discovered that "food could be a way of making sense of the world. . . . If you watched people as they ate, you could find out who they were." Her deliciously crafted memoir, Tender at the Bone, ...
The delicious life of one of the most beloved figures in twentiethcentury American culture—soon to be played by Meryl Streep in a major motion picture With a swoping voice, an irrepressible sense of humor, and a passion for good foo...