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Always home : a daughter's recipes & stories
by Fanny Singer
A cookbook and memoir by the daughter of food activist Alice Waters shares recipe-complemented vignettes about the traditions that shaped her upbringing, her insights into her mother’s philosophies and her own culinary coming of age. Illustrations. Tour.
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Blue plate special : an autobiography of my appetites
by Kate Christensen
The PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man builds on her popular food-centric blog to recount her unconventional upbringing and her unusually happy and occasionally sorrowful life of literary and culinary sensuality.
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Cleaving : a story of marriage, meat, and obsession
by Julie Powell
The popular blogger describes how in the wake of a strain on her marriage she left town to immerse herself in the art of butchery, the laborious training she received, and her journeys throughout the world in search of the butchery practices of other cultures
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Kitchen yarns : notes on life, love, and food
by Ann Hood
A collection of personal essays and recipes by the best-selling author of The Knitting Circle reflects on the culinary experiences that shaped her Italian-American childhood and adult family life and includes the award-winning piece, "The Golden Silver Palate."
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L'appart : the delights and disasters of making my Paris home
by David Lebovitz
The professional baker and best-selling author of My Paris Kitchen presents a latest recipe-complemented account of his ex-pat life in Paris, drawing on his maddening experiences in apartment renovation as a launching point for stories about French culture, food and what it means to revamp a life. Includes recipes.
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Save me the plums : my Gourmet memoir
by Ruth Reichl
The six-time James Beard Award-winning journalist and best-selling author of My Kitchen Year chronicles her groundbreaking tenure as editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine and her work with legendary fellow epicureans to transform how America thinks about food
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Yes, chef : a memoir
by Marcus Samuelsson
The Top Chef: Masters winner and James Beard Award-winning proprietor of Harlem's Red Rooster traces his Ethiopian birth, upbringing by an adoptive family in Sweden and rise to a famous New York chef, sharing personal insights into his challenges as a black man in a deeply prejudiced industry. 40,000 first printing
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