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Julie and Julia : My Year of Cooking Dangerously order quantity
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Author: Julie Powell
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Trapped in a boring job and living in a tiny apartment in New York, Julie Powell regularly finds herself weeping on the way home from work. Then one night, through her mascara-smudged eyes, Julie notices that the few items she's grabbed from the Korean grocery store are the very ingredients for Potage Parmentier, as described in Julia Childs' legendary cookbook, "Mastering the Art of French Cooking". And The Project is born. Julie begins to cook - every one of the 524 recipes in the book, in the space of just one year. This is Julie's story, as gradually, from oeufs en cocotte to bifstek saute au beurre, from 'Bitch Rice' to preparing live lobsters, she realises that this deranged project is changing her life. The richness of the thousands of sauces she slaves over is beginning to spread into her life, and she begins to find the joie de vivre that has been missing for too many years.
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Kitchen Confidential order quantity
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Author: Anthony Bourdain
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After 25 years of "sex,drugs,bad behaviour and haute cuisine"chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain has decided to tell all.His tales of the kitchen are as passionate as they are unpredictable as they are funny.

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Cooking Lessons: Tales from the kitchen and other stories order quantity
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Author: Daisy Garnett
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It all began one summer when Daisy set sail across the Atlantic from Florida to Portugal with four men. Unexpectedly, it turned out that Daisy couldn't sail, and so was declared the cook. Except she couldn't cook either. From roasting her first chicken in that tiny galley kitchen to large feasts cooked at her family home, Daisy reveals how she not only learnt the skills of cooking, but also fell in love with food - a love that now borders on obsession. Full of highly entertaining and often hilarious food and family-related anecdotes - from the unidentifiable school dinners and baked potatoes of her youth, to scallops, doomed love affairs and a weekend spent with a New York drag queen - her adventures are diverse, inspiring and heart-warming.In this title, over 100 recipes are woven into a narrative, including basic techniques such as making breads and cakes, cooking and preparing meat and fish, and making jams and sauces, as well as ... more

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Eat, Memory - Great writers at the table: A collection of essays from the New York Times order quantity
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Author: Amanda Hesser
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Memorable moments with food — collected by ‘one of the best of the young food writers’ (according to Jeffrey Steingarten, Vogue food critic). In New York Times Magazine, food editor Amanda Hesser has showcases the food-inspired recollections of some of America’s leading writers — playwrights, screenwriters, novelists, poets, journalists. Eat, Memory collects the 26 best stories and recipes to accompany them.

In this collection of essays, Ann Patchett confronts her stubbornness in a heated argument she once had with her then-boyfriend, now husband, over dinner at the famed Paris restaurant Taillevent. Tom Perrotta explains how his long list of food aversions almost landed him in an East German prison. Gabrielle Hamilton finds that hiring a blind cook leads her into ethical terrain she wasn’t prepared to navigate. And poet Billy Collins muses over his relationship with a fish he once ate. Also included are stories by Chang-rae Lee, ... more

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In Defence of Food : The myth of nutrition and the pleasures of eating order quantity
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Author: Michael Pollan
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This book is a celebration of food. By food, Michael Pollan means real, proper, simple food - not the kind that comes in a packet, or has lists of unpronounceable ingredients, or that makes nutritional claims about how healthy it is. More like the kind of food your great-grandmother would recognize. "In Defence of Food" is a simple invitation to junk the science, ditch the diet and instead rediscover the joys of eating well. By following a few pieces of advice (Eat at a table - a desk doesn't count. Don't buy food where you'd buy your petrol!), you will enrich your life and your palate, and enlarge your sense of what it means to be healthy and happy. It's time to fall in love with food again.

First published 2008.

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Letters to a Young Chef order quantity
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Author: Daniel Boulud
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Written for the professional as well as the amateur cook, this is an invitation to the kitchen from a revered chef who combines traditional techniques and modern sensibility. From the reinvention of French food through the fine dining revolution in America, Daniel Boulud has been witness to, and creator of, our contemporary food culture. A modern man with a classical foundation, who worked up from scullery boy in Provence to international celebrity, he speaks with the authority that comes from a lifetime of experience, and no small amount of passion, about the vocation of creating and serving food. "Letters to a Young Chef" displays Boulud's earthy, expert and encouraging style. Some of the topics addressed are: Why do you want to be a chef? Posing the fundamental question before one enters the long years of apprenticeship; Pay your dues. How one must take one's time to learn the craft; What is success? What it takes to really make it, ... more

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Sweet Poison : Why sugar makes us fat order quantity
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Author: David Gillespie
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David, a smart corporate lawyer equipped with an enquiring mind, begins to query why it is we are so much heavier than previous generations, and discovers a culprit: Sugar, or, more specifically, the fructose component of sugar.

David Gillespie was 40kg overweight, lethargic, sleep-deprived and the father of four, with twins on the way. He knew he needed to lose weight fast, but he had run out of diets - all had failed.
After doing some reading on evolution (why weren't our forebears fat?), David cut sugar - specifically fructose - from his diet. He immediately started to lose weight, and kept it off.
Slim, trim and fired up, David set out to look at the connection between sugar, our soaring obesity rates and some of the more worrying diseases of the twenty-first century, and discovered some startling facts in the process.

  • Sugar was once such a rare resource that nature decided we didn't need an off-switch - in ... more

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The Gastronomy of Marriage order quantity
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Author: Michelle Maisto
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In this delectable memoir, the author uses that most revealing of questions within a new relationship: "What should we do about dinner?" The Gastronomy of Marriage is a book about two lives coming together at the dinner table. It's a story of lasagna, fried rice and Mexican stew, both the successful meals and the terribly less so. It's about having nothing to eat when the cupboard is bare and nothing to eat when it's full. About sharing a meal each night with a man who was raised in another household and so has different traditions and approaches to eating, different comfort foods, small allergies and dislikes, a body with a superior metabolism and a stunning catalogue of digestive maladies - and who, if all goes according to plan, will be the person Michelle shares her dinners with always.
 
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The Little Book of Vinegar Tips order quantity
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Author: Andrew Langley
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The Man Who Ate the World: In search of the perfect dinner order quantity
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Author: Jay Rayner
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'Nobody goes to restaurants for nutritional reasons. They go for experience, and what price a really top experience?' What price indeed?

Fearlessly, and with huge wit and knowledge and verve, award-winning food writer Jay Rayner has searched the world for the perfect meal. Sparing neither his wallet nor his digestive system, he has been to places, met people and eaten things the rest of us can only fantasize about. From Las Vegas and London to Moscow and Tokyo, the result is an enormously entertaining and informative romp through the world's best -- and worst -- restaurants.

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The Oxford Companion to Italian Food order quantity
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Author: Gillian Riley
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The popularity of Italian food all over the world is ever increasing. Unhampered by any sense of superiority, and unburdened by the weight of a great classical tradition, Italians cook and eat in the ways they have known and trusted for generations, absorbing new influences while cultivating and maintaining a distinct and esteemed gastronomic tradition. Lovers of Italy, the Italian people, and their cuisine, from the general ravioli revering public to those with specialist skills and interests, will welcome this new A-Z reference. The Companion consists of a short introduction followed by entries covering a range of topics such as the universal appeal of Italian gastronomy, influences from outside Italy, dishes, ingredients, delicacies, obscure terms, cooking methods and implements, regional specialties, personalities, books and writers, and history. This is an inspirational work providing an even blend of history, practical ... more

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The Story of Sushi : An Unlikely Saga of Raw Fish and Rice order quantity
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Author: Trevor Corson
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"The Story of Sushi" is at once a compelling tale of human determination and a delectable smorgasbord of surprising food science, intrepid reporting, and provocative cultural history.
Escorts the reader behind the sushi bar, through an extensive three-month course at the California Sushi Academy in Los Angeles where he spent a semester shadowing its founder and a select group of master chefs and their trainees and experienced first hand what's involved in becoming a naturalist with a knife. As the story of the chefs and trainees unfolds, he describes the different types of organisms that compose sushi, their behavior, biology, evolutionary origins, ecological niches, and nutritional properties. He discusses the seasonal progression of the organisms and explores the techniques by which they're harvested, including what's the best time for harvesting and why. He then provides a history of sushi's origins and evolution in Japan and its ... more

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Why Italians Love to Talk About Food order quantity
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Author: Elena Kostioukovitch
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An award-winning and thoroughly delicious cultural romp around Italy!

Why Italians Love to Talk About Food is a fascinating mix of history, culture, language and cuisine. Covering each of Italy's 20 diverse regions, along with chapters on general themes such as olive oil, Slow Food, and the Mediterranean diet, it is a gastronomic-cultural guide. Award-winning writer Elena Kostioukovitch shows how each region's traditional cuisine and local specialties have been informed by its culture and history, its exposure to foreign influences, its geography and landscape, its topography and climate, its social customs and attitudes, its religious canons, its politics and economy, and more. Food is a common language which crosses the most diverse social and economic strata. In the end it is Kostioukovitch's love for Italy itself, even more so than its food, that is her muse and inspiration.
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1001 Foods : The greatest gastronomic sensations on earth order quantity
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Author: Terry Durack
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"1001 Foods" is a delicious collection of the best foods the world has to offer, from Julia Child's recipe for scrambled eggs to Mexican Chicken Mole and everything in between. Each food is described in loving detail, including fascinating insights into its historical and cultural significance, and illustrated with stunning, appetizing photographs. The subject foods are organized according to the structure of a classic dinner: from Soup to Nuts. There are recipes and features throughout on particular subjects such as the best chicken dishes, the most expensive ingredients, the most delicious artisanal cheeses of the world, and many others. The arbiters of the list are food professionals whose names are known in kitchens and bookstores worldwide. They share their expert opinions on the whole foods, dishes and cuisines that must be experienced at least once in a lifetime.The contributions are from: Nigella Lawson, Madhur Jaffrey, Jamie ... more

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Adventure Of Food: A Taste Of The Road order quantity
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Author: Sterling Richard (ed.)
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle : Our year of seasonal eating order quantity
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Author: Barbara Kingsolver with Steven L Hepp & Camille Kingsolver (drawings by Richard A Houser)
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Barbara Kingsolver opens her home to us, as she and her family attempt a year of eating only local food, much of it from their own garden. With characteristic warmth, Kingsolver shows us how to put food back at the centre of the political and family agenda.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is part memoir, part journalistic investigation, and is full of original recipes.

First published 2007.

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Cleaving : A story or marriage, meat and obsession order quantity
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Author: Julie Powell
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Julie Powell thought cooking her way through Julia Child's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" was the craziest thing she'd ever do - until she embarked on the voyage recounted in her new memoir, "Cleaving". Her marriage challenged by an insane, irresistible love affair, Julie decides to leave town and immerse herself in a new obsession: butchery. She finds her way to Fleischer's, a butcher shop where she buries herself in the details of food. She learns how to break down a side of beef and French a rack of ribs - tough, physical work that only sometimes distracts her from thoughts of afternoon trysts. The camaraderie at Fleischer's leads Julie to search out fellow butchers around the world - from South America to Europe to Africa. At the end of her odyssey, she has learned a new art and perhaps even mastered her unruly heart.
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Cooking Dirty: Life, love and death in the kitchen order quantity
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Author: Jason Sheehan
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From his first job scraping trays at a pizzeria at the age of fifteen, Jason Sheehan has worked at all kinds of restaurants across America, from Buffalo to Tampa to Albuquerque: at a French colonial and an all-night diner, at a crab shack just off the interstate and a fusion restaurant in a former hair salon. In "Cooking Dirty" he tells the story of one man's addiction to the urgency, stress, and adrenalin of minimum-wage kitchen work. His universe becomes 'a small, steel box filled with knives and meat and fire', where the kitchen is a fraternity with its own rites and initiations: cigarettes in the walk-in freezer, sex in the basement, drugs everywhere. Restaurant cooking sets a series of seemingly endless personal challenges, from the first perfectly done mussel to the satisfaction of surgically sliced foie gras. The kitchen itself is a place in which life's mysteries are thawed, sliced, broiled, barbecued, and fried - a place where ... more
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Eating India : Exploring the food and culture of the land of spices order quantity
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Author: Chitrita Banerji
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In Eating India, the award-winning writer Chitrita Banerji takes us on a thrilling journey through a national food formed by generations of arrivals, assimilations and conquests. In mouth-watering prose, she explores how each wave of newcomers brought innovative new ways to combine the subcontinent's rich native spices, poppy seeds, saffron and mustard with the vegetables, fish, grains and pulses that are the staples of the Indian kitchen. Along the way, she visits traditional weddings, tiffin rooms, city markets, roadside cafes and tribal villages, to find out how India's turbulent history has shaped its people and its cuisine. Beautifully illustrated throughout, Eating India will stand as an authority on Indian food for years to come.

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