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Aug.18.2010
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Aug.18.2010
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Aug.17.2010
Every woman has that group of friends in her life ~ her "go to girls" The friends that she can turn to who "get it." The ones who are there for you no matter what. The ones who laugh with you and cry with you. The ones that will always be there. These are the women of Napa...
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Jun.30.2009
The sudden death of her husband turns Merle Bennett's life upside down. Her work for poor legal clients isn't going to pay the bills and her son is kicked out of school. The blows just keep on coming. Merle finds herself doing what she least expected, decamping to France for the summer to fix up...
Oregon Wine Country, Second Revised Edition, cover.
Oct.23.2008
An extensive tour of Oregon vineyards and wineries and visits to wine country villages and towns. 
A Matter of Taste
May.28.2008
Lucy Waverman fans will find a wide range of new dishes that reflect her signature approach to cooking--easy-to-follow, thoroughly tested recipes bursting with flavor and flair. Dazzle your food-savvy friends with a sophisticated but stress-free meal that includes slowly braised lamb and a...
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Mar.21.2008
In The House of Mondavi: The Rise and Fall of an American Wine Dynasty, veteran Wall Street Journal writer Julia Flynn Siler chronicles the turbulence that has roiled four generations of Mondavis and the business they built into an empire. Drawing on meticulous research and hundreds of interviews...
Mar.04.2008
Thomas Keller, chef/proprieter of Napa Valley's French Laundry, is passionate about bistro cooking. He believes fervently that the real art of cooking lies in elevating to excellence the simplest ingredients; that bistro cooking embodies at once a culinary ethos of generosity, economy, and...
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Mar.04.2008
Thomas Keller, chef/proprieter of Napa Valley's French Laundry, is passionate about bistro cooking. He believes fervently that the real art of cooking lies in elevating to excellence the simplest ingredients; that bistro cooking embodies at once a culinary ethos of generosity, economy, and...
The French Laundry Cookbook
Mar.04.2008
Thomas Keller, chef/proprieter of the French Laundry in the Napa Valley—"the most exciting place to eat in the United States," wrote Ruth Reichl in The New York Times—is a wizard, a purist, a man obsessed with getting it right. And this, his first cookbook, is every bit as satisfying as a...