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May.24.2009
Humorous memoir with essays about Paris culture and food from pastry chef David Lebovitz.
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Feb.17.2009
From Amazon:
(by Aleah Sato)
Christine Hamm's Transparent Dinner illustrates the psychological breaking down of the American daughter. Beginning at the dinner table, this daughter intuitively knows her fate, and is forced to come face-to-face with her incompetent (at best) and malevolent (at worst...
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Nov.14.2008
In Nonna's Kitchen is a beautifully written collection of anecdotes, folk wisdom, priceless secrets, and recipes from the kitchens of matriarchs throughout the peninsula. As ordinary life in Italy becomes increasingly urban and Americanized, the nonne are the last generation to preserve the unique...
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Oct.21.2008
Americans are on a roll in the kitchen -- we've never been better or smarter about cooking. But how does a beginning cook become good, a good cook great?
Modeled on Strunk and White's The Elements of Style, The Elements of Cooking is an opinionated volume by Michael Ruhlman -- the award-winning and...
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Oct.21.2008
The Making of a Chef is a dramatic narrative of an actual culinary education as it's taught at the most prominent cooking school in the United States, the Culinary Institute of America. The story begins in a class called Skill Development, where students learn to make stocks, to hold a knife, to...
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Oct.21.2008
When I finished the manuscript of the Making of a Chef, I couldn't stop cooking or thinking about cooking and the work of the professional chef. There was so much more to know. Learning to cook, then writing a book with the same urgency and speed of a kitchen crew slammed on Saturday night, left me...
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Oct.21.2008
The book is an attempt to get my arms around the expanding nature of the chef in America and what it means to be one today. The chef in the age of celebrity, the chef in the midst of a restaurant-as-theater bonanza, the chef in the middle of an American food revolution. Chefs today can do amazing...
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Oct.19.2008
Simply Natural Baby Food shows even the busiest parent or care provider how to prepare fresh, natural foods for young children. It explains why whole, organic foods are desirable and gives easy, practical recipes to prepare them. There is a chapter for each stage of a baby’s eating development from...
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Oct.19.2008
Finally there is a pregnancy and lactation cookbook designed to meet the specific needs of vegetarian women. The Vegetarian Mother’s Cookbook contains more than 300 delicious whole foods recipes designed to nourish mothers and their families throughout pregnancy and lactation. The easy-to-prepare...
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