Biography
Escoffier : The King of Chefs
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Auguste Escoffier (1846 -1935) was the first great star of modern cooking. Acknowledged during his lifetime as the greatest chef in the world, his clientele included Edward VII and Kaiser Wilhelm II, as well as the leaders of society and of fashion.
Food and Loathing : A Life Measured Out in Calories
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Never before Food and Loathing has the intimate relationship between mood swings and food swings been so honestly chronicled. As a bright but chubby girl, Betsy Lerner believed that thinness was the key to success with friends and boys.
Appetites: Why Women Want
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What do women want? Did Freud have any idea how difficult that question would become for women to answer?
Cooking for Kings
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A biography with recipes of the man who rose from Paris street orphan to become the private chef of Tallyrand, the Viennese court and Baron de Rothschild.
California Dish
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New in Paper! California Dish delivers on the double meaning implicit in its title -- it serves up a longtime insider's juicy perspective on the key players of the American culinary revolution, and recounts, course by course, a career's worth of exceptional meals.
Olive Season
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Carol Drinkwater's The Olive Farm told the lyrical tale of her real-life romance with partner Michel and an abandoned Provençal olive farm that they fell in love with and bought--a double love story, recounting with wit, warmth, and alluring detail the couple's attempts to bring
Kitchen Book & the Cook Book
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Nicolas Freeling, best known for producing some of the finest of modern crime fiction, began his working life as an apprentice cook in a large French hotel.
Return to Paris : A Memoir
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The internationally celebrated food writer stimulates all of our sense as she skillfully mixes vibrant memories of her early life in post-World War II Paris, with descriptions of meals that changed her life.
In Buddha's Kitchen
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Kimberly Snow's unique take on life at a Buddhist retreat center exposes the inner workings of such an institution to be just as familiarly claustrophobic and amusing as any small college, private school, or summer camp.
Are You Hungry, Dear?
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Warm and funny episodes--each complete with the perfect recipe--from the life of the Emmy Award-winning mother-in-law from the hit comedy Everybody Loves Raymond. In Are you Hungry, Dear?