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Olive Season

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Olive Season

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Sirio : The Story of My Life and Le Cirque

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Sirio : The Story of My Life and Le Cirque

2005 IACP Award Finalist - Literary Food Writing Category The inside story of one of the world's most legendary restaurants"”told by the visionary who created it.

Last Chance to Eat

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Last Chance to Eat

2005 James Beard Award Winner! - Writing on Food A witty and vividly remembered culinary memoir about how eating once was, and still can be, a joy. Food has never been more exalted as part of a lifestyle, yet fewer and fewer people really know what good food is.

Apricots on the Nile

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Apricots on the Nile

Cairo, 1937: French-born Colette Rossant is waiting out World War II among her father's Egyptian-Jewish relatives.

Feeding a Yen

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Feeding a Yen

Calvin Trillin has never been a champion of the "continental cuisine"¯ palaces he used to refer to as La Maison de la Casa House--nor of their successors, the trendy spots he calls "sleepy-time restaurants, where everything is served on a bed of something else.

Emeril! Inside the Amazing Success of Today's Most Popular Chef

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Emeril! Inside the Amazing Success of Today's Most Popular Chef

Required reading for everyone who loves Emeril Emeril Lagasse is a phenomenon"“a television chef and restaurateur who has parlayed his outsized personality and gastronomic acumen into a 70 million dollar culinary empire.

A Welcoming Life

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A Welcoming Life

Gioia, ed. Scrapbook captures remarkable life and spirit of the beloved M.F.K. in 240 family photos and extended selections from her writings.

Crazy in the Kitchen

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Crazy in the Kitchen

With this stunning memoir of growing up in Italian-American New Jersey, Louise DeSalvo proves that your family's past is baked right into the bread you eat. In Louise DeSalvo's family, in 1950s New Jersey, the kitchen becomes the site for fierce generational battle.

Burnt Bread and Chutney

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Burnt Bread and Chutney

In the politics of skin color, Carmit Delman is an ambassador from a world of which few are even aware. Her mother is a direct descendant of the Bene Israel, a tiny, ancient community of Jews thriving amidst the rich cultural tableau of Western India.

Crazy in the Kitchen

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Crazy in the Kitchen

New in paperback! With this stunning memoir of growing up in Italian-American New Jersey, Louise DeSalvo proves that your family's past is baked right into the bread you eat.