Category: Culinary Writing

2013 Reprint of 1939 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Charles H. Baker, Jr., wrote five collections of recipes that are far more than cookbooks, and impossible to classify. Baker states his chief tenet that informs his work: that all really interesting people-sportsman, explorers, musicians, scientists, vagabonds and writers-were vitally interested in good things to eat and drink; cared for exotic and intriguing ways of composing them. We soon discovered further that this keen interest was not solely through gluttony, the spur ...
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Kitchen Confidential Updated Edition: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (P.S.)

By: Bourdain, Anthony

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Ecco : January 2007

Seller ID: 150323

ISBN-13: 9780060899226

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

An updated and revised edition of Anthony Bourdain's mega-bestselling Kitchen Confidential, with new material from the original editionAlmost two decades ago, the New Yorker published a now infamous article, "Don't Eat before You Read This," by then little-known chef Anthony Bourdain. Bourdain spared no one's appetite as he revealed what happens behind the kitchen door. The article was a sensation, and the book it spawned, the now classic Kitchen Confidential, became an even bigger sensation, a megabestseller with over one million copies in print. Frankly confessional, addictively acerbic, and...
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Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook (P.S.)

By: Bourdain, Anthony

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Ecco : May 2011

Seller ID: 150960

ISBN-13: 9780061718953

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The instant New York Times bestseller and follow-up to Anthony Bourdain's blockbuster classic on the cooking life, Kitchen ConfidentialMedium Raw marks the return of the inimitable Anthony Bourdain, author of the blockbuster bestseller Kitchen Confidential and three-time Emmy Award-nominated host of No Reservations on TV's Travel Channel. Bourdain calls his book, "A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook," and he is at his entertaining best as he takes aim at some of the biggest names in the foodie world, including David Chang, Alice Waters, the Top Chef winners and lose...
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Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany

By: Buford, Bill

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Vintage : June 2007

Seller ID: 140132

ISBN-13: 9781400034475

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The book that helped define a genre: Heat is a beloved culinary classic, an adventure in the kitchen and into Italian cuisine, by Bill Buford, author of Dirt. Bill Buford was a highly acclaimed writer and editor at the New Yorker when he decided to leave for a most unlikely destination: the kitchen at Babbo, one of New York City's most popular and revolutionary Italian restaurants.Finally realizing a long-held desire to learn first-hand the experience of restaurant cooking, Buford soon finds himself drowning in improperly cubed carrots and scalding pasta water on his quest to learn the tricks ...
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The Locavore Way: Discover and Enjoy the Pleasures of Locally Grown Food

By: Cotler, Amy

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC : November 2009

Seller ID: 92773

ISBN-13: 9781603424530

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Eating food grown close to home is not only tasty, but comes with great benefits for the health of your family, your local community, and the environment. Learn how and where to find local foods, how to eat locally on a tight budget, what questions to ask at the farmers' market, and how to grow your own food in small spaces. With shopping tips and simple guides to preparing what's in season, The Locavore Way makes eating locally as simple as it is delicious.
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An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies

By: Cowen, Tyler

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Dutton : April 2012

Seller ID: 101783

ISBN-13: 9780525952664

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

some wear on jacket, age discoloration along edges of cover, jacket and text block
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Under the Table: Saucy Tales from Culinary School

By: Darling, Katherine

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Atria Books : April 2009

Seller ID: 101782

ISBN-13: 9781416565277

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

foxing on edges and end pages, age discoloration in text block
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Twinkie, Deconstructed: My Journey to Discover How the Ingredients Found in Processed Foods Are Grown, M ined (Yes, Mined), and Manipulated into What America Eats

By: Ettlinger, Steve

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Plume : February 2008

Seller ID: 101790

ISBN-13: 9780452289284

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

slight age discoloration, cover creased, liquid stain along fore edge in first 30 pp.
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Spoiled: The Dangerous Truth About A Food Chain Gone Haywire

By: Fox, Nicols

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Basic Books : June 1997

Seller ID: 101789

ISBN-13: 9780465019809

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

some wear on jacket and cover edges, black marker stripe on lower edge
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The Compassionate Carnivore: Or, How to Keep Animals Happy, Save Old MacDonald's Farm, Reduce Your Hoofprint, and Still Eat Meat

By: Friend, Catherine

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books : April 2009

Seller ID: 101788

ISBN-13: 9780738213095

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

foxing on edges, end pages and covers
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The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food

By: Genoways, Ted

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks : October 2015

Seller ID: 101787

ISBN-13: 9780062288769

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

On the production line in American packinghouses, there is one cardinal rule: the chain never slows. Under pressure to increase supply, the supervisors of meat processing plants have routinely accelerated production, leading to inhumane conditions, increased accidents, and food of questionable, often dangerous quality. In The Chain, acclaimed journalist Ted Genoways uses the story of Hormel Foods and its most famous product, Spam--a recession-era staple--to probe the state of the meatpacking industry, from Minnesota to Iowa and Nebraska. Interviewing scores of line workers, union leaders, hog ...
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Anything That Moves: Renegade Chefs, Fearless Eaters, and the Making of a New American Food Culture

By: Goodyear, Dana

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Riverhead Books : November 2013

Seller ID: 101793

ISBN-13: 9781594488375

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

light wear on jacket
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Bon Appetit! The Delicious Life of Julia Child

By: Hartland, Jessie

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Schwartz & Wade : May 2012

Seller ID: 148728

ISBN-13: 9780375869440

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In a starred review, Publishers Weekly raves, "Chef and TV personality Julia Child likely would have delighted in and hooted over this wide-ranging picture-book biography.... Readers young and old will devour this fete pour les yeux." Follow Julia Child--chef, author, and television personality--from her childhood in Pasadena, California, to her life as a spy in WWII, to the cooking classes she took in Paris, to the publication of Mastering the Art of French Cooking, to the funny moments of being a chef on TV. This is a comprehensive and enchanting picture book biography, told in many panels ...
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The Year of the Goat: 40,000 Miles and the Quest for the Perfect Cheese

By: Hathaway, Margaret,Schatz, Karl

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Lyons Press : August 2007

Seller ID: 100487

ISBN-13: 9781599210216

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

some wear/creasing on jacket, edges of cover lightly worn, small spot/stain inside front cover and through front end pages
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Roast Chicken and Other Stories

By: Hopkinson, Simon; Bareham Lindsey

Price: $26.00

Publisher: Ebury Press : January 1999

Seller ID: 101792

ISBN-13: 9780091871000

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

some very light wear on cover
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Spiced: A Pastry Chef's True Stories of Trials by Fire, After-Hours Exploits, and What Really Goes on in the Kitchen

By: Jurgensen, Dalia

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Putnam Adult : April 2009

Seller ID: 101800

ISBN-13: 9780399155611

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

some wear on jacket, black marker stripe on lower edge, some age discoloration on edges of text block
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Fearless Gourmet: Decoding Menus From Around the World

By: Kolpas, Norman

Price: $7.50

Publisher: M Q Publications : February 2006

Seller ID: 101799

ISBN-13: 9781840729658

Binding: Turtleback Binding

Condition: Used - Good

very light foxing on edges and end pages, some light wear on covers
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Making Sense of Taste: Food and Philosophy

By: Korsmeyer, Carolyn

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Cornell University Press : October 1999

Seller ID: 101798

ISBN-13: 9780801436987

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

sticker residue on front cover, some light wear on top edge of jacket
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The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food

By: Lee, Jennifer 8

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Twelve : March 2008

Seller ID: 101794

ISBN-13: 9780446580076

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

former library book, call number sticker on spine, has a plastic jacket protector, foxing on end pages and edges, front end pages cut out, title/bibliographic page cut almost through, age/light discoloration along spine
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Category: Culinary Writing