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• Bite by Bite

  Nourishments & Jamborees

  Nezhukumatathil, Aimee,

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  In Bite by Bite, poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil explores the way food and drink evoke our associations and remembrances--a subtext or layering, a flavor tinged with joy, shame, exuberance, grief, desire, or nostalgia.

• Chop Fry Watch Learn

  Fu Pei-mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food

  King, Michelle Tien,

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  In 1949, a young Chinese housewife arrived in Taiwan and transformed herself from a novice to a natural in the kitchen. She launched a career as a cookbook author and television cooking instructor that would last four decades. Years later, in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• For the Culture

  Phenomenal Black Women and Femmes in Food : Interviews, Inspiration, and Recipes

  Miller, Klancy,

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  Chef and writer Klancy Miller found her own way by trial and error--as a pastry chef, recipe developer, author, and founder of For the Culture magazine--but what if she had known then what she knows now? What if she had known the extraordinary women…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Are What We Eat

  a Slow Food Manifesto

  Waters, Alice,

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  In We Are What We Eat , Alice Waters urges us to take up the mantle of slow food culture, the philosophy at the core of her life's work.

• Home Cooking

  a Writer in the Kitchen

  Colwin, Laurie,

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  From the humble hotplate of her one-room apartment to the crowded kitchens of bustling parties, Colwin regales us with tales of meals gone both magnificently well and disastrously wrong. Hilarious, personal, and full of Colwin's hard-won expertise,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Kitchen Confidential

  Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

  Bourdain, Anthony,

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  Almost 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.

• Notes From a Young Black Chef

  a Memoir

  Onwuachi, Kwame

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  By the time he was twenty-seven years old, Kwame Onwuachi (winner of the 2019 James Beard Foundation Award for Rising Star Chef of the Year) had opened--and closed--one of the most talked about restaurants in America. He had launched his own…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Good Taste

  a Life of Food and Passion

  Ducasse, Alain,

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  A memoir and manifesto from the world's most Michelin starred chef, Alain Ducasse, with introductions by internationally renowned writer Jay McInerney and chef Clare Smyth.

• If You Can't Take the Heat

  Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

  DeRuiter, Geraldine,

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  When celebrity chef Mario Batali sent out an apology letter for the sexual harassment allegations made against him, he had the gall to include a recipe--for cinnamon rolls, of all things. Geraldine DeRuiter decided to make the recipe, and she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dirt

  Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking

  Buford, Bill,

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  A hilariously self-deprecating, highly obsessive account of the author's adventures, in the world of French haute cuisine, for anyone whose ever found joy in cooking and eating food with their family--from the author of the best-selling, widely…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Julie and Julia

  My Year of Cooking Dangerously

  Powell, Julie

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  Nearing 30 and trapped in a dead-end secretarial job, Julie Powell reclaims her life by cooking every single recipe in Julia Child's legendary Mastering the Art of French Cooking in the span of one year. It's a hysterical, inconceivable redemptive…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Blood, Bones, & Butter

  the Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef

  Hamilton, Gabrielle

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  The chef of New York's East Village Prune restaurant presents an account of her search for meaning and purpose in the central rural New Jersey home of her youth, marked by a first chicken kill, an international backpacking tour, and the opening of a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Apprentice

  My Life in the Kitchen

  Pépin, Jacques

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  In this captivating memoir, the man whom Julia Child has called "the best chef in America" tells the story of his rise from a frightened apprentice in an exacting Old World kitchen to an Emmy Awardwinning superstar who taught millions of Americans…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Cooking Gene

  a Journey Through African-American Culinary History in the Old South

  Twitty, Michael W., 1977-

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  A renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on our most divisive cultural issue, race, in this illuminating memoir of Southern cuisine and food culture that traces his ancestry--both black and white--through food, from Africa to America…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hungry

  Eating, Road-tripping, and Risking It All With the Greatest Chef in the World

  Gordinier, Jeff

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  A food critic chronicles four years spent traveling with René Redzepi, the renowned chef of Noma, in search of the most tantalizing flavors the world has to offer.

• Comfort Me With Apples

  More Adventures at the Table

  Reichl, Ruth

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  In Ruth Reichl's latest book -- one that will delight her fans and convert those as yet uninitiated to her charming tales -- the author brings to life her adventures in pursuit of good meals and good company.

• The Food Adventurers

  How Around-the-world Travel Changed the Way We Eat

  Bender, Daniel E.,

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  From mangosteen fruit discovered in a colonial Indonesian marketplace to caviar served on the high seas in a cruise liner's luxurious dining saloon, The Food Adventurers narrates the history of eating on the most coveted of tourist journeys: the…Read moreRead more of this annotation