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  • Ferran: The Inside Story of El Bulli and the Man Who Reinvented Food by Andrews, Colman
    Colman Andrews

    Ferran: The Inside Story of El Bulli and the Man Who Reinvented Food

    The first-ever biography of Ferran Adri , the chef behind Spain's renowned El Bulli restaurant, by one of the world's foremost food authorities. Ferran Adri is arguably the greatest culinary revolutionary of our time. Hailed as a genius and a prophet by fellow chefs,...
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  • Tasting Victory: The Life and Wines of the World's Favourite Sommelier by Basset, Gerard
    Gerard Basset

    Tasting Victory: The Life and Wines of the World's Favourite Sommelier

    A school dropout, Gerard had to come to England to discover his passion. He threw himself into learning everything he could about wine, immersing himself in the world of Michelin star restaurants and beginning the steep climb to the top of the career ladder....
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  • Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food by Hood, Ann
    Ann Hood

    Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food

    From her Italian American childhood through singlehood, raising and feeding a growing family, divorce, and a new marriage to food writer Michael Ruhlman, Ann Hood has long appreciated the power of a good meal. Growing up, she tasted love in her grandmother's tomato sauce...
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  • I Hear She's a Real Bitch by Agg, Jen
    Jen Agg

    I Hear She's a Real Bitch

    "A terrific, beautifully written, frank, and funny memoir, and a compelling argument for pulling down the long outdated system of 'bro' culture that has dominated the industry since what feels like the beginning of time." --Anthony Bourdain A sharp and candid memoir from a...
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  • Notes on a Banana: A Memoir of Food, Love, and Manic Depression by Leite, David
    David Leite

    Notes on a Banana: A Memoir of Food, Love, and Manic Depression

    A FINALIST FOR THE NEW ENGLAND BOOK AWARD FOR NON FICTIONA PASTE BEST BOOK OF THE YEARONE OF TIMEOUT NEW YORK'S BEST SUMMER BEACH READS OF 2017ONE OF REAL SIMPLE'S 25 FATHER'S DAY BOOKS THAT COVER ALL OF DAD'S INTERESTSThe stunning and long-awaited memoir...
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  • Tomato Pie: The Frank Pepe Story by Kelly, Joanna
    Joanna Kelly

    Tomato Pie: The Frank Pepe Story

    In her richly textured chronicle, Joanna Kelly delivers a historic account of Frank Pepe and the pizza-centric street he made famous in New Haven, Connecticut. In this celebration of the life of America's pizza pioneer, she shares the rags to riches story of Frank...
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  • Chef Interrupted by Gleason, Trevis L.
    Trevis L. Gleason

    Chef Interrupted

    When Trevis Gleason, a chef at the top of his culinary career, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, he lost everything, including his job and his marriage. Surveying the ruins of his former life, he decided to fulfill a long-postponed dream. He'd travel from Seattle...
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  • American Pie: Slices of Life (and Pie) from America's Back Roads by Le Draoulec, Pascale
    Pascale Le Draoulec

    American Pie: Slices of Life (and Pie) from America's Back Roads

    "A rich, satisfying account of one woman's cross-country search for the age-old dessert." -- Entertainment WeeklyAn engaging and quirky travelogue, cultural and personal excursion, and adventure-cookbook that brings back from the highways and back roads a homemade slice of AmericaCrossing class and color lines,...
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  • The Chef's Jacket: A Culinary Journey by Hollanda, Raymond
    Raymond Hollanda

    The Chef's Jacket: A Culinary Journey

    If you have ever thought about becoming a Chef, Raymond's account of his career is a must read. Watching cooking shows and competitions along with making great meals at home has little resemblance to the hard life of being a Chef. Raymond's insider view...
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  • The Gentleman's Companion: Being an Exotic Drinking Book Or, Around the World with Jigger, Beaker and Flask by Baker, Charles Henry
    Charles Henry Baker

    The Gentleman's Companion: Being an Exotic Drinking Book Or, Around the World with Jigger, Beaker and Flask

    Recipes and serving suggestions for alcoholic beverages from all over the world, ranging from cocktails to wines and spirits to regional specialties like the Mint Julep or Tewahdiddle. This drinking travelogue takes you all around the world to taste everything from the most well-known...
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  • Talking with My Mouth Full: My Life as a Professional Eater by Simmons, Gail
    Gail Simmons

    Talking with My Mouth Full: My Life as a Professional Eater

    When Top Chef judge Gail Simmons first graduated from college, she felt hopelessly lost. All her friends were going to graduate school, business school, law school . . . but what was she going to do? Fortunately, a family friend gave her some invaluable...
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  • How to Cook a Moose: A Culinary Memoir by Christensen, Kate
    Kate Christensen

    How to Cook a Moose: A Culinary Memoir

    Inspired by her new home in New England and the slow food movement re-energizing sustainable farming, Kate Christensen picks up where she left off in her last memoir, Blue Plate Special. In an ode to How to Cook a Wolf, M.F.K. Fisher's classic culinary...
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  • Trains in My Heart by Luna, Connie
    Connie Luna

    Trains in My Heart

    In Trains in My Heart, we enter not only the world of travel by rail, but the entertaining world of Connie Luna, a comedic hard-working, highly-regarded, private railroad car chef who created lifelong memories for countless rail travelers. Connie's first-hand account of her most...
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  • To Drink and to Eat: New Edition by Long, Guillaume
    Guillaume Long

    To Drink and to Eat: New Edition

    A new multi-course collection of cartoonist Guillaume Long's famous culinary comic in Le Monde, now equipped with a fresh Foreword by Starry Kitchen and bonus material from the author's archives If you want to take your culinary skills from cook to master chef, you'll...
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  • Female Force: RuPaul by Troy, Michael
    Michael Troy

    Female Force: RuPaul

    Don't be a drag, just be a queen. We break new ground again with big heels in it's latest offering in the popular Female Force Series focusing on RuPaul. RuPaul is easily the most famous drag queen and self-described "Supermodel of the World." This...
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  • Season to Taste: How I Lost My Sense of Smell and Found My Way by Birnbaum, Molly
    Molly Birnbaum

    Season to Taste: How I Lost My Sense of Smell and Found My Way

    "A rich, engrossing, and deeply intelligent story....This is a book I won't soon forget."--Molly Wizenberg, bestselling author of A Homemade Life"Fresh, smart, and consistently surprising. If this beautifully written book were a smell, it would be a crisp green apple."--Claire Dederer, bestselling author of...
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  • Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter by Damrosch, Phoebe
    Phoebe Damrosch

    Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter

    Warning: May contain material offensive to vegans, pharmaceutical lobbyists, and those on a low-sodium diet. Animals were harmed during the writing of this book.While Phoebe Damrosch was waiting for life to happen, she supported herself by working as a waitress. Before long she was...
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  • Roasting in Hell's Kitchen: Temper Tantrums, F Words, and the Pursuit of Perfection by Ramsay, Gordon
    Gordon Ramsay

    Roasting in Hell's Kitchen: Temper Tantrums, F Words, and the Pursuit of Perfection

    Everyone thinks they know the real Gordon Ramsay: rude, loud, pathologically driven, stubborn as hell. Now, for the first time, the world's most famous--and infamous--chef tells the inside story of his life: his difficult childhood, his father's alcoholism and violence, his brother's heroin addiction,...
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  • Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business by Meyer, Danny
    Danny Meyer

    Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business

    The bestselling business book from award-winning restauranteur Danny Meyer, of Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, and Shake ShackSeventy-five percent of all new restaurant ventures fail, and of those that do stick around, only a few become icons. Danny Meyer started Union Square Cafe when...
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  • Fasting and Feasting: The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray by Federman, Adam
    Adam Federman

    Fasting and Feasting: The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray

    A New York Times Notable Book for 2017--Now in Paperback For more than thirty years, Patience Gray--author of the celebrated cookbook Honey from a Weed--lived in a remote area of Puglia in southernmost Italy. She lived without electricity, modern plumbing, or a telephone, grew...
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  • My American Dream: A Life of Love, Family, and Food by Bastianich, Lidia Matticchio
    Lidia Matticchio Bastianich

    My American Dream: A Life of Love, Family, and Food

    For decades, beloved chef Lidia Bastianich has introduced Americans to Italian food through her cookbooks, TV shows, and restaurants. Now she tells her own story for the first time in this "memoir as rich and complex as her mushroom ragú" (O, the Oprah Magazine)....
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  • Life from Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness by Martin, Sasha
    Sasha Martin

    Life from Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness

    Witty, warm, and poignant, food blogger Sasha Martin's memoir about cooking her way to happiness and self-acceptance is a culinary journey like no other. Over the course of 195 weeks, food writer and blogger Sasha Martin set out to cook--and eat--a meal from every...
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  • The Archeology of a Good Ragù: Discovering Naples, My Father and Myselfvolume 36 by Domini, John
    John Domini

    The Archeology of a Good Ragù: Discovering Naples, My Father and Myself Volume 36

    The Archeology of a Good Ragù offers a unique take on the recovery narrative. A damaged but savvy author finds new wholeness by way of a fascinating old city: Naples, Italy. John Domini's exploration of the place-- little known to North Americans, yet rich...
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  • The Book of Eating: Adventures in Professional Gluttony by Platt, Adam
    Adam Platt

    The Book of Eating: Adventures in Professional Gluttony

    A wildly hilarious and irreverent memoir of a globe-trotting life lived meal-to-meal by one of our most influential and respected food criticsAs the son of a diplomat growing up in places like Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan, Adam Platt didn't have the chance to...
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  • American Cuisine: And How It Got This Way by Freedman, Paul
    Paul Freedman

    American Cuisine: And How It Got This Way

    For centuries, skeptical foreigners--and even millions of Americans--have believed there was no such thing as American cuisine. In recent decades, hamburgers, hot dogs, and pizza have been thought to define the nation's palate. Not so, says food historian Paul Freedman, who demonstrates that there...
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  • Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir by Onwuachi, Kwame
    Kwame Onwuachi

    Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir

    Kwame Onwuachi�s story shines a light on food and culture not just in American restaurants or African American communities but around the world.� �Questlove By the time he was twenty-seven years old, Kwame Onwuachi (winner of the 2019 James Beard Foundation Award for Rising...
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  • Nobu: A Memoir by Matsuhisa, Nobu
    Nobu Matsuhisa

    Nobu: A Memoir

    "In this outstanding memoir, chef and restaurateur Matsuhisa...shares lessons in humility, gratitude, and empathy that will stick with readers long after they've finished the final chapter." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Inspiration by example" (Associated Press) from the acclaimed celebrity chef and international restaurateur, Nobu,...
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  • The Artful Evolution of Hal & Mal's by White, Malcolm
    Malcolm White

    The Artful Evolution of Hal & Mal's

    The Artful Evolution of Hal & Mal's is a collaboration between artist Ginger Williams Cook and author Malcolm White about the people, the place, and the history of Hal & Mal's, an iconic institution in downtown Jackson, Mississippi. Featuring beautiful watercolor paintings, the book...
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  • Feast: True Love in and Out of the Kitchen by Howard, Hannah
    Hannah Howard

    Feast: True Love in and Out of the Kitchen

    The compulsively readable memoir of a woman at war--with herself, with her body, and with food--while working her way through the underbelly of New York City's glamorous culinary scene.Hannah Howard is a Columbia University freshman when she lands a hostess job at Picholine, a...
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  • Meet Me at the Bamboo Table: Everyday Meals Everywhere by Crofts, A. V.
    A. V. Crofts

    Meet Me at the Bamboo Table: Everyday Meals Everywhere

    In our ever-more-globalized world, how better to connect than with food, and who better to connect us than a chowhound communications professor? A.V. Crofts has spent decades eating (and learning) her way around the world. She's studied in China, taught in Italy, and conducted...
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  • Food, Sex, Wine and Cigars: A Memoir by Stalvey, Lisa
    Lisa Stalvey

    Food, Sex, Wine and Cigars: A Memoir

    "Lisa was a big part of L'Orangerie's success, compliments from Johnny Carson to Catherine Deneuve and everyone else in between." - Latifa Franco, award-winning chef "Our careers have taken us in very different directions, but she was my mentor and inspiration from the start,...
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  • The Gentleman's Companion: Being an Exotic Drinking Book Or, Around the World with Jigger, Beaker and Flask by Baker, Charles Henry
    Charles Henry Baker

    The Gentleman's Companion: Being an Exotic Drinking Book Or, Around the World with Jigger, Beaker and Flask

    During prohibition, Charles Baker traveled the world in search of exotic alcoholic beverages in addition to interesting people with whom he could share them. The Gentleman's Companion: The Exotic Drinking Book is the summation of Baker's drinking experiences abroad. Baker accents his tales of...
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  • The Gentleman's Companion: Complete Edition by Baker, Charles Henry
    Charles Henry Baker

    The Gentleman's Companion: Complete Edition

    Charles Baker traveled the world in search of exotic food and drink in addition to interesting people with whom he could share them. Both drink travelogue and cookbook, The Gentleman's Companion is the summation of Baker's culinary and drinking experiences abroad. Baker accents his...
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  • Dear Olivia: An Italian Journey of Love and Courage by Contini, Mary
    Mary Contini

    Dear Olivia: An Italian Journey of Love and Courage

    In this fascinating follow-up to the highly successful Dear Francesca, Mary Contini writes to her other daughter, Olivia, to tell the story of her great-grandparents, the humble Italian shepherds who emigrated to Edinburgh and then helped to transform Britain's food culture. Sharing some of...
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  • 101 Gins to Try Before You Die: Fully Revised and Updated Edition by Buxton, Ian
    Ian Buxton

    101 Gins to Try Before You Die: Fully Revised and Updated Edition

    We're in the middle of a Gin Craze. Scarcely a day goes by without an established brand offering a fresh take on their established styles or, more likely, a new boutique distillery opening its doors - where gin is de rigueur.From Adnams to Zuidam;...
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  • Memoirs of The Mad Hatter: (Dyslexia-Smart) by Stevenson, Nygel
    Nygel Stevenson

    Memoirs of The Mad Hatter: (Dyslexia-Smart)

    Dyslexia-Smart: tailored for dyslexic readers but can be read by anyone. 'The Mad Hatter' is the alter ego of Nygel Stevenson, proprietor of Madhatters, a popular tea shop that has been voted No.1 on Trip Advisor in Nottingham. It has also won an award...
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  • Longthroat Memoirs: Soups, Sex and Nigerian Taste Buds by Aribisala, Yemisi
    Yemisi Aribisala

    Longthroat Memoirs: Soups, Sex and Nigerian Taste Buds

    An award-winning, sumptuous menu of essays about Nigerian cuisine, lovingly presented by the nation's top epicurean writer.Author: Yemisi AribisalaISBN-10: 191111526XISBN-13: 9781911115267Publisher: Cassava Republic PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/24/2017Pages: 357Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.30w x 1.20d
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  • Hydroponics, Aquaponics, Aeroponics: The Ultimate Guide to Grow your own Hydroponic or Aquaponic or Aeroponic Garden at Home: Fruit, Vegetable, Herbs. by Darling, Lara
    Lara Darling

    Hydroponics, Aquaponics, Aeroponics: The Ultimate Guide to Grow your own Hydroponic or Aquaponic or Aeroponic Garden at Home: Fruit, Vegetable, Herbs.

    Would you like to learn the art of growing vegetables, fruits and herbs without soil?If yes, then this 3-BOOKS guide is for you.Imagine planting any plant without any need for soil.Imagine thinking of your garden, managing its spaces better and increasing the number of...
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  • The Flavours of Nationalism: A Memoir with Recipes for Love, Hate and Friendship by Haksar, Nandita
    Nandita Haksar

    The Flavours of Nationalism: A Memoir with Recipes for Love, Hate and Friendship

    DescriptionIn this extraordinary memoir, Nandita Haksar uses memories and ideas offood to ask fundamental questions about what we eat, who we eat with, whostarves and who feasts, which foods are forbidden or denigrated-and whatall this says about our country. Starting with her childhood in...
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  • World Travel Lib/E: An Irreverent Guide by Bourdain, Anthony
    Anthony Bourdain

    World Travel Lib/E: An Irreverent Guide

    A guide to some of the world's most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, television host, and relentlessly curious traveler Anthony BourdainAnthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. His travels took him from the hidden pockets of his hometown...
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  • Glorious Beef: The Lafrieda Family and the Evolution of the American Meat Industry by Molinari, Cecilia
    Cecilia Molinari

    Glorious Beef: The Lafrieda Family and the Evolution of the American Meat Industry

    An insightful and engaging insider's look at the real story of the meat industry, from master butcher Pat LaFrieda.It all began when Pat LaFrieda's great-grandfather Anthony LaFrieda decided to pack up and move his family from Italy to New York in search of a...
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  • The Cake Lady - My Life In The Mix: Mixing life's ingredients for success by Richardson, Linda
    Linda Richardson

    The Cake Lady - My Life In The Mix: Mixing life's ingredients for success

    It's easy to think that success is reserved for the fortunate and for those who were simply at the right place at the right time. From the outside looking in, the charm of owning a boutique cake shop certainly seems to be filled with...
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  • The Kimchi Experiment: Naked Parent Teacher Meetings and Other Exploits of a Canadian in South Korea by Knowles, Beth Ann
    Beth Ann Knowles

    The Kimchi Experiment: Naked Parent Teacher Meetings and Other Exploits of a Canadian in South Korea

    In early 2006, Beth Ann and her husband Dale quit their jobs in Canada and headed east, or maybe it was west, to teach English as a second language in South Korea. Their destination, Hwagae, was a place they couldn't even locate on a...
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  • Sweet Mandarin: The Courageous True Story of Three Generations of Chinese Women and Their Journey from East to West by Tse, Helen
    Helen Tse

    Sweet Mandarin: The Courageous True Story of Three Generations of Chinese Women and Their Journey from East to West

    Spanning almost a hundred years, this rich and evocative memoir recounts the lives of three generations of remarkable Chinese women. Their extraordinary journey takes us from the brutal poverty of village life in mainland China, to newly prosperous 1930s Hong Kong and finally to...
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  • Savage Feast: Three Generations, Two Continents, and a Dinner Table (a Memoir with Recipes) by Fishman, Boris
    Boris Fishman

    Savage Feast: Three Generations, Two Continents, and a Dinner Table (a Memoir with Recipes)

    The acclaimed author of A Replacement Life shifts between heartbreak and humor in this gorgeously told recipe-filled memoir. A story of family, immigration, and love--and an epic meal--Savage Feast explores the challenges of navigating two cultures from an unusual angle.A revealing personal story and...
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  • From Here, You Can't See Paris: Seasons of a French Village and Its Restaurant by Sanders, Michael S.
    Michael S. Sanders

    From Here, You Can't See Paris: Seasons of a French Village and Its Restaurant

    "A delightful tale of how an American discovers le pays, the little France where the roads on the Michelin map are the thinnest of lines. It is the story of a young couple's restaurant and the ancient French village that it brings back to...
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  • In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain by Vitale, Tom
    Tom Vitale

    In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain

    **Nominated for the 2022 BookTube Prize in Nonfiction** Anthony Bourdain's long time director and producer takes readers behind the scenes to reveal the insanity of filming television in some of the most volatile places in the world and what it was like to work...
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  • Sous Chef: 24 Hours on the Line by Gibney, Michael
    Michael Gibney

    Sous Chef: 24 Hours on the Line

    NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIMEThe back must slave to feed the belly. . . . In this urgent and unique book, chef Michael Gibney uses twenty-four hours to animate the intricate camaraderie and culinary choreography in...
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  • Cosmopolitan: A Bartender's Life by Cecchini, Toby
    Toby Cecchini

    Cosmopolitan: A Bartender's Life

    Cosmopolitan is a memoir of the bartending life structured as a day in the life of Passerby, the bar owned and run by Toby Cecchini. It is, as well, a rich study of human nature--of the outlandish behavior of the human animal under the...
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  • A Taste of Norman's Life by Calder, Norman
    Norman Calder

    A Taste of Norman's Life

    Join baking enthusiast Norman Calder as he reveals the back-stage drama from one of TV's biggest shows and takes us on a remarkable journey through an action-packed life.The former sailor has travelled the world, but discovered that the most exciting place he's been to...
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