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  • Chicken Genius: The Art of Toshi Sakamaki's Yakitori Cuisine by Radfar, Bernard
    Bernard Radfar

    Chicken Genius: The Art of Toshi Sakamaki's Yakitori Cuisine

    With an introduction by Nobu Matsuhisa, Chicken Genius sets the standard in any language as a reference encyclopedia to this classic Japanese cuisine, for anyone interested in enjoying the ultimate chicken dishes In 2014, Bernard Radfar moved to West Los Angeles for one reason:...
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  • Anthony Bourdain: A Biography by Kelly, Erik
    Erik Kelly

    Anthony Bourdain: A Biography

    Anthony Bourdain was an American celebrity chef, author, travel documentarian, and television personality who starred in programs focusing on the exploration of international culture, cuisine, and the human condition. He was considered one of the most influential chefs in the world. Bourdain was a...
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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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  • Hungry: Eating, Road-Tripping, and Risking It All with the Greatest Chef in the World by Gordinier, Jeff
    Jeff Gordinier

    Hungry: Eating, Road-Tripping, and Risking It All with the Greatest Chef in the World

    A food critic chronicles four years spent traveling with Ren Redzepi, the renowned chef of Noma, in search of the most tantalizing flavors the world has to offer. "If you want to understand modern restaurant culture, you need to read this book."--Ruth Reichl, author...
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  • A Work in Progress, a Journal by Redzepi, René
    René Redzepi

    A Work in Progress: A Journal

    The world-famous chef Ren Redzepi's intimate first-hand account of a year in the life of his renowned restaurant, nomaA Work in Progress: A Journal is a highly personal document of the creative processes at noma and the challenges faced by its chefs over a...
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  • The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels: A Love Story by Drummond, Ree
    Ree Drummond

    The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels: A Love Story

    New York Times BestsellerWildly popular award-winning blogger, accidental ranch wife, and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Pioneer Woman Cooks, Ree Drummond (aka The Pioneer Woman) tells the true story of her storybook romance that led her from the Los Angeles glitter...
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  • Luca's Culinary Journey: Three Generations of Italian Family Cooking by Ciano, Luca
    Luca Ciano

    Luca's Culinary Journey: Three Generations of Italian Family Cooking

    Born and raised in the culinary capital of Milan, Italy, it was destiny that Luca inherited his passion for food and culinary exploration in his homeland. Luca's interest and passion for food commenced with his Mom and Nonna when he was just eight years...
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  • Full Circle: Memories and Magic from a Family Table by Hedden, Forrest
    Forrest Hedden

    Full Circle: Memories and Magic from a Family Table

    Ever wonder why you can't get away from the fact that eating chocolate cake makes you think of your grandmother? Or why certain pizza toppings make you think about laughter-filled nights spent with best friends in high school? Or the way your mom's spaghetti...
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  • Unvarnished: A Gimlet-Eyed Look at Life Behind the Bar by Alperin, Eric
    Eric Alperin

    Unvarnished: A Gimlet-Eyed Look at Life Behind the Bar

    A Kitchen Confidential for the cocktail profession, Unvarnished is a fly-on-the-wall narrative peek at the joys, pains, and peculiarities of life "behind the stick."When it opened a decade ago, the acclaimed Los Angeles speakeasy The Varnish--owned, designed, and managed by award-winning cocktail aficionado Eric...
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  • Kitchen Bitch: Life Lessons From Carol's Kitchen by Frazzetta, Carol
    Carol Frazzetta

    Kitchen Bitch: Life Lessons From Carol's Kitchen

    Kitchen Bitch is the story of Carol Frazzetta -- her life growing up in Brooklyn, her marriage, children, and move to Staten Island where she began her career by teaching cooking in her home. The book chronicles her desire for education, both academic and...
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  • What Do You Bring To The Table?: A Savory, Sensory, and Inspirational Guide to Living A Yummy Delicious Life by Whizin, Shelley
    Shelley Whizin

    What Do You Bring To The Table?: A Savory, Sensory, and Inspirational Guide to Living A Yummy Delicious Life

    Shelley Whizin's book "What Do You Bring To The Table: A Savory, Sensory, and Inspirational Guide to Living A Yummy Delicious Life", demonstrates how BEing conscious is one of the most essential lessons in life. As Founder of the Soul Diving Institute, Shelley guides...
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  • The Next Supper: The End of Restaurants as We Knew Them, and What Comes After by Mintz, Corey
    Corey Mintz

    The Next Supper: The End of Restaurants as We Knew Them, and What Comes After

    A searing expose of the restaurant industry, and a path to a better, safer, happier meal. In 2019, the restaurant business was booming. Americans spent more than half of their annual food budgets dining out. In a generation, chefs had gone from behind-the-scenes laborers...
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  • Sweet and Low: A Family Story by Cohen, Rich
    Rich Cohen

    Sweet and Low

    Sweet and Low is the amazing, bittersweet, hilarious story of an American family and its patriarch, a short-order cook named Ben Eisenstadt who, in the years after World War II, invented the sugar packet and Sweet'N Low, converting his Brooklyn cafeteria into a factory...
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  • Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook by Waters, Alice
    Alice Waters

    Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook

    The New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed memoir from cultural icon and culinary standard bearer Alice Waters recalls the circuitous road and tumultuous times leading to the opening of what is arguably America's most influential restaurant. When Alice Waters opened the doors of...
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  • Restaurant Man by Bastianich, Joe
    Joe Bastianich

    Restaurant Man

    The New York Times Bestselling Book--Great gift for Foodies "The best, funniest, most revealing inside look at the restaurant biz since Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential." --Jay McInerney With a foreword by Mario Batali Joe Bastianich is unquestionably one of the most successful restaurateurs in...
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  • Tiny Hot Dogs: A Memoir in Small Bites by Giuliani, Mary
    Mary Giuliani

    Tiny Hot Dogs: A Memoir in Small Bites

    "No one tells a story like Mary Giuliani, and she does it with great recipes, too! To read her deeply personal memoir is to feel that you've connected with a dear friend who's thoughtful, funny, and truly unique." --Ina Garten A hilarious, touching, and...
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  • My Mother's Kitchen by Gethers, Peter
    Peter Gethers

    My Mother's Kitchen

    My Mother's Kitchen is a funny, moving memoir about a son's discovery that his mother has a genius for understanding the intimate connections between cooking, people and love Peter Gethers wants to give his aging mother a very personal and perhaps final gift: a...
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  • Famous Nathan by Handwerker, Lloyd
    Lloyd Handwerker

    Famous Nathan

    From a nickel to an empire, the extraordinary rise of one man, a nation and America's favorite snack. Before the gut-busting eating contests and franchise stores across the country, there was a single man, Nathan Handwerker. An Eastern European Jewish immigrant who left the...
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  • The Boy on Shady Grove Road: A Childhood of the 1940s and 50s in the South by McCulley, Clyde
    Clyde McCulley

    The Boy on Shady Grove Road: A Childhood of the 1940s and 50s in the South

    Experience the resourceful spirit of Clyde McCulley as he explores in memory his humble but adventurous childhood in rural Arkansas in the 1940s and 50s. Though flavored with the hickory smoke of a southern upbringing, McCulley's juvenile innocence and sense of wonder capture universal...
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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

    2017 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...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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