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  • Bittersweet: A Memoir: The Life and Times of the World's Leading Chocolate Taster by Kennedy, Angus
    Angus Kennedy

    Bittersweet: A Memoir: The Life and Times of the World's Leading Chocolate Taster

    As seen on The Today Show!The world's leading chocolate taster shares his wild ride to attain the most envied job, and explains his warning heard around the world: that we might soon run out of chocolate.Angus Kennedy, dubbed "the real life Willy Wonka," has...
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  • How to Cook a Dragon: Living, Loving, and Eating in China by Furiya, Linda
    Linda Furiya

    How to Cook a Dragon: Living, Loving, and Eating in China

    When Linda Furiya decided to move to China with her boyfriend at the age of thirty, she hoped to find romance and ethnic kinship. Expecting common ground with locals as an Asian American, Furiya struggled with her ambition as a food writer in a...
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  • The Raging Skillet: The True Life Story of Chef Rossi by Rossi
    Rossi

    The Raging Skillet: The True Life Story of Chef Rossi

    " A] juicy memoir about growing up, becoming a chef, and working as New York's most unconventional wedding caterer." --BUST magazine When their high-school-aged, punk, runaway daughter is found hosting a Jersey Shore hotel party, Rossi's parents feel they have no other choice: they...
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  • The Bread and the Knife: A Life in 26 Bites by Drzal, Dawn
    Dawn Drzal

    The Bread and the Knife: A Life in 26 Bites

    "You'll wish the alphabet had more letters just so Dawn Drzal would keep on writing."--Laura Shapiro, author of What She Ate, Julia Child, Something from the Oven, and Perfection Salad As it was for M. F. K. Fisher in The Gastronomical Me, food is...
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  • Einstein's Beets by Theroux, Alexander
    Alexander Theroux

    Einstein's Beets

    Britney Spears loathes meatloaf and "all lumpy stuff." Arturo Toscanini hated fish. Ayn Rand despised salads. Alexander Theroux's Einstein's Beets is a study of the world of food and food aversions. The novelist and poet probes the secret and mysterious attitudes of hundreds of...
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  • In a French Kitchen: Tales and Traditions of Everyday Home Cooking in France by Loomis, Susan Herrmann
    Susan Herrmann Loomis

    In a French Kitchen: Tales and Traditions of Everyday Home Cooking in France

    A delightful celebration of everyday life in France through the lens of the kitchens and cooking of the author's neighbors, who, while busy and accomplished, still manage to make every meal a sumptuous occasion. Even before Susan Herrmann Loomis wrote her now-classic memoir, On...
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  • Growing Up Greenpoint: A Kid's Life in 1970s Brooklyn by Carbone, Tommy
    Tommy Carbone

    Growing Up Greenpoint: A Kid's Life in 1970s Brooklyn

    In Growing up Greenpoint, Tommy Carbone captures what it was like to be a kid during the 1970s and 80s in Brooklyn. This funny, and sometimes emotional, memoir follows the years Tommy was educated not only in the classrooms of St. Stan's, but on...
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  • Cooked Raw: How One Celebrity Chef Risked Everything to Change the Way We Eat by Kenney, Matthew
    Matthew Kenney

    Cooked Raw: How One Celebrity Chef Risked Everything to Change the Way We Eat

    An expansive, entertaining memoir that tells the story of how Matthew Kenney transitioned from a mainstream celebrity chef in New York, to a pioneer of plant-based cuisine, and his mission to change the way the world eats and thinks about food. Cooked Raw highlights...
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  • Out of Line: A Life of Playing with Fire by Lynch, Barbara
    Barbara Lynch

    Out of Line: A Life of Playing with Fire

    "If you have an appetite for culinary adventure, you'll devour the feisty and fun memoir" (Elle magazine) by James Beard award-winning chef, restaurateur, and Top Chef judge Barbara Lynch as she recounts her rise from her rough "Southie" childhood to culinary stardom. Celebrated chef...
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  • Between Two Fires: Intimate Writings on Life, Love, Food and Flavor by Esquivel, Laura
    Laura Esquivel

    Between Two Fires: Intimate Writings on Life, Love, Food and Flavor

    From the author of Like Water for Chocolate comes a richly layered collection of stories, essays, and recipes that delves into affairs of the heart, the spirit, and, of course, the stomach.In this fully illustrated book of musings and memories, beloved novelist Laura Esquivel...
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  • From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home by Locke, Tembi
    Tembi Locke

    From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home

    "It was love at first sight when Tembi met professional chef, Saro, on a street in Florence. There was just one problem: Saro's traditional Sicilian family did not approve of him marrying a black American woman, an actress no less. However, the couple, heartbroken...
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  • Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World: The Twin Towers, Windows on the World, and the Rebirth of New York by Roston, Tom
    Tom Roston

    The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World: The Twin Towers, Windows on the World, and the Rebirth of New York

    An "engrossing" history of the restaurant atop the World Trade Center "that ruled the New York City skyline from April 1976 until September 11, 2001" (Booklist, starred review).In the 1970s, New York City was plagued by crime, filth, and an ineffective government. The city...
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  • 200 Kitchens: Confessions of a Nomad Cook by Barker, Gawain
    Gawain Barker

    200 Kitchens: Confessions of a Nomad Cook

    A lot can happen in 200 kitchens.A giant razor-clawed lizard attack. An ecstasy overdose on a busy service. A stripper in the cold-room. A twenty-eight-hour day and a hundred-and eight-hour week. Dish-pigs on acid and billionaire special forces bodyguards. Burnt genitalia and the spine-nipple....
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  • Duncan Hines: How a Traveling Salesman Became the Most Trusted Name in Food by Hatchett, Louis
    Louis Hatchett

    Duncan Hines: How a Traveling Salesman Became the Most Trusted Name in Food

    Duncan Hines (1880-1959) may be best known for the cake mixes, baked goods, and bread products that bear his name, but most people forget that he was a real person and not just a fictitious figure invented for the brand. America's pioneer restaurant critic,...
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  • Double Cup Love: On the Trail of Family, Food, and Broken Hearts in China by Huang, Eddie
    Eddie Huang

    Double Cup Love: On the Trail of Family, Food, and Broken Hearts in China

    From the author of Fresh Off the Boat, now a hit ABC sitcom, comes a hilarious and fiercely original story of culture, family, love, and red-cooked pork Eddie Huang was finally happy. Sort of. He'd written a bestselling book and was the star of...
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  • It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time: My Adventures in Life and Food by Hodgson, Moira
    Moira Hodgson

    It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time: My Adventures in Life and Food

    The daughter of a British Foreign Service officer, Moira Hodgson spent her childhood in many a strange and exotic land. She discovered American food in Saigon, ate wild boar in Berlin, and learned how to prepare potatoes from her eccentric Irish grandmother. Today, Hodgson...
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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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  • Sirio: The Story of My Life and Le Cirque by Elliot, Peter J.
    Sirio Maccioni

    Sirio: The Story of My Life and Le Cirque

    Sirio Maccioni is a living legend, a restaurateur extraordinaire who has wined and dined high society in New York for nearly half a century. Along the way, he helped launch the careers of many illustrious chefs - David Bouley, Daniel Boulud, and Jacques Torres...
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  • The Gourmands' Way: Six Americans in Paris and the Birth of a New Gastronomy by Spring, Justin
    Justin Spring

    Gourmands' Way

    A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2017 and a Christian Science Monitor Best Book of 2017. Winner of the Gourmand World Cookbook Award in Culinary History. "The broad outline of Spring's thesis is so persuasive, the details so evocative (not to mention mouth...
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  • In Search of the Perfect Loaf: A Home Baker's Odyssey by Fromartz, Samuel
    Samuel Fromartz

    In Search of the Perfect Loaf: A Home Baker's Odyssey

    "An invaluable guide for beginning bakers."--The New York Times An irresistible account of bread, bread baking, and one home baker's journey to master his craft In 2009, journalist Samuel Fromartz was offered the assignment of a lifetime: to travel to France to work in...
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  • Julia Child: A Life by Shapiro, Laura
    Laura Shapiro

    Julia Child: A Life

    Author of the forthcoming What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories (Summer 2017) With a swooping voice, an irrepressible sense of humor, and a passion for good food, Julia Child ushered in the nation's culinary renaissance. In Julia...
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  • The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears in Paris at the World's Most Famous Cooking School by Flinn, Kathleen
    Kathleen Flinn

    The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears in Paris at the World's Most Famous Cooking School

    "...engaging, intelligent, and surprisingly suspenseful." --Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, LoveThe unforgettable New York Times best-selling journey of self-discovery and finding one's true calling in life Kathleen Flinn was a thirty-six-year-old middle manager trapped on the corporate ladder - until her boss eliminated...
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  • Truffle Boy: My Unexpected Journey Through the Exotic Food Underground by Purkayastha, Ian
    Ian Purkayastha

    Truffle Boy: My Unexpected Journey Through the Exotic Food Underground

    "[Ian Purkayastha] has a true, deep expertise in everything he sells--caviar, truffles, fish. He knows the stories that we need to sell the stuff tableside . . . he can disrupt the entire luxury foods market." ---From the Foreword by David Chang Ian Purkayastha...
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  • Behind Bars: The Straight-Up Tales of a Big-City Bartender by Wenzel, Ty
    Ty Wenzel

    Behind Bars: The Straight-Up Tales of a Big-City Bartender

    After reading Behind Bars, a no-holds-barred tell-all in the spirit of Kitchen Confidential, you'll never look at your favorite bartender the same way again. Ty Wenzel offers a raw and clever account of slinging drinks in New York City on the Bowery before and...
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  • Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child by Fitch, Noel Riley
    Noel Riley Fitch

    Appetite for Life: The Biography of Julia Child

    Julia Child entered the lives of millions of Americans with her bestselling cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking; her popular and long-running cooking show, The French Chef; and her beloved memoir, My Life in France. In this intimate and revealing biography, based on...
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  • The Wild Vine: A Forgotten Grape and the Untold Story of American Wine by Kliman, Todd
    Todd Kliman

    The Wild Vine: A Forgotten Grape and the Untold Story of American Wine

    A rich romp through untold American history featuring fabulous characters, The Wild Vine is the tale of a little-known American grape that rocked the fine-wine world of the nineteenth century and is poised to do so again today. Author Todd Kliman sets out on...
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  • The Culinarians: Lives and Careers from the First Age of American Fine Dining by Shields, David S.
    David S. Shields

    The Culinarians: Lives and Careers from the First Age of American Fine Dining

    He presided over Virginia's great political barbeques for the last half of the nineteenth century, taught the young Prince of Wales to crave mint juleps in 1859, catered to Virginia's mountain spas, and fed two generations of Richmond epicures with terrapin and turkey. This...
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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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  • Girl on the Block: A True Story of Coming of Age Behind the Counter by Wragg, Jessica
    Jessica Wragg

    Girl on the Block: A True Story of Coming of Age Behind the Counter

    Gabrielle Hamilton meets April Bloomfield in a raw and rollicking memoir that pulls back the curtain on life as a female butcher.When 16-year-old Jessica Wragg applied for a job at the local farm shop in her hometown of Chesterfield, England, she never expected to...
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  • Gone to the Crazies: A Memoir by Weaver, Alison
    Alison Weaver

    Gone to the Crazies: A Memoir

    Alison Weaver's privileged upbringing hid the darker undertones of her childhood until her parents shipped her away, at fifteen, to the cultish Cascade School, warping her perception of reality. Upon graduation, set adrift in New York's East Village in the 1990s, her life began...
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  • Queen of the Oddballs: And Other True Stories from a Life Unaccording to Plan by Carlip, Hillary
    Hillary Carlip

    Queen of the Oddballs: And Other True Stories from a Life Unaccording to Plan

    A hilariously offbeat memoir about an adventurous young woman's escapades as she defies conventions and transforms an ordinary Los Angeles life into a star-studded, extraordinary miracle of self-discovery.Queen of the Oddballs forms a chronology of Hillary Carlip's habitual straying from roads more traveled --...
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  • No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating by Kennedy, Alicia
    Alicia Kennedy

    No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating

    No Meat Required is a bestselling culinary and cultural history of plant-based eating in the United States that delves into the subcultures and politics that have defined alternative food--Diet for a Small Planet for a new generation The vegan diet used to be associated...
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  • The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America by Franklin, Sara B.
    Sara B. Franklin

    The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America

    "A surprising, granular, luminous, and path-breaking biography." --Edward Hirsch, critic and author of How to Read a Poem Legendary editor Judith Jones, the woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century--including Julia Child, Anne Frank, Edna Lewis, John Updike, and...
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  • Mr Pizza and All That Jazz by Boizot, Peter
    Peter Boizot

    Mr Pizza and All That Jazz

    Peter Boizot is a remarkable entrepreneur and philanthropist lucky enough to have led a truly extraordinary life. Known to many as 'Mr Peterborough', he's the jazz-loving party animal who introduced pizza to England's hungry masses decades ago, making millions from his wildly successful PizzaExpress...
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  • Restaurant Stories by Paulson, Scott
    Scott Paulson

    Restaurant Stories

    Updated in 2023. As one who has been dining at restaurants approximately five times a week for more than five decades, the author has many stories to tell about his dining experiences. While some experiences have been terrific, far too many have been horrendous....
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  • Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family by Volk, Patricia
    Patricia Volk

    Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family: A Memoir

    Patricia Volk's delicious memoir lets us into her big, crazy, loving, cheerful, infuriating and wonderful family, where you're never just hungry-your starving to death, and you're never just full-you're stuffed. Volk's family fed New York City for one hundred years, from 1888 when her...
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  • An Extravagant Hunger: The Passionate Years of M.F.K. Fisher by Zimmerman, Anne
    Anne Zimmerman

    An Extravagant Hunger: The Passionate Years of M.F.K. Fisher

    In An Extravagant Hunger, time slows and is relished, and the turning points and casual strolls of M.F.K. Fisher's life are unwrapped and savored. From the Berengaria that washed her across the sea to France in 1929, to Le Paquis, the Swiss estate that...
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  • Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family by Chaudry, Rabia
    Rabia Chaudry

    Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family

    "A delicious and mouthwatering book about food and family, the complicated love for both, and how that shapes us into who we are . . . I absolutely loved it!" --Valerie Bertinelli "My entire life I have been less fat and more fat, but...
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  • Spillin' The Beans by Boyd, Lanita Bradley
    Lanita Bradley Boyd

    Spillin' The Beans

    Mary Onezima Ralph Bradley was the quintessential hostess, graciously feeding groups from class reunions to business meetings to lonely parolees, often incorporating their problems as her own. The Southern version of The Matchmaker, she matched jobs to the jobless, income sources to the penniless,...
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  • If These Fields Could Talk by Jackson, Leatha
    Leatha Jackson

    If These Fields Could Talk

    If These Fields Could Talk is the inspiring and heartwarming true story of Leatha Jackson's rise from abject poverty in the pre-Civil Rights South to beloved matriarch and "barbeque queen" of Mississippi. Leatha's journey stands as a powerful example of what an unshakable faith...
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  • Sure to Rise: The Edmonds Story by Wolfe, Richard
    Richard Wolfe

    Sure to Rise: The Edmonds Story

    "Edmonds is one of New Zealand's best-known brands - its radiant sun and 'Sure to Rise' promise have embellished baking powder labels and the much-loved Edmonds Cookery Book for over a hundred years and are now embedded in our popular culture. The man behind...
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  • Well Done: Bringing Soul to the Recipe of Life by Jones, Keith Denard
    Keith Denard Jones

    Well Done: Bringing Soul to the Recipe of Life

    You are what you eat, think, and do!When asked about his favorite recipe, Executive Chef Keith Denard Jones used to say, "Lobster enchilada with jalape marmalade." However, having experienced where-there's-smoke-there's-fire antagonists and out-of-the-frying-pan-into-the-fire challenges, Chef KDJ has a new dish. His recipe of success...
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  • Convictions of a Chef: Cooking for the Counterculture and the One Percent by Marcus-Rotman, Evan
    Evan Marcus-Rotman

    Convictions of a Chef: Cooking for the Counterculture and the One Percent

    Convictions of a Chef is a prison memoir, a travel memoir and a chef's memoir all rolled into one. Filled with fascinating and fun anecdotes about overcoming adversity, culinary challenges and health issues, it's the story of how one boy grew into a man...
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  • Mother Tongue: Flavours of a Second Generation by Loyal, Gurdeep
    Gurdeep Loyal

    Mother Tongue: Flavours of a Second Generation

    WINNER OF THE JANE GRIGSON TRUST AWARD'Amazing, original, boundary breaking.' Diana Henry'One of the most gleeful cookbooks of 2023.' Stylist Magazine'His recipes have a dynamism that is genuine, personal and flavour-led... dazzling and yet warmly inviting.' Nigella LawsonWith recipes for everything from Coconut Crab...
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  • Cupid Hates Me: True Dating Tales of the Self-Proclaimed Sexy Ogre by Stevens, Wedge
    Wedge Stevens

    Cupid Hates Me: True Dating Tales of the Self-Proclaimed Sexy Ogre

    Most of us have been there: that horrible, God-awful date you just can't wait to get home and dish about with your friends, then eat a big bowl of ice cream while you soak in the tub watching some funny show streaming on your...
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  • Come Hungry: Salads, Meals, and Sweets for People Who Live to Eat
    Melissa Ben-Ishay

    Come Hungry: Salads, Meals, and Sweets for People Who Live to Eat

    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom Melissa Ben-Ishay--the co-founder of Baked by Melissa and creator of the viral Green Goddess Salad--comes an irresistible, veggie-packed cookbook with over 100 flavorful, nourishing recipes to inspire you to eat delicious meals that make you feel great.When Melissa Ben-Ishay,...
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  • My Life in Recipes: Food, Family, Stories, and Memories by Nathan, Joan
    Joan Nathan

    My Life in Recipes: Food, Family, and Memories

    A new cookbook from the best-selling and award-winning author that uses recipes to look back at her life and family history--and at her personal journey discovering Jewish cuisine from around the world "There is no greater authority on Jewish cooking than Joan Nathan." --Michael...
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  • Driving Hungry: A Delicious Journey, from Buenos Aires to New York to Berlin by Mosler, Layne
    Layne Mosler

    Driving Hungry: A Delicious Journey, from Buenos Aires to New York to Berlin

    Adrift in Buenos Aires, Layne Mosler was hungry--for an excellent (and cheap) meal, for a great story, for a new direction. A chance recommendation from a taxi driver helped her find all these things, and sparked a quest that would take her to three...
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  • The View From My Kitchen Window: A Memoir with Recipes by Kalt Gale, Julie
    Julie Kalt Gale

    The View From My Kitchen Window: A Memoir with Recipes

    This book is a chronological journey of the kitchens in Julie Kalt Gale's life. The book is a memoir of her life through the stories and recipes of the family and friends who raised her. The stories center on the delicious food prepared and...
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  • Goodgrog: A Life in Wine and Journalism by Schreiner, John
    John Schreiner

    Goodgrog: A Life in Wine and Journalism

    Goodgrog: A Life in Wine and Journalism chronicles the life, and especially the career, of journalist John Schreiner, who may have had one of the most enviable jobs ever: wine writer. For over forty years, in newspaper and magazine articles and columns and through...
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