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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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  • The Rye Bread Marriage: How I Found Happiness with a Partner I'll Never Understand by Weissman, Michaele
    Michaele Weissman

    The Rye Bread Marriage: How I Found Happiness with a Partner I'll Never Understand

    Experience a beautiful, humorous, universal love story with this memoir about learning to live with another human being and how every relationship is a mystery--and a miracle. When they first meet, John, a dashing European, a Latvian refugee, a physics PhD, is hoping to...
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  • If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury by Deruiter, Geraldine
    Geraldine Deruiter

    If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the James Beard Award-winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays on how food and cooking stoke the flames of her feminism. "With charm and humor, Geraldine DeRuiter welcomes us into her personal history and thus reconnects us with...
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  • Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me Home by Fechtor, Jessica
    Jessica Fechtor

    Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me Home

    A national bestseller and winner of a Living Now Book Award, Stir is an exquisite memoir about how food connects us to ourselves, our lives, and each other. At 28, Jessica Fechtor was happily immersed in graduate school and her young marriage, and thinking...
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  • Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks by Wilkinson, Crystal
    Crystal Wilkinson

    Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A lyrical culinary journey that explores the hidden legacy of Black Appalachians, through powerful storytelling alongside nearly forty comforting recipes, from the former poet laureate of Kentucky."With Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts, Crystal Wilkinson cements herself as one of the most...
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  • Survival Food: North Woods Stories by a Menominee Cook by Weso, Thomas Pecore
    Thomas Pecore Weso

    Survival Food: North Woods Stories by a Menominee Cook

    "Tom Weso describes his food culture upbringing in Wisconsin as a member of Menominee Nation and also a member of the Wisconsin citizenry. He lives in cabins, tepees, Madison hippie apartments, a refurbished jailhouse, and across the street from taverns. He hitchhikes across the...
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  • Good Taste: A Life of Food and Passion by Ducasse, Alain
    Alain Ducasse

    Good Taste: A Life of Food and Passion

    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. At twelve years old, Alain Ducasse had never been to a restaurant. Less than fifteen years later, he received...
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  • Chef Ricardo's Secret Recipes to Success: From Poverty to Purpose by Ricardo, Chef
    Chef Ricardo

    Chef Ricardo's Secret Recipes to Success: From Poverty to Purpose

    SUCCESS LESSONS FROM A YOUTUBE STAR-CHEF WITH OVER 1.5 MILLION SUBSCRIBERSHow does one move from growing up poor in Jamaica to becoming a celebrated and successful chef amassing more than 1.5 million subscribers on YouTube? In this inspirational memoir, Chef Ricardo shares his journey...
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  • Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table by Reichl, Ruth
    Ruth Reichl

    Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The debut memoir from the renowned author of Save Me the Plums, about the people who"steered her on the path to fulfill her destiny as one of the world's leading food writers" (Chicago Sun-Times). "An absolute delight to read...
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  • Serious Eater: A Food Lover's Perilous Quest for Pizza and Redemption by Levine, Ed
    Ed Levine

    Serious Eater: A Food Lover's Perilous Quest for Pizza and Redemption

    "A hilarious and moving story of unconventional entrepreneurialism, passion, and guts." --Danny Meyer, CEO of Union Square Hospitality Group; Founder of Shake Shack; Author of Setting the Table Original recipes by J. Kenji Lez-Alt of The Food Lab and Stella Parks of BraveTart James...
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  • Twintastico Italian Cooking at Home with the Alberti Twins by Alberti, John
    John Alberti

    Twintastico Italian Cooking at Home with the Alberti Twins

    As seen on The Today Show with Kathy Lee and Hoda Charismatic media celebrities John and Tony Alberti, share their love of Italian food, culture, and people in their debut cookbook. Having grown up in a traditional Italian family, food has always been an...
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  • Glorious Beef: The Lafrieda Family and the Evolution of the American Meat Industry by Lafrieda, Pat
    Pat Lafrieda

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

    An insightful and engaging insider's look at the history and business of the meat industry, from master butcher Pat LaFrieda "A full-throated celebration of red meat from one of the nation's major purveyors. . . . The true meat of his book is a...
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  • Jgv: A Life in 12 Recipes by Vongerichten, Jean-Georges
    Jean-Georges Vongerichten

    Jgv: A Life in 12 Recipes

    One of the most influential chef-restaurateurs of all time reflects on a career defined by surprising, delicious food.From his first apprenticeship in France to his Michelin-starred restaurant empire, Jean-Georges Vongerichten's cuisine is inspired by the freshest ingredients, the simplest techniques, and the drive to...
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  • Fieldwork: A Forager's Memoir by Regan, Iliana
    Iliana Regan

    Fieldwork: A Forager's Memoir

    From National Book Award-nominee Iliana Regan, a new memoir of her life and heritage as a forager, spanning her ancestry in Eastern Europe, her childhood in rural Indiana, and her new life set in the remote forests of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Fieldwork explores how...
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  • Beaujolais In My Blood: Growing Up Gay and Well-Fed in a Family-Run French Restaurant by Pitsenbarger, Eric Neil
    Eric Neil Pitsenbarger

    Beaujolais In My Blood: Growing Up Gay and Well-Fed in a Family-Run French Restaurant

    Against the backdrop of immense cultural shift in the late-1960s, in the unique setting of Mendocino, California, here is a poignant telling of what it was like for a closeted gay kid working and living in a family-run French restaurant. Frequented by eccentric locals,...
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  • Savor: A Chef's Hunger for More by Ali, Fatima
    Fatima Ali

    Savor: A Chef's Hunger for More

    JAMES BEARD AWARD WINNER - A young chef whose dreams were cut short savors every last minute as she explores food and adventure, illness and mortality in Savor, an "inspiring" (The New York Times Book Review) memoir and family story that sweeps from Pakistan...
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  • Old Farm Country Cookbook: Recipes, Menus, and Memories by Apps, Jerry
    Jerry Apps

    Old Farm Country Cookbook: Recipes, Menus, and Memories

    When Jerry Apps was growing up on a Wisconsin farm in the 1930s and 1940s, times were tough. Yet most folks living on farms had plenty to eat. Preparing food from scratch was just the way things were done, and people knew what was...
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  • On the Rocks: The Primadonna Story by Palmer, Maria C.
    Maria C. Palmer

    On the Rocks: The Primadonna Story

    On the Rocks chronicles the real-life journey of restaurateur Joseph Costanzo Jr., from his rise to success in the 1990s as a owner of the highly acclaimed Primadonna Restaurant, radio host, columnist, and aspiring politician to his sharp fall in the early 2000s, ending...
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  • Fishing for Chickens: A Smokies Food Memoir by Casada, Jim
    Jim Casada

    Fishing for Chickens: A Smokies Food Memoir

    Fishing for Chickens is a well-seasoned blend of memoir and cookbook. It offers the perspective of a Bryson City, North Carolina, native on a particular portion of southern Appalachia--the Smokies. Casada serves up a detailed description of the folkways of food as they existed...
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  • Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat & Family by Chaudry, Rabia
    Rabia Chaudry

    Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat & 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 From the bestselling author and host of the wildly popular Undisclosed podcast,...
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  • Here We Go Again: Recipes and Inspiration to Level Up Your Leftovers by Thiessen, Tiffani
    Tiffani Thiessen

    Here We Go Again: Recipes & Inspiration to Level Up Your Leftovers

    Stretch your budget and avoid food waste by remixing leftovers into family-favorite weeknight meals with the help of this smart guide to everyday cooking. Leftovers can be so much more than the sum of their parts. Yesterday's dinner, last week's baking experiment, snack drawer...
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  • My First Popsicle: An Anthology of Food and Feelings by Mamet, Zosia
    Zosia Mamet

    My First Popsicle: An Anthology of Food and Feelings

    What is your most poignant memory surrounding food?Author: Zosia MametISBN-10: 1638087490ISBN-13: 9781638087496Publisher: Center PointLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2023Pages: 500Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.14lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.70w x 1.20dLarge Print
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  • The Rise of Napa Valley Wineries: How the Judgment of Paris Put California Wine on the Map by Gudgel, Mark
    Mark Gudgel

    The Rise of Napa Valley Wineries: How the Judgment of Paris Put California Wine on the Map

    A wine country odyssey. In 1976, the picturesque, agrarian Napa Valley was all but unknown to those who didn't live there. That changed dramatically when Steven Spurrier and Patricia Gallagher decided to host a blind tasting of American and French wines in Paris. When...
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  • Restaurant Management: The Myth, The Magic, The Math by Nelson, Bruce
    Bruce Nelson

    Restaurant Management: The Myth, The Magic, The Math

    Why do most independent restaurants fail? Though they may have created beautiful menus and warm inviting atmospheres, but they simply failed to apply basic restaurant financial fundamentals! Learn how a dishwasher, turned restaurant manager, turned CFO, mastered the financial strategies that lead to a...
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