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  • Old Time Kitchen Volume 2: Everyday Meals, Puddings, and More Antique Recipes by Bussler, Mark
    Mark Bussler

    Old Time Kitchen Volume 2: Everyday Meals, Puddings, and More Antique Recipes

    Volume 2 in the ultimate retro cookbook series filled with hundreds of antique recipes restored for future generations. Before the supermarket, online ordering, and celebrity chefs, people created delicious meals in an old-time kitchen. The CGR Publishing Restoration Workshop and World's Fair historian Mark...
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  • Hometown Appetites: The Story of Clementine Paddleford, the Forgotten Food Writer who Chronicled How America Ate by Alexander, Kelly
    Kelly Alexander

    Hometown Appetites: The Story of Clementine Paddleford, the Forgotten Food Writer who Chronicled How America Ate

    A rollicking biography of a pioneering American woman and one of our greatest culinary figures In Hometown Appetites, Kelly Alexander and Cynthia Harris come together to revive the legacy of the most important food writer you have never heard of. Clementine Paddleford was a...
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  • Cooking For Profit: A New American Cookbook Adapted For The Use Of All Who Serve Meals For A Price (1893) by Whitehead, Jessup
    Jessup Whitehead

    Cooking For Profit: A New American Cookbook Adapted For The Use Of All Who Serve Meals For A Price (1893)

    Cooking For Profit: A New American Cookbook Adapted For The Use Of All Who Serve Meals For A Price (1893) is a comprehensive guide for anyone looking to start a food business or improve their existing one. Written by Whitehead and Jessup, experienced chefs...
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  • Marion Harland's Cook Book Of Tried And Tested Recipes (1907) by Harland, Marion
    Marion Harland

    Marion Harland's Cook Book Of Tried And Tested Recipes (1907)

    Marion Harland's Cook Book Of Tried And Tested Recipes (1907) is a comprehensive guide to cooking and baking, written by the renowned American author and food writer, Marion Harland. The book contains over 600 recipes, ranging from classic American dishes to international cuisine, and...
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  • Making Sense of Taste by Korsmeyer, Carolyn
    Carolyn Korsmeyer

    Making Sense of Taste

    Taste, perhaps the most intimate of the five senses, has traditionally been considered beneath the concern of philosophy, too bound to the body, too personal and idiosyncratic. Yet, in addition to providing physical pleasure, eating and drinking bear symbolic and aesthetic value in human...
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  • Eat the City: A Tale of the Fishers, Trappers, Hunters, Foragers, Slaughterers, Butchers, Poultry Minders, Sugar Refiners, Cane Cutt by Shulman, Robin
    Robin Shulman

    Eat the City: A Tale of the Fishers, Trappers, Hunters, Foragers, Slaughterers, Butchers, Poultry Minders, Sugar Refiners, Cane Cutt

    New York, the city of money, glass, and concrete, seems like no kind of place to produce food. Yet in this smart, funny, and beautifully written book, Robin Shulman places today's urban food production in the context of hundreds of years of history, tracing...
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  • The Cornbread Book: A Love Story with Recipes by Jackson, Jeremy
    Jeremy Jackson

    The Cornbread Book: A Love Story with Recipes

    Jeremy Jackson has four goals: Make cornbread one word. Once and for all. Have cornbread named the official bread of the United States. Find a wife. Think outside the box of cornmeal about the Possibilities, potentialities, and promises of cornbread. Cornbread is the American...
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  • The Meaning of Beer: How Our Pursuit of the Perfect Pint Built the World by Garrett, Jonny
    Jonny Garrett

    The Meaning of Beer: How Our Pursuit of the Perfect Pint Built the World

    Jonny Garrett, cofounder of the YouTube sensation Craft Beer Channel, travels in search of the deeper cultural impact of brewing--how it has shaped our lives and helped build the modern taproom What's the oldest and most consumed alcoholic beverage on earth? Beer, of course....
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  • Full & Plenty: Classic Irish Cooking by Laverty, Maura
    Maura Laverty

    Full & Plenty: Classic Irish Cooking

    There is no more celebrated cookbook in Ireland than Maura Laverty's Full & Plenty and now Mercier brings this selection of recipes to a new audience. The original 500-page text with its 300 recipes has been edited to a short, usable and practical 160-page...
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  • What Kings Ate and Wizards Drank by Ball, Krista D.
    Krista D. Ball

    What Kings Ate and Wizards Drank

    Equal parts writer's guide, comedy, and historical cookbook, fantasy author Krista D. Ball takes readers on a journey into the depths of epic fantasy's obsession with rabbit stew and teaches them how to catch the blasted creatures, how to move armies across enemy territories...
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  • Apple by Reiss, Marcia
    Marcia Reiss

    Apple

    Gala and Honeycrisp. Pink Lady and Pacific Rose. King Luscious and Winesap. The names of apples are as juicy as the fruit itself. One of the most widely distributed fruits on the planet, apples have always meant something beyond food and drink--their seeds have...
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  • Tofu: A Culinary History by Thomas, Russell
    Russell Thomas

    Tofu: A Culinary History

    The surprising, spicy story of this globe-trotting vegetable protein staple. To the untrained eye, there's nothing as unexciting as tofu, normally regarded as a tasteless, beige, congealed mass of crushed, boiled soybeans. However, tofu more than stands up on its own. Reviled for decades...
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  • Feast of Identities: Crafting Women's Stories in the Language of Food by Malhotra, Anita
    Anita Malhotra

    Feast of Identities: Crafting Women's Stories in the Language of Food

    Food is more than just fuel; it also reveals a lot about a people's background, traditions, and character. People's eating habits, the foods they cook, and the ingredients they favor reveal a great deal about their heritage and character. Scholars, anthropologists, and sociologists have...
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  • Note-By-Note Cooking: The Future of Food by This, Hervé
    Hervé This

    Note-By-Note Cooking: The Future of Food

    Note-by-Note Cooking is a landmark in the annals of gastronomy, liberating cooks from the constraints of traditional ingredients and methods through the use of pure molecular compounds. 1-Octen-3-ol, which has a scent of wild mushrooms; limonene, a colorless liquid hydrocarbon that has the smell...
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  • Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste by Barr, Luke
    Luke Barr

    Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste

    Provence, 1970 is about a singular historic moment. In the winter of that year, more or less coincidentally, the iconic culinary figures James Beard, M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, Richard Olney, Simone Beck, and Judith Jones found themselves together in the South of France. They...
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  • Tequila Made Me Do It: 60 Tantalizing Tequila and Mezcal Cocktails by Murrieta, Cecilia Rios
    Cecilia Rios Murrieta

    Tequila Made Me Do It: 60 Tantalizing Tequila and Mezcal Cocktails

    From tequila and mezcal aficionado Cecilia Rios Murrieta comes this brightly illustrated guide to making and enjoying a broad range of agave-based cocktails. In Tequila Made Me Do It, Rios Murrieta introduces readers to the history and versatility of spicy tequila and smoky mezcal....
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  • Cake Boss: Stories and Recipes from Mia Famiglia by Valastro, Buddy
    Buddy Valastro

    Cake Boss: Stories and Recipes from Mia Famiglia

    Now in paperback, Cake Boss is the New York Times bestselling life story of Buddy Valastro, the star of the hit TLC show, Cake Boss, and master baker of Carlo's Bake Shop, the Hoboken, New Jersey institution that he runs with the help of...
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  • Survival Food: South African Pioneer Cuisine: South African Pioneer Cuisine by Wells, Brendi
    Brendi Wells

    Survival Food: South African Pioneer Cuisine: South African Pioneer Cuisine

    Discover the transformative power of "Survival Food: South African Pioneer Cuisine" - a culinary odyssey that will take you on a journey through history, heritage, and the unifying force of food.Unleash the benefits of reading this book: learn about the resilience and resourcefulness of...
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  • The Record War-time Cook Book by Hitchcock, Nevada Davis [From Old
    Nevada Davis [From Old Hitchcock

    The Record War-time Cook Book

    During wartime, families were often encouraged to adopt more frugal cooking habits to conserve resources. Nevada Davis Hitchcock's book provides practical recipes and tips for making the most of your ingredients, without sacrificing flavor.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important,...
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  • The Fruits of History Volume 2 by Santaniello, Dennis
    Dennis Santaniello

    The Fruits of History Volume 2

    Continue your journey into the captivating world of fruits with 'The Fruits of History: Volume 2.' This highly anticipated sequel by Dennis Santaniello, an expert fruit aficionado, dives deeper into the intriguing origins and cultural significance of our beloved fruits, melding passionate research with...
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  • Steak: The Whole Story by Tim, Hayward
    Hayward Tim

    Steak: The Whole Story

    The essential reference for steak lovers. An encyclopaedic yet accessible journey through the world of chefs, farmers, butchers and restaurants, Steak is the essential guide for enthusiasts improving their kitchen skills or diners chasing the greatest steaks around the world. With stories, recipes, traditional...
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  • Flavors of the Philippines: A Culinary Journey by Books, Clock Street
    Clock Street Books

    Flavors of the Philippines: A Culinary Journey

    Embark on a tantalizing journey through the enchanting world of Filipino cuisine with Flavors of the Philippines: A Culinary Journey. This captivating cookbook invites you to immerse yourself in the rich tapestry of flavors, traditions, and vibrant dishes that make Filipino cooking truly special.Experience...
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  • The Old-Time Saloon: Not Wet - Not Dry, Just History by Ade, George
    George Ade

    The Old-Time Saloon: Not Wet - Not Dry, Just History

    Fancy a tipple? Then pull up a stool, raise a glass, and dip into this delightful paean to the grand old saloon days of yore. Written by Chicago-based journalist, playwright, and all-round wit George Ade in the waning years of Prohibition, The Old-Time Saloon...
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  • A Culinary Photo Journal: A Decade of Traveling for Food, Cooking and Culture by Gray, Nate
    Nate Gray

    A Culinary Photo Journal: A Decade of Traveling for Food, Cooking and Culture

    Throughout a decade of travel, Nate Gray has captured striking images of street food, markets, cooks, vendors and local cuisines around the world. Documenting trips to India, Japan, Greece, Turkey, Italy, China, Spain and other regions in over 100 full-color photographs, A Culinary Photo...
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  • The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Twitty, Michael W.
    Michael W. Twitty

    The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South

    2018 James Beard Foundation Book of the Year 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner inWriting Nominee for the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction #75 on The Root100 2018A renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on our most divisive cultural issue, race,...
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  • Tib's Tit-Bits: Two Hundred and Thirty-One Recipes (1869) by Broderip, Frances Freeling
    Frances Freeling Broderip

    Tib's Tit-Bits: Two Hundred And Thirty-One Recipes (1869)

    Tib's Tit-Bits: Two Hundred and Thirty-One Recipes is a cookbook originally published in 1869 by Frances Freeling Broderip. The book contains a collection of 231 recipes for a variety of dishes, including soups, fish, meats, vegetables, desserts, and beverages. The recipes are presented in...
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  • Milk: A Local and Global History by Valenze, Deborah
    Deborah Valenze

    Milk: A Local and Global History

    A historian reveals the illuminating history of milk, from ancient myth to modern grocery store How did an animal product that spoils easily, carries disease, and causes digestive trouble for many of its consumers become a near-universal symbol of modern nutrition? In the first...
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  • Egg: A Dozen Ovatures by Stark, Lizzie
    Lizzie Stark

    Egg: A Dozen Ovatures

    The egg is a paradox--both alive and not alive--and a symbol as old as culture itself. In this wide-ranging and delightful journey through its natural and cultural history, Lizzie Stark explores the egg's deep meanings, innumerable uses, and metabolic importance through a dozen dazzling...
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  • Trapping, Tanning and Taxidermy by Tose, Frank
    Frank Tose

    Trapping, Tanning and Taxidermy

    This vintage book contains a complete guide to taxidermy, with instructions for trapping, tanning, fleshing, mounting, and all other related aspects. Complete with detailed diagrams and a wealth of useful tips, this classic handbook is highly recommended for the beginner, and would make for...
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  • The Settlement Cook Book 1903 by Kander, Simon
    Simon Kander

    The Settlement Cook Book 1903

    Imparting all the warmth and fragrance of an old-fashioned, turn-of-the-century kitchen, The Settlement Cook Book was originally devised as a cooking and homemaking primer for newly arrived immigrants. Filled with hundreds of recipes for good eating, this back-to-basics book is also good reading. A...
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  • Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes by Leslie, Eliza
    Eliza Leslie

    Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats

    An 1828 cookbook featuring recipes for delicious desserts--written so that a modern cook may follow them.Author: Eliza LeslieISBN-10: 1557091161ISBN-13: 9781557091161Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)Language: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1988Pages: 100Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 8.10h x 5.04w x 0.24d
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  • A Leechbook or Collection of Medical Recipes of the Fifteenth Century 1934 by Dawson, Warren R.
    Warren R. Dawson

    A Leechbook or Collection of Medical Recipes of the Fifteenth Century 1934

    The book ""A Leechbook or Collection of Medical Recipes of the Fifteenth Century"" was written by Warren R. Dawson and was published in 1934. The book is a compilation of medical recipes from the fifteenth century, which were used by physicians and healers during...
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  • The Work Happiness Method: Master the 8 Skills to Career Fulfillment by Grizont, Stella
    Stella Grizont

    The Work Happiness Method: Master the 8 Skills to Career Fulfillment

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER Positive psychologist and career coach Stella Grizont reveals eight skills for anyone to take control of their career and improve their happiness, satisfaction, and engagement. Perhaps you're fantasizing about other roles or even careers but you have a sneaking suspicion that escaping...
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  • Shaken Not Stirred by Miller, Anistatia R.
    Anistatia R. Miller

    Shaken Not Stirred

    This updated edition features recipes from the world's greatest mixologists, including 107 classic gin and vodka Martinis, more than 110 Modern Martinis, and a directory of the world's best Martini loungesShaken Not Stirred(R) celebrates the Martini--the quintessential cocktail, the crowning jewel of civilized decadence....
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  • The Meals-For-Two Cook Book by Various
    Various

    The Meals-For-Two Cook Book

    This is a delicious read for any cookery enthusiast or historian. Recipes are extensively illustrated with text and full page photographs. Contents Include: Off to a Good Start, Menus, Meats, Soups and Accessories, Salads, Fish, Canap s and Appetizers, Poultry, Vegetables, Eggs and Cheese,...
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  • Tea Under the Palms: From Leaf to Kettle, a History of Tea and the Art of a Proper Tea Party by Farmer, Patricia
    Patricia Farmer

    Tea Under the Palms: From Leaf to Kettle, a History of Tea and the Art of a Proper Tea Party

    "I wrote this book to extol the pleasures of my own habit of afternoon tea in the hope of drawing others into it." "Wars have been waged, royal marriages arranged, companies formed, and world problems solved over a perfect cup of tea. It's neither...
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  • Virginia Cookery Book (1912) by Smith, Mary Stuart Harrison
    Mary Stuart Smith

    Virginia Cookery Book (1912)

    The Virginia Cookery Book, written by Mary Stuart Smith and originally published in 1912, is a comprehensive guide to traditional Southern cuisine. The book covers a wide range of dishes, from classic Virginia ham and biscuits to more elaborate desserts and preserves. The recipes...
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  • The Appledore Cookbook: Containing Practical Receipts for Plain and Rich Cooking (1880) by Parloa, M.
    M. Parloa

    The Appledore Cookbook: Containing Practical Receipts For Plain And Rich Cooking (1880)

    The Appledore Cookbook is a culinary guidebook written by Maria Parloa and published in 1880. The book contains a wide range of practical recipes for both plain and rich cooking, including soups, meats, vegetables, desserts, and preserves. The author provides detailed instructions for each...
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  • Benjamin Franklin on The Art of Eating by American Philosophical Society
    Benjamin Franklin

    Benjamin Franklin on the Art of Eating: Together with the Rules of Health and Long Life and the Rules to Find Out a Fit Measure of Meat and Drink, wit

    A special limited edition to celebrate the 275th Anniversary of the Amer. Philosophical Soc. (APS), which was founded by Benjamin Franklin. The accidental discovery in the Franklin Papers of a set of cooking recipes and the many allusions to food scattered through Ben Franklin's...
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  • Taste of the Nation: The New Deal Search for America's Food by Begin, Camille
    Camille B馮in

    Taste of the Nation: The New Deal Search for America's Food

    During the Depression, the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) dispatched scribes to sample the fare at group eating events like church dinners, political barbecues, and clambakes. Its America Eats project sought nothing less than to sample, and report upon, the tremendous range of foods eaten...
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  • My Summer In The Kitchen (1878) by Morrison, Hetty Athon
    Hetty Athon Morrison

    My Summer In The Kitchen (1878)

    My Summer In The Kitchen is a memoir written by Hetty Athon Morrison in 1878, recounting her experiences working in the kitchen of a wealthy family during the summer of 1877. The book provides a detailed account of the daily routines, challenges, and joys...
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  • Gastronativism: Food, Identity, Politics by Parasecoli, Fabio
    Fabio Parasecoli

    Gastronativism: Food, Identity, Politics

    Winner, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards - Food - Food Heritage - USA Nominee, Book Award in Food Issues and Advocacy, James Beard Foundation The Italian political right is outraged by halal tortellini and a pork-free lasagna served at the Vatican. In India, Hindu fundamentalists...
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  • Gastronativism: Food, Identity, Politics by Parasecoli, Fabio
    Fabio Parasecoli

    Gastronativism: Food, Identity, Politics

    Winner, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards - Food - Food Heritage - USA Nominee, Book Award in Food Issues and Advocacy, James Beard Foundation The Italian political right is outraged by halal tortellini and a pork-free lasagna served at the Vatican. In India, Hindu fundamentalists...
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  • Purple Citrus & Sweet Perfume: Cuisine of the Eastern Mediterranean by Rowe, Silvena
    Silvena Rowe

    Purple Citrus & Sweet Perfume: Cuisine of the Eastern Mediterranean

    A rare and beautiful gem of a cookbook, Purple Citrus and Sweet Perfume celebrates the succulent cuisine of the Eastern Mediterranean, a land rich in multi-cultural Ottoman tradition. Popular British chef Silvena Rowe gives us a beautifully designed, lavishly photographed compendium of inspiring and...
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  • The British Baking Book: The History of British Baking, Savory and Sweet by Ysewijn, Regula
    Regula Ysewijn

    The British Baking Book: The History of British Baking, Savory and Sweet

    One of The New Yorker's Best Cookbooks of 2020! A meticulously researched, beautifully written, and richly photographed cookbook celebrating the recipes, ingenuity, history, and heritage of British baking. "Regula Ysewijn blends history and recipes in the most delectable way, with traditional cakes, buns, ppies,...
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  • Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation by Pollan, Michael
    Michael Pollan

    Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

    Michael Pollan, the bestselling author of The Omnivore's Dilemma, Food Rules, How to Change Your Mind, and This is Your Mind on Plants explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen in Cooked. "Having described what's wrong with American food in his best-selling...
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  • Kachka: A Return to Russian Cooking by Prichep, Deena
    Bonnie Frumkin Morales

    Kachka: A Return to Russian Cooking

    Celebrated Portland chef Bonnie Frumkin Morales brings her acclaimed Portland restaurant Kachka into your home kitchen with a debut cookbook enlivening Russian cuisine with an emphasis on vibrant, locally sourced ingredients. "With Kachka, Bonnie Morales has done something amazing: thoroughly update and modernize Russian...
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  • Judgment of Paris: Judgment of Paris by Taber, George M.
    George M. Taber

    Judgment of Paris: Judgment of Paris

    The only reporter present at the mythic Paris Tasting of 1976 for the first time introduces the eccentric American winemakers and records the tremendous aftershocks of this historic event that changed forever the world of wine. The Paris Tasting of 1976 will forever be...
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  • Champagne: How the World's Most Glamorous Wine Triumphed Over War and Hard Times by Kladstrup, Don
    Don Kladstrup

    Champagne: How the World's Most Glamorous Wine Triumphed Over War and Hard Times

    The authors of the international bestseller Wine and War chronicle the untold dramatic history of Champagne from the 13th century through the crucibles of two world wars to the 21st centuryThroughout history, waves of invaders including Franks, Visigoths, Burgundians, Merovingians, Barbarians, Alamanshave swept across...
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  • Cucina Romana by Manuelli, Sara
    Sara Manuelli

    Cucina Romana

    "I grew up in Via dei Cappellari, a dingy, narrow street of Camp di Fiori in Rome. Every morning, I woke up to the sound of the market carts rattling on the cobblestones, as they made their way to the market, laden with tightly...
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