 | Absolutely gorgeous, extensive and practical guide to 1,000+ cooking techniques and ingredients, many with recipes. Remainder-marked (with a line across bottom edge of book). List Price: $ Price: $29.98   |
 | A paperback reissued edition. In her first book, M.F.K. Fisher takes readers on an animated journey through culinary history, beginning with the honey-loving Greeks and the immoderate Romans. Fisher recalls a hunt for snails and truffles with one of the last adepts in that art and recounts how Catherine de Medici, lonely for home cooking, touched off a culinary revolution by bringing Italian chefs to France. Easy essay makes clear the absolute firmness of Fisher's taste--contrarian and unique--and her skill at stirring memory and imagination into a potent brew. List Price: $ Price: $8.40 |
 | The author who unforgettably captured the experience of starting a new life in Tuscany in bestselling travel memoirs expands her horizons to immerse herself--and her readers--in the sights, aromas, and treasures of twelve new special places. A Year in the World is vintage Frances Mayes--a celebration of the allure of travel, of serendipitous pleasures found in unlikely locales, of memory woven into the present, and of a joyous sense of quest. An ideal travel companion, Frances Mayes brings to the page the curiosity of an intrepid explorer, remarkable insights into the wonder of the everyday, and a compelling narrative style that entertains as it informs. With her beloved Tuscany as a home base, Mayes travels to Spain, Portugal, France, the British Isles, and to the Mediterranean world of Turkey, Greece, the South of Italy, and North Africa. In Andalucía, she relishes the intersection of cultures. She cooks in Portugal, gathers ideas in the gardens of England and Scotland, takes a literary pilgrimage to Burgundy, discovers an ideal place to live in Mantova, and explores the essential Moroccan city of Fez. She rents houses among ordinary residents, shops at neighborhood markets, wanders the back streets, and everywhere contemplates the concept of home. While in Greece, she follows the classic Homeric voyage across the Aegean, lives in a bougainvillea-draped stone house in Crete, and then drives deep into the Mani. In Turkey with friends, she sails the ancient coast, hiking to archaeological sites and snorkeling over sunken Byzantine towns. Weaving together personal perceptions and informed commentary on art, architecture, history, landscape, and social and culinary traditions of each area, Mayes brings the immediacy of life in her temporary homes to the reader. An illuminating and passionate book that will be savored by all who loved Under the Tuscan Sun, A Year in the World is travel writing at its peak. List Price: $ Price: $10.19 |
 | Abe Opincar's memories are joined to food. The rest of us measure our lives in days, hours, minutes, in milestones, acheivements, and looses sustained. He remembers leaving his wife the night he baked chicken, being roughly criticized by French hosts for not properly eating ripe peaches with a knife and fork. Also sunny side up and first sex, cornmeal mush and his dotty aunt, garlic and his father's love. We refer to clocks, calendars, address books, photographs, and objects we've invested with sentiments. Opincar's references are to beer, saffron, limes, Ibarra chocolate, foie gras, and yams. His life in California, Kyoto, Jerusalem, Paris, Istanbul, and Tijuana is called up by flavors that bring back moments and places and people he broke bread with and loved. Event he experiences of others are marked by dishes and drinks, fruits and vegetables. What's recalled and savored is sometimes laugh-out loud funny, or insightful and poignant, but it is always witty and penetrating and wholly beguiling. We eat what we are. Food is life and Opincar relishes it. List Price: $ Price: $12.60 |
 | Drawing on written sources from the fifth century, B.C. to today, veteran cookbook author Oswald Rivera recreates ingredient lists and recipes to allow modern cooks to prepare historic delights from Esau's biblical mess of pottage to contemporary pasta primavera. Packed with fun facts, this culinary history includes such treats as a seven-course dinner from King Srenika’s royal bash in first millennial Indus Valley, Colonial New England’s Johny Cakes and the modern era's meatloaf. Black-and-white illustrations accompany this lively history of cooking. List Price: $ Price: $12.56 |
 | Alice B. Toklas's classic book for reading and cooking mixes the practical and the philosophical in 200+ exquisite recipes. List Price: $ Price: $7.98 |
 | This detailed and entertaining book explores how the plastic storage containers known as Tupperware rose to prominence in 1950s America...Tupperware was more than just a clever use of plastic and an equally clever marketing tool––it was a symbol of its time and a perfect product for a consumerist age. ––American History List Price: $ Price: $13.56 |
 | Linda Ellerbee's first two books were instant classics: And So It Goes, a hilarious look at television journalism that spent months as a bestseller; and Move On,a wry, intimate look at a woman in her time that became a milestone in autobiographical writing. Now she takes us both farther afield and closer to home in a memoir of travel, food, and personal (mis)adventure that brims with warmth, wit, uncommon honesty, inspired storytelling...and a few recipes as well. In Vietnam, preconceptions collide with the soup...In France, lust flares with the pate and dies with the dessert...In Bolivia, a very young missionary finds her food flavored with hypocrisy...while at the bottom of the Grand Canyon an older woman discovers gorp is good, fear is your friend, and Thai chicken tastes best when you are soaked by rain and the Colorado River. From Italy to Afghanistan, from Mexico to Massachusetts, Ellerbee leads us on a journey of revelation, humor, and heart. What can you say about Linda Ellerbee? Ted Koppel once wrote. The woman is raucous and irreverent and writes like a dream. Taking Big Bites proves it again. List Price: $ Price: $15.71 |
 | With Behind Bars, Ty Wenzel offers a revealing account of her ten years as a bartendress slinging drinks at a hip Lower East Side bar in New York City. Wenzel, now thirty-six, has just thrown in the towel after a decade at Marion's Continental Restaurant and lounge--a gig that was supposed to be a temporary refuge after corporate burnout, but instead took over her life. Honest, clever, and scathingly funny, this memoir at once offers outrageous tales, the dirty secrets of the trade, a wonderful personal story, and inspired commentary on bar culture and the human condition. Unsparingly candid, these stories of life behind the bar cover sex, money, celebrities, and more: The seven rules to inspire a strong, prompt drink (hint: a 1 tip does not cover five drinks) What the Floating 20 is between bartenders The tricks bartenders play to get you to stay on the stool Why bartenders can't seem to save money and get out of the life How pink drinks like the Cosmo are ruining civilization. List Price: $ Price: $16.76 |
 | New Edition! Out of print for more than ten years. Father Robert Farrar Capon shares great gusto (and recipes) as he savors the act of cooking for itself. In a world in which fast food and pre-packaged foods have become the norm rather than the exception, Robert Farrar Capon emerges as an inspirational voice extolling the benefits and wonders of old-fashioned home cooking. List Price: $ Price: $8.36 |