Cooking - Essays

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Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen...

Laurie Colwin

Weaving together memories, recipes, and wild tales of years spent in the kitchen, Home Cooking is Laurie Colwin's manifesto on the joys of sharing food and entertaining. From the humble hotplate of her one-room apartment to the crowde...

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Published: Mar 2010

The Story of Sushi: An Unlikely Saga ...

Trevor Corson

In this richly reported documentary Corson, journalist and author of 'The Secret Life of Lobsters,' shadows several American sushi novices as well as a master Japanese chef to give readers an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the el...

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Published: Aug 2008

An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Eco...

Tamar Adler

In this meditation on cooking and eating, Tamar Adler weaves philosophy and instruction into approachable lessons on feeding ourselves well. An Everlasting Meal demonstrates the implicit frugality in cooking. In essays on forgotten sk...

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Published: Sep 2012

Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Li...

Shauna Niequist

Author of the New York Times bestseller Present Over Perfect, Shauna Niequist provides the perfect read for those who love food and value the community and connection of family and friends around the table.Bread & Wine is a collectio...

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Published: Sep 2017

Cooked: A Natural History of Transfor...

Michael Pollan

In Cooked, Michael Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. Here, he discovers the enduring power of the four classical elements-fire, water, air, and earth-to transform the stuff of nature into delicio...

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Published: Apr 2014

But Mama Always Put Vodka in Her Sang...

Julia Reed

In her new book, But Mama Always Put Vodka in Her Sangria!, Julia Reed, a master of the art of eating, drinking, and making merry, takes the reader on culinary adventures in places as far flung as Kabul, Afghanistan and as close to...

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Published: Jun 2014

Red Velvet Underground: A Rock Memoir...

Freda Love Smith

Freda Love was a 19-year-old college dropout who'd escaped Indiana for Boston when she became the drummer for The Blake Babies in 1989. Twenty-five years later, she's the suburban mother of two teenaged sons, teaching at a prestigious...

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Published: Oct 2015

Are You Really Going to Eat That?

Robb Walsh

Robb Walsh travels the world and also explores his own life in this collection of 40 articles about food and cooking (with recipes). As he seeks out food (including a Chilean peasant stew immortalized in a poem by Neruda, Day of the D...

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Published: Nov 2004
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