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Taste : my life through food
Tucci, Stanley
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named a Notable Book of the Year by NPR and The Washington Post From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kitchen.
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What she ate : six remarkable women and the food that tells their stories
Shapiro, Laura
Paper Book
A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of The Year One of NPR Fresh Air's "Books to Close Out a Chaotic 2017" NPR's Book Concierge Guide To the Year's Great Reads "How lucky for us readers that Shapiro has been listening so perceptively for...
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The secret history of food : strange but true stories about the origins of everything we eat
Siegel, Matt
Paper Book
An irreverent, surprising, and entirely entertaining look at the little-known history surrounding the foods we know and love Is Italian olive oil really Italian, or are we dipping our bread in lamp oil? Why are we masochistically drawn to foods that can hurt us,...
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Cook, eat, repeat : ingredients, recipes and stories
Lawson, Nigella
Paper Book
"Food, for me, is a constant pleasure: I like to think greedily about it, reflect deeply on it, learn from it; it provides comfort, inspiration, meaning, and beauty...More than just a mantra, 'cook, eat, repeat' is the story of my life." Cook, Eat, Repeat is...
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Tasting history : explore the past through 4,000 years of recipes
Miller, Max
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Begin your very own food journey through the centuries and around the world with the first cookbook from the beloved YouTube channel Tasting History with Max Miller. What began as a passion project when Max Miller was...
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The Kamogawa food detectives
Kashiwai, Hisashi
Paper Book
The Kamogawa Food Detectives is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese series, for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold. What's the one dish you'd do anything to taste just one more time? Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto...
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Love & saffron : a novel of friendship, food, and love
Fay, Kim
Paper Book
The Instant National Bestseller and #1 Indie Next Pick In the vein of the classic 84, Charing Cross Road, this witty and tender novel follows two women in 1960s America as they discover that food really does connect us all, and that friendship and laughter are the best...
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The edible woman
Atwood, Margaret
Paper Book
The novel that put the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments on the literary map. The Booker Prize winner's first novel is both a scathingly funny satire of consumerism and a heady exploration of emotional cannibalism. Marian McAlpin...
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