Cooking & Food Writing

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Salt Sugar Fat
How the Food Giants Hooked Us
Michael Moss
From a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter at The New York Times comes the explosive story of the rise of the processed food industry and its link to the emerging obesity epidemic. Michael Moss reveals how companies use salt, sugar, and fat...
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Twain's Feast
Searching for America's Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel Clemens
Andrew Beahrs
One young food writer's search for America's lost wild foods, from New Orleans croakers to Illinois prairie hens, with Mark Twain as his guide. In 1879, Mark Twain paused during a European tour to compose a fantasy menu of the American dishes he...
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Medium Raw
A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
Anthony Bourdain
An instant New York Times bestseller and the follow-up to the mega-hit Kitchen Confidential In the ten years since Anthony Bourdain's classic Kitchen Confidential first alerted us to the idiosyncrasies and lurking perils of eating out, much has...
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In Defense of Food
An Eater's Manifesto
Michael Pollan
This book is as fascinating as all the reviewers keep telling us it is. Michael Pollan doesn't address every angle of every issue, but this book is a great starting point for thinking more critically and carefully about the foods we buy and eat...
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Molecular Gastronomy
Exploring the Science of Flavor
Hervé This
Hervé This (pronounced "Teess") is an internationally renowned chemist, a popular French television personality, a bestselling cookbook author, a longtime collaborator with the famed French chef Pierre Gagnaire, and the only person to hold a...
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
A Year of Food Life
Steven L. Hopp, Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver
Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life—vowing that, for one year, they’d only buy food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir, part...
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The Omnivore's Dilemma
A Natural History of Four Meals
Michael Pollan
A New York Times bestseller that has changed the way readers view the ecology of eating, this revolutionary book by award winner Michael Pollan asks the seemingly simple question: What should we have for dinner? Tracing from source to table each of...
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Absinthe
History in a Bottle
One hundred forty-four proof, notoriously addictive, and the drug of choice for nineteenth-century poets, absinthe is gaining bootleg popularity after almost a century of being banned. Due to popular demand, Absinthe: History in a Bottle is back in...
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Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook
Alice L. Waters
This timeless addition to the Chez Panisse paperback cookbook library assembles 120 of the restaurant's best menus, including galas, festivals, and special occasion meals that have become such gustatory celebrations. A full range of menus is featured...