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Eating My Words: An Appetite for Life
by Mimi Sheraton
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As one of the country's foremost restaurant reviewers, Mimi Sheraton set the standard for food writing and criticism. In this engrossing memoir, the doyenne of food criticism explains how she developed her passion for writing about food and wine, sharing... ( read more)
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Caucasia
by Danzy Senna
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Birdie and Cole are the daughters of a black father and a white mother, intellectuals and activists in the Civil Rights Movement in 1970's Boston. The sisters are so close that they have created a private language, yet to the outside world they can't be... ( read more)
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The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food
by Judith Jones
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Judith Jones has lived an amazing life, and she shares it with the reader in a straightforward and almost matter-of-fact way. Jones has been in all of our kitchens, whether it was through her own recipes or the many cookbooks she has edited and helped... ( read more)
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The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School
by Kathleen Flinn
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In 2003, Flinn, a 36-year-old American living and working in London, cleared out her savings and moved to Paris to pursue a dream diploma from the famed Le Cordon Bleu cooking school. The ultimate wish fulfillment book, her story is a true testament to... ( read more)
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Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger
by Nigel Slater
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Toast is Nigel Slater's truly extraordinary story of a childhood remembered through food. In each chapter, as he takes readers on a tour of the contents of his family's pantryrice pudding, tinned ham, cream soda, mince pies, lemon drops, bourbon... ( read more)
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The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen
by Jacques Pepin
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In this captivating memoir, the man whom Julia Child has called "the best chef in America" tells the story of his rise from a frightened apprentice in an exacting Old World kitchen to an Emmy Award-winning superstar who taught millions of Americans how... ( read more)
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Paula Deen: It Ain't All about the Cookin'
by Paula Deen
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Do you know the real Paula Deen? You may think you know the butter-loving, finger-licking, joke-cracking queen of melt-in-your-mouth Southern cuisine. You may have even visited The LadyandSons to taste for yourself the down-home delicacies that made her... ( read more)
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Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter
by Phoebe Damrosch
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Kitchen Confidential meets Sex and the City in this delicious, behind-the-scenes memoir from the first female captain at one of New York City's most prestigious restaurants While Phoebe Damrosch was figuring out what to do with her life, she supported... ( read more)
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The Year of Eating Dangerously: A Global Adventure in Search of Culinary Extremes
by Tom Parker Bowles
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Food columnist Parker Bowles engages in a year-long odyssey in search of the worlds most thrilling, terrifying, and odd foods.... ( read more)
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Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
by Bill Buford
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Much like Anthony Bourdain's sensational account of the culinary trenches of Amercian restaurant kitchens, Bill Buford's Heat gives readers an authentic look at his tenure as "kitchen slave" to celebrity chef Mario Batali. Including chapters on Batali's... ( read more)
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The Perfectionist: Life and Death in Haute Cuisine
by Rudolph Chelminski
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In 2003 Bernard Loiseau's suicide made international headlines. The celebrated French chef's restaurant was rumored to potentially lose a coveted Michelin star, and the Gault Millau guidebook had recently lowered its rating. In a compelling look at the... ( read more)
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Kate Remembered
by A. Scott Berg
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Twenty years of intimate conversations form the heart of this remarkable memoir — from the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lindbergh and Goldwyn: A Biography.
For seven decades Katharine Hepburn played a leading role in... ( read more)
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Isaac Newton
by James Gleick
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-258) and index.... ( read more)
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Climbing the Mango Trees
by Madhur Jaffrey
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Whether acclaimed food writer Madhur Jaffrey was climbing the mango trees in her grandparents' orchard in Delhi or picnicking in the Himalayan foothills on meatballs stuffed with raisins and mint, tucked into freshly baked spiced pooris, today these... ( read more)
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Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry and Made Himself the Richest Man in America
by Stephen Manes
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Gates reveals the guiding genius behind the unparalleled success of the Microsoft Corporation-- the biggest and most profitable personal computer software company in history-- and exposes the intensely competitive tactics that help it dominate the... ( read more)
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi
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We all have dreams — things we fantasize about doing and generally never get around to. This is the story of Azar Nafisi?s dream and of the nightmare that made it come true.
For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young... ( read more)
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Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
by James Gleick
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From the author of the national bestseller Chaos comes an outstanding biography of one of the most dazzling and flamboyant scientists of the 20th century that "not only paints a highly attractive portrait of Feynman but also . . . makes for a stimulating... ( read more)
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The Essential John Nash
by Harold W. Kuhn and Sylvia Nasar
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When John Nash won the Nobel prize in economics in 1994, many people were surprised to learn that he was alive and well. Since then, Sylvia Nasar's celebrated biography, the basis of a new major motion picture, has revealed the man. The Essential John... ( read more)
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A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal
by Anthony Bourdain
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Anthony Bourdain sets off to eat his way around the world. On his travels, he eats the heart of a live cobra in Saigon, dines with Russian gangsters, and attends a medieval pig slaughter.... ( read more)
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Gastronaut: Adventures in Food for the Romantic, the Foolhardy, and the Brave
by Stefan Gates
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An irreverent journey through the culinary world of the exotic, the bizarre, and the truly extraordinary, "Gastronaut" is equal parts cookbook and quest book. This hilarious journey through some of the strangest food experiences, past and present, is... ( read more)
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