Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking
By: Bill Buford
3.65
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
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1. The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness and the Making of a Great Chef
By: Marco Pierre White , James Steen
3.97
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
What do Mario Batali and Gordon Ramsay have in common? They survived tours of duty in the kitchen … read more
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"If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you."-Marco Pierre White, The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness and the Making of a Great Chef
2. Yes, Chef
By: Marcus Samuelsson
3.00
Format: 126 pages, Hardcover
It begins with a simple ritual: Every Saturday afternoon, a boy who loves to cook walks to his gran… read more
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3. Christopher and His Kind
By: Christopher Isherwood
4.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
An indispensable memoir by one of the most prominent writers of his generation Originally published… read more
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4. Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste
By: Luke Barr
2.50
Format: 62 pages, Hardcover
Provence, 1970 is about a singular historic moment. In the winter of that year, more or less coinci… read more
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5. My Kitchen Year: 136 Recipes That Saved My Life
By: Ruth Reichl
3.50
Format: 93 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER In the fall of 2009, the food world was rocked when Gourmetmagazine was ab… read more
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6. My Life in France
By: Julia Child , Alex Prud'Homme
3.96
Format: 425 pages,
In her own words, here is the story of Julia Child's years in France, where she fell in love with F… read more
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7. Sweet
By: Yotam Ottolenghi , Helen Goh
3.32
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
'There's nothing like a perfectly light sponge flavoured with spices and citrus or an icing-sugar-d… read more
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8. Adventures on the Wine Route: A Wine Buyer’s Tour of France
By: Kermit Lynch , Gail Skoff
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
Kermit Lynch's recounting of his experiences on the wine route and in the wine cellars of France ta… read more
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9. The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris
By: John Baxter
3.46
Format: None pages, Paperback
From the author of Immoveable Feastand We'll Always Have Pariscomes a guided tour of the most beaut… read more
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10. The Bonjour Effect: The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed
By: Jean-Benoît Nadeau , Julie Barlow
0.00
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Jean-Benoit Nadeau and Julie Barlow spent a decade traveling back and forth to Paris as well as liv… read more
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11. French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France
By: Richard Goodman
3.67
Format: 542 pages, Paperback
A story about dirt--and about sun, water, work, elation, and defeat. And about the sublime pleasure… read more
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12. Eat a Peach
By: David Chang
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In 2004, David Chang opened a noodle restaurant named Momofuku in Manhattan's East Village, not exp… read more
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"In other words, we may not be able to reject our fortune or fate, but we can reject how we approach it."-David Chang, Eat a Peach
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13. Table for Two
By: Amor Towles
4.26
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a… read more
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14. The Paris Novel
By: Ruth Reichl
3.84
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author Ruth Reichl takes readers on an adventure of food, art, and fashion in 1980s Par… read more
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15. Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking
By: Bill Buford
3.65
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
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16. A Chateau Under Siege
By: Martin Walker
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
France's favourite country cop, Bruno, faces a dangerous threat to the town he polices and the peop… read more
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17. Falastin: A Cookbook
By: Sami Tamimi
4.49
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
FALASTIN is a love letter to Palestine, the land and its people; an evocative collection of over 11… read more
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18. Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Extra Good Things: Bold, Vegetable-Forward Recipes Plus Homemade Sauces, Condiments, and More to Build a Flavor-Packed Pantry: A Cookbook
By: Noor Murad
4.15
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The Globe and Mail bestselling author Yotam Ottolenghi and his superteam of chefs bring you the sec… read more
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19. The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
By: Dwight Garner
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Garner gathers a literary chorus to capture the joys of reading and eating in this comic, personal … read more
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20. My Place at the Table: A Recipe for a Delicious Life in Paris
By: Alexander Lobrano
4.05
Format: 239 pages, Hardcover
In this debut memoir, a James Beard Award–winning writer, whose childhood idea of fine dining was H… read more
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21. The Tree of Life, Book One: On the Brink of the Precipice, 1939
By: Chava Rosenfarb
4.44
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
On the Brink of the Precipice, the first volume of the trilogy The Tree of Life , describes the liv… read more
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