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The Whole Beast: Nose to Tail Eating

By:Fergus Henderson

We've seen, over the past decade, celebrity chefs and television food personas bring the food of the streets and the lower classes around the world ...

Soaked, Slathered, and Seasoned A Complete Guide for Flavoring Food for the Grill

By:Elizabeth Karmel Photography by Jamie Tiampo

Like so many others, I am a huge fan of my barbecue grill. A die-hard, charcoal only, Weber loving fool, I typically grill at least ...

Gale Gand's Just a Bite

By:Gale Gand and Julia Moskin Photography by Tim Turner

There is something so fun about sweets that come in just the right size to pop in your mouth.  When the treats are only a ...

How to Cook Everything, 10th Anniversary Edition

By:Mark Bittman

Most people remember the cookbook that they learned to cook out of.  For most it was either their mother's Joy of Cooking or the Betty ...

Wood Fired Cooking

By:Mary Karlin

I'm amazed when I walk into a bookstore, check out the cookbook section, and see shelves full of books on barbecuing, grilling, and live fire ...

The Frugal Foodie Cookbook: Waste-Not Recipes for the Wise Cook (Paperback)

By:Lara Starr with Lynette Shirk

It was back in 1984 when Jeff Smith's The Frugal Gourmet hit the bookstores. Based on his very successful series on PBS, it was the ...

So You Want to be a Chef? Your Guide to Culinary Careers

By:Lisa M. Brefere, CEC, AAC - Karen Erch Drummond, EdD, RD, FADA, LDN, FMP - Brad Barnes, CMC, CCA, AAC

In today's world of TV chefs and food related channels, have you ever wondered, why can't I do that for a living? How much does ...

Flatbreads & Flavors

By:Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid

So, I'm browsing the shelves at Barnes & Noble and come across the paperback version of Flatbreads & Flavors, a book I'd not heard of ...

Burger Bar—Build Your Own Ultimate Burgers

By:Hubert Keller with Penelope Wisner

Surprise!  A classically trained French chef can make a mean burger.  In Burger Bar, readers are given an inside look of the menu and recipes ...

Bite-Size Desserts

By:Carole Bloom, CCP Photography by Glenn Cormier

There's a trend of the tiny that's taking over the food world.  Little bites of tapas have been sprouting in restaurants around the country; miniature ...

Barefoot Contessa: Back to Basics

By:Ina Garten Photographs by Quentin Bacon

Ah, the Barefoot Contessa. Who among us doesn't long to be a contessa (or count, it just depends), lounging on the beach with sand between ...

Six Spices: A Simple Concept of Indian Cooking

By:Neeta Saluja Photography by Martha Busse

In her introduction to Six Spices, Neeta Saluja perfectly sums up the problem of finding a good cookbook for the Indian cooking novice: "I found ...

Rustic Fruit Desserts

By:Cory Schreiber and Julie Richardson Photography by Sara Remington

Grunt, slump, crisp, crumble, betty, pandowdy, and buckle. All different yet very much the same, these traditional desserts have been a part of the American ...

In Late Winter We Ate Pears & Libation: A Bitter Alchemy

By:Deirdre Heekin and Caleb Barber

British writer Lawrence Durrell was most known as a novelist. But, when it comes to evocative writing, it's his travelogues that mark him as great. ...

The Sweeter Side of Amy's Bread

By:Amy Scherber and Toy Kim Dupree Photography by Aimée Herring

One of the great things about living in or visiting New York City is the stunning collection of great restaurants.  But the traditional dinner spots ...

Casserole Crazy: Hot Stuff for Your Oven!

By:Emily Farris

As a child I remember flipping through my mother's cookbooks from the 1950's.  They were full of offbeat gelatin molds and unusual ingredients in one ...

The Olive Harvest Cookbook

By:Gerald Gass with Jacqueline Mallorca

This is a book about the McEvoy Ranch, an organic olive ranch in California, and about the work of the ranch's resident chef, Gerald Gass.  ...

GOURMET GETAWAYS – 50 Top Spots to Cook and Learn

By:Joe David

Just last week I found myself going on a rant about all the books out there that followed the best selling 1000 Places to See ...

Sara's Secrets for Weeknight Meals

By:Sarah Moulton Photography by Dana Gallagher

It's a universal experience, falling into a rut. None of us know quite how it happens, or even how long we've been in such an ...

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