Essays & Narratives
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Cooking for Mr. Latte: A Food Lover’s Courtship, with Recipes
$27.99 Add to cartLife in the city, love, and unforgettable meals–can a food writer find happiness with a man who has an empty refrigerator? Amanda Hesser’s irresistible book is the tale of a romance where food is the… [more below]
- Author: Hesser, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 17 2004
- ISBN10: 0393325598
- Language: English
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What We Talk about When We Talk about Dumplings
$17.95 Read moreSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 TASTE CANADA AWARD FOR CULINARY NARRATIVES
Featured on “The Sunday Magazine” on CBC Radio
Nearly every culture has a variation on the dumpling: histories, treatises, family lege
- Author: Lorinc, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1552454525
- Language: English
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Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes
$19.99 Add to cartJoin New York Times bestselling author Shauna Niequist as she offers an enchanting mix of funny and vulnerable storytelling in this collection of recipes and essays about the surprising and sacred thi
- Author: Niequist, Shauna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0310361095
- Language: English
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The Tummy Trilogy
$27.00 Add to cartIn the 1970s, Calvin Trillin informed America that its most glorious food was not to be found at the pretentious restaurants he referred to generically as La Maison de la Casa House, Continental Cuisi
- Author: Trillin, Calvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 30 1994
- ISBN10: 0374524173
- Language: English
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Ham Biscuits, Hostess Gowns, and Other Southern Specialties: An Entertaining Life (with Recipes)
$20.99 Add to cartSouthern humorist Julia Reed celebrates Southern food, Southern women, and the Southern penchant for enjoying good times in this collection of her food writing.
Julia Reed spends a lot of time thinkin- Author: Reed, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0312359578
- Language: English
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Resilient Kitchens: American Immigrant Cooking in a Time of Crisis, Essays and Recipes
$27.95 Read moreImmigrants have left their mark on the great melting pot of American cuisine, and they have continued working hard to keep America’s kitchens running, even during times of crisis like the COVID-19 pa
- Author: Gleissner, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: May 12, 2023
- ISBN10: 1978832516
- Language: English
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Twelve Recipes
$29.99 Add to cartWinner of the 2015 International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) Cookbook Award
Forewords by Alice Waters and Michael Pollan
In this dazzling, full color cookbook and kitchen manual filled
- Author: Peternell, Cal
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 21 2014
- ISBN10: 0062270303
- Language: English
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Dinner: A Love Story: It All Begins at the Family Table
$29.99 Read more“As long as people keep having kids, jobs, marriages, and appetites, this cookbook is destined to remain a classic.” -Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
The first book from the author of The
- Author: Rosenstrach, Jenny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 05 2012
- ISBN10: 0062080903
- Language: English
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The Gastronomical Me
$19.00 Read moreIn 1929, a newly married M.F.K. Fisher said goodbye to a milquetoast American culinary upbringing and sailed with her husband to Dijon, where she tasted real French cooking for the first time. The Gas
- Author: Fisher, M. F. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 10 1989
- ISBN10: 0865473927
- Language: English
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Black, White, and the Grey: The Story of an Unexpected Friendship and a Beloved Restaurant
$28.00 Add to cartA story about the trials and triumphs of a Black chef from Queens, New York, and a White media entrepreneur from Staten Island who built a relationship and a restaurant in the Deep South, hoping to br… [more below]
- Author: Bailey, Mashama
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1984856200
- Language: English
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All Things Edible, Random & Odd: Essays on Grief, Love & Food
$17.95 Add to cartThrough lyrical and intimate personal essays, All Things Edible, Random and Odd delivers a portrait not just of a father who died, but of a daughter who kept living.
Sheila Squillante’s heartfelt and … [more below]
- Author: Squillante, Sheila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1955904898
- Language: English
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More Home Cooking: A Writer Returns to the Kitchen
$19.99 Add to cartWith a new foreword by Deb Perelman of Smitten Kitchen, the triumphant sequel to Home Cooking by “a home cook, like you and me, whose charm and lack of pretension make her wonderfully human and a welc
- Author: Colwin, Laurie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0063046423
- Language: English
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Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Mea
$20.00 Add to cartA staple of the food-writing genre that prefigured the current locavore and foodist movements by almost two decades, Margaret Visser’s Much Depends on Dinner is a delightful and intelligent history of… [more below]
- Author: Visser, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 08 2010
- ISBN10: 0802144934
- Language: English
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The Best American Food Writing 2020
$18.99 Add to cartThe year’s top food writing from writers who celebrate the many innovative, comforting, mouthwatering, and culturally rich culinary offerings of our country.
“These are stories about culture,” writes J
- Series: Best American Series (R)
- Author: Killingsworth, Silvia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0358344581
- Language: English
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Serve It Forth
$15.00 Add to cartIn Serve It Forth, her first book, M. F. K. Fisher takes readers on an animated journey through culinary history, beginning with the honey-loving Greeks and the immoderate Romans. Fisher recalls a hun
- Series: Art of Eating
- Author: Fisher, M. F. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: September 18 2002
- ISBN10: 0865473692
- Language: English
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In Winter’s Kitchen: Growing Roots and Breaking Bread in the Northern Heartland
$20.00 Add to cartBeth Dooley arrived in Minnesota from New Jersey with preconceptions about the Midwestern food scene. Having learned to cook in her grandmother’s kitchen, shopping at farm stands and making preserves,
- Author: Dooley, Beth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 375
- Publish Date: October 11 2016
- ISBN10: 1571313613
- Language: English
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Why We Cook: Women on Food, Identity, and Connection
$27.50 Add to cartJoin the conversation . . .
With more than one hundred women restaurateurs, activists, food writers, professional chefs, and home cooks–all of whom are changing the world of food. Featuring essays, pr
- Author: Gardner, Lindsay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1523509740
- Language: English
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The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu
$16.99 Add to cartWhy do we eat toast for breakfast, and then toast to good health at dinner? What does the turkey we eat on Thanksgiving have to do with the country on the eastern Mediterranean? Can you figure out how
- Author: Jurafsky, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 13 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351629
- Language: English
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What We Hunger for: Refugee and Immigrant Stories about Food and Family
$18.95 Add to cartEating is an intimacy bound with language, family, and migration. Travel far and near with fourteen gifted writers from immigrant and refugee families as they share their flavorful, luminous stories. … [more below]
- Author: Shin, Sun Yung
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1681341972
- Language: English
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The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book
$17.99 Add to cart“I’m drenched in cream, marinated in wine, basted in cognac, and thoroughly buttered by the end of The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book.” –Eula Biss, New York Times bestselling author of Having and Being Ha
- Author: Toklas, Alice B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 0063043807
- Language: English
