Essays & Narratives
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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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Taste of Persia: A Cook’s Travels Through Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, and Kurdistan
$40.00 Add to cartWinner, James Beard Award for Best Book of the Year, International (2017)
Named a Best Cookbook of the Year by The Boston G
Winner, IACP Award for Best Cookbook of the Year in Culinary Travel (2017)- Author: Duguid, Naomi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 20 2016
- ISBN10: 1579655483
- 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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No Lucks Given: Life’s Hard But There Is Hope
$17.99 Add to cartNo Lucks Given, by Chef Brother Luck, is a powerful reflection on the most vital parts of the human experience: identity, community, and work. Packed with pain, passion, honor, and hope, No Lucks Give… [more below]
- Author: Chef Brother Luck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0578397811
- Language: English
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Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger: A Memoir
$18.00 Add to cartNamed a Favorite Book for Southerners in 2020 by Garden & Gun
“Donovan is such a vivid writer–smart, raunchy, vulnerable and funny– that if her vaunted caramel cakes and sugar pies are half as good- Author: Donovan, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 0525560963
- Language: English
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The Spiritual Gardener: Insights from the Jewish Tradition to Help Your Garden Grow
$16.95 Add to cartIn this charming and elegant guide, Pacific Northwest gardener Andy Becker provides practical gardening tips coupled with spiritual insights to help your garden grow. Quotations from the Torah, the Mi
- Author: Becker, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: March 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1733669809
- 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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Old Dogs: Are the Best Dogs
$23.99 Add to cartFeaturing sixty black-and-white photographs of old dogs shot by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Michael S. Williamson and narrated by Washington Post staffer and columnist Gene Weingarten, this is… [more below]
- Author: Williamson, Michael S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1416534997
- Language: English
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Finding Mezcal: A Journey Into the Liquid Soul of Mexico, with 40 Cocktails
$30.00 Read moreIn this groundbreaking and deeply personal book, Ron Cooper–a leading voice in the artisanal mezcal movement, and the person largely responsible for popularizing the spirit in the United States–shar… [more below]
- Author: Cooper, Ron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 0399579001
- Language: English
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Change Comes to Dinner
$22.00 Add to cartA fascinating exploration of America’s food innovators, that gives us hopeful alternatives to the industrial food system described in works like Michael Pollan’s bestselling Omnivore’s Dilemma
Change- Author: Gustafson, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 08 2012
- ISBN10: 0312577370
- Language: English
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Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures Farming the Ocean to Fight Climate Change
$19.00 Add to cartJAMES BEARD AWARD WINNER
IACP Cookbook Award finalist
In the face of apocalyptic climate change, a former fisherman shares a bold and hopeful new vision for saving the planet: farming the ocean. Here B… [more below]- Author: Smith, Bren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 27 2020
- ISBN10: 110197432X
- Language: English
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The Truth about Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife
$16.99 Add to cartMary Roach meets Bill Bryson in this “surefire summer winner” (Janet Maslin, New York Times), an uproarious tour of the basest instincts and biggest mysteries of the animal world
Humans have gone to t- Author: Cooke, Lucy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 30 2019
- ISBN10: 1541674081
- Language: English
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Beloved Dog
$20.00 Add to cartMaira Kalman, with wit and great sensitivity, reveals why dogs bring out the best in us
Maira Kalman + Dogs = Bliss
Dogs have lessons for us all. In Beloved Dog, renowned artist and author Maira Kalma
- Author: Kalman, Maira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 31 2017
- ISBN10: 014310988X
- 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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Pig Beach BBQ Cookbook: Smoked, Grilled, Roasted, and Sauced
$30.00 Read more“I love Matt and Shane and the rest of the gang at Pig Beach. It’s not Father’s Day for me and my family if I’m not chowing down on some Pig Beach BBQ. Now, with this book, every day can be a Pig Beac
- Author: Abdoo, Matt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0358651883
- Language: English
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To Crack the World Open: Solitude, Alaska, and a Dog Named Woody
$16.95 Add to cartAn award-winning documentary filmmaker recounts a period of his life spent in extreme solitude in the wilds of coastal Alaska, where his friendship with a remarkable dog helped him find his path while… [more below]
- Author: Serrill, Ward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1954854188
- Language: English
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Making Rounds with Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat
$18.99 Add to cartA remarkable cat. A special gift. A life-changing journey.
They thought he was just a cat. When Oscar arrived at the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Rhode Island he was a cute littl- Author: Dosa, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 05 2011
- ISBN10: 1401310435
- Language: English
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Daniel Humm: Eat More Plants: A Chef’s Journal
$75.00 Read moreDaniel Humm’s visual diary of inspirations for Eleven Madison Park’s plant-based menu
This volume is a collection of drawings and handwritten notes by restaurateur and chef Daniel Humm (born 1976), com
- Author: Humm, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 3969992931
- Language: English
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Eating the Landscape: American Indian Stories of Food, Identity, and Resilience
$19.95 Add to cart“Eating is not only a political act, it is also a cultural act that reaffirms one’s identity and worldview,” Enrique Salm? writes in Eating the Landscape. Traversing a range of cultures, including the
- Series: First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
- Author: Salm?n, Enrique
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0816530114
- Language: English
