The Cook and the Gardener : A Year of Recipes and ...
 Amazon.com Review: The Cook and the Gardener is Amanda Hesser's first book. From the opening lines of its introduction, her literary gifts are as evident as her passion for good food. Since this work combines recipes with her essays about Monsieur [... more]
$32.50
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Apples
An engaging read, the commonplace made almost sacred: Browning's journeys through the world of apples are exhaustive, lyric and compelling. If you like NPR, or the old New Yorker, you'll love this book on the fruit of English Yeoman, Thomas Jefferson, [... more]
$21.00
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Rooted in America: Foodlore of Popular Fruits and Vegetables
Food for Thoughts: This book is a fascinating study of the historical and cultural contexts for everyday foods. Each chapter looks at the history of a fruit or vegetable that is a common part of American foodways. The writers fill out the historical [... more]
$16.95
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Olives: The Life and Lore of a Noble Fruit
Amazon.com Review: After rice, corn, and wheat--the three staples of, respectively, East Asia, the Americas, and Eurasia--the olive is the foodstuff most closely bound to history, shaping the course of nations and empires. Mort Rosenblum, the author of [... more]
$18.00
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Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local ...
Amazon.com Review: Does it matter where our food comes from? Do we, our communities, and the planet do better if we choose food grown by local sources we trust? Exploring these and other questions of dietary and spiritual subsistence, Gary Paul Nabhan's [... more]
$24.95
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CookSmart: Perfect Recipes for Every Day
Amazon.com Review: Pam Anderson's CookSmart: Perfect Recipes for Every Day is a collection of comfort-food favorites that she's perfected through a long process of trial and error. From her own experience as a chef, cookbook author (The Perfect Recipe), [... more]
$28.00
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The Unprejudiced Palate (The Cook's Classic Library)
Ahead of its time, 60 years ago: It's intimidating to weigh in here with a less than stellar review (if three stars qualify as less-than-stellar) when the likes of Jacques Pépin, Daniel Bouloud, and Mark Kurlansky have heaped unreserved praise [... more]
$14.95
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Honey from a Weed (The Cook's Classic Library)
Amazon.com Review: Simply put, Honey from a Weed is a jewel of a book. Reading it, one realizes the true artistry of the author, a person whose relationship with the world around her is both intimate and immediate--someone who can transform the fruits of [... more]
$16.95
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Garlic Is Life: A Memoir With Recipes
Amazon.com Review: Loosely the story of how a divorced, middle-aged Jewish professor of English moved from San Francisco to rural Sonoma County, California, and found fulfillment in the ups and downs of garlic farming, this intensely personal narrative [... more]
$16.95
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Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen
Heartwarming Culinary Essays. Great Read for Foodies: 'Home Cooking' by Laurie Colwin is the kind of book that really makes you wish you could become friends with the author. Unfortunately, the author is no longer with us, so there is a lot more than the [... more]
$12.00
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More Home Cooking: A Writer Returns to the Kitchen
Amazon.com Review: Prior to her untimely death, Laurie Colwin's insightful novels developed something of a cult following, as did her good-humored food columns for Gourmet Magazine. This book, like its predecessor Home Cooking, is a result of her [... more]
$12.95
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The Rituals of Dinner
Don't Judge a Book by its Cover: I can't imagine doing the research for this tome. And I don't use the word tome lightly. This book is chock full of little tidbits of trivia that are fascinating, but that you will probabaly never need nor have an [... more]
$17.00
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