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Super Natural Cooking - The health food store has become as dizzying as the tech shop. Amaranth, spelt, kamut --- quick, can you tell me the difference? Which puts the well-meaning shopper
Tasting Georgia: A Food and Wine Journey in the Caucasus - The wine world’s cool kids are buzzing about Georgia. That is, the Georgia that is bordered on the North by Russia, to the South by Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan. If you're
Ten: All the Foods We Love and 10 Perfect Recipes for Each - Back in the 1970s, when many Americans were under the impression that wrapping a boneless chicken breast around a stick of butter and deep-frying it was “gourmet” cooking,
The Arthur Avenue Cookbook: Recipes and Memories from the Real Little Italy - “This is your world, I'm just temporary.” So said the waiter at Mario's on Saturday night, misquoting the old line about Sinatra (“It's Frank's world, we're
The Balthazar Cookbook, by Keith McNally - Keith McNally started with a location --- a coveted space at 80 Spring Street, in that trendy part of downtown New York known as SoHo --- and a dog-eared photo
The Brisket Book: A Love Story with Recipes - I don’t know why anyone thought the world needed an entire book about brisket, dripping with anecdotes, theories, recipes and memories. Brisket is, after all, a very simple matter. Just use my
The Ethnic Paris Cookbook - The Ethnic Paris Cookbook Charlotte Puckette and Olivia Kiang-Snaiji
The Freds at Barneys New York Cookbook - I bought my suit for Wedding #1 at Barneys. A decade later, I wrote a Vanity Fair piece about the wildly ambitious sons of Fred Pressman who took the store
The Gramercy Tavern Cookbook - A close friend and I gave a Valentine's Day dinner for a VIP guest list: mostly old friends. I cooked a simple meal: braised beef, mashed potatoes, peas. The animating
The Kitchen Whisperers: Cooking with the Wisdom of Our Friends - It’s said that the French kings had Lafite rubbed on the lips of their newborns so they’d enter life knowing a standard of quality. As a first taste memory, that’s
The New York Restaurant Cookbook: Recipes from the City’s Best Chefs - In a previous lifetime, we went out to dinner. Often. Then our kid arrived. Now we go out less --- much less. And read cookbooks more --- much
The Oprah Magazine Cookbook - Oprah cooks? Well, she does everything else, it seems. But really...cook? Duh. Read the title. The Oprah Magazine Cookbook. Someone's in the kitchen with Oprah --- in a
The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand - I’ve never read Jim Harrison. I saw the film of Legends of the Fall, which is universally agreed to be a drop-dead masterpiece. I certainly knew the legend of Harrison:
The Real Food Cookbook: Traditional Dishes for Modern Cooks - My 97-year-old mother thinks we spend too much for food. “The prices of organic milk and grass-fed meat --- they're so expensive," she says. "Why do you need them?" And I say,
The Shun Lee Cookbook - At breakfast, Michael Jordan ate only half of his pancakes. I asked him why. “If you want to fly,” he said, “you have to eat like a bird.” Clear conclusion: Control portion
The Square Foot Garden: Gardening Made Easy - During the pandemic, having enough land for a garden was a status symbol --- it meant you'd escaped the urban hellscape and were living the updated version of the good
The Tenth Muse - Her mother, “well into her nineties”, had an urgent question: "Tell me, Judith, do you really like garlic?" Sadly, Judith Jones did. And she also loved the foods of her
The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food - I thought Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma was pretty much the last word about the food we eat, why we eat it, its cost to our health and the planet’s
