A Southern Thanksgiving: Recipes and Musings for a Manageable Feast
Robb Forman Dew first began collecting her Thanksgiving recipes at the request of a cousin who hadn’t cooked before. In A Southern Thanksgiving, she gathers them into a cookbook–both practical and literary–for an easy-to-prepare, sumptuous Southern feast. In recreating the ambiance of her remembered Thanksgivings in the South, she found that planning ahead is crucial. A Southern …
Every year, renowned grower Amy Goldman produces an amazing 600 varieties of tomatoes on her estate in New York’s Hudson Valley. Here, in 56 delicious recipes, 200 gorgeous photos, and Goldman’s erudite, charming prose, is the cream of the crop.From glorious heirloom beefsteaks – that delicious tomato you had as a kid but can’t seem to find anymore …
A Geography of Oysters: The Connoisseur’s Guide to Oyster Eating in North America
In this passionate, playful, and indispensable guide, oyster aficionado Rowan Jacobsen takes readers on a delectable tour of the oysters of North America. Region by region, he describes each oyster’s appearance, flavor, origin, and availability, as well as explaining how oysters grow, how to shuck them without losing a finger, how to pair them with wine (not to …
Real Food for Mother and Baby: The Fertility Diet, Eating for Two, and Baby’s First Foods
Ten years ago, Nina Planck changed the way we think about what we eat with the groundbreaking Real Food. And when Nina became pregnant, she took the same hard look at the nutritional advice for pregnancy and newborns, finding a tangle of often contradictory guidelines that seemed at odds with her own common sense. In Real Food for …
The Flavor Thesaurus: A Compendium of Pairings, Recipes and Ideas for the Creative Cook
Niki Segnit’s essential culinary reference book is now available with an award-winning, internationally acclaimed design. As appealing to the novice cook as to the experienced professional, it will immeasurably improve your cooking-and it’s the sort of book that might keep you up at night reading. Beautiful, entertaining, and exhaustively researched, this is a globetrotting collection of flavor pairings …
My Last Supper: 50 Great Chefs and Their Final Meals / Portraits, Interviews, and Recipes
Melanie Dunea meets Heat in this award-winning photographer’s stunning celebration of world-famous chefs and their final meals. Chefs have been playing the “My Last Supper” game among themselves for decades, if not centuries, but it had always been kept within the profession until now. Melanie Dunea came up with the ingenious idea to ask fifty of the world’s famous …
The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones
In the multiweek New York Times bestseller The Nasty Bits, bestselling chef and No Reservations host Anthony Bourdain serves up a well-seasoned hellbroth of candid, often outrageous stories from his worldwide misadventures. Whether surviving a lethal hot pot in Chengdu, splurging on New York’s priciest sushi, or singing the praises of Ecuadorian line cooks and Hell’s Kitchen dives, …
The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness, and the Making of a Great Chef
Without question, the original rock-star chef is Marco Pierre White. Anyone with even a passing interest in the food world knows White is a legend. The first British chef (and the youngest chef anywhere) to win three Michelin stars – and also the only chef ever to give them all back – is a chain-smoking, pot-throwing multiply- married …
Knives & Ink: Chefs and the Stories Behind Their Tattoos (with Recipes)
Chefs take their tattoos almost as seriously as their knives. From gritty grill cooks in backwoods diners to the executive chefs at the world’s most popular restaurants, it’s hard to find a cook who doesn’t sport some ink. Knives & Ink features the tattoos of more than sixty-five chefs from all walks of life and every kind of …
The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones
The good, the bad, and the ugly, served up Bourdain-style. Bestselling chef and No Reservations host Anthony Bourdain has never been one to pull punches. In The Nasty Bits, he serves up a well-seasoned hellbroth of candid, often outrageous stories from his worldwide misadventures. Whether scrounging for eel in the backstreets of Hanoi, revealing what you didn’t want …