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Yes, Chef : A Memoir
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Marcus Samuelsson
The Top Chef: Masters winner and James Beard Award-winning proprietor of Harlem's Red Rooster traces his Ethiopian birth, upbringing by an adoptive family in Sweden and rise to a famous New York chef, sharing personal insights into his challenges as a black man in a deeply prejudiced industry.
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Steal The Menu : A Memoir of Forty Years in Food
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Raymond A. Sokolov
A tour of contemporary food history by an influential food journalist traces four decades of culinary revolution from the publication of Julia Child's French cooking classic through the diverse practices of today, covering such topics as the introduction of nouvelle cuisine and the rise of contemporary American food stars.
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Blood, Bones & Butter : The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
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Gabrielle Hamilton
The chef of New York's East Village Prune restaurant presents an unflinching account of her search for meaning and purpose in the food-central rural New Jersey home of her youth, marked by a first chicken kill, an international backpacking tour and the opening of a first restaurant.
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Save Me the Plums : My Gourmet Memoir
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Ruth Reichl
The six-time James Beard Award-winning journalist and best-selling author of My Kitchen Year chronicles her groundbreaking tenure as editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine and her work with legendary fellow epicureans to transform how America thinks about food.
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle : A Year of Food Life
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Barbara Kingsolver
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle follows the Kingsolver and her family through the first year of their experiment to realign their lives with the local food chain. During their efforts to move away from processed foods, they begin to recover what Kingsolver considers our nation's lost appreciation for the American family farm.
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32 Yolks : From My Mother's Table to Working The Line
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Eric Ripert
The chef and co-owner of the New York restaurant Le Bernardin and a regular guest judge on Bravo's Top Chef shares how the events from his childhood prompted him to learn to cook and find happiness as he was finally able to share his lifelong love of food with other people.
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A Cook's Tour : In Search of The Perfect Meal
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Anthony Bourdain
From Japan where he eats traditional Fugu, a poisonous blowfish that can only be prepared by specially licensed chefs, to a delectable snack with the Viet Cong in the Mecong Delta, this fascinating book follows the author, who combines his two greatest passions--cooking and travelling, as he embarks on a quest around the world to find the ultimate meal.
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Mastering The Art of Soviet Cooking : A Memoir of Love and Longing
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Anya Von Bremzen
A multi-generational memoir by a celebrated food writer captures the flavors of the mid-20th-century Soviet experience; tracing her upbringing by an anti-Soviet mother, her witness to the political events that led to the empire's collapse and the parallel food universes of her life that included both simple and sumptuous fare.
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L.A. Son : My Life, My City, My Food
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Roy Choi
The co-founder of the wildly popular Kogi BBQ taco trucks pays tribute to the city he loves with this cookbook that combines his appreciation of food and his evolution as a chef with 60 recipes for everything from kalbi and kimchi to chorizo and carno asada.
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