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Chia
The Complete Guide to the Ultimate Superfood
Wayne Coates looks at the history and benefits of Chia, a seed full of omega-3 fatty acids and protein, once used by the Aztecs as a super food. Coates explores many of its recipes, such as chia-oat porridge, chia meatloaf and chia frittata.
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Yes, Chef
A Memoir
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.NPR Bestseller
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How to Cook Everything, The Basics
All You Need to Make Great Food—with 1,000 Photos
The New York Times columnist and author of the best-selling How to Cook Everything demonstrates fundamental cooking techniques while providing 171 recipes using basic staples and methods, covering everything from equipping a kitchen and stocking a pantry to making food selections and performing essential cooking tasks. With photography by Romulo Yanes.
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United States of Pie
Regional Favorites from East to West and North to South
Paying tribute to the regional heirloom American pies, this cookbook, accompanied by baking tips and techniques, features recipes, gathered from housekeeping guides and booklets from church groups and community associations, that have been tested and updated for contemporary palates.
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A Girl and Her Pig
Recipes and Stories
The English chef behind such New York restaurants as The Spotted Pig, The Breslin, and the John Dory shares recipes and techniques that combine her working-class English background with a flair for seasonal and meaty dishes using fresh ingredients.
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The Art of Fermentation
An In-Depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes from Around the World
What exactly is fermentation? And how does it work? Those were the questions that fascinated Sandor Ellix Katz for years. Katz calls himself a "fermentation revivalist" and has spent the past decade teaching workshops around the country on the ancient practice of fermenting food. Katz collects many of his recipes and techniques in a new book, The Art of Fermentation.
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The Truck Food Cookbook
150 Recipes and Ramblings from America's Best Restaurants on Wheels
Provides more than 100 recipes from America's best restaurants on wheels, including sausage gravy and waffles, lemon crepes, cubano sandwiches and fried avocado tacos.
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Dinner
A Love Story
Based on her blog, Jenny Rosenstrach's cookbook memoir makes clear that family dinner does not have to be perfect. With recipes for home cooks at any level, she captures the frenetic nature and craziness of dinner and reveals how to break down the meal so that families can enjoy good food and simply be together.
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The Fresh & Green Table
Delicious Ideas for Bringing Fresh & Green Into Your Day
Susie Middleton follows up 2010's Fast, Fresh & Green with an array of recipes that put vegetables at the front and center of meals.
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Asian Tofu
Discover the Best, Make Your Own, and Cook It at Home
Presents a guide to making and cooking tofu, with nearly 100 recipes from one of the country's leading voices on Asian cuisine.
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Sunset Edible Garden Cookbook
Fresh, Healthy Cooking from the Garden
Provides more than 150 quickly prepared recipes using home-grown vegetables, herbs, and fruits, with suggestions for cultivating an edible garden and preserving harvested produce.
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Ripe
A Cook in the Orchard
The popular British food writer behind the vegetable guide Tender now explores the wonderful world of fruit, in a book that includes such recipes as Apricot and Pistachio Crumble, Baked Rhubarb With Blueberries and Crisp Pork Belly with Sweet Peach Salsa.
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Ripe
A Fresh, Colorful Approach to Fruits and Vegetables
Citing the numerous health and environmental benefits of consuming fresh produce, a color-organized reference combines sumptuous photographs with narrative essays and dozens of recipes for enjoying a strategic diet of common fruits and vegetables.
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The Fresh Egg Cookbook
From Chicken to Kitchen, Recipes for Using Eggs from Farmers' Markets, Local Farms, and Your Own Backyard
With more and more home cooks opting for fresh eggs — from farmers' markets or backyard chicken pens — Jennifer Trainer Thompson guides readers through a series of creative, delicious egg-based recipes.
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Herbivoracious
A Flavor Revolution, with 150 Vibrant and Original Vegetarian Recipes
Presents more than 150 recipes for vegetarian dishes which contain a multitude of ingredients and take their inspiration from Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, and Asian cuisine.
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Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream Book
Jake Godby and Sean Vahey — the proprieters of oddball San Francisco ice cream shop Humphry Slocombe — share their secrets for concocting strangely delicious ice cream.
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Pasta Italiana
100 Recipes from Fettuccine to Conchiglie
More authentic Italian recipes from Gino D'Acampo, whose first cookbook, Fantastico!, won the Gourmand World Cookbook Award for Best Italian Cookbook.
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A Rich Spot of Earth
Thomas Jefferson's Revolutionary Garden at Monticello
Peter Hatch traces the history of Thomas Jefferson's vegetable garden, which has been painstakingly restored by the author, from the artichokes and asparagus first planted in 1770 through the horticultural experiments of Jefferson's retirement years.
