 | Pig Perfect: Encounters with Remarkable Swine and Some Great Ways to Cook Them by Peter Kaminsky
Buy new: $22.00 / Used from: $6.36 A fabulous book about the pig and its influence on man and civilization.
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 | An Omelette and a Glass of Wine (The Cook's Classic Library) by Elizabeth David
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.77 My favourite cookbook of all time , i love Elizabeth David's commentary on French life and food.
I am going to have to will this book to some lucky person, you will never pry it from my hand.
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 | The Whole Beast: Nose to Tail Eating by Fergus Henderson
Buy new: $14.39 / Used from: $10.21 Fergus hits the nail on the head here, I waited for years for a book like this to help support my desire for people to eat more offal.
PS the restaurant, St John, is a great experience too.
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 | The River Cottage Meat Book by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Buy used from: $35.95 I dragged this brick of a book back from the UK ot the States, it was worth it !Hugh really gets into the influence man has had on the development of animals for food and how we need to support traditional low intensity forms of food production. Slow food at it's best.
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 | Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
Buy used from: $0.01 The man loves food !
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 | Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $3.01 A great expose, I haven't got to see the movie yet though.
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 | The Cooking of Southwest France : Recipes from France's Magnificent Rustic Cuisine by Paula Wolfert
Buy new: $24.75 / Used from: $16.04 Another great book in the same vein as Elizabeth David, a gastronomic exploration of an incredibly beautiful part of France.
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 | Rick Stein's Complete Seafood by Rick Stein
Buy used from: $31.35 We must eat more fish.
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 | Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany by Bill Buford
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $0.15 A great trip through the Italian way of cooking with Bill Buford and Mario Batali in a suppporting role.
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