 | Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating from America's Farmers' Markets by Deborah Madison
Buy used from: $7.35 My son just gave me this, and it looks great! Now for the test drive! Our local market starts this week.
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 | How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food by Mark Bittman
Buy used from: $6.00 Really does have great recipes for about everything from adobo chicken to how to make zweiback. Solid simple cookbook with lots of basic information.
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 | Beard On Bread by James Beard
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $4.45 Best bread book ever, by a truly great chef.
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 | Macaroni And Cheese by Marlena Spieler
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $8.90 An entertaining collection of about 50 variations on the old standard (including gratins, stove-top, baked; timbales, soups, desserts). Great photos. Not for the cholesterolly challenged, but a lot of fun.
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 | Joy of Cooking: 75th Anniversary Edition - 2006 by Irma S. Rombauer
Buy new: $20.47 / Used from: $22.03 The first cook book I ever bought and still a reliable companion in the kitchen.
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 | The Jane Austen Cookbook by Maggie Black
Buy new: $17.05 / Used from: $10.74 Recipes from the collection of Miss Austen's sister-in-law and other family. Cooking lore of 18th century England and recipes revised so that you can recreate them at home.
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 | Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone by Deborah Madison
Buy used from: $8.38 Has its drawbacks, but the results are fabulous. a favorite for nearly nine years.
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 | Emeril's Potluck: Comfort Food with a Kicked-Up Attitude by Emeril Lagasse
Buy new: $18.96 / Used from: $0.50 Interesting dishes to go.
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 | The Elephant Walk Cookbook: The Exciting World of Cambodian Cuisine from the Nationally Acclaimed Restaurant by Katherine Neustadt
Buy used from: $23.23 If you'd like to learn about Cambodian culture and cuisine, this is a good place to start. A beautifully produced book, it is now sadly only available from resellers, and at a price.
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 | The Rancho La Puerta Cookbook : 175 Bold Vegetarian Recipes from America's Premier Fitness Spa by Bill Wavrin
Buy used from: $2.49 Spa cuisine at its best.
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 | How to Read a French Fry: And Other Stories of Intriguing Kitchen Science by Russ Parsons
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $0.01 If you are interested in the science underlying the cooking process, this book is for you--it'll tell you, for example, why onions make you cry, and how to prevent that. Amusing, informative, and includes recipes.
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 | Monet's Table: The Cooking Journals of Claude Monet by Claire Joyes
Buy new: $30.71 / Used from: $15.00 Monet proves to have had an appreciation for fine food equal to his appreciation of the gardens at Giverney. Savor the pictures as well as the recipes.
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 | Tea with Jane Austen by Kim Wilson
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $5.99 Enjoyable little volume on the eating habits of 18th century. Contains recipes, but has more of a historical/cultural focus.
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 | Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think by Brian Wansink
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $5.45 Discusses cues that cause us to overeat, with a focus on re-engineering them to produce weight loss instead.
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 | The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter by Peter Singer
Buy new: $16.71 / Used from: $3.07 The co-authors trace the origins of the food consumed by 3 families to explain why our food choices matter ethically. A difficult, painful subject, but worth considering.
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 | Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating by M.D. Walter C. Willett
Buy new: $11.51 / Used from: $5.38 Advice on nutrition from the chairman of the Department of Nutrition at Harvard. Contains recipes and suggested menus as well as good advice on eating.
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 | Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House by Cheryl Mendelson
Buy new: $14.36 / Used from: $5.27 This book, in addition to everything else, has a lot of good information on healthy food handling practices.
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 | Mastering The Art of French Cooking, Volume One (1) (Vol 1) by Julia Child
Buy new: $23.40 / Used from: $16.99 Well, although it's true I don't cook from Julia and company too much any more--elevated cholesterol,decreased time to spend on it--this is my favorite cookbook of French cuisine. No recipe by Julia is less than perfectly laid out.
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 | Julia's Kitchen Wisdom: Essential Techniques and Recipes from a Lifetime of Cooking by Julia Child
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $6.22 Worth having on the shelf. I like to know what to do in case of disaster.
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