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Best Food Books

Category100 of 283 books94 recommendations total

Food writing and cookbooks recommended most by chefs, writers and serious home cooks — technique, regional cooking and food history. Plus the memoirs worth reading for the prose alone.

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Book cover for “Setting the Table”
Setting the Table

The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business

15 recommendations
Recommendation Context
Available recommendation signals cluster around NonFiction, Business, Hospitality, Food, Hobbies lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for business judgment, leadership, or practical strategy. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.
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Book cover for “Eating Animals”
10 recommendations
Description

Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his life oscillating between enthusiastic carnivore and occasional vegetarian. Once he started a family, the moral dimensions of food became increasingly important.Faced with the prospect of being unable to explain why we eat some animals and not others, Foer set out to explore the origins of many eating tradition...

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Book cover for “Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat”
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat

Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking

5 recommendations
Description

A visionary new master class in cooking that distills decades of professional experience into just four simple elements, from the woman declared ?America?s next great cooking teacher? by Alice Waters.In the tradition of The Joy of Cooking and How to Cook Everything comes Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, an ambitious new approach to cooking by a major new cul...

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Book cover for “Kitchen Confidential”
Kitchen Confidential

Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (P.S.)

4 recommendations
Recommendation Context
Available recommendation signals cluster around NonFiction, Autobiographies, Food, Biographies, FoodHobbies lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for big-picture nonfiction and accessible learning. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.
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No coverThe Botany of Desire
The Botany of Desire

A Plant'sEye View of the World

4 recommendations
Description

Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers? genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He ...

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No coverThe Case Against Sugar
3 recommendations
Description

From the bestselling author of Why We Get Fat, a groundbreaking, eyeopening expose that makes the convincing case that sugar is the tobacco of the new millennium: backed by powerful lobbies, entrenched in our lives, and making us very sick.Among Americans, diabetes is more prevalent today than ever; obesity is at epidemic proportions; nearly 10% ...

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No coverThe Taste of Country Cooking
The Taste of Country Cooking

The 30th Anniversary Edition of a Great Southern Classic Cookbook

3 recommendations
Description

In recipes and reminiscences equally delicious, Edna Lewis celebrates the uniquely American country cooking she grew up with some fifty years ago in a small Virginia Piedmont farming community that had been settled by freed slaves. With menus for the four seasons, she shares the ways her family prepared and enjoyed food, savoring the delights of ea...

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Book cover for “An Everlasting Meal”
An Everlasting Meal

Cooking with Economy and Grace

3 recommendations
Description

Reviving the inspiring message of M. F. K. Fisher?s How to Cook a Wolf? written in 1942 during wartime shortages?An Everlasting Meal shows that cooking is the path to better eating. Through the insightful essays in An Everlasting Meal, Tamar Adler issues a rallying cry to home cooks. In chapters about boiling water, cooking eggs and beans, and summ...

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No coverOranges
3 recommendations
Description

A classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a short magazine article about oranges and orange juice, but the author kept encountering so much irresistible information that he eventually found that he had in fact written a book. It contains sketches of orange growers, orange botanists, orange pickers, orange packers, early settlers on Flo...

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No coverJerusalem
Jerusalem

A Cookbook

3 recommendations
Description

With Jerusalem, Ottolenghi reteams with his friend and coowner of his restaurants, Sami Tamimi. Both men were born in Jerusalem in the same year: Tamimi on the Arab east side and Ottolenghi in the Jewish west. In this book they explore the vibrant cuisine of their home city together, and present an authentic collection of recipes that reflects th...

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No coverSomething to Food About
Something to Food About

Exploring Creativity with Innovative Chefs

3 recommendations
Description

Questlove is a drummer, producer, musical director, culinary entrepreneur, and New York Times bestselling author. What unites all of his work is a profound interest in creativity. In somethingtofoodabout, Questlove applies his boundless curiosity to the world of food. In conversations with ten innovative chefs in America, he explores what makes th...

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Book cover for “From Scratch”
From Scratch

A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home

2 recommendations
Description

This Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller is ?a captivating story of love lost and found? (Kirkus Reviews) set in the lush Sicilian countryside, where one woman discovers the healing powers of food, family, and unexpected grace in her darkest hours.It was love at first sight when actress Tembi met professional chef, Saro, ...

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No coverThe Macrobiotic Way
The Macrobiotic Way

The Definitive Guide to Macrobiotic Living

2 recommendations
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Rare book...

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Book cover for “IT'S ALL GOOD”
IT'S ALL GOOD

Delicious, Easy Recipes That Will Make You Look Good and Feel Great

2 recommendations
Description

Gwyneth Paltrow, AcademyAward winning actress and bestselling cookbook author, returns with recipes for the foods she eats when she wants to lose weight, look good, and feel more energetic.Last spring, after a particularly grueling schedule and lapse of overindulgence, Gwyneth Paltrow was feeling fatigued and faint. A visit to her doctor revealed ...

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No coverSous Chef
Sous Chef

24 Hours on the Line

2 recommendations
Description

The back must slave to feed the belly. . . . In this urgent and unique book, chef Michael Gibney uses twentyfour hours to animate the intricate camaraderie and culinary choreography in an upscale New York restaurant kitchen. Here readers will find all the details, in rapidfire succession, of what it takes to deliver an exceptional plate of food?t...

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Book cover for “My Father's Daughter”
My Father's Daughter

Delicious, Easy Recipes Celebrating Family & Togetherness

2 recommendations
Description

The AcademyAward winning actress and avid foodie shares a sumptuous collection of recipes and gorgeous photographs celebrating the joy of preparing food for loved ones, a passion she learned from her beloved father. As an actress, author, trendsetter, creator of goop.com, and host of the popular PBS series, Spain: On the Road Again, Gwyneth Paltro...

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Book cover for “The Plant Paradox”
The Plant Paradox

The Hidden Dangers in "Healthy" Foods That Cause Disease and Weight Gain

2 recommendations
Description

From renowned cardiac surgeon Steven R. Gundry, MD, a revolutionary look at the hidden compounds in "healthy" foods like fruit, vegetables, and whole grains that are causing us to gain weight and develop chronic disease.In the deadly game of predator versus prey, an Adult, gazelle can outrun a hungry lioness, a sparrow can take flight when stalked b...

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No coverThe Book of Jewish Food
The Book of Jewish Food

An Odyssey from Samarkand to New York

2 recommendations
Description

A monumental work the story of the Jewish people told through the story of Jewish cooking The Book of Jewish Food traces the development of both Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jewish communities and their cuisine over the centuries. The 800 magnificent recipes, many never before documented, represent treasures garnered bu Roden through nearly 15 year...

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Book cover for “Breaking Bread”
Breaking Bread

A Baker's Journey Home in 75 Recipes

2 recommendations
Recommendation Context
Available recommendation signals cluster around NonFiction, Bread, Baking, Food, Hobbies lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for big-picture nonfiction and accessible learning. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.
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Book cover for “Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home”
2 recommendations
Description

In Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home, two legendary cooks invite us into their kitchen and show us the basics of good home cooking. Julia Child and Jacques Ppin are synonymous with good food, and in these pages they demonstrate techniques (on which they don't always agree), discuss ingredients, improvise, balance flavors to round out a meal, and c...

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Book cover for “Gran Cocina Latina”
Gran Cocina Latina

The Food of Latin America

2 recommendations
Description

Gran Cocina Latina unifies the vast culinary landscape of the Latin world, from Mexico to Argentina and all the Spanishspeaking countries of the Caribbean. In one volume it gives home cooks, armchair travelers, and curious chefs the first comprehensive collection of recipes from this region. An inquisitive historian and a successful restaurateur, ...

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Book cover for “My Bombay Kitchen”
My Bombay Kitchen

Traditional and Modern Parsi Home Cooking

2 recommendations
Description

The Persians of antiquity were renowned for their lavish cuisine and their neverceasing fascination with the exotic. These traits still find expression in the cooking of India's rapidly dwindling Parsi population?descendants of Zoroastrians who fled Persia after the Sassanian empire fell to the invading Arabs. The first book published in the Unite...

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Book cover for “Home Cooking”
Home Cooking

A Writer in the Kitchen (Vintage Contemporaries)

2 recommendations
Description

Share the unsurpassed pleasures of discovering, cooking, and eating good, simple food with this beloved book. Equal parts cookbook and memoir, Laurie Colwin's "Home Cooking" combines her insightful, goodhumored writing style with her lifelong passion for wonderful cuisine in essays such as "Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant," "Repulsive Dinner...

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No coverPlenty
Plenty

Vibrant Vegetable Recipes from London's Ottolenghi

2 recommendations
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With his fabulous restaurants and bestselling Ottolenghi Cookbook, Yotam Ottolenghi has established himself as one of the most exciting talents in the world of cookery and food writing. This exclusive collection of vegetarian recipes is drawn from his column 'The New Vegetarian' for the Guardian's Weekend magazine, and features both brandnew recip...

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No coverPrune
2 recommendations
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Highly original in concept, execution, look, and feel, the Prune cookbook is an inspired replica of the restaurant’s kitchen binders. It is written to Gabrielle’s cooks in her distinctive voice, with as much instruction, encouragement, information, and scolding as you would find if you actually came to work at Prune as a line cook....

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No coverThe How Not to Die Cookbook
The How Not to Die Cookbook

100 Recipes to Help Prevent and Reverse Disease

2 recommendations
Description

From Michael Greger, M.D., FACLM, the physician behind the trusted and wildly popular website Nutritionfacts.org, and author of the New York Times bestselling book How Not to Die, comes a beautifullydesigned, comprehensive cookbook complete with more than 120 recipes for delicious, lifesaving, plantbased meals, snacks, and beverages.Dr. Michael ...

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Book cover for “The Cooking Gene”
The Cooking Gene

A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South

1 recommendation
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2018 James Beard Foundation Book of the Year | 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner inWriting | Nominee for the 2018 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction | #75 on The Root100 2018A renowned culinary historian offers a fresh perspective on our most divisive cultural issue, race, in this illuminating memoir of Southern cuisine and food ...

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No coverFlour Water Salt Yeast
Flour Water Salt Yeast

The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza [A Cookbook]

1 recommendation
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From Portland's most acclaimed and beloved baker comes this musthave baking guide, featuring recipes for worldclass breads and pizzas and a variety of schedules suited for the home baker.There are few things more satisfying than biting into a freshly made, crispyontheoutside, softandsuppleontheinside slice of perfectly baked bread. For Po...

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No coverBOSH!
BOSH!

Simple Recipes Amazing Food All Plants (BOSH Series)

1 recommendation
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Want to cook ridiculously good plantbased food from scratch but have no idea where to start With over 100 incredibly easy and outrageously tasty allplants meals, BOSH! The Cookbook will be your guide.Henry Firth and Ian Theasby, creators of the world?s biggest and fastestgrowing plantbased platform, BOSH!, are the new faces of the food revolut...

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No coverThe Whole Beast
The Whole Beast

Nose to Tail Eating

1 recommendation
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The Whole Beast: Nose to Tail Eating is a certified "foodie" classic. In it, Fergus Henderson whose London restaurant, St. John, is a worldrenowned destination for people who love to eat "on the wild side" presents the recipes that have marked him out as one of the most innovative, yet traditional, chefs. Here are recipes that hark back to a...

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Book cover for “PlantsOnly Kitchen”
PlantsOnly Kitchen

Over 70 Delicious, SuperSimple, Powerful and ProteinPacked Recipes for Busy People

1 recommendation
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PlantsOnly Kitchen offers an explosion of flavor, with more than 70 vegan recipes that work around your lifestyle.With symbols flagging whether recipes are highprotein, take less than 15 minutes, or are suitable for meal prep and batch cooking, PlantsOnly Kitchen explains how best to make a vegan diet work for you. No fuss, no fancy ingredients ...

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No coverSeeds of Science
Seeds of Science

Why We Got It So Wrong On GMOs

1 recommendation
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Mark Lynas was one of the original GM field wreckers. Back in the 1990sworking undercover with his colleagues in the environmental movementhe would descend on trial sites of genetically modified crops at night and hack them to pieces. Two decades later, most people around the worldfrom New York to Chinastill think that 'GMO' foods are bad f...

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Book cover for “My Life in France”
1 recommendation
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The bestselling story of Julia's years in Franceand the basis for Julie & Julia, starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adamsin her own words. Although she would later singlehandedly create a new approach to American cuisine with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef, Julia Child was not always a master...

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No coverRamen Obsession
Ramen Obsession

The Ultimate Bible for Mastering Japanese Ramen

1 recommendation
Description

The world of ramenfrom the streets of Japan to your kitchen Seasoned broth, slurpable noodles, and colorful toppings brimming with flavor and texturea good bowl of Japanese ramen is more than just food, its an experience. With Ramen Obsession, youll have all the tools, techniques, recipes, and stepbystep instructions youll need to make the perfec...

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No coverThe Vegetables We Eat
Description

What are vegetables, anyway Give kids the 411 on veggies with this richly illustrated introduction to produce!Peppers, beans, corn, and peas! Nonfiction superstar Gail Gibbons lays out the basics of veggies with colorful watercolors and straightforward text. Learn how they grow, how they get to stores, and how many kinds there areand learn some ...

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No coverFrench Kids Eat Everything
French Kids Eat Everything

How Our Family Moved to France, Cured Picky Eating, Banned Snacking, and Discovered 10 Simple Rules for Raising Happy, Healthy Eaters

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Moving her young family to her husband's hometown in northern France, Karen Le Billon expected some cultural adjustment. But she didn't expect to be lectured for slipping her fussing toddler a snack, or to be forbidden from packing her older daughter a school lunch. Karen is intrigued by the fact that French children happily eat everything?from bee...

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No coverGrowing Vegetable Soup
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"Dad says we are going to grow vegetable soup." So begins Lois Ehlert?s bright, bold picture book about vegetable gardening for the very young. The necessary tools are pictured and labeled, as are the seeds (green bean, pea, corn, zucchini squash, and carrot). Then the real gardening happens . . . planting, weeding, harvesting, washing, chopping, a...

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Book cover for “The Beginner's KetoDiet Cookbook”
The Beginner's KetoDiet Cookbook

Over 100 Delicious Whole Food, LowCarb Recipes for Getting in the Ketogenic Zone Breaking Your WeightLoss Plateau, and Living Keto for Life

Description

The ketogenic diet has become the goto healthy diet for losing weight, managing diabetes, and possibly preventing and managing conditions such as neurodegenerative illnesses and cancer. The transition to a keto diet can be difficult, but this ?induction? phase doesn?t have to be! Bestselling author of The KetoDiet Cookbook, Martina Slajerova, expl...

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No coverKeto Diet Cookbook For Beginners
Keto Diet Cookbook For Beginners

550 Recipes For Busy People on Keto Diet (Keto Diet for Beginners)

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550 Effortless Keto Recipes for Quick Weight Loss in 201920! Do you crave quick & effortless keto recipes And I know you had tasty dinners with the loved ones and there are a few or more extra pounds ''on board''! That's why I focused on creating the one and only Keto recipe book with 550 Delicious meals, that you'll ever need to cook to stay on ...

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No coverCooking with Zac
Cooking with Zac

Recipes From Rustic to Refined

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Fashion designer Zac Posen gives fans a peek into his kitchen and the recipes for the gardenfresh and internationally influenced dishes he features on his Instagram account. #cookingwithzacMost people know Zac Posen as the worldrenowned fashion designer and judge on the Emmy Awardwinning show Project Runway. But recently, his mouthwatering, bea...

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No coverThe Moosewood Cookbook
The Moosewood Cookbook

40th Anniversary Edition

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Among the most influential cookbooks of our time, the Moosewood Cookbook is such a powerful symbol that the publishers were tempted not to tamper with it. But times have changed, and knowledge about the foods we eat and their nutritional value has increased. So, after many inquiries and requests, the author has revised many of her recipes to be lig...

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No coverNew Atkins for a New You
New Atkins for a New You

The Ultimate Diet for Shedding Weight and Feeling Great.

Description

The allnew international bestseller!Think you know the Atkins Diet Think again. This completely updated, easierthanever version of the scientificallyproven Atkins diet has helped millions of people around the world lose weight?and maintain that weight loss for life. The New Atkins is... Powerful: Learn how to eat the wholesome foods that will ...

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Book cover for “Food, Health, and Happiness”
Food, Health, and Happiness

115 OnPoint Recipes for Great Meals and a Better Life

Description

Oprah Winfrey has spent her life trying to make peace with food, which has been such a source of pleasure and meaning for her. Now Oprah has found ways to have her favorite meals while also controlling her weight, and in Food, Health and Happiness she shares not only her struggles with food but also the recipes that have allowed food to be a source...

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Book cover for “The Runner's World Vegetarian Cookbook”
The Runner's World Vegetarian Cookbook

150 Delicious and Nutritious Meatless Recipes to Fuel Your Every Step

Description

150 delicious meatless recipes packed with performanceboosting nutrientsAs a runner, you know that your food is your fuel?you have to eat well in order to perform well. But if you think it?s impossible to be a highperforming athlete and ditch meat, think again. Legendary ultrarunner Scott Jurek is plantbased and track star Carl Lewis is vegetari...

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No coverThe Paleo Diet
The Paleo Diet

Lose Weight and Get Healthy by Eating the Foods You Were Designed to Eat

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As seen on Dateline NBC Healthy, delicious, and simple, the Paleo Diet is the diet our genes were made for. This book presents readers with a program that causes weight loss in overweight people up to seventyfive pounds in six months while normalizing blood cholesterol, and increasing energy levels....

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Book cover for “The FastDiet”
The FastDiet

Lose Weight, Stay Healthy, and Live Longer with the Simple Secret of Intermittent Fasting

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The #1 New York Times bestseller!Is it possible to eat normally, five days a week, and become slimmer and healthier as a resultSimple answer: yes. You just limit your calorie intake for two nonconsecutive days each week?500 calories for women, 600 for men. You?ll lose weight quickly and effortlessly with the FastDiet.Scientific trials of intermitt...

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No coverKeto Slow Cooker & OnePot Meals
Keto Slow Cooker & OnePot Meals

Over 100 Simple & Delicious LowCarb, Paleo and Primal Recipes for Weight Loss and Better Health

Description

Keto Slow Cooker & OnePot Meals packs 100 highfat, lowcarb keto recipes! Enjoy quick, tasty dinners as you get healthy, lose weight, and control your blood sugar. Slow cooker and onepot meals are the ultimate convenience food. Just fix it and forget it, then enjoy a nourishing meal when everyone gets home. Unfortunately, most slow cooker and on...

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No coverDiet Cults
Diet Cults

The Surprising Fallacy at the Core of Nutrition Fads and a Guide to Healthy Eating for the Rest of Us

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From ?The Four Hour Body,? to ?Atkins,? there are diet cults to match seemingly any mood and personality type. Everywhere we turn, someone is preaching the ?One True Way? to eat for maximum health. Paleo Diet advocates tell us that all foods less than 12,000 years old are the enemy. Lowcarb gurus demonize carbs, then there are the lowfat prophets...

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No cover97 Orchard
97 Orchard

An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement

Description

97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement...

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No coverCocktail Codex
Cocktail Codex

Fundamentals, Formulas, Evolutions

Description

From the authors of the bestselling and genredefining cocktail book  Death & Co ,  Cocktail Codex  is a comprehensive primer on the craft of mixing drinks that employs the authors’ unique “root cocktails” approach to give drinkmakers of every level the tools to understand, execute, and improvise both classic a...

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Book cover for “Real Food for Pregnancy”
Real Food for Pregnancy

The Science and Wisdom of Optimal Prenatal Nutrition

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Prenatal nutrition can be confusing. A lot of the advice you have been given about what to eat (or what not to eat) is wellmeaning, but frankly, outdated or not evidencedbased. In Real Food for Pregnancy, you ll get clear answers on what to eat and why, with research to back up every recommendation. Author and specialist in prenatal nutrition, Li...

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Book cover for “L'Appart”
L'Appart

The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home

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Bestselling author and worldrenowned chef David Lebovitz continues to mine the rich subject of his evolving exPat life in Paris, using his perplexing experiences in apartment renovation as a launching point for stories about French culture, food, and what it means to revamp one's life. Includes dozens of new recipes.When David Lebovitz began the ...

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No coverSugar Nation
Sugar Nation

The Hidden Truth Behind America's Deadliest Habit and the Simple Way to Beat It

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THIS BOOK COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE Every five seconds, one more person develops diabetes. Worldwide, 285 million people are affected by type 2 diabetes. Many of them have no idea. Here is the personal story of one man who has unearthed the mysteries of this global epidemic and offers hardwon practical advice for how readers can take control of their l...

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No coverEpic Tomatoes
Epic Tomatoes

How to Select and Grow the Best Varieties of All Time

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Savor your best tomato harvest ever! Craig LeHoullier, tomato adviser for Seed Savers Exchange, offers everything a tomato enthusiast needs to know about growing more than 200 varieties of tomatoes ? from sowing seeds and planting to cultivating and collecting seeds at the end of the season. He also offers a comprehensive guide to the various pests...

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No coverThe Noma Guide to Fermentation
The Noma Guide to Fermentation

Including koji, kombuchas, shoyus, misos, vinegars, garums, lactoferments, and black fruits and vegetables (Foundations of Flavor)

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At Noma?four times named the world?s best restaurant?every dish includes some form of fermentation, whether it?s a bright hit of vinegar, a deeply savory miso, an electrifying drop of garum, or the sweet intensity of black garlic. Fermentation is one of the foundations behind Noma?s extraordinary flavor profiles. Now René Redzepi, chef and coowner...

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No coverEasy Keto Desserts
Easy Keto Desserts

60 LowCarb, HighFat Desserts for Any Occasion

Description

Dessert lovers, rejoice! Yes, on a healthy ketogenic diet, you can have your cake and eat it, too. In Easy Keto Desserts, bestselling author Carolyn Ketchum shows you how to enjoy the sweet side of keto with a variety of delectable dessert recipes. She brings her considerable expertise in lowcarb, grainfree baking to this book and invites you to ...

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No coverEasy Keto Dinners
Easy Keto Dinners

Flavorful LowCarb Meals for Any Night of the Week

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Modern life may be fastpaced and furious, but everyone needs a healthy and delicious homecooked meal. From her hundreds of thousands of social media followers and website visitors, low carb food blogger Carolyn Ketchum hears the same question time and again: Is this recipe easy to make With this book, Carolyn invites readers into her kitchen, th...

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No coverSister Pie
Sister Pie

The Recipes and Stories of a BigHearted Bakery in Detroit [A Baking Book]

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A burstingwithpersonality cookbook from Sister Pie, the boutique bakery that's making Detroit more delicious every day."Everything you want in a pie cookbook: careful directions, baker's secret tips, inspired combinations, and a youcandoit attitude."Chicago TribuneIACP AWARD FINALIST NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW Y...

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Book cover for “The Encyclopedia of Country Living”
The Encyclopedia of Country Living

The Original Manual for Living off the Land & Doing It Yourself

Description

The bible of sustainable living, food gardening, and living green, no home is complete without this oneofakind encyclopedia! For more than thirty years, people have relied on the thousands of recipes, detailed howto instructions, and personal advice provided in this definitive classic. It is the most complete source of stepbystep information ...

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Book cover for “The Wholesome Yum Easy Keto Cookbook”
The Wholesome Yum Easy Keto Cookbook

100 Simple Low Carb Recipes. 10 Ingredients or Less

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Easy, delicious ketogenic recipes all with ten ingredients or less, from the founder of the megapopular keto website Wholesome Yum.There's a reason that the ketogenic diet has become so wildly popular: It truly works! And weight loss is just the beginning. Studies have shown that the keto diet stabilizes mood, raises energy levels, controls blood ...

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Book cover for “Tartine Bread”
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The Tartine Way Not all bread is created equal"...The most beautiful bread book yet published..." ? The New York TimesTartine A bread bible for the home baker or professional breadmaker! It comes from Chad Robertson, a man many consider to be the best bread baker in the United States, and coowner with Elizabeth Prueitt of San Francisco's Tart...

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No coverThe Food Revolution
The Food Revolution

How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World

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The man who started the food revolution with the groundbreaking Diet for a New America now boldly posits that, collectively, our personal diet can save ourselves and the world. Robbins argues for adopting a vegetarian diet for personal wellbeing as well as for the wellbeing of the planet. Photos, charts & tables. The man who started the food revolu...

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Book cover for “Delay, Don't Deny”
Delay, Don't Deny

Living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle

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Tired of counting calories, eliminating foods from your diet, or obsessing about food all day If so, an intermittent fasting lifestyle might be for you! In this book, you will learn the science behind intermittent fasting, and also understand how to adjust the various intermittent fasting plans to work for your unique lifestyle. The best part abou...

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No coverEdible Wild Plants
Edible Wild Plants

Eastern/Central North America (Peterson Field Guides)

Description

More than 370 edible wild plants, plus 37 poisonous lookalikes, are described here, with 400 drawings and 78 color photographs showing precisely how to recognize each species. Also included are habitat descriptions, lists of plants by season, and preparation instructions for 22 different food uses....

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No coverEvery Grain of Rice
Every Grain of Rice

Simple Chinese Home Cooking

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Fuchsia Dunlop trained as a chef in China?s leading Sichuan cooking school and possesses the rare ability to write recipes for authentic Chinese food that you can make at home. Following her two seminal volumes on Sichuan and Hunan cooking, Every Grain of Rice is inspired by the vibrant everyday cooking of southern China, in which vegetables play t...

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Book cover for “La Cucina”
La Cucina

The Regional Cooking of Italy

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Fifty years ago, a group of Italian scholars gathered to discuss a problem: how to preserve traditional Italian cooking. They formed the Italian Academy of Cuisine to document classic recipes from every region. The academy?s more than seven thousand associates spread out to villages everywhere, interviewing grandmothers and farmers at their stoves,...

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Book cover for “Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving”
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Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving contains over 400 delicious and creative recipes. Home canning puts the pleasures of eating natural, delicious produce at your fingertips year round. Preserving food is as modern and practical as the latest food trend, and its really quite simple. Easytounderstand detailed instructions provide all the informa...

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Book cover for “Keto Instant Pot”
Keto Instant Pot

130 Healthy LowCarb Recipes for Your Electric Pressure Cooker or Slow Cooker

Description

The Instant Pot is one of the hottest cooking tools around these days. With its ability to pressurecook foods in mere minutes, all in one pot, it is a huge timesaver for busy home cooks. You can even bake a cheesecake in it! A ketogenic diet that eliminates processed foods sometimes require a little more effort in the kitchen, so any time saved i...

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Book cover for “The French Laundry Cookbook”
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2014 marks the twentieth anniversary of the acclaimed French Laundry restaurant in the Napa Valley??the most exciting place to eat in the United States? (The New York Times). The most transformative cookbook of the century celebrates this milestone by showcasing the genius of chef/proprietor Thomas Keller himself. Keller is a wizard, a purist, a ma...

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Book cover for “Simply Keto”
Simply Keto

A Practical Approach to Health & Weight Loss, with 100 Easy LowCarb Recipes (1)

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The ketogenic diet, a lowcarb, highfat way of eating, is remarkably effective at transforming people?s lives, helping them shed pounds and find relief from common health conditions. No one knows this better than Suzanne Ryan. In her quest to overcome her lifelong struggle with her weight, she stumbled upon the ketogenic diet and decided to give i...

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No coverAlton Brown
Alton Brown

EveryDayCook

Description

My name is Alton Brown, and I wrote this book. It?s my first in a few years because I?ve been a little busy with TV stuff and interwebs stuff and live stage show stuff. Sure, I?ve been cooking, but it?s been mostly to feed myself and people in my immediate vicinity?which is really what a cook is supposed to do, right Well, one day I was sitting ar...

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No coverThe Vegetarian Flavor Bible
The Vegetarian Flavor Bible

The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity with Vegetables, Fruits, Grains, Legumes, Nuts, Seeds, and More, Based on the Wisdom of Leading American Chefs

Description

Inspiration for vegetarian cooking in the unique reference format pioneered in The Flavor Bible.Throughout time, people have chosen to adopt a vegetarian or vegan diet for a variety of reasons, from ethics to economy to personal and planetary wellbeing. Experts now suggest a new reason for doing so: maximizing flavor which is too often masked by...

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Book cover for “Pizza!”
Pizza!

An Interactive Recipe Book (Cook In A Book)

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Cook pizza from scratch in this fully interactive recipe book that allows readers mix the ingredients, knead the dough, spread the sauce, and more!STEP ONE: Stir the yeast and sugar into the warm water, and set aside until bubbly.STEP TWO: Combine the flour and salt in a large mixing bowl.STEP THREE: Add the oil and yeast mixture into the large bow...

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Perennial Vegetables

From Artichoke to Zuiki Taro, a Gardener's Guide to Over 100 Delicious, Easytogrow Edibles

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There is a fantastic array of vegetables you can grow in your garden, and not all of them are annuals. In Perennial Vegetables the adventurous gardener will find information, tips, and sound advice on less common edibles that will make any garden a perpetual, lowmaintenance source of food.Imagine growing vegetables that require just about the same...

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Intuitive Eating

A Revolutionary Program That Works

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First published in 1995, Intuitive Eating has become the goto book on rebuilding a healthy body image and making peace with food. We've all been there?angry with ourselves for overeating, for our lack of willpower, for failing at yet another diet. But the problem is not us; it's that dieting, with its emphasis on rules and regulations, has stopped...

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Book cover for “Tartine”
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An utterly fresh, inspiring, and invaluable cookbook: Every once in a while, a cookbook comes along that instantly says "classic." This is one of them. Acclaimed pastry chef Elisabeth Prueitt and master baker Chad Robertson share their secrets, fabulous recipes, and expertise to create a truly priceless collection of culinary delights."One peek int...

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Book cover for “Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume 1”
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For over fifty years, New York Times bestseller Mastering the Art of French Cooking has been the definitive book on the subject for American readers. Featuring 524 delicious recipes, in its pages home cooks will find something for everyone, from seasoned experts to beginners who love good food and long to reproduce the savory delights of French cui...

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Book cover for “Tacos!”
Tacos!

An Interactive Recipe Book (Cook In A Book)

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For kids who cook in a play kitchen or a real kitchen, this interactive recipe book invites readers to chop the vegetables, mash the avocado, warm the tortillas, and more all inside the book!Step one: Cut the chicken into cubes and toss it in a bowl with the spices.Step two: Warm oil on a skillet on the stove, then add the chicken.Step three: Whi...

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Book cover for “The Ugly Vegetables”
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It's easy to appreciate a garden exploding with colorful flowers and fragrances, but what do you do with a patch of ugly vegetables Author/illustrator Grace Lin recalls such a garden in this charming and eloquent story.The neighbors' gardens look so much prettier and so much more inviting to the young gardener than the garden of "blackpurplegree...

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Indianish

Recipes and Antics from a Modern American Family

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A witty and irresistible celebration of one very cool and boundarybreaking mom?s ?Indianish? cooking?with accessible and innovative IndianAmerican recipes Indian food is everyday food! This colorful, lively book is food writer Priya Krishna?s loving tribute to her mom?s ?Indianish? cooking?a trove of oneofakind IndianAmerican hybrids that a...

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No coverPractical Paleo
Practical Paleo

A Customized Approach to Health and a WholeFoods Lifestyle

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Our greatgrandmothers didn't need nutrition lessons?then again, they weren't forced to wade through aisle after aisle of packaged foods touting outlandish health claims and confusing marketing jargon. Over the last few decades, we've forgotten what "real food" is?and we're left desperately seeking foods that will truly nourish our bodies. We're di...

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No coverEat to Live
Eat to Live

The Amazing NutrientRich Program for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss, Revised Edition

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Hailed a "medical breakthrough" by Dr. Mehmet Oz, Eat to Live offers a highly effective, scientifically proven way to lose weight quickly. The key to Dr. Joel Fuhrman's revolutionary sixweek plan is simple: health = nutrients / calories. When the ratio of nutrients to calories in the food you eat is high, you lose weight. The more nutrientdense f...

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How to Cook Everything Vegetarian

Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food

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The ultimate onestop vegetarian cookbookfrom the author of the classic How to Cook EverythingHailed as "a more hip Joy of Cooking" by the Washington Post, Mark Bittman's awardwinning book How to Cook Everything has become the bible for a new generation of home cooks, and the series has more than 1 million copies in print. Now, with How to Cook E...

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Cook Like a Pro

Recipes and Tips for Home Cooks

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Cook with confidence no matter how much experience you have in the kitchen with the help of the beloved Food Network star "Garten has kicked things up a level, this time encouraging readers to try more ambitious recipes that are still signature Ina: warm, comforting, homey."Chicago TribuneNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS...

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Book cover for “The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook”
The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook

From Cauldron Cakes to Knickerbocker GloryMore Than 150 Magical Recipes for Wizards and NonWizards Alike (Unofficial Cookbook)

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Bangers and mash with Harry, Ron, and Hermione in the Hogwarts dining hall. A proper cuppa tea and rock cakes in Hagrid's hut. Cauldron cakes and pumpkin juice on the Hogwarts Express. With this cookbook, dining a la Hogwarts is as easy as Banoffi Pie! With more than 150 easytomake recipes, tips, and techniques, you can indulge in spellbindingly ...

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The Hungry Brain

Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat

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A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearFrom an obesity and neuroscience researcher with a knack for engaging, humorous storytelling, The Hungry Brain uses cuttingedge science to answer the questions: why do we overeat, and what can we do about itNo one wants to overeat. And certainly no one wants to overeat for years, become overweight, and end...

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Book cover for “Joy of Cooking”
Joy of Cooking

2019 Edition Fully Revised and Updated

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In the nearly ninety years since Irma S. Rombauer selfpublished the first three thousand copies of Joy of Cooking in 1931, it has become the kitchen bible, with more than 20 million copies in print. This new edition of Joy has been thoroughly revised and expanded by Irma?s greatgrandson John Becker and his wife, Megan Scott.John and Megan develop...

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No coverThe Silver Spoon
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The Silver Spoon is the most influential and successful cookbook in Italy. Originally published in 1950, it became an instant classic. Considered to be essential in every household, it is still one of the most popular wedding presents today. The Silver Spoon was conceived and published by Domus, the design and architectural magazine famously direct...

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Book cover for “Eat to Live Cookbook”
Eat to Live Cookbook

200 Delicious NutrientRich Recipes for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss, Reversing Disease, and Lifelong Health (Eat for Life)

Recommendation Context
Available recommendation signals cluster around NonFiction, FoodHobbies, Food, Hobbies, Nutrition lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for big-picture nonfiction and accessible learning. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.
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No coverForks Over Knives The Cookbook
Forks Over Knives The Cookbook

Over 300 Recipes for PlantBased Eating All Through the Year

Description

"Forks Over Knives," both the documentary and companion book, appeared on the scene in 2011 with an astonishing but simple claim: Following a fully plantbased diet can save your life. By avoiding meat, fish, eggs, dairy, and emphasizing whole, unrefined plant foods, millions of people have begun to notice staggering improvements to their physical ...

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Book cover for “The Backyard Homestead”
The Backyard Homestead

Produce all the food you need on just a quarter acre!

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This comprehensive guide to homesteading provides all the information you need to grow and preserve a sustainable harvest of grains and vegetables; raise animals for meat, eggs, and dairy; and keep honey bees for your sweeter days. With easytofollow instructions on canning, drying, and pickling, you?ll enjoy your backyard bounty all winter long. ...

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Book cover for “Izakaya”
Izakaya

The Japanese Pub Cookbook

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Japanese pubs, called izakaya, are attracting growing attention in Japan and overseas. As a matter of fact, a recent article in The New York Times claimed that the izakaya is starting to shove the sushi bar off its pedestal. While Japan has many guidebooks and cookbooks, this is the first publication in English to delve into every aspect of a uniqu...

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No coverThe No Meat Athlete Cookbook
The No Meat Athlete Cookbook

Whole Food, PlantBased Recipes to Fuel Your Workouts and the Rest of Your Life

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A Sports Illustrated Best Health and Wellness Book of 2017Plantpowered recipes to power you?perform better, recover faster, feel great! A fastgrowing global movement, No Meat Athlete (NMA) earns new fans every day by showing how everyone from weekend joggers to worldclass competitors can become even healthier and fitter by eating whole plant foo...

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No coverSweet and Savory Fat Bombs
Sweet and Savory Fat Bombs

100 Delicious Treats for Fat Fasts, Ketogenic, Paleo, and LowCarb Diets

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Perfect for keto, paleo, and lowcarb diets, get an energy boost that is high in fat, but low in protein and carbohydrates with Sweet and Savory Fat Bombs!Learn to make 100 savory and sweet snacks?perfect for fat fasts and boosting your fat intake. These delicious, high fat snacks are ideal for lowcarb highfat, ketogenic, and Paleo diets, and are...

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No coverThe Shredded Chef
The Shredded Chef

125 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy (Third Edition)

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MICHAEL MATTHEWS' BESTSELLING FLEXIBLE DIETING COOKBOOK WITH OVER 200,000 COPIES SOLD .If you want to build a body you can be proud of without having to starve or deprive yourself of all the foods you actually like...eating meals that you look forward to and savor every single day...then you want to read this book. MICHAEL MATTHEWS' BESTSELLING FLE...

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No coverLa Grotta
La Grotta

Ice Creams and Sorbets

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More than 75 recipes for bold, fruitforward ice creams, sorbets, and granitasall made with fresh, natural, minimally processed ingredientsOne of The New York Times's "Best Cookbooks of Spring 2019" "Too often, ice cream is forgotten in the conversation about seasonal and sustainable cooking. Kitty Travers reminds us of the importance of both i...

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No coverCanning for a New Generation
Canning for a New Generation

Bold, Fresh Flavors for the Modern Pantry

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NOW AVAILABLE FROM ABRAMS: Canning for a New Generation: Updated and Expanded Edition (ISBN: 9781617691850) ?When I was growing up, canning was for old folks and cranks and separatists,? writes Liana Krissoff in her introduction to Canning for a New Generation. But not anymore. With soaring food prices and the increasing popularity of all thing...

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No coverNothing Fancy
Nothing Fancy

Unfussy Food for Having People Over

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Feeding friends?and feeding yourself?is totally relaxed with Alison Roman, author of Dining In and New York Times columnist. It?s not entertaining, it?s having people over. An unexpected weeknight meal with a neighbor or a weekend dinner party with fifteen of your closest friends?either way and everywhere in between, it?s unfussy food paired with...

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Book cover for “Gardening When It Counts”
Gardening When It Counts

Growing Food in Hard Times (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series)

Recommendation Context
Available recommendation signals cluster around NonFiction, GardeningHobbies, Food, Gardening lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for big-picture nonfiction and accessible learning. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.
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Book cover for “The Drunken Botanist”
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Every great drink starts with a plant. Sake began with a grain of rice. Scotch emerged from barley. Gin was born from a conifer shrub when a Dutch physician added oil of juniper to a clear spirit, believing that juniper berries would cure kidney disorders. "The Drunken Botanist" uncovers the enlightening botanical history and the fascinating scienc...

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