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Discover the 210 most recommended Foodhobbies books, curated from reading lists of top thinkers, executives, creatives, and intellectuals. These are the titles serious readers recommend most.

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No coverGood Calories, Bad Calories
Good Calories, Bad Calories

Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health

8 recommendations
Description

Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight, and DiseaseIn this groundbreaking book, the result of seven years of research in every science connected with the impact of nutrition on health, awardwinning science writer Gary Taubes shows us that almost everything we believe about the nature of a healthy diet is wrong.For decades we have been...

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No coverIn Defense of Food
In Defense of Food

An Eater's Manifesto

8 recommendations
Description

#1 New York Times BestsellerFood. There's plenty of it around, and we all love to eat it. So why should anyone need to defend itBecause in the socalled Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusionmost of what we?re consuming today is no longer the product of nature but of food science. The result is what Mich...

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The China Study
The China Study

Revised and Expanded Edition

4 recommendations
Description

The revised and expanded edition of the bestseller that changed millions of livesThe science is clear. The results are unmistakable.You can dramatically reduce your risk of cancer, heart disease, and diabetes just by changing your diet.More than 30 years ago, nutrition researcher T. Colin Campbell and his team at Cornell, in partnership with teams ...

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Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking
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Salt Sugar Fat
Salt Sugar Fat

How the Food Giants Hooked Us

3 recommendations
Recommendation Context
Available recommendation signals cluster around NonFiction, FoodHobbies, Science, 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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No coverAnimalkind
Animalkind

Remarkable Discoveries About Animals and Revolutionary New Ways to Show Them Compassion

2 recommendations
Description

The founder and president of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, and bestselling author Gene Stone explore the wonders of animal life and offer tools for living more kindly toward them.In the last few decades, a wealth of new information has emerged about who animals are?intelligent, aware, and empathetic. Studies show that animals are astounding beings with int...

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No coverRice, Noodle, Fish
Rice, Noodle, Fish

Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture

2 recommendations
Description

2016 Travel Book of the Year by the Society of American Travel WritersFinalist for the 2016 IACP Awards: Literary Food WritingNamed one of the Financial Times' "Best Books of 2016"An innovative new take on the travel guide, Rice, Noodle, Fish decodes Japan's extraordinary food culture through a mix of indepth narrative and insider advice, along wi...

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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 coverCooked
Cooked

A Natural History of Transformation

2 recommendations
Description

In Cooked, Michael Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. Here, he discovers the enduring power of the four classical elements fire, water, air, and earth to transform the stuff of nature into delicious things to eat and drink. Apprenticing himself to a succession of culinary masters, Pollan learns how to grill w...

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Food
Food

What the Heck Should I Eat

1 recommendation
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 coverArtisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day
Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day

The Discovery That Revolutionizes Home Baking

1 recommendation
Description

For 30 brandnew recipes and expanded Tips and Techniques', check out The New Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day, on sale now.This is the classic that started it all Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day has now sold hundreds of thousands of copies. With more than half a million copies of their books in print, Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe Francois have p...

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Eat Happy
Eat Happy

Gluten Free, Grain Free, Low Carb Recipes Made from Real Foods For A Joyful Life

1 recommendation
Recommendation Context
Available recommendation signals cluster around Gluten, Free, Cookbooks, FoodHobbies, Food lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for reader-fit discovery across adjacent interests. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.
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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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Oh She Glows Every Day
Oh She Glows Every Day

Quick and Simply Satisfying Plantbased Recipes

1 recommendation
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Angela Liddon?s eagerly awaited followup to the New York Times bestseller The Oh SheGlows Cookbook, featuring more than one hundred quickandeasy wholefoods, plantbased recipes to keep you glowing every day of the year. Angela Liddon?s irresistible and foolproof recipes have become the gold standard for plantbased cooking. Her phenomenally p...

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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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Fat Chance
Fat Chance

Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease

1 recommendation
Description

Robert Lustig?s 90minute YouTube video Sugar: The Bitter Truth, has been viewed more than two million times. Now, in this much anticipated book, he documents the science and the politics that has led to the pandemic of chronic disease over the last 30 years.In the late 1970s when the government mandated we get the fat out of our food, the food ind...

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No coverHow to Eat
How to Eat

The Pleasures and Principles of Good Food

1 recommendation
Description

"[Nigella] brings you into her life and tells you how she thinks about food, how meals come together in her head . . . and how she cooks for family and friends. . . . A breakthrough . . . with hundreds of appealing and accessible recipes."?Amanda Hesser, The New York Times"Nigella Lawson serves up irony and sensuality with her comforting recipes . ...

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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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No coverKeto Diet Cookbook For Beginners
Keto Diet Cookbook For Beginners

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

Description

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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Thug Kitchen
Thug Kitchen

The Official Cookbook

Description

Thug Kitchen started their wildly popular web site to inspire people to eat some Goddamn vegetables and adopt a healthier lifestyle. Beloved by Gwyneth Paltrow ("This might be my favorite thing ever") and named Saveur's Best New Food blog of 2013?with half a million Facebook fans and counting?Thug Kitchen wants to show everyone how to take charge o...

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The Kind Diet
The Kind Diet

A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight, and Saving the Planet

Description

In The Kind Diet, actress, activist, and committed conservationist Alicia Silverstone shares the insights that encouraged her to swear off meat and dairy forever, and outlines the spectacular benefits of adopting a plantbased diet, from effortless weight loss to clear skin, offthechart energy, and smooth digestion. She explains how meat, fish, m...

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No coverLife in the Fasting Lane
Life in the Fasting Lane

How to Make Intermittent Fasting a Lifestyle and Reap the Benefits of Weight Loss and Better Health

Description

Take the guesswork (and fear) out of fasting with reallife and expert advice about the numberone diet trend.Over the last decade, intermittent fasting?restricting calorie intake for a proscribed number of hours for a set number of days?has become increasingly popular. While some in the medical community initially dismissed the idea as a dangerous...

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No coverBacon & Butter
Bacon & Butter

The Ultimate Ketogenic Diet Cookbook

Description

Finally, a cookbook and culinary counselor supporting your ketogenic diet.Author Celby Richoux was overweight, exhausted, and moody. Then she discovered the ketogenic diet and watched the pounds melt away and the ailments vanish. In this fresh and engaging morethanacookbook, Richoux shares firsthand experience, inventive ideas, and managing the ...

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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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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 coverThe Easy 5Ingredient Ketogenic Diet Cookbook
The Easy 5Ingredient Ketogenic Diet Cookbook

LowCarb, HighFat Recipes for Busy People on the Keto Diet

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Keep up with keto on even your busiest days with The Easy 5Ingredient Ketogenic Diet CookbookFinding quick and easy keto recipes that fit with your lifestyle and schedule can be difficult. That's why Jen Fisch, the blogger behind Keto in The City and a busy working mom, shares her favorite stressfree keto meals in The Easy 5Ingredient Ketogenic ...

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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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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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L'Appart
L'Appart

The Delights and Disasters of Making My Paris Home

Description

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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The AllNatural Diabetes Cookbook
Description

Most diabetes cookbooks rely on artificial sweeteners or notsoreal substitutions to reduce calories, sugar, and fat, but often at the expense of flavor. The AllNatural Diabetes Cookbook takes a different approach, focusing on naturally delicious fresh foods and wholefood ingredients to create fantastic meals that deliver amazing taste and well...

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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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The Beekeeper's Bible
The Beekeeper's Bible

Bees, Honey, Recipes & Other Home Uses

Description

The Beekeeper?s Bible is as much an ultimate guide to the practical essentials of beekeeping as it is a beautiful almanac to be read from cover to cover. Part history book, part handbook, and part cookbook, this illustrated tome covers every facet of the ancient hobby of beekeeping, from how to manage hives safely to harvesting one's own honey, and...

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No coverThe New Wildcrafted Cuisine
The New Wildcrafted Cuisine

Exploring the Exotic Gastronomy of Local Terroir

Description

With detailed recipes for ferments, infusions, spices, and other preparationsWild foods are increasingly popular, as evidenced by the number of new books about identifying plants and foraging ingredients, as well as those written by chefs about culinary creations that incorporate wild ingredients (Noma, Faviken, Quay, Manreza, et al.). The New Wild...

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No coverDalí. Les dîners de Gala
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Gala dinner: Salvador Dalí?s surrealist cookbook?Les diners de Gala is uniquely devoted to the pleasures of taste ? If you are a disciple of one of those caloriecounters who turn the joys of eating into a form of punishment, close this book at once; it is too lively, too aggressive, and far too impertinent for you.??Salvador DalíFood and surrealis...

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The Wholesome Yum Easy Keto Cookbook
The Wholesome Yum Easy Keto Cookbook

100 Simple Low Carb Recipes. 10 Ingredients or Less

Description

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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No coverNourishing Traditions
Nourishing Traditions

The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and Diet Dictocrats

Description

The Diet Dictocrats don't want you to know that... Your body needs oldfashioned animal fats Newfangled polyunsaturated oils can be bad for you Modern whole grain products can cause health problems Traditional sauces promote digestion and assimilation Modern food processing denatures our foods but Ancient preservation methods actually increa...

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Intuitive Eating
Intuitive Eating

A Revolutionary Program That Works

Description

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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Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume 1
Description

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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Easy DairyFree Ketogenic Recipes
Easy DairyFree Ketogenic Recipes

Family Favorites Made LowCarb and Healthy (1)

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Although the ketogenic diet can be a healthy and satisfying diet for everyone, modifying it around other dietary restrictions can be challenging. People with dairy intolerances or allergies often struggle to adapt keto recipes, many of which rely on dairy staples like butter, heavy cream, and cream cheese. And good dairyfree alternatives can be ha...

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No coverAnthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook
Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook

Strategies, Recipes, and Techniques of Classic Bistro Cooking

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Before stunning the world with his bestselling Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain spent years serving some of the best French brasserie food in New York. With its nononsense, downtoearth atmosphere, Les Halles matched Bourdain's style perfectly: a restaurant where you can dress down, talk loudly, drink a little too much wine, and have a good...

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No coverThe Diet Fix
The Diet Fix

Why Diets Fail and How to Make Yours Work

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Despite the success stories publicized by Atkins, South Beach, Weight Watchers, and others, 90% of all diets end in failure. How can fix the way we lose weight so that we make results last Weight loss expert Dr. Yoni Freedhoff has uncovered the flawed thinking that sabotages even the most earnest weight loss efforts. The majority of dieting or wei...

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Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper
Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper

A SweetSour Memoir of Eating in China (First edition)

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?Destined, I think, to become a classic of travel writing.??Paul Levy, The Observer After fifteen years spent exploring China and its food, Fuchsia Dunlop finds herself in an English kitchen, deciding whether to eat a caterpillar she has accidentally cooked in some homegrown vegetables. How can something she has eaten readily in China seem grotesq...

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Keto Fat Bombs, Sweets & Treats
Keto Fat Bombs, Sweets & Treats

Over 100 Recipes and Ideas for LowCarb Breads, Cakes, Cookies and More

Description

Delicious desserts, baked goods, and other highfat treats for people following the incredibly popular ketogenic diet The ketogenic diet has taken America by storm, and author Urvashi Pitre can attest to its effectiveness firsthand. Following this highfat, lowcarb way of eating helped her lose (and keep off) 80 pounds. Best known for the highqua...

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The First Forty Days
The First Forty Days

The Essential Art of Nourishing the New Mother

Description

The first 40 days after the birth of a child offer an essential and fleeting period of rest and recovery for the new mother. Based on author Heng Ou?s own postpartum experience with zuo yuezi, a set period of ?confinement,? in which a woman remains at home focusing on healing and bonding with her baby, The First Forty Days revives the lost art of c...

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No coverFood Rules
Food Rules

An Eater's Manual

Description

A DEFINITIVE COMPENDIUM OF FOOD WISDOMEating doesn't have to be so complicated. In this age of evermore elaborate diets and conflicting health advice, Food Rules brings a welcome simplicity to our daily decisions about food. Written with the clarity, concision and wit that has become bestselling author Michael Pollan's trademark, this indispensabl...

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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

Description

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 coverThe 30Day Ketogenic Cleanse
The 30Day Ketogenic Cleanse

Reset Your Metabolism with 160 Tasty WholeFood Recipes & Meal Plans (1)

Description

For those who are brandnew to keto and those who are getting back on track after falling off the wagon, the first 30 days on a ketogenic diet can be challenging. As the body adapts to burning fat (ketones) rather than sugar for fuel, cravings can arise, and some people find that they just don?t feel so great. Many fall victim to the temptation to ...

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No coverLife Is a Party
Life Is a Party

Deliciously Doable Recipes to Make Every Day a Celebration

Description

106 killer recipes, 16 creative party themes, and 250 gorgeous photosplus playlists and easy planning tipsmake LIFE IS A PARTY the indispensable cookbook and guide for home cooks.Chef, actor, and entertaining authority David Burtka knows that every day can be a party. Over a lifetime of throwing epic gatherings, the Cordon Bleutrained Burtka h...

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