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Best Food Books

Category100 of 210 books60 recommendations total

Cooking and hobby books recommended most by practitioners — technique, craft, regional cooking and the reference works people actually keep. Each pick shows who recommended it.

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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 So why should anyone need to defend itBecause in the socalled Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusionmost of what we?re consuming today is no longer the product of nature but of food science.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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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 “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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Book cover for “Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking”
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Book cover for “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 coverMindless Eating
Mindless Eating

Why We Eat More Than We Think

3 recommendations
Description

This book will literally change the way you think about your next meal. Food psychologist Brian Wansink revolutionizes our awareness of how much, what, and why we?re eating?often without realizing it. His findings will astound you. ? Can the size of your plate really influence your appetite? Why do you eat more when you dine with friends? What ?h...

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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 coverGrain Brain
Grain Brain

The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and SugarYour Brain's Silent Killers

2 recommendations
Description

The devastating truth about the effects of wheat, sugar, and carbs on the brain, with a 4week plan to achieve optimum health. In Grain Brain, renowned neurologist David Perlmutter, MD, exposes a finding that's been buried in the medical literature for far too long: carbs are destroying your brain. Even socalled healthy carbs like whole grains can...

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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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Book cover for “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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Book cover for “Super Natural Every Day”
Super Natural Every Day

WellLoved Recipes from My Natural Foods Kitchen [A Cookbook]

1 recommendation
Description

HEIDI SWANSON'S approach to cooking whole, natural foods has earned her a global readership. From her Northern California kitchen, she introduced us to a lessprocessed world of cooking and eating through her awardwinning blog, 101 Cookbooks, and in her James Beard Award?nominated cookbook, Super Natural Cooking, she taught us how to expand our pa...

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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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Book cover for “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
Description

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 “Oh She Glows Every Day”
Oh She Glows Every Day

Quick and Simply Satisfying Plantbased Recipes

1 recommendation
Description

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
Description

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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Book cover for “Deliciously Ella The PlantBased Cookbook”
Deliciously Ella The PlantBased Cookbook

100 Simple Vegan Recipes to Make Every Day Delicious

1 recommendation
Description

100 allnew plantbased recipes by bestselling author Deliciously Ella.Immerse yourself in the hustle and bustle of Deliciously Ella's world as Ella continues to bring simple, wholesome food to the masses. Now with three thriving cafédelis in London, Ella's latest book features their most popular dishes and shows just how fun and delicious natur...

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No coverThe Big Fat Surprise
The Big Fat Surprise

Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet

1 recommendation
Description

In The Big Fat Surprise, investigative journalist Nina Teicholz reveals the unthinkable: that everything we thought we knew about dietary fat is wrong. She documents how the lowfat nutrition advice of the past sixty years has amounted to a vast uncontrolled experiment on the entire population, with disastrous consequences for our health.For decade...

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Book cover for “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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Book cover for “The Omnivore's Dilemma”
The Omnivore's Dilemma

A Natural History of Four Meals

1 recommendation
Description

What should we have for dinner For omnivore's like ourselves, this simple question has always posed a dilemma: When you can eat just about anything nature (or the supermarket) has to offer, deciding what you should eat will inevitably stir anxiety, especially when some of the foods on offer might shorten your life. Today, buffeted by one food fad ...

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Book cover for “Sweet Potato Soul”
Sweet Potato Soul

100 Easy Vegan Recipes for the Southern Flavors of Smoke, Sugar, Spice, and Soul

1 recommendation
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100 vegan recipes that riff on Southern cooking in surprising and delicious ways, beautifully illustrated with fullcolor photography. Jenn Claiborne grew up in Atlanta eating classic Soul Foodfluffy biscuits, smoky sausage, Nana's sweet potato piebut thought she'd have to give all that up when she went vegan. As a chef, she instead spent year...

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No coverA BiteSized History of France
A BiteSized History of France

Gastronomic Tales of Revolution, War, and Enlightenment

1 recommendation
Description

A French cheesemonger and an American academic join forces to serve up a sumptuous history of France and its food, in the delicious tradition of Anthony Bourdain, Peter Mayle, and Pamela DruckermanNearly 3 million Americans visit France every year, in addition to the more than 150,000 American expatriates who live there. Numerous bestselling books ...

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Book cover for “Becoming Vegan”
Becoming Vegan

The Complete Reference to PlantBased Nutrition

1 recommendation
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Two of North America's foremost vegan dietitians present the complete reference to plantbased nutrition designed for health practitioners, nutrition professionals, college coursework, or the sophisticated lay reader. The "express" edition of Becoming Vegan helps lay readers understand the impact of a vegan diet on their health and that of the plan...

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Book cover for “Minimalist Baker's Everyday Cooking”
Minimalist Baker's Everyday Cooking

101 Entirely Plantbased, Mostly GlutenFree, Easy and Delicious Recipes

1 recommendation
Description

The highly anticipated cookbook from the immensely popular food blog Minimalist Baker, featuring 101 allnew simple, vegan recipes that all require 10 ingredients or less, 1 bowl or 1 pot, or 30 minutes or less to prepare Dana Shultz founded the Minimalist Baker blog in 2012 to share her passion for simple cooking and quickly gained a devoted world...

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No coverGrowing Vegetable Soup
Description

"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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Book cover for “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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No coverThe Keto Reset Diet
The Keto Reset Diet

Reboot Your Metabolism in 21 Days and Burn Fat Forever

Description

Mark Sissonauthor of the megabestseller The Primal Blueprintunveils his groundbreaking ketogenic diet plan that resets your metabolism in 21 days so you can burn fat forever. Mounting scientific research is confirming that eating a ketogenic diet could represent one of the greatest nutritional breakthroughs of our timeand that it might be th...

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Book cover for “A Man, A Pan, A Plan”
A Man, A Pan, A Plan

100 Delicious & Nutritious OnePan Recipes You Can Make Right Now!

Recommendation Context
Available recommendation signals cluster around FoodHobbies, Food, Hobbies, Cookbooks, For 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 Sweet Life in Paris
The Sweet Life in Paris

Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious and Perplexing City

Description

Like so many others, David Lebovitz dreamed about living in Paris ever since he first visited the city in the 1980s. Finally, after a nearly twodecade career as a pastry chef and cookbook author, he moved to Paris to start a new life. Having crammed all his worldly belongings into three suitcases, he arrived, hopes high, at his new apartment in th...

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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 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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Book cover for “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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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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No coverTasting Rome
Tasting Rome

Fresh Flavors and Forgotten Recipes from an Ancient City

Description

A love letter from two Americans to their adopted city, showcasing modern dishes influenced by tradition, as well as the rich culture of their surroundings. Even 150 years after unification, Italy is still a divided nation where individual regions are defined by their local cuisine mirrors of their culture, history, and geography. But the cuci...

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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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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

Description

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

Description

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 coverCocktail Codex
Cocktail Codex

Fundamentals, Formulas, Evolutions

Description

From the authors of the bestselling and genredefining cocktail book&#160; Death &amp; Co ,&#160; Cocktail Codex&#160; is a comprehensive primer on the craft of mixing drinks that employs the authors&rsquo; unique &ldquo;root cocktails&rdquo; approach to give drinkmakers of every level the tools to understand, execute, and improvise both classic a...

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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

Description

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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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 coverDiet Cults
Diet Cults

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

Description

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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Book cover for “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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Book cover for “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 coverThe Keto Reset Diet Cookbook
The Keto Reset Diet Cookbook

150 LowCarb, HighFat Ketogenic Recipes to Boost Weight Loss

Description

Slim down, get healthy, and go keto the right way with 150 ketoaligned recipes from the bestselling author of The Keto Reset DietOn the heels of Mark Sisson's bestselling The Keto Reset Diet comes a roadmap to startingand stayingketo. You will transition away from carbohydrate dependency and weight loss frustrations into the world of metabolic...

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No coverCulinary Reactions
Culinary Reactions

The Everyday Chemistry Of Cooking

Description

When you're cooking, you're a chemist! Every time you follow or modify a recipe, you are experimenting with acids and bases, emulsions and suspensions, gels and foams. In your kitchen you denature proteins, crystallize compounds, react enzymes with substrates, and nurture desired microbial life while suppressing harmful bacteria and fungi. And unli...

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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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Book cover for “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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Book cover for “Cook's Science”
Cook's Science

How to Unlock Flavor in 50 of our Favorite Ingredients

Description

In Cook's Science, the allnew companion to the New York Timesbestselling The Science of Good Cooking, America's Test Kitchen deep dives into the surprising science behind 50 of our favorite ingredientsand uses that science to make them taste their best. From the editors of Cook's Illustrated, and the bestselling The Science of Good Cooking, co...

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No coverDalí. Les dîners de Gala
Description

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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No coverEasy Keto Dinners
Easy Keto Dinners

Flavorful LowCarb Meals for Any Night of the Week

Description

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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Book cover for “Thank You, Omu!”
Description

A generous woman is rewarded by her community in this remarkable authorillustrator debut that's perfect for the Thanksgiving season, perfect for fans of Last Stop on Market Street. Everyone in the neighborhood dreams of a taste of Omu's delicious stew! One by one, they follow their noses toward the scrumptious scent. And one by one, Omu offers a p...

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No coverLittle Foodie
Little Foodie

Baby Food Recipes for Babies and Toddlers with Taste

Description

Just in time for BacktoSchool, don't miss Michele's newest book Little Bento (OnSale August 9)!A Red Tricycle 2015 Best Cookbook for BabiesThis playful cookbook helps parents prepare a culinary adventure for the newest eater in the family. Baby food chef and founder of the beloved blog Baby FoodE, Michele Olivier, shows you how to raise a food l...

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Book cover for “Keto Made Easy”
Keto Made Easy

100 Easy Keto Dishes Made Fast to Fit Your Life

Description

Everything can be made keto! That?s the message that food bloggers Matt Gaedke and Megha Barot want to deliver with their new book, Keto Made Easy. No more missing out on classics or favorite dishes, no more added costs with exotic new ingredients?in Keto Made Easy, Matt and Megha show you how to recreate nonketo recipes in easy, costeffective, ...

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No coverSouthern Keto
Southern Keto

100 Traditional Food Favorites for a LowCarb Lifestyle

Description

The ketogenic lifestyle doesn?t require a sacrifice of flavor! Many people think that going keto means they have to give up American traditional dishes, but with a little creativity most of your favorite foods can be made keto. Southern Keto Traditions will show you how to make your favorite comfort foods delicious and lowcarb. You don't have to ...

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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

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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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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No coverThe Intuitive Eating Workbook
The Intuitive Eating Workbook

Ten Principles for Nourishing a Healthy Relationship with Food (A New Harbinger SelfHelp Workbook)

Description

Do you use food to comfort yourself during stressful times The Intuitive Eating Workbook offers a comprehensive, evidencebased program to help you develop a healthy relationship with food, pay attention to cues of hunger and satisfaction, and cultivate a profound connection with your mind and body.Have you tried fad diet after fad diet, only to g...

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Book cover for “The French Laundry Cookbook”
Description

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 “Nom Nom Paleo”
Nom Nom Paleo

Food for Humans (Volume 1)

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By the creators of the criticallyacclaimed leading Paleo food blog, Nom Nom Paleo features over 100 flavorpacked, nutrientdense recipes using real, whole ingredients for foodies, fitness buffs, and families, presented in a fun, fresh style complete with awesome cartoons and tons of 4color photography. Nom Nom Paleo is a visual feast, crackling ...

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No coverEat Drink Nap
Eat Drink Nap

Bringing the House Home

Description

The quintessential cooking, style and decoration book from Soho House, the world's leading members club.In the 17 years since the first Soho House opened its doors, we?ve learnt a bit about what works: how to make people feel at home, how to cook food they love, how to make a room stylish but welcoming, how to throw a party, get the lighting right,...

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Book cover for “Pizza!”
Pizza!

An Interactive Recipe Book (Cook In A Book)

Description

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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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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Book cover for “Keto Instant Pot”
Keto Instant Pot

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

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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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No coverNourishing Traditions
Nourishing Traditions

The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and Diet Dictocrats

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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

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 “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 “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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Book cover for “Jasmine Toguchi, Mochi Queen”
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Eightyearold Jasmine Toguchi is a flamingo fan, tree climber, and topnotch messmaker!She's also tired of her big sister, Sophie, always getting to do things first. For once, Jasmine wishes SHE could do something before Sophiesomething special, something different. The New Year approaches, and as the Toguchi family gathers in Los Angeles to ce...

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Book cover for “Keto”
Keto

The Complete Guide to Success on The Ketogenic Diet, including Simplified Science and Nocook Meal Plans (1)

Description

The ketogenic diet has gained in popularity, but that has led to some bad information being shared. You can do keto right, and you can do keto wrong. This book is all about how to do keto the right way!Despite what health science has beaten into us over the last fifty or so years, humans thrive on highfat, lowcarb diets. Millions of people around...

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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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Farm Anatomy

The Curious Parts and Pieces of Country Life

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What's the difference between a weanling and a yearling, or a farrow and a barrow Country and city mice alike will delight in Julia Rothman's charming illustrated guide to the curious parts and pieces of rural living. Dissecting everything from tractors and pigs to fences, hay bales, crop rotation patterns, and farm tools, Rothman gives a richly e...

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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

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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Book cover for “Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy”
Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy

The Harvard Medical School Guide to Healthy Eating

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In this revised and updated edition of the bestselling Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy, Dr. Walter Willett, for twentyfive years chair of the renowned Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, draws on cuttingedge research to explain what the USDA guidelines have gotte...

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Book cover for “The Fannie Farmer Cookbook”
The Fannie Farmer Cookbook

A Tradition of Good Cooking for a New Generation of Cooks

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Here is the great basic American cookbookwith more than 1,990 recipes, plain and fancythat belongs in every household.Originally published in 1896 as The Boston CookingSchool Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer, it became the coobook that taught generations of Americans how to cook. Completely updating it for the first time since 1979, Marion C...

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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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No coverAround My French Table
Around My French Table

More than 300 Recipes from My Home to Yours

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When Julia Child told Dorie Greenspan, ?You write recipes just the way I do,? she paid her the ultimate compliment. Julia?s praise was echoed by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, which referred to Dorie?s ?wonderfully encouraging voice? and ?the sense of a real person who is there to help should you stumble.? Now in a big, personal, and...

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No coverCook Like a Pro
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 “Eating the Alphabet”
Eating the Alphabet

Fruits & Vegetables from A to Z

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While teaching upper and lowercase letters to preschoolers, Ehlert introduces fruits and vegetables from around the world. A glossary at the end provides interesting facts about each food....

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Book cover for “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 Essential Art of Nourishing the New Mother

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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

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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

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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 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

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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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No coverDate Night In
Date Night In

More than 120 Recipes to Nourish Your Relationship

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Rekindle the romance at home with a weekly date night, one on one, over an absolutely delicious meal for two. Sweethearts, spouses, and parents Ashley and Gabe Rodriguez found themselves deep into marriage and childrearing when they realized they were missing the connection of their early relationship, and needed to prioritize each other. They ins...

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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 coverFood Matters
Food Matters

A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes

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From the awardwinning champion of culinary simplicity who gave us the bestselling "How to Cook Everything" and "How to Cook Everything Vegetarian" comes "Food Matters," a plan for responsible eating that's as good for the planet as it is for your weight and your health.We are finally starting to acknowledge the threat carbon emissions pose to our ...

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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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No coverThe Keto Diet
The Keto Diet

The Complete Guide to a HighFat Diet, with More Than 125 Delectable Recipes and 5 Meal Plans to Shed Weight, Heal Your Body, and Regain Confidence

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"The Paleo Chocolate Lovers Cookbook" features 80 gluten, grain, and dairyfree recipes for the healthconscious chocolate lover. Kelly Brozyna, host of the delightful cooking blog, The Spunky Coconut, has created delicious chocolate treats made with coconut and ground nut flours for both breakfast and dessert. And, using dates and small amounts ...

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