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481) Crawfish dreams
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 257 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In this captivating new memoir, award-winning writer Jessica B. Harris recalls a lost era--the vibrant New York City of her youth, where her social circle included Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, and other members of the Black intelligentsia. In the Technicolor glow of the early seventies, Jessica B. Harris debated, celebrated, and danced her way from the jazz clubs of the Manhattan's West Side to the restaurants of the Village, living out her buoyant...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
184 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of accounts about life in the servants' halls of England's great houses shares the true story of under-parlourmaid Rose, who after eloping with her employer's only son was swept up in a maelstrom of gossip.
486) Walking on walnuts
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1997.
Edition
Bantam trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 333 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Gotham Group/Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
x, 307 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Beloved teacher and bestselling cookbook author Marcella Hazan tells how a young girl raised in Emilia-Romagna became America's godmother of Italian cooking. Widely credited with introducing proper Italian food to the English-speaking world, Hazan, now 84, looks back on the adventures of a life lived for pleasure and a love of teaching.
488) Death is semisweet
Author
Series
Heaven Lee mysteries volume 7
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
210 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Before he earned his third Michelin star at his iconic restaurant, Le Bernardin, the James Beard Award for Outstanding Chef of the Year, became a regular guest judge on Bravo's Top Chef, even before he knew how to make a proper omelet, Eric Ripert was a young boy in the South of France who felt that his world had come to an end. At the age of five, his parents went through a bitter divorce. Eric moved away with his mother, whose new husband, Serge,...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
301 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Peter Gethers has loved food and wine all his life, and now he wants to give his 93-year-old mother a final gift: a spectacular feast featuring all her favorite dishes. Problem is, he doesn?t know how cook most of them, so he embarks upon a culinary journey that will ultimately allow him to bring his mother?s friends and loved ones to the table one last time.
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
173 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lucy Knisley loves food. The daughter of a chef and a gourmet, this talented young cartoonist comes by her obsession honestly. In her forthright, thoughtful, and funny memoir, Lucy traces key episodes in her life thus far, framed by what she was eating at the time and lessons learned about food, cooking, and life. Each chapter is bookended with an illustrated recipe-- many of them treasured family dishes, and a few of them Lucy's original inventions"--From...
Author
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
177 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In grocery store aisles and kitchens across the country, smiling images of 'Aunt Jemima' and other historical and fictional black cooks can be found on various food products and in advertising. Although these images are sanitized and romanticized in American popular culture, they represent the untold stories of enslaved men and women who had a significant impact on the nation's culinary and hospitality traditions even as they were forced to prepare...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspiration Valley, North Carolina, is bubbling with excitement for the Taste of the Town festival, and Lila is right in the middle of it all. Along with her coworkers at the Novel Idea Literary Agency, Lila is organizing a grand celebrity chef event, featuring food television's biggest stars, complete with cooking demonstrations, cookbook giveaways, and even a culinary writing contest. But just as the celebration is about to start, the demo kitchen...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
229 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"What happens when a person's reputation has been forever damaged? With archival photographs and text among other primary sources, this riveting biography of Mary Mallon by the Sibert medalist and Newbery Honor winner Susan Bartoletti looks beyond the tabloid scandal of Mary's controversial life. How she was treated by medical and legal officials reveals a lesser-known story of human and constitutional rights, entangled with the science of pathology...
498) The holiday swap
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When chef Charlie Goodwin gets hit on the head on the L.A. set of her reality baking show, she loses her ability to taste and smell-- both critical to her success as show judge. Her identical twin, Cass, is frantically trying to hold her own life together back in their quaint mountain hometown while running the family's bustling bakery and dealing with her ex, who won't get the memo that they're over. Only days until Christmas, Charlie asks Cass to...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 336 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When Megan Stack was living in Beijing, she left her prestigious job as a foreign correspondent to have her first child and work from home writing a book. She quickly realized that caring for a baby and keeping up with the housework while her husband went to the office each day was consuming the time she needed to write. This dilemma was resolved in the manner of many upper-class families and large corporations: she availed herself of cheap Chinese...
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