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Food Guides: Essential & Delicious

The Flavor Thesaurus: Pairings, Recipes And Ideas For The Creative Cook

By Niki Segnit

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An invaluable resource for foodies: seasoned or unseasoned!

Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

By Maira Kalman, Michael Pollan

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How should a person eat? Michael Pollan's beautifully illustrated guide has all the answers!

Curious History of Food and Drink

By Ian Crofton

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A fun, irreverent voyage through food history - food lovers and trivia junkies rejoice!

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FINALLY, TIME TO COOK!

Tawaw: Progressive Indigenous Cuisine

By Shane M. Chartrand, Jennifer Cockrall-King

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Nothing Fancy: Unfussy Food for Having People Over

By Alison Roman

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5 Ingredients ! Quick & Easy Food

By Jamie Oliver

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Fraiche Food, Full Hearts: A Collection of Recipes for Every Day and Casual Celebrations

By Jillian Harris, Tori Wesszer

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Matty Matheson: A Cookbook

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The Food of Sichuan

By Fuchsia Dunlop

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Named one of the most anticipated cookbooks of Fall 2019 by Bon Appétit, Eater, Epicurious. An essential update of Fuchsia Dunlop's landmark book on Sichuan cuisine, with 200 recipes and stunning photographs.

The Dude Diet Dinnertime: 125 Clean(ish) Recipes for Weeknight Winners and Fancypants Dinners

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The Art of Living According to Joe Beef: A Cookbook of Sorts

By David Chang, Meredith Erickson, David Mcmillan, Frederic Morin

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The Instant Pot Bible: More than 350 Recipes and Strategies: The Only Book You Need for Every Model of Instant Pot

By Mark Scarbrough, Bruce Weinstein

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Food

Food Celebration

Review By Hannah Minett

Date: 19 Feb 2015

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The Beauty of Humanity Movement

"Food can cut across social barriers, spanning class and sectarian lines (though it can also, of course, reinforce them). Making and sharing food are essential to maintaining the rhythms of everyday life."

This is excerpted from Annia Ciezadlo's new memoir, Day of Honey : A Memoir of Food, Love And War. If I could I would share the entire book with you, but alas I cannot. Ciezadlo early on sheeplishly discloses that she cannot contain her passions, or her opinions; they just tumble out. She can never stop eating or talking or writing. She is not without swooning doubt, and to root herself to the earth she cooks and she eats. That could be said about a lot of people, but Ciezadlo is a roving journalist who has immersed herself in cultures where she is the other. Through food she finds familiarity; she is still other but finds a place for herself among the hot sour salty sweet. Ciezadlo pursues anthropology through food, across modern battlefields, and into kitchens. This book was inspired by the new context she finds herself in, in love with her perfect opposite who also happens to discover himself suddenly Arab in post 9/11 America.

Mohamad is a refugee from Lebanon's civil war, with a deep intelligence and heavy reserve. Where Ciezadlo wages oratory, he observes. He hardly speaks, but when he does it is with razor precision. He also is among the most picky eaters on the planet, whereas she will eat anything, anywhere.And so begins their story. It takes them to many places--Beirut, Baghdad, and Turkey, among others. I found Ciezadlo's insights fierce and full of heart. Her book reminded me a lot of what Camilla Gibb was doing in her novel The Beauty of Humanities Movement, with Old man Hung, who in Hanoi nurtured himself and those around him through the turmoil of the post- "American War" with his steaming bowls of Pho.

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