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Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking
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(13 reviews)  3520 

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Hardcover   688 pages

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5 stars 

Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking Provides an updated combination of two best-selling cookbooks--The Classic Italian Cookbook and More Classic Italian Cooking--with thirty-five new recipes, revised cooking instructions, and new menus. (29 reviews)  2366  Hardcover  688 pages	The Way to Cook      A one-of-a-kind, brilliant cookbook which has sold half a million copies. Julia Child blends classic techniques with free-style American cooking, emphasizing lightness, freshness and simpler preparations.  (12 reviews)  16959 Paperback	The Fannie Farmer Cookbook A revised edition of the classic cookbook features 325 new recipes, including popular new ethnic dishes, as well as new sections on microwave, outdoor, vegetarian, and low-fat cookery. (29 reviews)  5270  Hardcover
The Encyclopedia of Country Living:  An Old Fashioned Recipe Book This definitive classic on food, gardening, and self-sufficient living is a complete resource for living off the land.  Over 800 pages of wisdom on how to cultivate a garden, buy land, bake bread, raise farm animals, make sausage, milk a goat, grow herbs, churn butter, catch a pig, make soap, and more. (40 reviews)  6841  Paperback  864 pages	Mollie Katzen's Vegetable Heaven: Over 200 Recipes for Uncommon Soups, Tasty Bites, Side-By-Side Dishes, and Too Many Desserts This companion volume to the 26-part public television series which began airing in October 1997contains more than 200 recipes for delicious and surprising fare; illustrated with paintings, richly evocative of the pleasures of cooking and eating. (11 reviews)  21230  Hardcover  304 pages	The Wisdom of the Chinese Kitchen : Classic Family Recipes for Celebration and Healing Hot-and-Sour Soup fired solely by aromatic white pepper.  White Chicken perfumed just with ginger and garlic. Some quick and easy like stir-fried Bean Sprouts; others with elaborate preparation, like savory Rice Tamales stuffed with pork, Chinese sausage, and duck egg yolks wrapped in bamboo leaves.       (18 reviews)   4164 Hardcover  282 pages
The Asian Grocery Store Demystified  Peppering her text with personal tales while unearthing gems of Asian foodlore, Bladholm clarifies the foodstuffs of every major Asian culture, including Chinese, Japanese, Laotian, Thai, Korean. (13 reviews)  16408 Paperback  234 pages	Food for Little Fingers  A guide to cooking for children without white flour, salt, or added sugar provides 117 recipes that provide for health, taste, and convenience, from Munchkin Meatloaf and Peter Rabbit Pasta to Georgie Porgie Spinach Pies.      (7 reviews)   940 Paperback  131 pages	Victory Garden Cookbook An incomparable variety of more than 800 enticing recipes, basic gardening information, shopping tips for nongardeners, preserving and serving hints in oversize format.  (17 reviews)  23250  Paperback  374 pages
The Cake Mix Doctor By doctoring up packaged cake mix with just the right extras--a touch of sweet butter here, cocoa powder there, or poppy seeds, vanilla yogurt, sherry, eggs, and grated lemon zest for the Charleston Poppy Seed Cake--even the least experienced baker can turn out luscious signature desserts, time after time. (27 reviews)  1914 Hardcover  454 pages	The New Elegant but Easy Cookbook  This cookbook reflects the way we cook today while keeping the concept behind the original book: recipes that can be prepared ahead of time so the cook can enjoy the party instead of hovering over the stove. Chicken Breasts Stuffed with Goat Cheese, Mediterranean Couscous Salad, Baked Imperial Chicken, Green and Gold Squash, and Lois's Original Plum Torte (the most requested recipe ever reprinted in the New York Times). (6 reviews)   12551 Hardcover  343 pages	Learning to Cook With  Marion Cunningham  Marion Cunningham, renowned for her revision of the The Fannie Farmer Cookbook, turns her attention to the novice cook. Cunningham's passion for simple, home-cooked dishes, along with her extensive teaching experience, is evident on every page.  This book will teach beginning cooks to read recipes, organize complete meals, recycle dinners into tomorrow's luscious lunches, gauge quantity, season to taste, and end up with a clean kitchen! (8 reviews)    9964 Hardcover  303 pages
Smoke & Spice Excellent guidance for grilling, smoking, barbecue.  Recipes for meat preparation and sauces.  Main course, appetizers, drinks, veggies, dessert!  (12 reviews)  1528  Paperback  414 pages	The Complete Italian Vegetarian Cookbook : 350 Essential Recipes for Inspired Everyday Eating   (12 reviews)  8902 Hardcover   568 pages	The American Vegetarian Cookbook from the Fit for Life    (10 reviews)    7641 Hardcover  422 pages
Intercourses : An Aphrodisiac Cookbook Ever since Marc Antony first fed Cleopatra grapes, sensual foods have been intertwined with romance.  This book brings more than 85 heart-melting dishes to the table or wherever one might be entertaining.  (13 reviews)  2659 Hardcover	Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book  (Three Ring Binder Edition)      Discover why every kitchen worth its salt has a flour-dusted, bouillon-stained, batter-encrusted and whisk-maimed copy.  (15 reviews)   2289 Hardcover  540 pages	The New Moosewood Cookbook  Fifteenth-anniversary edition of a collection of healthful recipes. Features recipes that contain less fat and fewer dairy products and eggs.  (14 reviews)    3759 Paperback   256 pages

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CookWise:  The Hows and Whys of Successful Cooking Cookwise, is a unique combination of basic cooking know-how, excellent recipes--from apple pie to beurre blanc--and reference source.  How to make the flakiest pastry, best-textured breads, delicious fruit desserts from fruit that's not fully ripe, impeccable sauces, and attractively bright cooked vegetables. (36 reviews)  2648  Hardcover  524 pages	Top Secret Restaurant Recipes:  Creating Kitchen Clones from America's Favorite Restaurant Chains In 1996, Americans spent over $100 billion gobbling up meals at full-service American restaurant chains. Wilbur's collection of knock-off recipes for 110 of the most popular of these dishes--includes fare from Red Lobster, Pizza Hut, The Olive Garden, Chi-Chi's, and many others. 65 illustrations. (21 reviews)  2039 Paperback  322 pages	Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone Elegant simplicity and exquisite flavor; includes comprehensive information about ingredients and techniques; over 800 recipes.  The 124-page chapter titled "Vegetables: The Heart of the Matter" is a virtual book of culinary revelations; you could use it as a manual on buying and preparing vegetables. Inspired recipes and guidance for everything from grains and soy to dairy foods and desserts.  (41 reviews)  1281  Hardcover  544 pages
License to Grill Innovative and inspired everyday and exotic recipes and techniques for grilling great food. Heavy on the lighter fare, with more vegetables, more seafood, more pasta, and more surprisingly grillable fruit. (9 reviews)  7876 Hardcover 416 pages	The Barbecue! Bible  The Barbecue Bible is an over-500-recipe celebration of sizzle, smoke, and secret sauces, summer afternoon cookouts, dads in aprons, and everything about cooking over fire. (16 reviews)  542 Paperback  556 pages	Desperation Dinners! Written by two working moms with four kids between them, Desperation Dinners! fulfills its promise to supply you with more than 250 recipes that can be made from start to finish in 20 minutes.  (31 reviews)  4647  Paperback  256 pages
The New Complete Joy of Home Brewing One of the most popular brewing books is now revised and updated.  Whether a beginning, intermediate,or advanced home brewer, this fully illustrated guide reveals the secrets of home brewing; includes everything from how to personalize a beer to one's taste to steps of the home brewing process. (27 reviews)  5576  Paperback  398 pages	On Food and Cooking:  The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Trying to learn the nature of cooking and ingredients? This book is the classic guide to the scientific underpinnings of food; an excellent source for the science behind kitchen lore. Lighthearted but scientifically detailed. You'll return to the kitchen wiser, armed with knowledge and ready to eat. (17 reviews)  1487  Paperback	The Carbohydrate Addict's Cookbook : 250 All-New Low-Carb Recipes That Will Cut the Cravings and Keep You Slim for Life Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Over 250 low-carbohydrate recipes and personal anecdotes. Dishes from Greece, China, Spain, India, France, and the Mediterranean, as well as American dishes are included.  (28 reviews)   77 Hardcover  291 pages
Crust & Crumb: Master Formulas For Serious Bakers The author of the highly successful "Brother Juniper's Bread Book" combines traditional methods and whole grains with sometimes wild creativity to create breads that are delicious beyond belief. Advice on using food processors and bread machines; making world-class bread needn't be daunting.   (8 reviews)  9307 Hardcover  210 pages	The New Basics Cookbook Celebrate the tastes, ingredients, techniques, and dishes that comprise the best of our cuisine in all its abundant variety. Over 30 chapters include 875 recipes, techniques, charts and tips, microwave miracles, and illustrations. (33 reviews)  8104  Paperback  864 pages	The New Making of a Cook: The Art, Techniques, and Science of Good Cooking Cooking schools have used Madeleine Kamman's The Making of a Cook since it first appeared in 1971. Now revised to reflect newer techniques, a wider range of ingredients, and the recent American aversion to fat.  Information for professionals, with clarity for all. 1998 James Beard Cookbook Award Winner (11 reviews)  15510  Hardcover
The Low Blood Sugar Handbook :  You Don't Have to Suffer.... (15 reviews)   4399 Paperback 185 pages	The Perfect Recipe : Getting It Right Every Time : Making Our Favorite Dishes the Absolute Best They Can Be (48 reviews)  8810 Hardcover  416 pages	Rao's Cookbook : Over 100 Years of Italian Home Cooking This fun and tasty paean to a neighborhood institution has become an Amazon.com runaway bestseller. (20 reviews)  3055 Hardcover  207 pages
The Cake Bible The classic cake cookbook. Clear, precise instructions for making special-occasion cakes of any size, special decorative techniques, countless solutions and tips for all the little problems that may arise. Illustrated.  (51 reviews)  6098  Hardcover   555 pages

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