The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute of America
“Well reported and heartfelt, Ruhlman communicates the passion that draws the acolyte to this precise and frantic profession.”―The New York Times Book ReviewJust over a decade ago, journalist Michael Ruhlman donned a chef’s jacket and houndstooth-check pants to join the students at the Culinary Institute of America, the country’s oldest and most influential cooking school. But The Making …
Brilliantly evoking the long-vanished world of masters and servants portrayed in Downton Abbey and Upstairs, Downstairs, Margaret Powell’s classic memoir of her time in service, Below Stairs, is the remarkable true story of an indomitable woman who, though she served in the great houses of England, never stopped aiming high. Powell first arrived at the servants’ entrance of …
Kitchen Gypsy: Recipes and Stories from a Lifelong Romance with Food (Sunset)
From the beloved host and producer of PBS series Joanne Weir’s Cooking Confidence and Joanne Weir Gets Fresh.”Joanne’s infectious enthusiasm…draws readers effortlessly into a new and beautiful relationship to food.” – Alice WatersChef, cooking instructor, and PBS television host Joanne Weir has inspired legions of home cooks with her signature California-Mediterranean cuisine and warm, engaging style. In Kitchen …
Truett Cathy’s commitment reaches far beyond the people who work and eat in his restaurants. Through WinShape Centre Foundation, funded by Chick-fil-A, he operates foster homes for more than 1,600 children and has provided scholarships for more than 16,500 students.In Eat Mor Chikin: Inspire More People, Cathy challenges readers to focus on people and principles. The principles he …
Los Angeles: A patchwork megalopolis defined by its unlikely cultural collisions; the city that raised and shaped Roy Choi, the boundary-breaking chef who decided to leave behind fine dining to feed the city he loved—and, with the creation of the Korean taco, reinvented street food along the way.Abounding with both the food and the stories that gave rise …
An intimate look at the life of celebrated chef Hubert Keller, through 120 inspiring recipes, personal stories, myriad photographs, and other memorabilia.Souvenirs is a memoir cookbook written by the multitalented Hubert Keller: chef, restaurateur, and Frenchman. Through personal stories and 120 recipes, the book explores his classical training and traces his development as a creative superstar chef. Keller …
Baba’s Kitchen: Ukrainian Soul Food with Stories From the Village
Top Three Ukrainian Cookbook & Cultural Book of 2015 Click on “Look Inside” at top of book. In a rollicking, entertaining read, Baba’s Kitchen will lead you into the complex soul of Eastern Europe’s Indigenous people. Ukrainian-Canadian Raisa Marika Stohyn spent decades collecting outrageous stories and 190 Eastern European recipes from survivors of Soviet …
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLucy 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. …
In Paris for a weekend visit, Elizabeth Bard sat down to lunch with a handsome Frenchman–and never went home again. Was it love at first sight? Or was it the way her knife slid effortlessly through her pavé au poivre, the steak’s pink juices puddling into the buttery pepper sauce? LUNCH IN PARIS is a …
Now a New York Times BestsellerParis was practically perfect…Craig Carlson was the last person anyone would expect to open an American diner in Paris. He came from humble beginnings in a working-class town in Connecticut, had never worked in a restaurant, and didn’t know anything about starting a brand-new business. But from his first visit to Paris, Craig …