Olives: The Life and Lore of a Noble Fruit
 Amazon.com Review: After rice, corn, and wheat--the three staples of, respectively, East Asia, the Americas, and Eurasia--the olive is the foodstuff most closely bound to history, shaping the course of nations and empires. Mort Rosenblum, the author of [... more]
$18.00
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Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local ...
Amazon.com Review: Does it matter where our food comes from? Do we, our communities, and the planet do better if we choose food grown by local sources we trust? Exploring these and other questions of dietary and spiritual subsistence, Gary Paul Nabhan's [... more]
$24.95
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CookSmart: Perfect Recipes for Every Day
Amazon.com Review: Pam Anderson's CookSmart: Perfect Recipes for Every Day is a collection of comfort-food favorites that she's perfected through a long process of trial and error. From her own experience as a chef, cookbook author (The Perfect Recipe), [... more]
$28.00
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The Unprejudiced Palate (The Cook's Classic Library)
Ahead of its time, 60 years ago: It's intimidating to weigh in here with a less than stellar review (if three stars qualify as less-than-stellar) when the likes of Jacques Pépin, Daniel Bouloud, and Mark Kurlansky have heaped unreserved praise [... more]
$14.95
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Honey from a Weed (The Cook's Classic Library)
Amazon.com Review: Simply put, Honey from a Weed is a jewel of a book. Reading it, one realizes the true artistry of the author, a person whose relationship with the world around her is both intimate and immediate--someone who can transform the fruits of [... more]
$16.95
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Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen
Heartwarming Culinary Essays. Great Read for Foodies: 'Home Cooking' by Laurie Colwin is the kind of book that really makes you wish you could become friends with the author. Unfortunately, the author is no longer with us, so there is a lot more than the [... more]
$12.00
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More Home Cooking: A Writer Returns to the Kitchen
Amazon.com Review: Prior to her untimely death, Laurie Colwin's insightful novels developed something of a cult following, as did her good-humored food columns for Gourmet Magazine. This book, like its predecessor Home Cooking, is a result of her [... more]
$12.95
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Michael Broadbent's Vintage Wine
One of Wine's Grand Old Men: By Bill Marsano. We can divide wine drinkers into three classes. Ordinaire Joe, who'd rather drink wine than talk about it, is here advised to flee: This book will bore him stupid. The Wine Geek is just the opposite; for him [... more]
$60.00
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Endless Feasts: Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet ...
Amazon.com Review: Endless Feasts: Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet, part of the Modern Library Food series, is a fascinating compendium of Gourmet magazine food and travel pieces spanning six decades--a collection that mirrors our dining habits over [... more]
$24.95
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A Sweet Quartet: Sugar, Almonds, Eggs, and Butter
Gorgeous writing about basic ingredients: Fran Gage's "A Sweet Quartet" is filled to overflowing with gorgeous writing about four basic baking ingredients: sugar, almonds, eggs, and butter. She refers to these with the charming assertion that [... more]
$27.50
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American Pie: My Search for the Perfect Pizza
Amazon.com Review: Baking bread is mysterious enough. But creating truly great pizza--the transformation of next to nothing into something extraordinary--is downright alchemical. It is for no small reason that there are distinct words in Italian for [... more]
$27.95
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Consider the Oyster
Simply Beautiful: This work is a beautiful piece of food writing. Fisher tells delightful tales of the oyster, both from a natural history and culinary history perspective. Integrated in to these stories are a fair mix of recipes and pieces of food [... more]
$11.00
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