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	The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals »rank: 24686 by: Michael Pollan : :The bestselling author of The Botany of Desire explores the ecology of eating to unveil why we consume what we consume in the twenty-first century. Unabridged CDs -11 CDs, 13 hours		In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto »rank: 14916 by: Michael Pollan : :What to eat, what not to eat, and how to think about health: a manifesto for our times. Review:Amazon Significant Seven, January 2008: Food is the one thing that Americans hate to love and, as it turns out, love to hate. What we want to eat has been ousted by the notion of what we should eat, and it's at this nexus of hunger and hang-up that Michael Pollan poses his most salient question: where is the food in ...
	Skinny Bitch: A No-Nonsense, Tough-Love Guide for Savvy Girls Who Want to Stop Eating Crap and Start Looking Fabulous »rank: 126906 by: Rory Freedman; Kim Barnouin : :Not your typical boring diet book, this is a tart-tongued, no-holds-barred wake-up call to all women who want to be thin.		I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence »rank: 95111 by: Amy Sedaris : :Are you lacking direction in how to whip up a swanky soiree for lumberjacks? A dinner party for white-collar workers? A festive gathering for the grieving? Don't despair. Take a cue from entertaining expert Amy Sedaris and host an unforgettable fete that will have your guests raving. No matter the style or size of the gathering-from the straightforward to the bizarre-l LlKE Y0U provides jackpot recipes and solid advice laced with Amy's blisteringly funny take on entertaining. You don't even ...
	Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly »rank: 287048 by: Anthony Bourdain : :When Chef Anthony Bourdain wrote 'Don't Eat Before You Read This' in The New Yorker, he spared no one's appetite, revealing what goes on behind the kitchen door. ln Kitchen Confidential, he expanded the appetizer into a deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet that lays out his twenty-five years of sex, drugs, and haute cuisine.From his first oyster in Gironda to the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop Rockefeller Center, from the restaurants of Tokyo to the drug dealers of the ...		Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal »rank: 579764 by: Eric Schlosser : :Read by Rick AdamsonFAST F00D NATl0N - the groundbreaking work of investigation and cultural history that has changed the way America thinks about the way it eats - and spent nearly four months on the New York Times bestseller list - now available on cassette!Are we what we eat? To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar America. Though created by a handful of mavericks, the fast food industry has triggered ...
	Cooked: From the Streets to the Stove, from Cocaine to Foie Gras »rank: 84792 from: Recorded Books : : Jeff Henderson was just another inner-city black kid born into a world of poverty and limited options, where crime seemed to provide the only way to get out. Raised mostly by his single mother, who struggled just to keep food on the table, Jeff dreamed big. He had to get out and he soon did by turning to what so many in his community did: dealing drugs. But Jeff was no ordinary drug dealer; by twenty-one, he was one ...		Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany »rank: 650231 from: Random House Audio : :From one of our most interesting literary figures – former editor of Granta, former fiction editor at The New Yorker, acclaimed author of Among the Thugs – a sharp, funny, exuberant, close-up account of his headlong plunge into the life of a professional cook.Expanding on his James Beard Award-winning New Yorker article, Bill Buford gives us a richly evocative chronicle of his experience as “slave” to Mario Batali in the kitchen of Batali’s three-star New York restaurant, Babbo.ln a fast-paced, ...
	The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School »rank: 85955 by: Kathleen Flinn : :A true story of food, Paris, and the fulfillment of a lifelong dream.		My Life in France »rank: 523027 by: Julia Child, Alex Prud'Homme : :ln her own words, here is the captivating story of Julia Child’s years in France, where she fell in love with French food and found ‘her true calling.’From the moment the ship docked in Le Havre in the fall of 1948 and Julia watched the well-muscled stevedores unloading the cargo to the first perfectly soigné meal that she and her husband, Paul, savored in Rouen en route to Paris, where he was to work for the USlS, Julia had an ...