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Highly Recommended

Food Rules, An Eater's Manual • Michael Pollan FOOD • 2011 • HARD COVER • 192 PAGES Pollan wittily doles out practical guidelines for how to shop and what to eat, wisely cautioning, for example, not to eat anything with an ingredient that a third grader cannot pronounce. (GEN961, $23.95)
Tartine Bread • Chad Robertson FOOD • 2010 • HARD COVER • 304 PAGES A lushly illustrated step-by-step guide to bread baking by the co-owner of San Francisco's famed Tartine Bakery. Robertson, one of the best bread bakers in America, excitedly shares his learning experiences from France to the Berkshires to Northern California, alongside essential tips, insights and additional recipes for using up every delicious morsel, including a Catalan-inspired Escalivada (bread salad), Banh-mi (Vietnamese sandwiches), a variety of bruschettas and delicious homemade aioli. (GEN986, $40.00)
Radically Simple, Brilliant Flavors With Breathtaking Ease • Rozanne Gold FOOD • 2010 • HARD COVER • 340 PAGES Gold's recipes create maximum impact by amplifying flavors, and, occasionally, by leaving well enough alone. You'll be floored that global dishes like Chicken Ras-el-Hanout with Tomato Chutney can be whipped up in less than 15 minutes and that Crispy Salmon with Pancetta and Sage requires only five ingredients. (GEN980, $35.00)
Beyond the Great Wall • Jeffrey Alford • Naomi Duguid FOOD • 2008 • HARD COVER • 376 PAGES The globe-trotting duo weaves their own tales of travel with contemporary politics, commentary, carefully documented recipes and stunning photographs for this sumptuous overview of the food and culture of Inner Mongolia, Tibet, Yunnan and other far-off regions of ethnically diverse China. (CHN475, $40.00)
Mourad, New Moroccan • Mourad Lahlou FOOD • 2011 • MAP • 400 PAGES What Mourad Lahlou has developed over the last decade and a half at his Michelin-starred San Francisco restaurant is nothing less than a new, modern Moroccan cuisine, inspired by memories, steeped in colorful stories, and informed by the tireless exploration of his curious mind. His book is anything but a dutifully "authentic" documentation of Moroccan home cooking. Yes, the great classics are all here -- the basteeya, the couscous, the preserved lemons, and much more. But Mourad adapts them in stunningly creative ways that take a Moroccan idea to a whole new place. The 100-plus recipes, lavishly illustrated with food and location photography, and terrifically engaging text offer a rare blend of heat, heart, and palate. (MRC126, $40.00)
The Art of Eating • M. F. K. Fisher FOOD • 2004 • PAPER • 749 PAGES A 50th anniversary edition of Fisher's influential memoir on the pleasures of food (and family and travel and life). It includes Serve it Forth, Consider the Oyster, How to Cook a Wolf, The Gastronomical Me, and An Alphabet for Gourmets. It's all pure pleasure: the prose, the settings and, not incidentally, the food. (TVL91, $24.95)

Also Recommended

The Atlas of Food • Erik Millstone • REFERENCE • It's all here in this slim reference: who eats what, where -- and why, all the trends and statistics artfully explained in clear color maps. (WLD147, $21.95)
The Food Lover's Guide to Florence, With Culinary Excursions in Tuscany • Emily Wise Miller • GUIDEBOOK • Miller polled neighbors, friends, cooks and ordinary folk for this delectable guide to 125 eateries, organized by neighborhood. (ITL841, $14.99)
A History of the World In 6 Glasses • Tom Standage • FOOD • A highly enjoyable chronicle of the prestige, power, politics and pleasures of key beverages through the ages. Standage argues that the drinks that have mattered, since the Stone Age, are, in chronological order: beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and cola. Each chapter is a vivid history of politics, prestige, colonialism, commerce and society. (GEN333, $15.95)
An Edible History of Humanity • Tom Standage • FOOD • Standage's (A History of the World in 6 Glasses) history of food and its powerful influence on civilization doubles as an entertaining crash course in ancient and modern history. (GEN486, $16.00)
Arabesque, A Taste of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon • Claudia Roden • FOOD • With 100 color photos of food, people and places, this enchanting cookbook by a leading authority is filled with not just subtle, simple recipes but also stories, culture and history. (MED99, $37.50)
Biba's Italy • Biba Caggiano • FOOD • Caggiano focuses on regional, seasonal food in this omnibus cookbook (featuring 100 recipes), menu planner and travel guide to Rome, Florence, Bologna, Milan and Venice. Nicely produced, this handsome sepia-toned book includes recommended restaurants, cafes and markets in each city. (ITL777, $29.95)
Bringing It to the Table, on Farming and Food • Wendell Berry • FOOD • Michael Pollen introduces this marvelous anthology of Berry's through-provoking essays, stories and writing about food over the last 30 years. (USA405, $14.95)
Brunetti's Cookbook • Tatjana Hauptmann • Donna Leon • Roberta Pianaro • FOOD • Donna Leon and her good friend Roberta Pianaro ate their way through the 90 recipes in this savory companion to Leon's splendid Commissario Guido Brunetti novel. With excerpts from the novels and original essays on food and life in Venice by Donna Leon. (ITA133, $24.95)
Chez Panisse Vegetables • Alice Waters • FOOD • Alongside gorgeous woodcuts and deceptively simple, world-famous recipes, Waters explains how to cook, buy and prepare specific vegetables in this still-fresh take on seasonal cooking. (GEN987, $36.99)
Choice Cuts, A Savory Selection of Food Writing from around the World and throughout History • Mark Kurlansky • FOOD • A witty collection, organized thematically, with a rich selection of writing by the likes of Liebling, MFK Fisher, Escoffier and Alice B. Toklas. (GEN253, $17.00)
Classical Turkish Cooking • Ayla Esen Algar • FOOD • Algar's enchanting cookbook includes easy-to-follow Turkish recipes and delightful vignettes about their traditional origins. Everything we've made has been fantastic! (TKY255, $19.99)
Communion, A Culinary Journey Through Vietnam • Kim Fay • FOOD • Fay recounts in savory detail a five-week journey with two friends from Hanoi to Saigon in search of the traditions, rituals and pleasures of food from local markets and street foods to haute cuisine. (VNM147, $19.95)
Consider the Oyster • M. F. K. Fisher • FOOD • The inestimable Fisher's ruminations on the oyster, a delightful essay full of recipes and bits of trivia. (GEN273, $12.00)
Curry, A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors • Lizzie Collingham • FOOD • This cultural history with recipes is appetizingly organized as a menu (biryani, vindaloo, chai, etc.). Curry explores the origins and spread of Indian food and the interplay between Muslim, Hindu, Portuguese and British traditions on the Subcontinent. (IDA319, $16.95)
Everyday Drinking, The Distilled Kingsley Amis • Kingsley Amis • FOOD • Christopher Hitchens provides the introduction to this new edition of Amis Kingley's bilious tales and tips, recipes and ruminations on the convivial consumption of booze, originaly published as On Drink (1972), Everyday Drinking (1983) and How's Your Glass? (1984). (GBR924, $10.00)
Food, The History of Taste • Paul Freedman • FOOD • Editor Paul Freedman and diverse scholars celebrate the history and pleasure of food in this richly illustrated gastronomic study, illuminating gustatory pleasures and evolving culinary traditions from classical antiquity to modern restaurant dining. (GEN395, $39.95)
Hungry Planet, What the World Eats • Peter Menzel • Faith D'Aluisio • FOOD • Bhutan, Bosnia, China, Chad, Egypt, Greenland the Philippines and the United States, this mind-expanding book documents families around the world -- and what they eat, each photographed with a week's worth of food. With facts about each country, recipes (seal stew anyone?). Maps and a few paragraphs on each family, it's a terrific introduction to world geography. (WLD65, $40.00)
La Cuisine, Everyday French Home Cooking • Jane Sigal • Francoise Bernard • FOOD • An inviting new cookbook for preparing easy, everyday French recipes from Frencoise Bernard, grande dame of France's popular cuisine, whose 1963 classic, My Easy Recipes, is still considered a culinary cornerstone. (FRN923, $45.00)
Larousse Gastronomique • Librarie Larousse • FOOD • Larousse calls it The World's Greatest Culinary Encyclopedia -- and they are probably right. The first new edition since 1988, thoroughly revised and updated, with new biographies of Alice Water and Ferran Adria, for example, this fully illustrated reference covers classic and modern cooking techniques, chefs, the world's greatest restaurants and just about everything else in the world of food and cooking. It's the companion book to the recipe collection. (FRN839, $90.00)
Made in Spain, Spanish Dishes for the American Kitchen • Jose Andres • FOOD • Andres takes in the great diversity of Spain, its culinary traditions, regional specialties and modern innovations in this cookbook and culinary tour, featuring dozens of superbly illustrated recipes. Each section is introduced with an excerpt's from the roving chef's journals. (SPN366, $35.00)
Mangoes & Curry Leaves, Culinary Travels Through the Great Subcontinent • Jeffrey Alford • Naomi Duguid • FOOD • In this latest book the roving, food-loving authors (Hot Sour Salty Sweet) travel the seven countries of the Indian Subcontinent: Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and the Maldives, collecting not only 200 recipes but also engaging tales of the people, history and adventures. With color photographs of food and places throughout. (IDA320, $45.00)
My Vietnam, Stories and Recipes • Luke Nguyen • FOOD • Cooking Channel host Luke Nguyen celebrates Vietnam, its culture and cuisine in this oversized, sumptuously illustrated tribute, traveling from north to south, visiting friends, family and local cooks. With 100 recipes. (VNM148, $40.00)
Not for Bread Alone: Writers on Food, Wine and the Art of Eating • Dan Halpern • FOOD • Twenty-two terrific writers celebrate the pleasures of food in this zesty anthology, opening with a sparkling essay by Dame Rose Macaulay and including savory contributions by Wendell Berry, Joyce Carol Oates and more. (GEN542, $13.99)
Oaxaca al Gusto • Diana Kennedy • FOOD • Diana Kennedy celebrates the diversity of the food, life and culture of Oaxaca in 300 exhaustively researched, authentic recipes. (MEX283, $60.00)
Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink • David Remnick • FOOD • This dectable compilation of entertaining, substantial essays, fiction, and cartoons on the pleasures of food and drink from the pages of The New Yorker over the last 80 years, includes contributions by Calvin Trillin, Joan Didion, Anthony Bourdain, John Cheever and Roald Dahl, among others. (GEN453, $18.00)
Spice, The History of a Temptation • Jack Turner • FOOD • Turner wonderfully evokes the romance, lust and mystery of pepper, nutmeg, mace, cinnamon, cloves and ginger in this lively cultural history of spice. (GEN334, $17.00)
The Accidental Connoisseur, An Irreverent Journey Through the Wine World • Lawrence Osborne • FOOD • With a winning wit and not a drop of pretense, Osborne sets out to discover what's what with wine, traveling through Sonoma and Napa, France, Italy and other European wine meccas, 11 adventures in all. He meets plenty of interesting characters along the way, revealing much about the pleasures of wine (and travel!). (TVL31, $15.00)
The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book • Alice B. Toklas • FOOD • With tales of dinners with Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Picasso and other literati in her Paris salon, Toklas includes not just traditional French fare but also her famous recipe for hashish fudge in this classic memoir. (FRN927, $14.99)
The Best Recipes in the World • Mark Bittman • FOOD • A how-to culinary tour of over 40 countries, from the exotic (the Balkans) to the expected (France, Italy). It gives full weight to Asian cuisines as well. With over 1,000 recipes, many of which can be prepared in under 30 minutes. (GEN116, $32.50)
The Food of a Younger Land, A Portrait of American Food • Mark Kurlansky • FOOD • Kurlansky turned to the WPA files at the Library of Congress for this richly detailed portrait of Depression Era America, a never-completed chronicle of food and food traditions by writers of the day including Eudora Welty, Zora Neale Hurston and Nelson Algren. (USA404, $16.00)
The Gastronomica Reader • Darra Goldstein • FOOD • A rich sampling from the quarterly feast of truly exceptional writing on food, these illustrated articles explore a dizzying array of cultures around the globe and through history. (REF31, $39.95)
The Measure of Her Powers, An M.F.K. Fisher Reader • M. F. K. Fisher • FOOD • A fat, judicious selection of M.F.K. Fisher's writings, which spanned a lifetime and chronicled adventures (culinary and otherwise) in France, Switzerland and Italy, on shipboard and in her native California. (CUL01, $21.95)
The Oxford Companion to Food • Tom Jaine • Alan Davidson • FOOD • Well worth browsing, this refreshingly opinionated, quirky book is also a pleasure to read. Organized A-Z (and much of it written by Davidson himself) the book covers everything: ingredients and foodstuffs, national cuisines, famous chefs and food writers. (REF07, $65.00)
The Spanish Table, Traditional Recipes and Wine Pairings from Spain and Portugal • Steve Winston • FOOD • Full of traditional recipes and wine pairings as well as helpful tips for using paella pans, cazuelas, cataplanas, ollas and other cookware unique to the region. (SPN415, $30.00)
The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food • Adam Gopnik • FOOD • Gopnik (Paris to the Moon) opens this witty cultural history of food in 18th-century France, birthplace of modern taste and of the restaurant, tracing our current preoccupation with gastronomy with humor and learning. (FRN968, $26.95)
The True History of Chocolate • Sophie D. Coe • Michael Coe • FOOD • This scholarly history of pre-Columbian chocolate by these married archaeologists reveals chocolate's origins as a ceremonial beverage in ancient Olmec and Maya society. The Coes trace the treat's evolution from a food of the gods to the salons of Europe down through the masses to Hershey Pennsylvania. (CAM57, $21.95)
The World Atlas of Wine • Hugh Johnson • Jancis Robinson • FOOD • Not just an authoritative guide, this stunning world atlas includes hundreds of photographs and illuminating local and regional maps. (GEN244, $50.00)
Vino Argentino, An Insider's Guide to the Wines and Wine Country of Argentina • Laura Catena • FOOD • This detailed, lushly illustrated guidebook to Argentina's wine region includes recipes, travel information, historical anecdotes, photographs, conversations with winemakers and a useful wine glossary. (ARG117, $27.50)
What I Eat, Around the World in 80 Diets • Peter Menzel • Faith D'Aluisio • FOOD • Soldier, sumo wrestler, world-famous chef, a refugee, model and monk are all included in Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio's latest venture, a portrait of 80 people from around the world, each surrounded by what they eat in a day. (WLD197, $40.00)
Why Italians Love to Talk About Food • Elena Kostioukovitch • FOOD • This charming, informative journey through Italy's great regional cuisine, from the Alps to Sicily, includes color photos, menus and glossaries. Umberto Eco's Russian translator, Kostioukovitch explores the food of her adopted homeland as a way to understand the different tastes, dialects and attitudes of each region. (ITA110, $18.00)
With Bold Knife and Fork • M. F. K. Fisher • FOOD • This collection of memoirs from the prolific and beloved food writer M.F.K. Fisher includes recipes for over 140 dishes described with warmth and wit. (GEN553, $17.95)
Material World • Paul Kennedy • Charles C. Mann • Peter Menzel • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • An inspired idea, this book documents 30 families around the world with all their possessions artfully arrayed around them. (GEN02, $25.00)
Potato, A History of the Propitious Esculent • John Reader • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • The history, natrure, economics and role of the world's fourth largest food crop, as revealed by the Reader (Africa, Biography of a Continent). (SAM139, $18.00)
The Spice Route, A History • John Keay • HISTORY • John Keay draws on ancient logs, traveler's accounts and maps for this rousing history of trade in cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, pepper, gums, resins and other costly goods from antiquity to the 17th century. (ASA52, $24.95)
The Taste of Conquest, The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice • Michael Krondl • HISTORY • Weaving travel and history, Michael Krondl a world where pepper, cinnamon and cloves were as valuable as gold -- and Venice, Lison and Amsterdam jockeyed for global control. (EUR279, $16.00)
What the World Eats • Peter Menzel • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • FAMILY • A witty introduction to global diversity, economics and food, Faith D' Aluisio and Peter Menzel (Material World) show 25 families around the world, each revealingly photographed surrounded by week's worth of provisions. A terrific introduction for kids to global issues, the book dishes up facts about each country, recipes, maps, interviews and tales with the photos. (GEN478, $22.99)
Between Meals, An Appetite for Paris • A.J. Liebling • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • FAVORITE • Liebling captures with stylish prose his coming-of-age in Paris in this elegant memoir, which is also a tribute to French cuisine. (FRN32, $15.00)
Climbing the Mango Trees, A Memoir of a Childhood in India • Madhur Jaffrey • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • An actress and food writer, Jaffrey combines her warm tale of coming-of-age in a sprawling homestead in Old Delhi with 32 recipes. (IDA327, $15.00)
My Life in France • Julia Child • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Child's characteristically ebullient record of Paris and Provence, her many friends, family and memorable meals, in the years after WWII, turned into a movie starring Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci (as husband Paul). (FRN596, $16.00)
Turquoise, A Chef's Travels in Turkey • Greg and Lucy Malouf • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • This sumptuous book combines travel, recipes and stunning color photographs of landscapes, people, food and traditions. (TKY192, $50.00)
Untangling My Chopsticks, A Culinary Sojourn in Kyoto • Victoria Abbott Riccardi • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • In this beguiling memoir, Riccardi writes with verve of cultural encounters, bewilderment and discovery in Kyoto. If you've ever parted the drapes of a Japanese restaurant to face a room full of people and blank stares, you'll really appreciate the book. With 25 recipes for traditional and less traditional Japanese dishes. (JPN135, $19.00)
The Joy of Eating, The Virago Book of Food • Jill Foulston • ANTHOLOGY • From painter Frida Kahlo's wedding feast to Anne Frank's observations of eating while in hiding and memorable meals with Sylvia Plath, J.K. Rowling, Jhumpa Lahiri and Emily Bronte, this anthology features some of the finest writing by women on food. (GEN547, $15.95)
The Unsettling of America • Wendell Berry • LITERATURE • This classic of American letters, a clarion call for local food, locally produced, rings as true as when it was first published in 1977. (USA151, $13.95)
Boozehound, On the Trail of the Rare, the Obscure, and the Overrated in Spirits • Jason Wilson • FIELD GUIDE • Mixing travel and history, Wilson drinks his way across the Americas and Europe in search of authentic libations. Fifty recipes included. (WLD215, $22.99)
The Essential Cuisines of Mexico • Diana Kennedy • FIELD GUIDE • The thoroughly revised edition of Kennedy's influential and savory survey of the authentic food of Mexico, with 30 new recipes. (MEX266, $20.00)

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