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Summary: "Anne Willan, multi-award-winning culinary historian, cookbook writer, cooking teacher, and founder of La Varenne Cooking School in Paris, explores the lives and work of women cookbook authors whose important books have defined cooking over the past three hundred years. Beginning with the first published cookbook by Hannah Woolley in 1661, up to Alice Waters today, these women, and books,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 641.5092 WILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food WillanSteinberg, Ellen FitzSimmons
Contents: Preserving the heritage -- Leavened breads and cakes -- Traditions and innovations -- Dainty dishes -- Of cooking and medicinal foods.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 394.12 STETwitty, Michael
Summary: "Culinary historian Michael W. Twitty brings a fresh perspective to our most divisive cultural issue, race, in this illuminating memoir of Southern cuisine and food culture that traces his ancestry--both black and white--through food, from Africa to America and from slavery to freedom. Southern food is integral to the American culinary tradition, yet the question of who "owns" it is one of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59 TWIEighmey, Rae Katherine.
Summary: "Abraham Lincoln in the Kitchen is a culinary biography unlike any before. The very assertion of the title--that Abraham Lincoln cooked--is fascinating and true. It's an insight into the everyday life of one of our nation's favorite and most esteemed presidents and a way to experience flavors and textures of the past. Eighmey solves riddles such as what type of barbecue could be served to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5973 EIGBruni, Amy
Summary: "Paranormal investigator and Kindred Spirits host Amy Bruni brings together haunted history with ghoulish gastronomy in this designed, story-infused cookbook of nearly 60 locations across America. Discover the eerie hotels, haunted homes, hellish hospitals, and spine-tingling ghost towns through stories and photos, each with a notable recipe to try."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Celebrate 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.509 BRUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.509 BRUBarr, Luke.
Summary: Presents a dramatic account of the 1970 gathering in Provence where such culinary luminaries as James Beard and Julia Child debated and inadvertently launched the modern food movement in America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5973 BARFriedman, Andrew
Summary: A history of the evolution of the American restaurant chef in the 1970s and 1980s, from the pioneers behind Chez Panisse, Spago, and other landmarks to the young cooks like Mario Batali, Tom Colicchio, and Bobby Flay who went on to become household names. Told through the perspectives not only of the pioneering chefs but also of line cooks, front-of-house personnel, investors, and critics who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 FRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 647.9573 FRIVon Bremzen, Anya.
Summary: Born in a surreal Moscow communal apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen, the author grew up singing odes to Lenin, black-marketeering Juicy Fruit gum at school, and longing for a taste of the mythical West. It was a life by turns absurd, drab, naively joyous, melancholy and, finally, intolerable.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 641.5092 VONBuford, Bill
Summary: "Bill Buford turns his inimitable attention from Italian cuisine to the food of France. Baffled by the language, but convinced that he can master the art of French cooking - or at least get to the bottom of why it is so revered - he begins what becomes afive-year odyssey by shadowing the esteemed French chef, Michel Richard, in Washington, D.C. But when Buford (quickly) realizes that a stage in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 641.5092 BUFNguon, Chantha
Summary: "Chantha Nguon recounts her life as a Cambodia refugee who lost everything and everyone--her house, her country, her parents, her siblings, her friends--everything but the memories of her mother's kitchen, the tastes and aromas of the foods her mother made before the dictator Pol Pot tore her country apart"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Moeller, John.
Summary: This book provides an insiders view of what it is like to dine at the White House and describes Chef Moeller's most memorable moments cooking for three First Families. It includes over 100 recipes for one-of-a-kind dishes featuring his trademark use of fresh, seasonal ingredients inspired by his classical French training with an American twist. Useful chef notes help adapt fine French cooking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Lifestyle Publishing 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 642.5 MOEJaffrey, Madhur
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2006
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Summary: "The James Beard award-winning author of the acclaimed The Cooking Gene explores the cultural crossroads of Jewish and African diaspora cuisine and issues of memory, identity, and food. In Koshersoul, Michael W. Twitty considers the marriage of two of the most distinctive culinary cultures in the world today: the foods and traditions of the African Atlantic and the global Jewish diaspora. To...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: A biography of one of America's greatest presidents, focusing on his use of wit and humor, and his love of language.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Children's Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010