Lynch, Barbara
Summary: Blood, Bones, & Butter meets A Devil in the Kitchen in this funny, fierce, and poignant memoir by world-renowned chef, restaurateur, and Top Chef judge Barbara Lynch, recounting her rise from a hard-knocks South Boston childhood to culinary stardom.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 LYNHorowitz, Helen Lefkowitz
Summary: Filled with vivid correspondence, fascinating characters, and iconic joie de vivre, this behind-the-scenes look at the supporting team of The French Chef is essential for anyone who adores Julia Child and her legacy.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 641.5092 HORSummary: Blending food, family and fun, the amazing variety of tastes and traditions found across the U.S. are celebrated through competition, while revealing the roots of America's diverse cuisine through family recipes and the personal stories behind them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GRESmith, Emma Bland
Summary: "When Fannie Farmer learned to cook in the late 1800s, recipes could be pretty silly. They might call for "a goodly amount of salt" or "a lump of butter" or "a suspicion of nutmeg." Girls were supposed to use their "feminine instincts" in the kitchen (or maybe just guess). Despite this problem, Fannie loved cooking, so when polio prevented her from going to college, she became a teacher at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FARDruckman, Charlotte.
Summary: Explores the lives of women chefs, discussing how they promote themselves and grow their businesses via television and social media, balancing eighteen-hour days and personal lives, and sexism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 DRUPouillon, Nora
Summary: "A wonderfully engaging memoir from the woman who founded Restaurant Nora, America's first certified organic restaurant--the natural foods pioneer who, earlier than anyone else, made it her mission to bring organic foods to the American table. The current proliferation of organic food and farm-to-table cuisine owes its existence to this mostly unheralded, groundbreaking woman who changed the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 POUILLON, NORA POUAli, Fatima
Summary: "An aspiring young chef explores food and adventure, illness and mortality, coming of age and coming out in an inspiring memoir and family story that sweeps from Pakistan to New York City and beyond. Fatima Ali won the hearts of viewers as the season fifteen "Fan Favorite" of Bravo's Top Chef. After the taping wrapped and before the shows aired, Fati was diagnosed with a rare form of bone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALIPrud'homme, Alex
Summary: "Julia Child is synonymous with French cooking, but her legacy runs much deeper. Now, her great-nephew and My Life in France coauthor vividly recounts the myriad ways in which she profoundly shaped how we eat today. He shows us Child in the aftermath of the publication of Mastering the Art of French Cooking, suddenly finding herself America's first lady of French food and under considerable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHILD, JULIA PRUGrant, Phyllis
Summary: "A memoir of coming of age and cooking, with recipes"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 GRASummary: The film brings to life the legendary cookbook author and television superstar who changed the way Americans think about food, television, and even about women. Using never-before-seen archival footage, personal photos, first-person narratives, and cutting-edge, mouth-watering food cinematography, the film traces Julia Child's twelve year struggle to create and publish the revolutionary...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC JULOnwuachi, Kwame
Summary: "A cookbook celebrating the food of the African diaspora, from Nigeria and Ethiopia to the Bronx, the Caribbean, and the American South, from the James Beard Award-winning author of Notes from a Young Black Chef"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59296 ONWSummary: Experience a century of food through the life of James Beard, who spoke of the importance of localism and sustainability long before those terms had entered the vernacular. A cookbook author, journalist, television celebrity and teacher, Beard helped to pioneer and expand the food media industry.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JAMMelian, Gaby
Summary: "Chef and activist Gaby Melian shares her personal journey with food--from growing up in Argentina to her time as a street vendor and later as Bon Appetit's test kitchen manager. Melian explores how we can develop a relationship with food that's personal, healthy, and thoughtful"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 MELRegan, Iliana
Summary: "From National Book Award-nominee Iliana Regan, a new memoir of her life and heritage as a forager, spanning her ancestry in Eastern Europe, her childhood in rural Indiana, and her new life set in the remote forests of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Fieldwork explores how Regan's complex gender identity informs her acclaimed work as a chef and her profound experience of the natural world." -...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Agate Midway 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 REGCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 REGBirdsall, John
Summary: "The definitive biography of America's best-known and least understood food personality, and the modern culinary landscape he shaped. After World War II, a newly affluent United States reached for its own gourmet culture, one at ease with the French international style of Escoffier, but also distinctly American. Enter James Beard, authority on cooking and eating, his larger-than-life presence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 BIRCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B BEARD BIRMartin, Sasha
Summary: "It was a culinary journey like no other: Over the course of 195 weeks, food writer and blogger Sasha Martin set out to cook--and eat--a meal from every country in the world. As cooking unlocked the memories of her rough-and-tumble childhood and the loss and heartbreak that came with it, Martin became more determined than ever to find peace and elevate her life through the prism of food and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARTIN, SASHA MARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B MARTIN MARBastianich, Lidia
Summary: The host of "Lidia's Kitchen" shares a memoir that traces her impoverished but loving upbringing under Tito's communist regime in Yugoslavia, her years as a refugee while trying to enter the United States, and her early start as a restaurant worker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 BASTCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food BastianichPrud'homme, Alex
Summary: "In Paris, Julia devoured recipe books, shopped in outdoor markets, consumed all kinds of foods, and whipped through culinary school. And although she wasn't always successful in the kitchen, she was determined to "master the art" of French cooking. Through perseverance and grit, Julia became a chef who shared her passion with the world, making cooking fun, and turning every meal into a special...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB CHILD PRUSummary: Blending food, family, and fun, an amazing variety of tastes and traditions are found across the US while capturing the roots of America's diverse cuisine, and chefs from all over are competing to make their signature dish known as the Great American recipe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GRELeerhsen, Charles
Summary: Bourdain had an irresistible personality, a dream job, a beautiful family, and international fame. His death by suicide in June 2018 shocked people around the world. Based on extensive interviews with those who knew him intimately, Leerhsen tells how the late celebrity chef and TV star battled with childhood trauma and addiction. His obsessions with perfection and personal integrity ruined his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BOURDAIN, ANTHONY LEEDeRuiter, Geraldine
Summary: "From the James Beard Award-winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays on how food and cooking stoke the flames of her feminism. When celebrity chef Mario Batali sent out an apology letter for the sexual harassment allegations made against him, he had the gall to include a recipe-for cinnamon rolls, of all things. When Geraldine DeRuiter decided to make the recipe,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 DERCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food DeRuiterKnisley, Lucy.
Summary: "Lucy 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. Each chapter is bookended with an illustrated recipe-- many of them treasured...
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2013
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Summary: "This picture book biography recounts the extraordinary life of Augustus Jackson, an African American entrepreneur who is known as the 'Father of Ice Cream.'"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale Kids, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JACWoolever, Laurie
Summary: When Anthony Bourdain died in June 2018, fans around the globe came together to celebrate the life of an inimitable man who had dedicated his life to traveling nearly everywhere (and eating nearly everything), shedding light on the lives and stories of others. His impact was outsized and his legacy has only grown since his death. Now, for the first time, people have been granted a look into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021