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The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School

Kathleen Flinn - Viking
Format: Hardcover

In 2003, Kathleen Flinn was a thirty-six-year-old American in London who felt trapped in corporate middle management - until her boss eliminated her job while she was on vacation. Ignoring her mother's advice that she find another job immediately or "never get hired anywhere ever...
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Out of the Frying Pan: A Chef's Memoir of Hot Kitchens, Single Motherhood, and the Family Meal

Gillian Clark - Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

Out of the Frying Pan is an empowering memoir that traces Gillian Clark's rise from a beginner to a top chef. But managing a kitchen also taught her about parenting. With a wealth of experience and wisdom, and a healthy dash of humor, Gillian now shares her life's recipes, from the solutions...
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Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table

Ruth Reichl - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAt an early age, Ruth Reichl discovered that "food could be a way of making sense of the world. . . . If you watched people as they ate, you could find out who they were." Her deliciously crafted memoir, Tender at the Bone, is the story of a life...
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Cooking Dirty: A Story of Life, Sex, Love and Death in the Kitchen

Jason Sheehan - Farrar
Format: Hardcover

THE GRIT AND GLORY OF RESTAURANT LIFE, AS TOLD BY A SURVIVOR OF KITCHENS ACROSS AMERICA Cooking Dirty is a rollicking account of life "on the line" in the restaurants, far from culinary school, cable TV, and the Michelin Guide - where most of us eat out most of the time....
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How to Cook Like a Man: A Memoir of Cookbook Obsession

Daniel Duane - Bloomsbury USA
Format: Print book

When Daniel Duane became a father, this San Francisco surfer and climber found himself trapped at home with no clue how to contribute. Inept at so many domestic tasks, and less than eager to change diapers, he took on dinner duty. Duane had a few tricks: pasta, stir-fry ... well, actually,...
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Yes, Chef: A Memoir

Marcus Samuelsson - Books on Tape
Format: eAudiobook

JAMES BEARD AWARD NOMINEE * NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY VOGUE * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"One of the great culinary stories of our time." - Dwight Garner, The New York Times It begins with a simple ritual: Every Saturday afternoon,...
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Apron Anxiety: My Messy Affairs In and Out of the Kitchen

Alyssa Shelasky - Three Rivers Press
Format: Print book

"Hot sex, looking good, scoring journalistic triumphs . . . nothing made Alyssa love herself enough until she learned to cook. There's a racy plot and a surprising moral in this intimate and delicious book." --Gael Greene, creator of Insatiable-Critic.com and author of Insatiable:...
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Talking with My Mouth Full: My Life as a Professional Eater

Gail Simmons - Hyperion
Format: Print book

When Top Chef judge Gail Simmons first graduated from college, she felt hopelessly lost. All her friends were going to graduate school, business school, law school . . . but what was she going to do? Fortunately, a family friend gave her some invaluable advice-make a list of what you love...
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Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession

Julie Powell - Little
Format: Print book

Julie Powell thought cooking her way through Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking was the craziest thing she'd ever do--until she embarked on the voyage recounted in her new memoir, CLEAVING.Her marriage challenged by an insane, irresistible love affair, Julie decides...
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As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto

Joan Reardon - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Print book

With her outsize personality, Julia Child is known around the world by her first name alone. But despite that familiarity, how much do we really know of the inner Julia?
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Food: A Love Story

Jim Gaffigan - Crown
Format: Book

"What are my qualifications to write this book? None really. So why should you read it? Here's why: I'm a little fat. If a thin guy were to write about a love of food and eating I'd highly recommend that you do not read his book." Bacon. McDonalds. Cinnabon. Hot Pockets. Kale....
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Sous Chef: 24 Hours on the Line

Michael Gibney - Random House Publishing Group
Format: Book

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIMEThe back must slave to feed the belly. . . . In this urgent and unique book, chef Michael Gibney uses twenty-four hours to animate the intricate camaraderie and culinary choreography in an upscale New York restaurant...
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My Life in France

Julia Child - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook

In 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...
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