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The Fearless Baker: Simple Secrets for Baking Like a Pro

ERIN JEANNE MCDOWELL · Rux Martin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover

Top food stylist and Food52's popular baking columnist shares her baking secrets. When people see Erin McDowell frost a perfect layer cake, weave a lattice pie crust, or pull a rich loaf of brioche from the oven, they often act as though she's performed culinary magic. "I'm not a baker,"...
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Smuggler's Cove: Exotic Cocktails, Rum, and the Cult of Tiki

Martin Cate
Format: Print book

Cast aside your cares and worries. Make yourself a Mai Tai, put your favorite exotica record on the hi-fi, and prepare to lose yourself in the fantastical world of tiki, one of the most alluring - and often misunderstood - movements in American cultural history. Martin and
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The Walking Dead: The Official Cookbook and Survival Guide

Lauren Wilson · Insight Editions
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover

Based on the hit AMC television series, this cookbook is packed with life-saving tips and unique recipes inspired by The Walking Dead. The Walking Dead: The Official Cookbook and Survival Guide details the skills and recipes you need to survive (while avoiding being eaten) during a walker...
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Sugar Rush: Master Tips, Techniques, and Recipes for Sweet Baking

Johnny Iuzzini · Clarkson Potter
Format: Hardcover

Sugar Rush is a complete baking course in a book with everything a home baker needs to confidently turn out 150+ sweets with sophisticated flavors.  James Beard–award-winning pastry chef Johnny Iuzzini returns to basics, sharing his expert tips on fundamentals such as making...
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Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste

Bianca Bosker · Penguin Books
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

Professional journalist and amateur drinker Bianca Bosker didn't know much about wine-until she discovered an alternate universe where taste reigns supreme, a world of elite sommeliers who dedicate their lives to the pursuit of flavor. Astounded by their fervor and seemingly superhuman...
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Eat Like You Give a Fork: The Real Dish on Eating to Thrive

Mareya Ibrahim · St. Martin's Griffin
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

"Ibrahim's thoughtful recipes and sense of humor ("Greens are your new friends with bennies") keep this book entertaining and accessible." -- Publishers Weekly"This is a book you can use in your healing journey without any boring meals." -- Daniel...
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New York Cult Recipes

Marc Grossman · Sterling Epicure
Format: Hardcover

Take a bite of the Big Apple! Paris may be the capital of haute cuisine, but expat Marc Grossman craves the comfort food he grew up with in New York and Brooklyn. So he has lovingly recreated those iconic recipes, from blintzes, bialys, and black & white cookies to pork buns, cheeseburgers,...
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Around the World in 120 Salads: Fresh Healthy Delicious

KATIE CALDESI · Kyle Books
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback

Salads are fresh, healthy and delicious - and infinitely adaptable. Katie and Giancarlo show how salads are perfect for any time of day and occasion - Watermelon, Feta & Mint for a refreshing breakfast, meat, fish and vegetable-based mains for a complete meal plus recipes for starters...
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Junior's Home Cooking: Over 100 Recipes for Classic Comfort Food

Alan Rosen · Taunton Press
Format: Book

For more than 60 years, Junior’s Restaurants have been serving their customers scrumptious classic American dishes before they top off their meal with a decadent dessert or a slice of its award-winning cheesecake. In Junior’s Home Cooking, Alan Rosen and Beth Allen bring Junior’s...
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The Ducksoup Cookbook

Clare Lattin · Chronicle Books
Pages: 352
Format: Print book

Sometimes a book comes out of a restaurant kitchen that speaks with such simplicity, wisdom, and surprise, that it inspires home cooks to rethink their approach to cooking. Ducksoup is one of these rare books. More than 130 recipes feature seasonal produce, meats, fishes, and cheeses elevated...
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Ella's Kitchen: The Easy Family Cookbook

ELLA'S KITCHEN. · Hamlyn
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover

Ella's Kitchen: The Easy Family Cook Book is packed with more than 100 mouthwatering recipes from Ella's Kitchen, the organic baby and toddler food brand. In chapters organized by mealtime, each recipe has been carefully developed to ensure that it's perfectly balanced and lip-smackingly...
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Baked Occasions: Desserts for Leisure Activities, Holidays, and Informal Celebrations

Matt Lewis · Stewart, Tabori and Chang
Format: Hardcover

Celebrating a year in desserts, BAKED's beloved duo Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito offer cookies, puddings, whoopie pies, cakes, brownies, and more to commemorate holidays both expected and unexpected. Rum-infused Hair of the Dog Cake for New Year's Day and Peanut Butter Sheet...
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Essential oyster : a salty appreciation of taste and temptation

Rowan Jacobsen · Bloomsbury
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

A decade ago, Rowan Jacobsen wrote a book called "A Geography of Oysters" that celebrated the romance of oysters, the primal rush of slurping a raw denizen of the sea, and the mysteries of molluscan terroir. The book struck a chord, and American oyster culture has been on a gravity-defying...
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Bien Cuit: The Art of Bread

Zachary Golper · Regan Arts, 2015.
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

One of the world's most celebrated bakers shares his insider's secrets to making his delicious, artisanal bread that will have home bakers creating professional-quality products in no time - and inexpensively.Bien Cuit introduces a new approach to a proudly old-fashioned way of baking bread....
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Why You Eat What You Eat: The Science Behind Our Relationship with Food

RACHEL HERZ · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

An eye-opening exploration of the psychology of eating in today's unprecedented North American pantry of abundance, access, and excess.In Why You Eat What You Eat, acclaimed neuroscientist Rachel Herz examines the sensory, psychological, neuroscientific, and physiological factors that influence...
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