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Spiced Spiced Dalia Jurgensen Spiced is Dalia Jurgensens memoir of leaving her office job and pursuing her dream of becoming a chef. Eventually landing the job of pastry chef for a three-star New York restaurant, she recounts wit… OL13647045W
Spilling the beans Spilling the beans Clarissa Dickson Wright The no-holds-barred autobiography of one of the nation's best-loved cooks, Clarissa Dickson Wright, whose life has led her from wealth and privilege to alcoholism, bankruptcy and eventually fame in '… OL16469763W
Arise Sir Jamie Oliver Arise Sir Jamie Oliver Stafford Hildred Jamie rose from humble pastry chef to television star by catching the eye of producers during a documentary about the River Café, where he was working at the time. His onscreen charisma meant he feat… OL16703215W
My life in France My life in France Julia Child Julia Child singlehandedly created a new approach to American cuisine with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef, but as she reveals in this bestsel… OL1820659W
Climbing the Mango Trees Climbing the Mango Trees Madhur Jaffrey Whether acclaimed food writer Madhur Jaffrey was climbing the mango trees in her grandparents' orchard in Delhi or picnicking in the Himalayan foothills on meatballs stuffed with raisins and mint, tu… OL1927334W
No experience necessary No experience necessary Norman Van Aken Traces more than twenty years in the culinary renegade's professional life, tracing his early stints as an inexperienced short-order cook and the energy, creativity, and faith that enabled his rise t… OL19705219W
Chasing Bocuse Chasing Bocuse Philip Tessier xix, 313 pages : 29 cm OL19730617W
Profiles from the kitchen Profiles from the kitchen Charles Allen Baker-Clark In Profiles from the Kitchen, Charles A. Baker-Clark offers a collection of portraits of well-known culinary figures who have worked in different ways to shape our relationship with food. Despite the… OL19897097W
Life from scratch Life from scratch Sasha Martin "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 … OL19996794W
My organic life My organic life Nora Pouillon "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 t… OL19998736W
Give a girl a knife Give a girl a knife Amy Thielen "A beautifully written memoir that follows one woman from her childhood in a dysfunctional Midwestern family to becoming a chef in New York City and finally her triumphant return home to reclaim and … OL20058400W
Julie and Julia Julie and Julia Julie Powell Pushing 30, living in a rundown apartment and working at a dead-end secretarial job, Julie Powell is, in a word, stuck. In her desperate search for an escape, she comes up instead with a deranged ass… OL21011664W
Cleaving Cleaving Julie Powell Her marriage challenged by an insane, irresistible love affair, Julie decides to leave town and immerse herself in a new obsession: butchery. She finds her way to Fleischer's, a butcher shop where sh… OL21423962W
Alice Waters and Chez Panisse Alice Waters and Chez Panisse Thomas McNamee In an authorized biography-the story of Alice Waters, Chez Panisse, and the San Francisco 1970s counterculture food revolution that invented "American cuisine"Not so long ago it was nearly impossible… OL2627060W
The Making of a Chef The Making of a Chef Michael Ruhlman Just over a decade ago, journalist Michael Ruhlman donned a chef's jacket and houndstooth-check pants to join the students at the Culinary Institute of America, the country's oldest and most influent… OL2701691W
No Reservations No Reservations Anthony Bourdain No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach is a book by Anthony Bourdain and a companion to the television show of the same name. The book serves as a scrap book of the previous three seas… OL3347999W
Heat Heat Bill Buford Writer Buford's memoir of his headlong plunge into the life of a professional cook. Expanding on his award-winning New Yorker article, Buford gives us a chronicle of his experience as "slave" to Mari… OL4124703W
Roasting in Hell's Kitchen Roasting in Hell's Kitchen Gordon Ramsay Everyone thinks they know the real Gordon Ramsay: rude, loud, pathologically driven, stubborn as hell.For the first time, Ramsay tells the full inside story of his life and how he became the world's … OL5771004W
Cleaving Cleaving Julie Powell 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, CLEA… OL5827357W
Trail of Crumbs Trail of Crumbs Kim Sunee Already hailed as "brave, emotional, and gorgeously written" by Frances Mayes and "like a piece of dark chocolate--bittersweet, satisfying, and finished all too soon" by Laura Fraser, author of An It… OL9365007W
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