My Kitchen Year: 136 Recipes That Saved My Life

The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection

From a passionate and talented chef who also happens to be an Episcopalian priest comes this surprising and thought-provoking treatise on everything from prayer to poetry to puff pastry. In The Supper of the Lamb, Capon talks about festal and ferial cooki

Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century (California Studies in Food and Culture, 24)

Perfection Salad presents an entertaining and erudite social history of women and cooking at the turn of the twentieth century. With sly humor and lucid insight, Laura Shapiro uncovers our ancestors widespread obsession with food, and in doing so, tells u

Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table

In this delightful sequel to her bestseller Tender at the Bone, Ruth Reichl returns with more tales of love, life, and marvelous meals. Comfort Me with Apples picks up Reichl's story in 1978, when she puts down her chef's toque and embarks on a career as

The Gourmet Cookbook: More than 1000 recipes

For the past six decades, Gourmet magazine has shaped the tastes of America, publishing the best work of the foremost names in the world of food. To create this landmark cookbook, editor in chief and celebrated authority Ruth Reichl and her staff sifted t

The Unprejudiced Palate: Classic Thoughts on Food and the Good Life

First issued in 1948, when soulless minute steaks and quick casseroles were becoming the norm, The Unprejudiced Palate inspired a seismic culinary shift in how America eats. Written by a food-loving immigrant from Tuscany, this memoir-cum-cookbook articul

Clementine in the Kitchen

Collects French recipes for everyday dishes and gourmet meals prepared by Clementine, a Burgundian cook for the Chamberlain family living first in post-World War II France, then in Massachusetts.

Endless Feasts: Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet

Presents a compilation of food and travel essays from the pages of Gourmet magazine by such authors as M.F.K. Fisher, Ruth Harness, Anita Loos, James Beard, and Madhur Jaffrey.

Remembrance of Things Paris: Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet (Modern Library Food)

A glorious, edible tour of Paris through six decades of writing from Gourmet magazine, edited and introduced by Ruth ReichlFor sixty years the best food writers have been sending dispatches from Paris to Gourmet. Collected here for the first time, their e

Gourmet Today: More than 1000 All-New Recipes for the Contemporary Kitchen

In no other period of our country’s history has the food scene changed so rapidly.  Exciting new ingredients are available everywhere, expanding our culinary horizons. Even casual meals have globe-trotting flavors. We want memorable dishes, and we want