James Beard Award Cookbooks

1.
Love Soup: 160 All-New Vegetarian Recipes
Love Soup: 160 All-New Vegetarian Recipes 4.05 avg rating — 816 ratings
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The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science
The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science 4.31 avg rating — 24,473 ratings
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Good Meat: The Complete Guide to Sourcing and Cooking Sustainable Meat
Good Meat: The Complete Guide to Sourcing and Cooking Sustainable Meat 4.26 avg rating — 188 ratings
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The Blue Chair Jam Cookbook (Volume 1)
The Blue Chair Jam Cookbook (Volume 1) 4.17 avg rating — 518 ratings
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The River Cottage Meat Book
The River Cottage Meat Book 4.35 avg rating — 2,645 ratings
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How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food
How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 101,131 ratings
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The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America's Most Imaginative Chefs
The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America's Most Imaginative Chefs 4.07 avg rating — 23,168 ratings
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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto 4.07 avg rating — 118,650 ratings
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Real Cajun: Rustic Home Cooking from Donald Link's Louisiana: A Cookbook
Real Cajun: Rustic Home Cooking from Donald Link's Louisiana: A Cookbook 4.38 avg rating — 414 ratings
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Baking
Baking 4.25 avg rating — 3,236 ratings
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The Fundamental Techniques of Classic Pastry Arts
The Fundamental Techniques of Classic Pastry Arts 4.40 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Save the Deli: In Search of Perfect Pastrami, Crusty Rye, and the Heart of Jewish Delicatessen
Save the Deli: In Search of Perfect Pastrami, Crusty Rye, and the Heart of Jewish Delicatessen
by: David Sax
3.89 avg rating — 348 ratings
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The Frankies Spuntino Kitchen Companion & Cooking Manual
The Frankies Spuntino Kitchen Companion & Cooking Manual 4.28 avg rating — 297 ratings
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Good to the Grain: Baking with Whole-Grain Flours
Good to the Grain: Baking with Whole-Grain Flours
by: Kim Boyce
4.04 avg rating — 1,493 ratings
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My Sweet Mexico: Recipes for Authentic Pastries, Breads, Candies, Beverages, and Frozen Treats [ABaking Book]
My Sweet Mexico: Recipes for Authentic Pastries, Breads, Candies, Beverages, and Frozen Treats [ABaking Book] 4.26 avg rating — 261 ratings
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The Modern Cafe
The Modern Cafe 4.26 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Noma: Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine
Noma: Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine 4.31 avg rating — 886 ratings
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The Essential New York Times Cookbook: Classic Recipes for a New Century
The Essential New York Times Cookbook: Classic Recipes for a New Century 4.12 avg rating — 5,156 ratings
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Heart of the Artichoke: and Other Kitchen Journeys
Heart of the Artichoke: and Other Kitchen Journeys 3.97 avg rating — 636 ratings
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Stir-Frying to the Sky's Edge: The Ultimate Guide to Mastery, with Authentic Recipes and Stories
Stir-Frying to the Sky's Edge: The Ultimate Guide to Mastery, with Authentic Recipes and Stories 4.29 avg rating — 639 ratings
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Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilization
Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilization 3.82 avg rating — 381 ratings
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Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food
Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food 4.05 avg rating — 6,842 ratings
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Peter Reinhart's Artisan Breads Every Day
Peter Reinhart's Artisan Breads Every Day 4.26 avg rating — 2,572 ratings
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Mastering the Art of Chinese Cooking
Mastering the Art of Chinese Cooking 4.25 avg rating — 369 ratings
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Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, with Recipes
Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, with Recipes 4.18 avg rating — 845 ratings
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Cooking Up a Storm: New Orleans Recipes for Recovery
Cooking Up a Storm: New Orleans Recipes for Recovery 4.44 avg rating — 241 ratings
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The Art & Soul of Baking
The Art & Soul of Baking 4.25 avg rating — 1,897 ratings
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Martha Stewart's Cooking School: Lessons and Recipes for the Home Cook: A Cookbook
Martha Stewart's Cooking School: Lessons and Recipes for the Home Cook: A Cookbook 4.15 avg rating — 3,816 ratings
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Clean Eating Diet: Eat. Nourish. Glow: Amazingly 57 Delicious Recipes to Jump Start Your Weight Loss (Free nutrition recipes)(Natural food recipes)(Special Diet Cookbooks&Vegetarian Recipes)
Clean Eating Diet: Eat. Nourish. Glow: Amazingly 57 Delicious Recipes to Jump Start Your Weight Loss (Free nutrition recipes)(Natural food recipes)(Special Diet Cookbooks&Vegetarian Recipes) 2.82 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Been Doon So Long: A Randall Grahm Vinthology
Been Doon So Long: A Randall Grahm Vinthology 3.78 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Ad Hoc at Home
Ad Hoc at Home 4.23 avg rating — 7,393 ratings
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The Country Cooking of Ireland
The Country Cooking of Ireland 4.05 avg rating — 445 ratings
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Encyclopedia of Pasta (California Studies in Food and Culture, 26)
Encyclopedia of Pasta (California Studies in Food and Culture, 26) 4.17 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Seven Fires: Grilling the Argentine Way
Seven Fires: Grilling the Argentine Way 4.42 avg rating — 491 ratings
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Pasta Sfoglia: From Our Table to Yours, More Than 100 Fresh, Seasonal Pasta Dishes
Pasta Sfoglia: From Our Table to Yours, More Than 100 Fresh, Seasonal Pasta Dishes 3.75 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The New Book of Middle Eastern Food
The New Book of Middle Eastern Food 4.13 avg rating — 3,666 ratings
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The Food, Folklore, and Art of Lowcountry Cooking: A Celebration of the Foods, History, and Romance Handed Down from England, Africa, the Caribbean, France, Germany, and Scotland
The Food, Folklore, and Art of Lowcountry Cooking: A Celebration of the Foods, History, and Romance Handed Down from England, Africa, the Caribbean, France, Germany, and Scotland 3.80 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Pig: King of the Southern Table
Pig: King of the Southern Table 3.85 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Sarabeth's Bakery: From My Hands to Yours
Sarabeth's Bakery: From My Hands to Yours 4.21 avg rating — 275 ratings
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Opus Vino
Opus Vino 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Reading between the Wines
Reading between the Wines 3.91 avg rating — 205 ratings
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Secrets of the Sommeliers: How to Think and Drink Like the World's Top Wine Professionals
Secrets of the Sommeliers: How to Think and Drink Like the World's Top Wine Professionals 4.03 avg rating — 464 ratings
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Bottega: Bold Italian Flavors from the Heart of California's Wine Country
Bottega: Bold Italian Flavors from the Heart of California's Wine Country 3.75 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Radically Simple: Brilliant Flavors with Breathtaking Ease: 325 Inspiring Recipes from Award-Winning Chef Rozanne Gold: A Cookbook
Radically Simple: Brilliant Flavors with Breathtaking Ease: 325 Inspiring Recipes from Award-Winning Chef Rozanne Gold: A Cookbook 4.10 avg rating — 148 ratings
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The Very Best Of Recipes for Health: 250 Recipes and More from the Popular Feature on NYTimes.com: A Cookbook
The Very Best Of Recipes for Health: 250 Recipes and More from the Popular Feature on NYTimes.com: A Cookbook 4.12 avg rating — 120 ratings
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The Simple Art of: 400 Easy Recipes, Tips and Techniques for Delicious, Healthy Meals
The Simple Art of: 400 Easy Recipes, Tips and Techniques for Delicious, Healthy Meals 4.35 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Clean Start: Inspiring You to Eat Clean and Live Well with 100 New Clean Food Recipes
Clean Start: Inspiring You to Eat Clean and Live Well with 100 New Clean Food Recipes 4.02 avg rating — 247 ratings
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Cook Italy: More Than 400 Authentic Recipes and Techniques from Every Region of Italy
Cook Italy: More Than 400 Authentic Recipes and Techniques from Every Region of Italy 4.35 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Oaxaca al Gusto: An Infinite Gastronomy (The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere)
Oaxaca al Gusto: An Infinite Gastronomy (The William and Bettye Nowlin Series in Art, History, and Culture of the Western Hemisphere) 4.44 avg rating — 165 ratings
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Tartine Bread
Tartine Bread 4.39 avg rating — 7,539 ratings
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Encyclopedia of Jewish Food
Encyclopedia of Jewish Food
by: Gil Marks
4.69 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Salted: A Manifesto on the World's Most Essential Mineral, with Recipes [A Cookbook]
Salted: A Manifesto on the World's Most Essential Mineral, with Recipes [A Cookbook] 3.86 avg rating — 380 ratings
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What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets
What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets 4.33 avg rating — 926 ratings
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Ham: An Obsession with the Hindquarter
Ham: An Obsession with the Hindquarter 3.53 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Meat: A Kitchen Education [A Cookbook]
Meat: A Kitchen Education [A Cookbook] 4.36 avg rating — 132 ratings
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Peace Meals: Candy-Wrapped Kalashnikovs and Other War Stories
Peace Meals: Candy-Wrapped Kalashnikovs and Other War Stories 3.92 avg rating — 213 ratings
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My New Orleans: The Cookbook (Volume 1) (John Besh)
My New Orleans: The Cookbook (Volume 1) (John Besh)
by: John Besh
4.20 avg rating — 934 ratings
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The Lee Bros. Simple Fresh Southern: Knockout Dishes with Down-Home Flavor
The Lee Bros. Simple Fresh Southern: Knockout Dishes with Down-Home Flavor
by: Matt Lee
3.89 avg rating — 411 ratings
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Dam Good Sweet: Desserts To Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth, New Orleans Style
Dam Good Sweet: Desserts To Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth, New Orleans Style 3.83 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The King of Vodka: The Story of Pyotr Smirnov and the Upheaval of an Empire
The King of Vodka: The Story of Pyotr Smirnov and the Upheaval of an Empire 3.72 avg rating — 415 ratings
61.
Eyewitness Companions: Whiskey
Eyewitness Companions: Whiskey 3.76 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Araxi: Seasonal Recipes from the Celebrated Whistler Restaurant
Araxi: Seasonal Recipes from the Celebrated Whistler Restaurant 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Momofuku
Momofuku 3.94 avg rating — 13,984 ratings
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Salt to Taste: The Key to Confident, Delicious Cooking
Salt to Taste: The Key to Confident, Delicious Cooking 4.15 avg rating — 67 ratings
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The Pleasures of Cooking for One: A Cookbook
The Pleasures of Cooking for One: A Cookbook 3.99 avg rating — 1,522 ratings
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Comfort Foods Made Healthy: The Classic Makeover Cookbook
Comfort Foods Made Healthy: The Classic Makeover Cookbook 3.74 avg rating — 65 ratings
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EatingWell Comfort Foods Made Healthy: The Classic Makeovers Cookbook
EatingWell Comfort Foods Made Healthy: The Classic Makeovers Cookbook 3.74 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Golden Door Cooks at Home: Favorite Recipes from the Celebrated Spa
Golden Door Cooks at Home: Favorite Recipes from the Celebrated Spa 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy: A Feast of 175 Regional Recipes
Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy: A Feast of 175 Regional Recipes 4.20 avg rating — 487 ratings
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Eat Ate
Eat Ate 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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New American Table
New American Table 3.93 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Weber's Way To Grill: The Step-by-Step Guide to Expert Grilling
Weber's Way To Grill: The Step-by-Step Guide to Expert Grilling 4.42 avg rating — 388 ratings
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Well-Preserved: Recipes and Techniques for Putting Up Small Batches of Seasonal Foods
Well-Preserved: Recipes and Techniques for Putting Up Small Batches of Seasonal Foods 3.84 avg rating — 516 ratings
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The Seasons on Henry's Farm: A Year of Food and Life on a Sustainable Farm
The Seasons on Henry's Farm: A Year of Food and Life on a Sustainable Farm 4.05 avg rating — 554 ratings
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Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal
Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal 3.89 avg rating — 579 ratings
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Arthur Schwartz's Jewish Home Cooking: Yiddish Recipes Revisited [A Cookbook]
Arthur Schwartz's Jewish Home Cooking: Yiddish Recipes Revisited [A Cookbook] 4.18 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Screen Doors and Sweet Tea: Recipes and Tales from a Southern Cook
Screen Doors and Sweet Tea: Recipes and Tales from a Southern Cook 4.02 avg rating — 1,164 ratings
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CookWise: The Hows & Whys of Successful Cooking, The Secrets of Cooking Revealed
CookWise: The Hows & Whys of Successful Cooking, The Secrets of Cooking Revealed 4.06 avg rating — 5,626 ratings
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The Simple Art of Perfect Baking
The Simple Art of Perfect Baking 3.97 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Baking for All Occasions
Baking for All Occasions 3.87 avg rating — 60 ratings
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The Harney & Sons Guide to Tea
The Harney & Sons Guide to Tea 3.99 avg rating — 223 ratings
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The Wines of Burgundy
The Wines of Burgundy 4.30 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Winewise: Or How to Be Streetwise About Wine
Winewise: Or How to Be Streetwise About Wine it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Alinea
Alinea 4.34 avg rating — 1,359 ratings
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The Fat Duck Cookbook
The Fat Duck Cookbook 4.30 avg rating — 1,054 ratings
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The Big Fat Duck Cookbook
The Big Fat Duck Cookbook 4.59 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Under Pressure: Cooking Sous Vide
Under Pressure: Cooking Sous Vide 4.25 avg rating — 739 ratings
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The Bon Appetit Cookbook: Fast Easy Fresh
The Bon Appetit Cookbook: Fast Easy Fresh 3.93 avg rating — 2,665 ratings
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Cooking with the Seasons at Rancho La Puerta: Recipes from the World-Famous Spa
Cooking with the Seasons at Rancho La Puerta: Recipes from the World-Famous Spa 4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The EatingWell for a Healthy Heart Cookbook: 150 Delicious Recipes for Joyful, Heart-Smart Eating (EatingWell Books)
The EatingWell for a Healthy Heart Cookbook: 150 Delicious Recipes for Joyful, Heart-Smart Eating (EatingWell Books) 3.96 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Food You Crave: Luscious Recipes for a Healthy Life
The Food You Crave: Luscious Recipes for a Healthy Life 3.99 avg rating — 6,136 ratings
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Beyond the Great Wall
Beyond the Great Wall 4.25 avg rating — 330 ratings
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Jewish Holiday Cooking: A Food Lover's Treasury of Classics and Improvisations
Jewish Holiday Cooking: A Food Lover's Treasury of Classics and Improvisations 3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Southeast Asian Flavors: Adventures in Cooking the Foods of Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia & Singapore
Southeast Asian Flavors: Adventures in Cooking the Foods of Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia & Singapore 3.86 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Decadent Desserts: Recipes from Chateau Vaux-le-Vicomte
Decadent Desserts: Recipes from Chateau Vaux-le-Vicomte 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Haute Chinese Cuisine from the Kitchen of Wakiya
Haute Chinese Cuisine from the Kitchen of Wakiya 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Milk: The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages
Milk: The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages 3.62 avg rating — 550 ratings
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The Science of Good Food: The Ultimate Reference on How Cooking Works
The Science of Good Food: The Ultimate Reference on How Cooking Works 4.27 avg rating — 120 ratings
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Mediterranean Fresh: A Compendium of One-Plate Salad Meals and Mix-and-Match Dressings
Mediterranean Fresh: A Compendium of One-Plate Salad Meals and Mix-and-Match Dressings 3.85 avg rating — 81 ratings
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The Best Casserole Cookbook Ever
The Best Casserole Cookbook Ever 3.89 avg rating — 463 ratings
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