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Stuffed  by Patricia Volk
A eulogy to food, family and a city. Patricia Volk's family have been in the restaurant business for three generations. At Morgen's, the famous restaurant which her father ran, she was the princess. In Stuffed, Patricia Volk evokes everyday life in a New York Jewish family and what it was like to grow up around an old-fashioned family restaurant. As much about families as it is about food, here are stories of eccentric uncles, grandparents and aunts like Aunt Ruthie who gave the burglar breaking into her apartment a meal and a lecture. There are tales of ancestors who were the first to bring pastrami to the New World and stir scallions in cream cheese. Highly entertaining, this is a charming recreation of a lost era.

Paperback,  256 pp,  $23.95. Buy now

The Harry's Bar Cookbook  by Arrigo Cipriani
A collection of recipes from Venetian restaurant, Harry's Bar. It replicates the recipes that have made Harry's Bar famous, along with colour photographs and anecdotes from the bar's owner, Arrigo Cipriani. There are recipes for making the bar's cocktails.

Paperback,   $45.00. Buy now

La Bonne Table  by Ludwig Bemelmans
Bemelmans evokes the great hotels of Europe and America in memories and sketches. The opulent dishes, the eccentric chefs, the legendary occasions and the personalities of an era are portrayed in droll and piquant style.

Paperback,  446 pp,  $25.95. Buy now

A Cook's Tour  by Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain, lifelong line cook and bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential sets off to eat his way around the world. In Saigon, he eats the still-beating heart of a live cobra (washed down with its blood), and then in Cambodia he travels deep into landmined Khmer Rouge territory to find the rumoured Wild West of Cambodia (Pailin). Other stops include dining with gangsters in Russia, a medieval pig slaughter in Portugal, the Basque All Male Gastronomique Society in St Sebastian, paladars in Cuba, rural Mexico, a pilgrimage to the French Laundry in the Napa Valley and a return to his roots in the tiny fishing village of La Teste, where he ate his first oyster as a child. This is an adventure story sure to give you indigestion.

Paperback,  288 pp,  $24.95. Buy now

A Cook's Tour  by Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain sets off to eat his way around the world. On his travels, he eats the heart of a live cobra in Saigon, dines with Russian gangsters, attends a medieval pig slaughter, and returns to his roots in the tiny fishing village of La Teste.

Audio cassette ,   $24.95. Buy now

On Rue Tatin  by Susan Loomis
Susan Loomis arrived in Paris 20 years ago with little more than the contents of her suitcase. Her study at La Varenne Ecole de Cuisine evolved into a lifelong immersion in French cuisine. On Rue Tatin chronicles her journey to this ancient street in the midst of Louviers, and how she came to call it home. With wry candour, Loomis recalls how she and her husband restored a dilapidated convent for their new residence. As its ocher and azure floor tiles emerged, challenges outside the dwelling mounted. Loomis tackled these with persistent dialogue - and baking. On Rue Tatin features 50 delicious recipes, such as Apple and Thyme Tart, Duck Breast with Cider. Winner, Literary Award International Association of Culinary Professionals 2002.

Paperback,  288 pp,  $24.95. Buy now

Stuffed  by Patricia Volk
A eulogy to food, family and a city. Patricia Volk's family have been in the restaurant business for three generations. At Morgen's, the famous restaurant which her father ran, she was the princess. In Stuffed, Patricia Volk evokes everyday life in a New York Jewish family and what it was like to grow up around an old-fashioned family restaurant. As much about families as it is about food, here are stories of eccentric uncles, grandparents and aunts like Aunt Ruthie who gave the burglar breaking into her apartment a meal and a lecture. There are tales of ancestors who were the first to bring pastrami to the New World and stir scallions in cream cheese. Highly entertaining, this is a charming recreation of a lost era.

Hardback,  256 pp,  $35.00. Buy now

Carluccio's Complete Italian Food  by Antonio Carluccio
Antonio Carluccio is one of Italian foods greatest ambassadors, believing that Italy produces the finest produce and the richest cuisine in the world. This work distils a lifetime's knowledge and experience into one definitive book.

Paperback,  320 pp,  $34.95. Buy now

As the Romans Do  by Alan Epstein
This vibrant insider's view of the most mature city on earth is the perfect companion for anyone who loves anything Italian. In 1995, after a twenty-year love affair with Italy, Alan Epstein fulfilled his dream to live in Rome. In As the Romans Do, he celebrates the spirit of this stylish, dramatic, ancient city that formed the hub of a far-flung empire and introduced the Mediterranean culture to the rest of the world. He shows today's Roman men and women in all their appealing contradictions: their gregarious caffe culture; inborn artistic flair; passionate appreciation of good food; instinctive mistrust of technology; showy sex appeal; ingrained charm and expressiveness; unusual attitudes toward marriage and religion; and much more.

Paperback,   $18.95. Buy now

Kitchen Confidential  by Anthony Bourdain
After twenty-five years of 'sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine', chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain has decided to tell all. From his first oyster in the Gironde to his lowly position as a dishwasher in a honky-tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown (where he first experiences the real delights of being a chef); through the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop the Rockefeller Center to drug dealers in the East Village, to Tokyo to Paris and back to New York again, Bourdain's tales of the kitchen are as passionate as they are unpredictable, as shocking as they are funny. This unforgettable book will change the way you view restaurants for ever.

Paperback,  320 pp,  $24.95. Buy now

Encore Provence  by Peter Mayle
Peter Mayle is back in Provence. This new book completes his trilogy on the delights and curiosities of Provencal life, as he rediscovers the local customs and cuisine and finds them as enchanting as ever.There are, of course, some gastronomic treats to be had on the way, including a feast at a converted petrol station and a rendezvous with the famous Marseillaise bouillabaisse. But when lunch is over there are still more moments to relish: learning the secrets of perfume-blending at a school for 'noses', the story of a crime passionnel perpetrated by a jealous husband on an oversexed, cycling-short wearing butcher, and the simple pleasure of finding the best way to idle away a lazy summer afternoon.

Paperback,  256 pp,  $22.95. Buy now

Fanny at Chez Panisse  by Alice Waters
Seven-year-old Fanny describes her adventures with food and cooking at her mother's restaurant in Berkeley, California. Includes forty-two recipes.

Paperback,  133 pp,  $27.95. Buy now

Spoonbread and Strawberry Wine  by Norma Jean Darden, Carole Darden
After travelling across the USA interviewing scores of relatives, two sisters share a collection of recipes for favorite family dishes, herbal concoctions, and natural beauty aids.

Paperback,  352 pp,  $27.95. Buy now

Justin Wilson Looking Back: A Cajun Cookbook  by Justin Wilson
Following more than two decades of producing cookbooks, Justin Wilson has decided that it's time to take a look back. In this book, the culinary trendsetter collects some of his favorite recipes from previous cookbooks and offers commentaries and remembrances that complement them with prosaic style. Photos

,  272 pp,  $34.95. Buy now

The Folk Art of Japanese Country Cooking  by Gaku Homma
Presents recipes for making traditional Japanese foods, and includes folk traditions and the author's memories of growing up in Japan

Paperback,  276 pp,  $45.00. Buy now

Humble Pie  by Gordon Ramsay
Everyone thinks they know the real Gordon Ramsay: rude, loud, stubborn as hell. But this is his real story. Humble Pie tells how he became a famous and infamous chef: his difficult childhood, his failed first career as a footballer: all of the things that made him the celebrated culinary talent and media powerhouse that he is today. Gordon talks frankly about his father's alcoholism and violence and the effects on his relationships with his mother and siblings, how he coped when his football career was over due to injury in just three years, learning his trade in Paris under Albert Roux and his seven Michelin-starred restaurants and the impact of fame on himself and his family: his television career, the rapacious tabloids, and his own driv

Paperback,  336 pp,  $24.99. Buy now

Mediterranean Street Food: Stories, Soups, Snacks, Sandwiches, Barbecues, Sweets, and More from Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East  by Anissa Helou
Bringing together some of the most memorable food in the world and interspersing with fascinating stories of her food adventures across the continents, Helou tailors recipes especially for the American kitchen and offers brief introductions on the social and cultural history of each country of the Mediterranean. Photos

Paperback,  277 pp,  $27.95. Buy now

French Women Don't Get Fat  by Mireille Guiliano
This is a book that will make you laugh out loud and yet have you following several of her practical precepts within days - everyone who reads it becomes evangelical (French women don't go to the gym, they climb the stairs...). It combines just the right balance of memoir, wisdom, wit, delicious recipes, and French common sense

Paperback,  190 pp,  $24.95. Buy now

Italian Food  by Elizabeth David
Elizabeth David's Italian Food was one of the first books to demonstrate the enormous range of Italy's regional cooking. For the foods of Italy, explained David, expanded far beyond minestrone and ravioli, to the complex traditions of Tuscany, Sicily, Lombardy, Umbria, and many other regions. David imparts her knowledge from her many years in Italy, exploring, researching, tasting and testing dishes. Her passion for real food, luscious, hearty, fresh, and totally authentic, will inspire anyone who wishes to recreate the abundant and highly unique regional dishes of Italy

Paperback,  416 pp,  $22.95. Buy now

Cooking, Eating, Thinking: Transformative Philosophies of Food 

Paperback,  408 pp,  $49.00. Buy now