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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Twenty-seven extraordinary chefs tell the personal stories behind their culinary triumphs. Over the past decade, our culture's interest in the world's great chefs has grown phenomenally. Once known to only the most dedicated gourmets, these supremely talented men and women have become high-profile stars with restaurants as their stages -- masterful artists working in the medium that binds us all: food! A wonderful companion volume to The French Culinary...
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English
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THE GRIT AND GLORY OF RESTAURANT LIFE, AS TOLD BY A SURVIVOR OF KITCHENS ACROSS AMERICA.
Cooking Dirty is a rollicking account of life "on the line" in the restaurants, far from culinary school, cable TV, and the Michelin Guide-where most of us eat out most of the time. It takes the kitchen memoir to a rough and reckless place.
From his first job scraping trays at a pizzeria at age fifteen, Jason Sheehan worked on the line at all kinds of restaurants:...
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Billy Blessing, a celebrity chef in New York City, becomes a suspect in a murder case when an executive producer he had been at odds with dies after eating a dish from his restaurant; after the Manhattan district attorney shuts him down, Blessing becomes a sleuth, running into unsavory characters at every turn.
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English
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Julia's story of her transformative years in France in her own words is "captivating ... her marvelously distinctive voice is present on every page.” (San Francisco Chronicle).
Although she would later singlehandedly create a new approach to American cuisine with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef, Julia Child...
Although she would later singlehandedly create a new approach to American cuisine with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef, Julia Child...
28) Mr. Church
Publisher
Codeblack Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A little girl and her dying mother obtain the services of a talented cook. What begins as a six-month arrangement spans fifteen years and creates a family bond that lasts forever.
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Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A biography of one of the few Victorian ladies whose legacy has lasted well into the 21st century, and whose recipes are still used in thousands of kitchens today Eliza Acton is the forgotten hero of the culinary past, and a debt of gratitude to her is what Delia Smith, Elizabeth David, and Mrs. Beeton have in common. She was the original and best: the first cook to write recipes in a clear, modern format. This absorbing first biography of her creates...
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Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A look back at the recipients of the James Beard Foundation's Outstanding Chef Award from 1991 to 2010, featuring profiles, recipes, and photos. An inspiration for a generation of chefs, James Beard set the standard through his cooking, teaching, consulting, writing, and media appearances. In honor of Beard's unrivaled legacy as the father of the gourmet movement, the James Beard Foundation established the annual James Beard Awards, which recognize...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A matter of taste takes an intimate look inside the world of an immensely talented and driven young chef, Paul Liebrandt. At 24, he was awarded three stars by The New York Times for unforgettable and hyper-modern dishes such as "eel, violets and chocolate," "espuma of calf brains and foie gras," and "beer and truffle soup." Times critic William Grimes likened Paul to "a pianist who seems to have found a couple of dozen extra keys." Conversely, Gourmet...
32) Odd Thomas
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
33) The last suppers
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English
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Set in 1950s Louisiana, Mandy Mikulencak's beautifully written and emotionally moving novel evokes both The Help and Dead Man Walking with the story of an unforgettable woman whose quest to provide meals for death row prisoners leads her into the secrets of her own past.
Many children have grown up in the shadow of Louisiana's Greenmount State Penitentiary. Most of them-sons and daughters of corrections officers and staff-left as soon as they could....
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Series
Publisher
Bantam House
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"Two years after the cataclysmic events that sent him journeying into mystery, Odd Thomas, the intrepid fry cook who sees the dead and tries to help them, has traveled full circle, back to his beloved home town of Pico Mundo and the people he loves. He has come to save them--and perhaps humanity--from the full flowering of evil it is his destiny to confront, as he draws ever closer to the truth of the world and his place in it. Stronger, wiser than...
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Mrs. Eugenia Potter, on a visit to the Medicine Wheel Archaeological Camp near Cortez, Colorado, is drawn into a mystery investigation when a busload of children disappears in a manner similar to the lost Anasazi tribe, followed by the murders of two women.
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Publisher
Clarkson Potter
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Offers vocational guidance for individuals seeking careers in the culinary arts, including bar owners, food stylists, private chefs, cake designers, cheesemakers, and more; and providing information on the educational programs available for each profession, along with the paths working professionals took to reach their station.
38) On the line
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Language
English
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Mateo Castillo is a rising star chef on the Manhattan culinary scene. But just as he's about to reap the rewards of his skill and hard work by being featured on a major TV cooking competition, Mateo collapses in his restaurant's kitchen and regains consciousness in a hospital emergency room. If it weren't for a security guard finding him in time, Mateo would have bled to death. The cause of his sudden illness is as mysterious as it is worrying, and...
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Harlequin® Heartwarming celebrates wholesome, heartfelt relationships imbued with the traditional values so important to you: home, family, community and love. Experience all that and more with four new novels in one collection! This Harlequin Heartwarming box set includes: CHARMED BY THE COOK’S KIDS The Mountain Monroes by Melinda Curtis Perfectionist chef Camden Monroe is burned out and looking for a break. Line cook Ivy Parker has been prioritizing...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2001, c2000
Language
English
Description
Perdita Dylan, an organic vegetable gardener, has learned to cherish her independence, but the new life she has built for herself since her divorce ten years earlier is suddenly on shaky ground when her business brings her ex-husband, now a celebrity chef, back into her life.
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