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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Riverhead Books, 2000. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Through a lively mixture of history, memoir, sociology, and family recipe, "The Best Thing I Ever Tasted", explores our public and private attitudes about food, and seeks to put us back in touch with the elemental needs behind our modern appetite. Whether she's reminiscing about her mother's stunningly bland cooking, walking us through the Betty Crocker test kitchens, describing the best recipes she's ever tasted, or speaking candidly about her deeply conflicted feelings about dieting, Tisdale draws a rich portrait of the mnay forces that every day shape our endlessly inventive hunger.311 pages..

Reading, MA, U.S.A.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc. 1995. Hard Cover. Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Both a reference book and journal for anyone who loves to cook and entertain, this gorgeously designed book is a beautiful place to collect favorite recipes, menus, information on wines, and other culinary experiences and notes. A resource section allows the reader to keep track of cookbooks, recipes from other sources, and telephone numbers of restaurants. This book is completely unwritten in and is a great book for a cooks journal! Full color. Decorative maroon cloth cover with a colorfully illustrated inlaid title piece. 228 pages. A 1" black marker line on bottom gilt edge, maybe a remainder mark. This book would make a great gift for a the cook in your family!.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1997. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Fully revised and updated, this handy guide to the wines of the world describes more than 6,000 foreign and domestic wines, including varieties from every wine-producing country, region, and chateau. "Perhaps the only guide to wine that anyone really needs".--"Newsweek. Regional maps, vintage charts, & label guide. Two-color throughout. 280 pages..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Arcade Publishing, Incorporated, 1994. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. First Edition, 2nd Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. James Beard, a pioneer of modern American cookery was for over five decades America's most celebrated cook and food writer. Love and Kisses and a Halo of Truffles is a rich selection of more than 300 letters, many containing recipes, written to his close friend and fellow chef Helen Evans Brown over a period of twelve years. Focusing mainly on food but also filled with witty, insightful comments on the state of the world as he saw it, these letters offer an intimate look at American culinary and social history during a very important period of its evolution. 418 pages, black and white illustrations, pictorial dust jacket of Beard. More than 300 letters, many containing recipes, written to Beard's close friend and fellow chef, Helen Evans Brown, sharing his gastronomic musings, favorite dishes, and accounts of exotic forays into foreign cuisines..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Pocket Books, 1996. Trade Paperback. Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Join Joy Sterling on a stroll through the vineyards and gardens of California's Iron Horse Vineyards, into her kitchen and to her table. Filled with charming anecdotes, a year's worth of news from the grapevine, and imaginative menus and recipes, this is a delightful window into her life as wine lover, epicure, philosopher, and hostess. Vintage Feasting February 14. The vineyards are asleep. Our Valentine's Day feast is fresh, cracked Dungeness crab soup cooked with Fumé Blanc, served with garlic mayonnaise and bubbly. In settings suffused with the scents of Giverny-like gardens, Joy shares secrets of tasting and cooking with wine, reveals her own experiments with menus and vintages, and explains why certain pairings of food and wine endure. And she exults in life's surprises, like the magical cluster of rare morels that appeared one day under a century-old Douglas… Read More