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Palm Springs a La Carte

$38.95 See it at Cookbooks​.com.au

In 1975, Mel Haber, a former automotive accessory manufacturer, opened Melvyn's Restaurant and the Ingleside Inn in Palm Springs. With no restaurant experience, Haber made every mistake in the book-and his business thrived. He has spent 25 years …

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My Life in France

$23.95 See it at Cookbooks​.com.au

The enchanting, bestselling memoir by America's most beloved chef, 'My Life in France' is being reissued to coincide with the movie based on Julia Child's life, starring Meryl Streep. Illustrations throughout.

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Restaurateur

$49.95 See it at Cookbooks​.com.au

In a story embracing America's obsession with food and restaurants, Noel Stein recounts his days in the industry, beginning with his dishwashing stint at Brooklyn's legendary Garfield's Cafeteria. His charming, hilarious anecdotes include …

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Driven

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Whether skateboarding across the kitchen as a child, or taking part in the world's most prestigious vintage road race, TV chef James Martin has never been one to sit still. In this entertaining narrative he reveals how his two passions - cooking …

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Michael Olivier

$47.95 See it at Cookbooks​.com.au

One of South Africa's foremost restaurateurs, Michael Olivier has captured the very essence of local cooking and food in this title. In it he takes us on a lively and engaging ramble through a lifetime that has revolved around food and wine, …

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The Basic Art of Italian Cooking-Holidays & Special Occasions

$31.95 See it at Cookbooks​.com.au

The Basic Art of Italian Cooking-Holidays & Special Occasions by Celebrity Chef Maria Liberati is more than a cookbook. It is a trip to Italy for the Holidays with recipes, tips, wine pairing, menus and charming short stories of Holidays spent in …

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Frankly Speaking

$27.95 See it at Cookbooks​.com.au

Bartenders, simply by virtue of their position, get to know a lot of people from different strata of society. Like psychiatrists without degrees, they come to learn things about human beings that the rest of us miss. In Frankly Speaking, Frank …

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Childhood Interrupted

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In 1950, Kathleen O'Malley and her two sisters were legally abducted from their mother and placed in an industrial school ran by the Sisters of Mercy order of nuns, who also ran the notorious Magdalene Homes. The rape of eight-year-old Kathleen …

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I Was Young and Wanted to Live

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Growing up as a young Jewish boy in a small town in Slovakia, David Huban felt that 'life is really wonderful'. He couldn't have imagined the horrors that lay ahead as he ran for his life for 5 years, learning of his parents' deportation, dodging …

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Goulash and Picking Pickles

$74.95 See it at Cookbooks​.com.au

Goulash and Picking Pickles Read about life in the 1950's through Louise's eyes. Learn about siblings, four of them; Cousins, over 40 of them, and ice skating on the natural pond in her back yard. Louise ends each chapter by sharing recipes from …

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Positively PCOS

$32.95 See it at Cookbooks​.com.au

Positively PCOS is a memoir of the author's attempt to overcome infertility. Years slipped by before discovering that something called PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome) and insulin resistance was the culprit. PCOS is the most common hormonal …

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The Art of Eating in

$35.00 See it at Cookbooks​.com.au

What began as a way to save money left Erway with a new appreciation for the simple pleasures of eating in. In a timely memoir of quitting restaurants cold turkey, Erway chronicles the delectable results of her 24-month experiment, with 30 …

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A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France

$48.49 See it at The Nile

Thirty years ago, this award-winning author and her family set out to realize the dream of a peaceful, rural existence. This evocative and passionate memoir—filled with delicious recipes and local color—describes her life cooking and living in …

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At Home in the Vineyard

$27.95 See it at Cookbooks​.com.au

memoir of Oregon wine pioneer Susan Sokol Blosser, it recounts how she fell in love with a vineyard, learned how to run it, and ultimately achieved her vision of producing Pinot Noirs to rival those of Burgundy. It also gives an insider's view of …

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Backstage with Julia

$22.95 See it at Cookbooks​.com.au

You'll love this intimate portrait of the inimitable Julia Child by Nancy Verde Barr, her executive chef and friend for twenty-four years. Brimming with anecdotes, memorabilia, and snapshots, Backstage with Julia conveys Julia's generosity, her …

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Cooking for Friends

$55.95 See it at Cookbooks​.com.au

As a chef, I work at a thousand miles an hour, but when I'm at home, I want to slow down. way from the high-octane energy of the professional kitchen, Gordon Ramsay makes meals at home that are more re-laxed, where cooking is fun and everyone gets

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Backstage with Julia

$34.95 See it at Cookbooks​.com.au

You'll love this intimate portrait of the inimitable Julia Child by Nancy Verde Barr, her executive chef and friend for twenty four years. Brimming with anecdotes, memorabilia, and snapshots, Backstage with Julia conveys Julia's generosity, her …

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Eating

$39.95 See it at Cookbooks​.com.au

Jason Epstein, the legendary editor and publisher of Norman Mailer, Vladimir Nabokov, Gore Vidal, and E. L. Doctorow, among many other distinguished writers, and the editor of such great chefs and bakers as Alice Waters, Wolfgang Puck, and Maida …

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Letters to a Young Chef

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Written for the professional as well as the amateur cook, this is an invitation to the kitchen from a revered chef who combines traditional techniques and modern sensibility. From the reinvention of French food through the fine dining revolution …

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Cooking Dirty

$41.95 See it at Cookbooks​.com.au

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

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