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Young and Hungry: More Than 100 Recipes for Cooking Fresh and Affordable Food for Everyone

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What a fabulous book for someone who is just starting out in the kitchen. The book is probably intended for recent college graduates who may have relied first on meals cooked by parents, then dining-hall food through college, and are now facing the challenge of cooking for the first time. However, if you're new to a kitchen, and particularly if you're on a budget, Dave Lieberman's Young and Hungry is a natural choice.

Updated Apr 27, 2007

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Dave's Dinners: A Fresh Approach to Home-Cooked Meals

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Though he has a show on the Food Network, I forgive Dave Lieberman for that because his recipes and his approach are so sincere. Nothing in his repertoire is all the complicated, which makes his cookbook a good find for a home cook who likes to stick to simple things.

Updated Apr 27, 2007

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Cat Cora's Kitchen: Favorite Meals for Family and Friends

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Iron Chef Cat Cora at it again with her cookbook intended for entertaining your friends and family with fabulous food that's inspired by her Greek heritage and southern upbringing.

Updated Apr 27, 2007

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Cooking From the Hip: Fast, Easy, Phenomenal Meals

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How can you not want to cook from a book by the only woman to be an Iron Chef?

Updated Apr 27, 2007

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The Food You Want to Eat: 100 Smart, Simple Recipes

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I am in total, complete, utter, obsessive lust with Ted Allen.

But he's gay.

No matter. Having his book is about as good as it's going to get for me.

Updated Apr 27, 2007

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Book: Watership Down

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Watership Down is the scariest book on any middle schooler's summer reading list. Not only is the book about rabbits (which earns a "WTF?!"), but it has almost 500 pages. I thought my summer was ruined.

It wasn't. In fact, I loved Watership Down. Obviously, the themes are important, but the language on the page is well-written.

Updated Dec 20, 2006

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counter intelligence: where to eat in the real los angeles

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jonathan gold's counter intelligence is more than just a restaurant guide. jonathan goldencourages you to brave the freeways and takes you to joints in LA neighborhoods that you might not think about when flipping through those other guides. even if you don't live in los angeles, jonathan gold's writing is enough to make you read it from cover to cover.

Updated Nov 30, 2006

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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

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i always sort of figured that drug abuse, alcoholism, and cooking went somewhat hand in hand--fascination with anything that tactile and sensational lends itself to all sorts of habits.

anyway, bourdain sounds a lot like the chefs i've known. i always thought he probably made himself out to be a bit more of a badass than he really was, but i can live with that.

interesting, funny and occasionally insightful book from a guy whose identity is pretty solidly defined by the word 'provocateur.'

Updated Feb 22, 2008

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Insatiable: Tales from a Life of Delicious Excess

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Probably the only food book you'll ever read that starts off with "Elvis Presley was coming to town to do two shows at Olympia Stadium," and that's exactly why this book is so good. Gael Greene is a fantastic writer, as evidenced by her long career as a food critic, and her books are just as rowdy, engaging, and saucy.

Updated Nov 25, 2007

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Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise

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ruth reichl is a woman whose writing and career i totally respect, and covet. she has been a food and restaurant critic in los angeles and new york, a book author, the editor of a food magazine, and now has a television show. garlic and sapphires is a great personal story of her adventures behind the scenes as a writer.

"i did not come here just to eat," as said by one of her frequent dining companions, is my favorite quote from the whole book, and though i love food, love writing about food, love eating food, love making food, when i go out to eat in a restaurant, it is not just about the food. eating out should be an entire experience.

even if you have to wear a wig. (via protogarrett)

Updated Nov 29, 2006

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