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The Billionaire's Vinegar: The Mystery of the World's Most Expensive Bottle of Wine

Benjamin Wallace

Crown, 2008

Wine fakes, an increasing and serious business
Fakes are common: From LVMH ladies' bags to wine. And we are just at the beginning. If Petrus is making 30,000 bottles a year there may be 300,000 on the market. I have met counterfeits twice: Some years ago Le Pin and quite recently Romanné-Conti. So stay alert And ...

ChefMD's Big Book of Culinary Medicine: A Food Lover's Road Map to Losing Weight, Preventing Disease, and ...

John La Puma, Rebecca Powell Marx

Crown, 2008

Eating for health
Great book. Not boring at all like a lot of health books are written. I thought I knew it all on this subject but I learned so much more. I learned new things not discussed in other books or materials I have read. I will purchase more of these books and give them ...

Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis

Bloomsbury USA, 2008

One Drunk Englishman
If you're interested in reading about the drinking life, where better to start than with a collection of writings on drink by Kingsley Amis, introduced by Christopher Hitchens? Though it weighs in at a mere 3.2 ounces, "Everyday Drinking" offers up enough drinking ...

Skinny Bitch in the Kitch: Kick-Ass Recipes for Hungry Girls Who Want to Stop Cooking Crap (and Start Looking ...

Rory Freedman, Kim Barnouin

Running Press, 2007

Great for vegans and non-vegans alike!
First let me say that some of the other reviewers aren't exactly fair. This is a vegan cookbook. It's not fair to use this review space to share opinions about the entire vegan lifestyle. You knew it was a vegan cookbook, so don't complain that none of the recipes call ...

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Michael Pollan

Penguin, 2007

OMNIVORE'S OPTION
Omnivore's Dilemma traces our food back to its sources - and in many cases finds corn of all things! The author discusses industrial food production and the primary food chains from their sources to our kitchens. He covers processed foods, mainstream industrial ...

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.)

Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, ...

Harper Perennial, 2008

Inspiring
ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE, A Year of Food Life By Barbara Kingsolver with Steven L. Hopp, and Camille Kingsolver This book for me was like returning home. After years of living in Tucson AZ the author and her family decide to return to their roots and learn to ...

Hungry Girl: Recipes and Survival Strategies for Guilt-Free Eating in the Real World

Lisa Lillien

St. Martin's Griffin, 2008

Hungry Girl Hurray!
As a huge hungrygirl.com fan the book did not dissapoint! While I have only tried a couple of the recipes it was exactly what I knew Lisa would turn out. The only (very small) disappointment was that the WW points were not listed on the recipes.

Italian Grill

Mario Batali, Judith Sutton

Ecco, 2008

Excellent, Simple, Wonderful, Fool-proof
I am cooking my way through this book. So far everything I've made has turned out perfectly. Mario knows how to construct a recipie that lets the food shine through. Recommend this highly to everyone who wants a solid go-to reference to making excellent food.

Hello, Cupcake!: Irresistibly Playful Creations Anyone Can Make

Alan Richardson, Karen Tack

Houghton Mifflin, 2008

Great book!
This book is a lot of fun and has easy to follow directions for making great cupcakes. Fun with kids.

The Food You Crave: Luscious Recipes for a Healthy Life

Ellie Krieger

Taunton, 2008

HEALTHIER RECIPES
The Food You Crave has 200 recipes for a variety of meals including breakfasts, sandwiches, soups, main dishes, salads, and desserts. Its emphasis is to make comfort foods healthier, but the author does not suggest taking the fat out of natural foods, as other books ...

The South Beach Diet Taste of Summer Cookbook (The South Beach Diet)

Arthur Agatston

Rodale Books, 2007

Mmmmmm yummy!
I was not too optimistic about this book because I found the original SB diet recipes to be too time and money consuming w/too many ingredients that were not in my cupboard. So I flipped through this initially and the photo were awesome, but again I did not let that ...

On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen

Harold McGee

Scribner, 2004

A True Classic
Not available in bookshops here, it took me a while to track down this much praised book, now in a 2004 updated edition. It can be read at many levels: history, folk lore, chemistry and just marvellous explanations of the 'why' of cooking. It must hold great appeal for ...

Fast Food Nation

Eric Schlosser

Harper Perennial, 2005

Unexpected, but enjoyable.
I will warn all of you future readers: this is a great book and is rather historical in content. Contrary to my common thought that this whole book was bashing the fast food industry, it really did neither. Instead he really shows how fast food originated, how it ...

How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food (How to Cook Everything)

Mark Bittman

Wiley, 2007

Encyclopedia of fruits, vegetables and legumes
I first found this book in the library. It was so good that I had to own it. Yes, there are very good recipes, but what I find invaluable is the information on every type of fruit, vegetable and legume (beans). Today, I needed to buy apples for cooking a receipe from ...

Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook

Isa Chandra Moskowitz, Terry Hope Romero, ...

Da Capo Press, 2007

Essential cookbook
This is a great cookbook! Every recipe I've tried has been great...well, except for the chick peas with BBQ sauce wrapped in kale leaves, which is was not so hot - but I had kale and there's only so much to be done with it - and they get an A + for originality on that ...