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Cooking Memoir


Cooking Memoir Books

A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table
Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table
My Life in France
Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking
Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table
Mastering the Art of French Eating: Lessons in Food and Love from a Year in Paris
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
Always Home: A Daughter's Recipes & Stories
My Berlin Kitchen: A Love Story (with Recipes)
Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen
Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste
The Art of Eating
The Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfection
The Reach of a Chef: Beyond the Kitchen
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