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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
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4.19 avg rating — 374,044 ratings
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Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table
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4.08 avg rating — 39,192 ratings
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Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
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3.94 avg rating — 48,140 ratings
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Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
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3.71 avg rating — 160,712 ratings
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Salt: A World History
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3.75 avg rating — 76,416 ratings
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A Year in Provence (Provence, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 82,884 ratings
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Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
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3.77 avg rating — 329,983 ratings
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A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines
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4.10 avg rating — 30,970 ratings
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Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table
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4.05 avg rating — 22,310 ratings
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Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
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3.77 avg rating — 37,423 ratings
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The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute
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4.10 avg rating — 8,158 ratings
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The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
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3.70 avg rating — 5,149 ratings
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The Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfection
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4.06 avg rating — 6,354 ratings
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Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
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3.75 avg rating — 5,685 ratings
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The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School
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3.70 avg rating — 10,629 ratings
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A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table
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3.94 avg rating — 16,714 ratings
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Twinkie, Deconstructed: My Journey to Discover How the Ingredients Found in Processed Foods Are Grown, Mined (Yes, Mined), and Manipulated Into What America Eats
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3.38 avg rating — 2,330 ratings
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The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food—Before the National Highway System, Before Chain Restaurants, and Before Frozen Food, When the Nation's Food Was Seasonal
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3.47 avg rating — 2,707 ratings
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It Must've Been Something I Ate: The Return of the Man Who Ate Everything
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4.08 avg rating — 3,808 ratings
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Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter
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3.46 avg rating — 4,222 ratings
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The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones
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3.89 avg rating — 14,537 ratings
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Yes, Chef
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3.86 avg rating — 18,669 ratings
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Alice, Let's Eat: Further Adventures of a Happy Eater
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4.05 avg rating — 1,233 ratings
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The Language of Baklava: A Memoir
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3.97 avg rating — 2,527 ratings
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Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip-Confessions of a Cynical Waiter
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3.55 avg rating — 14,545 ratings
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The Tummy Trilogy: American Fried; Alice, Let's Eat; Third Helpings
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4.16 avg rating — 1,325 ratings
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Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
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3.96 avg rating — 4,564 ratings
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Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer
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3.97 avg rating — 10,383 ratings
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Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil
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3.77 avg rating — 4,120 ratings
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Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat
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3.86 avg rating — 10,291 ratings
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American Pie: Slices of Life (and Pie) from America's Back Roads― A Delicious Food Journey Across America
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3.85 avg rating — 619 ratings
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Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger
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3.79 avg rating — 8,069 ratings
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No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach
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4.01 avg rating — 4,866 ratings
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The Kitchen Counter Cooking School: How a Few Simple Lessons Transformed Nine Culinary Novices into Fearless Home Cooks
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4.09 avg rating — 5,391 ratings
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An Everlasting Meal: Cooking with Economy and Grace
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4.20 avg rating — 7,725 ratings
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The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table
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3.59 avg rating — 3,520 ratings
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Eating for England: The Delights and Eccentricities of the British at Table
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3.76 avg rating — 995 ratings
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Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone
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3.77 avg rating — 3,774 ratings
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Bento Box in the Heartland: My Japanese Girlhood in Whitebread America
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3.77 avg rating — 946 ratings
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Breakfast: A History
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3.61 avg rating — 182 ratings
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The $64 Tomato: How One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for the Perfect Garden
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3.77 avg rating — 4,461 ratings
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Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
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3.69 avg rating — 3,048 ratings
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The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love
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4.08 avg rating — 18,188 ratings
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Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China
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4.11 avg rating — 4,471 ratings
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Nathaniel's Nutmeg, or, The True And Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of History
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3.82 avg rating — 5,358 ratings
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A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family
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3.52 avg rating — 1,009 ratings
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The Bread Baker's Apprentice: Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread
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4.30 avg rating — 10,543 ratings
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Down and Out in Paris and London
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4.09 avg rating — 100,522 ratings
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Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America
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3.79 avg rating — 877 ratings
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Cooking for Mr. Latte: A Food Lover's Courtship, with Recipes
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3.53 avg rating — 2,026 ratings
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Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing
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4.03 avg rating — 4,704 ratings
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Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family: A Memoir
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3.53 avg rating — 1,682 ratings
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Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee—The Dark History of the Food Cheats
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3.83 avg rating — 670 ratings
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A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France
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3.68 avg rating — 1,756 ratings
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One Pair Of Hands
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3.86 avg rating — 1,590 ratings
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The Devil's Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee
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3.64 avg rating — 2,061 ratings
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Beans: A History
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3.67 avg rating — 224 ratings
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More Home Cooking
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4.36 avg rating — 2,295 ratings
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Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine
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3.95 avg rating — 2,776 ratings
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Made from Scratch: Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade Life
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3.67 avg rating — 2,898 ratings
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97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement
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3.78 avg rating — 3,217 ratings
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Beaten, Seared, and Sauced: On Becoming a Chef at the Culinary Institute of America
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3.68 avg rating — 1,869 ratings
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On the Noodle Road: From Beijing to Rome, with Love and Pasta
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3.37 avg rating — 1,490 ratings
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The Saucier's Apprentice: One Long Strange Trip through the Great Cooking Schools of Europe
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3.06 avg rating — 310 ratings
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Serve the People: A Stir-Fried Journey Through China
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3.88 avg rating — 1,067 ratings
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
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4.05 avg rating — 113,005 ratings
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
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3.75 avg rating — 206,489 ratings
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Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
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3.90 avg rating — 25,248 ratings
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Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
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3.86 avg rating — 48,136 ratings
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Anthony Bourdain Remembered
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4.44 avg rating — 1,070 ratings
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Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking
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3.67 avg rating — 9,454 ratings
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A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression
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3.75 avg rating — 2,254 ratings
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Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll: How Food Lovers, Free Spirits, Misfits and Wanderers Created a New American Profession
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3.62 avg rating — 344 ratings
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Tortillas, Tiswin, and T-Bones: A Food History of the Southwest
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The Poison Squad: One Chemist's Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
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3.93 avg rating — 4,973 ratings
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Bella Tuscany: The Sweet Life in Italy
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3.76 avg rating — 14,100 ratings
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Vodka: A Global History
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3.36 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Eating It Up In Eden: The Oregon Century Farm & Ranch Cookbook
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4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Hotbox: Inside Catering, the Food World's Riskiest Business
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3.79 avg rating — 944 ratings
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The Taste of Sweet: Our Complicated Love Affair with Our Favorite Treats
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3.21 avg rating — 147 ratings
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Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America
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3.78 avg rating — 3,433 ratings
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Ten Restaurants That Changed America
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3.77 avg rating — 1,404 ratings
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Encore Provence: New Adventures in the South of France (Provence, #3)
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4.01 avg rating — 12,484 ratings
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Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California
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3.83 avg rating — 1,332 ratings
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Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War
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3.83 avg rating — 1,383 ratings
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American Advertising Cookbooks: How Corporations Taught Us to Love Bananas, Spam, and Jell-O
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3.78 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Creamy and Crunchy: An Informal History of Peanut Butter, the All-American Food
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3.39 avg rating — 199 ratings
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Bitter: A Taste of the World's Most Dangerous Flavor, with Recipes [A Cookbook]
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Libation, A Bitter Alchemy
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3.76 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Heirloom: Notes from an Accidental Tomato Farmer
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3.53 avg rating — 492 ratings
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The Potlikker Papers
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3.82 avg rating — 2,030 ratings
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Ritz and Escoffier: The Hotelier, The Chef, and the Rise of the Leisure Class
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4.01 avg rating — 1,658 ratings
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Popped Culture: A Social History of Popcorn in America
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3.31 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Best-Loved Food of the '50s
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4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure
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The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World's Greatest Piece of Cheese
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3.32 avg rating — 5,651 ratings
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What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories
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3.28 avg rating — 4,834 ratings
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Confessions of a French Baker: Breadmaking Secrets, Tips, and Recipes
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3.69 avg rating — 572 ratings
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