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by Pete Jordan  Publisher Comments Dishwasher is Pete Jordan's amusing memoir of his itinerant dishwashing extravaganza. For 12 years, I was the most prolific dishlicker of them all. From 1989 - 2001, I dished my way around the country, unwittingly searching for direction. From a bagel... (read more)  List Price $13.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Anthony Bourdain 
Publisher Comments When Chef Anthony Bourdain wrote "Don't Eat Before You Read This" in The New Yorker, he spared no one's appetite, revealing what goes on behind the kitchen door. In Kitchen Confidential, he expanded that appetizer into a deliciously funny, delectable... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kathleen Flinn Publisher Comments In 2003, Flinn, a 36-year-old American living and working in London, cleared out her savings and moved to Paris to pursue a dream diploma from the famed Le Cordon Bleu cooking school. The ultimate wish fulfillment book, her story is a true testament to... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas Mcnamee Publisher Comments In an authorized biography-the story of Alice Waters, Chez Panisse, and the San Francisco 1970s counterculture food revolution that invented "American cuisine" Not so long ago it was nearly impossible to find a cappuccino or a croissant in this country... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $19.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jacques Pepin
Publisher Comments In this captivating memoir, the man whom Julia Child has called "the best chef in America" tells the story of his rise from a frightened apprentice in an exacting Old World kitchen to an Emmy Award-winning superstar who taught millions of Americans how... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $14.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Julia Child and Alex Prud'homme
Powells.com Staff Pick An inspiring look at the life and times of the culinary genius, Julia Child's My Life in France is a good-humored memoir of her influential and transformative early experiences in France with her then new husband, Paul. Julia's devotees, as well as those... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Anthony Bourdain Publisher Comments Bestselling chef and No Reservations host Anthony Bourdain has never been one to pull punches. In The Nasty Bits, he serves up a well-seasoned hellbroth of candid, often outrageous stories from his worldwide misadventures. Whether scrounging for eel in... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $14.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Israel Publisher Comments The conventional story of Thomas Edison reads more like myth than history: With only three months of formal education, a hardworking young man overcomes the odds and becomes one of the greatest inventors in history. But the portrait that emerges from... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard P Feynman Publisher Comments One of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell the stories of his life. What Do You Care What Other People Think? is Feynman's last literary... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Ruhlman Publisher Comments Now in paperback, the eye-opening book that was nominated for a 1998 James Beard Foundation award in the Writing on Food category.In the winter of 1996, Michael Ruhlman donned hounds-tooth-check pants and a chef's jacket and entered the Culinary... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Julia Child and Alex Prud'homme
Powells.com Staff Pick An inspiring look at the life and times of the culinary genius, Julia Child's My Life in France is a good-humored memoir of her influential and transformative early experiences in France with her then new husband, Paul. Julia's devotees, as well as those... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $ (Used - ) check for new and sale copies
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by Bill Buford Publisher Comments A highly acclaimed writer and editor, Bill Buford left his job at The New Yorker for a most unlikely destination: the kitchen at Babbo, the revolutionary Italian restaurant created and ruled by superstar chef Mario Batali. Finally realizing a long-held... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anthony Bourdain Publisher Comments New York Chef Tony Bourdain gives away secrets of the trade in his wickedly funny, inspiring memoir/expose. Kitchen Confidential reveals what Bourdain calls "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine." Last summer, The New Yorker... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Ruhlman Publisher Comments The acclaimed author of "The Soul of a Chef" explores the allure of the celebrity chef in modern America.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $19.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Gordon Ramsay Publisher Comments From the author of "In the Heat of the Kitchen" comes this new meditation on life as "the Simon Cowell of the food world." The explosive, outspoken star chef tells the story of his rise in kitchen ranks.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas Mcnamee Publisher Comments In an authorized biography-the story of Alice Waters, Chez Panisse, and the San Francisco 1970s counterculture food revolution that invented American cuisine Not so long ago it was nearly impossible to find a cappuccino or a croissant in this country... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alan W Hirshfeld Book News Annotation Hirshfeld (physics, U. of Massachusetts-Dartmouth) does not quibble with the storybook version of Faraday (1791-1867) as a poor, unschooled bookbinder's apprentice who through sheer gumption and timely luck surmounted adversity and class prejudice in... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $14.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Matt Ridley Publisher Comments Ridley traces Crick's life from middle-class mediocrity through his leap into biology at the age of 31 and his co-discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by A. Scott Berg Publisher Comments Twenty years of intimate conversations form the heart of this remarkable memoir — from the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lindbergh and Goldwyn: A Biography. For seven decades Katharine Hepburn played a leading role in... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Rebecca Goldstein Publisher Comments A gem....An unforgettable account of one of the great moments in the history of human thought.--Steven Pinker A masterly introduction to the life and thought of the man who transformed our conception of math forever. Kurt Godel is considered the greatest... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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