Cooking:

Momofuku

Written by David Chang and Peter Meehan

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $40.00

Never before has there been a phenomenon like Momofuku. A once-unrecognizable word, it's now synonymous with the award-winning restaurants of the same name in New York City: Momofuku Noodle Bar, Ssäm Bar, Ko, and Milk Bar. Chef David Chang has single-handedly revolutionized cooking in America with his use of bold Asian... Read more >

Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume I

Written by Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle and Simone Beck

Format: Hardcover, 752 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2001
Price: $40.00

This is the classic cookbook, in its entirety—all 524 recipes.

“Anyone can cook in the French manner anywhere,” wrote Mesdames Beck, Bertholle, and Child, “with the right instruction.” And here is the book that, for more than forty years, has been teaching Americans how.
Mastering the Art of French Cooking is for both... Read more >

Martha Stewart's Dinner at Home
52 Quick Meals to Cook for Family and Friends
Written by Martha Stewart

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $35.00

Two hundred recipes perfect for dinner when you have a little time—but not all day—to cook. For meals that are meant for sharing with friends and family but created with busy cooks in mind, Martha Stewart's Dinner at Home is a new classic that cooks of all levels will depend on... Read more >

Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics
Fabulous Flavor from Simple Ingredients
Written by Ina Garten

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $35.00

Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics is the essential Ina Garten cookbook, focusing on the techniques behind her elegant food and easy entertaining style, and offering nearly a hundred brand-new recipes that will become trusted favorites.

Ina Garten’s bestselling cookbooks have con-sistently provided accessible, subtly sophisticated recipes ranging from French classics made... Read more >

Julia's Kitchen Wisdom
Essential Techniques and Recipes from a Lifetime of Cooking
Written by Julia Child

Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: June 23, 2009
Price: $14.95

How many minutes should you cook green beans? Is it better to steam them or to boil them?
What are the right proportions for a vinaigrette?
How do you skim off fat?
What is the perfect way to roast a chicken?

Julia Child gave us extensive answers to all these questions–and so many more–in the... Read more >

Peter Reinhart's Artisan Breads Every Day
Fast and Easy Recipes for World-Class Breads
Written by Peter Reinhart

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $30.00

Peter Reinhart's Artisan Breads Every Day distills the renowned baking instructor' s professional techniques down to the basics, delivering artisan bread recipes that anyone with flour and a fridge can make and bake with ease.

Reinhart begins with the simplest French bread, then moves on to familiar classics such as ciabatta... Read more >

Martha Stewart's Cupcakes
175 Inspired Ideas for Everyone's Favorite Treat
Written by Martha Stewart Living Magazine

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $24.99

The perfect cupcake for every occasion.

Swirled and sprinkled, dipped and glazed, or otherwise fancifully decorated, cupcakes are the treats that make everyone smile. They are the star attraction for special days, such as birthdays, showers, and holidays, as well as perfect everyday goodies. In Martha Stewart’s Cupcakes, the editors of Martha... Read more >

Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy
A Feast of 175 Regional Recipes
Written by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich and Tanya Bastianich Manuali

Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $35.00

In this inspiring new book, Lidia Bastianich awakens in us a new respect for food and for the people who produce it in the little-known parts of Italy that she explores. All of the recipes reflect the regions from which they spring, and in translating them to our home kitchens, Lidia... Read more >

Down Home with the Neelys
A Southern Family Cookbook
Written by Patrick Neely, Gina Neely and Paula Disbrowe

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: May 12, 2009
Price: $27.95

Meet the Neelys: Pat and Gina, husband-and-wife team, hosts of their own television show, and proprietors of the celebrated Memphis and Nashville eateries, Neely’s Bar-B-Que.

The Neelys’ down-home approach to cooking has earned them the highest accolades from coast to coast. It has also won them millions of viewers on the Food... Read more >

Barefoot Contessa at Home
Everyday Recipes You'll Make Over and Over Again
Written by Ina Garten

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: October 24, 2006
Price: $35.00

Throughout the years that she has lived and worked in East Hampton, Ina Garten has catered and attended countless parties and dinners. She will be the first to tell you, though, that nothing beats a cozy dinner, surrounded by the people you love most, in the comfort that only your own... Read more >

Baking

Written by James Peterson

Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $40.00

The learn-to-bake master class in a book.

The craft of baking is based on good technique. Learn the fundamentals well, and you can bake perfect cakes, cookies, tarts, breads, and pastries each and every time.

That's the premise of Baking, revered cooking teacher James Peterson's master course in baking fundamentals. In more than... Read more >

The Deen Bros. Take It Easy
Quick and Affordable Meals the Whole Family Will Love
Written by Jamie Deen, Bobby Deen and Melissa Clark
Foreword by Paula Deen

Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $25.00

If you haven’t got time to waste, Jamie and Bobby Deen have the meals to make. Imagine getting dinner on the table for your family in forty-five minutes or less. In this inspired and indispensable new cookbook, Paula Deen’s sons show you how to whip up 125 delicious Southern-style recipes quicker... Read more >

Barefoot Contessa Family Style
Easy Ideas and Recipes That Make Everyone Feel Like Family
Written by Ina Garten

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: October 29, 2002
Price: $35.00

Ina Garten, who shared her gift for casual entertaining in the bestselling Barefoot Contessa Cookbook and Barefoot Contessa Parties!, is back with her most enticing recipes yet—a collection of her favorite dishes for everyday cooking. In Barefoot Contessa Family Style, Ina explains that sharing our lives and tables with those we... Read more >

Martha Stewart's Cookies
The Very Best Treats to Bake and to Share
Written by Martha Stewart Living Magazine

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: March 11, 2008
Price: $24.95

The perfect cookie for every occasion.

Cookies are the treat that never disappoints. Whether you’re baking for a party or a picnic, a formal dinner or a family supper–or if you simply want something on hand for snacking–there is a cookie that’s just right. In Martha Stewart’s Cookies, the editors of Martha... Read more >

The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook

Written by Ina Garten

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: April 6, 1999
Price: $35.00

For more than twenty years, Barefoot Contessa, the acclaimed specialty food store, has been cooking and baking extraordinary dishes for enthusiastic customers in the Hamptons. For many of those years, people have tried to get the exuberant owner, Ina Garten, to share the secrets of her store. Finally, the energy and... Read more >

My Life in France

Written by Julia Child and Alex Prud'Homme

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $15.00

Julia Child singlehandedly created a new approach to American cuisine with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef, but as she reveals in this bestselling memoir, she was not always a master chef.


Indeed, when she first arrived in France in 1948 with... Read more >

Rustic Fruit Desserts
Crumbles, Buckles, Cobblers, Pandowdies, and More
Written by Cory Schreiber and Julie Richardson

Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: April 28, 2009
Price: $22.00

An early fall cobbler with blackberries bubbling in their juice beneath a golden cream biscuit. A crunchy oatmeal crisp made with mid-summer’s nectarines and raspberries. Or a comforting pear bread pudding to soften a harsh winter’s day. Simple, scrumptious, cherished–these heritage desserts featuring local fruit are thankfully experiencing a long-due revival.

In... Read more >

The Pleasures of Cooking for One

Written by Judith Jones

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: September 29, 2009
Price: $27.95

From the legendary editor of some of the world’s greatest cooks—including Julia Child and James Beard—a passionate and practical book about the joys of cooking for one.

Here, in convincing fashion, Judith Jones demonstrates that cooking for yourself presents unparalleled possibilities for both pleasure and experimentation: you can utilize whatever ingredients appeal... Read more >

Giada's Kitchen
New Italian Favorites
Written by Giada De Laurentiis

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $32.50

She’s taught us every facet of Italian cooking—from traditional and regional to seasonal and contemporary. She even made us fall in love with pasta again by opening us up to lighter, healthier versions that don’t weigh us down. Now the Food Network star and bestselling author of Everyday Pasta, Giada De... Read more >

Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume 1

Written by Julia Child, Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle

Format: Trade Paperback, 752 pages
On Sale: September 12, 1983
Price: $30.00

The only cookbook that explains how to create authentic French dishes in American kitchens with American foods. Teaches the key techniques of French cooking, permitting many variations on a theme. Over 100 instructive drawings. Read more >

BabyCakes
Vegan, (Mostly) Gluten-Free, and (Mostly) Sugar-Free Recipes from New York's Most Talked-About Bakery
Written by Erin McKenna

Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $24.00

Forget everything
you’ve heard about
health-conscious baking.

Simply, BabyCakes is your key to an enlightened, indulgent, sweets-filled future. This is important news not only for parents whose children have allergies, for vegans, and for others who struggle with food sensitivities, but also for all you sugar-loving traditionalists. The recipes in these... Read more >

A Year in Lucy's Kitchen
Seasonal Recipes and Memorable Meals
Written by Lucy Waverman

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $29.95

One of Canada’s favourite culinary personalities returns with the companion volume to  the award-winning Lucy’s Kitchen — an inspirational collection of recipes for every month of the year.

The resurgence of farmers’ markets, along with economic, environmental and health concerns have more and more people cooking for themselves. Now with Lucy’s... Read more >

Everyday Food: Great Food Fast

Written by Martha Stewart Living Magazine

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $24.95

No matter how busy you are, at the end of the day you want fresh, flavorful meals that are easy to prepare. And you want lots of choices and variations—recipes that call for your favorite foods and take advantage of excellent (and readily available) ingredients. In the first book from the... Read more >

Rachael Ray's Big Orange Book
Her Biggest Ever Collection of All-New 30-Minute Meals Plus Kosher Meals, Meals for One, Veggie Dinners, Holiday Favorites, and Much More!
Written by Rachael Ray

Format: Trade Paperback, 360 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $24.95

In the 10 years since she served up her first 30-minute meal—and thousands of delectable dinners later— Rachael Ray has learned just about all there is to know about getting a great tasting meal on the table in a hurry, whether it is one of her patented 30-minute miracles or something... Read more >

Eating
A memoir
Written by Jason Epstein

Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $25.00

Jason Epstein, the legendary editor and publisher of Norman Mailer, Vladimir Nabokov, Gore Vidal, and E. L. Doctorow, among many other distinguished writers, and the editor of such great chefs and bakers as Alice Waters, Wolfgang Puck, and Maida Heatter, takes us on a culinary tour through his eventful life, beginning... Read more >