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In the Green Kitchen
Crown Publishing Group 2010; US$ 28.00Alice Waters has been a champion of the sustainable, local cooking movement for decades. To Alice, good food is a right, not a privilege. In the Green Kitchen presents her essential cooking techniques to be learned by heart plus more than 50 recipes?for delicious fresh, local, and seasonal meals?from Alice and her friends. She demystifies the... more...
The Art of Simple Food
Crown Publishing Group 2010; US$ 35.00New York Times . Her simple but inventive dishes focus on a passion for flavor and a reverence for locally produced, seasonal foods. With an essential repertoire of timeless, approachable recipes chosen to enhance and showcase great ingredients, The Art of Simple Food is an indispensable resource for home cooks. Here you will find Alice?s philosophy... more...
Chez Panisse Pasta, Pizza, Calzone
Random House Publishing Group 2011; US$ 20.00This classic cookbook brings together 87 recipes for pasta sauces and 36 pizza and calzone recipes, as well as tasty pasta doughs, such as buckwheat, red pepper and saffron. Featuring beautiful line drawings throughout, the book is a feast for the eyes as well as the palate. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...
Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook
Random House Publishing Group 2011; US$ 21.95This timeless addition to the Chez Panisse paperback cookbook library assembles 120 of the restaurant's best menus, including galas, festivals, and special occasion meals that have become such gustatory celebrations. A full range of menus is featured, from picnics to informal suppers. Line drawings. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...
Recipes and Lessons from a Delicious Cooking Revolution
Penguin Books Ltd 2011; Not AvailableA champion of organic, locally produced and seasonal food and founder of acclaimed Californian restaurant Chez Panisse, Alice Waters explores the simplest of dishes in the most delicious of ways, with fresh, sustainable ingredients a must, even encouraging cooks to plant their own garden. From orange and olive salad to lemon curd and ginger snaps,... more...
An Everlasting Meal
Scribner 2011; US$ 15.00Reviving the inspiring message of M. F. K. Fisher?s How to Cook a Wolf ? written in 1942 during wartime shortages? An Everlasting Meal shows that cooking is the path to better eating. Through the insightful essays in An Everlasting Meal, Tamar Adler issues a rallying cry to home cooks. In chapters about boiling water, cooking eggs and beans,... more...
My Bombay Kitchen
University of California Press 2007; US$ 32.95The Persians of antiquity were renowned for their lavish cuisine and their never-ceasing fascination with the exotic. These traits still find expression in the cooking of India's rapidly dwindling Parsi population?descendants of Zoroastrians who fled Persia after the Sassanian empire fell to the invading Arabs. The first book published in the United... more...
From the Ground Up
Random House Publishing Group 2013; US$ 26.00An inspiring story for everyone who?s ever dreamed of growing the food they eat When Jeanne Nolan, a teenager in search of a less materialistic, more authentic existence, left Chicago in 1987 to join a communal farm, she had no idea that her decades-long journey would lead her to the heart of a movement that is currently changing our nation?s... more...
Slow Food
Columbia University Press 2003; US$ 16.99Slow Food is poised to revolutionize the way Americans shop for groceries, prepare and consume their meals, and think about food. The book not only recalls the origins, first steps, and international expansion of the movement from the perspective of its founder, it is also a powerful expression of the organization's goal of engendering social... more...
Slow Food Nation
Rizzoli 2013; US$ 8.95By now most of us are aware of the threats looming in the food world. The best-selling Fast Food Nation and other recent books have alerted us to such dangers as genetically modified organisms, food-borne diseases, and industrial farming. Now it is time for answers, and Slow Food Nation steps up to the challenge. Here the charismatic leader of... more...









