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  <title><![CDATA[I'm Just Here for the Food: Version 2.0]]></title>
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  <default_description>Eight years ago, Alton Brown set out to create a cooking show for a new generation. The result was &lt;I&gt;Good Eats&lt;/I&gt;, one of Food Network's most popular programs. Four years ago, Brown set out to write a cookbook for people who would rather understand their food than follow a recipe. A mix of cutting-edge graphics and a fresh take on preparing food, &lt;I&gt;I'm Just Here For the Food&lt;/I&gt; became one of the bestselling cookbooks of the year&amp;#151;and received the James Beard Foundation/KitchenAid Book Award as best reference book. &lt;BR&gt;&lt;BR&gt;This year, to commemorate and celebrate this success story (more than 300,000 copies in print), STC is pleased to announce &lt;I&gt;I'm Just Here For the Food: The Director's Cut&lt;/I&gt;. This special edition features 10 brand-new recipes, 20 pages of additional material, a jacket that folds out into a poster, and a removable refrigerator magnet&amp;#151;along with everything that made the original a classic instruction manual for the kitchen. Each of the book's 15 sections is a module on a given cooking method&amp;#151;from pan searing to pressure cooking, stewing to steaming&amp;#151;with a &amp;#147;master&amp;#148; recipe and a varied selection of recipes that epitomize the technique. The text is accented throughout with food facts, history and lore, and science.</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Alton Brown]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[For many years I've been addicted to the off-beat cooking show filled with unabashed geekery known far and wide as <em>Good Eats</em> on food network. I feel a certain kinship with <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Alton Brown" title=" Alton Brown"> Alton Brown</a>. He's from north Georgia, an unashamed geek, and he loves food of all kinds but has a deep love of true local cuisi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40941338">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Feb 18 18:28:10 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent book if you want to learn to cook - as opposed to follow recipes!!]]></body>
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    <review id="13597474">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Anyone who eats food.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Everyone who cooks should own this book. Alton Brown's humorous and informative show, &quot;Good Eats&quot; on the Food Network has long been a family favourite to watch and this book is just as quirky, funny, a bit theatrical even and most importantly, informative as his TV program with the added c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13597474">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Feb 29 20:25:17 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Mar 04 19:48:09 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Cooking rocks, especially when it's cooking the scientific way! The best thing about this cook book is the chapter set up. Rejecting the canonical cook book set up of soup, poultry, meat, seafood, and dessert, Brown organizes his book by cooking method i.e. grilling, searing, roasting, braising. The...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16740236">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="69433412">
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Aug 30 08:26:05 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Aug 30 08:31:17 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Full of Brown's usual mix of humor, science and flavor, I love this book.  It's not the kind of book you'll grab to reference recipes from before a dinner party.  It's the kind of book you'll read and pass on to friends so they can learn too.  <br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <review id="63931034">
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Aug 06 16:59:37 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I borrowed this one from the library...as I've learned to do with cookbooks.  This one was loaded with the fabulous bits of trivia one gets when watching Alton's show, but didn't have a tremendous amount of new recipes for me.  I think people new to cooking would find this a valuable tool in the &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63931034">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="47958266">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Mar 01 20:19:33 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Mar 01 20:21:44 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[More than just a cook book. Incredible insights, and a must for anyone who really likes to eat good food.  The history spots, highlights, and philosophical approach are top notch.]]></body>
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    <review id="45139602">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Awesome!  The book has some cool recipes, but it's real value is in between.  If you want to know how and why cooking works, you need to check this book out!]]></body>
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    <review id="60449492">
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    <name><![CDATA[Bekk1227]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[The 1st cook book I've read cover to cover.  Written in the same jovial-science-guy style as Alton's show, &quot;Good Eats&quot;.  I enjoyed it thoroughly.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="73997565">
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  <date_added>Fri Oct 09 13:36:44 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm Just Here for the Food: Kitchen User's Manual (I'm Just Here for the Food) by Alton Brown (2003)]]></body>
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    <review id="41841419">
    <user id="1328307">
    <name><![CDATA[Michelle]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 08 06:28:41 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jan 04 10:24:33 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Love Alton, love Good Eats, love this book.  The man knows it all about food and presents it in a really entertaining way.  Loved it!]]></body>
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    <review id="75368934">
    <user id="716290">
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 22 08:43:17 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Oct 22 08:43:01 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is awesome! I think I am going to add to my &quot;must-own-books&quot; list. ]]></body>
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    <review id="55515827">
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  <date_updated>Sat May 09 16:24:20 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book so much I made my brother get it for me for Christmas!]]></body>
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    <review id="40916430">
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    <body><![CDATA[Christmas gift to replace the library copy of the 1st edition that I'd been consulting.]]></body>
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    <review id="44213692">
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    <name><![CDATA[Ron]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I ABsolutely love this book! This was my second time reading it through, cover-to-cover. A great, very enjoyable exploration of cooking, with some recipes thrown in for good measure. What's the difference between a sear and a braise? Check out this book! Why are Mickey Mouse ears central to cooking?...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44213692">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48325253">
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I rarely watch TV and have only seen &quot;Good Eats&quot; two or three times, so picking up this book was a whim for me.  Truly, this is one of the most compendious books on the subject of cooking that I have read, and it includes so many excellent tips on proper cookware purchases, making recipes ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48325253">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6245185">
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Having grown up on the red-checked cookbook and Edna Rumbauer's classic, it is with great delight that I find a humor-laden text dealing with theoretical cooking. Brown answers the how's and why's of cooking in addition to giving some very good recipes. This book shows up in the standard version and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6245185">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Alton Brown really breaks down the secrets of cooking.  In a matter of fact manner, he explains the why's and how's of recipes, brining, braising, microwaving, etc.  There are diagrams and inserts, magnets and cartoonish characters that engage the reader.  This book is just as charming as his Food N...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13906557">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like how AB explains how recipes and the food cooking' process works.  Instead of telling me to put food in the oven for 24 minutes he explains the reason behind it.  It also comes with fridge magnets shaped like animals with the cuts of meat on it.  Whooo hoo! <br/><br/>Then again... AB's quirk...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11374831">more...</a>]]></body>
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