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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.19 — 398,142 ratings — published 2000
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.39 — 99,454 ratings — published 2017
On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.46 — 16,415 ratings — published 1984
The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America's Most Imaginative Chefs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.07 — 24,419 ratings — published 2008
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.19 — 211,993 ratings — published 2006
Joy of Cooking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.12 — 202,257 ratings — published 1931
Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.25 — 79,468 ratings — published 1961
The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.31 — 26,672 ratings — published 2015
My Life in France (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.16 — 94,365 ratings — published 2006
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.95 — 49,110 ratings — published 2005
Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.78 — 38,054 ratings — published 2001
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.07 — 120,481 ratings — published 2008
A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.12 — 32,863 ratings — published 2001
Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 42 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.87 — 49,898 ratings — published 2010
Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.90 — 25,434 ratings — published 2006
The Professional Chef (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.28 — 5,909 ratings — published 1974
How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.00 — 103,183 ratings — published 1998
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.71 — 161,268 ratings — published 2005
Larousse Gastronomique (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.38 — 6,779 ratings — published 1938
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.08 — 26,275 ratings — published 2013
The French Laundry Cookbook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.30 — 10,020 ratings — published 1999
The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.10 — 8,194 ratings — published 1997
Taste: My Life Through Food (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.18 — 100,203 ratings — published 2021
Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking (Ruhlman's Ratios)
by (shelved 35 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,198 ratings — published 2009
Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.08 — 39,629 ratings — published 1998
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.05 — 114,186 ratings — published 2007
Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.39 — 12,520 ratings — published 2012
Catering to Nobody (A Goldy Bear Culinary Mystery, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.83 — 22,796 ratings — published 1990
Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.07 — 26,550 ratings — published 1976
The Art of Eating (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.32 — 6,195 ratings — published 1954
Delicious! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.82 — 37,274 ratings — published 2014
Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.05 — 22,482 ratings — published 2001
Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder (Hannah Swensen, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.68 — 73,987 ratings — published 2000
Yes, Chef (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.86 — 18,858 ratings — published 2012
The Man Who Ate Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.88 — 9,227 ratings — published 1997
The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.69 — 10,689 ratings — published 2007
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.10 — 34,563 ratings — published 2019
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.75 — 78,920 ratings — published 2002
The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.90 — 14,878 ratings — published 2005
The Silver Spoon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.10 — 10,353 ratings — published 1950
Momofuku (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.93 — 14,566 ratings — published 2009
Dying for Chocolate (A Goldy Bear Culinary Mystery, #2)
by (shelved 26 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.81 — 13,125 ratings — published 1992
Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.15 — 141,241 ratings — published 1953
Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,594 ratings — published 2012
The Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfection (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,403 ratings — published 2000
The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.84 — 15,804 ratings — published 2009
The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,936 ratings — published 2003
The Escoffier Cookbook and Guide to the Fine Art of Cookery: For Connoisseurs, Chefs, Epicures Complete With 2973 Recipes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as culinary)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,492 ratings — published 1921
The Last Suppers (A Goldy Bear Culinary Mystery, #4)
by (shelved 23 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.87 — 10,413 ratings — published 1994
Eat a Peach (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as culinary)
avg rating 3.87 — 28,613 ratings — published 2020
“Within all of these species, of course, there still exist tremendous variations in taste, color and texture. Each season produces new tastes, much like a wine from, say, Burgundy does. For most of their natural history, salmon have been wild foods, so their taste, texture and color resist the homogeneity demanded by industrial food production. Every single wild salmon is different. This is part of the gastronomic beauty of the fish, even though it frustrates consumers with palates trained by corporate food to expect conformity. This fact, too, has been written by evolution and the currents of deep time, processes that privilege diversity over uniformity, chaos over control.”
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“The less we cement ourselves to our certainties, the fuller our lives can be.”
― Love & Saffron
― Love & Saffron
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