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The Paley's Place Cookbook: Recipes and Stories from the Pacific Northwest
by Vitaly Paley and Kimberly Paley and Robert Reynolds
Powells.com Staff Pick
Infuse your cooking with the same enticing magic that Paley creates at his Portland restaurant. With delicious recipes and alluring photographs, this mouthwatering cookbook is the perfect addition to any cook's library. Recommended by Michal, Powells... (read more)
List Price $35.00
Your Price $23.95
Used - Hardcover

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Recipes: A Collection for the Modern Cook Recipes: A Collection for the Modern Cook
by Susan Spungen
Publisher Comments
The renowned food editor of "Martha Stewart Living" magazine teaches home cooks the basic skills that, once learned, make cooking a breeze. The easy-to-make recipes are organized by their primary technique--chopping, sauting, braising, etc. More than 100... (read more)
Your Price $12.98
(Sale - Hardcover)

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Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
by Julie Powell
Powells.com Staff Pick
Finally, someone willing to admit just how dirty a kitchen can get! Powell's story is at once a comic tale of struggling to find one's balance in the adult world, and a witty exploration of why — and how — we cook. Gastronomes, as well as those... (read more)
Your Price $8.98
(Used - Hardcover)

Entertaining

I Like You: Hospitality under the Influence
by Amy Sedaris
Powells.com Staff Pick
A tongue-in-cheek pastiche of recipes and advice for host and guest alike, I Like You will embolden readers to take on any entertaining challenge, be it hosting children, a rich uncle, or a crew of lumberjacks. Recommended by Sheila, Powells.com... (read more)
List Price $15.99
Your Price $11.19
Sale - Trade Paper

Historical Food and Cooking

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan
Powells.com Staff Pick
I talked about this book every morning at the water cooler and every evening at dinner. Pollan takes a possibly dry subject — agriculture — and makes it epic. Recommended by Beth, Powells.com (See all of our Staff Top 5s of 2006)... (read more)
Your Price $10.95
Used - Trade Paper

Bartending and Liquor

Portland Happy Hour Guidebook 2009
by Cindy Anderson
Publisher Comments
Eat, drink, and be happy — and save money too! This 3rd edition of the Portland Happy Hour Guidebook lists more than 250 of the Portland area's very best Happy Hours, including 80 top restaurants scoring a 9 or 10. Use this reknown, definitive guide... (read more)
Your Price $15.00
New - Trade Paper

Dairy and Eggs

Holiday Eggs: A Collection of Inspired Recipes, Gifts, and Decorations Holiday Eggs: A Collection of Inspired Recipes, Gifts, and Decorations
by Georgeanne Brennan
Publisher Comments
This spring Ten Speed Press is pleased to announce the birth of the Culinary Classics and Curios series, a line of long-ago published seminal books for serious cooks and food lovers. Selected by our editors with the help of chef friends, food writers... (read more)
Your Price $8.95
Used - Trade Paper

Sustainable Cooking

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.)
by Barbara Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver
Powells.com Staff Pick
After 25 years in the Arizona desert, in 2004, Kentucky-bred Barbara Kingsolver moved back to the Appalachians, to a Virginia farm just hours from her childhood home. Family called. "Returning," she explains in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, "would allow my... (read more)
List Price $14.95
Your Price $8.00
Used - Trade Paper

General

Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics: Fabulous Flavor from Simple Ingredients
by Ina Garten
Powells.com Staff Pick
Back to Basics operates on a simple premise: use few ingredients, but use the best. Ina Garten encourages cooks to choose fresh herbs and seasonal produce to create simple, flavorful dishes. Plus, the photographs are as tantalizing as the recipes... (read more)
List Price $35.00
Your Price $24.50
Sale - Hardcover

Gastronomic Literature

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything across Italy, India and Indonesia
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Powells.com Staff Pick
Not long after her thirtieth birthday, on the heels of an ugly divorce, Elizabeth Gilbert traveled for a year, to Italy, India, and finally Indonesia. In Italy she wanted to explore the art of pleasure (pasta, wine, handsome men speaking a beautiful... (read more)
Your Price $4.50
Used - Trade Paper

Diet and Nutrition

Skinny Bitch: A No-Nonsense, Tough-Love Guide for Savvy Girls Who Want to Stop Eating Crap and Start Looking Fabulous
by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin
Publisher Comments
Not your typical boring diet book, this is a tart-tongued, no-holds-barred wakeup call to all women who want to be thin. With such blunt advice as, "Soda is liquid Satan" and "You are a total moron if you think the Atkins Diet will make you thin," it's a... (read more)
Your Price $9.50
Used - Trade Paper

Quick and Easy

How to Cook Everything: 2,000 Simple Recipes for Great Food
by Mark Bittman
Publisher Comments
Today's Favorite Kitchen Companion--Revised and Better Than Ever Mark Bittman's award-winning How to Cook Everything has helped countless home cooks discover the rewards of simple cooking. Now the ultimate cookbook has been revised and expanded (almost... (read more)
Your Price $35.00
New - Hardcover

Bestsellers

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The Paley's Place Cookbook
  1. The Paley's Place Cookbook
    by Vitaly Paley and Kimberly Paley and Robert Reynolds
  2. I Like You
    by Amy Sedaris
  3. The Omnivore's Dilemma
    by Michael Pollan
  4. Portland Happy Hour Guidebook 2009
    by Cindy Anderson
  5. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
    by Barbara Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver
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