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Set in Hollywood, Paris, Bordeaux, and Marseille, Peter Mayle’s newest and most delightful novel is filled with culinary delights, sumptuous wines, and colorful characters. It’s also a lot of fun. The story begins high above Los Angeles, at the extravagant home and equally impressive wine cellar of entertainment lawyer Danny Roth. Unfortunately, after inviting the Los Angeles Times to write an extensive profile... (more)

A Vineyard in Tuscany: A Wine Lover's Dream

A Vineyard in Tuscany: A Wine Lover's Dream

by Ferenc Máté

In this intimate and uproarious story, two daring New Yorkers convert an ancient, abandoned farm into a world-renowned winery. Finding your dream house with a vineyard in Tuscany is like searching the woods for porcini mushrooms: a labor of love. Such feats require patience, discernment, resolve, and an indestructible sense of humor. The Mátés’ future home and wine... (more)

Secrets of the Tsil Café

by Thomas Fox Averill

A bittersweet and often funny coming-of-age story set in a cross- cultural and extended family that lives between two kitchens-one traditional, the other New World. Weston Hingler's crib was in the kitchen of BuenAppeTito, his mother's catering service. There, he learned to read while tasting all the flavors of his mother's culinary alphabet. But before he was allowed to enter the Tsil CafŽ, he had to pass his... (more)

Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany

Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany

by Bill Buford

Two for the Road: Our Love Affair with American Food

Two for the Road: Our Love Affair with American Food

by Michael Stern, Jane Stern

Road trip! In this rollicking memoir, Jane and Michael Stern tell what it's like to eat everywhere across the U.S.A. Driving more than three million miles, eating twelve meals a day, they discover not only the pleasure of biscuits and gravy and cherry pie r la mode, but a world of cooks, customers, and fellow roadfood devotees for whom good food is one of life's essentials. Hop into the car for hilarious... (more)

Her Fork in the Road: Women Celebrate Food and Travel (Travelers' Tales)

Her Fork in the Road: Women Celebrate Food and Travel (Travelers' Tales)

by Lisa Bach

Women's relationship to food is passionate and obsessive, embracing and comforting, complex and frustrating. This savory sampling of stories -- by some of the best writers in and out of the food and travel fields -- journeys to the heart of this age-old relationship, taking the reader from the familiar kitchens of contemporary America to the far reaches of the globe. In France, an overly enthusiastic waitress... (more)

Wilderness Cuisine: How to Prepare and Enjoy Fine Food on the Trail and in Camp (Cookbooks and Restaurant Guides)

Wilderness Cuisine: How to Prepare and Enjoy Fine Food on the Trail and in Camp (Cookbooks and Restaurant Guides)

by Carole Latimer

How to Prepare and Enjoy Fine Food on the Trail and in Camp. The author shares 20 years of professional experience cooking for people on wilderness trips. With this book you'll learn how to prepare nutritious, delicious foods in the backcountry.

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The Vintage Caper

by Peter Mayle