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  • Culinary Mastery: A Comprehensive Guide to Kitchen Management by Jimenez, Elizabeth
    Elizabeth Jimenez

    Culinary Mastery: A Comprehensive Guide to Kitchen Management

    "Culinary Mastery: A Comprehensive Guide to Kitchen Management" is a culinary compass that navigates aspiring chefs and seasoned culinary professionals through the intricate art and science of kitchen management. This guide spans from the foundational principles of kitchen hierarchy, layout, and tools to advanced...
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  • She Chef by Snyder, Linda Jacobs
    Linda Jacobs Snyder

    She Chef

    From this five foot tall, hundred pound woman running dinner house kitchens staffed with men, to how to flip an egg in a sauté pan, to a near shoot out at her restaurant in the mountains of Oregon, her experiences are varied and unique....
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  • "How About a Little Lunch?" by Phillips, Marilyn Hayes
    Marilyn Hayes Phillips

    "How About a Little Lunch?"

    A tender homage to much-beloved grandmothers, this unique collection of delicious recipes will bring eager anticipation to your table and a smile on your face as you pore over the delightful stories woven throughout the recipes themselves. The collection of over 500 delicious recipes...
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  • Treyf: My Life as an Unorthodox Outlaw by Altman, Elissa
    Elissa Altman

    Treyf: My Life as an Unorthodox Outlaw

    "[A] gorgeously-written . . . brave and generous memoir" about growing up in a family with conflicting ideas about being Jewish and finding your own path (Dani Shapiro, New York Times-bestselling author of Inheritance). Though culturally Jewish, Elissa Altman was not raised religious. Her...
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  • Poor Man's Feast: A Love Story of Comfort, Desire, and the Art of Simple Cooking by Altman, Elissa
    Elissa Altman

    Poor Man's Feast: A Love Story of Comfort, Desire, and the Art of Simple Cooking

    "[A] smart yet tender tale. . . . Sometimes heartbreaking, often hilarious . . . one of the finest food memoirs of recent years." --The New York Times Book Review For a woman raised by a weight-obsessed mother and a father who rebelled by...
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  • The Last Dance: A Memoir of the Garden Island Grille by Trentlage, Dave
    Dave Trentlage

    The Last Dance: A Memoir of the Garden Island Grille

    Dreams are fickle things, evolving as time passes and circumstances change, spending their lives rolling around the perimeter of our minds, giving us a brass ring to reach for. The pursuit alone can fill a lifetime. When dreams are finally realized, they have the...
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  • A Bakeable Feast by Klecko
    Klecko

    A Bakeable Feast

    "A Bakeable Feast" by Klecko is a memoir of 45 years as a bread baker, poet, emcee and keen observer of a host of co-workers and colleagues from across the globe. Each 'Baking Memory' is a page in length and tells the stories of...
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  • Bonjour Kale: A Memoir of Paris, Love, and Recipes by Beddard, Kristen
    Kristen Beddard

    Bonjour Kale: A Memoir of Paris, Love, and Recipes

    A memoir of love, life, and recipes from the woman who brought kale to the City of LightThe story of how one expat woman left her beloved behind when she moved to France--her beloved kale, that is. Unable to find le chou kale anywhere...
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  • Saved by a Blonde & a Chicken Pot Pie: A Restaurateur's Memoir by Spivak, Bob
    Bob Spivak

    Saved by a Blonde & a Chicken Pot Pie: A Restaurateur's Memoir

    In Saved by A Blonde & A Chicken Pot Pie, restaurateur Bob Spivak recounts growing up in the restaurant business, how athletics and ingenuity helped him succeed despite living with dyslexia, and the lunch meeting that changed the course of his life, personally and...
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  • Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical by Bourdain, Anthony
    Anthony Bourdain

    Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical

    From beloved chef and bestselling author Anthony Bourdain, the riveting true crime tale of deadly cook Mary Mallon-otherwise known as the infamous Typhoid Mary. A riveting true crime tale told by one of the most gripping food writers in history, Typhoid Mary is the...
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  • Kitchen Confidential Annotated Edition: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Bourdain, Anthony
    Anthony Bourdain

    Kitchen Confidential Annotated Edition: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

    A deluxe, annotated edition of Kitchen Confidential to celebrate the life of Anthony Bourdain, featuring new photo insertsOver two decades ago, the New Yorker published a now infamous article, "Don't Eat Before Reading This," by then little-known chef Anthony Bourdain. Bourdain spared no one's...
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  • Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites by Christensen, Kate
    Kate Christensen

    Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites

    A delectable memoir about the transformative power of food, Blue Plate Special is a deeply personal narrative in which food becomes the vehicle for exploring a life. Here, novelist Kate Christensen tells her own story, from her unorthodox childhood in 1960s Berkeley as the...
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  • Paul Hollywood: Bread, Buns and Baking by Dagnell, A. S.
    A. S. Dagnell

    Paul Hollywood: Bread, Buns and Baking

    The son of a baker with a chain of shops on the East coast of England, Paul originally trained as a sculptor. He first turned his hand to the art of bread-making at the age of 17, when he served an apprenticeship within his...
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  • Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-Mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food by King, Michelle T.
    Michelle T. King

    Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-Mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food

    In 1949, a young Chinese housewife arrived in Taiwan and transformed herself from a novice to a natural in the kitchen. She launched a career as a cookbook author and television cooking instructor that would last four decades. Years later, in America, flipping through...
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  • Julia's Cats: Julia Child's Life in the Company of Cats by Barey, Patricia
    Patricia Barey

    Julia's Cats: Julia Child's Life in the Company of Cats

    The world knows Julia Child as the charismatic woman who brought French cuisine to America and became a TV sensation, but there's one aspect of her life that's not so familiar. Soon after the Childs arrived in Paris in 1948, a French cat appeared...
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  • Mrs Beeton and Mrs Marshall: A Tale of Two Victorian Cooks by Kay, Emma
    Emma Kay

    Mrs Beeton and Mrs Marshall: A Tale of Two Victorian Cooks

    The name Mrs Beeton has endured for well over a century, synonymous with all things reassuringly culinary, while her contemporary Agnes Bertha Marshall remains somewhat of an enigma.Both Isabella Beeton and Agnes Bertha Marshall lived within a short distance of each other in Pinner,...
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  • The Language of Baklava: A Memoir with Recipes by Abu-Jaber, Diana
    Diana Abu-Jaber

    The Language of Baklava: A Memoir with Recipes

    Diana Abu-Jaber's vibrant, humorous memoir weaves together delicious food memories that illuminate the two cultures of her childhood--American and Jordanian. Here are stories of being raised by a food-obsessed Jordanian father and tales of Lake Ontario shish kabob cookouts and goat stew feasts under...
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  • The Fermented Man: A Year on the Front Lines of a Food Revolution by Dellinger, Derek
    Derek Dellinger

    The Fermented Man: A Year on the Front Lines of a Food Revolution

    On January 1, 2014, homebrewer and writer Derek Dellinger began a journey that would change everything he thought he knew about fermented food and beverage. For an entire year, Dellinger ate and drank only products that had been created by microbes. Exploring the vast...
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  • Biting Through the Skin: An Indian Kitchen in America's Heartland by Furstenau, Nina Mukerjee
    Nina Mukerjee Furstenau

    Biting Through the Skin: An Indian Kitchen in America's Heartland

    At once a traveler's tale, a memoir, and a mouthwatering cookbook, Biting through the Skin offers a first-generation immigrant's perspective on growing up in America's heartland. Author Nina Mukerjee Furstenau's parents brought her from Bengal in northern India to the small town of Pittsburg,...
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  • Growing up Sylvia'S by Woods, Brenda and Van
    Brenda and Van Woods

    Growing up Sylvia'S

    From the small community of Hemingway, South Carolina, to the streets of New York City, Growing Up Sylvias offers a biography of Sylvia Woods, the Queen of Soul Food, and her husband, Herbert Woods. Written by Sylvias daughter-in-law and son, Brenda and Van D....
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  • Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen by Johnson, Rebecca May
    Rebecca May Johnson

    Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen

    ** INCLUDES A NEW AFTERWORD AND RECIPES ** "An intense, thought-provoking enquiry into the very nature of cooking." -- Nigella Lawson "One of the most original food books I've ever read, at once intelligent and sensuous, witty, provoking and truly delicious." -- Olivia Laing...
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  • The Fixed Stars by Wizenberg, Molly
    Molly Wizenberg

    The Fixed Stars

    From a bestselling writer, an intense and moving memoir about changing identity, complex sexuality, and enduring family relationships--now in paperback At age 36, while serving on a jury, author Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney. Married to a man for nearly...
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  • My Soul Looks Back: A Memoir by Harris, Jessica B.
    Jessica B. Harris

    My Soul Looks Back: A Memoir

    In this captivating new memoir, award-winning writer Jessica B. Harris recalls her youth "surrounded by some of the most famous creative minds of the seventies and eighties...James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Nina Simone" (New York magazine)--in a vibrant, lost era of New York...
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  • Always Home: A Daughter's Recipes & Stories: Foreword by Alice Waters by Singer, Fanny
    Fanny Singer

    Always Home: A Daughter's Recipes & Stories: Foreword by Alice Waters

    A cookbook and culinary memoir about growing up as the daughter of revered chef/restaurateur Alice Waters: a story of food, family, and the need for beauty in all aspects of life. In this extraordinarily intimate portrait of her mother--and herself--Fanny Singer, daughter of food...
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  • Colonel Sanders and the American Dream by Ozersky, Josh
    Josh Ozersky

    Colonel Sanders and the American Dream

    From Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben to the Jolly Green Giant and Ronald McDonald, corporate icons sell billions of dollars' worth of products. But only one of them was ever a real person-Colonel Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken/KFC. From a 1930s roadside café in...
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  • The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats by Stone, Daniel
    Daniel Stone

    The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats

    The true adventures of David Fairchild, a turn-of-the-century food explorer who traveled the globe and introduced diverse crops like avocados, mangoes, seedless grapes--and thousands more--to the American plate. "Fascinating."--The New York Times Book Review - "Fast-paced adventure writing."--The Wall Street Journal - "Richly descriptive."--Kirkus...
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  • Yes, Chef by Samuelsson, Marcus
    Marcus Samuelsson

    Yes, Chef

    JAMES BEARD AWARD NOMINEE - NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY VOGUE - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "One of the great culinary stories of our time."--Dwight Garner, The New York Times It begins with a simple ritual: Every Saturday...
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  • Today's Special: 20 Leading Chefs Choose 100 Emerging Chefs by Phaidon Press
    Phaidon Phaidon Editors

    Today's Special: 20 Leading Chefs Choose 100 Emerging Chefs

    "Expansive in scope, Today's Special aims to capture a snapshot of what the future of dining around the world will look like." - Salon Be ahead of the curve and get to know 100 of the most exciting rising-star chefs from around the world,...
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  • In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain by Vitale, Tom
    Tom Vitale

    In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain

    Anthony Bourdain's long time director and producer takes readers behind the scenes to reveal the insanity of filming television in some of the most volatile places in the world and what it was like to work with a legend. In the nearly two years...
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  • Taste: My Life Through Food by Tucci, Stanley
    Stanley Tucci

    Taste: My Life Through Food

    From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kitchen.Stanley Tucci grew up in an Italian American family that spent every night around the kitchen table. He shared the magic of those...
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  • Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography by Woolever, Laurie
    Laurie Woolever

    Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography

    New York Times bestseller An unprecedented behind-the-scenes view into the life of Anthony Bourdain from the people who knew him best When Anthony Bourdain died in June 2018, fans around the globe came together to celebrate the life of an inimitable man who had...
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  • The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels: A Love Story by Drummond, Ree
    Ree Drummond

    The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels: A Love Story

    New York Times BestsellerWildly popular award-winning blogger, accidental ranch wife, and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Pioneer Woman Cooks, Ree Drummond (aka The Pioneer Woman) tells the true story of her storybook romance that led her from the Los Angeles glitter...
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  • Workhorse: My Sublime and Absurd Years in New York City's Restaurant Scene by Reed, Kim
    Kim Reed

    Workhorse: My Sublime and Absurd Years in New York City's Restaurant Scene

    A razor-sharp look at one woman's nearly two decades in the New York City restaurant scene, including her time working with Joe Bastianich, and what happens when your job consumes your life. ​ By day, Kim Reed was a social worker to the homebound...
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  • An Onion in My Pocket: My Life with Vegetables by Madison, Deborah
    Deborah Madison

    An Onion in My Pocket: My Life with Vegetables

    As a groundbreaking chef and beloved cookbook author, Deborah Madison--"The Queen of Greens" (The Washington Post)--has profoundly changed the way generations of Americans think about cooking with vegetables, helping to transform "vegetarian" from a dirty word into a mainstream way of eating. But before...
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  • The Pink Lady by Family, Sabeen's
    Sabeen's Family

    The Pink Lady

    A cookbook never conceived before....This is no ordinary cookbook; indulge in a flavorful journey, celebrating the inspiring story of Sabeen Mansoor through her amazing food. Starting from childhood until her sad demise due to Covid-19 at the young age of 43, it contains her...
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  • Arbitrary Stupid Goal by Shopsin, Tamara
    Tamara Shopsin

    Arbitrary Stupid Goal

    In Arbitrary Stupid Goal, Tamara Shopsin takes the reader on a pointillist time-travel trip to the Greenwich Village of her bohemian 1970s childhood, a funky, tight-knit small town in the big city, long before Sex and the City tours and luxury condos. The center...
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  • Posts of a Mid-Century Kid by Anderson, Ann V.
    Ann V. Anderson

    Posts of a Mid-Century Kid

    Anderson takes us on a journey to 1950s and 60s Kansas and treats the reader to hometown cooking in her tasty memoir Posts of a Mid-Century Kid. With humor and richly crafted details, she chronicles her mid-century childhood, offering a sampling of another era....
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  • Plenty: A Memoir of Food and Family by Howard, Hannah
    Hannah Howard

    Plenty: A Memoir of Food and Family

    A moving reflection on motherhood, friendship, and women making their mark on the world of food from the author of Feast.Food writer Hannah Howard is at a pivotal moment in her life when she begins searching out her fellow food people--women who've carved a...
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  • The Gastronomical Me by Fisher, M. F. K.
    M. F. K. Fisher

    The Gastronomical Me

    In 1929, a newly married M.F.K. Fisher said goodbye to a milquetoast American culinary upbringing and sailed with her husband to Dijon, where she tasted real French cooking for the first time. The Gastronomical Me is a chronicle of her passionate embrace of a...
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  • At the End of Ceres Street: A Chef's Salute to Portsmouth, New Hampshire by Haller, James
    James Haller

    At the End of Ceres Street: A Chef's Salute to Portsmouth, New Hampshire

    Over fifty years ago, chef and author James Haller found his way to Portsmouth, NH. The charm of this small seaport town and its inhabitants grew into an affection tender and wise, which Haller celebrates in this love letter to the city and to...
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  • 32 Yolks: From My Mother's Table to Working the Line by Ripert, Eric
    Eric Ripert

    32 Yolks: From My Mother's Table to Working the Line

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Hailed by Anthony Bourdain as "heartbreaking, horrifying, poignant, and inspiring," 32 Yolks is the brave and affecting coming-of-age story about the making of a French chef, from the culinary icon behind the renowned New York City restaurant Le Bernardin....
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  • Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook by Waters, Alice
    Alice Waters

    Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook

    The New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed memoir from cultural icon and culinary standard bearer Alice Waters recalls the circuitous road and tumultuous times leading to the opening of what is arguably America's most influential restaurant. When Alice Waters opened the doors of...
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  • Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Powell, Julie
    Julie Powell

    Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously

    The bestselling memoir that's "irresistible....A kind of Bridget Jones meets The French Chef" (Philadelphia Inquirer) that inspired Julie & Julia, the major motion picture directed by Nora Ephron, starring Amy Adams as Julie and Meryl Streep as Julia. Nearing 30 and trapped in a...
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  • Posts of a Mid-Century Kid: Doing My Best, Having Fun by Anderson, Ann V.
    Ann V. Anderson

    Posts of a Mid-Century Kid: Doing My Best, Having Fun

    Anderson takes us on a journey to 1950s and 60s Kansas and treats the reader to hometown cooking in her tasty memoir Posts of a Mid-Century Kid. With humor and richly crafted details, she chronicles her mid-century childhood, offering a sampling of another era....
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  • Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch by French, Erin
    Erin French

    Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch

    From Erin French, owner and chef of the critically acclaimed The Lost Kitchen, a TIME world dining destination, a life-affirming memoir about survival, renewal, and finding a community to lift her up Long before The Lost Kitchen became a world dining destination with every...
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  • Paris, My Sweet: A Year in the City of Light (and Dark Chocolate) by Thomas, Amy
    Amy Thomas

    Paris, My Sweet: A Year in the City of Light (and Dark Chocolate)

    "Feels appropriate to indulge in this sweet and sometimes savory read while filming [in Paris]! I'm loving every tip and recommendation I read and cannot help but feel Emily would too."--Lily Collins, star of Emily in Paris (via Instagram)Forever a girl obsessed with all...
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  • Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook by Bourdain, Anthony
    Anthony Bourdain

    Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

    Medium Raw marks the return of the inimitable Anthony Bourdain, author of the blockbuster bestseller Kitchen Confidential and three-time Emmy Award-nominated host of No Reservations on TV's Travel Channel. Bourdain calls his book, "A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People...
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  • Pancho Villa's Saddle at the Cadillac Bar: Recipes and Memories by Cash, Wanda Garner
    Wanda Garner Cash

    Pancho Villa's Saddle at the Cadillac Bar: Recipes and Memories

    In 1924, Achilles Mehault "Mayo" Bessan and his eighteen-year-old bride journeyed from New Orleans to Mexico, where he ultimately transformed a dirt-floored cantina in Nuevo Laredo into a bar and restaurant renowned across the United States for its fine seafood and fancy cocktails. The...
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  • American Cuisine: And How It Got This Way by Freedman, Paul
    Paul Freedman

    American Cuisine: And How It Got This Way

    Hailed as a "grand theory of the American appetite" (Rien Fertel, Wall Street Journal), food historian Paul Freedman's American Cuisine demonstrates that there is an exuberant, diverse, if not always coherent, American cuisine that reflects the history of the nation itself. Combining historical rigor...
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  • Drive-Thru Dreams: A Journey Through the Heart of America's Fast-Food Kingdom by Chandler, Adam
    Adam Chandler

    Drive-Thru Dreams: A Journey Through the Heart of America's Fast-Food Kingdom

    "This is a book to savor, especially if you're a fast-food fan."--Bookpage This fun, argumentative, and frequently surprising pop history of American fast food will thrill and educate food lovers of all speeds.--Publishers Weekly Most any honest person can own up to harboring at...
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