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Latest: February 1, 2012

Budgeting for good food

How to shop and cook real meals for pennies

Eight recent books with strategies, recipes, and more.

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Latest: January 9, 2012

Man with a Pan

Culinary Adventures of Fathers Who Cook for Their Families

A guy who ran a pie company finally discovers a love of baking.

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Classic Indian Cooking

by Julie Sahni

Renewing America’s Food Traditions

Saving and Savoring the Continent’s Most Endangered Foods

by Gary Paul Nabhan

The Glorious Foods of Greece

Traditional Recipes from the Islands, Cities, and Villages

by Diane Kochilas

Good Calories, Bad Calories

Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease

by Gary Taubes

Deep Economy

The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future

by Bill McKibben

Jigger, Beaker, and Glass

Drinking Around the World

by Charles H. Baker, Jr.

European Peasant Cookery

by Elisabeth Luard

Best Food Writing 2008

by Holly Hughes

The Compassionate Carnivore

Or, How to Keep Animals Happy, Save Old MacDonald’s Farm, Reduce Your Hoofprint, and Still Eat Meat

by Catherine Friend

Fruitless Fall

The Collapse of the Honeybee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis

by Rowan Jacobsen

Eating Korean

From Barbecue to Kimchi, Recipes from My Home

by Cecilia Hae-Jin Lee

Hip Kosher

175 Easy-to-Prepare Recipes for Today’s Kosher Cooks

by Ronnie Fein

Chez Panisse Fruit

by Alice Waters

Hungry Monkey

A Food-Loving Father’s Quest to Raise an Adventurous Eater

by Matthew Amster-Burton

Ambitious Brew

The Story of American Beer

by Maureen Ogle

Milk

The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages

by Anne Mendelson
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