The Chefs Collaborative Cookbook

Local, Sustainable, Delicious Recipes from America’s Great Chefs

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May 2, 2013

Produce labels, explained.

Feeding the Hungry Ghost

Life, Faith, and What to Eat for Dinner

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March 8, 2013

What are you hungry for?

The Mindful Carnivore

A Vegetarian’s Hunt for Sustenance

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November 16, 2012

Did European colonists hunt here?

Cooking By Hand

The dance of the pear

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October 12, 2012

‘To keep a pear in mind as it ripens is to practice cooking in its simplest form,’ writes Paul Bertolli.

Get Your Pitchfork On!

The Real Dirt on Country Living

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July 30, 2012

Managing your basil crop, with advice from a former farmer.

French Kids Eat Everything

How Our Family Moved to France, Cured Picky Eating, Banned Snacking, and Discovered 10 Simple Rules for Raising Happy, Healthy Eaters

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July 20, 2012

Why choice isn’t everything.

A Different Kind of Luxury

Japanese Lessons in Simple Living and Inner Abundance

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May 14, 2012

A farmer’s wisdom.

Making Piece

A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Pie

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April 3, 2012

To cope with her grief, Beth Howard turned to pie-baking.

America’s First Cuisines

Exploring the path of early foods

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March 21, 2012

A classic work of culinary history explains why certain New World foods found favor in the Old World.

Sear, Sauce, and Serve

Mastering High-Heat, High-Flavor Cooking

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February 17, 2012

How to sauté correctly.

Man with a Pan

Culinary Adventures of Fathers Who Cook for Their Families

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January 9, 2012

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

Let Them Eat Shrimp

The Tragic Disappearance of the Rainforests of the Sea

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December 5, 2011

Mangroves in trouble.

Odd Bits

How to Cook the Rest of the Animal

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October 18, 2011

A quick lesson on choosing and cooking marrow bones.

Forgotten Skills of Cooking

The Time-Honored Ways Are the Best

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September 20, 2011

How to buy and prepare fresh fish.

American Wasteland

How America Throws Away Nearly Half of its Food

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September 9, 2011

Do we throw away more food because we don’t make it ourselves?

In the Small Kitchen

100 Recipes from Our Year of Cooking in the Real World

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August 26, 2011

Tips for hosting a successful, stress-free brunch party.

Homemade Cheese

Recipes for 50 Cheeses from Artisan Cheesemakers

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July 21, 2011

You’ve got to start with good milk.

A Feast at the Beach

A French food memoir

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July 8, 2011

Recollections of one man’s childhood visits to Provence.

An Extravagant Hunger

The Passionate Years of M.F.K. Fisher

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June 6, 2011

A new book explores the life of one of America’s favorite food writers.

The Commonsense Kitchen

500 Recipes Plus Lessons for a Hand-Crafted Life

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May 6, 2011

Learning to cook.

Excerpts

At our table sit many authors: cooks, critics, journalists, memoirists, humorists, and more. Join us here for excerpts from their work.

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Dinner Guest

Cooking phases

Change in our kitchens

Reflections on cooking — and a career that’s based largely at the stove.

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Breads of India

Flatbreads from around the continent

Local Flavors

Using the whole vegetable

Leaf love

The Produce Diaries

Leeks

Beyond a supporting role

First Person

La Cosa Nostra

The great Sicilian-Neapolitan kitchen rivalry

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