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The nominees for the 2003 James Beard Awards have been announced. Established in 1990, The James Beard Foundation Awards recognize cookbook authors, restaurants, chefs, food and beverage journalists, broadcasters, and restaurant and graphic designers. More than 60 awards will be presented. To select the nominees and the winners, independent volunteer panels of more than 500 food and beverage professionals from around the country vote on specific award categories. Winners receive a bronze medallion engraved with the image of James Beard. The cookbook awards are divided up into thirteen categories: Americana , Baking, General / Cooking For Every Day, General / Cooking From A Professional Point of View, International, Literary, Mediterranean, Reference, Single Subject, Tools & Techniques, Vegetarian / Healthy Focus, Wine & Spirits, and Photography. The KitchenAid Cookbook of the Year is selected from the following list of nominees. CATEGORY: AMERICANAFoods of the Southwest Indian NationsBy Lois Ellen Frank
http://www.ecookbooks.com/products.html?item=02812 Jessica’s Biscuit Price: $21.00 Retail Price: $35.00 You Save: 40% In this gloriously photographed book, renowned photographer and Native American food expert Lois Ellen Frank, herself part Kiowa, presents more than 80 recipes that are rich in natural flavors and perfectly in tune with today’s healthy eating habits.
Legends of Texas Barbecue Cookbook By Robb Walsh
http://www.ecookbooks.com/products.html?item=02796 Jessica’s Biscuit Price: $13.26 Retail Price: $18.95 You Save: 30% “Legends of Texas Barbecue Cookbook” delivers both a practical cookbook and a guided tour of Texas barbecue lore, giving readers straightforward advice right from the pit masters themselves. Their time-honored tips, along with 85 closely guarded recipes, reveal a lip-smacking feast of smoked meats, savory side dishes, and an awesome array of mops, sauces, and rubs.
Savoring America By Janet Fletcher, Ray Overton, Michael McLaughlin, Abby Dodge, Kerri Conan and Cynthia Nims
http://www.ecookbooks.com/products.html?item=03439 Jessica’s Biscuit Price: $27.96 Retail Price: $39.95 You Save: 30% Written by a team of renowned regional authors, this volume is a tribute to our country’s diverse culinary traditions. With more than 125 recipes, all shown as finished dishes, 200 breathtaking color photos, 50 delightful watercolors, and a hand-drawn map.
CATEGORY: BAKING Baking by Flavor By Lisa Yockelson
http://www.ecookbooks.com/products.html?item=02692 Jessica’s Biscuit Price: $31.50 Retail Price: $45.00 You Save: 30% Flavor is the very essence of fine baking, the source of wonderful tastes and aromas that tempt the palate and delight the senses. In this volume, Lisa Yockelson shares flavor-boosting secrets that can make virtually any recipe burst with new vigor and freshness.
Baking in America By Greg Patent
http://www.ecookbooks.com/products.html?item=03446 Jessica’s Biscuit Price: $21.00 Retail Price: $35.00 You Save: 40% Taking as his starting point 1796, the year the first American cookbook was published, Greg Patent, an accomplished baker, has mined sources from across the country for exemplary baking recipes by and for home cooks. Perusing old cookbooks, journals, and handwritten diaries from libraries and private archives, he has skillfully recreated treasured recipes or used them as inspiration for his own thoroughly up-to-date creations.
Paris Sweets Great Desserts from the City’s Best Pastry Shops By Dorie Greenspan
http://www.ecookbooks.com/products.html?item=03567 Jessica’s Biscuit Price: $15.60 Retail Price: $26.00 You Save: 40% The author of “Baking with Julia” and the award-winning “Desserts By Pierre Herme” has written a book for everyone who loves Paris and dessert. Charmingly illustrated throughout and filled with Parisian pastry-shop lore, this collection of fifty sublime recipes will transport readers to the world’s dessert capital.
CATEGORY: GENERAL / COOKING FOR EVERY DAYAppetite By Nigel Slater
http://www.ecookbooks.com/products.html?item=03384 Jessica’s Biscuit Price: $24.50 Retail Price: $35.00 You Save: 30% Nigel Slater has won the admiration, hearts, and palates of the British cooking world. His irreverent and irresistible approach to preparing great meals with ease and imagination is sure to make a splash on this side of the Atlantic . Local Flavors By Deborah Madison
http://www.ecookbooks.com/products.html?item=02982 Jessica’s Biscuit Price: $23.97 Retail Price: $39.95 You Save: 40% In “Local Flavors,” bestselling cookbook author Deborah Madison takes readers along as she explores farmers’ markets across the country, sharing stories, recipes, and dozens of market-inspired menus. Her portraits of markets from Maine to Hawaii showcase the bounty of America’s family farms and reveal the sheer pleasure to be found in shopping for and cooking with local foods. Sara Moulton Cooks at Home By Sara Moulton
http://www.ecookbooks.com/products.html?item=03565 Jessica’s Biscuit Price: $17.97 Retail Price: $29.95 You Save: 40% Sara Moulton, the star of The Food Network’s “Cooking Live” and “Sara’s Secrets” has written her first cookbook. Speaking directly to her millions of fans, Sara confides her favorite recipes, family stories, tips, and time-saving ways to put together great meals with a minimum of fuss.
CATEGORY: GENERAL / COOKING FROM APROFESSIONAL POINT OF VIEW A Return to Cooking By Eric Ripert and Michael Ruhlman
http://www.ecookbooks.com/products.html?item=03615 Jessica’s Biscuit Price: $30.00 Retail Price: $50.00 You Save: 40% “A Return to Cooking” is Eric Ripert’s personal journey in four different seasons to four different locales to “cook the landscape” and “cook from the guts,” using local seasonal ingredients in home kitchens and experiencing the joys—and occasional disappointments—of this spontaneous, creative act.
The Babbo Cookbook By Mario Batali
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Jessica’s Biscuit Price: $24.00 Retail Price: $40.00 You Save: 40% In the growing Mario Batali restaurant empire, Babbo remains the jewel in the crown and one of the hottest reservations in town. Here, the Babbo experience is re-created. In addition to the abundant recipes, there are seasonal menus and sidebars that illuminate the small details setting Babbo apart, from the way they prime the wine glasses to the fresh, local ingredients that are the basis of the restaurant’s unforgettable dishes.
Zuni Cafe Cookbook By Judy Rodgers
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Jessica’s Biscuit Price: $21.00 Retail Price: $35.00 You Save: 40% For twenty-four years, in an odd and intimate warren of rooms, San Franciscans of every variety have come to the Zuni Cafe with high expectations and have rarely left disappointed. Here, chef and owner Judy Rodgers provides recipes for Zuni’s most well-known dishes, ranging from the Zuni Roast Chicken to the Espresso Granita.
CATEGORY: INTERNATIONALDarina Allen’s Ballymaloe Cooking School Cookbook By Darina Allen
http://www.ecookbooks.com/products.html?item=03970 Jessica’s Biscuit Price: $31.50 Retail Price: $45.00 You Save: 30% Since its founding in 1981, students at Ireland ’s respected Ballymaloe Cookery School have benefited from Darina Allen’s enthusiastic instruction and keen understanding of what makes food taste good. Now, readers everywhere can learn her techniques, tips, and shortcuts for creating delicious meals at home.
Thai Food By David Thompson
http://www.ecookbooks.com/products.html?item=03242
Jessica’s Biscuit Price: $24.00 Retail Price: $40.00 You Save: 40% Although all the classic, well-loved recipes are here, this magnum opus features hundreds of lesser-known but equally authentic and delicious Thai dishes that will inspire cooks to go beyond green curry chicken ad Thai fish cakes. Thompson’s passion and conviction are infectious; complemented by Earl Carter’s superb photography, this book captures all aspects of dynamic Thai culture and cuisine.
The Turmeric Trail Recipes and Memories from an Indian Childhood By Raghavan Iyer
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Jessica’s Biscuit Price: $22.75 Retail Price: $32.50 You Save: 30% With clear recipes that even a novice can master, this richly woven, deeply personal, and above all, authentic cookbook brings India to life. Anyone who likes to cook, loves Indian food, or is fascinated by Indian culture will relish the recipes, anecdotes, and reflections in this volume.
CATEGORY: LITERARYFood Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition & Health By Marion Nestle
http://www.ecookbooks.com/products.html?item=03247 Jessica’s Biscuit Price: $23.96 Retail Price: $29.95 You Save: 20% By explaining how much the food industry influences government nutrition policies and how cleverly it links its interests to those of nutrition experts, this pathbreaking book helps us understand more clearly than ever before what we eat and why. **This item is currently out-of-stock, but is on order.
Near a Thousand Tables A History of Food By Felipe Hernandez-Armesto
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Jessica’s Biscuit Price: $17.50 Retail Price: $25.00 You Save: 30% “Fast Food Nation” meets “Guns, Germs, and Steel” in this brilliant account of the history of food. “Near A Thousand Tables” is a sampler of civilization; because we meet our environment most intimately when we eat, this is an exploration in historical ecology. Because cooks were the first chemists, this is a history of science. Above all, perhaps, because food is universally appealing and irresistibly topical, this is unashamedly a book of human pleasures.
Salt: A World History By Mark Kurlansky
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Jessica’s Biscuit Price: $16.80 Retail Price: $28.00 You Save: 40% Also available in Paperback: http://www.ecookbooks.com/products.html?item=03938 Jessica’s Biscuit Price: $10.50 Retail Price: $15.00 You Save: 30% As Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates in his world-encompassing new book, salt has shaped civilization from the beginning, and its story is a glittering, often surprising part of the history of mankind. This book is a kaleidoscope of world history, a multi-layered masterpiece that blends political, commercial, scientific, religious, and culinary records into a rich and memorable tale.
CATEGORY: MEDITERRANEANGlorious French Food By James Peterson
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Jessica’s Biscuit Price: $27.00 Retail Price: $45.00 You Save: 40% With a refreshing, broadminded approach that embraces different French cooking styles—from fine dining to bistro-style cooking, from hearty regional fare to nouvelle cuisine—Peterson uses fifty “foundation” French dishes as the springboard to preparing a variety of related dishes. “Glorious French Food” gives everyone who enjoys cooking access to essential French cooking traditions and techniques and helps them give free reign to the intuition and spontaneity that lie in the heart—and stomach—of every good cook.
Make It Italian The Taste & Technique of Italian Home Cooking By Nancy Verde Barr
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Jessica’s Biscuit Price: $17.97 Retail Price: $29.95 You Save: 40% Nancy Verde Barr learned to cook by watching her grandmother, her Nonna, and in this wonderfully instructive and warm-spirited cookbook she translates that experience into a “primer of techniques and taste that will become your Nonna in the Kitchen.”
Rustico By Micol Negrin
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Jessica’s Biscuit Price: $21.00 Retail Price: $35.00 You Save: 40% Fans of Lidia Bastianich, Mario Batali, and Lynn Rosetto Kasper who want to take a further step into the richness of Italian cuisine will treasure this cookbook, the first American cookbook to devote equal attention to every region in Italy . Author Micol Negrin, editor of La Cucina Italiana, visited them all and brought back a glorious variety of recipes found nowhere else.
CATEGORY: REFERENCEI’m Just Here For The Food By Alton Brown
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Jessica’s Biscuit Price: $22.75 Retail Price: $32.50 You Save: 30% As host of Food Network’s “Good Eats,” Alton Brown entertains and informs viewers with a lively mix of wit blended with wisdom, history with pop culture, and science with the kind of common cooking sense that our grandmothers took for granted. In this, his first cookbook, Brown presents readers with an instruction manual for the kitchen, combining 60 wide-ranging recipes with a wealth of culinary information that allows anyone—at any level of expertise—to understand the whys and wherefores of cooking.
Melons for the Passionate Grower By Amy Goldman
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This year’s heirloom tomato is a melon! Acclaimed gardener Amy Goldman, known to viewers of Martha Stewart and PBS, is a dedicated seed saver working to preserve fast-disappearing varieties of heirloom melons. Here she profiles more than one hundred varieties, each showcased in a full-color photographic still life recalling eighteenth and nineteenth century botanical paintings and engravings. Goldman also offers expert advice on cultivating and selecting your own melons, as well as the rudiments of seed saving.
What Einstein Told His Cook By Robert Wolke
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Jessica’s Biscuit Price: $18.16 Retail Price: $25.95 You Save: 30% With the reliability that only a scientist can provide, Robert Wolke provides plain-talk explanations for kitchen mysteries with a liberal seasoning of wit. A professor of chemistry and a lifelong gastronome, he has answered hundreds of questions in his syndicated Washington Post column, Food 101.
CATEGORY: SINGLE SUBJECTA Real American Breakfast By Cheryl Alters Jamison and Bill Jamison
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Jessica’s Biscuit Price: $24.46 Retail Price: $34.95 You Save: 30% In this outstanding new cookbook, the multiple-award winning authors of “American Home Cooking” offer hundreds of delectable meals guaranteed to make breakfast the way it ought to be. Cheryl Alters Jamison and Bill Jamison traveled from coast-to-coast, combing menus from diners, inns, and everything in between to find dishes that represent the American culinary soul. The result is this indispensable collection of recipes—filled with variety, flavor, and fun—that represents the diversity of our cultural tastes and styles.
The Cheese Plate By Max McCalman and David Gibbons
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Jessica’s Biscuit Price: $22.75 Retail Price: $32.50 You Save: 30% The most complete, inviting, and beautiful book to explore the glories of cheese, from selecting them to pairing them with wine and making a sophisticated cheese course. Illustrated with full-color photographs, the authors will inspire readers to enjoy each cheese to the fullest.
The Flavors of Olive Oil A Tasting Guide and Cookbook By Deborah Krasner
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Jessica’s Biscuit Price: $21.00 Retail Price: $30.00 You Save: 30% In “The Flavors of Olive Oil,” Deborah Krasner demystifies the world of olive oil. Olives-just like wine grapes-respond directly to variations in climate, soil, cultivation, and harvest, so each oil is unique. With notes on oils from Italy to Morocco to California , Krasner transports the reader to olive-oil-producing regions around the world.
CATEGORY: TOOLS & TECHNIQUESLet The Flames Begin By Chris Schlesinger and John Willoughby
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Jessica’s Biscuit Price: $18.00 Retail Price: $30.00 You Save: 40% All the secrets, all the fun, and hundreds of great recipes for real grilling! They burst on the culinary scene a dozen years ago with the genre-defining “Thrill of the Grill;” now they’re back to demonstrate once again their cardinal principle: cooking your food can be as much fun as eating it.
Process This!New Recipes for the New Generation of Food Processors By Jean Anderson
http://www.ecookbooks.com/products.html?item=02911 Jessica’s Biscuit Price: $19.25 Retail Price: $27.50 You Save: 30% Today’s food processors are more powerful, accessible, and reliable than ever. In this comprehensive cookbook, award-winning author Jean Anderson begins with an overview for those considering their very first machine as well as cooks replacing earlier models. She then introduces an innovative array of updated recipes—ranging from the simple to the sophisticated—for American favorites and ethnic-inspired dishes.
The Magic of FireHearth Cooking - One Hundred Recipes for the Fireplace or Campfire By William Ruben
http://www.ecookbooks.com/products.html?item=03723 Jessica’s Biscuit Price: $28.00 Retail Price: $40.00 You Save: 30% The open hearth is where American colonials baked their beans, English families took their tea, French country families prepared their pot au feu, and Italian mothers stirred their polenta. “The Magic of Fire” explores both the techniques of hearth cooking and the poetry of hearth and flame through the ages.
CATEGORY: VEGETARIAN / HEALTHY FOCUSPassionate Vegetarian By Crescent Dragonwagon
http://www.ecookbooks.com/products.html?item=03724
Jessica’s Biscuit Price: $24.50 Retail Price: $35.00 You Save: 30% Also available in Paperback http://www.ecookbooks.com/products.html?item=03524 Jessica’s Biscuit Price: $17.46 Retail Price: $24.95 You Save: 30% Whether you’re a committed vegetarian, a dedicated vegan (most recipes offer low-fat and vegan options), or a food-loving carnivore in search of something new and wonderful, this book is not just vegetarian cooking—but cooking, period—at its most creative, inspiring, and exuberant. Packed with 1,000 seductive, sexy, and utterly delicious recipes.
The Healthy Kitchen Recipes for a Better Body, Life, and Spirit By Andrew Weil, MD and Rosie Daley
http://www.ecookbooks.com/products.html?item=02626
Jessica’s Biscuit Price: $17.46 Retail Price: $24.95 You Save: 30% Two of America ’s most popular authorities on healthy eating and cooking join forces in this delectable, inspiring, easy-to-use cookbook. With its 135 fabulous recipes and invaluable information on what constitutes genuinely healthy eating, this revolutionary book will change forever the way you cook for yourself and your family.
The Joslin Diabetes Great Chefs Cook Healthy Cookbook By Frances Towner Giedt, Bonnie Sanders Polin, PhD, and Staff of Joslin Diabetes Center
http://www.ecookbooks.com/products.html?item=03422 Jessica’s Biscuit Price: $21.00 Retail Price: $30.00 You Save: 30% From the James Beard Award-winning authors, this is a collection of more than 120 delectable, healthful recipes for people with diabetes, created by world-class chefs all over the globe. Eating a healthy diet low in fat, sugar, and calories doesn’t mean you have to feel deprived. The authors—both living with diabetes—eat at the finest restaurants in the world and still keep their blood sugars in control.
CATEGORY: WINE & SPIRITSGreat Tastes Made Simple Extraordinary Food and Wine Pairings for Every Palate By Andrea Immer
http://www.ecookbooks.com/products.html?item=03566 Jessica’s Biscuit Price: $19.25 Retail Price: $27.50 You Save: 30% The author of “Great Wine Made Simple” takes the mystery out of pairing food with wine and makes it easy to choose the best wines to accompany everything from barbecue to rack of lamb. Hundreds of wine and food pairing suggestions are highlighted by superb wine-friendly recipes.
Michael Broadbent’s Vintage Wine By Michael Broadbent
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Jessica’s Biscuit Price: $42.00 Retail Price: $60.00 You Save: 30% Unquestionably unique, demonstrably delightful, “Michael Broadbent’s Vintage Wine” is the culmination of one of the most extraordinary careers in the world of wine. Michael Broadbent quite possibly knows more about fine, old wines than anyone else alive, and he writes about them with unparalleled expertise. **This item is currently out-of-stock, but on order.
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Oz Clarke’s New Wine Atlas Wines & Wine Regions of the World By Oz Clarke
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Jessica’s Biscuit Price: $42.00 Retail Price: $60.00 You Save: 30% Fundamental to the understanding of wine is a sense of place. Knowing which country, which region, which vineyard, and even which hillside a wine comes from adds enormously to the pleasure of drinking it. Through its unique cartography—more than seventy-five spectacular, hand-painted panoramic maps—and Oz Clarke’s lively and opinionated prose, this revolutionary atlas illustrates and explains the vital connections between the land, the winemaker, and the wine.
CATEGORY: PHOTOGRAPHYThe Anatomy of a Dish By Diane Foley with Catherine Young Photography by Victor Schrager
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Jessica’s Biscuit Price: $21.00 Retail Price: $35.00 You Save: 40% Diane Forley shows how to build a dish—and a menu—from the vegetable on up in this innovative cookbook that looks at flavors through a botanical prism. Cooks who care to broaden their culinary horizons will find this unique approach as delicious as they’ll find Forley’s recipes, with their straightforward charm and exceptional soaring flavors.
Dishes of France An Insider’s Tour of the Regions and Recipes By Jean-Louis Andre Photography by Jean-Daniel Sudres
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Jessica’s Biscuit Price: $24.50 Retail Price: $35.00 You Save: 30% “Dishes of France ” is not merely a collection of regional French recipes, but a vision of France and all that French culture has invested over the years in the art of fine foods. All of the most emblematic dishes of France are presented, accompanied by recipes, personal accounts, and anecdotes that bring to life each dish’s history; the chef’s techniques, rites, as well as modern variations of the basic recipes.
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