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"Ina Garten, the author of thirteen best-selling cookbooks, beloved Food Network personality, Instagram sensation, and the cultural icon whose face has launched a thousand memes, shares her personal story with readers hungry for a seat at her table"--
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"When Valerie Bertinelli turned 60, she said "Enough already!" and ended her battle with the scale for good. She stopped counting calories. She stopped thinking of certain foods as good or bad. She quit saying no and began saying yes, finally learning how to enjoy the pure pleasure of being alive - starting in the kitchen. In short, she learned how to indulge. With this gorgeous cookbook, Valerie shares her secrets for indulging so you can start living...
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Gloo Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Explore the delicious world of Filipino food! A Very Asian Guide to Filipino Food introduces little readers to classic and modern Filipino dishes and provides fun facts about the foods and culture of the Philippines. Learn how adobo got its tangy flavor or about the vibrant purple Filipino vegetable that is used in desserts around the world. Author and illustrator, Amira Humes, immerses you in the joyous world of Filipino culture and, with each colorful...
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Gloo Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Introduces little readers to classic and modern Japanese dishes and provides fun facts about the foods and culture of Japan. Learn about the origins of the beloved curry rice or how slurping your ramen is encouraged"--Provided by publisher.
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Blackstone Publishing
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2024.
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English
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"What we eat matters--to us, and to the planet. Cool food is a game-changing new food category and way of thinking that can help fix the climate. This ... book will show you how to make simple choices, starting today--in the supermarket, in your kitchen, and in the world--to reduce your environmental impact. Hundreds of cool foods exist, but until now have gone largely uncelebrated for their climate-positive powers. Some of these foods may already...
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Gloo Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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"Explore the delicious world of Indian food! A Very Asian Guide to Indian Food introduces little readers to classic and modern Indian dishes and provides fun facts about the foods and culture of India. Learn how to eat with your hands or about all the different combinations of chaat. Author, Julie Ajinkya, takes you on a journey through the diverse and vibrant world of Indian cuisine, where there is something unique for everyone. Illustrated by Aditi...
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Gloo Books
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2024.
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English
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"Introduces little readers to classic and modern dishes and provides fun facts about the foods and culture of Malaysia and Singapore. Learn about the prized bold fruit durian or the many variations of the rich noodle soup laksa"--Provided by publisher.
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In Bite by Bite, poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil explores the way food and drink evoke our associations and remembrances--a subtext or layering, a flavor tinged with joy, shame, exuberance, grief, desire, or nostalgia. Nezhukumatathil restores our astonishment and wonder about food through her encounters with a range of foods and food traditions. From shave ice to lumpia, mangoes to pecans, rambutan to vanilla, she investigates how food marks...
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Union Square Kids
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[2023]
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"Whether people like pepperoni or plain, there's one thing they agree on : pizza is one of the most popular foods in the world. How did this cheesy delight become the go-to food for lunch, dinner, and even breakfast? Get ready to eat up the story of pizza, from the science behind yeast to pizza parties in space...and everything in between!" --Back cover.
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2024.
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Tucked away down a Kyoto backstreet lies the extraordinary Kamogawa Diner, run by Chef Nagare and his daughter, Koishi. The father-daughter duo have reinvented themselves as “food detectives,” offering a service that goes beyond cooking mouth-watering meals. Through their culinary sleuthing, they revive lost recipes and rekindle forgotten memories. From the Olympic swimmer who misses his estranged father's bento lunchbox to the one-hit-wonder...
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2024.
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"The first and definitive history of the use of food in American law and politics as a weapon of conquest and control, a Fast Food Nation for the Black Lives Matter era In 1789, to subjugate Indigenous tribes, George Washington ordered his troops to "ruintheir crops on the ground and prevent them planting more." Destroying the sources of food is just one way that the United States has used nourishment as a political tool. To prevent enslaved people...
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
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First edition.
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"A middle-grade nonfiction book cowritten by Marc Aronson and historian/food writer Dr. Paul Freedmand with contributors Dr. Frederick Douglass Opie, Tatum Willis, Amanda Palacios, and David Zheng. American food and, by extension, American identify is much broader than the phrase "as American as apple pie." In a series of meals that take readers from pre-1492 through today, the text explores this country's identify and history through the lens of...
16) Love Over Money
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Food Matters International PTY LTD
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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LOVE OVER MONEY tells the incredible true story of John Robbins, heir apparent to the Baskin-Robbins ice cream empire, who turns down a billion-dollar inheritance from his father to follow his own truth. John eventually writes a best-selling book that helped to save his father’s life and heal their relationship.
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"Barons is the story of seven corporate titans, their rise to power, and the consequences for everyone else. Take Mike McCloskey, Chairman of Fair Oaks Farms. In a few short decades, he went from managing a modest dairy herd to running the Disneyland of agriculture, where school children ride trams through mechanized warehouses filled with tens of thousands of cows that never see the light of day. What was the key to his success? Hard work and exceptional...
20) La epidemia de los ultraprocesados: por qué comemos cosas que no son comida y cómo dejar de hacerlo
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Urano World Spain
Pub. Date
2024.
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1a. edición.
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Español
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"For the first time in human history, most of our calories come from an entirely novel set of substances called ultra-processed food. There's a long, formal scientific definition, but it can be boiled down to this: if it's wrapped in plastic and has at least one ingredient that you wouldn't find in your kitchen, it's UPF [ultra-processed food]. In this book, Chris van Tulleken . . . marshals . . . evidence to show how governments, scientists, and...
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