cooking

Traces the history of the spice trade through the intimate human impulses that inspired and drove it, describing how a centuries-old desire for spice in food, medicine, magic, religion, and sex led to a world-wide search for spices.

Step-by-step instructions explain dozens of essential cooking techniques used at the Culinary Institute of America; includes two hundred simple recipes perfect for practicing new skills.

Patricia Volk shares the lessons she learned about life, love, and food while working in her family's restaurant.

Author Ruth Reichl chronicles her coming-of-age by retelling the stories about her and her family that she heard while sitting at her mother's kitchen table when she was a child.

A social history of the foods of Europe and North America in the 1920's and 1930's, emphasizing technological developments and historical events.

A young boy, bored with his video games, decides to make a black bean soup.

Miss Bun, a rabbit who loves to cook, gets help from Bird, Cat, Frog, and Cow in making a very unusual veggie soup.

Discovering a dusty cookbook of magical recipes, Kelly and her two best friends are surprised when their concoctions produce genuinely magical results and tempt them to consider stirring up trouble with their respective crushes.

A collection of fifty-five kid-friendly recipes with step-by-step instructions and illustrations to show children how to make simple snacks, desserts, and meals.

A collection of recipes for children that includes simple and more complex dishes, with detailed cooking instructions, photos of each completed recipe, and tips for getting children to eat different kinds of food.