The Essential New York Times Cookbook: The Recipes of Record by Amanda Hesser
A KCRW Top 10 Food Book of 2021
A Minnesota Star Tribune Top 15 Cookbook of 2021
A WBUR Here & Now Favorite Cookbook of 2021
The James Beard Award–winning and New York Times best-selling compendium of the paper’s best recipes, revised and updated.
Ten years after the phenomenal success of her once-in-a-generation cookbook, former New York Times food editor Amanda Hesser returns with an updated edition for a new wave of home cooks. She has added 120 new but instantly iconic dishes to her mother lode of more than a thousand recipes, including Samin Nosrat’s Sabzi Polo (Herbed Rice with Tahdig), Todd Richards’s Fried Catfish with Hot Sauce, and J. Kenji López-Alt’s Cheesy Hasselback Potato Gratin.
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Art of the Pie: A Practical Guide to Homemade Crusts by Kate McDermott
Art of the Pie: A Practical Guide to Homemade Crusts, Fillings, and Life
The pie-making classic named one of 2016’s best cookbooks by NPR, Oprah.com, USA Today, Bon Appétit, Cosmopolitan and more.
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The iconic Renaissance songbook—an inspiration to love poets since the fourteenth century—in an elegant, fluid, and inviting translation.
Petrarch’s Canzoniere stands as one of the greatest and most influential collections of love poetry ever written. In a classic story of love at first sight, the young poet expresses in beautiful verse his unrequited reverence for Laura, a muse who would prove as inspirational as Beatrice to Dante. Stricken with grief after Laura’s death, Petrarch transmuted his sorrow onto the page and continued working on the Canzoniere until his own passing. At once movingly romantic and grandly meditative, always present within Petrarch’s lines is a tension between his earthly desire and his spiritual longing for divine grace.
In this monumental translation, the project of a lifetime, renowned poet A.M. Juster preserves the original text’s formal elegance, honoring Petrarch’s rhyme and meter while also capturing the profound religious and philosophical undertones that imbue the work. R
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Citrus: A World History by David J. Mabberley
Citrus traces the history of today's global superfood from its cultivation in the ancient world from just a handful of original wild species, via Arab trade routes, the noble collectors of medieval Europe, imperial conquerors on the high seas, and merchants betting on the highest-value fruit crop ever known.The story of citrus permeates human history, as recorded in the literature and art of civilizations from antiquity to the present day. When Alexander the Great’s army swept over the Persian Empire, they found the citron: the first citrus fruit known in the West. During the Napoleonic wars, British ships carried lemons and limes to protect their sailors against scurvy; the "Limeys" ruled the waves.