books about: restaurants

books about: restaurants

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Restaurants

Bobby Flay's Mesa Grill Cookbook: Explosive Flavors from the Southwestern Kitchen

Bobby Flay

Clarkson Potter, 2007

Great flavors with restaurant quality results
This is one of my new favorites. The results have been extremely good. Some recipes are relatively fast to make while the super tasty duck taco recipe involves making 3 different sauces. However, once some of the sauces are made, they can be frozen and used in other ...

The South Beach Diet Dining Guide: Your Reference Guide to Restaurants Across America (The South Beach Diet)

Arthur Agatston

Rodale Books, 2005

Doesn't feel like a diet at all...
A supplement to the South Beach diet, this list of chain restaurants and their menus helps make the South Beach plan not feel like a diet at all

Eat This Not That!: Thousands of Simple Food Swaps That Can Save You 10, 20, 30 Pounds-or More!

David Zinczenko, Matt Goulding

Rodale Books, 2007

Dense but understandable
Eat This Not That!: Thousands of Simple Food Swaps That Can Save You 10, 20, 30 Pounds-or More! By Dense, I mean fact filled, not hard to read or understand. Clever illustrations break up the food and serving related facts that we all benefit from being familiar with. ...

Clotilde's Edible Adventures in Paris

Clotilde Dusoulier

Broadway, 2008

Never steered us wrong!
Just returned from our first trip to Paris and ate at about 7-8 of the recommended restaurants/shops in this book. EVERY recommendation was perfect; I don't think I've ever had a travel guidebook that seemed so spot on! The shops Ms Dusoulier mentions are charming ...

Fast Food Nation

Eric Schlosser

Harper Perennial, 2005

Unexpected, but enjoyable.
I will warn all of you future readers: this is a great book and is rather historical in content. Contrary to my common thought that this whole book was bashing the fast food industry, it really did neither. Instead he really shows how fast food originated, how it ...

Kitchen Confidential Updated Ed: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (P.S.)

Anthony Bourdain

Harper Perennial, 2007

Good Book Now Even Better
For anyone who's ever done any kind of commercial cooking this book, and it's earlier version, is a MUST read. I'm a retired line cook and I can assure all potential readers that Tony knows of what he speaks. For 'civilians', the avid home cook or the addicted ...

The French Laundry Cookbook

Thomas Keller

Artisan, 1999

Great
This is book is amazing. It came just as described and shipping was on time. I'm so glad that it was all wrapped up as promised in the original plastic seal.

The Biggest Loser Calorie Counter: The Quick and Easy Guide to Thousands of Foods from Grocery Stores and ...

The Biggest Loser Experts And Cast

Rodale Press, 2006

Get It- and Be the Biggest Winner
The first 27 pages of this book consist of "tips" for losing weight. This includes things such as: -the Biggest Loser diet in a nutshell -how to keep a food journal -how to read labels -a section where the Biggest Losers from the show share their favorite foods ...

Crack the Fat-Loss Code

Wendy Chant

McGraw-Hill, 2008

CARB CYCLING
Crack the Fat-Loss Code is based on the theory that our bodies "evolved" to resist starvation by holding on to fat. The author, Wendy Chant, explains that we can overcome our inherent natural cycles that control the storing and burning of calories by boosting our ...

Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting ...

Bill Buford

Vintage, 2007

Very entertaining
Bill Buford writes a highly entertaining book. Heat is good for 3 reasons. One, Bill is humble. It's very easy to forget that the author was an editor for the New Yorker. It's also very easy to forget how successful/famous Mario Batali and his restaurants are; ...

Last Night at the Lobster

Stewart O'Nan

Viking Adult, 2007

Perfect afternoon read...
For the last night at another chain restaurant, this story is a one afternoon read for any restaurant working veteran. The everydays that make a restaurant's pulse race as well as slow are channeled through a narration is captured concisely and swiftly. The book ...

Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook: Strategies, Recipes, and Techniques of Classic Bistro Cooking

Anthony Bourdain

Bloomsbury USA, 2004

If You Must Have Only One Cook Book Then This Must Be It
That's a big statement but I can tell you with all honesty. This is the best cookbook I've ever read, more importantly it is the best cookbook I've ever USED. And, do I use it often, YES! Here Tony Bourdain shines not only as an amusing and talented writer but exposes ...

Dinner with a Perfect Stranger: An Invitation Worth Considering

David Gregory

WaterBrook Press, 2005

a thoughtful interaction with Jesus
I just finished this book and I must say I was surprised. It was very good. My initial worry was that it would be fluffy, but the portrait of Jesus struck the right balance between his being compassionate and winsome on the one hand, but far from passive or a push-over ...

The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food

Jennifer 8 Lee

Twelve, 2008

Lively, bright, readable, entertaining, educational, enlarging
The opening chapters of this book by Jenneifer 8. Lee have a merry verve. Who invented chop suey, a dish unknown in China? Who was this General Tso, anyway? (A Chinese Colonel Sanders, perhaps?) Can it be true that Japanese invented the fortune cookie? (Gasp!) ...

The Disneyland Encyclopedia: The Unofficial, Unauthorized, and Unprecedented History of Every Land, ...

Chris Strodder

Santa Monica Press, 2008

Lots of info in a compact, readable package
(Not sure why the first reviewer gushed about the book but only gave it two stars.) Author Chris Strodder has written a very comprehensive but easily readable history of just about everything that's ever existed in the Original Magic Kingdom. This is the kind of ...