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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
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Eric Schlosser
To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar America. Schlosser, a National Magazine Award-winning journalist, charts the fast food industry's enormous impact on our health, landscape, economy, politics and culture as he transforms the way America thinks about what it eats.
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Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives: An All-American Road Trip...with Recipes!
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Guy Fieri, Ann Volkwein
The Food Network star takes readers on a tour of America's most colorful diners, drive-ins, and dives, in this tie-in to his enormously popular television show. B&w photos throughout.
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
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Anthony Bourdain, Lord
After twenty-five years of 'sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine', chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain has decided to tell all. From his first oyster in the Gironde to his lowly position as a dishwasher in a honky-tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown; from the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop the Rockefeller Center to drug dealers in the ...
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Top Secret Restaurant Recipes: Creating Kitchen Clones from America's Favorite Restaurant Chains
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Todd Wilbur (Illustrator)
In 1996, Americans spent over $100 billion gobbling up meals at full-service American restaurant chains. Wilbur's collection of knock-off recipes for 110 of the most popular of these dishes--absolutely indiscernible from the originals--includes fare from Red Lobster, Pizza Hut, The Olive Garden, Chi-Chi's, and many others. 65 illustrations.
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Top Secret Restaurant Recipes 2: More Amazing Clones of Famous Dishes from America's Favorite Restaurant Chains
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Todd Wilbur (Illustrator)
The kitchen clone recipe king is back with a new "Top Secret Restaurant Recipes" collections - the first since his 1997 bestselling "Top Secret Restaurant Recipes", which has sold over one million copies worldwide. Wilbur takes readers behind the scenes of big-name restaurants like Olive Garden, Applebee's and Outback Steakhouses, revealing the ...
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Skinny Legs and All
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Tom Robbins
Tom Robbins' novel offers insights on some of the major problems of our time - race, religion, politics and lust. The author's previous novels include "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" and "Jitterbug Perfume".
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Roadfood: The Coast-To-Coast Guide to 700 of the Best Barbecue Joints, Lobster Shacks, Ice Cream Parlors, Highway Diners, and Much, Much More
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Jane Stern, Michael Stern
The authors of the incomparable Encyclopedia of Bad Taste present an updated edition of the classic guide to America's best diners, small-town cafes, BBQ joints, and other eateries serving great, inexpensive regional foods.
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In-N-Out Burger: A Behind-The-Counter Look at the Fast-Food Chain That Breaks All the Rules
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Stacy Perman
"In-N-Out Burger" is the story of where the fast food industry began but not where it ended up. This is the story of a unique and profitable business that not only defies all expectations but also exceeds them. It is a lesson in the sly counterintuitive approach to doing business that places quality, the customer and employees first. The chain has ...
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Table for Two: Summer Desserts\Lessons Learned
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Nora Roberts
Two delectable tales of romance from the best-selling author includes Summer Desserts, in which dessert chef Summer Lyndon, who is determined never to fall in love, finds herself tempted by her deliciously sexy boss Blake Cocharan, and Lessons Learned, in which publicist Juliet Trent is unexpectedly
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The South Beach Diet Dining Guide: Your Reference Guide to Restaurants Across America
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Dr. Arthur Agatston, M.D.
An essential tool for success on the South Beach Diet, this guide features a user-friendly format, an expansive list of foods, FAQs organized by phase and designed to answer dieters' most common questions, as well as information on nutrition and healthy eating.
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Empire Falls
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Richard Russo
In Richard Russo's lengthy fifth novel--this one set in a small Maine town--the Empire Grill provides the focus for the town's inhabitants, who include Miles Roby, who manages the place; Francine Whiting, the wealthy woman who owns it; Jimmy the cop; and Miles's large, eccentric, and often comic extended family. Many plots intertwine as the ...
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French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew
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Peter Mayle
Mayle's ability to get the locals talking, his sense of humor, and his love for a good meal propel him around the French countryside to a variety of food festivals.
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The Blue Bistro
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Elin Hilderbrand
The last summer in the life of a popular Nantucket restaurant--and the romance between its owner and a new employee--is described by the author of "The Beach Club."
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Carmine's Family-Style Cookbook: More Than 100 Classic Italian Dishes to Make at Home
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Michael Ronis, Mary Goodbody
For those who love big platters of hearty, rich Italian food, this cookbook--from the celebrated New York restaurant--shares its secrets for more than 100 perfect Italian recipes. Photos throughout.
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Honk and Holler Opening Soon
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Billie Letts
A paraplegic Vietnam vet runs a diner in Oklahoma. The waitress is an African-American widow with a troublesome teenage daughter. The cook is a Vietnamese immigrant who gets into a fight to the death with a local bigot. And a Native-American woman with a wounded dog shows up. This quartet manages to find happiness, and the Honk & Holler Café is at ...
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Twisted Creek
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Jodi Thomas
The first contemporary novel by the Queen of Texas Romance ("Midwest Book Review") is the story of a downtrodden woman who inherits a caf in a small Texas lake community and discovers that the only cure for bad luck is gaining the courage to love. Original.
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Summer by the Sea
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Susan Wiggs
Another season begins in the seaside resort town of Winslow, Rhode Island, and Rosa Capoletti's life takes an unexpected turn when her childhood sweetheart arrives back in town. Now Rosa learns that in love, as in life, there are second chances. Original.
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The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food
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Jennifer 8 Lee
If you think McDonald's is the most ubiquitous restaurant experience in America, consider that there are more Chinese restaurants in America than McDonalds, Burger Kings, and Wendys combined. New York Times reporter and Chinese-American (or American-born Chinese). In her search, Jennifer 8 Lee traces the history of Chinese-American experience ...
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In the Kitchen
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Monica Ali
From the bestselling author of "Brick Lane" comes her long-awaited second novel that takes readers into a rich and fascinating London subculture--the intoxicating world of chefs and kitchen denizens from every culture and class in London.
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The McDonaldization of Society 5
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Dr. George Ritzer
One of the most noteworthy and popular sociology books of all time, The McDonaldization of Society demonstrates the power of the sociological imagination to today's readers in a way that few books have been able to do. It is ideal for use in a wide range of undergraduate courses and will be of equal interest to anyone intersted in social criticism ...
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe
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Fannie Flagg
Released for the first time in mass market paperback, this classic and folksy novel takes readers back to the thirties, where a friendship blooms between two girls who run a homey, little cafe in Alabama. A story of food, love, laughter, and even murder unfolds as an elderly woman relates her life story to a middle-aged friend.
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Counter Intelligence: Where to Eat in the Real Los Angeles
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Jonathan Gold
Gold is a hound for the best food in all of Los Angeles. In "Counter Intelligence" he collects the best of what he has eaten across the city in an alphabetically organized guide that covers broad, deep ethnic and traditional food outlets. Ratings, pricing information and cross-references by location and food type make this book easy to use.
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New York Cookbook: From Pelham Bay to Park Avenue, Firehouses to Four-Star Restaurants
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Molly O'Neill
New York is America's kitchen: a mecca for food from around the country and the world. Collected from all five boroughs by New York Times food writer Molly O'Neill, here are over 400 recipes and 500 photos that celebrate one thing--a passion for food and eating. Partial royalties earned go to the Citymeals-on-Wheels charity. Winner of a 1992 IACP ...
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Flamingo Diner
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Sherryl Woods
When her father tragically dies, Emma Killian returns to her small Florida hometown to face a mountain of secrets and debts, and the responsibility of keeping the family diner afloat. Original.
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Quentins
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Maeve Binchy
Quentins is a Dublin restaurant, and when filmmaker Ella Brady arrives to do a documentary on the place, she finds out more than she bargained for. Maeve Binchy brings back some of her old characters and creates many new ones to tell the story of a restaurant and the people behind it.
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