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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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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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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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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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Skinny Legs and All
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Tom Robbins
An Arab and a Jew open a restaurant together across the street from the United Nations . . . . It sounds like the beginning of an ethnic joke, but it's the axis around which spins this alarmingly provocative book. In his audacious and humorous style, world-class storyteller Tom Robbins deals with the most se nsitive issues of the day--from race ...
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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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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
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Anthony Bourdain, Lord
"I've been a chef in New York for more than ten years, and, for the decade before that, a dishwasher, a prep drone, a line cook, and a sous-chef. I came into the business when cooks still smoked on the line and wore headbands." After twenty-five years of 'sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine', chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain has decided ...
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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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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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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 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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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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On the Line
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Eric Ripert, Christine Muhlke (Editor)
"On The Line" is an exciting tale of how a restaurant stays on top for over 25 years - the hard work and fierce discipline, the checklists and systems, the precarious balance between order and chaos, the joy of making irresistible food. We meet everyone at le Bernardin from the chef de cuisine and "sauce whisperer" to a sous chef working the saute ...
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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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Tantalize
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Cynthia Leitich Smith
Werewolves, vampires, and human hybrids all work up an appetite, in this delicious debut novel of dark fantasy, young love, and culinary secrets.
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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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The Restaurant: From Concept to Operation
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John R Walker
This book comprehensively covers opening and running a restaurant - revised and updated. A successful restaurant is a dream business. It offers guests a fabulous experience, while the restaurateur gets an exciting workplace, creative license, and potentially nice profit margins. Of course, restaurant success does not arrive on a silver platter. It ...
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Bone in the Throat
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Anthony Bourdain
All is not well at the Dreadnaught Grill, the chef has a drug habit, the owner has been set up by the FBI and sous-chef Tommy is trying to make the perfect seafood chowder. Unfortunately, he owes his mobster uncle, and soon finds himself and a gangster in a compromising position with a meat-slicer.
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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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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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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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Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know about Fast Food
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Eric Schlosser, Charles Wilson
In this "New York Times" bestseller, Schlosser ("Fast Food Nation") and Wilson unwrap the fast-food industry, offering a behind-the-scenes look at a business that both feeds and feeds off the young. This paperback edition includes a discussion guide, a new Afterword, and supplemental information with healthy eating resources for kids.
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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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