http://www.lybrary.com/index.php?cPath=3465 Copyright © 2013 Lybrary.comAvailable in English for the very first time, <i>In the Kitchen with Alain Passard</i> is the first graphic novel to enter the kitchen of a master chef. Over the course of three years, illustrator Christophe Blain trailed acclaimed chef Alain Passard through his kitchens and gardens. With simple yet sublime drawings and thousands of colorful panels, this book gives the reader an inside, uncensored look at the world of Passard, who shocked the food universe in 2001 by removing meat from the menu at his celebrated Paris restaurant, L'Arpege, and dedicating himself to serving vegetables from his own organic farms. This irresistible hardcover combines a portrait of an amazing chef, an inside look at his creative process, and a humorous riff on fine dining culture—plus fifteen recipes for the home kitchen—in one haute cuisine comic book for foodies!http://www.lybrary.com/in-the-kitchen-with-alain-passard-inside-the-world-and-mind-of-a-master-chef-p-274500.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/in-the-kitchen-with-alain-passard-inside-the-world-and-mind-of-a-master-chef-p-274500.htmlTue, 02 Apr 2013 21:31:36 EDT From James Beard Award-winning writer Elissa Altman comes a story that marries wit to warmth, and flavor to passion. Born and raised in New York to a food-phobic mother and food-fanatical father, Elissa was trained early on that <i>fancy is always best</i>. After a childhood spent dining everywhere from Le Pavillion to La Grenouille, she devoted her life to all things gastronomical, from the rare game birds she served at elaborate dinner parties in an apartment so tiny that guests couldn't turn around to the eight timbale molds she bought while working at Dean & DeLuca, just so she could make tall food.<p>But love does strange things to people, and when Elissa met Susan — a small-town Connecticut Yankee with parsimonious tendencies and a devotion to simple living — it would change Elissa's relationship with food, and the people who taught her about it, forever. With tender and often hilarious honesty (and 27 delicious recipes), <i>Poor Man's Feast</i> is a universal tale of finding sustenance and peace in a world of excess and inauthenticity, and shows us how all our stories are inextricably bound up with what, and how, we feed ourselves and those we love.http://www.lybrary.com/poor-mans-feast-a-love-story-of-comfort-desire-and-the-art-of-simple-cooking-p-255319.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/poor-mans-feast-a-love-story-of-comfort-desire-and-the-art-of-simple-cooking-p-255319.htmlSat, 02 Feb 2013 06:34:30 EST Recipes and cookbooks, meals and mouthfuls have framed the way Candace Walsh sees the world for as long as she can remember, from her frosting-spackled childhood to her meat-eschewing college years to her post-college phase as a devoted Martha Stewart's <I>Entertaining</I> disciple.<p>In <I>Licking the Spoon,</I> Walsh tells how, lacking role models in her early life, she turned to cookbook authors real and fictitious (Betty Crocker, Martha Stewart, Mollie Katzen, Daniel Boulud, and more) to learn, unlearn, and redefine her own womanhood. Through the lens of food, Walsh recounts her life's journey—from unhappy adolescent to straight-identified wife and mother to divorcée in a same-sex relationship—and she throws in some dishy revelations, a-ha moments, take-home tidbits, and mouth-watering recipes for good measure. A surprising and rambunctiously liberating tale of cooking and eating, loving and being loved, <I>Licking the Spoon</I> is the story of how—accompanied by pivotal recipes, cookbooks, culinary movements, and guides—one woman learned that you can not only recover but blossom after a comically horrible childhood if you just have the right recipes, a little luck, and an appetite for life's next meal.<BR>http://www.lybrary.com/licking-the-spoon-a-memoir-of-food-family-and-identity-p-227510.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/licking-the-spoon-a-memoir-of-food-family-and-identity-p-227510.htmlTue, 23 Oct 2012 22:30:44 EDT Meet Kathryn Borel, absurd bon vivant and daughter of duty. Now meet her father, Philippe, former chef, eccentric genius, and wine aficionado extraordinaire. Kathryn is like her father in every way but one: she doesn't get it when it comes to wine. And although Philippe has devoted untold parenting hours to delivering impassioned, oenological orations, she has managed to remain unenlightened. But after an accident and a death, Kathryn realizes that by shutting herself off to her father's greatest passion, she will never really know him. So, she proposes a drunken father-daughter road trip. As they drive through the country, meeting with vintners, touring vineyards, laughing, screaming, panicking and fighting, they watch the birth, development and maturation of a very special part of their relationship: the ability to connect over wine. This is the uncensored account of their tour through the great wine regions of France. Kathryn's tale is uniquely told in her fervent and personal voice, and her stories are passionate and unpredictable, shocking and very funny. By turns uproarious, poignant, and filled with cunning little details about wine, CORKED is a book for any reader who has sought a connection with a complex family member or wanted to overcome the paralyzing terror of being faced with a restaurant wine list.<p><i>Corked</i> was featured as one of the best books of 2009 in <i>Quill & Quire</i>, the <i>National Post</i>, <i>Eye Weekly</i>, and <i>The Mark.ca </i>and was shortlisted for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour.</p>http://www.lybrary.com/corked-p-165431.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/corked-p-165431.htmlSat, 21 Apr 2012 09:24:58 EDT What mysteries lie beneath the subtle perfection of the BLT? What is the etymology of the "croissant"? Why did I drink all that scotch? This collection of writing by Jonah Campbell-metalhead, misanthrope, unrepentant good eater-explores the world's finest culinary pleasures. Food & Trembling approaches eating with nothing more than a fierce appetite for the pleasures of the table.http://www.lybrary.com/food-trembling-p-159747.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/food-trembling-p-159747.htmlWed, 11 Apr 2012 01:36:03 EDT "Tell me where you eat, what you eat, and at what time you eat, and I will tell you who you are. "This is the motto of Anka Muhlstein's erudite and witty book about the ways food and the art of the table feature in Honoré de Balzac's <i>The Human Comedy</i>. Balzac uses them as a connecting thread in his novels, showing how food can evoke character, atmosphere, class, and social climbing more suggestively than money, appearances, and other more conventional trappings.<br> Full of surprises and insights, <i>Balzac's Omelet </i>invites you to taste anew Balzac's genius as a writer and his deep understanding of the human condition, its ambitions, its flaws, and its cravings.http://www.lybrary.com/balzacs-omelette-p-143843.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/balzacs-omelette-p-143843.htmlMon, 13 Feb 2012 11:42:19 EST Part love letter to New York, part love letter to Paris, and total devotion to all things sweet. Hello, My Sweets is a personal and moveable feast that's a treasure map for anyone who loves fresh cupcakes and fine chocolate, New York and Paris, and life in general. It's about how the search for happiness can be as fleeting as a sliver of cheesecake and about how the life you're meant to live doesn't always taste like the one you envisioned. Organized into a baker's dozen of delicacies (and the adventures they inspired) that will tempt readers' appetites, Hello, My Sweets is something to savor.http://www.lybrary.com/paris-my-sweet-p-143842.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/paris-my-sweet-p-143842.htmlMon, 13 Feb 2012 11:42:15 EST