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Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise


Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise


$4.90


Ruth Reichl, world-renowned food critic and editor in chief of Gourmet magazine, knows a thing or two about food. She also knows that as the most important food critic in the country, you need to be anonymous when reviewing some of the most high-profile establishments in the biggest restaurant town in the world—a charge she took very seriously, taking on the guise of a series of eccentric per…

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly


Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly


$9.69


New York Chef Tony Bourdain gives away secrets of the trade in his wickedly funny, inspiring memoir/expose. Kitchen Confidential reveals what Bourdain calls “twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine.” Last summer, The New Yorker published Chef Bourdain’s shocking, “Don’t Eat Before Reading This.” Bourdain spared no one’s appetite when he told all about what happens behind th…

Charlotte Au Chocolat: Memories of a Restaurant Girlhood


Charlotte Au Chocolat: Memories of a Restaurant Girlhood


$6.59


Like Eloise growing up in the Plaza Hotel, Charlotte Silver grew up in her mother’s restaurant. Located in Harvard Square, Upstairs at the Pudding was a confection of pink linen tablecloths and twinkling chandeliers, a decadent backdrop for childhood. Over dinners of foie gras and Dover sole, always served with a Shirley Temple, Charlotte kept company with a rotating cast of eccentric staff member…