Flavour with Benefits
by Cathy Connally and Charley Best

Kindle Edition
Hard Cover (recommended)

Flavour with Benefits: France will inspire you to plan the trip of your dreams and indulge in flavours that deliver a pleasant surprise. Co-authors, Cathy Connally and Charley Best, are obsessed with developing new approaches to iconic flavours served with a side-dish of travel. Flavour with Benefits: France is the first book in the series.

Green Fire:
Extraordinary Ways to Grill Fruits and Vegetables, from the Master of Live-Fire Cooking
by Francis Mallmann

Kindle Edition
Hard Cover


In Green Fire, explore the flavourful potential of cooking vegetables—caramelized, charred, smoked, and always delicious—using chef Francis Mallmann’s acclaimed live-fire cooking method. Divided seasonally, each of the more than 80 vegetarian dishes will become your main meal and not the side. Enjoy also Mallmann’s impressive seasonings, sauces, and finishings with Argentine influences. Spring artichoke and fava salad, salt-baked beets with lemon confit, and cabbage steaks with a mustard fennel crust are just a few of the stars. And desserts and cocktails are included, too.

Francis Mallmann's teachings can also be found on ...

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The Flavor Bible
by Karen Page and Andrew Dornenburg

Kindle Edition
Hard Cover

Great cooking goes beyond following a recipe -- it's knowing how to season ingredients to coax the greatest possible flavor from them. Thousands of ingredient entries, organized alphabetically and cross-referenced, provide a treasure trove of spectacular flavor combinations. Readers will learn to work more intuitively and effectively with ingredients; experiment with temperature and texture; excite the nose and palate with herbs, spices, and other seasonings; and balance the sensual, emotional, and spiritual elements of an extraordinary meal.

Yum & Yummer
by Greta Podleski

Paperback

Healthy recipes that actually taste great, with plenty of gluten-free, dairy-free and vegan options, plus good ol’ fashion comfort foods with a healthy twist and splurge-worthy treats. YUM & YUMMER is packed with “ridiculously tasty recipes that’ll blow your mind, but not your diet!” + how-to videos for EVERY recipe.

Taste
by Stanley Tucci

Kindle Edition
Hard Cover

From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci, Taste is a reflection on the intersection of food and life, filled with anecdotes about his growing up in Westchester, New York; preparing for and shooting the foodie films Big Night and Julie & Julia; falling in love over dinner; and teaming up with his wife to create meals for a multitude of children. Each morsel of this gastronomic journey through good times and bad, five-star meals and burned dishes, is as heartfelt and delicious as the last.

Anti-Inflammation Cookbook
by Amanda Haas with Dr. Bradly Jacobs

Kindle Edition
Hard Cover

Recent research reveals that inflammation has a negative impact on general wellness and can worsen many common health conditions. Eating certain foods and avoiding others can be a highly effective way to diminish and manage inflammation. In The Anti-Inflammation Cookbook, professional cook and inflammation sufferer Amanda Haas joins forces with Dr. Bradly Jacobs to explain which foods are beneficial and why and to share 65 delicious, simple inflammation-busting recipes.

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