Bread and Chocolate: My Food Life in San Francisco4 reviews Fran Gage Sasquatch Books, 1999 This book is wonderfully written, with great recipes! + A culinary journey + The chocolate pound cake recipe is worth the price alone! I really love this wonderful, and inspiring book by Fran Gage, who used to own a bakery in my neighborhood. Not just a collection of stories, but interspersed with the prose are recipes culled from her experiences and travels. To me, this is what a cookbook should really be. It's a lovely ...             A Year in the World: Journeys of A Passionate Traveller54 reviews Frances Mayes Broadway, 2007 Great Book + I liked it I just finished this book and loved it, I don't really understand the bad reviews. One I read said she didn't think Mayes's heart was in it. Unbelieveable! It makes me wonder if she really read the book. Mayes' "heart", her heartfelt impressions of the places she visited, ran throughout the ...             In a Sunburned Country405 reviews Bill Bryson Broadway, 2001 A crocodile attack to my funny bone! + A good read before going + Australia thru the eyes of Bill Bryson A visit to with an old friend with map in hand and adventure ahead is what I was to discover upon re-reading Sunburned Country. I first read Bryson's book about his trip to Australia when it was first published and recently recommended it to friends who are traveling with us down under later in the ...             French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating For Pleasure382 reviews Mireille Guiliano Knopf, 2004 Easier than you think My mother recommended this book to me. I'm an extremely busy law student who had zero time to cooking or eat healthy. The first month of law school I gained ten pounds and panicked. I ordered this book online, read it in a weekend, and was thrilled. I've lost the weight I gained moving here, plus ...             A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines121 reviews Anthony Bourdain Harper Perennial, 2002 More Focused Than Bourdain's Television Escapades + Fun! + as if you were with him all along + Great Condition             The Healthy Kitchen: Recipes for a Better Body, Life, and Spirit65 reviews Andrew Weil, Rosie Daley Knopf, 2002 The Peach and Blueberry Cobbler is worth the price of the book... + The Healthy Kitchen: Recipes for Better Body, Life, and Spirit + A healthy versitile cookbook + A lot of good. A lot annoying too.             Kitchen Confidential Updated Ed: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (P.S.)572 reviews Anthony Bourdain Harper Perennial, 2007 A great read! + No Reservations... this book is GREAT! + The best It's amazing where writing talent is found. I originally discovered Bourdain via his "Les Halles Cookbook" -- one of the funniest cookbooks I have ever read. And then slowly, I began to remember -- hadn't this same guy written an earlier book, much more scandalous? Well, this is that earlier ...             Chocolate: A Bittersweet Saga of Dark and Light17 reviews Mort Rosenblum North Point Press, 2005 Modern Tales of Chocolate Pleasures + loved this book + Will appeal both to cooks and to chocolate fans who just like reading about it. + Interesting view of the Chocolate Biz             Chocolat213 reviews Joanne Harris Penguin (Non-Classics), 2000 Exquisite Language + Fantastic, Mouth-Watering + Chocolate Devilish Good + Interesting, much different from the movie + I always hate to read the last page of a good book.             Insatiable: Tales from a Life of Delicious Excess23 reviews Gael Greene Mysterious Press, 2007 Edit Me Please- An Excess of Ego Will I ever finnish this tedious tome? An excess of ego and pointless information. Ruth Reichel's exsquiste "Comfort Me with Apples" benefitted from a genius of editing, I longed for more. With Insatiable I want less. Ms. Greene sometimes writes about food as if it were ad copy. I had to ...             My French Kitchen: A Book of 120 Treasured Recipes12 reviews Joanne Harris, Fran Warde William Morrow Cookbooks, 2006 Nice done + Looks to be pretty tasty, and there's an odd little treat in the chocolate section + A nice addition to your cookbook collection + French Ingredients Not Included             French Women for All Seasons: A Year of Secrets, Recipes, and Pleasure39 reviews Mireille Guiliano Knopf, 2006 The Art of Living a Blissful Life + Oh To Be French.. + French Women for All Seasons + Pleasant Read             Bella Tuscany: The Sweet Life in Italy130 reviews Frances Mayes Broadway, 2000 Bella Tuscany + Bella Tuscany + Bella Tuscany I had re-read Under the Tuscan sun, I love Frances Mayes style of writting and I love I Italy, I could litterly see it in her writing and when I did see actual pictures it was as I imagined love the book and will re-read it to at some time, have gotten her other 2 books as well             Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India12 reviews Madhur Jaffrey Knopf, 2006 Delightful! + Food and family flavor this memoir + Madhur Jaffrey's remembrances of life and food in India + Wonderful Mirror of a Childhood spent in Delhi + Enjoyable             Under the Tuscan Sun434 reviews Frances Mayes Broadway, 1997 Under the Tuscan Sun ISBN 0767900383 - As a fan of lists, I'm always curious about books that make bestseller lists. I rarely read them, but I'm always curious. This was the case with Under the Tuscan Sun until a rather beat-up, unsellable copy fell into my hands. My curiosity, but little else, has been satisfied. ...             Five Quarters of the Orange83 reviews Joanne Harris Harper Perennial, 2002 Beauty of Chocolat, with Increasing Depth + If you loved Chocolat... + Food and tragedy - worth reading + A troubling story, beautifully told             The Silver Spoon157 reviews Phaidon Press Phaidon Press, 2005 Great Italian cooking - not just for chefs or Italian mothers! + THE Italian Kitchen + Great recipes! + Best Cookbook Available + Wow there are a lot of recipes             The Chocolate Connoisseur: For Everyone With a Passion for Chocolate7 reviews Chloe Doutre-Roussel HP Trade, 2006 Great + Like all things, an acquired taste + Perfect I adore this book. At the core of The Chocolate Connoisseur is a true passion for the subject and a completely selfless wish to share it. It tells the history of chocolate as well as the science behind it in a way that is compelling and interesting. But its strongest point is Chloe's ...             A Sweet Quartet: Sugar, Almonds, Eggs, and Butter: A Baker's Tour, Including 33 Recipes3 reviews Fran Gage North Point Press, 2003 Gorgeous writing about basic ingredients + A charming, and compelling tale + The culinary history of dessert-making is fascinating Fran Gage's "A Sweet Quartet" is filled to overflowing with gorgeous writing about four basic baking ingredients: sugar, almonds, eggs, and butter. She refers to these with the charming assertion that they are "the DNA of desserts." Although I'd disagree with her here (in my book, flour would ...             The French Market: More Recipes from a French Kitchen3 reviews Joanne Harris, Fran Warde William Morrow Cookbooks, 2006 Fantastic! + Food lovers book + More Recipes from a French Kitchen This is a fabulous book for anyone interested in fresh French cooking. The recipes are simple and appealing, with most of the required ingredients being easy to locate. Lush color photographs throughout will help to whet your appetite. I've only made two of the soups so far, The Good Wife's Soup ...