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Cooking and Food

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  1. Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes
    $25.00 Hardcover add to wishlist
  2. The the Green Bride Guide: How to Create an Earth-Friendly Wedding on Any Budget
    $14.99 Trade Paper add to wishlist
  3. Home Made Preserves, 75 Step-By-Step: Delicious Easy-To-Follow Recipes for Jams, Jellies and Sweet Conserves, with 300 Fabulous Photographs.
    $9.99 Trade Paper add to wishlist
  4. 500 Cookies, Biscuits and Bakes: An Irresistible Collection of Cookies, Scones, Bars, Brownies, Slices,
    $29.99 Hardcover add to wishlist
  5. Rachael Ray's Big Orange Book
    $24.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist
  6. The Everything Green Wedding Book: Plan an Elegant, Affordable, Earth-Friendly Wedding (Everything)
    $15.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist
  7. Oregon: The Taste of Wine
    $24.95 Hardcover add to wishlist
  8. The Complete Robuchon
    $35.00 Hardcover add to wishlist

    The Complete Robuchon

    Joel Robuchon
  9. Bridal Bargains Wedding Planner: The Dollars & Sense Guide to Planning Your Wedding
    $17.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist
  10. Not for Bread Alone: Writers on Food, Wine, and the Art of Eating
    $13.99 Trade Paper add to wishlist
  11. The Everything Jewish Wedding Book: Mazel Tov! from the Chuppah to the Hora, All You Need for Your Big Day (Everything)
    $15.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist
  12. The Instinct Diet: Use Your Five Food Instincts to Lose Weight and Keep It Off
    $24.95 Hardcover add to wishlist


US Pacific Northwest

The Paley's Place Cookbook: Recipes and Stories from the Pacific Northwest
by Vitaly Paley and Kimberly Paley and Robert Reynolds
Powells.com Staff Pick
Infuse your cooking with the same enticing magic that Paley creates at his Portland restaurant. With delicious recipes and alluring photographs, this mouthwatering cookbook is the perfect addition to any cook's library. Recommended by Michal, Powells... (read more)
List Price $35.00
Your Price $24.50
Sale - Hardcover

Sale Books

Fields of Plenty: A Farmer's Journey in Search of Real Food and the People Who Grow It Fields of Plenty: A Farmer's Journey in Search of Real Food and the People Who Grow It
by Michael Ableman
Publisher Comments
Illustrated with evocative color photographs of the land and the people who work it organically, and accompanied by a bountiful selection of recipes, this beautifully written memoir reveals the power of food as a personal and cultural force.... (read more)
Your Price $12.98
(Sale - Hardcover)

Used Books

You: On a Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management You: On a Diet: The Owner's Manual for Waist Management
by Michael F. Roizen M.D. and Mehmet C. Oz M.D.
Publisher Comments
Provides advice, an eating plan, and exercises designed to help people achieve a sustained loss of abdominal fat and live a healthier life.... (read more)
Your Price $17.50
(Used - Hardcover)

Entertaining

I Like You: Hospitality under the Influence
by Amy Sedaris
Powells.com Staff Pick
A tongue-in-cheek pastiche of recipes and advice for host and guest alike, I Like You will embolden readers to take on any entertaining challenge, be it hosting children, a rich uncle, or a crew of lumberjacks. Recommended by Sheila, Powells.com... (read more)
List Price $15.99
Your Price $11.19
Sale - Trade Paper

Gastronomic Literature

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan
Powells.com Staff Pick
I talked about this book every morning at the water cooler and every evening at dinner. Pollan takes a possibly dry subject — agriculture — and makes it epic. Recommended by Beth, Powells.com (See all of our Staff Top 5s of 2006)... (read more)
Your Price $16.00
New - Trade Paper

Bartending and Liquor

Portland Happy Hour Guidebook 2009
by Cindy Anderson
Publisher Comments
Eat, drink, and be happy — and save money too! This 3rd edition of the Portland Happy Hour Guidebook lists more than 250 of the Portland area's very best Happy Hours, including 80 top restaurants scoring a 9 or 10. Use this reknown, definitive guide... (read more)
Your Price $15.00
New - Trade Paper

Dairy and Eggs

Cheese Hors D'Oeuvres: 50 Recipes for Crispy Canapes, Delectable Dips, Marinated Morsels, and Other Tasty Tidbits Cheese Hors D'Oeuvres: 50 Recipes for Crispy Canapes, Delectable Dips, Marinated Morsels, and Other Tasty Tidbits
by Hallie Harron
Synopsis
Cheese, in its many glorious flavors and forms, is the inspiration for the simple, elegant recipes in this beautifully photographed book. Hallie Harron uses her expertise to create 50 hot and cold cocktail snacks, finger foods, hors d'oeuvres, and other... (read more)
Your Price $12.95
New - Hardcover

Sustainable Cooking

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.)
by Barbara Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver
Powells.com Staff Pick
After 25 years in the Arizona desert, in 2004, Kentucky-bred Barbara Kingsolver moved back to the Appalachians, to a Virginia farm just hours from her childhood home. Family called. "Returning," she explains in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, "would allow my... (read more)
Your Price $8.50
Used - Trade Paper

General

Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics: Fabulous Flavor from Simple Ingredients
by Ina Garten
Powells.com Staff Pick
Back to Basics operates on a simple premise: use few ingredients, but use the best. Ina Garten encourages cooks to choose fresh herbs and seasonal produce to create simple, flavorful dishes. Plus, the photographs are as tantalizing as the recipes... (read more)
List Price $35.00
Your Price $24.50
Sale - Hardcover

Diet and Nutrition

Skinny Bitch: A No-Nonsense, Tough-Love Guide for Savvy Girls Who Want to Stop Eating Crap and Start Looking Fabulous
by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin
Publisher Comments
Not your typical boring diet book, this is a tart-tongued, no-holds-barred wakeup call to all women who want to be thin. With such blunt advice as, "Soda is liquid Satan" and "You are a total moron if you think the Atkins Diet will make you thin," it's a... (read more)
List Price $13.95
Your Price $9.50
Used - Trade Paper

Quick and Easy

How to Cook Everything: 2,000 Simple Recipes for Great Food
by Mark Bittman
Publisher Comments
Today's Favorite Kitchen Companion--Revised and Better Than Ever Mark Bittman's award-winning How to Cook Everything has helped countless home cooks discover the rewards of simple cooking. Now the ultimate cookbook has been revised and expanded (almost... (read more)
Your Price $35.00
New - Hardcover

Natural Healing

The Farm to Table Cookbook: The Art of Eating Locally
by Ivy Manning
Powells.com Staff Pick
Farm to Table is my favorite cookbook since Sally Schneider's A New Way to Cook. Ivy Manning has a similar style to Sally in that she not only provides great recipes, she also teaches you how to cook — and how to use the produce you find throughout... (read more)
Your Price $29.95
New - Hardcover

Bestsellers

Tuesday, January 6, 2009
The Paley's Place Cookbook
  1. The Paley's Place Cookbook
    by Vitaly Paley and Kimberly Paley and Robert Reynolds
  2. I Like You
    by Amy Sedaris
  3. The Omnivore's Dilemma
    by Michael Pollan
  4. Portland Happy Hour Guidebook 2009
    by Cindy Anderson
  5. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
    by Barbara Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver
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