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The Physiology of Taste: Or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy

Product Description: A delightful and hilarious classic about the joys of the table, The Physiology of Taste is the most famous book about food ever written. First published in France in 1825 and continuously in print ever since, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin’s masterpiece is a historical, philosophical, and epicurean collection of recipes, reflections, and anecdotes on everything and anything gastronomical...read more

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9780307390370 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, October 4, 2011), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A delightful and hilarious classic about the joys of the table, The Physiology of Taste is the most famous book about food ever written.

Walton Ford: Pancha Tantra

Product Description: At first glance, Walton Ford s large-scale, highly-detailed watercolors of animals may recall the prints of 19th century illustrators John James Audubon and Edward Lear, and others of the colonial era. But a closer look reveals a complex and disturbingly anthropomorphic universe, full of symbols, sly jokes, and allusions to the 'operatic' nature of traditional natural history themes...read more

By Bill Buford

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9783822852378 | Taschen America Llc, September 1, 2009, cover price $69.99 | About this edition: At first glance, Walton Ford s large-scale, highly-detailed watercolors of animals may recall the prints of 19th century illustrators John James Audubon and Edward Lear, and others of the colonial era.

Pancha Tantra

Product Description: Natural selection "Audubon-on-Viagra" - New York magazine, New York Walton Ford's life-sized watercolors of animals could be mistaken for 19th-century natural-science illustrations or British colonial paintings. Except they're not...read more

By Bill Buford and Walton Ford (other contributor)

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9783822843864 | Ltd blg edition (Taschen America Llc, December 2, 2007), cover price $2000.00 | About this edition: Natural selection "Audubon-on-Viagra" - New York magazine, New York Walton Ford's life-sized watercolors of animals could be mistaken for 19th-century natural-science illustrations or British colonial paintings.

Pancha Tantra: Art Edition

Product Description: Natural selection ?A Ford exhibition is like a storybook in which animals have inherited the earth.? ? The New York Times, New York Walton Ford's life-sized watercolors of animals could be mistaken for 19th-century natural-science illustrations or British colonial paintings...read more

By Bill Buford, Walton Ford (other contributor) and Paul Kasmin Gallery (contributor)

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9783822851937 | Taschen America Llc, December 2, 2007, cover price $3150.00 | About this edition: Natural selection ?

Heat: An Amateur's Adventures As Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-quoting Butcher in Tuscany

Product Description: From one of our most interesting literary figures – former editor of Granta, former fiction editor at The New Yorker, acclaimed author of Among the Thugs – a sharp, funny, exuberant, close-up account of his headlong plunge into the life of a professional cook...read more

By Bill Buford

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9780786290574 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, November 8, 2006), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: From one of our most interesting literary figures – former editor of Granta, former fiction editor at The New Yorker, acclaimed author of Among the Thugs – a sharp, funny, exuberant, close-up account of his headlong plunge into the life of a professional cook.

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9780385662574 | Reprint edition (Doubleday of Canada, September 11, 2007), cover price $22.01 | About this edition: From one of our most interesting literary figures – former editor of Granta, former fiction editor at The New Yorker, acclaimed author of Among the Thugs – a sharp, funny, exuberant, close-up account of his headlong plunge into the life of a professional cook.

9781400034475 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, June 26, 2007), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The author offers an account of his entry into the world of a professional cook-in-training, documenting his experiences in the kitchen of Mario Batali's restaurant Babbo and his apprenticeships in Italy with Batali's former teachers.

Heat

A staff writer for The New Yorker and author of Among the Thugs offers an exuberant, witty account of his entry into the world of a professional cook-in-training, documenting his experiences in the kitchen of Mario Batali's acclaimed restaurant Babbo, his apprenticeships with Batali's former teachers, his relationship with Batali, and his immersion in the world of food. 100,000 first printing.

By Bill Buford

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9781400041206 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 30, 2006, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Writer Buford's memoir of his headlong plunge into the life of a professional cook.

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9780739315446 | Abridged edition (Random House, November 1, 2004), cover price $25.00

Vespa: Italian Street Style

By Bill Buford

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9781902686530 | Scriptum Editions, January 30, 2006, cover price $32.15

The New Yorker Out Loud

By Bill Buford (editor)

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9781893059009 | Mercury Records Group, June 1, 1999, cover price $19.95

The Granta Book of the Family

Product Description: This is a collection of fiction, memoir, biography and reportage, focusing on the family, which has been published by Granta since 1980. The collection includes works by Peter Carey, Angela Carter, Raymond Carver, Hugh Collins, Bret Easton Ellis, Louis Erdich, Mikal Gilmore, Michael Ignatieff, Ian Jack, Blake Morrison, Mona Simpson, William Wharton, Geoffrey Wolff, Sousa Jamba, Doris Lessing, Beverly Lowry, Christian McEwen, Tod McEwen, Candia McWilliam, Leonard Michaels and Susan J...read more

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9780964561113 | Granta Books, September 1, 1995, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: An anthology of fiction, memoir, biography, and journalism culled from the pages of Granta magazine explores the meaning of the family and includes the contributions of Saul Bellow, Raymond Carver, Doris Lessing, and Susan J.

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9780964561144 | Reissue edition (Granta Books, May 1, 1997), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This is a collection of fiction, memoir, biography and reportage, focusing on the family, which has been published by Granta since 1980.

Granta 51: Big Men

By Bill Buford (editor)

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9780140141085 | Penguin USA, July 1, 1995, cover price $11.95

Granta 50

By Bill Buford

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9780140141047 | Granta Books, April 1, 1995, cover price $11.95

Granta 49: Money

By Bill Buford (editor)

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9780140140859 | Granta Books, December 1, 1994, cover price $11.95

Granta 48 Africa

By Bill Buford (editor)

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9780140140842 | Granta Books, September 1, 1994, cover price $12.95

Granta 47: Losers

By Bill Buford (editor)

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9780140140835 | Granta Books, June 1, 1994, cover price $12.95

Granta 46: Crime

By Bill Buford

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9780140140675 | Granta Books, March 1, 1994, cover price $10.95

Granta 45: Gazza Agonistes

Product Description: The latest edition of one of the most impressive international literary magazines of our time. Granta readers around the world, numbering more than 140,000, savor the work of contributors such as Doris Lessing, Saul Bellow, Salman Rushdie, Joan Didion, Louise Erdrich, and Redmond O'Hanlon...read more

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9780140140651 | Granta Books, December 1, 1993, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: The latest edition of one of the most impressive international literary magazines of our time.

Granta 7: Best of Young British Novelists

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By Bill Buford (editor)

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9780140068337 | Reissue edition (Penguin USA, October 1, 1993), cover price $9.95

Granta 44: The Last Place on Earth

Amazon.com Review: Many fine pieces make up this Granta issue. There's Thomas Kern's photo journal of Sarajevo, and Ivan Klima's childhood in Terezin. And then there's Bruce Chatwin and his moleskin journals. From one of them comes a selection titled "The Road to Ouidah," starting 2 January 1971 in Niamey, Niger, and ending 9 February in Cotonou en route to Ouidah...read more

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9780140140637 | Penguin USA, October 1, 1993, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Amazon.

Granta 43: Best of Young British Novelists 2

By Bill Buford (editor)

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9780140140590 | Granta Books, July 1, 1993, cover price $9.95

Among the Thugs

Product Description: They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin' Sammy. They like lager (in huge quantities), the Queen, football clubs (especially Manchester United), and themselves. Their dislike encompasses the rest of the known universe, and England's soccer thugs express it in ways that range from mere vandalism to riots that terrorize entire cities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780393033816 | W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1, 1992, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A journalist who spent eight years traveling with and gathering information on Britain's notorious soccer hooligans chronicles his extraordinary experiences with these dangerous, violent, and fiercely loyal fans

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9780679745358 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, June 1, 1993), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin' Sammy.

Granta 42: Krauts!

Product Description: The latest edition of the impressive international literary magazine features writing so amusing or powerful or urgent that it must be read now. Controversial and throught-provoking, Granta boasts readers around the world, numbering more than 140,000, who savor the contributions of Doris Lessing, Saul Bellow, Salman Rushdie, Joan Didion, and others...read more

By Bill Buford

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9780140140569 | Granta Books, April 1, 1993, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: The latest edition of the impressive international literary magazine features writing so amusing or powerful or urgent that it must be read now.

Granta 41: Biography