Product Description: Julie & Julia, the bestselling memoir that's "irresistible....A kind of Bridget Jones meets The French Chef" (Philadelphia Inquirer), is now a major motion picture. Julie Powell, nearing thirty and trapped in a dead-end secretarial job, resolves to reclaim her life by cooking in the span of a single year, every one of the 524 recipes in Julia Child's legendary Mastering the Art of French Cooking...read more

Product Description: From the legendary editor who helped shape modern cookbook publishing-one of the food world's most admired figures-comes this evocative and inspiring memoir. Living in Paris after World War II, Jones broke free of bland American food and reveled in everyday French culinary delights...read more

Traces the South Korean author's personal quest for identity and belonging after being abandoned at the age of three and subsequently adopted by a New Orleans couple in a non-Asian community, an effort marked by her relationship with a famous French businessman and his eight children.

Product Description: Startlingly honest, informative, and provocative, this work represents the most comprehensive survey of today's women professional chefs. Over 7,000 women in the food industry across the U.S. responded to Ann Cooper's call. Combined with her tenacious research, hundreds of personal interviews, and over 20 years of professional experience, Cooper has unified the voices of these women to deliver the most informative and inspirational book on the subject...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)