Mahoney, Ellen Voelckers
Summary: "[Profiles] fifteen . . . women have made great strides in the field of food, whether it's coming up with meals for astronauts to eat in space, operating a 20-acre farm, hosting a food podcast, or fighting for food rights"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 MAHNguon, Chantha
Summary: "Chantha Nguon recounts her life as a Cambodia refugee who lost everything and everyone--her house, her country, her parents, her siblings, her friends--everything but the memories of her mother's kitchen, the tastes and aromas of the foods her mother made before the dictator Pol Pot tore her country apart"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NGUON, CHANTHA NGUJones, Judith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 JONSunee, Kim.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food SuneeSummary: Julie Powell is a frustrated insurance worker who wants to be a writer. Trying to find a challenge in her life, she decides to cook her way through Julia Child's 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' in one year, and to blog about it. As Julie begins to find her groove as a cook, and her voice as a writer, the project takes on a life of its own. The project provides the struggling young woman...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD JULCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Julie 2009Jaffrey, Madhur
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5954 JAFHorowitz, Helen Lefkowitz
Summary: Filled with vivid correspondence, fascinating characters, and iconic joie de vivre, this behind-the-scenes look at the supporting team of The French Chef is essential for anyone who adores Julia Child and her legacy.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 641.5092 HORLynch, Barbara
Summary: Blood, Bones, & Butter meets A Devil in the Kitchen in this funny, fierce, and poignant memoir by world-renowned chef, restaurateur, and Top Chef judge Barbara Lynch, recounting her rise from a hard-knocks South Boston childhood to culinary stardom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 LYNVon Bremzen, Anya.
Summary: Born in a surreal Moscow communal apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen, the author grew up singing odes to Lenin, black-marketeering Juicy Fruit gum at school, and longing for a taste of the mythical West. It was a life by turns absurd, drab, naively joyous, melancholy and, finally, intolerable.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 VONSinger, Fanny
Summary: "A cookbook and culinary memoir about growing up as the daughter of culinary legend Alice Waters: a story of food, family, and figuring out who you are"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 SINMcNamee, Thomas
Summary: The authorized biography of Alice Waters and the San Francisco 1970s counterculture food revolution that invented "American cuisine." Not so long ago it was nearly impossible to find a cappuccino or a croissant in this country, most people had no idea what "organic" food was, and even fewer thought about "sustainable farming." But in 1971, in Berkeley, a young Francophile opened a small...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WATERS, ALICE MCNWaters, Alice
Summary: "It has been four and a half decades since Alice Waters opened the doors of Chez Panisse, the 'little French restaurant' in Berkeley, California, that has been at the leading edge of the American culinary revolution ever since. Fueled in equal parts by naïveté and a relentless pursuit of beauty and pure flavor, Alice transformed our relationship with food, fine dining, and what it means to eat...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 WATCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B WATERS WATFrench, Erin
Summary: "Long before The Lost Kitchen became a world dining destination with every seating filled the day the reservation book opens each spring, Erin French was a girl roaming barefoot on a 25-acre farm, a teenager falling in love with food while working the line at her dad's diner and a young woman finding her calling as a professional chef at her tiny restaurant tucked into a 19th century mill. This...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 FRECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Food FrenchSmith, Emma Bland
Summary: "When Fannie Farmer learned to cook in the late 1800s, recipes could be pretty silly. They might call for "a goodly amount of salt" or "a lump of butter" or "a suspicion of nutmeg." Girls were supposed to use their "feminine instincts" in the kitchen (or maybe just guess). Despite this problem, Fannie loved cooking, so when polio prevented her from going to college, she became a teacher at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 FARPouillon, Nora
Summary: "A wonderfully engaging memoir from the woman who founded Restaurant Nora, America's first certified organic restaurant--the natural foods pioneer who, earlier than anyone else, made it her mission to bring organic foods to the American table. The current proliferation of organic food and farm-to-table cuisine owes its existence to this mostly unheralded, groundbreaking woman who changed the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 POUILLON, NORA POUMelian, Gaby
Summary: "Chef and activist Gaby Melian shares her personal journey with food--from growing up in Argentina to her time as a street vendor and later as Bon Appetit's test kitchen manager. Melian explores how we can develop a relationship with food that's personal, healthy, and thoughtful"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 MELPrud'homme, Alex
Summary: "In Paris, Julia devoured recipe books, shopped in outdoor markets, consumed all kinds of foods, and whipped through culinary school. And although she wasn't always successful in the kitchen, she was determined to "master the art" of French cooking. Through perseverance and grit, Julia became a chef who shared her passion with the world, making cooking fun, and turning every meal into a special...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB CHILD PRUAli, Fatima
Summary: "An aspiring young chef explores food and adventure, illness and mortality, coming of age and coming out in an inspiring memoir and family story that sweeps from Pakistan to New York City and beyond. Fatima Ali won the hearts of viewers as the season fifteen "Fan Favorite" of Bravo's Top Chef. After the taping wrapped and before the shows aired, Fati was diagnosed with a rare form of bone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALICora, Cat
Summary: "Before she became a celebrated chef, Cathy Cora was just a girl from Jackson, Mississippi, where days were slow and every meal was made from scratch. Her passion for the kitchen started in her home, where she spent her days internalizing the dishes that would form the cornerstone of her cooking philosophy incorporating her Greek heritage and Southern upbringing-- from crispy fried chicken and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CORA, CAT CORGrant, Phyllis
Summary: "A memoir of coming of age and cooking, with recipes"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 GRASen, Mayukh
Summary: "America's modern culinary history told through the lives of seven pathbreaking chefs and food writers. Who's really behind America's appetite for foods from around the globe? This group biography from an electric new voice in food writing honors seven extraordinary women, all immigrants, who left an indelible mark on the way Americans eat today. Taste Makers stretches from World War II to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company, independent publishers since 1923 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 SENFarrell, Mary Cronk
Summary: Shares the story of the African American women who enlisted in the newly formed Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in World War II, centering the story around Charity Adams, the woman who commanded the only black WAAC battalion sent overseas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 FARThoreau, Henry David
Summary: "Thoreau's most influential works, Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, ask readers to question the status quo and live in accordance with their principles. Over 150 years since their initial publication, Thoreau's reflections on politics, simplicity, and independent living continue to inspire great readers and thinkers. Rediscover this beloved classic in an elegant keepsake edition,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peter Pauper Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.303 THOCooke, Pan
Summary: "A memoir of living with OCD before and after diagnosis"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rocky Pond Books 2024