A delightful, delicious, and best-selling account of the gustatory pleasures to be found throughout France, from the beloved author of A Year in Provence.
The French celebrate food and drink more than any other people, and Peter Mayle shows us just how contagious their enthusiasm can be. We visit the Foire aux Escargots. We attend a truly French marathon, where the beverage of choice is Château Lafite-Rothschild rather than Gatorade....

"From the New York Times food editor and former restaurant critic comes a cookbook to help us rediscover the art of Sunday supper and the joy of gathering with friends and family" --

Maybe you can still see it clearly. Your mother, with an apron draped over her Sunday best, standing at the stove, tending to the bubbling pots, sneaking a taste from each one. Somewhere in this memory, you hear the doorbell ring, ushering in aunts, uncles, grandparents, and friends from church, all enveloped in the aromas of Sunday dinner—a pot roast in the oven, warm homemade rolls in a basket on the table, a coconut cake cooling on the counter.

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BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Calvin Trillin's Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin.
“Trillin is our funniest food writer. He writes with charm, freedom, and a rare respect for language.”
–New York magazine
In this delightful and delicious book, Calvin Trillin, guided by an insatiable appetite, embarks on a hilarious odyssey in search of “something decent to eat.” Across time zones...

An "invaluable [and] enormous assortment of easy-to-follow recipes that make putting dinner on the table a stress-free . . . welcoming any level of cook" (Publishers Weekly).
What busy mom or dad isn't looking for the Big Easy? Enter the next title in the popular Big Book series, an essential volume for anyone who needs to race home and get dinner on the table. With more than 270 recipes at the ready, cooking dinner will...

The creators of the popular website The Modern Proper show home cooks how to reinvent what proper means and be smarter with their time in the kitchen to create dinner that everyone will love.

"The Cohens are wildly impractical intellectuals--academics, activists, and artists. The Barlows are Wall Street Journal -reading lawyers steeped in trusts and copyrights, golf and tennis. The two families are reserved with and wary of each other, but tonight, the evening before the wedding that is supposed to unite them in marriage, they will attempt to set aside their differences over dinner in the garden."--From dust jacket.

"An innovative approach to vegetarian cooking, allowing you to use what you already have on hand to make great meals. Starts with just a few ingredients--sweet potatoes, tortillas, eggs, cabbage, hearty greens, beans, winter squash, mushrooms, tofu, summer squash, and cauliflower, which Volger advises readers to stock up on. Home chefs can throw in their own variations and favorite flavors--mixing, matching, and adding ingredients to customize their...