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Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics
Fabulous Flavor from Simple Ingredients
Written by Ina Garten

Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $35.00

Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics is the essential Ina Garten cookbook, focusing on the techniques behind her elegant food and easy entertaining style, and offering nearly a hundred brand-new recipes that will become trusted favorites.

Ina Garten’s bestselling cookbooks have con-sistently provided accessible, subtly sophisticated recipes ranging from French classics made... Read more >

Martha Stewart's Cooking School
Lessons and Recipes for the Home Cook
Written by Martha Stewart

Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2008
Price: $45.00

Imagine having Martha Stewart at your side in the kitchen, teaching you how to hold a chef’s knife, select the very best ingredients, truss a chicken, make a perfect pot roast, prepare every vegetable, bake a flawless pie crust, and much more.

In Martha Stewart’s Cooking School, you get just that: a... Read more >

Giada's Kitchen
New Italian Favorites
Written by Giada De Laurentiis

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $32.50

She’s taught us every facet of Italian cooking—from traditional and regional to seasonal and contemporary. She even made us fall in love with pasta again by opening us up to lighter, healthier versions that don’t weigh us down. Now the Food Network star and bestselling author of Everyday Pasta, Giada De... Read more >

Rachael Ray's Big Orange Book
Her Biggest Ever Collection of All-New 30-Minute Meals Plus Kosher Meals, Meals for One, Veggie Dinners, Holiday Favorites, and Much More!
Written by Rachael Ray

Format: Trade Paperback, 360 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $24.95

In the 10 years since she served up her first 30-minute meal—and thousands of delectable dinners later— Rachael Ray has learned just about all there is to know about getting a great tasting meal on the table in a hurry, whether it is one of her patented 30-minute miracles or something... Read more >

My Life in France

Written by Julia Child and Alex Prud'Homme

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2007
Price: $14.95

Julia Child singlehandedly created a new approach to American cuisine with her cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking and her television show The French Chef, but as she reveals in this bestselling memoir, she was not always a master chef.


Indeed, when she first arrived in France in 1948 with... Read more >

Barefoot Contessa at Home
Everyday Recipes You'll Make Over and Over Again
Written by Ina Garten

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: October 24, 2006
Price: $35.00

Throughout the years that she has lived and worked in East Hampton, Ina Garten has catered and attended countless parties and dinners. She will be the first to tell you, though, that nothing beats a cozy dinner, surrounded by the people you love most, in the comfort that only your own... Read more >

The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook

Written by Ina Garten

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: April 6, 1999
Price: $35.00

For more than twenty years, Barefoot Contessa, the acclaimed specialty food store, has been cooking and baking extraordinary dishes for enthusiastic customers in the Hamptons. For many of those years, people have tried to get the exuberant owner, Ina Garten, to share the secrets of her store. Finally, the energy and... Read more >

Barefoot Contessa Family Style
Easy Ideas and Recipes That Make Everyone Feel Like Family
Written by Ina Garten

Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: October 29, 2002
Price: $35.00

Ina Garten, who shared her gift for casual entertaining in the bestselling Barefoot Contessa Cookbook and Barefoot Contessa Parties!, is back with her most enticing recipes yet—a collection of her favorite dishes for everyday cooking. In Barefoot Contessa Family Style, Ina explains that sharing our lives and tables with those we... Read more >

Dessert FourPlay
Sweet Quartets from a Four-Star Pastry Chef
Written by Johnny Iuzzini and Roy Finamore

Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: December 30, 2008
Price: $35.00

Consider the strawberry: its familiar flavor and texture; its fresh, sweet smell. Now imagine the same fruit distilled and carbonated for a refreshing soda, slow-roasted for a reinvented strawberry shortcake, made into a creamy strawberry ice cream and a chewy strawberry leather, and combined with coconut cream and crisp chocolate pastry... Read more >

Everyday Food
Great Food Fast
Written by Martha Stewart Living Magazine

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2007
Price: $24.95

No matter how busy you are, at the end of the day you want fresh, flavorful meals that are easy to prepare. And you want lots of choices and variations—recipes that call for your favorite foods and take advantage of excellent (and readily available) ingredients. In the first book from the... Read more >