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Cooking for Community

These cookbooks offer detailed and succulent recipes alongside stories of how the chefs grew their skill, community, and connection to land.

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  • "Not your grandma’s jam book, Blue Chair Fruit: Jam, Jelly & Marmalade is the definitive jam book of the 21st century approaching the nostalgic preserving kitchen with a modern sustainable eye."
    Book, 2010Kansas City, Mo. : Andrews McMeel Pub., c2010 — 641.852 SAUNDERS
  • Maangchi's Real Korean Cooking

    Authentic Dishes for the Home Cook

    Maangchi,
    "A complete course on Korean cuisine for the home cook by the YouTube star and the world's foremost authority on Korean cooking"
    Book, 2015Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015 — 641.59519 MAANGCHI
  • "Here is real food—our indigenous American fruits and vegetables, the wild and foraged ingredients, game and fish. Locally sourced, seasonal, “clean” ingredients and nose-to-tail cooking are nothing new to Sean Sherman, the Oglala Lakota chef and…
    Book, 2017Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2017] — 641.59297 SHERMAN
  • My Two Souths

    Blending the Flavors of India Into a Southern Kitchen

    Gomez, Asha,
    "From award-winning chef and restaurateur Asha Gomez comes this collection of recipes that fuse together the "Two Souths" that are near and dear to her heart: the beloved cuisine of Southern India, and the downhome tastes of the American South."
    Book, 2016Philadelphia : Running Press, [2016] — 641.5954 GOMEZ
  • 97 Orchard

    An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement

    Ziegelman, Jane
    "An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement"
    Book, 2010New York : Smithsonian Books/Harper, c2010 — 394.12097 ZIEGELMAN
  • Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat

    Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking

    Nosrat, Samin,
    "A visionary new master class in cooking that distills decades of professional experience into just four simple elements, from the woman declared “America’s next great cooking teacher” by Alice Waters."
    Book, 2017New York : Simon & Schuster, [2017] — 641.5 NOSRAT
  • Together

    Our Community Cookbook

    "Together celebrates the power of cooking to connect us to one another. In the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire, a group of local women gathered together to cook fresh food for their families and neighbors."
    Book, 2018New York : Clarkson Potter/Publishers, 2018 — 641.59 TOGETHER
  • Afro-vegan

    Farm-fresh African, Caribbean & Southern Flavors Remixed

    Terry, Bryant, 1974-
    "African, Caribbean, and southern food are all known and loved as vibrant and flavor-packed cuisines. In Afro-Vegan, renowned chef and food justice activist Bryant Terry reworks and remixes the favorite staples, ingredients, and classic dishes of…
    Book, 2014Berkeley : Ten Speed Press, [2014] — 641.59296 TERRY
  • The Adventures of Fat Rice

    Recipes From the Chicago Restaurant Inspired by Macau

    Conlon, Abraham,
    "This is the first book to explore the vibrant food culture of Macau--an east-meets-west melting pot of Chinese, Portuguese, Malaysian, and Indian foodways--as seen through the lens of the cult favorite Chicago restaurant, Fat Rice."
    Book, 2016Berkeley : Ten Speed Press, [2016] — 641.5951 CONLON
  • How to Cook Everything. The Basics

    All You Need to Make Great Food : With 1,000 Photos

    Bittman, Mark
    "Shows you how to prepare great food for all occasions using simple techniques, fresh ingredients, and basic kitchen equipment with a relaxed, straightforward approach to cooking"
    Book, 2012Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, c2012 — 641.5 BITTMAN
  • This book "is a definitive resource for the backyard pitmaster, with chapters dedicated to building or customizing your own smoker; finding and curing the right wood; creating and tending perfect fires; sourcing top-quality meat; and of course,…
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  • "This authoritative and animated ode to eating well is one part manifesto and one part guidebook for choosing and storing food grown in the garden, butchered from prize animals, or foraged or caught locally."
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