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• Modern Asian Kitchen

  Essential and Easy Recipes for Ramen, Dumplings, Dim Sum, Stir-fries, Rice Bowls, Pho, Bibimbaps, and More

  Lieu, Kat,

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  The New Asian Cooking is bolder and more assertive, less fussy and more casual. With these easy-to-shop-for, quick-to-cook recipes, you can try—and will fall in love with—this trending style right in your own kitchen. It’s more about…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mamacita

  Recipes Celebrating Life as a Mexican Immigrant in America

  Pons, Andrea, 1994-

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  A love letter to author Andrea Pons's native Mexico, weaving stories of her family's immigration to the United States with 75 delicious recipes from three generations of women in her family.

• Jubilee

  Recipes From Two Centuries of African American Cooking

  Tipton-Martin, Toni,

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  Toni Tipton-Martin has shed new light on the history, breadth, and depth of African American cuisine. She's introduced us to black cooks, some long forgotten, who established much of what's considered to be our national cuisine. In…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bite by Bite

  Nourishments & Jamborees

  Nezhukumatathil, Aimee,

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  In Bite by Bite, poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil explores the way food and drink evoke our associations and remembrances—a subtext or layering, a flavor tinged with joy, shame, exuberance, grief, desire, or…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• National Dish

  Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home

  Von Bremzen, Anya,

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  In this engrossing and timely journey to the crossroads of food and identity award-winning writer Anya von Bremzen explores six of the worlds most fascinating and iconic culinary cultures France, Italy, Japan, Spain, Mexico, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Indian-ish

  Recipes and Antics From a Modern American Family

  Krishna, Priya, 1991-

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  Krishna's mom, Ritu, taught herself to cook after moving from India to the U.S. while also working as a software programmer. Her unique creations merging the Indian flavors of her childhood with her global travels and inspiration from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Meals, Music, and Muses

  Recipes From My African American Kitchen

  Smalls, Alexander, 1952-

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  Iconic chef and world-renowned opera singer Alexander Smalls marries two of his greatest passions--food and music--in Meals, Music, and Muses. More than just a cookbook, Smalls takes readers on a delicious journey through the South to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Kamogawa Food Detectives

  Kashiwai, Hisashi, 1952-

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  Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant. Run by Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare, the Kamogawa Diner serves up deliciously extravagant meals. But that's not the main reason customers stop by . . .the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• New Native Kitchen

  Celebrating Modern Recipes of the American Indian

  Bitsoie, Freddie,

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  In this essential cookbook, Bitsoie shares his expertise and culinary insights into Native American cooking and suggests new approaches for every home cook. With recipes as varied as the peoples that inspired them, New Native Kitchen…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Rise

  Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food

  Samuelsson, Marcus,

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  In The Rise, chef, author, and television star Marcus Samuelsson gathers together an unforgettable feast of food, culture, and history to highlight the diverse deliciousness of Black cooking today. Driven by a desire to fight against bias,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Cake

  Wilkerson, Charmaine,

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  In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past--a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Kung Food

  Chinese American Recipes From a Third-culture Kitchen

  Kung, Jon,

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  An exciting and unexpected collection of 100 recipes that re-examines Chinese American food. Jon Kung grew up as a "third-culture" kid: Born in Los Angeles, raised in Hong Kong and Toronto, and now living in Detroit, Jon learned to embrace…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ramón and Julieta

  Quintana Albertson, Alana

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  When fate and tacos bring Ramón and Julieta together on the Day of the Dead, the star-crossed pair must make a choice: accept the bitter food rivalry that drives them apart or surrender to a love that consumes them.

• Eat Joy

  Stories & Comfort Food From 31 Celebrated Writers

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  This collection of intimate, illustrated essays by some of America's most well-regarded literary writers explores how comfort food can help us cope with dark times--be it the loss of a parent, the loneliness of a move, or the pain of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hundred-foot Journey

  a Novel

  Morais, Richard C., 1960-

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  "That skinny Indian teenager has that mysterious something that comes along once a generation. He is one of those rare chefs who is simply born. He is an artist." And so begins the rise of Hassan Haji, the unlikely gourmand who recounts…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My First Popsicle

  An Anthology of Food and Feelings

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  From a spectrum of talented authors, a collection of essays on food, and its entwinement with our emotions and our lives. Of all the essentials for survival: oxygen, water, sleep, and food, only food is a vast treasure trove of memory and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• American Table

  the Foods, People, and Innovations That Feed Us

  Kingsley, Lisa,

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  In this exploration of the American table, the Smithsonian Institution presents a fresh look at what and how we've fed ourselves, for sustenance and for pleasure, through the lens of location, immigration, ingenuity, innovation, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation