It is rare for someone to emerge in America who can change our attitudes, our beliefs, and our very culture. It is even rarer when that someone is a middl0--aged, six-foot three-inch woman whose first exposure to an unsuspecting public is cooking an omelet on a hot plate on a local TV station. And yet, that is exactly what Julia Child did. The warble voiced doyenne of television cookery became an iconic cult figure and joyous rule breaker as she...

"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 his life's journey in this novel. Lively and brimming with the colors, flavors, and scents of the kitchen, it is a succulent treat about family, nationality, and the mysteries of good taste. Born above his grandfather's...

"Isabel Johnson returns to Bella Vista to turn her childhood home into a destination cooking school and forget her past, but Cormac O'Neill wants to dig up old history"--

"Ina Garten, the author of thirteen best-selling cookbooks, beloved Food Network personality, Instagram sensation, and the cultural icon whose face has launched a thousand memes, shares her personal story with readers hungry for a seat at her table"--

Odd Thomas confronts deadly adversaries in a decaying Hollywood estate.

Haunted by dreams of a powerful red tide, Odd Thomas, accompanied by two otherworldly sidekicks -- his dog Boo and the Chairman of the Board -- is drawn to a small California coastal town, where nothing is at it appears and where Odd confronts overwhelming and sinister forces out to stop his quest.

To escape the haunting memories of his lost soul mate, Odd has retreated to a monastery in the High Sierra where icy winds and deep snow besiege the remote abbey. Odd isn't the only guest: John Heineman is a world-famous physicist who left the secular world because he found the nature of reality, so very weird. Added to this, shadowy harbingers of extreme violence are prowling the halls. Only Odd can see them. Only he knows what their presence means....

"With her first book, Regan announced herself as a writer whose extravagant, unconventional talents matched her abilities as a lauded chef. In her follow-up, she digs even deeper to express the meaning and beauty we seek in the landscapes, and stories, that reveal the forces which inform, shape, and nurture our lives." -- Provided by publisher.

Tracking his own strange and unexpected voyage from journeyman cook to globe-traveling professional eater and drinker, and even to fatherhood, Bourdain takes no prisoners as he dissects what he's seen, pausing along the way for a series of confessions, rants, investigations, and interrogations of some of the most controversial figures in food.