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Nirmala's Kitchen: Everyday World Cuisine
Travel the globe with Nirmala Narine, a modern-day spice
hunter whose recipes and passion for the world’s
diversity will truly spice up your life. NYC star chef
Eric Ripert calls her “passionate, full of life,
wise, fearless—the Indiana Jones of spices.” Anyone
who gets this book will enjoy a unique culinary journey.
Big
Small Plates
Hearty
small plates packed with flavor should be in every contemporary
cook’s repertoire. These are the best from Cindy Pawlcyn
and Pablo and Erasto Jacinto, two longtime chefs from her popular
Napa Valley restaurants.
 From Persia to Napa: Wine at the Persian Table
Najmieh Batmanglij’s newest and
most beautiful book pairs Persian dishes with Napa Valley wines.
A Persian literary scholar and a wine expert add chapters that
explore the links between poetry, wine, and this fascinating,
ancient cuisine in an almost spiritual light.
 Into
the Vietnamese Kitchen: Treasured Foodways, Modern Flavors
Andrea
Nguyen, expert in the cuisine of her homeland, shares treasured
floodways from Vietnam. The boldness of flavors, textures,
and spices in these dishes will pique any cook’s culinary
sensibility.
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The
All-American Cheese and Wine Book
The
New American Cheese
