Kitchen skill, not budget, is the key to great food. If you're living on a tight budget, Brown shows you how to maximize every ingredient and gives you tips on economical cooking methods; shopping and kitchen equipment; and much more. "By showing that kitchen skill, and not budget, is the key to great food, Good and Cheap will help you eat well--really well--on the strictest of budgets. Created for people who have to watch every dollar--but particularly...

"Jim Lahey returns with a 15th-anniversary edition of his classic cookbook--featuring five unmissable new recipes. The secret to acclaimed baker Jim Lahey's bread is slow-rise fermentation. As he revealed in 2009 with the publication of his now-classic cookbook My Bread, the amount of labor you put in totals five minutes: mix water, flour, yeast, and salt, and then let time work its magic, no kneading necessary. Whether preparing Lahey's basic loaf...

"This is the first major Gullah Geechee cookbook: Emily Meggett, the matriarch of Edisto Island, shares the recipes and the history of an essential American community. The history of the Gullah and Geechee people stretches back centuries, when enslaved members of this community were historically isolated from the rest of the South because of their location on the Sea Islands of coastal South Carolina and Georgia. Today, this Lowcountry community represents...

"100 recipes to match every real-life occasion from the beloved Bon Appetit food editor at large and James Beard Award-winning author of Where Cooking Begins. Everyone deserves to have recipes up their sleeves that they turn to again and again, and Carla Lalli Music believes that these recipes should not only match what's in your pantry, but also should fit every mood and scenario that life throws at you. Since Carla knows that we only cook what we...

"This long-anticipated fourth and final volume in the bestselling Good Eats series of cookbooks draws on two reboots of the beloved television show by the inimitable Alton Brown--Good Eats Reloaded and Good Eats: The Return. With more than 150 new and improved recipes for everything from chicken parm to bibimbap and cold brew to corn dogs, accompanied by mouthwatering original photography, The Final Years is the most sumptuous and satisfying of the...

A New York Times Cooking contributor offers a collection of sophisticated, everyday dinner recipes that will encourage readers to explore new ingredients and techniques while building confidence.

"Deepen your coffee knowledge, experiment with different beans, methods, and flavours, and become a barista at home with The Coffee Book and its 70 recipes. Discover the origins of coffee and its production before exploring over 40 country profiles, showcasing the incredible variety of beans grown around the world. Appreciate the nuances of flavour from bean to bean using the taster's wheel to identify different flavours and understand which notes...

"There is a particular region in today's renaissance of Chinese cooking that is often overlooked: the food of Chinatown. Like many of his predecessors, chef Chris Cheung was inspired by the place where he grew up, lived, worked, and ate. From take-out orders at tiny hole-in-the wall teahouses to the lush green vegetables piled high at the markets, celebration dinners at colossal banquet halls to authentic home-cooked meals, Chinatown's culinary treasures...

"From one of the South's most acclaimed pitmasters comes the definitive guide to open-fire cooking, from hot coals and roaring flames to warm embers and cold smoke. Nashville's Pat Martin has grown a nine-location-and-counting empire of Martin's BBQ Joints on the strength of his West Tennessee whole hog that is slow-smoked all day and night. One of only a handful of remaining practitioners of this art, Pat didn't come to barbecue as a family heir...

"When it comes to entertaining there's nothing as crowd pleasing and visually impressive as a well thought out grazing board. So much more than just cheese and cured meat--these edible displays are an approachable and elegant way of presenting food. Show off your effortless entertaining style with showstopping conversation-starting spreads that are sure to impress your guests but give you the flexibility to make or buy components as you choose. Guests...