These Italian-made ceramic dessert plates are
sweetly decorated with Victorian floral motifs and words from Shakespeare's love sonnets.
Search between the roses and you'll find "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? /
Thou art more lovely and more...Read more
Bring a little romance to the table with
these Italian-made ceramic mugs, decorated with Victorian floral motifs and words from
Shakespeare's love sonnets. The smooth, matte-finished mugs, rimmed with a band of comfrey
green glaze, have a pleasingly...Read more
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Actor Stanley Tucci cowrote, codirected, and stars (along with Tony Shaloub) in this
touching and funny parable about two brothers, Italian immigrants, who run an unsuccessful
restaurant on the Jersey shore in the 1950s. Convinced by a thriving rival...Read more
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Interested in terrific food? Good. The first thing to do is buy this book. Then clear your
calendar for the next 150 days. At a recipe a day, that's how long it will take to go from
cover to cover. Your old life? Buy this book and kiss your old life...Read more
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With Martha Stewart's Hors d'Oeuvres Handbook, Stewart, along with Martha
Stewart Living food editor Susan Spungen and photographer Dana Gallagher, has created
not just a handbook but a dream book. The first 225 pages consist entirely of
beautifully...Read more
Amazon.com I've Got News for You collects a half-century's worth of sides by Hadda Brooks,
who, in her 80s, continues to excel mightily at both boogie piano and cocktail-hour blues
and pop. On disc 1 ("Hadda Sings"), classic performances such as "That's
My...Read more
From Booklist
, April 15, 1999
Long Island's summer foodie crowd flocks to the Barefoot Contessa for the kinds of upscale
eats that are required for the endless rounds of parties. Garten's creations satisfy her
customers, and this cookbook makes it easy to understand why. Savory...Read more
If you're a wine enthusiast who's moving up
from "amateur" to the "fanatic" stage, the Screwpull Sommelier may be
just what the doctor ordered. In addition to the foolproof Teflon-coated, pocket Screwpull
corkscrew, you'll find a patented foil cutter...Read more
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Hugh Johnson is undeniably a master wine connoisseur. A long-standing member of
Cambridge's Wine and Food Society, he has written an impressive array of oenological
masterpieces, such as The World
Atlas of Wine, How to
Enjoy Wine, and his...Read more
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Buyer beware: once you've started leafing through the pages of The Gourmet Atlas,
you probably won't be able to put it down. It is more than just a book about food; within
the atlas's pages you'll discover the historical origins of various foods,...Read more
From Booklist
, September 15, 1998
Of all Trotter's books, this newest volume in the series produced out of Charlie Trotter's
Chicago restaurant is the most attractive and accessible to the home cook. Despite the
celebrated chef's continuing call for items such as satsuma oranges and...Read more
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Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music, was--on her name day, November 22--celebrated by
the London Musical Society with a newly commissioned Ode. Handel was the composer chosen
in 1736, and he reset Alexander's Feast, a text written by Dryden for...Read more
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Possibly the world's most famous beer writer, British author Michael Jackson has made an
enviable living surveying the lure and the lore of this most democratic of beverages. His
classic coffee-table textbooks, The New World
Guide to Beer and Michael...Read more
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Reader beware: the photographs in Cheeses of the World are so gorgeous, you might
be tempted to eat the page. If, however, you and the book survive that first delirious
onslaught of full color Camemberts, Bries and Parmesans, there's plenty of food...Read more
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EMI has very wisely re-coupled Rattle's good, but not great, recording of Walton's First
Symphony to a spectacular performance of Belshazzar's Feast, the composer's most popular
work. The result is really more than the sum of its parts--an excellent...Read more
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"A family is made up of a cast of characters with more than one casting director.
Ours were fortunate to have two leading players who were well balanced to produce a good
show." So says international restaurateur George Lang of his beloved...Read more
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The great acting by Campbell Scott, Stanley Tucci, and Tony Shalhoub explains only some of
the magic of Big Night,
for the trio share the screen with shot after shot of mouthwatering food and a lively
Italian-American score featuring Louis Prima,...Read more
