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Biographies & Memoirs Books

"The Other Side of the Tiber" by Wallis Wilde-Menozzi

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, COMPLETE NUMBER LINE. Hardcover with clean pages, no writing, APPEARS UNREAD. DJ has mild edge wear; no tears. Brings Italy to life in an entirely new way. Retail price $27. (9B) (SW2)

"A moving and illuminating memoir about a singular woman's relationship with a fascinating and complex country. Wilde-Menozzi, who has written about Italy for nearly forty years, offers unexpected conclusions about one of the most complex and best-loved countries in the world.Beginning her story with a hitchhiking trip to Rome when she was a student in England, she illuminates a passionate, creative, and vocal people who are often confined to stereotypes. Earthquakes and volcanoes; a hundred-year-old man; Siena as a walled city; Keats in Rome; the refugee camp of Manduria; the Slow Food movement; realism in Caravaggio; the concept of good and evil."

REFLECTIONS on ITALY by an AMERICAN AUTHOR

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A Man Named Dave, which has sold over 1 million copies, is the gripping conclusion to Dave Pelzer’s inspirational and New York Times bestselling trilogy of memoirs that began with A Child Called "It" and The Lost Boy.

"All those years you tried your best to break me, and I'm still here. One day you'll see, I'm going to make something of myself." These words were Dave Pelzer's declaration of independence to his mother, and they represented the ultimate act of self-reliance. Dave's father never intervened as his mother abused him with shocking brutality, denying him food and clothing, torturing him in any way she could imagine. This was the woman who told her son she could kill him any time she wanted to—and nearly did. 

The more than two million readers of Pelzer's New York Times and international bestselling memoirs A Child Called "It" and The Lost Boy know that he lived to tell his courageous story.

A Man Named Dave by Dave Pelzer

New York: Knopf, 2021. SIGNED. Like New. F/F. First Edition. Stated Twenty-first printing, April 2022. Signed by Michelle Zauner on the title page. The book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and clean boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($26.95) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 239 pages. 5 ¾ x 8½" tall.

With humor and heart, Michelle Zauner tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene, Oregon, her painful adolescence, and months spent in her grandmother's apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond over heaping plates of food.

She moved to the East Coast for college, worked in the restaurant industry, and performed gigs with her band. When her mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer, Michelle was forced to reckon with her identity and reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her.

SIGNED, Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner, Signed Title Page, Later Printing

My First Popsicle: An Anthology of Food and Feelings edited by Zosia Mamet advanced reader copy brand new unread copy

Smoke-free home. Cross-posted. Offers welcome

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A warm and relateable collection of essays exploring the memories we associate with different meals in our lives, from a spectrum of talented creators including Stephanie Danler, Anita Lo, Tony Hale, Patti LuPone, Gabourey Sidibe, Andrew Rannells, Sloane Crosley, Michelle Buteau, Jia Tolentino, and more

For fans of: girls, arrested development, I'm glad my mom died, is everyone hanging out without me, yes please, bossypants, Chrissy teigen, Nora ephron, crying in h mart, kitchen confidential, Anthony bourdain, Stanley Tucci, taste my life through food, Julia child, trick mirror



My First Popsicle edited by Zosia Mamet ARC

This captivating memoir, titled "The Tender Bar" by J.R. Moehringer, is a must-read for those who are fans of biography and travel genres. The hardcover format of this book, published by Hyperion Press in 2005, is of impeccable quality. Its dimensions are 9.2in x 6.2in x 1.1in and it weighs 22.5 Oz, with 384 pages in total.

The story of "The Tender Bar" revolves around the life of a young boy who grows up in a local bar in Manhasset, New York. Along with its colorful characters, this memoir is a heartwarming and nostalgic journey that will keep readers hooked until the very end. This book is perfect for those who love to read about editors, journalists, publishers, as well as food, lodging, and transportation.

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The Tender Bar - Paperback By J.R. Moehringer .

Food by Jim Gaffigan  - Paperback

Tastes Like War a Memoir by Grace M. Cho pb Families Food 
Cho's family were one of the few immigrants in small USA town during the Cold War. When Grace was fifteen, her mother experienced the onset of schizophrenia, a condition that would continue and evolve for the rest of her life. Grace communicated with her mother using food. And more....
2021edition 289 pages Published by The Feminist Press For additional details see all photos: 
Dimensions are approximate: Height:8 " Length:5.5" Spine: 3/4 " 
Book is in very good " Like New", pre-owned condition. Does not look like it has been read. * See Photos. 


books Tastes Like War a Memoir by Grace M. Cho pb Family Food Illness

In Vino Duplicitas: The Rise and Fall of a Wine Forger Extraordinaire By Peter Hellman (2017, Hardcover). 1st Edition/1st Printing.

In Vino Duplicitas: The Rise and Fall of a Wine Forger Extraordinaire

It was love at first sight when actress Tembi met professional chef, Saro, on a street in Florence. There was just one problem: Saro’s traditional Sicilian family did not approve of his marrying a black American woman. However, the couple, heartbroken but undeterred, forged on. They built a happy life in Los Angeles, with fulfilling careers, deep friendships, and the love of their lives: a baby girl they adopted at birth. Eventually, they reconciled with Saro’s family just as he faced a formidable cancer that would consume all their dreams.

From Scratch chronicles three summers Tembi spends in Sicily with her daughter, Zoela, as she begins to piece together a life without her husband in his tiny hometown hamlet of farmers. Where once Tembi was estranged from Saro’s family, now she finds solace and nourishment—literally and spiritually—at her mother-in-law’s table. In the Sicilian countryside, she discovers the healing gifts of simple fresh food, the embrace of a close knit community,

Book From Scratch by Tembi Locke a memoir

Stanley Tucci Taste: My Life Through Food --  Hardcover Book Excellent Condition

Stanley Tucci Taste: My Life Through Food --  Hardcover Book

Dearie-The Remarkably Life of Julia Child by Mark Spitz 

“The stunning story of how Julia Child transformed herself into the cult figure who touched off a food revolution that has gripped the country for more than fifty years.  A genuine rebel who took the pretensions that embellished French cuisine and fricasseed them to a fare-thee-well, paving the way for a new era of American food—not to mention blazing a new trail in television—Child redefined herself in middle age, fought for women’s rights, and forever altered how we think about what we eat.”

Paperback
Gently used; see photos. 
~5.25" x 8"
529 pgs + Index

Dearie-The Remarkably Life of Julia Child by Mark Spitz

I bought this book for an anthropology food and culture course at the University of La Verne. The book is brand new and I've only used it once.

Killing it by Cama Davis

Excellent preowned condition 
Paperback
No handwriting inside 
A casual read and/or lovely gift :) 

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Secret ingredients: the New Yorker book of food & drink edited by David Remnick

Very Good Condition, Like New except for a small tear on dust cover. ISBN 9781542022736  Synopsis "A Memoir of food & family.  A moving reflection on motherhood, friendship, and women making their mark on the world of food from the author of Feast. ..."

Plenty by Hannah Howard (HardCover) 2021

This excellent, cooking masterpiece, features recipes to help you “Cook for a Crowd” with basics, starters, soups and gumbo, salads, sides, casseroles, breads, and more with a “Kicked-UP ATTITUDE”. It measures 9 1/2 inches long, 7 inches wide and just over 1 inch in height. This HARD COVER GEM, with its ORIGINAL JACKET. It is a must for any homemaker, cook or experience chef. It will certainly be a crowd pleaser at your next potluck event. It measures 9 ½ inches long, 7 inches wide and just over 1 inch in height. You can’t go wrong with Emeril Lagasse. It has no highlighting, notes or underlining of any kind. (See photos for more information.)

EMERIL LAGASSE “POTLUCK COMFORT FOOD” W/AN ATTITUDE, 2004 Classic, 300 pages

One Woman's Personal Account of Life in Mining Camps of the West

In 1906 at the age of twenty, Harriet Fish hopped on a train from Oakland, California, to the San Juan Mountains of Colorado in search of a new life as the bride of assayer George Backus. Together, the couple ventured forth to discover mining town life at the turn of the twentieth century, adjusting to dizzying elevation heights of 11,500 feet and all the hardships that come with it: limited water, rationed food supplies, lack of medical care, difficulty in travel, avalanches, and many more. As she and George move from Telluride's Tomboy Mine to the rugged coast of British Columbia, to the town of Elk City, Idaho, and then back to Colorado's Leadville, Harriet paints a poignant picture of a world centered around mining, sharing amusing and often challenging experiences as a woman of the era.

The book you see in the photographs is the book you will receive.

LR6

Tomboy Bride, 50th Anniversary Edition: by Harriet Fish Backus

Genre: Food, Food writers, Biography. 
Condition: Great. No noticeable flaws.

Save Me the Plums, My Gourmet Memoir - Ruth Reichl

Brown Round by Frank Bruni
Paperback book
Nonfiction, memoir
Obesity, weight loss, eating disorder, Italian, New York, food critic

*All books subject to wear. This includes but is not limited to: highlighting, writing in pages, bent or worn pages, torn pages, water damage.
All books in this closet are in good used condition. From a smoke & pet free home.

Brown Round by Frank Bruni Paperback book

Frances Mayes, whose enchanting #1 New York Times bestseller Under the Tuscan Sun made the world fall in love with Tuscany, invites readers back for a delightful new season of friendship, festivity, and food, there and throughout Italy.

Having spent her summers in Tuscany for the past several years, Frances Mayes relished the opportunity to experience the pleasures of primavera, an Italian spring. A sabbatical from teaching in San Francisco allowed her to return to Cortona—and her beloved house, Bramasole—just as the first green appeared on the rocky hillsides.

Bella Tuscany, a companion volume to Under the Tuscan Sun, is her passionate and lyrical account of her continuing love affair with Italy. Now truly at home there, Mayes writes of her deepening connection to the land, her flourishing friendships with local people, the joys of art, food, and wine, and the rewards and occasional heartbreaks of her villa's ongoing restoration. It is also a memoir of a season of change, and of ren

Bella Tuscany: Sequel to Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes

Excellent to near excellent condition. Price is for all. Non smoking home. All read, all enjoyed. A Pasadena girl. 
Julie and Julia is inspired by Julia Child connection as per the movie. 
Part of my food, gathering, memoirs

4-Julia Child-3 HC/DJ & 1 PB-free shipping

BURN THE PLACE - BOOK
BY ILANA REGAN

...A singular, powerfully expressive debut memoir that traces one chef’s struggle to find her place and what happens once she does.

Burn the Place is a galvanizing memoir that chronicles Iliana Regan’s journey from foraging on the family farm to running her Michelin-starred restaurant, Elizabeth. Her story is raw like that first bite of wild onion, alive with startling imagery, and told with uncommon emotional power.

Regan grew up the youngest of four headstrong girls on a small farm in Northwest Indiana. While gathering raspberries as a toddler, Regan preternaturally understood to pick just the ripe fruit and leave the rest for another day. In the family’s leaf-strewn fields, the orange flutes of chanterelles beckoned her while they eluded others.

Regan has had this intense, almost otherworldly connection with food and the earth it comes from since her childhood, but connecting with people has always been more difficult. 

Softcover

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BURN THE PLACE - BOOK

The Economists' Diet outlines a straightforward, sustainable path for changing your eating habits. By combining economic principles, real-world data, and their own personal experiences, this guide teaches you how to control your impulses to overeat and learn how to approach food in a healthier way.

the economist diet

Giacomo Casanova's energy was dazzling. He made and lost fortunes, founded state lotteries, and wrote forty-two books and 3,600 pages of memoirs recording the tastes and smells of the years before the French Revolution-as well as his affairs and sexual encounters with dozens of women and a handful of men.

Historian Ian Kelly draws on previously unpublished documents from the Venetian Inquisition, and documents by Casanova and his friends and lovers, which give new insights into his life and world. Kelly's research spans eighteenth-century Venice, Paris, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Rome, Prague, and the Czech castle where Casanova lived, wrote, and died.

From his devotion to kabbalah to his collaboration with Mozart and librettist Da Ponte on the opera Don Giovanni, from his vast appetite for food and sex to his training for the priesthood, Casanova reveled in the commedia dell'arte. And, as Kelly posits, it is from Casanova's careful study of its artifice and illusion that his success

Casanova: Actor, Lover, Priest, Spy by Ian Kelly

This book chronicles the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games--games that left him nearly dead. He had to learn how to play his mother's games in order to survive because she no longer considered him a son, but a slave; and no longer a boy, but an "it."

Dave's bed was an old army cot in the basement, and his clothes were torn and raunchy. When his mother allowed him the luxury of food, it was nothing more than spoiled scraps that even the dogs refused to eat. The outside world knew nothing of his living nightmare. He had nothing or no one to turn to, but his dreams kept him alive--dreams of someone taking care of him, loving him and calling him their son.

A Child Called It by David Pelzer

Eight miles from his truck, in a deep and narrow slot canyon, Aron was climbing down off a wedged boulder when the rock suddenly, and terrifyingly, came loose. Before he could get out of the way, the falling stone pinned his right hand and wrist against the canyon wall. And so began six days of hell for Aron Ralston. With scant water and little food, no jacket for the painfully cold nights, and the terrible knowledge that he'd told no one where he was headed, he found himself facing a lingering death -- trapped by an 800-pound boulder 100 feet down in the bottom of a canyon. As he eliminated his escape options one by one through the days, Aron faced the full horror of his predicament: By the time any possible search and rescue effort would begin, he'd most probably have died of dehydration, if a flash flood didn't drown him before that. What does one do in the face of almost certain death?

The book you see in the photographs is the book you will receive.

DRV

Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston

New Condition (53/64) ISBN 978154203113  Synopsis "In this astounding tale of courage and tragedy, Umar—founder of NASCO Feeding Minds, a nonprofit committed to improving the lives of Ghanaians—recounts the harrowing journey he endured immigrating to Europe from Ghana. “When we started out, there were forty-six of us. Only six survived,” he writes at his story’s outset, laying bare the scope of misfortune he encountered over five years, after leaving his remote village at age 12 with a group of migrants for a better life in Europe. Early on in their trip, though, their smugglers abandoned them, forcing Umar and the others to find their own way through the desert without food or water:"

North To Paradise, A Memoir by Ousman Umar 2019

The Tenth Muse My Life in Food book by Judith Jones.

The Tenth Muse book

A Man Named Dave, which has sold over 1 million copies, is the gripping conclusion to Dave Pelzer’s inspirational and New York Times bestselling trilogy of memoirs that began with A Child Called "It" and The Lost Boy.

"All those years you tried your best to break me, and I'm still here. One day you'll see, I'm going to make something of myself." These words were Dave Pelzer's declaration of independence to his mother, and they represented the ultimate act of self-reliance. Dave's father never intervened as his mother abused him with shocking brutality, denying him food and clothing, torturing him in any way she could imagine. This was the woman who told her son she could kill him any time she wanted to—and nearly did. 

The more than two million readers of Pelzer's New York Times and international bestselling memoirs A Child Called "It" and The Lost Boy know that he lived to tell his courageous story. With stunning generosity of spirit, Dave Pelzer invites readers on his journey to di

CRAZY IN THE KITCHEN - BOOK
BY LOUISE DESALVO
FOOD, FEUDS, AND FORGIVENESS IN AN ITALIAN AMERICAN FAMILY -
A MEMOIR
.....CRAZY IN THE KITCHEN COULD PROVE DANGEROUS....READING IT MAKES YOU WANT TO EAT GREAT QUANTITIES OF ITALIAN FOOD, YELL AND SCREAM AND THROW THINGS, AND VISIT SOUTHERN ITALY....PASSIONATE AND MOVING.  AND FREQUENTLY, HILARIOUS...

CRAZY IN THE KITCHEN - BOOK

Ingenue to Icon: 70 Years of Fashion from the Collection of Marjorie Merriweather Post Paperback – June 16, 2015
by Howard Vincent Kurtz (Author), Trish Donnally (Editor), Nancy Rubin Stuart (Introduction)
Marjorie Merriweather Post was one of America's most powerful women, a director of General Foods, Inc., philanthropist, patriot, and internationalist, with a keen interest in art, and a magnificent wardrobe collected over seventy years. Ingenue to Icon is a beautifully illustrated new volume dedicated to Post's love of fashion and how she used it to create her unique style: the luxurious, embroidered dresses; exquisite shoes dyed to match her gowns; and fabulous jewels that defined her style offer glimpses into a life of exceptional elegance and wealth.

Book still in plastic wrapper.  168 pages

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