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1) Endless summer cookbook

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"For Katie, cooking isn't just about the food. It's about the whole experience: the atmosphere, the stories that each ingredient tells, and, of course, the people who share the meal. Katie's vision of a complete entertaining experience continues with Endless Summer Cookbook--where the cooking reflects the distinctive flavors of her home in the Hamptons."--

2) The broad fork: recipes for the wide world of vegetables and fruits

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From James Beard Award winner Hugh Acheson comes a seasonal cookbook of 200 recipes designed to make the most of your farmers' market bounty, your CSA box, or your grocery produce aisle.
In The Broad Fork, Hugh narrates the four seasons of produce, inspired by the most-asked question at the market: "What the hell do I do with kohlrabi?" And so here are 50 ingredients—from kohlrabi to carrots, beets to Brussels sprouts—demystified...

3) Rodney Scott's world of BBQ: every day is a good day

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IACP COOKBOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNER • In the first cookbook by a Black pitmaster, James Beard Award–winning chef Rodney Scott celebrates an incredible culinary legacy through his life story, family traditions, and unmatched dedication to his craft.
“BBQ is such an important part of African American history, and no one is better at BBQ than Rodney.”—Marcus Samuelsson, chef and restaurateur
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4) Mr. Wilkinson's well-dressed salads

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Wilkinson, Matt

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Guided by the seasons, award-winning chef Matt Wilkinson has always designed his recipes with vegetables as the foundation of the plate. In his latest cookbook, Matt takes this a step further by showing us how versatile salads can be in both form and flavor. With the garden's yield as his inspiration, he pairs produce with grains, beans, cheeses, fish, and meat to create enticing, adaptable dishes. You'll find a recipe to match each season's bounty,...

5) Martha Stewart's grilling: 125+ recipes for gatherings large and small

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Stewart, Martha

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"There's nothing like the satisfaction of cooking over a live fire, whether a weeknight meal or outdoor entertaining. Martha Stewart's Grilling captures this spirit, while providing essential tips and techniques for both experienced outdoor cooks and those brand-new to the grill. Longtime favorites like pulled-pork sandwiches and bacon-and-turkey burgers are alongside foolproof dishes such as Korean short ribs and mojo-marinated shrimp. Crowd-pleasing...

6) How to grill everything: simple recipes for great flame-cooked food

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How to Cook Everything

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"The ultimate grilling guide and the latest in Mark Bittman's acclaimed How to Cook Everything series. Here's how to grill absolutely everything--from the perfect steak to cedar-plank salmon to pizza -- explained in Mark Bittman's trademark simple, straightforward style. Featuring more than 250 recipes and hundreds of variations, plus Bittman's practical advice on all the grilling basics, this book is an exploration of the grill's nearly endless possibilities....

7) The perfect scoop: ice creams, sorbets, granitas, and sweet accompaniments

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Lebovitz, David

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Ripe seasonal fruits. Fragrant vanilla, toasted nuts, and spices. Heavy cream and bright liqueurs. Chocolate, chocolate, and more chocolate. Every luscious flavor imaginable is grist for the chill in The Perfect Scoop, pastry chef David Lebovitz's gorgeous guide to the pleasures of homemade ice creams, sorbets, granitas, and more.

With an emphasis on intense and sophisticated flavors and a bountiful helping of the author's expert

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8) The complete salad cookbook: a fresh guide to 200+ vibrant dishes using greens, vegetables, grains, proteins, and more

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America's Test Kitchen

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The Complete ATK Cookbook

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"Make salad the star of the table. Far more than just tossed greens, the new salad features grains, meats, and vegetables, too. Raw or cooked, tossed with cold or warm dressings, topped with pickled fruit or fragrant spice mixtures, these exciting recipes offer aromas, flavors, and textures that satisfy your senses and your hunger. Our gorgeous dishes will fill you up and leave you asking for more. And when creativity strikes, our test kitchen techniques...

9) The Peach Truck cookbook: 100 delicious recipes for all things peach

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10) River cottage veg: 200 inspired vegetable recipes

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Fearnley-Whittingstall, Hugh

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A comprehensive collection of 200+ recipes that embrace vegetarian cuisine as the centerpiece of a meal, from the leading food authority behind the critically acclaimed River Cottage series.
Pioneering champion of sustainable foods Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall embraces all manner of vegetables in his latest cookbook, an inventive offering of more than two hundred vegetable-based recipes, including more than sixty vegan recipes.

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11) Vegetable simple

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"Eric Ripert is the co-owner of the acclaimed restaurant Le Bernadin, and the winner of countless Michelin stars. He is well known for his exquisite, clean, seafood-centered cuisine, but now, in Vegetable Simple, he turns his singular culinary imagination to vegetables. Lately, Ripert has found himself reaching for vegetables as his main food source - and doing so, as is his habit, with great intent and care. In the 110 recipes in this book, Ripert...

12) The healthy sides cookbook: easy vegetables, pastas, and grains for every meal

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"Cooking Light, the healthy cooking authority, helps you make any meal better with 300 inspired recipes, and hundreds of photographs, for side dishes that are big on flavor, but short on effort for the cook. This book will help you discover new, easy-to-prepare ways to make the most of any vegetable, fruit, grain, or pasta. From crowd-pleasing side dishes for big holiday celebrations to tips on scaling your recipes to the incredibly useful "Pairs...

13) Cooking at home: Or, how I learned to stop worrying about recipes (and love my microwave)

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"The globally renowned chef of Momofuku, star of Netflix's Ugly Delicious, and bestselling author of Eat a Peach now shares the kitchen hacks and culinary tricks he uses as a new home cook for a growing family--and shows the rest of us how to make the most of our cooking skills. Being a chef can make you the absolute worst kind of home cook. Either you're too fussy when dinner just needs to be on the table (without an hour of dishes to do afterwards),...

14) This will make it taste good: a new path to simple cooking

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"From caramelized onions to fruit preserves, make home cooking quick and easy with ten simple "kitchen heroes" in these 125 recipes from the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Deep Run Roots"--

15) Annabel Karmel's fun, fast & easy children's cookbook

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Karmel, Annabel

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"This new essential family cookbook from renowned children's cookery author Annabel Karmel is filled with fun, tasty and easy-to-make recipes to get the family cooking together. Inside, you'll find everything from Hidden Vegetable Bolognese to Teddy Bear Burgers, as well as nutritionally balanced snacks and sweets like oat and raisin cookies and fruity ice pops. Recipes include child-friendly versions of food from around the world, such as stir-fries,...

16) Dinner for everyone: 100 iconic dishes made 3 ways--easy, vegan, or perfect for company

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Provides instructions for one hundred dishes with three variations, easy, complex, and vegan.

17) Katie Lee's Easy-Breezy Eats: The Endless Summer Cookbook

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Over 100 simple recipes to help you enjoy the flavors of summer, plus tips for wine pairing and easy entertaining.
Katie Lee—co-host of Food Network’s The Kitchen and host of Cooking Channel’s Beach Bites with Katie Lee—is known for her unfussy, delicious recipes. Easy-Breezy Eats collects more than one hundred of her summertime favorites. Readers will find recipes like salad Niçoise,

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18) The recipe-a-day kids cookbook

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Flip through this book and you'll find a great idea for every day of the year, starting today. What's your birthday? Anyone who picks up this book will turn straight to that date to see which treat falls on their special day! Will it be a daisy cupcake made with snipped marshmallows? Miniature chicken and waffles? Homemade chocolate lollipops? A giant pretzel? Of course, all the big holidays are represented, too--like flag tarts for the Fourth of...

19) Sheet pan suppers: 120 recipes for simple, surprising, hands-off meals straight from the oven : plus breakfasts, desserts, and snacks, too!

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20) How to grill vegetables: the new bible for barbecuing vegetables over live fire

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Raichlen, Steven

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Steven Raichlen barbecue bible cookbooks

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America's grilling guru offers a primer for how to grill vegetables--with lots of creative flavors and techniques--whether you're eating main dishes that highlight vegetables or rounding out the barbecue menu with grilled garden-fresh sides. Not a vegetarian book, but vegetable-forward (and with vegetarian and vegan adaptations).