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TITLE: The Super Easy Teen Cookbook: 75 Simple Step-by-Step Recipes
AUTHOR: Christina Hitchcock WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 641.5 Hit SUMMARY: Provides 75 easy recipes with step-by-step instruction. |
TITLE: The Baking Cookbook for Teens: 75 Delicious Recipes for Sweet and Savory Treats
AUTHOR: Robin Donovan WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 641.7 Don SUMMARY: Robin Donovan offers over 75 easy-to-follow recipes for a variety of delectable baked goods -- from cookies, brownies, and bars, to tarts, breads, and even pizza. |
TITLE: Anthony Bourdain's Hungry Ghosts
AUTHOR: Anthony Bourdain WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Bou - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Presents an anthology of horror comics featuring food as a common theme. |
TITLE: The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook
AUTHOR: Dinah Bucholz WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 641.5 Buc SUMMARY: Contains 150 recipes inspired by the Harry Potter novels, with a guide to where the foods can be found in the books, including good food with bad relatives, treats from the train, the favorite cook's dishes, holiday fare, and more. |
TITLE: With the Fire on High
AUTHOR: Elizabeth Acevedo WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ace - NOVELS SUMMARY: Ever since she got pregnant freshman year, Emoni Santiago has been doing what has to be done for her daughter and her abuela. The one place she can let all that go is in the kitchen, where she adds a little something magical to everything she cooks, turning her food into straight-up goodness. She dreams of working as a chef after she graduates, but knows that is impossible. But once Emoni starts cooking, her only choice is to let her talent break free. |
TITLE: Relish: My Life in the Kitchen
AUTHOR: Lucy Knisley WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 641.5 Kni - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Lucy Knisley loves food. The daughter of a chef and a gourmet, this talented young cartoonist comes by her obsession honestly. In her forthright, thoughtful, and funny memoir, Lucy traces key episodes in her life thus far, framed by what she was eating at the time and lessons learned about food, cooking, and life. Each chapter is bookended with an illustrated recipe - many of them treasured family dishes, and a few of them Lucy's original inventions. |
TITLE: Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
AUTHOR: Michael Moss WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 613.2 Mos SUMMARY: Reveals how the world's largest processed food companies redirect concerns about the health risks of their products by dialing back on one harmful ingredient while increasing another; use technology to calculate the bliss point of sugary beverages or enhance the mouth feel of fat by manipulating the chemical structure; and refer to their most ardent customers as addicted to salt, sugar, and fat. |
TITLE: The Way You Make Me Feel
AUTHOR: Maureen Goo WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Goo - NOVELS SUMMARY: Sentenced to a summer working on her father's food truck after taking a joke too far, prankster Korean-American Clara Shin unexpectedly bonds with a straitlaced co-worker and a cute boy on another food truck while reevaluating her relationship with her estranged mother. |
TITLE: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle : A Year of Food Life
AUTHOR: Barbara Kingsolver WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 641 Kin SUMMARY: The author tells how she and her family relocated to southern Appalachia from Arizona in order to live a simpler life, grow their own food, and live among a community of local organic growers. |
TITLE: The Manga Cookbook
AUTHOR: Presented by Manga University Culinary Institute WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 641.5 Ish - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Presents step-by-step instructions for making more than two dozen Japanese appetizers, basic dishes, main courses, and sweets that one might see in a manga; shows how to use chopsticks and assemble bento boxed lunches; and features manga-style illustrations. |
TITLE: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
AUTHOR: Michael Pollan WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 394.1 Pol SUMMARY: Offers insight into food consumption in the twenty-first century, explaining how an abundance of unlimited food varieties reveals the responsibilities of consumers to protect their health and the environment. |
TITLE: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
AUTHOR: Michael Pollan WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 613.2 Pol SUMMARY: Challenges current approaches to healthy eating, arguing that the real food consumed by past generations is being replaced with commercialized, scientifically altered foods that offer no health benefits and may cause serious damage, and encourages people to change the way they eat and return to basic nutrition rules. |
TITLE: What the World Eats
AUTHOR: Faith D'aluisio WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 641.3 Men SUMMARY: A collection of photographs depicting twenty-five families from twenty-one different countries, and includes Chad, Ecuador, Greenland, Japan, Mongolia, and others, and also describes the cost of a weeks worth of food, and other cultural information for each listed country. |
TITLE: Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
AUTHOR: Eric Schlosser WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 394.1 Sch SUMMARY: Presents the history of the fast food industry and discusses problems it has created. |