Chloe Flavor by Chloe Coscarelli

Title: Chloe Flavor

Author: Chloe Coscarelli

Genre: Cookbook

Chloe Flavor is a cookbook filled with vegan recipes. Unlike many vegan cookbooks, the recipes in this book are fairly simple to make. Many of the recipes contain ingredients that do not require tracking down anything "special".  There are spins on popular commercial food items (i.e. Goldfish crackers) but also hearty comfort meals and pasta dishes. This would be a great cookbook for someone interested in adding more quickly assembled meatless meals to their life.

- Jamie

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Salt & Silver by Johannes Riffelmacher and Thomas Kosikowski

Title: Salt & Silver: Latin America

Author: Johannes Riffelmacher and Thomas Kosikowski

Genre: Travel, Cooking, Sport

Salt & Silver chronicles the adventures of two surfers, Johannes and Thomas, as they surf, eat, and travel through Latin America and beyond. At each stop they make, the duo shares delicious recipes, stories, and prime surf spots that inspire a sense of wanderlust in the reader. Salt & Silver gives an interesting look at how daily life and cooking vary from region to region, and might just inspire the reader to try something new!

- Jamie

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Relish: My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley

Lucy Knisley was born the daughter of a chef and a gourmet food connoisseur, so it should come as no surprise that this talented cartoonist and author of several graphic novelist would write and illustrate a memoir of her obsession with food. As hilarious as her other work, Lucy uses this book to frame many important life events around what delicious food she was eating, learning to cook alongside her mother, and what it means to thoroughly enjoy a meal with those one loves.

Each frame of Relish: My Life in the Kitchen is adorned with adorable illustrations, including the recipes Knisley shares at the end of each chapter, many of them for well-loved family dishes. For Knisley food is more than just survival, it's a large part of who she is and where she's come from.

The Gallery of Regrettable Foods by James Lileks

In this day and age people from all walks of life fret about the obesity epidemic. Why, we ask, are people struggling with this problem more now than in previous decades? Conventional wisdom says that the causes are too many snacks, too many sugary drinks and too little exercise. These logical conclusions are probably correct, but a reader of The Gallery of Regrettable Foods may discover another possible reason. Perhaps the food served in previous decades just did not look or taste good enough to tempt one to overeat.  James Lileks has been collecting post-war cook books and pamphlets for many years and has compiled the best (or worst) of them in this book. Here is a portrait of an earlier America when no one worried about salt or fat, salad was made with gelatin, famous chefs cooked with marshmallows, married women used their husbands’ first names and ethnic food meant a teaspoon of chili powder or soy sauce in a casserole. Do you need a new idea for refreshments for your sophisticated cocktail party? Try toast! Or jellied calf’s liver! Or frankfurters in aspic! There are few recipes in this book, just a lot of unappetizing pictures and some hilarious observations by Mr. Lileks. The Gallery of Regrettable Food will make you laugh out loud.

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