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🏛 Scribner Book Company 📅 2004 📔 Hardcover ISBN: 9780684800011

📝 Description: On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen (Revised and Updated)

Compulsively readable and engaging, this updated volume covers every aspect of how food is grown, harvested, cooked, eaten, and digested. Winner of the James Beard KitchenAid Book Award in 2005, and the 2005 IACP Crystal Whisk Award.

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