By Willi Galloway (Author), Jim Henkins (Photographer)

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A Food Lover's Guide to Vegetable Gardening, Including 50 Recipes, Plus Harvesting and Storage Tips

From sinking a seed into the soil through to sitting down to enjoy a meal made with vegetables and fruits harvested right outside your back door, this gorgeous kitchen gardening book is filled with practical, useful information for both novices and seasoned gardeners alike. Grow Cook Eat will inspire people who already buy fresh, seasonal, local, organic food to grow the food they love to eat.

By Greg Atkinson

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This is a book of more than two dozen essays about eating, food, the meaning of coming together at the table, and the pleasures of home cooking. Greg Atkinson, chef and writer, brings the perspective of one who has harvested shellfish with fishermen in Puget Sound, walked the rows during harvest at Oregon vineyards, as well as sourced ingredients at the local big box retailer. According to Atkinson, the measure that’s most valuable is the amount of heart that brings people together for a meal—less important is the pedigree of the extra virgin olive oil that's used.

By Ashley Gartland, photography by John Valls

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"A Bounty of Deliciousness" --Diane Morgan, author of Salmon and The Thanksgiving Table

Dishing Up Oregon is a delectable collection of 145 recipes, many contributed by chefs, innkeepers, farmers, and other food producers from around the state, that celebrate the rich diversity of Oregon’s cuisine.

Dishing Up Oregon is also a visual tour of Oregon’s food and drink scene, with beautiful photography of farms, inns, vineyards, and more. Profiles of the people behind these enterprises, along with suggested itineraries for food lovers traveling the state, make this book an engaging read and a useful travel companion as well as a must-have cookbook.

By Kathleen Flinn

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The author of The Sharper Your Knife tells the inspiring story of how she helped nine others find their inner cook. 

The Kitchen Counter Cooking School is essentially "What Not to Wear" meets Michael Pollan.   Inspired by a supermarket encounter with a woman loading up on processed foods, Le Cordon Blue graduate Kathleen Flinn decided to use her recent culinary training to help a group of nine culinary novitiates find their inner cook.  These students invited Kathleen into their kitchens where she took inventory of each person's refrigerator, cabinets and eating habits.  After kitchen "makeovers" and a series of basic lessons where they learned to wield knives, trust their taste and improve their food choices, the women found a common missing ingredient--confidence.  In this new book, Flinn follows these women's journeys and includes practical, healthy tips to boost readers' culinary confidence, strategies to get the most from their grocery dollar and simple recipes to get readers cooking.

An Urban-Dweller's Guide to Growing Food and Raising Animals

By Lisa Taylor & The Gardeners of Seattle Tilth

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The most complete book on urban farming, covering everything from growing organic produce and raising chickens, to running a small farm on a city lot or in a suburban backyard.

Eating locally and growing one's own food is a rapidly evolving movement in urban settings - Hantz Farms in Detroit has transformed 70 acres of abandoned properties into energy-efficient gardens, and Eagle Street Rooftop Farm, a 6,000-foot vegetable farm in Brooklyn, New York, yields 30 different kinds of produce, while private square-foot farms are cropping up in cities all over the country.

By Lisa Dupar, Photos by Kathryn Barnard

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2011 IACP Award Winning Cookbook! First Book - The Julia Child Award

Redmond, Washington-Lisa Dupar has a secret. Well actually, many secrets...which readers will love curling up with, giggling over and then taking to the kitchen when they read the award winning chef s new book, Fried Chicken & Champagne: A Romp Through the Kitchen at Pomegranate Bistro. Born in Mexico, Southern bred and now a firmly transplanted Pacific Northwesterner, she knows how to spin a tale that is more like an ongoing conversation with a close friend.

By Becky Selengut

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Wild salmon. Scallops. Black cod. Albacore tuna. These are some of the good fish. Yet making smart seafood choices has never been more confusing or more vitally important for our planet and our health.

Chef and seafood advocate Becky Selengut "knows from good fish," and in a voice that's informed but also friendly and infused with her edgy wit, she untangles the morass of information around seafood, enabling the reader to make the best sustainable seafood choices. Find out how good fish are caught, what to avoid, what to look for when you buy seafood, how to store it at home, when it's in season, and questions you should ask your fishmonger before you pull out your wallet.

by Paul Kreider

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Cabernet, pinot noir, tannins, residual sugar. The language of wine is foreign to many of us, and wine itself is a topic that can also seem foreign, and snobbish. An unpretentious presentation of the essentials of wine, Uncorked is an easy way to gain straightforward information about a simple yet complex subject.

This book, presented in an easy-to-understand, entertaining format, will allow you to better:

• Enjoy wine in all its complexity
• Be at ease in the wine environment
• Save money by making choices that suit your palate
• Understand the language of wine
  Choose wines to complement meals

by Kiyo Marsh, Tomi Marsh, Laura K. Cooper

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Seafood Recipes and Salty Stories from Alaska's Commercial Fisherwomen. I loved this book--the thrill, romance, and danger of fishing in Alaska, and recipes that celebrate the region's bounty. Cheers to these courageous women for showing us what we can do. -- Christine Keff, chef, Flying Fish Restaurant, Seattle

By John Sarich (Author), Cynthia Sharp (Editor)

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Once again, John has proven that his charming approach to wine and food isn t defined by tradition but rather based in tradition while leaving ample room and energy to explore new flavors that are sure to become classics. --Tom Douglas, chef, restaurateur, and author.