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"From country music sensation Miranda Lambert, comes a gorgeous cookbook sharing a wide array of tasty favorite recipes, straight outta Texas and collected from all the fabulous women who helped make Miranda who she is today. If you’re going to have a Bitchin Kitchen, you’re going to need a few things—plenty of room, plenty of good food for sharing, high spirits (in both senses) and all the friends and family you can fit. For Miranda Lambert,...

"The hit PBS cooking competition returns! Dish up all the standout recipes—familiar favorites and bold new flavors—from Season 2. In the second season of The Great American Recipe, a new set of the country’s most talented home cooks shared the stories of their lives, backgrounds, communities, and cultures, all told through food. In this companion cookbook, you’ll bring home more than 100 new recipes from the cast, host, and judges: Meals...

"Bring authentic, incredible farm-to-table meals to your home with Kayla Lobermeier's collection of delicious recipes from her multigenerational farm. Taking beloved, old-fashioned classics and giving them a contemporary twist, this collection of heirloomrecipes was made for those looking to get back to their roots and create home-cooked meals with heart. Discover simple, yet mouthwatering recipes that are perfect for any time of the year-along with...

The best things in life are really not that fancy. This photo-driven book featuring all-things-Reba invites you to get back to the basics of life: fun, food, friends, and family. In her first book in over two decades, actress and country music legend Reba McEntire takes you behind the scenes and shares the stories, recipes, and Oklahoma-style truths that guide her life. FROM REBA: "To me, there's nothing better than sitting on the back porch looking...

"Here to ring in a new era of vegan cooking is Lauren Hartmann, native Southerner, chef and founder of the food blog Rabbit and Wolves. In these 60 recipes, Lauren shows you how to make rich, buttery, decadent plant- based versions of all your favorite southern foods, so you never again have to miss out on the tastes you love. With foolproof cooking methods and easy substitutions, every bite of these spot-on vegan dishes will transport you to a warm...

"More than sixty recipes that bring California's Indigenous cuisines into kitchens today"-- "More than seventy delectable recipes that bring California’s Indigenous cuisines into kitchens today. In this sumptuous cookbook, Sara Calvosa Olson (Karuk) reimagines some of the oldest foods in California for home cooks today. Meaning “Let’s eat!” in the Karuk language, Chími Nu’am shares the author’s delicious and inventive takes on Native...

"With a fresh take on Southern-style cooking and rooted firmly in the notion that great Southern food doesn't have to be heavy or unhealthy, this book for the modern home cook has more than 100 recipes for simple Southern food, reimagined and made with less"-- "With a fresh take on Southern-style cooking and rooted firmly in the notion that great Southern food doesn't have to be heavy or unhealthy, this book for the modern home cook has more than...

One of Eater's Best Food Books to Read This Fall American food traditions are in danger of being lost. How do we save them? Apples, a common New England crop, have been called the United States' "most endangered food." The iconic Texas Longhorn cattle is categorized at "critical" risk for extinction. Unique date palms, found nowhere else on the planet, grow in California’s Coachella Valley―but the family farms that caretake them are shutting...

"Edna loved to cook. Growing up on a farm in Freetown, Virginia, she learned the value of fresh, local, seasonal food from her Mama Daisy, as well as how to measure ingredients for biscuits using coins and to listen closely to her cakes to know when theywere done. Edna carried these traditions with her all the way to Manhattan, where she became a celebrated chef, cooking traditional French food in her signature Southern style and introducing the world...

"With over 100 new recipes from Jessie's comfort food staples, Just Eat is a delicious selection of the classic food that always leaves her family calling for seconds. As a home cook, Jessie knows that cooking yummy food is often easier said than done--especially when the kids are hungry. That's why Just Eat offers easy-to-follow recipes for delicious, family-friendly appetizers, meals, and desserts--from Louisiana beignets to Eric's Chicken Chili...