That summer mainstay the humble hamburger leaps off the grill with the help of Ted Reader’s unique innovations in preparation and presentation. With more than 100 recipes, he lets readers go far beyond the basic burger. Tips and tricks for cooking on an uncovered grill, using the right meat binders, and seasoning and chilling meat properly are explained in detail. BBQ pros learn to grill burgers that are moist and juicy every time with recipes like Texas Smoked Brisket Burger, Prime Rib Burger with Horseradish Compound Butter, and Carolina BBQ Pulled Pork Burgers with Mustard Slaw.

Gastro Grilling is for everyone who loves to fire up the grill anytime of the year and turn an everyday meal into a gastronomic delight. If you consider grilling and cooking over the hot fire a hobby and not a chore, then get ready to create the most delicious meals you've ever tasted right in your own backyard. In Gastro Grilling you will find recipes like Fire-Roasted Oysters Topped with Crawfish Bourbon Butter or Grilled Jumbo Prawns Stuffed with Shrimp and Wrapped in Chicken & Bacon. Add to that the ever succulent Better Butter Burger Stone-Grilled or Hot Smoked Pulled Salmon Sandwich with a Cured Brown Sugar Rub. Tender juicy steak recipes that you'll be itching to get cooking outside. Chockfull of 125 lofty, fun recipes, including rib recipes to make your mouth salivate and your fingers sticky, this must-have grilling book features recipes for great-flavoured steaks of beef, veal, pork, lamb, and game that are the essence of grilling. There are plenty of tasty chicken recipes too. If you like seafood, Ted makes it easy for gastro grillers to master the grill with simple-to-prepare and absolutely delightful dishes such as Chipotle Cinnamon Sea Scallops or Grilled Halibut Steaks with Avocado Wine Butter Sauce. There are even a few yummy grilled dessert recipes to round out the complete meal. Gastro Grilling has something for everyone!

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • Celebrated food blogger and best-selling cookbook author Deb Perelman knows just the thing for a Tuesday night, or your most special occasion—from salads and slaws that make perfect side dishes (or a full meal) to savory tarts and galettes; from Mushroom Bourguignon to Chocolate Hazelnut Crepe. “Innovative, creative, and effortlessly funny." —Cooking Light Deb Perelman loves to cook. She isn’t a chef or a restaurant owner—she’s never even waitressed. Cooking in her tiny Manhattan kitchen was, at least at first, for special occasions—and, too often, an unnecessarily daunting venture. Deb found herself overwhelmed by the number of recipes available to her. Have you ever searched for the perfect birthday cake on Google? You’ll get more than three million results. Where do you start? What if you pick a recipe that’s downright bad? With the same warmth, candor, and can-do spirit her award-winning blog, Smitten Kitchen, is known for, here Deb presents more than 100 recipes—almost entirely new, plus a few favorites from the site—that guarantee delicious results every time. Gorgeously illustrated with hundreds of her beautiful color photographs, The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook is all about approachable, uncompromised home cooking. Here you’ll find better uses for your favorite vegetables: asparagus blanketing a pizza; ratatouille dressing up a sandwich; cauliflower masquerading as pesto. These are recipes you’ll bookmark and use so often they become your own, recipes you’ll slip to a friend who wants to impress her new in-laws, and recipes with simple ingredients that yield amazing results in a minimum amount of time. Deb tells you her favorite summer cocktail; how to lose your fear of cooking for a crowd; and the essential items you need for your own kitchen. From salads and slaws that make perfect side dishes (or a full meal) to savory tarts and galettes; from Mushroom Bourguignon to Chocolate Hazelnut Crepe Cake, Deb knows just the thing for a Tuesday night, or your most special occasion. Look for Deb Perelman’s latest cookbook, Smitten Kitchen Keepers!

Appetizers, dips, and spreads; Salads and vegetables; Brunch and breads. Pizza and sandwiches; Soups and Stews; Main dishes; Pastas and grains; Desserts.

In this debut memoir, a James Beard Award-winning writer, whose childhood idea of fine dining was Howard Johnson's, tells how he became one of Paris's most influential food critics Until Alec Lobrano landed a job in the glamorous Paris office of Women's Wear Daily, his main experience of French cuisine was the occasional supermarket éclair. An interview with the owner of a renowned cheese shop for his first article nearly proves a disaster because he speaks no French. As he goes on to cover celebrities and couturiers and improves his mastery of the language, he gradually learns what it means to be truly French. He attends a cocktail party with Yves St. Laurent and has dinner with Giorgio Armani. Over a superb lunch, it's his landlady who ultimately provides him with a lasting touchstone for how to judge food: "you must understand the intentions of the cook." At the city's brasseries and bistros, he discovers real French cooking. Through a series of vivid encounters with culinary figures from Paul Bocuse to Julia Child to Ruth Reichl, Lobrano hones his palate and finds his voice. Soon the timid boy from Connecticut is at the epicenter of the Parisian dining revolution and the restaurant critic of one of the largest newspapers in the France. A mouthwatering testament to the healing power of food, My Place at the Table is a moving coming-of-age story of how a gay man emerges from a wounding childhood, discovers himself, and finds love. Published here for the first time is Lobrano's "little black book," an insider's guide to his thirty all-time-favorite Paris restaurants.

After twenty-five years of 'sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine', chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain has decided to tell all. From his first oyster in the Gironde to his lowly position as a dishwasher in a honky-tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown; from the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop the Rockefeller Center to drug dealers in the East Village, from Tokyo to Paris and back to New York again, Bourdain's tales of the kitchen are as passionate as they are unpredictable, as shocking as they are funny.

Fancy Fast Food (www.fancyfastfood.com), is the brainchild of interactive designer and writer Erik R. Trinidad. Based upon the unique food blog, Fancy Fast Food showcases photographs and recipes of items purchased at fast food chain restaurants that go through an "extreme makeover" to make them appear like haute cuisine. None of it is to be taken seriously; as the website's tagline goes, "Yeah, it's still bad for you -- but see how good it can look!" Launched in May 2009, Fancy Fast Food's aim is to poke fun at the increasing growth of "foodie" culture in America -- something that has been long overdue; The Village Voice has called foodies a "plague" in New York City. The New York Observer labels food zealots as "foodiots." Fancy Fast Food takes an "anti-foodie foodie" stance and mocks the self-important gourmand. Regardless of whether you attempt any of the dozens of recipes in the book, Fancy Fast Food provides an entertaining and hilarious commentary on fast food and pop culture.