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Memorial Day weekend is here, marking the unofficial start of summer and of picnic and barbecue season. The long weekend is the perfect opportunity to mess around in the kitchen for a few hours — and thanks to the holiday, many of the most exciting and buzzed-about cookbooks of spring 2018 (including several James Beard winners) are on sale.
From Southern home cooking to Champagne wines, there’s a wide range of cuisines to choose from with these books. Particularly noteworthy is Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking, an Amazon bestseller and James Beard winner, on sale for less than $20 to help take your cookout game to the next level.
Each of the books listed below is on sale at Amazon for at least 30 percent off. Enjoy the long weekend.
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At My Table: A Celebration of Home Cooking
- $21
Prices taken at time of publishing.
Learn how to prepare simple-but-not-boring recipes like Emergency Brownies and spiralized shoestring fries from the Domestic Goddess.
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BraveTart: Iconic American Desserts
- $24
Prices taken at time of publishing.
Stella Parks’ celebration of famous American desserts won the James Beard Award in Baking and Desserts, and includes the history of some of your favorite treats in addition to recipes.
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Champagne
- $42
Prices taken at time of publishing.
Closer to a textbook than a cookbook, expert Peter Liem’s guide to the wines of Champagne won the James Beard Award for best reference, history, or scholarship book.
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Giada’s Italy
- $21
Prices taken at time of publishing.
In her latest of many books, Giada De Laurentiis shares her favorite recipes for “la dolce vita.”
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Meehan’s Bartender Manual
- $22
Prices taken at time of publishing.
Mixologist Jim Meehan combines recipes with tips on technique and the history of bartending in this James Beard Award-winning manual.
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River Cafe London
- $28
Prices taken at time of publishing.
Recreate the best recipes from the River Cafe, “the benchmark for Italian food outside of Italy,” from head chefs Sian Wyn Owen and Joseph Trivelli and co-founders Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray.
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Room for Dessert
- $40
Prices taken at time of publishing.
Sound familiar? You may have seen Will Goldfarb, “the Thom Yorke of pastry,” on the Netflix series, Chef’s Table: Pastry.
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Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
- $20
Prices taken at time of publishing.
Samin Nosrat’s illustrated guide to cooking is an Amazon and New York Times bestseller and winner of the James Beard Award for Best General Cookbook.
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Secrets of the Southern Table
- $18
Prices taken at time of publishing.
In Eater’s spring cookbook guide, senior editor Daniela Galarza says Virginia Willis “shows an appreciation for the diversity and many intersections of Southern foodways.”
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Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables
- $22
Prices taken at time of publishing.
The first cookbook from Portland chef Joshua McFadden won the James Beard Award for Best Book in Vegetable-Focused Cooking.
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The Alaska from Scratch Cookbook
- $17
Prices taken at time of publishing.
Maya Wilson compiled 75 “seasonal, scenic, homemade” recipes from her popular blog, Alaska from Scratch.
