James Villas, Author . Harvard Common $32.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-55832-217-2
In his newest book, Villas, the food and wine editor of Town & Country
for 27 years and author of Between Bites, indulges his love of the traditional dishes that make up much of America's regional cuisine. After covering the "Essentials
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James Villas, Author . Wiley $26.95 (310p) ISBN 978-0-471-27344-8
With this lively collection of essays on topics ranging from the pleasures of commercial peanut butter to the wonders of home-cured gravlax, former Town and Country
food and wine editor Villas is in top form, displaying the humor, intelligence and...
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James Villas, Author . Wiley $34.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-7645-7601-0
Villas, the former food and wine editor of Town & Country
and the author of 12 cookbooks, explores the distinctive cuisine of Southern cooking. Villas sees Southern cookery as the only legitimate cuisine in this county, being on the same level...
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James Villas, Author . Kensington $14 (291p) ISBN 978-0-7582-2847-5
A journey to Myrtle Beach, S.C., gives an elderly Southern mother the heartrending opportunity to share a painful, long-held secret with her gay son in Villas’s eloquent fiction debut. The veteran food and wine writer (My Mother’s...
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James Villas, Kensington, $15 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-7582-2848-2
A former fatty adjusts to life in the svelte lane in Villas's agreeable latest. Loretta Crawford has dropped nearly 100 pounds since having her stomach banded, a decision hastened by her husband's ditching her for a skinny skank. Now, the part-time...
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James Villas, Author Harvard Common Press $29.95 (141p) ISBN 978-1-55832-222-6
Villas (Crazy for Casseroles) crafts the ultimate guide to biscuits in this slim but comprehensive volume. The former food and wine editor for Town & Country (he's also a James Beard award winner) admits to a lifelong fascination with biscuits, and...
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James Villas, Author John Wiley & Sons $10 (0p) ISBN 978-0-316-90301-1
As food and wine editor of Town & Country, Villas (American Taste) has learned that ""the rich and successful love and respect a great hamburger as much as an elaborate fish baked in puff pastry.'' To accommodate these cosmopolitan tastes, he has...
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James Villas, Author John Wiley & Sons $14.95 (302p) ISBN 978-0-06-015995-5
Villas, food and wine editor of Town & Country , adores caviar and the late S.S. France , but also prizes M.F.K. Fisher's recipe for the perfect hamburger. Though fond of cognac, truffles and foie gras, the self-described ``ultimate wine snob''...
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James Villas. Wiley, $22.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-470-57165-1
As any homemaker knows, Villas, the former food and wine editor for Town & Country magazine, drives home the point that once a food substance is ground up, there is very little that cannot be done with it. Here is a sweeping survey of 200 recipes,...
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James Villas. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $29.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-118-13076-6
With over a dozen cookbooks and two James Beard awards under his belt, Villas weighs in with another well-crafted work, this one focusing on the oily offerings to be found in his favorite part of the U.S. The simplicity of the title belies the...
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James Villas, Author, Lucy Schaeffer, Photographer . Wiley $34.95 (424p) ISBN 978-0-470-19401-0
If pig is indeed king, then there is trouble at the castle, for Villas (Dancing in the Lowcountry
) has stormed the gates and had at him, leaving no sweetbread, shoulder, or chop untasted. So let the commoners rejoice: here are 300 recipes from...
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James Villas, Author, Andrea Grablewski, Photographer . Wiley $35 (276p) ISBN 978-0-470-04282-3
In this exuberant parade of pork fat, there is no doubting the flap copy when it states that Villas, former food editor for Town & Country
, has been “beguiled by bacon since he was a boy.” However, Villas's statement in his...
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James Villas, Author, Martha Pearl Villas, With John Wiley & Sons $25 (330p) ISBN 978-0-02-622015-6
From the introduction, with its wry recounting of Martha Pearl Villas's vilifications of the Northern flour intended for baking ``biscuit,'' to the carefully collected family photos, James Villas re-creates the bustling and sometimes brawling...
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James Villas, Author, Dennis Gottlieb, Author, Pam Hoenig, Editor William Morrow Cookbooks $29.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-688-15695-4
North Carolina native, food writer and cookbook author (My Mother's Southern Kitchen; Recipes from the Great American Stewpot; etc.) Villas invites his mother, Martha Pearl Villas, to join him in presenting this winsome repertoire of Southern...
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