Fuss-Free Vegan
by Sam Turnbull | 
Hot for Food Vegan Comfort Classics
by Lauren Toyota | 
The Superfun Times Vegan Holiday Cookbook
by Isa Chandra Moskowitz | 
Martha Stewart's Homekeeping Handbook
by Martha Stewart | 
EveryDayCook
by Alton Brown | 
The Pho Cookbook
by Andrea Nguyen | 
Eat Like a Gilmore
by Kristi Carlson | 
Vegan with a Vengeance
by Isa Chandra Moskowitz | 
Barefoot Contessa Family Style
by Ina Garten | 
Appetites: A Cookbook
by Anthony Bourdain | 
James Beard's American Cookery
by James Beard | 
I'm Just Here for More Food
by Alton Brown | 
Into the Vietnamese Kitchen: Treasured Foodways, Modern Flavors
by Andrea Nguyen | 
Cook Like a Rock Star
by Anne Burrell | 
The Red Rooster Cookbook
by Marcus Samuelsson | 
The Farm
by Ian Knauer | 
Southern Plate
by Christy Jordan | 
Everyday Dorie: The Way I Cook
by Dorie Greenspan | 
Michael Symon's Live to Cook
by Michael Symon | 
Twelve Recipes
by Cal Peternell |
Competitive cooking isn't limited to Iron Chef. Across America, amateur chefs cross spatulas at more than a thousand competitions covering numerous states and a pantry full of ingredients. Following a small group of contestants for a year on the contest circuit, journalist Amy Sutherland introduces us to well-known cookoff luminaries as well as some of the most bizarre cooks and recipes at local and national contests across the country--from the Great Garlic Cookoff to the National Chicken and National Beef Cookoffs, from the World Champion Jambalaya Cooking Contest to the Pillsbury Bake-Off®, the Holy Grail of competitive cooking. When the fanatics gather--be they chiliheads or barbecue fiends--and hunker down at the hot plate, it can be a recipe for delight or disaster as attitudes get spicy and tempers flare. Bursting with humor, Cookoff is an entertaining and in-depth look at a quirky, cutthroat, and (sometimes) delicious world.