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Taste Makers

Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America

by Mayukh Sen ...

**An NPR Best Book of the YearA New York Times Editors’ Choice pickWall Street Journal’s Who Read What: Favorite Books of 2021Longlisted for the 2022 Brooklyn Public Library Book PrizeObserver Food Monthly’s 50 Things We Love in the World of Food Right NowNamed a best book for the holidays by Wall Street Journal, Vogue, Oprah’s O Quarterly, Globe & Mail, and the Food NetworkNamed a best... ... Read more

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**An NPR Best Book of the YearA New York Times Editors’ Choice pickWall Street Journal’s Who Read What: Favorite Books of 2021Longlisted for the 2022 Brooklyn Public Library Book PrizeObserver Food Monthly’s 50 Things We Love in the World of Food Right NowNamed a best book for the holidays by Wall Street Journal, Vogue, Oprah’s O Quarterly, Globe & Mail, and the Food NetworkNamed a best...
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Love, Queenie

Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star

by Mayukh Sen ...

Finalist for the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award for BiographyOne of Publishers Weekly and Booklist's Best Books of 2025**“[An] extraordinary account of the hardship and rampant racism Oberon…faced during Hollywood’s golden age.” —New York Times Book ReviewA beautiful reclamation of a pioneering South Asian actress captures her glittering, complicated life and lasting impact on Hollywood.* ... Read more

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Finalist for the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award for BiographyOne of Publishers Weekly and Booklist's Best Books of 2025**“[An] extraordinary account of the hardship and rampant racism Oberon…faced during Hollywood’s golden age.” —New York Times Book ReviewA beautiful reclamation of a pioneering South Asian actress captures her glittering, complicated life and lasting impact on Hollywood.*
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Love in the Afternoon, and Evening

Essays and Conversations on Soap Operas

by Charlotte Druckman, Mayukh Sen ...

**One of Town & Country's Best Books to Read This AprilA drama-packed, format-busting tribute to the soap opera in all its messy, meaningful glory.**Part cultural analysis, part backstage tour, Love in the Afternoon, and Evening is a love letter to a misunderstood, often-dismissed American genre. Critics, friends, and soap obsessives Charlotte Druckman and Mayukh Sen invite readers into a ... Read more

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**One of Town & Country's Best Books to Read This AprilA drama-packed, format-busting tribute to the soap opera in all its messy, meaningful glory.**Part cultural analysis, part backstage tour, Love in the Afternoon, and Evening is a love letter to a misunderstood, often-dismissed American genre. Critics, friends, and soap obsessives Charlotte Druckman and Mayukh Sen invite readers into a
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Resilient Kitchens

American Immigrant Cooking in a Time of Crisis, Essays and Recipes

by Philip Gleissner, Harry Eli Kashdan, Reem Kassis, Stephanie Jolly, Krishnendu Ray, Tien Nguyen, Bonnie Frumkin Morales, Mayukh Sen, Geetika Agrawal0, Fernay McPherson1, Antonio Tahhan2, Sangeeta Lakhani3, Keenan Dava4, Tim Flores5, Angelo Dolojan6, Guillermina Gina Núñez-Mchiri7 ...

Winner of the James Beard Award for Best Book in Food Issues and AdvocacyImmigrants have left their mark on the great melting pot of American cuisine, and they have continued working hard to keep America’s kitchens running, even during times of crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic. For some immigrant cooks, the pandemic brought home the lack of protection for essential workers in the American food ... Read more

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Winner of the James Beard Award for Best Book in Food Issues and AdvocacyImmigrants have left their mark on the great melting pot of American cuisine, and they have continued working hard to keep America’s kitchens running, even during times of crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic. For some immigrant cooks, the pandemic brought home the lack of protection for essential workers in the American food
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Taste Makers

Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America

by Mayukh Sen ...

Narrated by Tovah Ott ...

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6 hours 25 min

Who’s really behind America’s appetite for foods from around the globe? This group biography from an electric new voice in food writing honors seven extraordinary women, all immigrants, who left an indelible mark on the way Americans eat today. Taste Makers stretches from World War II to the present, with absorbing and deeply researched portraits of figures including Mexican-born Elena Zelayeta, a ... Read more

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Who’s really behind America’s appetite for foods from around the globe? This group biography from an electric new voice in food writing honors seven extraordinary women, all immigrants, who left an indelible mark on the way Americans eat today. Taste Makers stretches from World War II to the present, with absorbing and deeply researched portraits of figures including Mexican-born Elena Zelayeta, a
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Love, Queenie

Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star

by Mayukh Sen ...

Narrated by Sharmila Devar ...

Unabridged

8 hours 31 min

Merle Oberon made history when she was announced as a nominee for the Best Actress Oscar in 1936. Her nomination marked the first time the Academy recognized a performer of color. Oberon, born to a South Asian mother and white father, broke through a racial barrier—but no one knew it. Oberon was "passing" for white.In the first biography of Oberon in more than forty years, Mayukh Sen draws on ... Read more

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Merle Oberon made history when she was announced as a nominee for the Best Actress Oscar in 1936. Her nomination marked the first time the Academy recognized a performer of color. Oberon, born to a South Asian mother and white father, broke through a racial barrier—but no one knew it. Oberon was "passing" for white.In the first biography of Oberon in more than forty years, Mayukh Sen draws on
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Love in the Afternoon, and Evening

Essays and Conversations on Soap Operas

by Charlotte Druckman, Mayukh Sen ...

Narrated by Edelyn Okano, Kevin T. Collins ...

Unabridged

7 hours 16 min

A celebration of the quirks, intricacies, and hallmarks of a beloved but culturally undervalued art form: the American soap opera.Adored by battalions of devotees and maligned by others for melodramatic twists and turns, soap operas have had an outsized impact on American culture, prefiguring the rise of today's reality television and character-driven prestige dramas. In Love in the Afternoon . . ... Read more

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A celebration of the quirks, intricacies, and hallmarks of a beloved but culturally undervalued art form: the American soap opera.Adored by battalions of devotees and maligned by others for melodramatic twists and turns, soap operas have had an outsized impact on American culture, prefiguring the rise of today's reality television and character-driven prestige dramas. In Love in the Afternoon . .
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Best Food Writing 2010

by Holly Hughes ...

A new edition of the authoritative and appealing anthology, comprised of the finest culinary prose from the past year's books, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and Web sites. With food writing and blogging on the rise, there's no shortage of treats on the buffet to choose from, including selections from both established food writers and new stars on everything from noted gastronomes to how to ... Read more

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A new edition of the authoritative and appealing anthology, comprised of the finest culinary prose from the past year's books, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and Web sites. With food writing and blogging on the rise, there's no shortage of treats on the buffet to choose from, including selections from both established food writers and new stars on everything from noted gastronomes to how to
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Why We Cook

Women on Food, Identity, and Connection

by Lindsay Gardner ...

Join the conversation . . .With more than one hundred women restaurateurs, activists, food writers, professional chefs, and home cooks—all of whom are changing the world of food. Featuring essays, profiles, recipes, and more, Why We Cook is curated and illustrated by author and artist Lindsay Gardner, whose visual storytelling gifts bring nuance and insight into their words and their work, ... Read more

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Join the conversation . . .With more than one hundred women restaurateurs, activists, food writers, professional chefs, and home cooks—all of whom are changing the world of food. Featuring essays, profiles, recipes, and more, Why We Cook is curated and illustrated by author and artist Lindsay Gardner, whose visual storytelling gifts bring nuance and insight into their words and their work,
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Hot Dog

A Global History

by Bruce Kraig ...

Series Book 4 - Edible
Served in a fresh soft bun, and adorned with your choice of mustard, ketchup, chilli, sauerkraut, coleslaw, pickles, relish, sliced tomatoes, hot peppers and fried or fresh onion, the hot dog must surely be one of the world’s favourite convenience foods. In Hot Dog well-known food historian Bruce Kraig recounts the history of this popular dish, from the origin of the sausage some 20,000 years ago, ... Read more

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Served in a fresh soft bun, and adorned with your choice of mustard, ketchup, chilli, sauerkraut, coleslaw, pickles, relish, sliced tomatoes, hot peppers and fried or fresh onion, the hot dog must surely be one of the world’s favourite convenience foods. In Hot Dog well-known food historian Bruce Kraig recounts the history of this popular dish, from the origin of the sausage some 20,000 years ago,
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The Bennetts

An Acting Family

by Brian Kellow ...

"An engrossing new page turner" about one of old Hollywood's royal families: "theater people don't get more interesting, and it's a true tale well told" ( Hollywood Reporter).In the early 1930s, Constance Bennett was the highest paid star in Hollywood, famous for dramatic roles before reinventing herself in the classic comedy Topper, starring opposite Cary Grant. Her sister Joan played the femme ... Read more

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"An engrossing new page turner" about one of old Hollywood's royal families: "theater people don't get more interesting, and it's a true tale well told" ( Hollywood Reporter).In the early 1930s, Constance Bennett was the highest paid star in Hollywood, famous for dramatic roles before reinventing herself in the classic comedy Topper, starring opposite Cary Grant. Her sister Joan played the femme
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Girl on Girl

How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves

by Sophie Gilbert ...

**A New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book • Named one of the Best Books of the Year by TIME, NPR, Elle, and The Boston Globe“Searing… rigorously researched but never stuffy… Gilbert has compiled perhaps the first comprehensive examination of turn-of-the-millennium mainstream, cool-kid trends and ephemera, and how they were largely molded by those in power to sell a generation of girls ... Read more

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**A New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book • Named one of the Best Books of the Year by TIME, NPR, Elle, and The Boston Globe“Searing… rigorously researched but never stuffy… Gilbert has compiled perhaps the first comprehensive examination of turn-of-the-millennium mainstream, cool-kid trends and ephemera, and how they were largely molded by those in power to sell a generation of girls
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