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1) Family Inc: Office-Inspired Solutions to Reduce the Chaos in Your Home (and Save Your Sanity!)

Author

Friedman, Andrew

Publisher

Jeremy P. Tarcher

Pub. Date

2012.

Language

English

2) Knives at Dawn: America's Quest for Culinary Glory at the Legendary Bocuse d'Or Competition

Author

Friedman, Andrew

Publisher

Tantor Media, Inc

Pub. Date

2010

Language

English

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The Bocuse d'Or is the real-life Top Chef, a biannual cooking competition in France featuring teams from twenty-four countries vying for the top honors. Named after Paul Bocuse, one of the greatest, most influential living chefs, the Bocuse d'Or has become the most sophisticated and closely watched cook-off in the world. Ironically, though American cuisine now rates among the best in the world, a U.S. team has never placed among the top three in the...

3) Covert capital: landscapes of denial and the making of U.S. empire in the suburbs of Northern Virginia

Author

Friedman, Andrew

Publisher

University of California Press

Pub. Date

[2013]

Language

English

Formats

Book, Adult Reference

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The capital of the U.S. Empire after World War II was not a city. It was an American suburb. In this innovative and timely history, Andrew Friedman chronicles how the CIA and other national security institutions created a U.S. imperial home front in the suburbs of Northern Virginia. In this covert capital, the suburban landscape provided a cover for the workings of U.S. imperial power, which shaped domestic suburban life. The Pentagon and the CIA...

4) Knives at dawn: the American quest for culinary glory at the legendary Bocuse d'Or competition

Author

Friedman, Andrew

Publisher

Free Press

Pub. Date

2009.

Language

English

5) Chefs, drugs and rock & roll: how food lovers, free spirits, misfits and wanderers created a new American profession

Author

Friedman, Andrew

Publisher

Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

Pub. Date

[2018]

Language

English

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"Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll transports readers back in time to witness the remarkable evolution of the American restaurant chef in the 1970s and '80s. Taking a rare, coast-to-coast perspective, Andrew Friedman goes inside Chez Panisse and other Bay Area restaurants to show how the politically charged backdrop of Berkeley helped draw new talent to the profession; into the historically underrated community of Los Angeles chefs, inclduing a young Wolfgang...

6) The dish: the lives and labor behind one plate of food

Author

Friedman, Andrew

Publisher

Mariner Books

Pub. Date

[2023]

Language

English

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"On a typical evening, in a contemporary American restaurant, a table orders their dinner from a server. It’s an exchange that happens dozens, or hundreds, of times a night—the core transaction that keeps the place churning. In this book, acclaimed chef writer Andrew Friedman slows down time to focus on a single dish at Chicago’s Wherewithall restaurant, following its production and provenances via real-time kitchen and in-the-field reportage,...