FWPL: Bobby Flay's THROWDOWN!

A famous chef walks into an eatery and says, "Hey, prepare your signature dish and let's see if I can make a variation worth televising." That, in essence, is the concept behind Throwdown! the Food Network reality show that premiered in 2006, the fifth of seven Flay vehicles to appear on the network. This companion volume is one part recap and one part cookbook. For true fans of the show, Flay recounts each episode in his trademark cocky prose ("I heat things up with Jamaican jerk jockey Nigel Spence") and in doing so provides a tasty travelogue of eateries, from Asian dumplings at the Good Fork in Brooklyn, N.Y., to chile cheeseburgers at the Buckhorn Tavern in San Antonio, Tex. Whether by accident or by design, his cook-off lineup is a treasure trove of comfort food. Meatloaf, mac 'n' cheese, wings, lasagna, cupcakes, and matzo ball soup are all in the battle: 51 items in total, with Flay and a competing chef each providing their own recipe, for a total of 102 recipes. The author has never met a dish that he didn't want to sauce, and this proclivity is much in evidence, including a black pepper vinegar sauce over pulled pork and a balsamic glaze over a roasted vegetable meatloaf.

Bobby Flay's Throwdown! /
by Flay, Bobby, Banyas, Stephanie, Garron, Miriam., Food Network (Firm)
	New York : Clarkson Potter, c2010. Edition: 1st ed. Description: 272 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm. Notes: Includes index. "More than 100 recipes from Food Network's ultimate cooking challenge."

FWPL Pulls Through For Foodies

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Diary of a foodie. Season oneby Reichl, Ruth, WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), WGBH Video (Firm), Zero Point Zero Production, Inc., Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)


This disc whets the appetite for world travel and exotic eats. From a glimpse into the slow-food movement to salt and pepper, these 30-minute segments allow just enough time to begin a voyage, sample the topic, and return to Gourmet's kitchen for an "at-home" replication. The episode featuring chef Jose Andres is particularly exciting as he deconstructs a meal and creates amazingly delicious variations inside his kitchen-lab. A show on water takes the audience into the art and science of oyster farming, a fascinating and little-known industry. The most important element of the season is its focus on the local, slow, and organic food movements. Diary is an intelligent program on the most complex and also the simplest items that we put into our mouths. Highly recommended for foodists and ecologically minded chefs. Fans can also download full episodes and recipes at www.gourmet.com/diaryofafoodie/season1/season1.-Claire A. Moitra, Providence Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information.






More diners, drive-ins, dives : a drop-top culinary cruise through America's finest and funkiest joints /by Fieri, Guy., Volkwein, Ann, Diners, drive-ins and dives (Television program)

Join New York Times bestselling author and Food Network star Guy Fieria for a second helping of the best diners, drive-ins, and dives across America! Guy Fieri strikes again with More Diners, Drive-ins and Dives, giving you a road map to road food that's earned its culinary citizenship in "Flavortown." Join Guy on a cross-country noshing parade, mapping out the best places you've never heard of-more than fifty establishments off the beaten path. Compete in a (no hands) apple-pie-eating contest at Bobo Drive-In in Topeka, Kansas, dip your taste buds in Sweet Spicy Love sauce at Uncle Lou's Fried Chicken in Memphis, Tennessee, and get a load of the killer four-cheese mac-and-cheese at Gorilla Barbeque in Pacifica, California. Filled with Guy's hilarious voice and rampant enthusiasm for these hidden culinary gems, More Diners, Drive-ins and Dives is the perfect book for lovers of the American food scene and fans of Triple D.


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We Celebrate Feasts Around Here

Feast on Books

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few are to be chewed and digested." -- Sir Francis Bacon

We enjoy a good celebratory feast around here, literal and figurative, so here is The Fort Worth Library's blog, where our librarians and other staff share stories and recommendations.

Feast on Books

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In the autumn of 2005 I christened my FATTER, LOUDER, STUPIDER tour in an attempt to put my big butt into a RASCAL by the end of the year. I figured shutting off higher brain activity would somehow revert me to my primordial instinctual level and facilitate my acceptance into society at large. Well, my mimicry of Ricky from the TPB got me into some shenanigans and goings on, and now Denis Leary recounts his journey into The American Dream:

Why we suck : a feel good guide to staying fat, loud, lazy and stupid

In this hilarious blast of scathing irreverence from an award-winning actor and comedian, Leary uses his common sense, and his biting take on the world, to attack the politically correct, the hypocritical, the obese, the thin--basically everyone who takes himself too seriously. Available as an audiobook as well.





Me of little faith by Lewis Black

Black skewers all beliefs through his dark tinted glasses. The AUDIOBOOK will save you the trouble of shouting it internally.

I Drink For a Reason by David Cross

I dig me some David Cross.

David Cross Riffs Austin in New Book