Book, Film & Web Reviews

At realfoodtraveler, we love food and we love travel and we love books, films, blogs, and other communication vehicles about both. Every once in a while we run across a something that makes us smile or teaches us something important. And we share these treasures here with you, fellow realfoodtravelers.

Have a travel or food book, book, film, blog, website, etc. you think other foodie travelers should know about? Let us know! You can submit your review to bobbie@realfoodtraveler.com

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Exploring North American Landscapes: Visions and Lessons in Landscape Photography

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With Exploring North American Landscapes, veteran photographer Marc Muench teaches about both the technical and visual aspects of great landscape photography.

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Vegetarian Entrees that Won’t Leave You Hungry

Author Volger demonstrates vegetarian dishes can be not only healthy, but filling.

Vegetarian Entrees that Won’t Leave You Hungry: Nourishing, Flavorful Main Courses That Fill the Center of the Plate proves vegetarian dishes can be both delicious and filling.

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The $5 Mom Breakfast and Lunch Cookbook

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How many mothers with limited income struggle to feed their families dishes that are both tasty and wholesome? Enter The $5 Mom Breakfast and Lunch Cookbook.

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Bison Delights: Middle Eastern Cuisine, Western Style

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Bison Delights: Middle Eastern Cuisine, Western Style makes bison appetizers, soups, stews, and entrees using Middle Eastern and North African spices, techniques, and cooking techniques.

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750 Best Appetizers: From Dips & Salads to Spreads & Shooters

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750 Best Appetizers: From Dips & Salads to Spreads & Shooters is an exhaustive and delicious exploration of appetizers/small plates.

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The Arabian Nights Cookbook: Deliciously Romantic

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Habeeb Salloum, who specializes in Arab food and culture, has captured the Arabian food revolution in his new cookbook, The Arabian Nights Cookbook: From Lamb Kebabs to Baba Ghanouj, Delicious Homestyle Arabian Cooking.

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Bake Something Great: 400 Bars, Squares, & Cookies

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Bake Something Great by Jill Snider is packed with 400 innovative and interesting recipes for bars, squares, and cookies.

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Inside the Jewish Bakery: Delicious Traditions

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With their book, Inside the Jewish Bakery: Recipes and Memories from the Golden Age of Jewish Baking, longtime Jewish bakers and authors Stanley Ginsberg and Norman Berg are trying to restore a nearly lost tradition of Jewish baking.

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500 400-Calorie Recipes: Making Skinny Taste Good

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500 400-Calorie Recipes is appealing – eat your favorite foods, but make them less calorie dense.

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Frugavore: How to Grow Organic, Buy Local, Waste Nothing, and Eat Well

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Nutritionist Arabella Forge is on a mission: to help people eat better and more healthfully and not break the bank. Her book is a well-written, how-to manual about how you can become a frugavore too.

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Rose Petal Jam: Recipes and Stories from a Summer in Poland

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In an era of cheaply-made, print-them-quick books, Tabula Book’s beautiful, lushly-produced book, Rose Petal Jam: Recipes and Stories from a Summer in Poland, is a breath of fresh air and proof that the publishing industry hasn’t forgotten how to create artful books.

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150 Best Tagine Recipes: Exotically Delicious

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Tagine, long, slow cooking in a special clay pot, may be one of the oldest cooking methods in the world. It is this narrow, but rich area of cooking that Pat Crocker explores with 150 Best Tagine Recipes.

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