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The best in food and lifestyle books

For 25 years, Surrey has published award-winning writing on food, dining, nutrition, and entertaining. Explore its extensive backlist of varied titles, including both general cookbooks and specialized cookbooks addressing the needs of people with diabetes and celiac disease, as well as vegetarian, low-fat, and low-carb titles. Surrey also offers cocktail guides, books on entertaining, and a breadth of other lifestyle-oriented titles.

Chicago Cooks
25 Years of Food History with Menus, Recipes, and Tips from Les Dames d'Escoffier Chicago
Carol Mighton Haddix
A culinary history of Chicago's past 25 years, complete with terrific recipes, from the female chefs and food professionals who make up Les Dames d'Escoffier's Chicago chapter.
How's Your Drink?
Cocktails, Culture, and the Art of Drinking Well
Eric Felten
An erudite and entertaining guide to culture, lore, and history of the cocktail.
 
1,001 Best Low-Fat Recipes
The quickest, easiest, fastest, healthiest, best low-fat recipe collection ever
Sue Spitler
Featuring updated dietary data for each dish, including nutritional exchanges, and simple, straightforward preparation instructions, these fast, fun recipes use readily available ingredients and require no special cooking skills or techniques.
1,001 Delicious Recipes for People with Diabetes
Sue Spitler, Linda R. Yoakam
These quick and easy recipes are written in a concise format and use readily available ingredients; the focus is on fresh, seasonal foods. More than 500 of the recipes that can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.
 
1,001 Low-Fat Vegetarian Recipes, Fourth Edition
Delicious, Easy-to-Make Healthy Meals for Everyone
Sue Spitler
One of the most accessible, easy-to-use, and versatile vegetarian cookbooks ever published--now completely updated with simpler and more streamlined recipes, and a focus on the healthiest and freshest ingredients.
Baking Basics and Beyond
Learn These Simple Techniques and Bake Like a Pro
Pat Sinclair
Baking Basics and Beyond allows even absolute novices to prepare a wide array of delicious, healthy breads, cakes, cookies, pies, and more. In a warm, reassuring manner, Pat Sinclair leads beginning bakers step-by-step through each recipe.
 
Gluten-Free Baking Classics
Annalise G. Roberts
Annalise Roberts shares her most wonderful creations with the celiac community. Her cakes and muffins are as light as those made with standard flour; her pie and tart shells are perfect; her breads are tender and delicious.
The Travel Writer's Handbook
How to Write—and Sell—Your Own Travel Experiences
Louise Purwin Zobel, Jacqueline Harmon Butler
In the new edition of this standard guide, veteran travel writers Louise Purwin Zobel and Jacqueline Butler cover everything from pre-trip research on the Internet and at the library, obtaining writing assignments for websites, and more!
 
Diabetes Snacks, Treats, and Easy Eats
130 Recipes You'll Make Again and Again
Barbara Grunes
Following on the success of 1,001 Delicious Recipes for People with Diabetes, this is a compilation of favorite recipes for snacks, appetizers, side dishes, cakes, pies, cookies — even ice cream — that are low in fat, carbs, and sodium.
Diabetes Snacks, Treats and Easy Eats for Kids
130 Recipes for the Foods Kids Really Like to Eat
Barbara Grunes