Local Food

Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want an edible experience? Would you like some culinary guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Eat like a Local book is for you. Eat like a Local - Encinitas, California by C. Tavassoli offers the inside scoop on tasting what Encinitas has to offer. Culinary tourism is an important aspect of any travel experience. Food has the ability to tell you a story of a destination, its landscapes, and culture on a single plate.

Are you excited about planning your next trip? Do you want an edible experience? Would you like some culinary guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Eat Like a Local book is for you. Eat Like a Local: Minneapolis by Valerie Leussler offers the inside scoop on the Minneapolis food scene and what a local would do for dinner, coffee, breakfast, and everything in between.

Take a culinary journey through the heart of Italy with this book on Umbrian typical recipes. This region is home to some of the most authentic and delicious dishes in the country, and this book showcases the best of the best.

50 Things to Know About Cooking for One, by Beth Christian, offers an approach to cooking for yourself. Most books on cooking for one will tell you to make large meals on the weekends and freeze them. Although there's nothing wrong with that, most singletons aren’t fond of spending hours in the kitchen and defrosting meals that don’t retain their freshness. Based on knowledge from the world's leading experts, if a meal is not flash-frozen or vacuum-sealed, ice crystals form and damage the flavor. The longer food sits, it blends in different ways, and flavors can change.