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🧑‍🍳No need to hire staff because you're working at your own pace and party size
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The Complete Irish Pub Cookbook

Pubs in Ireland are the cornerstone of their communities; relaxed places where locals and visitors can experience the best of traditional Irish hospitality. This collection includes Irish Stew and Split Pea and Ham Soup and also newer recipes, like Scallop Chowder or Oatmeal and Raspberry Cream to set your taste buds tingling.

The Irish Cookbook

The Irish Cookbook showcases the true depth of Irish cuisine, its ingredients, and its fascinating history, as never before
Ireland's remarkably rich food. The book's 480 home-cooking recipes celebrate the range and quality of Ireland's bounty, from oysters and seaweed on its west coast to beef and lamb from its lush green pastures, to produce and forage from throughout the island. 

Celtic Folklore Cooking

A  treasury of delectable recipes, this book will help you select foods to serve at your celebrations of the Sabbats and Esbats: the festivals and ritual times for Witches and Wiccans. The recipes in this book were gathered during four trips the author took to Ireland and Britain, as well as visits to Scotland and Wales. 

Holiday Baking

 

A charming holiday baking cookbook brimming with delicious, indulgent recipes, cozy winter photography, and lots of holiday cheer from Sarah Kieffer.

Champagne
& Sparkling Cocktails

Bubbly is a collection of more than 60 effortlessly stunning cocktail recipes featuring the most festive bottle behind the bar—champagne!

Savor: Entertaining
with Charcuterie, Cheeses
& Spreads

Savor celebrates the art and pleasure of beautiful charcuterie boards and platters—demystified and made simple!

The Professional Chef:
Culinary Institute of America

Garde Manger:
Art & Craft of the Cold Kitchen

Baking at Home:
Culinary Institute of America

Artisan Breads at Home: Culinary Institute of America

The French Chef Handbook:
La cuisine de reference

Institut Paul Gastronomique: Step-by-step Guide

The Science of Cooking:
Perfect Your Cooking

A Taco Walks into a Bar:
Silly Southwest Cuisine

The Flavor Bible:
Wisdom of Imaginative Chefs

Vegetarian Flavor Bible:
Culinary Creativity

Salt Fat Acid Heat:
James Beard Award Cookbook

Weekly Meal Planning Pad

Top Chef:
The Cookbook

Le Cordon Bleu:
At Home

Le Cordon Bleu:
Chocolate Bible

The Korean Vegan Cookbook:
Recipes from Omma's Kitchen

 

The Whole Fish: New Ways to Cook, Eat and Think

Smuggler's Cove:
Exotic Tiki Cocktails & Rum

Joy of Cooking:
2019 Fully Revised & Updated

The Essential New York Times Cookbook

The Essential New York Times Book of Cocktails

Arzak Secrets: New Basque Cuisine 3 Michelin Stars

A New Napa Cuisine:
3 Michelin Stars

Alinea: Molecular Gastronomy
3 Michelin Stars