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The grand master of cooking has a new apprentice in the kitchen: his granddaughter. Jacques Pepin is one of the nation's most famous cooking teachers, renowned for his knife skills.

On a hot day in July 1919, five black youths went swimming in Lake Michigan, unintentionally floating close to the "white" beach.

Tasting Table calls the Instant Pot "the hottest kitchen tool since George Foreman's pint-size grill" and everyone from Ruth Reichl to top food bloggers rave about its efficiency, convenience, and

The author's observations on the great nineteenth-century Russian writers-Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Gorky, Tolstoy, and Turgenev. "This volume...'ever once fails to instruct and stimulate.

In the United States, racial profiling affects thousands of Americans every day.

On a global scale, humans create around 2.6 trillion pounds of waste every year.

Millions of Americans don't earn enough money to pay for decent housing, food, health care, and education.

Read in more than 100 countries, JoeyParkerMovement.com forgoes snark, judgment, and tabloid-style gossip in favor of generating positive celebrity content, including coverage of celebrities' chari

Personal encounters with one of the most influential and iconic figures of the Beat Generation During the 1970s, William Burroughs, author of Junky and Naked Lunch, lived in a loft on the Bowery in

A collection of recipes from friends and family of Judith Shepard.

Edgar Award Finalist: The terrifying true story of savage murders, a terrorized midwestern town, and the serial killer who could have lived next door In 1967, during the time of peace, free love, a

A true crime account of the old-school New York Police Department from the detective who helped catch the Son of Sam and waged a one-man war against the Mafia.

Trail along on this 2,000-mile, bliss-and-blister adventure away from interstates and into backwoods America.

The power of laughter triumphs over illness in Norman Cousins's bestselling classic memoir that revolutionized medicine.

The #1 New York Times bestseller and the true story behind the film: A rugby team resorts to the unthinkable after a plane crash in the Andes.